T h a r i q a t u n a

ASMÂ’ AHL BADR

2010-05-04T13:24:00.000+08:00

Allâhumma agithnâ yâ Giyâth al-mustaghîthîn bihaqqi (O Allâh! O The Succour of those who seek help, save us for the sake of)

1. Sayyidinâ wa Habîbinâ wa Nabiyyinâ wa Mawlânâ Muhammad ibn ‘Abdillâh Sallallâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam
2. Sayyidinâ Abû Bakr as-Siddîq, ‘AbdAllâh ibn ‘Uthmân al-Muhâjirî Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Sayyidinâ ‘Umar ibn al-Khattâb al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Sayyidinâ ‘Uthmân ibn ‘Affân al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Sayyidinâ ‘Alî ibn Abî Tâlib al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
6. Sayyidinâ Talha ibn ‘Ubaydillâh al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. Sayyidinâ az-Zubayr ibn al-‘Awwâm al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. Sayyidinâ ‘Abdu’rRahmân ibn ‘Awf al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. Sayyidinâ Sa’d ibn Abî Waqqâs, Mâlik ibn Uhayb al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
10. Sayyidinâ Sa’îd ibn Zayd al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
11. Sayyidinâ Abû ‘Ubayda ‘Âmir ibn ‘Abdillâh ibn al-Jarrâh al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu Alif

1. Ubayy ibn Ka’b al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. al-Akhnas ibn Khubayb al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. al-Arqam ibn Abi’l Arqam al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. As’ad ibn Yazîd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Anas ibn Mu’âdh al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
6. Anasah, mawlâ Rasulillâh al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. Unays ibn Qatâdah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. Aws ibn Thâbit al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. Aws ibn Khawlî al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
10. Aws ibn as-Sâmit al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
11. Iyâs ibn al-Aws al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
12. Iyâs ibn al-Bukayr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Bâ’

1. Bujayr ibn Abî Bujayr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Bahhâth ibn Tha’laba al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Basbas ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Bishr ibn Barâ’ ibn Ma’rûr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Bashîr ibn Sa’d al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
6. Bilâl ibn Rabâh al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Tâ’

1. Tamîm ibn Yu’âr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Tamîm mawlâ Banî Ghanam al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Tamîm mawlâ Khirâsh ibn as-Simmah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Thâ’

1. Thâbit ibn Aqram al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Thâbit ibn Tha’labah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Thâbit ibn Khâlid al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Thâbit ibn Khansâ’ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Thâbit ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

6. Thâbit ibn Hazzâl al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. Tha’labah ibn Hâtib ibn ‘Amr al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. Tha’labah ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. Tha’labah ibn Ghanamah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
10. Thaqf ibn ‘Amr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Jîm

1. Jâbir ibn Khâlid ibn ‘Abd al-Ash-hal al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Jâbir ibn ‘Abdillâh ibn Ri’âb al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Jabbâr ibn Sakhr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Jabr ibn ‘Atîk al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Jubayr ibn Iyâs al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Hâ’

1. al-Hârith ibn Anas al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. al-Hârith ibn Aws ibn Râfi’ al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. al-Hârith ibn Aws ibn Mu’âdh al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. al-Hârith ibn Hâtib al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. al-Hârith ibn Khazamah ibn ‘Adî al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

6. al-Hârith ibn Khazamah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. al-Hârith ibn Abî Khazamah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. al-Hârith ibn as-Simmah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. al-Hârith ibn ‘Arfajah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
10. al-Hârith ibn Qays al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
11. al-Hârith ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
12. al-Hârith ibn an-Nu’mân ibn Umayya al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

13. Hârithah ibn Surâqa ash-Shahîd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
14. Hârithah ibn an-Nu’mân ibn Zayd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
15. Hâtib ibn Abî Balta’ah al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
16. Hâtib ibn ‘Amr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
17. Hubâb ibn al-Mundhir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

18. Habîb ibn al-Aswad al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
19. Harâm ibn Milhân al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
20. Hurayth ibn Zayd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
21. Husayn ibn al-Hârith ibn al-Muttalib al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
22. Hamza ibn al-Humayyir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
23. Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Khâ’

1. Khârijah ibn al-Humayr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Khârijah ibn Zayd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Khâlid ibn al-Bukayr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Khâlid ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Khabbâb ibn al-Aratt al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

6. Khabbâb mawlâ ‘Utba al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. Khubayb ibn Isâf al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. Khubayb ibn ‘Adî al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. Khidâsh ibn Qatâdah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
10. Khirâsh ibn as-Simmah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

11. Khuraym ibn Fâtik al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
12. Khallâd ibn Râfi’ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
13. Khallâd ibn Suwayd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
14. Khallâd ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
15. Khallâd ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

16. Khulayd ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
17. Khalîfa ibn ‘Adî al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
18. Khunays ibn Hudhâfah al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
19. Khawwât ibn Jubayr al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
20. Khawlî ibn Abî Khawlî al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Dhâl

1. Dhakwân ibn ‘Abdi Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Dhakwân ibn Sa’d al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Dhu’sh-shimâlayn ibn ‘Abd ‘Amr ash-Shahîd al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Râ’

1. Râshid ibn al-Mu’allâ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Râfi’ ibn al-Hârith al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Râfi’ ibn al-Mu’allâ ash-Shahîd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Râfi’ ibn ‘Unjudah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Râfi’ ibn Mâlik al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

6. Râfi’ ibn Yazîd al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. Rib’î ibn Râfi’ al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. Rabî’ ibn Iyâs al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. Rabî’ah ibn Aktham al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
10. Rukhaylah ibn Tha’labah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

11. Rifâ’ah ibn al-Hârith al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
12. Rifâ’ah ibn Râfi’ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
13. Rifâ’ah ibn ‘Abd al-Mundhir al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
14. Rifâ’ah ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Zây

1. Ziyâd ibn as-Sakan al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Ziyâd ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Ziyâd ibn Labîd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Zayd ibn Aslam al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Zayd ibn Hârithah mawlâ Rasûlillâh al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
6. Zayd ibn al-Khattâb al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. Zayd ibn al-Muzayyin al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. Zayd ibn al-Mu’allâ al-Khazrajî,Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. Zayd ibn Wadî’ah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Sîn

1. Sâlim ibn ‘Umayr al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Sâlim mawlâ Abî Hudhayfa al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. As-Sâ’ib ibn ‘Uthman ibn Maz’ûn al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Sabrah ibn Fâtik al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Subay’ ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
6. Surâqa ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. Surâqa ibn Ka’b al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. Sa’d ibn Khawlah al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. Sa’d ibn Khaythama ash-Shahîd al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
10. Sa’d ibn ar-Rabî’ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
11. Sa’d ibn Zayd al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
12. Sa’d ibn Sa’d al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
13. Sa’d ibn Suhayl al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
14. Sa’d ibn ‘Ubâda al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
15. Sa’d ibn ‘Ubayd al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
16. Sa’d ibn ‘Uthmân al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
17. Sa’d ibn Mu’âdh al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
18. Sa’d mawlâ Hâtib Abû Balta’a al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
19. Sufyân ibn Bishr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
20. Salamah ibn Aslam al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
21. Salamah ibn Thâbit al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
22. Salamah ibn Salâmah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
23. Salît ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
24. Sulaym ibn al-Hârith al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
25. Sulaym ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
26. Sulaym ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
27. Sulaym ibn Milhân al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
28. Simâk ibn Sa’d al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
29. Sinân ibn Sayfî al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
30. Sinân ibn Abî Sinân ibn Mihsan al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
31. Sahl ibn Hunayf al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
32. Sahl ibn Râfi’ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
33. Sahl ibn ‘Atîk al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
34. Sahl ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
35. Suhayl ibn Râfi’ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
36. Suhayl ibn Wahb al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
37. Sawâd ibn Razâm al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
38. Sawâd ibn Ghaziyyah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
39. Suwaybit ibn Sa’d ibn Harmalah al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Shîn

1. Shujâ’ ibn Wahb ibn Rabî’ah al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Sharîk ibn Anas al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Shammâs ibn ‘Uthmân al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Sâd

1. Sabîh mawlâ Abi’l ‘Âs al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Safwân ibn Wahb ash-Shahîd al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Suhayb ibn Sinân ar-Rûmi al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Sayfiyy ibn Sawâd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Dâd

1. Dahhâk ibn al-Hârithah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Dahhâk ibn ‘Abdi ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Damrah ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Tâ’ (wa) Zâ’

1. Tufayl ibn al-Hârith ibn al-Muttalib al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Tufayl ibn Mâlik al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Tufayl ibn an-Nu’mân al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Tulayb ibn ‘Umayr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
1. Zuhayr ibn Râfi’ al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

‘Ayn

1. ‘Âsim ibn Thâbit al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. ‘Âsim ibn ‘Adî al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. ‘Âsim ibn al-‘Ukayr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. ‘Âsim ibn Qays al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. ‘Âqil ibn al-Bukayr ash-Shahîd al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
6. ‘Âmir ibn Umayyah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. ‘Âmir ibn al-Bukayr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. ‘Âmir ibn Rabî’ah al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. ‘Âmir ibn Sa’d al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
10. ‘Âmir ibn Salamah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
11. ‘Âmir ibn Fuhayrah al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
12. ‘Âmir ibn Mukhallad al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
13. ‘Âidh ibn Mâ’is al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
14. ‘Abbâd ibn Bishr al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
15. ‘Ubbâd ibn al-Khashkhâsh al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
16. ‘Abbâd ibn Qays ibn ‘Âmir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
17. ‘Abbâd ibn Qays ibn ‘Ayshah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
18. ‘Ubâdah ibn as-Sâmit al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
19. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Tha’labah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
20. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Jubayr al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
21. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Jahsh al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
22. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Jadd ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
23. ‘AbdAllâh ibn al-Humayr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
24. ‘AbdAllâh ibn ar-Rabî’ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
25. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Rawâha al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
26. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Zayd ibn Tha’labah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
27. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Surâqa al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
28. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Salamah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
29. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Sahl al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
30. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Suhayl ibn ‘Amr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
31. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Sharîk al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
32. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Târiq al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
33. ‘AbdAllâh ibn ‘Âmir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
34. ‘AbdAllâh ibn ‘Abdillah ibn Ubay ibn Salûl al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
35. ‘AbdAllâh ibn ‘Abdi Manâf ibn an-Nu’mân al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
36. ‘AbdAllâh ibn ‘Abs al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
37. ‘AbdAllâh ibn ‘Urfutah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
38. ‘AbdAllâh ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
39. ‘AbdAllâh ibn ‘Umayr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
40. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Qays ibn Khaldah ibn Khâlid al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
41. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Qays ibn Sakhr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
42. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Ka’b al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
43. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Makhramah al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
44. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Mas’ûd al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
45. ‘AbdAllâh ibn Maz’ûn al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
46. ‘AbdAllâh ibn an-Nu’mân al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
47. ‘Abdu’rRahmân ibn Jabr al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
48. ‘Abdu Rabbihi ibn Haqq al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
49. ‘Abs ibn ‘Âmir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
50. ‘Ubayd ibn Aws al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
51. ‘Ubayd ibn at-Tayyihân al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
52. ‘Ubayd ibn Zayd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
53. ‘Ubayd ibn Abî ‘Ubayd al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
54. ‘Ubaydah ibn al-Hârith ash-Shahîd al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
55. ‘Itbân ibn Mâlik al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
56. ‘Utbah ibn Rabî’ah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
57. ‘Utbah ibn ‘Abdillâh al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
58. ‘Utbah ibn Ghazwân al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
59. ‘Uthmân ibn Maz’ûn al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
60. al-‘Ajlân ibn an-Nu’mân al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
61. ‘Adiyy ibn Abî az-Zaghbâ’ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
62. ‘Ismah ibn al-Husayn al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
63. ‘Usaymah halîf min Ashja’ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
64. ‘Atiyya ibn Nuwayrah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
65. ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Âmir ibn Nâbî al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
66. ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Uthmân al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
67. ‘Uqbah ibn Wahb ibn Khaldah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
68. ‘Uqbah ibn Wahb ibn Rabî’ah al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
69. ‘Ukkâsha ibn Mihsan al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
70. ‘Ammâr ibn Yâsir al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
71. ‘Umârah ibn Hazm al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
72. ‘Umârah ibn Ziyâd al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
73. ‘Amr ibn Iyâs al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
74. ‘Amr ibn Tha’labah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
75. ‘Amr ibn al-Jamûh al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
76. ‘Amr ibn al-Hârith ibn Zuhayr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
77. ‘Amr ibn al-Hârith ibn Tha’laba al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
78. ‘Amr ibn Surâqa al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
79. ‘Amr ibn Abî Sarh al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
80. ‘Amr ibn Talq al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
81. ‘Amr ibn ‘Awf al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
82. ‘Amr ibn Qays ibn Zayd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
83. ‘Amr ibn Mu’âdh al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
84. ‘Amr ibn Ma’bad al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
85. ‘Umayr ibn Harâm ibn al-Jamûh al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
86. ‘Umayr ibn al-Humâm ash-Shahîd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
87. ‘Umayr ibn ‘Âmir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
88. ‘Umayr ibn Abî Waqqâs ash-Shahîd al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
89. ‘Antarah mawlâ Sulaym ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
90. ‘Awf ibn al-Hârith ash-Shahîd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
91. ‘Uwaym ibn Sâ’idah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
92. ‘Iyâd ibn Zuhayr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Ghayn (wa) Fâ’

1. Ghannâm ibn Aws al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu.
1. Fâkih ibn Bishr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Farwah ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Qâf

1. Qatâdah ibn an-Nu’mân al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Qudâmah ibn Maz’ûn al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Qutbah ibn ‘Âmir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Qays ibn as-Sakan al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Qays ibn ‘Amr ibn Zayd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
6. Qays ibn Mihsan al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. Qays ibn Mukhallad al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Kâf (wa) Lâm

1. Ka’b ibn Jammâz al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Ka’b ibn Zayd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
1. Libdah ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Mîm

1. Mâlik ibn ad-Dukhshum al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Mâlik ibn Rabî’ah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Mâlik ibn Rifâ’ah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Mâlik ibn ‘Amr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Mâlik ibn Qudâma ibn ‘Arfajah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
6. Mâlik ibn Mas’ûd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. Mâlik ibn Numaylah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. Mâlik ibn Abî Khawlî al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. Mubash-shir ibn ‘Abdi’l Mundhir ash-Shahîd al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
10. al-Mujadhdhar ibn Ziyâd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
11. Muhriz ibn ‘Âmir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
12. Muhriz ibn Nadlah al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
13. Muhammad ibn Maslamah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
14. Midlâj ibn ‘Amr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
15. Murârah ibn ar-Rabî’ al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
16. Marthad ibn Abî Marthad al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
17. Mistah ibn Uthâtha al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
18. Mas’ûd ibn Aws al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
19. Mas’ûd ibn Khaldah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
20. Mas’ûd ibn Rabî’ah al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
21. Mas’ûd ibn Zayd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
22. Mas’ûd ibn Sa’d ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
23. Mas’ûd ibn ‘Abdi Sa’d ibn ‘Âmir al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
24. Mus’ab ibn ‘Umayr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
25. Muzahhir ibn Râfi’ al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
26. Mu’âdh ibn Jabal al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
27. Mu’âdh ibn al-Hârith al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
28. Mu’âdh ibn as-Simmah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
29. Mu’âdh ibn ‘Amr bin al-Jamûh al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
30. Mu’âdh ibn Mâ’is al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
31. Ma’bad ibn ‘Abbâd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
32. Ma’bad ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
33. Mu’attib ibn ‘Ubayd al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
34. Mu’attib ibn ‘Awf al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
35. Mu’attib ibn Qushayr al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
36. Ma’qil ibn al-Mundhir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
37. Ma’mar ibn al-Hârith al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
38. Ma’n ibn ‘Adiyy al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
39. Ma’n ibn Yazîd al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
40. Mu’awwidh ibn al-Hârith ash-Shahîd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
41. Mu’awwidh ibn ‘Amr ibn al-Jamûh al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
42. al-Miqdâd ibn ‘Amr al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
43. Mulayl ibn Wabrah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
44. al-Mundhir ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
45. al-Mundhir ibn Qudâma ibn ‘Arfajah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
46. al-Mundhir ibn Muhammad al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
47. Mihja’ ibn Sâlih ash-Shahîd al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Nûn

1. an-Nasr ibn al-Hârith al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Nu’mân ibn al-A’raj ibn Mâlik al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Nu’mân ibn Sinân al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Nu’mân ibn ‘Asr al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Nu’mân ibn ‘Amr ibn Rifâ’ah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
6. Nu’mân ibn ‘Abdi ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. Nu’mân ibn Mâlik al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. Nu’mân ibn Abî Khazamah al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. Nu’aymân ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
10. Nawfal ibn ‘Abdillâh al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Hâ’

1. Hânî’ ibn Niyâr al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Hubayl ibn Wabrah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Hilâl ibn ‘Umayya al-Wâqifî al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Hilâl ibn al-Mu’allâ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Wâw

1. Wâqid ibn ‘Abdillâh al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Wadî’ah ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Waraqa ibn Iyâs al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Wahb ibn Sa’d ibn Abî Sarh al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Yâ’

1. Yazîd ibn al-Akhnas al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Yazîd ibn al-Hârith ibn Fushum ash-Shahîd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Yazîd ibn Hirâm al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Yazîd ibn Ruqaysh al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Yazîd ibn as-Sakan al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
6. Yazîd ibn al-Mundhir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu

Al-Kunâ

1. Abu’l A’war, ibn al-Hârith al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
2. Abû Ayyûb al-Ansârî, Khâlid ibn Zayd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
3. Abû Habbah, ibn ‘Amr ibn Thâbit al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
4. Abû Habîb, ibn Zayd al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
5. Abû Hudhayfa, Mihsham ibn ‘Utba al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
6. Abû Hasan, ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
7. Abu’l Hamrâ’ mawlâ al-Hârith al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
8. Abû Hannah, ibn Mâlik al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
9. Abû Khârijah, ‘Amr ibn Qays ibn Mâlik al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
10. Abû Khuzaymah, ibn Aws al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
11. Abû Khallâd, ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
12. Abû Dâwûd, ‘Umayr ibn ‘Âmir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
13. Abû Dujânah, Simâk ibn Kharashah al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
14. Abû Sabrah mawlâ Abî Ruhm al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
15. Abû Salamah, ‘AbdAllâh ibn ‘Abd al-Asad al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
16. Abû Salît, Usayra ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
17. Abû Sinân, ibn Mihsan al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
18. Abû Shaykh, Ubayy ibn Thâbit al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
19. Abû Sirmah, ibn Qays al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
20. Abû Dayyâh, ibn Thâbit al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
21. Abû Talha, Zayd ibn Sahl al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
22. Abû ‘Abs, ibn Jabr ibn ‘Amr al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
23. Abû ‘Aqîl, ‘Abdu’rRahmân ibn ‘Abdillâh al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
24. Abû Qatâdah, ibn Rib’iyy al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
25. Abû Qays, ibn al-Mu’allâ al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
26. Abû Kabshah mawlâ Rasûlillâh al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
27. Abû Lubâbah, Bashîr ibn ‘Abd al-Mundhir al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
28. Abû Makhshiyy, Suwayd ibn Makhshiyy al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
29. Abû Marthad, Kannâz ibn Hisn al-Muhâjirî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
30. Abû Mas’ûd al-Badrî, ‘Uqbah ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
31. Abû Mulayl, ibn al-Az’ar al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
32. Abu’l Mundhir, ibn ‘Âmir al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
33. Abu’l Haytham, Mâlik at-Tayyihân al-Awsî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu
34. Abu’l Yasar, Ka’b ibn ‘Amr al-Khazrajî, Rady Allâhu ‘Anhu.

Al-Fâtiha.

2009-05-04T18:33:00.002+08:00

What Happened when Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu was Born
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani |Saturday, May 02, 2009 | fenton, MI US

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem
Nawaytu'l-arba` een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid. Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

[Shaykh Sharafuddin’s notes: about Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahui ]

Allah swt honored us with his prophet (s) that He has sent him mercy for humanity and from that mercy everything that comes for the benefit of Allah’s creation is considered it is coming from the mercy that Allah has blessed Sayyidina Muhammad (s) with. Everything good is coming for sure from the secret of that mercy. And Allah didn’t create anything with no wisdom. So rahmatan lil-`alameen has in it secrets - it depends on whom it reaches from Allah’s creation.

And there are beside trees and nature and animals and oceans and fishes and everything, there are angels and there are jinn and there are awliyaullah and there are prophets and there are Sahaba and there are Sahaba and there are prophets and there are malaika and there are jinn. That mercy has to reach them every one of them. And fom one to another it changes. If it reaches, traces of it, it might turn a pebble into a jewel. If it reaches more, it might turn a jewel into a diamond and if it reaches more it might turn that diamond into another mercy from the mercies of Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

Awliyaullah they appear at birth by…when they are born, immediately they are known to be awliyaullah because awliyaullah are selected. Not everyone can be a saint. Every saint has his own dress that comes from the mercy of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) that Allah dressed him with. And every student of these awliyaullah also they receive some of that mercy that they will be dressed with. And this now we are speaking about that reality that has been dressed on Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu.

So it is something that is amazing to understand and to see and to understand what Allah swt gave to his prophet out of his greatness and the Prophet (s) gave to awliyaullah. If one wali has that what do you think about all of them, then what you think about about Sahaba what you think about prophets, what you think about seal of messengers what you think about angels.

Sayyidina Shaykh Sharafuddin and Shaykh Abdullah ad-Daghestani has related that Shaykh Sharafuddin has told him about, stories, it is not stories but accounts that have happened with Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahui. Is Qur'an a story? No. Qur'an is Allah’s ancient words, but Allah revealed to us stories in the Holy Qur'an. So stories in our life are important to learn, where Allah said:

نَحْنُ نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ أَحْسَنَ الْقَصَصِ بِمَا أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ هَـذَا الْقُرْآنَ وَإِن كُنتَ مِن قَبْلِهِ لَمِنَ الْغَافِلِينَ

nahnu naqassu `alayka ahsan al-qassasi bima awhayna ilayk hadha al-Qur'ana wa in kunta min qalbih lamin al-ghaafileen.

We do relate unto thee the most beautiful of stories, in that We reveal to thee this (portion of the) Qur'an: before this, thou too was among those who knew it not. [12:3]

We are telling you stories from the best of stories. So it means that Holy Qur'an Allah revealed stories in Holy Qur'an for us to understand. And that is why stories in Shariah or Islam or in sainthood is important for us to learn. Not only we have to speak about good manners, and moral excellence we also have to give stories without stories it doesn’t that with it the greatness of what Allah wants us to know.

So he said that “Sayyidina Shaykh Sharafudddin told me stories about Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu, 54,000 stories about different accounts that happened with Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahui in his life as a saint from age of one day of birth til he passed away when he was at age of 74 years.”

Sharafuddin he told Grandshaykh 54,000 stories about Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu. It is not like a story how many chickens you have and how many coats you have. These are spiritual stories in which Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu was moving in them. He said, "That is a part or a glimpse from his birthday, the day that he was born, what happened, when he was born” and Grandshaykh Shaykh Abdullah al-Faiz Daghestani is relating that story from his Grandshaykh, Shaykh Sharafuddin. He is relating that story about Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu. He said that the moment… as that shows how he was dressing from the secret of Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

He said, "The moment he came to dunya, the whole area in Daghestan and the area surrounding, and immediately between east and west, the smell of Paradise has overcome this whole world from east to west. “

“And from that smell that came to Daghestan region as it was his own place, 5000 secularist, atheist people, as it was an area of communism, nearly 5000 people from the smell of that smell they could not take it because it was the smell of Paradise, they died, they could not take. Their bodies as they were not believing in a creator they were gone, they left dunya.”

He said, "That night Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu with his spirituality that appeared at that moment when he was young, the first day of his birth he gave tariqah through his spirituality, as his body was still small he gave spirituality to 10,000 people and he said that night 80,000 people 80,000 men, hubb ad-dunya was completely thrown away from their hearts because of that smell that came from Paradise, covering Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu at his birth.

So he said, "Three issues happened: 5000 atheists died; 10,000 took baya` on his spirituality and 80,000 had love of dunya was thrown from their hearts.”

He said that “At his birth, awliyaullah that were living were ordered to move in space by tayy az-zamaan by time folding, appearing in the area of Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu. And they were praising Allah swt that Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu came to dunya to take the responsibility of this dunya.”

So a munaafiq cannot accept these words and these words are not for them. These words are for those who love tariqah and saints and want to know the power of saints. The power of saints, no one can understand except saints themselves and that power is coming from the mercy that Allah granted to the Prophet (s).

And so Grandshaykh was listening to Sayyidina Shaykh Sharafuddin and not only seeing but also seeing as if living what Shaykh Sharafuddin was saying. Today you say live broadcast you see what is happening, but still you are only seeing on a screen. But awliyaullah they feel what happened, they see, they hear, they feel they tasted that is kashf.

So Sayyidina Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, at that moment he was experiencing that and Shaykh Sharafuddin said to him, "O my son, "O my son, don’t look at that too much. That is not yet too much. Since the moment Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu was created and til he leave dunya, in every step he step from day one, even the step with his mother carrying him, that will be counted or his father or brother carry him, those steps will be counted and all the steps he step in his life, on every step accumulated all of them together, Allah will create angels will create angels on the number of steps he stepped in his life Allah will create angels that will do istighfaar and this istigfhaar will be writing on Ummat an-Nabi (s).”

“And on every breath coming in and coming out, Allah creates angels for every breath coming in and for every breath coming out, with their secrets as when you breath in you breath in oxygen but here he breathes in secrets and he breathes out secrets that he sends to his follower. As he breathes in he receives secrets from the Prophet (s) and as he breathes out he sends out those secrets to be dressed on his followers.”

And he said, "More than that…” Shaykh Sharafuddin said, and I mentioned that in the book Naqshbandi Sufi Way that there are nine awliyaullah that have Sultan adh-Dhikr. I explained that in the book but now we pass through it.

“In every breath, Sultan adh-Dhikr come in and on every breath Sultan adh-Dhikr goes out.”

Sultan adh-Dhikr, only nine awliyaullah that have Sultan adh-Dhikr. How long it take to recite Holy Qur'an. 15 hours? Nearly 15 hours if someone wants to read the whole Qur'an from beginning to end, non-stop. Or 16 hours.

Sultan adh-Dhikr is not that. You can complete the whole Holy Qur'an in 16 hours or 15 hours if you recite from beginning to end. Sultan adh-Dhikr is that as you are breathing in you complete the whole Qur'an in breathing in. And still that is not Sultan adh-Dhikr. And when you breathe out you breathe out with khatm al-Qur'an. Breathe in to complete whole Qur'an and Allah stretches for you the time and you finish the whole Qur'an in one breath. And that is not Sultan adh-Dhikr; that is given to many awliyaullah

Sultan adh-Dhikr is when you breathe in, that is Sultan adh-Dhikr when you breathe in the Holy Qur'an and on every letter there are 12,000 oceans of knowledge, with that breath in. It doesn’t come like words coming, as if someone is reading, but it comes with its secrets. It comes with 12,000 oceans of meanings and secrets on every letter, and when you breathe out there is on every letter 12,000 oceans of knowledge and each knowledge is different from the other knowledge.

When you breathe in and breathe out how long it takes? Three seconds. And then the next time you breathe in and breathe out, another 12,000 oceans of secrets on every letter on every breath in and 12,000 oceans of secrets on every letter breathing out.

So because you are related to these saints, and this chain, who achieved Sultan adh-Dhikr and one of them is Grandshaykh and then Shaykh Nazim and Shaykh Sharafuddin ad-Daghestani and 5 others. So as much as you read Qur'an, as much as you read, passing your finger under the letters, if you read one juz or 2 juz they will give to your heart the secrets of this knowledge that they are dressed with it.

And he said that “with the first breath after he came out of his mother, his breathing in and breathing out is with Sultan adh-Dhikr and it is all written for Ummat an-Nabi (s).”

“At age of one year, Allah swt gave permission to the Prophet (s) for the Prophet (s) to appoint for him angels from the nearness angels, that are always in the presence of Allah and always in presence of the Prophet (s) – Allah has assigned these angels and given the to the Prophet (s) to assign to Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu to raise him and teach him knowledge.”

That is why Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani Qaddasallahu Sirrahu is given the Ghawthiyya. So Shaykh Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu has that specialty that Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani Qaddasallahu Sirrahu had it. He said that, “Also Allah ordered Sayyidina Khidr Alayhissalam to be always in his company. Never he left him. Always he was in the company of Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu and guiding what he has to do and teaching him along with the angels that have been assigned to guide him.”

“And as he was young he was guiding young children even to tariqah. From the age of 5 to age of 7 he was able to bring 5,000 kids to come to tariqah because of the power of his talk when he speak he throws pearls into the hearts of children.”

He said, Shaykh Sharafuddin speaking to Grandshaykh Abdullah al-Faiz Daghestani that “When he became 15 years of age a complete transformation of his spirituality happened, that he was able to raise that transformation of his reality faster, achieving the learning from the angels and Sayyidina Khidr Alayhissalam, and he was able to reach a level in praise with infinite number of angels and he is there; his spirituality never left them. And that is why when he makes du`a or munajaat that his du`a was 12,000 times higher than those angels through his spirituality. And the Prophet (s) assigned him as a saint for those angels that he was able to guide them how to praise and for that praise to be written to Ummat an-Nabi (s).”

He said, "That when he became 17 years of age, in this level, he was able to reach the highest level of perfection that is why he is called Ghawth, Ghawth az-Zamaan, that have passed before him and they are in jannat al-barzakh and whatever high levels he is giving to those he reached that and he reached ot make sajda under the `Arsh.

And he said, "under that `Arsh there was a white river that has an infinite number of creations that Allah has created them to be like a beauty for Paradise, from men and women. Women were from hur ul-`ayn in that white river there. It looks like a river, very white and it is full of hur al-`ayn and full of young men in Paradise as mentioned in Surat ad-Dahr:

وَيَطُوفُ عَلَيْهِمْ وِلْدَانٌ مُّخَلَّدُونَ إِذَا رَأَيْتَهُمْ حَسِبْتَهُمْ لُؤْلُؤًا مَّنثُورًا وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ ثَمَّ رَأَيْتَ نَعِيمًا وَمُلْكًا كَبِيرًا

Yatoofu alayhim wildaanan mukhaladoon wa idha ra’ita ra’ita na`eeman wa mulkan kabeera.

And round about them will (serve) youths of perpetual (freshness): If thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered Pearls. And when thou lookest, it is there thou wilt see a Bliss and a Realm Magnificent. Al-Insan [76:19]”

“Allah mentioned in Surat ad-Dahr, that they are encircumambulated with young teenage men, wildaanan mukhaladoon, young ones that are everlasting they don’t grow old and they are in continuous tawaaf, and if you look at them you see these young men like white pearls.”

And that is why he said that is like a white river and he said, "You cannot count them, no beginning and no end. “

“Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu he was raised to make sajda under the Throne and there was a white river there full of hur al-`ayn and full of young men like white pearls and all of them are listening to his advice and Shah Naqshband is assigning this one to be of service to this mureed, to this one, 100; to this one to be of 1000, to this one to be 1 million. And that is one of his specialties to assign them to members of Ummat an-Nabi (s).”

This is one glimpse of awliyaullah.

He said that, “When he became 19 years of age, the Prophet (s) called all prophets messengers and prophets to dress him from their powers and also to be able to teach Ummat an-Nabi (s) that they came before and that they came after until the Day of Judgment. It is a specialty of Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu and not only in his time but before, up to Sayyidina Adam Alayhissalam and to prepare them for Judgment Day in order to be ready for it.” And always he said, "that he was sitting besides Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq Radiallahu anhu. And taking from his heart and speaking.”

And may Allah bless us and forgive us and I think this is enough about Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu.

This is awliyaullah describing Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu. This is for us know. What is above that I don’t think we can take
it. Bihurmati Habib Fatihah.

Wa min Allah at Tawfiq

2009-05-04T18:23:00.001+08:00

How to Get the Attention of Prophet Muhammad

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Tuesday, Apr 28, 2009 | Washington, DC US

Ati` Allaha wa ati` ar-rasoola wa uli 'l-amri minkum

Allah said and is still saying that we have to “obey Allah swt and obey Him and obey Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and obey those who are on authority.” Those who are responsible; those who are taking care of us; those who are guiding us. Those who are inheritors from the Prophet (s).

And to follow them there are rules and regulations, like when you buy a computer, they say to you there are rules and regulations to make your computer. Like when you buy anything there are rules and regulations you cannot leave behind. If you don’t follow these rules that instrument doesn’t function. So to make our ... function is that we have some rules that we have to obey and follow. For sure, we are weak and we are helpless, but at least we have to try. If we don’t try then you be blamed, because Allah will ask you did you try. You cannot say I didn’t try. Try you didn’t succeed you didn’t succeed, but at least you tried.

Sahaba were trying to gain the love of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). they were competing who will give salaam first that the Prophet (s) will answer them a better salaam. So they were trying even in salaam to get the attention of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). and his attention, is so, Allah has mentioned it to us, in his Holy Qur'an, in many many places and one of the main places to draw the attention of the Prophet (s) that people today say “How are going to draw attention towards us.” They say, make du`a that we see the Prophet (s) in dream. Don’t they say that? Yes, many. To see him in the dream is everyone’s expectation; everyone wants that and everyone that. But first you have to show him you can handle it. You can be able to see him in the best way of a dream, to draw his attention. And his attention is so simple because the prophet is so humble, he accept anything and Allah said, Allah and his angles are praising prophet. O mu’mins, praise him. Ya ayyuhalladheena amaanooo salloo `alayh. If you mention the name of someone and parise him all the time that person will feel shy from you and give you what you want. So if we are not getting what we want we are not praising as we should be.

So it is very simple, inna Allah wa malaikatahu… o believers, muslim praise Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and you will get his attention. The Prophet (s) said, “Man salla alayya marra radaAllaha ruhi ilya hatta usalim `alayh - Whoever praises me one time Allah send my soul back to my body and I respond.”

[aaaaaah. Yaaa sayyideeeee!!!!]

He gets attention from the Prophet (s).[aaaah, aaaah!aaah!] he didn’t begin yet.

Sajjalnaak, his mother is on the internet and his sisters. Allahuma salli `ala Sayyidina Muhammad. [aaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!]

When you smile, it means the tajallis iscoming down that tajallis he feels it quickliy, he is crying or smiling. He didn’t cry yet. [ Ya saaaayideee, Ya rasululllaaaaaah, hhaaa, hhaaaa]

Ashhadu an la ilaha ill-Allah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadun rasul.

[short dhikr]

Ila hadratin-nabi…

So to bring the attention of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) is to keep always mentioning him and praising him. Because to show your relationship to someone is always either today you send him or her, an SMS or email, or you give a call every now and then, to keep that relationship fresh. When you separate for a long time you feel shy to call. If you call you say, “I broke the ice, I melted the ice.” So you need not to have ice between you and the Prophet (s). you need always that hot warm relationship between you and the Prophet (s) that anyone you call upon him he answers you. Although you might not hear it but he answers you.

And the whole Islam is based on the relationship between you and the Prophet (s) and between you and Allah through the Prophet (s) and between you and your shaykh that he guided you to keep that relationship strong. Because whenever he sees that relationship is beginning to be cold he brings it back to be warm and to bring it back to be warm you have to have a good relationship with the guide, the Shaykh if you don’t have a good relationship you will not be able to bring you back to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). that is why the company of the Shaykh is important. Else you will have between him and you there is some kind of coldness that you are not seeing him, you are not listening to him physically you are not building up your relationship with him, if you are able to visit you visit and if not, at least you have to keep his guidance in you. Today nothing is guiding us except our egoes. People their ego guides them today. Whatever their ego or their desires ask they respond. Whatever inspiration comes from Allah and his prophet from the Prophet (s) or from the shaykh directly to the heart you struggle to fufill it, too many obstacles in front of you.

So Allah swt wants you to build that relationship and not to be a friend only you can say “I am his friend” and now it is very famous, “friend, friend, friend” with Facebook. You are my friend I show you all my private pictures. From where he became your friend. You saw him one time on internet and he became your friend and you expose all your pictures to him. And whatever friends you have with you in the picture become available to him. And that is not relationship - that is nakedness. Not you are naked but you are exposing yourself to everyone on the internet, millions of people.

Friendship is something like “that person I like him, we sometimes go places together for dinner,” or rafeeq. Sahib is different. Who is your companion. [you.] No, not me; not yet.

Your companion is by definition by normal life, your spouse. Your wife or your husband is your companion. Is it not? Because you relate to each other everything. That means the companion is companionship going along in every moment of your life. If you divorce because today they divorce a lot or separate that is not a real companion. That means you chose a false companion. A companion is someone if you cut him into pieces that will not change his love to her or to him.

Sahaaba, the Prophet (s) build them up, that is why they are called Sahaaba. They are not call friends, rufaqa’ih. They are called ashaab, ashaabee, or ashaabuh. Ashaab an-Nabi that means if he wants to go anywhere they are with him. If they are not with him physically they are with him spiritually. They will never lose sight of his presence

When two people teenagers love each other you can define them as real companions. Huh? They cannot sleep. You are like that before you are still like that. You cannot they want to see each other daily. Look Romeo and Juliet. The story. How is it? He was playing the guitar or musical instrument under her window. You were playing for her also?

So Sahaaba, ashaab an-Nabi (s), Allah honored them, no one is like them. Because their companionship to the Prophet (s) cannot be described.

So companionship is important. And that is why the word, as I explained before from ashaab an-Nabi. Ashaab came from sahib. Pakistani the say sahib, everyone is sahabi. Muhammad Ilyas saheb. What’s your name Selim saheb. Everyone is saheb. Saheb if you cut him into pieces he will not change his love to the one he loves. Ashaab an-Nabi (s) comes from suhbat. Sahib is the name and suhbat is… sahib is the noun and subhat is the description the adjective, that you are always with the, always making the companionship to be really described as real subhat.

That is why Sayyidina Shah Naqshbandi imam of the tariqah and sultan of this tariqah always he defines his meetings with a title before he begins, “Our way - tariqatuna as-suhbat wal-khayru fil-jami`yyah - Our way is companionship [and the good is in the gathering].” If it is not companionship it means we are not in reality - no relationship. So he wants to make sure whenever he opens a majlis, he wants to say,

'"Our way is companionship," as Allah swt mentioned in Holy Qur'an, about the verse that mentioned in it suhbat and that person in particular that Allah mentioned as companion of the Prophet (s) who is mentioned in Holy Qur'an by name, Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq .

إِلاَّ تَنصُرُوهُ فَقَدْ نَصَرَهُ اللّهُ إِذْ أَخْرَجَهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ ثَانِيَ اثْنَيْنِ إِذْ هُمَا فِي الْغَارِ إِذْ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِهِ لاَ تَحْزَنْ إِنَّ اللّهَ مَعَنَا فَأَنزَلَ اللّهُ سَكِينَتَهُ عَلَيْهِ وَأَيَّدَهُ بِجُنُودٍ لَّمْ تَرَوْهَا وَجَعَلَ كَلِمَةَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ السُّفْلَى وَكَلِمَةُ اللّهِ هِيَ الْعُلْيَا وَاللّهُ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ

Illa tansuroohu faqad nasarahu Allahu idh akhrajahu alladheena kafaroo thaaniya ithnayni idh huma fi ’l-ghaari idh yaqoolu li-saahibihi laa tahzan inna Allaha ma`ana fa-anzala Allahu sakeenatahu `alayhi wa ayyadahu bi-junoodin lam tarawha wa ja`ala kalimata alladheena kafaroo as-sufla wa kalimatullahi hiya al-`ulya w’Allahu `azeezun hakeem

If ye help not (your leader), (it is no matter): for Allah did indeed help him, when the Unbelievers drove him out: he had no more than one companion; they two were in the cave, and he said to his companion, "Have no fear, for Allah is with us": then Allah sent down His peace upon him, and strengthened him with forces which ye saw not, and humbled to the depths the word of the Unbelievers. But the word of Allah is exalted to the heights: for Allah is Exalted in might, Wise. 9:40

So where that verse has been revealed? In the cave from where they were migrating from Mecca to Medina they were passing through that cave an they were going there to rest and ..and Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq was sad. We won’t mention here the reason and he was sad and Allah revealed that verse to the Prophet (s) in the cave. It means you want to have real companionship with Allah and his prophet and with the mashaykh you have to go to the cave. That suhbat cannot be anywhere. It cannot be in the park and it cannot be in the home. You must find it in the cave.

Who is that cave. Ashaab al-kahf, the Surah of ashaab al-kahf, the Companions of the Cave, Allah said to them:

فَأْوُوا إِلَى الْكَهْفِ يَنشُرْ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّن رَّحمته ويُهَيِّئْ لَكُم مِّنْ أَمْرِكُم مِّرْفَقًا

fawoo ila alkahfi yanshur lakum rabbukum min rahmatihi wa yuhayyi lakum min amrikum mirfaqa.

"betake yourselves to the Cave: Your Lord will shower His mercies on you and disposes of your affair towards comfort and ease." 18:16

And [for many a year] thou might have seen the sun, on its rising, incline away from their cave on the right, and, on its setting, turn aside from them on the left, while they lived on in that spacious chamber, [bearing witness to] this of God's messages:

18:17

He whom God guides, he alone has found the right way; whereas for him whom He lets go astray thou canst never find any protector who would point out the right way.

And thou wouldst have thought that they were awake, whereas they lay asleep. And We caused them to turn over repeatedly, now to the right, now to the left; and their dog [lay] on the threshold, its forepaws outstretched. Had you come upon them [unprepared], thou wouldst surely have turned away from them in flight, and wouldst surely have been filled with awe of them. 18:18

…some will say, "[They were] three, the fourth of them being their dog," while others will say, "Five, with their dog as the sixth of them" -idly guessing at something of which they can have no knowledge -and [so on, until] some will say, "[They were] seven, the eighth of them being their dog." Say: "My Sustainer knows best how many they were. None but a few have any [real] knowledge of them. Hence, do not argue about them otherwise than by way of an obvious argument, and do not ask any of those [story-tellers] to enlighten thee about them." 18:22

O people of the cave, O the people who were running - either they were 3 or 5 or 7, and their dog is with them. No one knows their number except Allah swt. Allah is telling them run to the cave. That cave is al-Kahf al-Muhammadiyya. That means "run to the Prophet (s)!" He is the safety boat, the boat of safety that can carry everyone from these storms in the ocean and his boat will sail in that stormy ocean.

وَخَلَقْنَا لَهُم مِّن مِّثْلِهِ مَا يَرْكَبُونَ

Wa khalaqna lahum min mithlihi ma yarqaboon.

And We have created for them similar (vessels) on which they ride. 36:42

[It means] "And from the exemplar of that we have created an imitational boat they can ride on it." Like today we went on a boat, that boat is an imitation of the real boat that takes you thru that ocean from shore of safety to other shore of safety. That means passing from one side of dunya to the other side of dunya no one can take you except Sayyidina Muhammad. When you run to that cave that is the Safinat al-Muhammadiyya or the Kahf al-Muhammadiyya. When you enter you cannot enter if you are not a companion. Because you have to enter and go all the way. When we entered the boat today, not everyone can go on the boat. Not anyone foreigner can come and enter, they will not let him in. so no one can jump on the Muhammadan boat except those who are accepted by Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

So how we can become companions of the Prophet (s)? Not companions like the Sahaaba of an-Nabi but you can inherit. You be the imitational one. In that cave the reality of talqeen, talqeen is putting on your tongue the secret of this order. Was established in that cave. It means you have been called ot presence of the Prophet (s) in that cave. And Grandshaykh said that the Prophet (s) ordered Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq to bring all the souls of Naqshbandi Order all the souls were there. So all the souls of the Naqshbandi. Disciples were in the Ghaari Thawr, the Kahf al-Muhammadiyya, where Allah called Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Saahib. If the father is saahib what about the children. So the children will be ashaab. So when they called the souls of the Naqshbandi and they attended any dhikr he is for sure stamped as a Naqshbandi and he was present in that cave. And when you enter there in that cave are you not going to see everyone there.

Who was there? Waleed? Who was there. Sayyidina Muhammad (s). So anyone who saw the Prophet (s) can he go to hellfire? Saw the Prophet (s) and believed in him and said la ilaha ill-Allah Muhammad Rasulullah. There everyone was called with Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and the imam of khatm was called, Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani, to lead them in khatm and to see the Prophet (s) really and to.. that is why Sayyidina Shah Naqshband said in every suhbat “Our tariqah is suhbat.” That means our tariqah has already been with the Prophet (s) in the cave with Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq , that means they have already acquire and inherited the secret of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq that there in suhbat with the Prophet (s) and that is enough to guide them all the way from dunya to akhira and they will not leave this dunya with out seeing the prophet. And that is meaning of tariqatuna as-suhbat that is the meaning of as-suhbat. May Allah keep us always with the suhbat of our shuyukh with suhbat of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and with suhbat of all Sahaaba especially with Sayyidina `Umar and Sayyidina `Uthman and with Sayyidina `Ali and Sayyidina Al-Hasan and Sayyidina Al-Husayn and with all his sons-in-law and with all awliya who are descending from the Prophet (s) at every moment and with suhbat of our Shaykh Mawlana Shaykh And with suhbat of Grandshaykh . And before I say Fatihah, Mawlana said to tell them they are really in that suhbat and they will never be away from that suhbat of the Prophet (s) .

2009-05-04T18:20:00.001+08:00

Fifty Four Thousand Stories about The Greatness and High Rank of Shah Naqshband

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Friday, May 01, 2009 | fenton, MI US

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

[Shaykh Sharafuddin’s notes: about Shah Naqshband i ]

Allah swt honored us with his prophet (s) that He has sent him mercy for humanity and from that mercy everything that comes for the benefit of Allah’s creation is considered it is coming from the mercy that Allah has blessed Sayyidina Muhammad (s) with. Everything good is coming for sure from the secret of that mercy. And Allah didn’t create anything with no wisdom. So rahmatan lil-`alameen has in it secrets - it depends on whom it reaches from Allah’s creation. And there are beside trees and nature and animals and oceans and fishes and everything, there are angels and there are jinn and there are awliyaullah and there are prophets and there are Sahaba and there are Sahaba and there are prophets and there are malaika and there are jinn. That mercy has to reach them every one of them. And fom one to another it changes. If it reaches, traces of it, it might turn a pebble into a jewel. If it reaches more, it might turn a jewel into a diamond and if it reaches more it might turn that diamond into another mercy from the mercies of Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

Awliyaullah they appear at birth by…when they are born, immediately they are known to be awliyaullah because awliyaullah are selected. Not everyone can be a saint. Every saint has his own dress that comes from the mercy of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) that Allah dressed him with. And every student of these awliyaullah also they receive some of that mercy that they will be dressed with. And this now we are speaking about that reality that has been dressed on Sayyidina Shah Naqshband .

So it is something that is amazing to understand and to see and to understand what Allah swt gave to his prophet out of his greatness and the Prophet (s) gave to awliyaullah. If one wali has that what do you think about all of them, then what you think about about Sahaba what you think about prophets, what you think about seal of messengers what you think about angels.

Sayyidina Shaykh Sharafuddin and Shaykh Abdullah ad-Daghestani has related that Shaykh Sharafuddin has told him about, stories, it is not stories but accounts that have happened with Sayyidina Shah Naqshband i. Is Qur'an a story? No. Qur'an is Allah’s ancient words, but Allah revealed to us stories in the Holy Qur'an. So stories in our life are important to learn, where Allah said:

نَحْنُ نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ أَحْسَنَ الْقَصَصِ بِمَا أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ هَـذَا الْقُرْآنَ وَإِن كُنتَ مِن قَبْلِهِ لَمِنَ الْغَافِلِينَ

nahnu naqassu `alayka ahsan al-qassasi bima awhayna ilayk hadha al-Qur'ana wa in kunta min qalbih lamin al-ghaafileen.

We do relate unto thee the most beautiful of stories, in that We reveal to thee this (portion of the) Qur'an: before this, thou too was among those who knew it not. [12:3]

We are telling you stories from the best of stories. So it means that Holy Qur'an Allah revealed stories in Holy Qur'an for us to understand. And that is why stories in Shariah or Islam or in sainthood is important for us to learn. Not only we have to speak about good manners, and moral excellence we also have to give stories without stories it doesn’t that with it the greatness of what Allah wants us to know.

So he said that “Sayyidina Shaykh Sharafudddin told me stories about Shah Naqshband , 54,000 stories about different accounts that happened with Shah Naqshband i in his life as a saint from age of one day of birth til he passed away when he was at age of 74 years.”

Sharafuddin he told Grandshaykh 54,000 stories about Shah Naqshband . It is not like a story how many chickens you have and how many coats you have. These are spiritual stories in which Sayyidina Shah Naqshband was moving in them. He said, "That is a part or a glimpse from his birthday, the day that he was born, what happened, when he was born” and Grandshaykh Shaykh Abdullah al-Faiz Daghestani is relating that story from his Grandshaykh, Shaykh Sharafuddin. He is relating that story about Sayyidina Shah Naqshband . He said that the moment… as that shows how he was dressing from the secret of Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

He said, "The moment he came to dunya, the whole area in Daghestan and the area surrounding, and immediately between east and west, the smell of Paradise has overcome this whole world from east to west. “

“And from that smell that came to Daghestan region as it was his own place, 5000 secularist, atheist people, as it was an area of communism, nearly 5000 people from the smell of that smell they could not take it because it was the smell of Paradise, they died, they could not take. Their bodies as they were not believing in a creator they were gone, they left dunya.”

He said, "That night Sayyidina Shah Naqshband with his spirituality that appeared at that moment when he was young, the first day of his birth he gave tariqah through his spirituality, as his body was still small he gave spirituality to 10,000 people and he said that night 80,000 people 80,000 men, hubb ad-dunya was completely thrown away from their hearts because of that smell that came from Paradise, covering Sayyidina Shah Naqshband at his birth.

So he said, "Three issues happened: 5000 atheists died; 10,000 took baya` on his spirituality and 80,000 had love of dunya was thrown from their hearts.”

He said that “At his birth, awliyaullah that were living were ordered to move in space by tayy az-zamaan by time folding, appearing in the area of Sayyidina Shah Naqshband . And they were praising Allah swt that Sayyidina Shah Naqshband came to dunya to take the responsibility of this dunya.”

So a munaafiq cannot accept these words and these words are not for them. These words are for those who love tariqah and saints and want to know the power of saints. The power of saints, no one can understand except saints themselves and that power is coming from the mercy that Allah granted to the Prophet (s).

And so Grandshaykh was listening to Sayyidina Shaykh Sharafuddin and not only seeing but also seeing as if living what Shaykh Sharafuddin was saying. Today you say live broadcast you see what is happening, but still you are only seeing on a screen. But awliyaullah they feel what happened, they see, they hear, they feel they tasted that is kashf.

So Sayyidina Shaykh Abdullah Daghestani, at that moment he was experiencing that and Shaykh Sharafuddin said to him, "O my son, "O my son, don’t look at that too much. That is not yet too much. Since the moment Sayyidina Shah Naqshband was created and til he leave dunya, in every step he step from day one, even the step with his mother carrying him, that will be counted or his father or brother carry him, those steps will be counted and all the steps he step in his life, on every step accumulated all of them together, Allah will create angels will create angels on the number of steps he stepped in his life Allah will create angels that will do istighfaar and this istigfhaar will be writing on Ummat an-Nabi (s).”

“And on every breath coming in and coming out, Allah creates angels for every breath coming in and for every breath coming out, with their secrets as when you breath in you breath in oxygen but here he breathes in secrets and he breathes out secrets that he sends to his follower. As he breathes in he receives secrets from the Prophet (s) and as he breathes out he sends out those secrets to be dressed on his followers.”

And he said, "More than that…” Shaykh Sharafuddin said, and I mentioned that in the book Naqshbandi Sufi Way that there are nine awliyaullah that have Sultan adh-Dhikr. I explained that in the book but now we pass through it.

“In every breath, Sultan adh-Dhikr come in and on every breath Sultan adh-Dhikr goes out.”

Sultan adh-Dhikr, only nine awliyaullah that have Sultan adh-Dhikr. How long it take to recite Holy Qur'an. 15 hours? Nearly 15 hours if someone wants to read the whole Qur'an from beginning to end, non-stop. Or 16 hours.

Sultan adh-Dhikr is not that. You can complete the whole Holy Qur'an in 16 hours or 15 hours if you recite from beginning to end. Sultan adh-Dhikr is that as you are breathing in you complete the whole Qur'an in breathing in. And still that is not Sultan adh-Dhikr. And when you breathe out you breathe out with khatm al-Qur'an. Breathe in to complete whole Qur'an and Allah stretches for you the time and you finish the whole Qur'an in one breath. And that is not Sultan adh-Dhikr; that is given to many awliyaullah

Sultan adh-Dhikr is when you breathe in, that is Sultan adh-Dhikr when you breathe in the Holy Qur'an and on every letter there are 12,000 oceans of knowledge, with that breath in. It doesn’t come like words coming, as if someone is reading, but it comes with its secrets. It comes with 12,000 oceans of meanings and secrets on every letter, and when you breathe out there is on every letter 12,000 oceans of knowledge and each knowledge is different from the other knowledge.

When you breathe in and breathe out how long it takes? Three seconds. And then the next time you breathe in and breathe out, another 12,000 oceans of secrets on every letter on every breath in and 12,000 oceans of secrets on every letter breathing out.

So because you are related to these saints, and this chain, who achieved Sultan adh-Dhikr and one of them is Grandshaykh and then Shaykh Nazim and Shaykh Sharafuddin ad-Daghestani and 5 others. So as much as you read Qur'an, as much as you read, passing your finger under the letters, if you read one juz or 2 juz they will give to your heart the secrets of this knowledge that they are dressed with it.

And he said that “with the first breath after he came out of his mother, his breathing in and breathing out is with Sultan adh-Dhikr and it is all written for Ummat an-Nabi (s).”

“At age of one year, Allah swt gave permission to the Prophet (s) for the Prophet (s) to appoint for him angels from the nearness angels, that are always in the presence of Allah and always in presence of the Prophet (s) – Allah has assigned these angels and given the to the Prophet (s) to assign to Shah Naqshband to raise him and teach him knowledge.”

That is why Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani is given the Ghawthiyya. So Shaykh Shah Naqshband has that specialty that Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani had it. He said that, “Also Allah ordered Sayyidina Khidr to be always in his company. Never he left him. Always he was in the company of Sayyidina Shah Naqshband and guiding what he has to do and teaching him along with the angels that have been assigned to guide him.”

“And as he was young he was guiding young children even to tariqah. From the age of 5 to age of 7 he was able to bring 5,000 kids to come to tariqah because of the power of his talk when he speak he throws pearls into the hearts of children.”

He said, Shaykh Sharafuddin speaking to Grandshaykh Abdullah al-Faiz Daghestani that “When he became 15 years of age a complete transformation of his spirituality happened, that he was able to raise that transformation of his reality faster, achieving the learning from the angels and Sayyidina Khidr , and he was able to reach a level in praise with infinite number of angels and he is there; his spirituality never left them. And that is why when he makes du`a or munajaat that his du`a was 12,000 times higher than those angels through his spirituality. And the Prophet (s) assigned him as a saint for those angels that he was able to guide them how to praise and for that praise to be written to Ummat an-Nabi (s).”

He said, "That when he became 17 years of age, in this level, he was able to reach the highest level of perfection that is why he is called Ghawth, Ghawth az-Zamaan, that have passed before him and they are in jannat al-barzakh and whatever high levels he is giving to those he reached that and he reached ot make sajda under the `Arsh.

And he said, "under that `Arsh there was a white river that has an infinite number of creations that Allah has created them to be like a beauty for Paradise, from men and women. Women were from hur ul-`ayn in that white river there. It looks like a river, very white and it is full of hur al-`ayn and full of young men in Paradise as mentioned in Surat ad-Dahr:

وَيَطُوفُ عَلَيْهِمْ وِلْدَانٌ مُّخَلَّدُونَ إِذَا رَأَيْتَهُمْ حَسِبْتَهُمْ لُؤْلُؤًا مَّنثُورًا وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ ثَمَّ رَأَيْتَ نَعِيمًا وَمُلْكًا كَبِيرًا

Yatoofu alayhim wildaanan mukhaladoon wa idha ra’ita ra’ita na`eeman wa mulkan kabeera.

And round about them will (serve) youths of perpetual (freshness): If thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered Pearls. And when thou lookest, it is there thou wilt see a Bliss and a Realm Magnificent. Al-Insan [76:19]”

“Allah mentioned in Surat ad-Dahr, that they are encircumambulated with young teenage men, wildaanan mukhaladoon, young ones that are everlasting they don’t grow old and they are in continuous tawaaf, and if you look at them you see these young men like white pearls.”

And that is why he said that is like a white river and he said, "You cannot count them, no beginning and no end. “

“Sayyidina Shah Naqshband he was raised to make sajda under the Throne and there was a white river there full of hur al-`ayn and full of young men like white pearls and all of them are listening to his advice and Shah Naqshband is assigning this one to be of service to this mureed, to this one, 100; to this one to be of 1000, to this one to be 1 million. And that is one of his specialties to assign them to members of Ummat an-Nabi (s).”

This is one glimpse of awliyaullah.

He said that, “When he became 19 years of age, the Prophet (s) called all prophets messengers and prophets to dress him from their powers and also to be able to teach Ummat an-Nabi (s) that they came before and that they came after until the Day of Judgment. It is a specialty of Sayyidina Shah Naqshband and not only in his time but before, up to Sayyidina Adam and to prepare them for Judgment Day in order to be ready for it.” And always he said, "that he was sitting besides Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq . And taking from his heart and speaking.”

And may Allah bless us and forgive us and I think this is enough about Sayyidina Shah Naqshband .

This is awliyaullah describing Sayyidina Shah Naqshband . This is for us know. What is above that I don’t think we can take it.

2009-03-28T23:33:00.002+08:00

President orders ministers to help dam burst victims
The Jakarta Post , Cikampek | Fri, 03/27/2009 5:44 PM | National

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has instructed Social Affairs Minister Bachtiar
Chamsyah and Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari to help victims of a flash flood caused by the bursting of Situ Gintung Dam at Cirendeu, Tangerang, southeast of Jakarta.

"I have asked the social affairs minister and the health minister to do whatever the government can do to help the flood victims," the president told the press at Km 62 of Cikampek toll road, on his way from Bandung to Serang on Friday as quoted by Antara state news agency.

Yudhoyono is actually on leave to campaign for the Democratic Party in his capacity as chairman of the party's advisory board.

Bu, he decided to halt his campaign and visit the location of the disaster in his capacity as head of state.

He said he had communicated with Vice President Jusuf Kalla and Coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare Aburizal Bakrie who were already at the disaster's location to take immediate steps to deal with the Situ Gintung emergency.

"On behalf of the government, I express my condolences to the families of the dead victims and may their souls be accepted by God Almighty," Yudhoyono said.

The head of state said he needed to be at the location of the disaster to personally give technical directives to Tangerang authorities on how to deal with the negative impact of the flash flood.

According to data collected from several emergency command posts in the disaster area, at least 35 people were killed and some others missing in the disaster.

The burst following heavy rain on Thursday night had obliterated a 255-meter-long section of the dam allowing water from its 20-hectare lake to rush out and inundate hundreds of houses in its immediate proximity.

The burst occurred at around 2 am local time, Friday, and the first volumes of water that it unleashed swept away tens of houses and a number of people.

Search and rescue officers were trying to rescue residents who were trapped in their submerged houses. The survivors were evacuated to higher ground near the University of Muhammadiyah Jakarta (UMJ) campus.

The floodwaters still reached a height of one to two meters late Friday morning.

Some survivors said the disaster reminded them of a deadly tsunami which devastated Aceh Province and Nias Island on December 26, 2004.

They said they had heard loud rumbling sounds like during a powerful earthquake. They later found out that the sounds came from the water rushing out from the dam's lake.

2009-03-28T23:20:00.002+08:00

Run to the Cave!!!

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Thursday, Dec 04, 2008 | Fenton, MI US

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

Allahuma salli `ala Sayyidina Muhammad (s)

Dastoor ya sayyidee madad!

Days are passing and death is approaching. As days are passing, as death is approaching. And for sure that we are struggling between what is good and what is not good, between what is good and what is evil. And that is why Allah swt and the blessings of His Prophet Sayyidina Muhammad (s) bringing us together in such associations in order that we will be cleaned and turned as if we are born this moment.

Awliyaullah Allah’s saints, Allah’s friends, the pious sincere servants of Allah swt they run to a place; they run to their caves. Allah swt said in Holy Qur'an:

Those who were running in Surat al-Kahf, the Surah of the Cave, telling to those who were running away from the tyranny of that king, seven of them, might be five, might be seven, as mentioned in the Holy Qur'an,

سَيَقُولُونَ ثَلَاثَةٌ رَّابِعُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ وَيَقُولُونَ خَمْسَةٌ سَادِسُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ رَجْمًا بِالْغَيْبِ وَيَقُولُونَ سَبْعَةٌ وَثَامِنُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ قُل رَّبِّي أَعْلَمُ بِعِدَّتِهِم مَّا يَعْلَمُهُمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلٌ فَلَا تُمَارِ فِيهِمْ إِلَّا مِرَاء ظَاهِرًا وَلَا تَسْتَفْتِ فِيهِم مِّنْهُمْ أَحَدًا

Sa-yaqooloona thalaathatun rabi`uhum kalbuhum wa yaqooloona khamsatun saadisuhum kalbuhum rajman bi ’l-ghaybi wa yaqooloona sab`atun wa thaaminuhum kalbuhum qul rabbee a`lamu bi`iddatihim ma ya`lamuhum illa qaleelun fala tumari feehim illa miraan dhaahiran wala tastafti feehim minhum ahada.

(Some) say they were three, the dog being the fourth among them; (others) say they were five, the dog being the sixth,- doubtfully guessing at the unknown; (yet others) say they were seven, the dog being the eighth. Say thou: "My Lord knoweth best their number; It is but few that know their (real case)." Enter not, therefore, into controversies concerning them, except on a matter that is clear, nor consult any of them about (the affair of) the Sleepers. Al-Kahf [18:22]

Allah said: There might be three and the dog is the fourth; and it might be five and the dog is the sixth; and it might be seven, and the dog is eight.

They were group of people running from the tyranny of the king and their dog with them. What Allah said to them? To avoid the tyranny of that king the tyranny of that person.

وَإِذِ اعْتَزَلْتُمُوهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا اللَّهَ فَأْوُوا إِلَى الْكَهْفِ يَنشُرْ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّن رَّحمته ويُهَيِّئْ لَكُم مِّنْ أَمْرِكُم مِّرْفَقًا

Wa idhi `tazaltumoohum wa maa ya`budoona illa Allaha fawoo ila ’l-kahfi yanshur lakum rabbukum min rahmatihi wa yuhayyi lakum min amrikum mirfaqa.

When ye turn away from them and the things they worship other than Allah, betake yourselves to the Cave: Your Lord will shower His mercies on you and disposes of your affair towards comfort and ease." Al-Kahf [18:16]

There in the cave Allah will spread His mercy on you and there He will arrange and fix your problem .

That is message for everyone to run from tyranny is to run to the cave. Any tyranny you have to run to the cave, means avoid them by running to a safe place. And where is that safe place. Where people have to run?

Everyone Allah swt guided him to a cave. It means turn to your Lord, run from the tyranny of shaytan; from the tyranny of evil power and reach running and struggling towards a distance that you can find finally at the end, if you keep running, you don’t say I am waiting until I find safety. If you are running for safety you have to keep running keep running until Allah gave them safety in that cave.

Our duty is to run for safety not out duty to sit on our chairs and say we are not interested. Then fire will reach you. Then evilness will reach you. you have to keep moving and this keep moving means keep struggling with your ego, with yourself until you reach the cave, and everyone has a cave in himself Allah did not create us with no safety. There is safety. Allah created sickness and he created a cure. Is it not, doctor? Dr. Nazeer?

Every sickness there is a medicine, that is Allah’s Mercy. For every illness there is a cure.

The Prophet (s) said, that “Every illness has a cure and every food has an illness and a cure except rice.” Rice no sickness from it. Rice is a complete cure to human being. So it means that for everything that Allah created what is good and to leave the bad.

فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا

Fa-alhamaha fujooraha wa taqwaaha - And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right. Shams 91:8

He inspired the self with what is good and what is bad. First was bad as he always put the warning first. … put good at the end.

So that cave is our connection with our mashaykh. They are our caves. When Sayyidina Muhammad (s) left with Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, from Mecca to Madina where did they go? They went to the cave. What happened in the cave. Tranquility, tamaaneena came. Correct? Tranquility came. If they didn’t go to the cave, tranquility will not come. So Allah gave them a place. What Sayyidina Muhammad (s) said?

La tahzan inna Allaha ma`na. he said to his companion, his friend, don’t get sad, Allah is with us.

And awliyaullah explained that Sayyidina Abu Bakr did not get sad that he is in problem but he got sad that the Prophet’s head on his lap and the snake came. That is why he was sad. And he said to him “don’t be sad, Allah is with us.”

That means when you enter the cave He takes you to the presence of the Prophet (s), then you fall under the ayah:

إِلاَّ تَنصُرُوهُ فَقَدْ نَصَرَهُ اللّهُ إِذْ أَخْرَجَهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ ثَانِيَ اثْنَيْنِ إِذْ هُمَا فِي الْغَارِ إِذْ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِهِ لاَ تَحْزَنْ إِنَّ اللّهَ مَعَنَا فَأَنزَلَ اللّهُ سَكِينَتَهُ عَلَيْهِ وَأَيَّدَهُ بِجُنُودٍ لَّمْ تَرَوْهَا وَجَعَلَ كَلِمَةَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ السُّفْلَى وَكَلِمَةُ اللّهِ هِيَ الْعُلْيَا وَاللّهُ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ

Illa tansuroohu faqad nasarahu Allahu ith akhrajahu alladheena kafaroo thaaniya ithnayni ith huma fee alghari ith yaqoolu lisahibihi la tahzan inna Allaha ma`ana fa-anzala Allahu sakeenatahu `alayhi wa ayyadahu bi-junoodin lam tarawha waja`ala kalimata allatheena kafaroo as-sufla wakalimatu Allahi hiya al`ulya w’Allahu `azeezun Hakeem.

If ye help not (your leader), (it is no matter): for Allah did indeed help him, when the Unbelievers drove him out: he had no more than one companion; they two were in the cave, and he said to his companion, "Have no fear, for Allah is with us": then Allah sent down His peace upon him, and strengthened him with forces which ye saw not, and humbled to the depths the word of the Unbelievers. But the word of Allah is exalted to the heights: for Allah is Exalted in might, Wise. At-Tauba [9:40]

So that is message to everyone keep moving fwd. don’t sit and relax. No, then shaytaan will play. That is why our duty is to keep guiding ourselves to our goal and our goal is to connect our heart to the heart of our teacher. How to connect? Through that light that comes from his heart to our heart. You are expert in that professor, how to make lights connect to each other. Plug means plug that light that is coming from them.

At night you want to plug in the socket, you keep trying, until you find the right place and you put it in. This is our problem; we are veiled we cannot see.

So some people cannot see their nose. You have to close one eye to see your nose. With two eyes you have to focus inwards. But close one and you can see from this side.

So that means always keep your looking down, not always trying to look up everything.

Awliyaullah always look to where they are putting their feet in order to walk to step.

So when they put and reach their cave, Allah gives them knowledge is it not? What you say about them? When they are bringing this knowledge? People who understand say that is ma`rifatullah. They call it ma`rifatullah. In reality it is about ma`rifah about Allah you cannot know Allah but you know about him.

You know about Allah swt. How can know Allah swt? Prophet when he reach the maqaam of qaba qawsayni aw adna he said, "O my Lord I am only an abd, I am nothing.” When he saw the greatness that Allah opened to him in his Mi’raj, so in comparison to what Allah wants him to see he says, “I am nothing, I am nothing but a human being revealed to me.” It is out of humbleness he is saying this.

So when Allah loves His servant He dresses him.

Today doctors, these doctors, any more doctors. We have 3 doctors and you are a professor these doctors if someone comes and acts strangely they say he is psycho, is he not? What other word? He is crazy. He doesn’t know what he is saying. He hears commands and orders. Technophrenic. Doctor. Because he is already.

So because they are whispering in their minds these different they are getting different negative energy they get to their mind. Because there is normal mind of human being here and they are on lower side, not understanding. There are awliyaullah on this level above normal human being, they are superior they reach high level. At that time they reach positive knowledge. When they reach this knowledge they are schizophrenic in Allah’s love. They become there, their personality is one with you and one with the Prophet, and the Prophet is in Allah’s Presence. All their knowledge becomes from heavenly knowledge. Of course no one can understand it. That is why they said about Muhyideen ibn Arabi Qaddasallahu Sirrahu, accusing him, no one can understand what they are saying. That is what they said about many saints. They cannot understand them. So this is normal reading and writing. You go a bit higher you cannot understand you are lost.

So those who are attracted that Allah put in their heart, then they go beyond. When Allah opened for their hearts the six types of knowledge which we explained many times, haqiqat al-fayd, haqiqat al-jazbah, haqiqat at-tawajjuh, haqiqat at-tawwasul, haqiqat at-tayy, haqiqat al-irshaad. Six realities when these are opened in their hearts their knowledge become above normal human knowledge above what people have iq. What is normal iq? 160. So they go above that iq. And some awliyaullah go above these six realities. They go into a level that is maqam adh-dharrah, maqam dharraat adh-dharrah, khafa, akhfa.

When you zoom in, in the computer. When you zoom out you see general picture. when you zoom in, in google map you, in sky or on earth you go more in and more in an more and more precise, awliyaullah they go to atom, that means smallest zooming possible that they go into the fine middle of the center of the circle. There are awliyaullah that go to dharraat adh-dharrah. Imagine in your mind the atom of the atom. They go to there until they reach a level of khafa, which is hidden which is in hand of the Prophet (s). And then the Prophet (s), Allah opens for him the maqaam al-khafa - the most hidden. Akhfa.

These knowledges of course no one is going to understand them from the normal level.

So awliyaullah go into a state of trance where they say things that you cannot focus on it. So when we explain that in brief and said that he said that Allah swt created everything… everything that He created is for Prophet (s). Everything that is other than Allah, means whatever Allah created from universes, from heavens, from earth from everything, is for Sayyidina Muhammad (s); for that reality that is a present in Allah’s Presence continuously. Allah is sending on that presence continuously with non-stopping and in every moment the Prophet (s) is increasing double of what he was before and that is beginning from beginning of creation and it is going on. He is not only the Prophet (s) of earth and human race but he is the Prophet (s) of any other creation that Allah created and we don’t know.

He is the one that through him go to angels in heavens in Paradise. He said, "lam yujidhu la shay, He didn’t bring anything into existence except that is all to the Prophet (s), because when He created these existences (in plural), all these existences are praising Allah swt in its own way. That one doesn’t know the other what he is saying.

Every leaf of the tree, not only that, but every atom of the leaf of the tree, is praising Allah, earth, heavens, other planets everywhere. If you want to think about it, it is beyond our understanding, especially to the professor, as he is a physics man. He put together the Hubble telescope. You know the universe how high it is and he was explaining to me today they are putting something together more powerful than the Hubble Telescope.

So imagine every star and every atom in every star,... Look at our planet. How many constellations we have? Billions. Around the sun and earth these 12 constellations, they are 12. These what you call in English, zodiac, balance, these are 12. when the earth is moving around the sun it passes by them, is it not? And it begins from 21 to 21. it is fixed time a cycle to go from one to the other and moving around the sun.

Look at these fixed constellations and SubhanAllah that Allah gave them shape that no one can put like that it is impossible. To show He gave them shapes and put stars together in a way that you can describe as a shape. If we look at this alone we are amazed. And they tell us there is some significance, what will happen, what will happen. Then if all these He created for sake of the Prophet (s). We are lucky because these the Prophet (s) gave to his Ummah.

When Grandshaykh and Mawlana Shaykh describing these it goes beyond normal understanding and people cannot understand what they are saying.

And he said, "also angels and all eight paradises and all earth, and everything that is in this universe, Allah swt ordered them continuing praising Him and worshipping Him and some of them prostrating, some of them on their knees, some of them standing, as he mentioned in the Holy Qur'an:

الَّذِينَ يَذْكُرُونَ اللّهَ قِيَامًا وَقُعُودًا وَعَلَىَ جُنُوبِهِمْ وَيَتَفَكَّرُونَ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ رَبَّنَا مَا خَلَقْتَ هَذا بَاطِلاً سُبْحَانَكَ فَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ

Alladheena yadhkuroon’Allaha qiyaaman waqu`oodan wa `ala junoobihim wa yatafakkaroona fee khalqi’s-samawaati wa ’l-ardi rabbana ma khalaqta haadhaa baatilan subhanaka faqina `adhaaba an-naar.

Men who celebrate the praises of Allah, standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and contemplate the (wonders of) creation in the heavens and the earth, (With the thought): "Our Lord! not for naught Hast Thou created (all) this! Glory to Thee! Give us salvation from the penalty of the Fire. Ali-`Imran [3:191]

Who are those?

Human beings? It means anyone that Allah created is in complete worshipness. Angels, jinn, human beings animals, trees, everything, water, anything that we know., together with what we don’t k now of heavenly creature or different creature that Allah created together with the planets they are on, are all together worshipping and praising standing and sitting and bowing.

And Allah made them all, and He said, "I am explaining the verse ‘We have honored human beings.’” The honor that Allah made for human beings makes the worship of all those creations [a gift] for the human beings. [As Allah is saying:] Without differentiation, all that I created and they are worshipping Me, O Muhammad (s), I am giving to the human race.”

وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ وَحَمَلْنَاهُمْ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ وَرَزَقْنَاهُم مِّنَ الطَّيِّبَاتِ وَفَضَّلْنَاهُمْ عَلَى كَثِيرٍ مِّمَّنْ خَلَقْنَا تَفْضِيلاً

Wa laqad karramnaa banee adama wa hamalnaahum fi’l-barri wa ’l-bahri wa razaqnaahum mina’t-tayyibaati wa faddalnaahum `ala katheerin mimman khalaqnaa tafdeela.

We have honored the sons of Adam; provided them with transport on land and sea; given them for sustenance things good and pure; and conferred on them special favours, above a great part of our creation. Al-Isra [17:70]

Allah is as if saying: “These heavenly beings, subtle beings, these atoms that are created in these planets and in all creation, plants and waters and all things. They don’t need to worship. But I made them to worship and give all that worship to you.”

“Because all of that I created from My light and My light doesn’t need to worship, but I made them to worship and I gave it to those whom I created from My light, the Prophet’s light and Adam’s light.”

Grandshaykh said, “if people know that Allah gave to them what Allah blessed them, then no one will worship if He gives from that knowledge. Everyone will sit back and say, ‘O I am saved.’ But Allah wants us to worship and to show our love to Him; to pray and fast and give charity and perform hajj, to acknowledge that Allah is our Creator and Sayyidina Muhammad (s) is His sincere messenger. We want to show Him our love - that is why we are worshipping. “And,” [as if Allah is saying], “they will not worship if I open [that secret] to them. I want to see how much they love Me, if they worship or not.”

If you give someone a big jar of honey, can he eat it? No he can eat only one spoon.

So Allah gave us one big jar of honey, but Allah is giving us only one spoon to eat.

Awliyaullah they pick up these knowledges.

And although the saying is true, “sayyid al-qawmi khadimuhum - the master of a people is the one who serves them.” So by making them to worship Allah and praise Him then Allah also gives them rewards as they didn’t do it for themselves but they did it for us and they did that worship and then said, " this is for Ummat an-Nabi” so they fall under that khitaab “sayyid al-qawmi kahdimuh.” So you go to a rich person, who is rich. You don’t go to a poor one. You don’t go to a disco person in the day and at night you go to the wali to repent. He is rich, Allah.

He guides you and directs you what to do. He said Allah swt did not create a wali and not a nabi, knows what Allah will give His servants on Judgment Day. He will open it to Sayyidina Muhammad (s) on that day. He said that now, whatever the Prophet (s) is now getting he knows about what he is getting and he knows what he is giving to the Ummah but he doesn’t know what Allah will open to him on Judgment Day.

That is why the Prophet (s) said, "on Judgment Day I will go into sajda, and Allah opens to my heart what he never opened before.” That means in all time, whatever he is ascending and raising in knowledge double and double and double, it will be even more than that. And he asks three times and Allah gives and gives and gives, so that no one will be left out of heaven.

And this is part of Mawlana Shaykh’s suhbat and it is to tell us that no one knows what Allah will give on Judgment Day. Everyone is swimming on the beach on the shore and no one entered yet into what Allah will give. He is happy with his feet in the water he has only a little water.

People are going and passing and death is coming. What you see there is not what we see here. Allah’s Mercy is big. We are asking, “Ya Rabbee, make our grave a paradise of Your paradises; make our grave to be neighbor and to be under the feet of the Prophet (s); to be under the feet of Grandshaykh. To be under feet of Sayyidina Abu Bakr Radiallahu anhu, under the feet of Sayyidina `Umar Radiallahu anhu. To be under the feet of Sayyidina `Uthman (r); to be under the feet of Sayyidina `Ali (r). To be under the feet of all the Sahaba, of azwaaj an-Nabi, that is where we hope and we are asking for sake of Your beloved one and for the sake of Your awliyaullah, grant us to be at feet of Your Prophet, dunya and akhira.

Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi-hurmati 'l-Fatiha.

2009-03-16T10:04:00.001+08:00

Why they try to diminish the greatness of Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Saturday, Nov 08, 2008 | Chicago, IL US

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Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah `azeez Allah

Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah kareem Allah

Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah subhan’Allah

Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah sultan-Allah

Suhban’Allah, da’im wa abadan.

A`udhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

Obey Allah, obey his prophet and obey those who are on authority. Women 4:59

Sometimes people because of their short visions, they might give an analysis that diminishes the respect of people. That is why you have to be very careful in a situation that too much, give too much, like you praise someone so much, he thinks he knows everything and he covers all areas. Like these …. [adhan sounds, Mawlana stands up] They think they cover all areas because they become professors and they become doctors. Not these doctors [points to the doctors in audience] but especially doctors in Islamic Shariah. As soon as they get jealous from medical doctors because medical doctors are the ones who are called doctors. We know this since we are children. We never called a scholar a doctor. I never heard that except recently in the last 30 or 40 years. When we were young in our twenties or less we never heard someone is called doctor in Shariah.

They got jealous now from medical doctors, now everyone wants to call himself a doctor. With respect to their knowledge you want a scholar to be a real scholar at least he has to have decent respect to the Prophet (s). He has to have at least a respect to Sayyidina Muhammad (s) that when he speaks he knows what he is speaking. And because in front of their name “doctor” they think they have the right to say anything they like.

Unfortunately, [picture falls] this is a sign, another sign. So there is a sign in everything. Humbleness is needed to someone to be respected - he has to be humble. Not humble in your house or humble when you speak with someone, but to be humble to know you knowledge is not enough compared to knowledge of awliyaullah or Sahaba or the Prophet (s). Don’t try to speak as if the Prophet (s) doesn’t know.

I was looking at this article in this newspaper. It is from al-Ahram, an Egyptian newspaper, international page and I am looking, they spoke, they are speaking about at-Tibb an-Nabawi, showing it, the Prophetic Medicine. And if you look at these pictures only one has a turban. Only one has a turban - you see it. All the rest they have tie and suit, is it not? And at least keep respect. If they want to say, "we are doctors,” say, "we are doctors.” In front of all their names, doctor, doctor,… except one in front of his name is shaykh and the rest no turbans and they have in front of their name dal, d. abbreviation for doctor.

And because they are doctors they think they know everything. Why? The Prophet (s) gave them his secrets. And they say things here that they don’t feel shy or ashamed to mentioned. They are going to feel ashamed on Judgment Day and they say that the Prophet (s) doesn’t know about prophetic medicine. They say the Prophet (s) doesn’t know why we have to take what the Prophet (s) prescribed in his time. They were saying he was trying it on himself, thinking it will work.

One topic was “al-Qur'an shifa’un li’s-sudoor wa laysa li’l-abdan – the Qur’an is cure for the hearts, and not for the bodies.” What kind of … and this is a doctor, ad-dawktar among 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 doctors, everyone giving a different article. The other one says, al-`Asr an-nubuwwah la yukaas `alayh. Something in the time of the Prophet (s) and the Prophet (s) did in medicine and those people hukama wise people did something you cannot build on it. That is wrong. Don’t build on it. Go according to technology today.

Then another topic. “At-tibb lays bi-himmat arrusul - The medicine is not responsibility of messengers.”

Look the messengers are coming to guide human beings. Cannot the Prophet (s) Sayyidina Muhammad (s) - who went for Mi’raj - say to someone how to be cured and he will be cured? Instead they said “that is not the job of messengers.”

So that is scholars today. Scholars of the Ummah.

Another scholar here in al-Qudsu ’l-Arabi, from another university. Yarmi qissat gharamahu bi zawjatahu ath-thaniyya. Narrating the story of the love with his second wife and he says:

Al-hubbu janoon wal-janoon funoon- love is craziness and craziness is a kind of art.

When you become crazy you become an artist.

Wal-hayaatu shujoon - life is something full of pain suffering

Wa lillah fee khalqihi shu`oaon - And Allah has in his servants what He gave to them.

And he is speaking of his love for his second wife, and he is very famous, he is [even] called Shaykh al-Islam today. I don’t have anything but respect for them. But don’t bring Islam so low.

For Sayyidina Muhammad (s) you don’t want to accept things he did and in one article you reject what he said and in another you don’t feel ashamed to speak about what you did in love. He might be very old and he is marrying someone very young. What effect on those who are very young if our shuyukh are doing something like that, what about they youth?

So these who call themselves doctors in Islam, they don’t have any more wisdom. They don’t have except what they memorized or what they learned. They are not like the four Imams: Imam Abu Hanifah, Imam Malik or Imam Shafi`ee or Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal or other Imams who came through history. They are not wise anymore

If they are wise at least five a good description of the Prophet (s)ic medicine. Don’t say it is not worth anything to do today. In everything that happened in this life, in everything that the Prophet (s) did. Didn’t they read in Surat an-Najm, that even if the Prophet (s) coughs it is revelation:

وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُوحَى

Wa ma yantiqa an il-hawa in huwa illah wahyun yuhaa - and neither does he speak out of his own desire: that [which he conveys to you] is but [a divine] inspiration with which he is being inspired An-Najm, 53:3-4

He never said anything that is from his own desires. It has to be revelation.

Is it not Shaykh Abdus Sattar? [Yes haqqan.] haqqan wa sidqan. What they are saying in these articles is that all these medicines that the Prophet (s) used to prescribe for people are not important, as it is not revelation. It is an experience he tried it, it didn’t work out, it failed; it didn’t fail. They are telling the Ummah that don’t follow the Prophet (s). That is the smallest meaning we can understand. Because in everything that the Prophet (s) said there is a secret. Awliyaullah in every move they do, you go to a wali and ask “what do I have to read?” he will tell you what to read, and in it there must be a secret.

I will tell you a story. Grandshaykh may Allah bless his soul, he said, "Ahl ul-Aza’im ahlu’t-tariqah. Ahlu ’l-aza’im at-tariqah are Ahl at-tariqah. Those who try to hold very tight on the azeema, on the strongest the highest level of Shariah law or discipline they try to hold on that not to go to easy way, the easy is allowed - no problem - but the highest way is better so they keep on the highest way.

Like for example the easy way when you want to go to sleep you don’t sleep on wudu. But awliyaullah don’t accept. They say we must sleep on wudu and must pray two raka`ats. And Ahl al-aza’im if they wake you up at night they must make new wudu if they get up at night [to use bathroom] that is in cold places even. Even if they go to bathroom five times they must make wudu and pray Sunnat al-wudu five times. That is different between Ahl al-aza’im vs. Ahl al-rukhas. He said al-wali min ahl al-aza’im.

They must take the hardest level on themselves but with students may take easier way.

[ala Qadir ..]

He said that “according to their levels, Allah will open of them al-maqaam la-fardaani the Unique Station. It is a unique station. The al-maqaam la-fardaani, for every wali there is a unique station for that wali. And above all of them you reach to Sultan al-awliya the Ghawth, he is on the highest unique station the ibn `Arabi described in his Futuhat, that the Nabi is the golden brick and on the other side facing him is Sultan al-awliya who is the silver brick. That means that Sultan al-awliya is always facing Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and receiving from him to dispatch to all other walis. And don’t say there are only wali in Naqshbandi. There 124,000 wali. This one sitting beside you is a wali [points to Shaykh Abdus Sattar Khan]. Anyone in Chicago goes to him, Allah accepts his du`a.

So anyone who is in that circle of al-maqaam la-fardaani is going to be in the circle of the Prophet (s). And he said that, “one time”, and I am quoting Grandshaykh in the story he mentioned. In his village there was a rich businessman in his area in Dagestan. Mawlana was young at that time. There was a rich man wants to go for hajj. So they take first, they walk on camels until they reach a sea and they take a ship and they go for Jeddah, then Jeddah to Mecca. He was accompanying another person but that person was one form awliyaullah , a wali. So he took him with him and said, “You are my companion. I will spend everything on you, you come with me.” That wali has reached the maqam al-fardani one of the unique stations. When you accompany a wali, don’t think it is going to be easy now. It is better not to accompany now because you go and come is not going to be easy. He wants to be sure your hajj is accepted. That is why he said there are three things you have to ask your shaykh. One is when you want to travel for hajj you have to ask your shaykh he gives permission or not. Because not every time Allah sends his mercy or his manifestation on the people at Arafat. Because hajj is Arafat. When you stand on Arafat that is hajj even you didn’t follow the rest it will not be complete but you will be called hajji. So they look at Lawh al-Mahfouzh is it this year Allah is sending his manifestation of his Beautiful Names and Attributes. If not they tell you don’t go. They tell you go next year. But if you never went, then you must go. Because it is obligation. But when you begin to go more and more then you ask as it into obligation.

Also when you want to marry, you might be in love with someone but you must ask the shaykh as it might not be the one written for you. And when you want to migrate from one place to another you must ask. You cannot go without asking, three places.

So he went to that man and said, "I want you to accompany me to hajj.” And he said, "yes”, and he took him and went. On the way they took a boat and they went on the boat. That man, like today, when you carry your passport and your money what do you do with it? You keep hiding it - you don’t want to lose it.

Everyone is holding onto their money. So was that rich man who is accompanying that shaykh. That Shaykh is from the Naqshbandiyya from the silsilah of Grandshaykh. There are 7007 shaykhs. Not each one is carrying from the main line the secret. There might be one main shaykh and there are five or ten that he gives secrets, to do work here and there. So he was accompanying him and he told him, “Where are you putting your money?” He said, “I am putting it on my chest and I am tying it under my clothes. I don’t want it to be lost.” So he said, "give it to me - I will take care of it.” So that man doesn’t want to give it to that wali.

Sometimes we make mistakes. If a wali asks you something don’t say “no”. Allah might save you from many difficulties you don’t know about.

So he said, “Give it to me; I will keep it for you.” He said, "No, I am putting in a safe place.”

So he said, "As you like.” Then they were on the boat. And suddenly and this was one of these big boats that used to come to Jeddah, 90 years ago. On it, someone has a monkey on the boat. Bringing with him a monkey to Jeddah; it might be he wants to live there and raise monkeys, Allah knows. So that monkey came out of nowhere jumping on that man and stealing that money from that man and going all the way up on the sur, the mast of the boat. No one can reach there. And then he opened the bank, and in it was 1000 golden coins. One golden coin he throws to the man, and one golden coin he threw to the sea. One to the man, one to the sea. That man was crying that the money is gone. One to him, one to the ocean. One to him, one to the ocean until it is finished. 500 the ocean took and 500 the man took.

That man was so angry, he had his wife with him he was so angry. The wali said, "Why are you angry?” He said, "You didn’t see what happened?” He said, “Ok, that is good what happened. But look nothing will happen without Allah’s Will. And don’t talk too much or else I will be away from you.” Then he was worried as he knows this is a wali.

As they are speaking like that, the man is still angry but the wali is reciting some awraad and he is teaching it to the man’s wife and she was hearing that and he asked her, “What are you learning?” He said, "Can I read it?” Then she … at the moment he was arguing with the shaykh the women was taking ablution and she slipped and fell in the ocean. So look if you want to accompany the shaykh it will be difficulty. So that is why they say, “If you want to be near the shaykh it is being near fire.”

So what happened?

The lady disappeared. They looked, they stopped the boat they looked, they didn’t find her. So the man was crying. He lost his wife and he lost his money. He was shouting, “What kind of shaykh are you? What kind of wali are you? Why did I bring you?”

Why I brought this story. These doctors, they don’t understand the Prophetic medicine. They said, “no” to prophetic medicine: “why to eat this or that?” They don’t know, they are not wise anymore. They were more wise in the past. Even `Ali al-Qaari they were finding very smallest detail to praise the Prophet (s) and now they are trying to find every smallest detail to put down the Prophet (s).

So what happened? That businessman kafara, not in the meaning that he denied Allah’s presence. We say kafara in Arabic, but in the meaning that he got fed up with the shaykh. He doesn’t want to see him anymore.

The shaykh didn’t talk anything and the boat is sailing. They reached the port. And the people are coming out. Look. And the man saw his wife. By the boat, on the dock. …

He was so happy that he saw his wife. And he looked at her and he said, "I am happy to see you. How you… you fell down in the ocean in the sea, what happened?” She said, "Ask the Shaykh.”

Now he understood he made a big mistake. Why to tell him “ask the Shaykh”? It means she saw something coming from that wali. “Ask the wali, ask the Shaykh!” He came to him and said, “Ya sayyidee!” Now he is saying “Ya sayyidee!” Before he was denying. He said, “I am still angry because I lost the money, but I am happy to see my wife.”

Don’t underestimate the power of awliyaullah. Don’t say, "Why we are not seeing these miracles anymore?”

This is the century of ignorance. That is what the Prophet (s) said that, “when ignorance is over all the earth then Allah will send one of my grandchildren to bring out the knowledge.” There are awliyaullah but there tongues are frozen. They cannot say. If they say it is scrambled. Allah changes their tongues. If they want to say, "I saw Sayyidina Mahdi and he is here in this room and he is ordering his deputies to be here and listen to the suhbat.” And that wali’s words will become scrambled so that what he is saying is like reciting Qur’an or reciting a hadith. And he says that but the people will hear something completely differently. That is why in the same association the people hear the shaykh differently. They hear in a different code and different wavelength and that is why they hear different.

So that wali said, "O my brother. I learned from my Shaykh and he learned from his Shaykh and he learned from his Shaykh all the way to the Prophet (s) that if anyone wants to travel from one place to another by boat or camel, that there are a lot of beings on these streets. They might be heavenly they might be earthly. There are a lot of animals, might be domestic and might be wild. And there are many … might be tyrants. If you recite ‘Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem dhaalika taqdeer al-`azeezu ’l-hakeem’ Allah will take care of you, even if the boat is drowning, Allah will send special angels to take you to shore.”

That is why Grandshaykh and Mawlana Shaykh said, "When you travel on a boat or plane and recite ‘Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem dhaalika taqdeer al-`azeezu ’l-hakeem’ and Allah will send angels to protect you. And on that wird there are angels who are responsible for anyone who recites it.

The shaykh said, "I taught that to her to recite and she was reciting that every day and when she fell she saw an angel come and take her from the ocean.”

And she said, "sadaqa ash-shaykh- the shaykh spoke the truth,” The Shaykh said, "If I was not with you, your wife would be dead now. That is first help I did for you. The second one, you are coming for hajj and you owe Allah money because you didn’t pay your zakaat. So in order for your hajj to be accepted you have to pay the zakaat money. You didn’t pay voluntarily so we sent that monkey to take that money and send Allah’s right to the ocean and give whatever balance is for you.”

“That is second thing that made your hajj to be accepted.”

I brought that story by Mawlana’s permission, answering those who wrote that article on Tibb an-Nabawi, Prophetic medicine. These people are blind from being saints. `Ulama al-ummah they were before scholars and awliyaullah at same time, Allah gave them secrets. Today they are doctor, doctor, doctor. That is arrogance! Take that doctorship and throw it. Why do you want to put in front of your name dal, “doctor”? Why do you want to say “doctor”? You are telling the people you are a doctor. You are trying to find a way to please the newspaper and because they brought that question to you in order to say the Prophet (s) didn’t know. Why? You want to make non-Muslims not to look at the Prophet (s) high? They want to diminish the status of the Prophet (s). This is Muslim and non-Muslims read that. If a non-Muslim reads that what will he say? “How do you say your Prophet went for Mi’raj and he cannot prescribe a medicine?”

Why to stir the mud? If you are blind don’t make the Ummah blind.

There are secrets in every Word of Allah and in every one of the Beautiful Names and Attributes and in every word that the Prophet (s) said in his life from the beginning of his life when his mother gave birth to him up to his passing. He was asking for his Ummah. Why Sayyidina `Isa Alayhissalam can talk in the birth and Sayyidina Muhammad (s) cannot talk in his birthday?

About Sayyidina `Isa Alayhissalam,

فَأَشَارَتْ إِلَيْهِ قَالُوا كَيْفَ نُكَلِّمُ مَن كَانَ فِي الْمَهْدِ صَبِيًّا قَالَ إِنِّي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ آتَانِيَ الْكِتَابَ وَجَعَلَنِي نَبِيًّا وَجَعَلَنِي مُبَارَكًا أَيْنَ مَا كُنتُ وَأَوْصَانِي بِالصَّلَاةِ وَالزَّكَاةِ مَا دُمْتُ حَيًّا وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيَّ يَوْمَ وُلِدتُّ وَيَوْمَ أَمُوتُ وَيَوْمَ أُبْعَثُ حَيًّا

Fa ashaarat ilayhi qaaloo kayfa nukallimu man kaana fi’l-mahdi sabiyya, Qaala innee `abdullaahi aataaniya al-kitaaba wa ja`alanee nabiyya wa ja`alanee mubarakan ayna ma kuntu wa awsaanee bi’s-salati wa’z-zakaati maa dumtu hayya; Wa barran bi-waalidatee wa lam yaj`alnee jabbaaran shaqiyya. Wa’s-salaamu `alayya yawma wulidtu wa yawma amootu wa yawma ub`athu hayya.

Thereupon she pointed to him. They exclaimed: "How can we talk to one who [as yet] is a little boy in the cradle?" He said: "I am indeed a servant of Allah. He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet; and [has endowed me with] piety towards my mother; and He has not made me haughty or bereft of grace. "Hence, peace was upon me on the day when I was born, and [will be upon me] on the day of my death, and on the day when I shall be raised to life [again]!" Maryam [19:29-30]

Ataanee al-kitab - He gave me the Kitaab, al-Injeel. He still didn’t give to him nubuwwah, still he was a baby in the cradle. First he said, "I am `Abdullah.” He didn’t say, "I am a Nabi.” He said, "I am a servant.” You cannot be a prophet before you become a servant. When you reach that level. All of us by tongue we say we are `abd but we didn’t reach the level of servanthood. He said, “I am a servant of Allah and He gave me the Book,” before he received the book. You have to have a book before you become a prophet – “Wa ja`alanee nabiyya - Then He made me a prophet. Then He made me blessed wherever I am and He commanded me to pray and commanded me to give charity as long as I am alive.”

Why the Prophet (s) who went for Mi’raj? Sayyidina `Isa Alayhissalam is in the first heaven, he was raised waiting permission to come. Sayyidina Muhammad (s) went to:

فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَى

Fa kaana qaaba qawwsayin aaw adna – two bow’s length or nearer. An-Najm [53:9]

Sayyidina `Isa Alayhissalam was curing the sick and he was raising the dead. If Sayyidina Muhammad (s) said eat “this cloth and you will be cured” - you will be cured. Not listening to these stupid people and what they are saying - with all my respect to what they study.

Look today every true Muslim is carrying the shoes of the Prophet (s) to show it is honor for us to up the shoes of the Prophet (s) on our head. They ask, their followers to be dust on the shoes of the Prophet (s). And if you go into what scholars have said about the Prophet (s), you know that he and one pair of shoes and four khuffs. If you look explanation of scholars for his shoes, if his shoes has baraka, what he says about medicine is not full of baraka. I am not saying not to go to doctor. Go but don’t come against the Prophet (s) with such article. That is why in every wird or adab you mention there is a secret. Awliyaullah give you to recite as they want to raise through recitation to take you up to the Maqam al-Fardani to the unique station that is not simple and not easy. Awliyaullah are not playing with us.

He said whoever likes to go to paradise it is simple - follow the five obligations: Shahadatu an la ilaha illa-Allah anna Muhammad Rasulullah, wa iqamus-salaat wa ita’uz-zakaat, wa sawmu Ramadan wa hajju’l-bayt. But if you want to be with the Prophet (s) in

فِي مَقْعَدِ صِدْقٍ عِندَ مَلِيكٍ مُّقْتَدِرٍ

maq`adi sidqin `inda maleekin muqtadir - In an Assembly of Truth, in the Presence of a Sovereign Omnipotent. Al-Qamar [54:55]

You have other procedures to follow you have to follow the other procedures.

So Grandshaykh said, you do your obligation - that is ok. But that doesn’t mean you are not a wild animal. Because the human being is a “talking animal - haywaanin naatiq.” You cannot say why he is calling us talking animal. You can be wild or you can be domestic. He said, "awliyaullah they look at these doctors, now I am adding this up, they say they look at these people who only do five obligations without doing the Maqam al-Ihsan they are not trying to perfect their behavior and they are looking only from very narrow perspective the minimum not looking at azeema but following rukhsa. They are like wild animals that have been release in a jungle. They go everywhere they are wild.

And he said, "Those who are awliyaullah and their students who are following a wali, their description is like a mountain and what you find on the mountain. You find on the mountain wild animals.”

All these doctors, doctors, doctors that think they are the peacock of the Ummah are stepping on the mountain thinking they can crush it. But who can harm a mountain? If a million people will step on mountain they will not affect it. Awliyaullah are mountains. And their followers are rocks on these mountains. And it is very difficult to remove these rocks. These people can mingle among the mureeds but they cannot distract their levels. Always they are going higher and higher, awliyaullah.

He said “la tabadal wa la tughayyir - No change and not alteration to mountains, like oceans.” Look he is quiet. They are like oceans. Even you throw all, look Chicago here, where all the sewers go? To Lake Michigan. And lake is sweet and it is a lake. It becomes dirty? No. What you think then about the ocean? It never gets dirty and even all sewers of whole world will go in it is still clean you can clean with it and take shower with it.

Awliyaullah are like oceans they eat the sins of human being and their waste. They clean them and send them back clean. They can pay and reach the Prophet (s).

He said you are connected with an ocean you are connected with a sultan that connects you with Sultan as-sultan Sayyidina Muhammad (s). May Allah keep us always with the Prophet (s) and we will continue this later insha-Allah Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi-hurmati 'l-Fatiha .

2009-03-04T15:42:00.002+08:00

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim's Declaration for UK, Europe and everyone

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani Sultanul Awliya | Saturday, Jan 03, 2009 | Lefke CY

Es-selamu aleykum.

Nuhiy al-majlis an aqool Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Raheem Tarikatuna Sohbah wal khayri fi-l-jamiyah.

Sheik Hisham Effendi [n`am Sayyidee] Khalifat mawlana tarteeb jawami' hali `ala ismuna. Jami' Peckham, wa jami' ewalu Shacklewell Lanes, ba'dayn Green Lanes ewal masjid tab'ana. Muhim hadha.

[to make our association alive I say “In the name of Allah the Beneficent the Meriful.” Our Tarikat is association and the goodness is in the gathering.

Sheik Hisham Effendi (yes Sayyidee) is calipha of Mawlana.

Arrangement of the Mosques that are under our names. Masjid Peckham, and Masjid, the first one, Shacklewell Lanes, after Green Lanes, the first mosque belonging to us. This is what is important.]

I am making you on behalf of me to look in London: Peckham Mosque and Shacklewell Lanes and Green Lanes, three of them, to look what is there our situation in front of laws. We must take them under our control because we are owners.

As I am a chief trustee and owner in Peckham and Shacklewell Lanes and in Green Lanes dergah I am giving to you my authority also what is the difficulties there to arrange to make these three places for Islamic foundations to make for Islam - not for some groups but must be for everyone. And I like that you can try to call British Muslims to use these three mosques also under our trust how they may do, if they are asking to pray Jum'ah, to make khutbe, to make zikr, under our permission they may do.

Anything they may be in need, we are supporting them also. Because we are not buying these three big places for dunya. No, never. But we tried to reach some big centers in London, therefore I tried so many years, perhaps thirty years I was there, and the Lord of Heavens making me successful to make so many mosques.

St. Anne's is now under our control, fully, but these three ones that no trust working on it or chief trustee, we must look, we must arrange how we may use for the sake of Allah and Rasuluhu Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam and making to change how many trustees there, as I like to be a trustworthy person and a mukhlis, sincere one, and young ones, to be, to take care through these three places. If anyone getting against my declaration, then it is not going to be good for them. If coming some heavenly punishment I don't know.

My maqsad, my intention, to work as I like, that I was intending. I would never intend to buy something and to take some benefit on behalf of mosques, estaghfirullah. I am, I have enough, Allah Almighty giving to me, in our country, enough.

After this age I am not asking dunya, I am ashaming. But I am asking that these three places also to be put for the benefit of young people or calling people to come and to learn Islam. I like to take over the whole trust and bring new ones. New ones.

There should be chief trustee: Shaykh Hisham. And also to be chief trustee Shacklewell Lanes and owner and chief trust on Green Lanes dergah. What is necessary to be done on trusts through these three buildings I am making you on behalf of me, to look Shaykh Hisham.

Yanee Angleterre importance for you because I can't move from Cyprus to reach to London, like before. We have now in London, in important points of London, we have a jami` wa masjid wa dergah [Jumu`ah mosque, and mosque and Sufi center]. Wa haythu… dergah … now I am not able as before to go to London, to look after our people as well as you are also the… you have permission from our Grandshaykh calipha, yumkin tatasil bin-naas `ayesheen bi UK [you are able to connect with people living in UK], that it is easy for you to go and to look after our followers and also you may try to keep our huqooq, rights, there and to call people to Tarikat an-Naqshbandiyyati-l-`aliyye. And therefore I am, as my… as I am servant of our Grandshaykh, I am giving to you a ijazet, permission, to come to London, to England, UK and to look after our followers what they may be in need, if anything going to be difficult, you may consult with me and you should be my calipha there.

Wa idha, and therefore I like not to be our brothers and sisters without a shaykh and UK big country [and] London a biggest city on Europe without a shaykh. Therefore just I am giving you ijazet to look after people in London, in Ireland, in UK, and also you may look after people in France, and you may look also in Spain, and also in Italy, maybe time by time you may go. You can call people in Europe, to come to Naqshbandi tarikat and you may go to African continent. Because they are in need also a shaykh calling them to our tarikatun `aliyye [most distinguished Sufi way]. And you may go also to shay, Africa shimalinda [North Africa] – Morocco - wa and also inside of African continent you may do - you may have a big area and you are not a fadi, empty [one], to be only in America, no. In Africa, it is big area for you. Everywhere.

I am Shaykh Nazim the servant of our Grandshaykh. Biwasi' - advising Shaykh Hisham that he may go anywhere invited for tarikatun `aliyye [most distinguished Sufi way]. That is my ijazet, permission, as our Grandshaykh permitting me.

After my age I never reaching east and west. Only if Allah Almighty giving a permission to move without plane that is another point.

Allahuma edrikna fee yawmina jadeed an nakoona fi-l-amna wa-l-amaan was-selamat wa-l-islam. Wa-Allahu khayru-l-hafidhan wa Huwa arhamur-rahimeen. Fatiha.

[O Allah reach us in this new day to be in safety and security and good health and Islam. And the Allah is the Best of Protectors and He is the Most Merciful of those who are merciful. Fatiha]

2009-02-23T21:49:00.003+08:00

The Greatness and Rank of Shah Naqshband Part 1 of 2

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 | Burton, MI US

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

We are doing dhikr 14th Muharram is urs of Sayyidina Shah Naqshband. Dont say, "why we came here, it’s snowing." Allah knows it is snowing, Allah made it to snow in order to test us to see if we are going to come or we are going to sit at home and say, " we have firewood and chimneys and we are warm Saturday evenings. Allah swt doesn’t like lazy servants. You must be very happy and must be very thankful that Allah gave us this opportunity to come tonight and make that special dhikr for the night of the passing of Shah Naqshband and to visit the holy hair of the Prophet (s).and this occasion is worth millions and millions and we don’t know how much is its value Allah is the one who rewards His servants. And Allah swt made this opportunity easy for us to come. We have to be very thankful. Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Muhammad Naqshband is not an ordinary saint. Allah gave him special characteristics that awliyaullah are not aware, some of them are not aware of the characteristics that Allah gave to Sayyidina Shah Naqshband.

One time one of his characteristics is that one time Sayyidina Abayazid al-Bistami, who is one of the biggest saints, one of the saints that Allah swt gave them power beyond the power of human mind. Allah gave him power on some angels that he was using these angels for the benefit of the community. Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami with his dedication said, "Ya Rabbee, I am not returning until I reach your Divine Presence. And he was progressing in worshipness and giving his time to reach that Divine Presence. Where he used to do seclusion? Not like us today or like no one is doing seclusion or if they are doing seclusion they do it in a room or in an easy place. He was doing seclusion in a well 70 m. down. Which means 250 ft. approximately down. He is sitting down in the dry well and he is doing his seclusion there. He is not doing seclusion like we do seclusions for forty days. But he is doing seclusions for year and years. Asking Allah swt to open for him his Divine Presence. We, all of us, we are coming in these associations thinking we are big awliya. Everyone thinks himself or herself that he reached the highest level of sainthood, put a turban grow a little bit beard then he thinks o I am someone to be respected. And we are asking, "O Allah we put a turban and have a beard so open for us your Divine Presence.” Correct Abu Bakr? [yes] Muhammad Amin? We do a little bit and we want too much. Alhamdulillah no problem Allah is Generous. We are not like those saints that came before and we are not like Mawlana Shaykh; we are weak servants. We ask that Allah give us even we are moving like an ant, Allah is generous.

But in these days they were dedicated in order to reach. We are asking, Ya Rabbee open for us. We are asking and Allah likes His servants to ask. Are you asking. Ask. Idoo`nee astajeeb lakum – as Me I will respond to you.

So he was asking and asking and asking through many many seclusions until he heard a voice that “Ya Abayazid! What you want?” and it is coming to his heart that message. Like today they say they are sending text messages on these phones. Awliyaullah have higher than this technology thousands of years before. Sayyidina Bayazid had that tech 1000 y ears ago. And with a voice. You have text message with a voice on computer? No. it is with writing. Their text message is with a voice and sometimes you can see also.

What is the message coming? O Bayazid what do you want? I want my Lord’s Divine Presence. I want my Lord to open for me that I can enter into that ocean of love, ocean of worshipness, ocean of dedication to my Lord.” He sent back text message. He received and he was able to send back, now there is a connection. Before he was sending, sending, sending. This time he got the answer. Immediately he text back to the same phone. He got the answer and then sent back a message to the same number. He sent back, “Ya Rabbee, I want my Lord’s love.” He got message back, “do you want that?” “Open for me Your door that I might be inside.”

That is nice. Do you want that? [yessir] Then you have to behave the same way he behave. Who said “yes,” raise your hand. This one he doesn't care. You don’t want? [shrugs]

See. “Ya Rabbee I want to go there.” “Ok, on one condition.” “Ok, what is that. Go and make yourself to be a… what? To be a dump for My servants. A dump place.”

He is where is you see many places these big dumps where all these trucks come carrying all the waste materials. And dump it. Do they dump it or not? [yessir]. So what they do there? They dump all these garbage. “O Abayazid. You want for My Divine Presence to be opened for you? Go be a dump for My servants.”

It means “be like the earth.” The earth you stand on it, you step on it, you blow it up, you put a bulldozer on it, it doesn’t complain. It means, “be like earth, no complaints. Carry My servants. Be Humble to them and let them dump their waste on you and you give them back in return rewards.”

When you dump in dump areas, waste, after a while what happens? What you see when you pass by dump areas. You will see fire there. From a gas which has been formed from the waste that has happened. That is when you become a dump you will be like a fire, you will be like that love to that Divine Presence is increasing it is coming like a lamp, like a flame, dancing from that coming out that flame, shaking and shaking and shaking it is immersed in the love of its Creator.

It means when you become a dump you become a flame, giving light. People they throw the dump it is not worth anything. But no It is worth a lot. Awliyaullah when they put their lives for their mureeds for their followers for Allah’s sake, they get tired, they say, “no problem,” and say for the sake of their followers they carry that, then Allah makes them like flames dancing in the Divine Presence. So the voice came to him, you want for My Divine Presence to be opened go and be a dump for My servants. It means “humble yourself. Don’t show yourself, your ego.” “Don’t argue” it means. Don’t argue between you and your wife. Between you and your husband. Between you and your daughter and between you and your son. Don’t argue between your brothers and sisters. Argument will extinguish the light of the heart.

Today everyone argues. You tell them don’t argue they say, "No, we have to argue. You like it or you don’t like it, we have to argue.” Why they are fighting in me. Leave me, everywhere. Everyone wants to stand on his position. No one wants to bow to the second one. No one wants to give a space to the other. We are here learning. We are not … it is an advice you like to take, you take, you don’t like to take don’t take. Don’t argue. "Al-jidaal yudfi`u nur al-qalb - Argument will extinguish light of the heart.” Some people if they don’t find someone to argue with they will fight with themselves. They look in the mirror and they argue.

They do that everywhere here. They call it emptying yourself in the mirror. You don’t see these groups where they sit in groups and they empty themselves, and then finally they don’t reach anywhere. And at the end they say, "go and fight with yourself in the mirror.” So at the end they get frustrated even and break the mirror.

So he heard, “Go and be dump to My servants.” \So we are coming to the story of Shah Naqshband but this is important to build upon.

So to become a dump is not easy .you have to make something which will make the people beat you up and then see if they carry you or not.

So Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami with his high level of spirituality the people cannot understand what he is saying. I am not going into the story of what he did, but he did 2 things that made confusion in the village. So at that moment, scholars, they didn’t understand what he is doing or saying. And they ordered for Bayazid to be eliminate to be executed to be killed.

So they put him in a hole and they being to throw him with stones until he will die. Because what he did wasn’t accepted. What he did, I will say one story.

He was going in the alleys between homes and passed by a house where a beautiful lady came out, he hugged her and went into the house and locked the door. And everyone was angry, saying, “what he did? This is against Shariah!” Today they do that a lot; they don’t care for Shariah or not.

So his students and scholars left him and said, "what he did was wrong.” Except for one, he was standing at the door waiting for his teacher to come out. Sayyidina Bayazid came out after two hours and looked around and said, "O where are your friends?” there were 200 of them then after he hugged the lady they all left and cursed him.

If it was this one or any of us, and shaykh asks us, where are your friends we would say, "they ran away,” to make ourselves big.

So he said, "O Sayyidee, my concern is you, my duty is you. I don’t know about them, you may ask them.”

So that is adab. Then Sayyidina Bayazid said, "come inside the house.” He said, "this is my sister. What you behaved, you behaved in a manner that no one behaved like you. I am going to get you married to my sister.” That mureed never expected to get married to the sister of Sayyidina Bayazid. But because he didn’t put in his heart any doubts Allah rewarded him.

Then he got married to his sister and then they came and said, "we have to kill him because he has done something against Shariah,” as they didn’t know she is his sister.

They took him and throw him with stones until he fell unconscious, and they thought he had died. They threw his body and put it in the dump.

After a few days he revived from that shock of being beaten, and when he awoke he said, "O Allah, whoever harmed me give them from my hasanaat and put their sayiaat on me.”

In this way showing respect to Allah’s servants because by this means he made a situation when he has to accept His servants in the way they are harming.

People are harming, we cannot harm Allah, but they are disobeying Allah and Allah says, no problem, I forgive. So to understand the secret of that ayah. He had to experience that.

Are we forgiving those who harm us? No sir. No, we put oil on the fire to make it bigger.

So after he recovered after seven days in the dump, and constant `ibadah asking Allah to forgive them. He said, "I am leaving this village” and he went to the seashore and there he found a boat. He asked the captain if he can join them. And they went into the sea and the sea became very stormy.

Look their belief, their belief is not like today. They said, "that one of us is a sinner. That sinner must go and throw himself in the water. And Bayazid came and said, "that one is me. Don’t throw anyone else. And he threw himself in the ocean and he said, "Ya Rabbee, I will not come back until I find the truth. And he was going in that ocean a very high speed down. Allah opened the seven earths for him. That means that he goes deeper and deeper. And that means Allah opened the universe for him that he goes deeper and deeper and comes out in another place in the universe in order to say that I am going in search of your Divine Presence.

So after going for seven days he heard in a very no light area he reached a place where he is hearing dhikrullah, and they were making dhikr Huuuuuuuuuuu he was approaching but he was worried and the voice was growing. And he said that all the power that Allah gave to him, Sayyidina Bayazid had the power that if he sends it around the earth he can see every person on earth and know what is his present and his past and his future. Using all that power he was unable to count all the people making dhikr there.

And suddenly he heard a voice, Ya Bayazid what are you doing here? This is not your territory, this is my territory.” That was Sayyidina Shah Naqshband doing dhikrullah before he was on earth, when he was a soul in his spiritual life he was conducting the dhikr with all his mureeds, whoever came as a mureed of the Naqshbandi order from Abu Bakr as-Siddiq up to Day of Judgment , anyone is in Naqshbandi order was present there with Shah Naqshband in the Divine Presence. That was one of the characteristics of Sayyidina Shah Naqshband.

He said, "I was not able to count them and I was not able ot know anything about them, but I knew that I am one of them, but with my soul there, not with my body.” And this is a way that Allah gave to Sayyidina Shah Naqshband to prepare all his mureeds.

Don’t think our dhikr here is what is going to save us. No our dhikr there our dhikr is under Shah. Naqshband and up to Judgment Day we are there doing dhikr Huuuuuuu. Huwa means absolute unknown. It means whatever you know still you don’t know more. That means there is no end to knowledge, knowledge is never ending.

So Sayyidina Shah Naqshband, is that one who is, and as Grandshaykh said, "in the association of awliyaullah in the presence of the Prophet (s) that Sayyidina Shah Naqshband is going to fill four paradises; cannot the remaining awliyaullah fill the rest. The awliya are debating cannot we fill the rest.

So we are ummatan marhuoma - an ummah that Allah has rewarded it. As long a we are on right way. Following the Shariah. But we are weak and helpless. One day on right side, next day on wrong side. Ya Rabbee we cannot do more than that. We are asking your support. May Allah forgive us. 14th Muharram is the day that Sayyidina Shah Naqshband left dunya with his body and yet he is still training his students with dhikrullah and all of us are in that presence.

May Allah forgive us.

Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi-hurmati 'l-Fatiha

The Greatness and Rank of Shah Naqshband Part 2 of 2

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Sunday, Jan 11, 2009 | Fenton, MI US

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

Yesterday we spoke about…

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. We spoke about Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu and it was his urs and Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu, Allah gave him many characteristics. And one we explained yesterday and another is that Allah gave him two eyes that one cannot distinguish the white from the black - one is always overtaking the other. You can see the white over the pupil and the pupil over the white and he has big eyes and so people cannot dare to look at his eyes; they get afraid because there is a majestic power in his eyes. As Grandshaykh Qaddasallahu Sirrahu explained it was like a tahoon, a grinder, they turn like that and they are as big like that, symbolically we say, "they are big eyes.” And people cannot look into his eyes because of that manifestation of that heavenly power that comes to him from two oceans, the ocean of rahmat - Divine Mercy and the ocean of qudrah- Divine Power, these two oceans were always manifesting these two Beautiful Names and Attributes on him and they are appearing in his eyes. And because Allah gave him that power he is trying not ot waste it and trying not to spend it, because in every moment these manifestations are descending from heavens on him and to keep his eyes safe, from looking at something haraam, he was trying to, as when you look and see something that you are not allowed to look at what do you do? You turn your face or you look down. Or when a bad thought comes to the mind, of anything you are thinking, you close your eyes and then open your eyes and say “istaghfirullah,” as focus comes first from the eyes. So you try not to focus, as Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu likes to keep his focus not on dunya things, he wants to keep it more on heavenly things.

So some people when they pray they want to chase away these bad thoughts that come, so they close their eyes, and that is the only reason it is accepted in Shariah to close the eyes in prayer, as it is not accepted to pray with your eyes closed - you must keep the eyes open.

Some people when they pray they might look at you or they look back and left by moving their eyes, not their head. And sometimes you focus on many thoughts bad thoughts that come and you forget the number of raka`ats you prayed.

And Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu didn’t want to lose that focus so in order to do that he was keeping the white moving over the black and the black moving over the white. And anyone looking into his eyes will be struck by lightning as he doesn’t want to use the energy to look at people.

So the discipline was that his mureeds never look at his face. And that is the correct adab of tariqah when the Shaykh gives association then you must keep your head down and not look up.

That is ok for us, as we are beginners. But in our time when we were sitting with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Qaddasallahu Sirrahu or with Grandshaykh Qaddasallahu Sirrahu the adab was to keep the eyes down

And Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu was keeping the energy of that light for a day when everyone will be in need of it. That is the day:

يَوْمَ يَفِرُّ الْمَرْءُ مِنْ أَخِيهِ وَأُمِّهِ وَأَبِيهِ وَصَاحِبَتِهِ وَبَنِيهِ

yawma yafirru al-maru min akhihi wa ummihi wa abeeh. That Day shall a man flee from his own brother, and from his mother and father, 80:36 (Asad) and from his spouse and his children: 80:34

The day a person runs from his brother and sister and father and mother and wife and children running and saying “myself, myself!”

At that day you will not see pity for anyone you will not think about anyone but yourself, not even the children. Today always they say save the children. But on that day no one will be able to think about the children or anyone but himself.

Only Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Who is able to stand up in the presence of his Lord and think about someone other than his family? That One is not caring for himself or his family at that time, but he is caring for the Ummah.

He is the only one. He is saying, “O my Lord! Do whatever you like with me, but [give me] my nation.”

Even all prophets cannot ask intercession - they come to Sayyidina Muhammad (s) asking intercession Judgment Day.

آدم ومن دونه تحت لوائي يوم القيامة ، ولا فخر

“Adam and whoever is other than him are under my flag on Judgment Day.”

On that day, Allah gave him that right. On that day Allah gave him that right, Allah gave him helpers. Although the Prophet (s) doesn’t need helpers, but in order to guide the Ummah there are every century helpers to help guide the people.

And that is why we know there are 124,000 saints and there are 7007 Naqshband saints. They are present with the Prophet (s) and waiting for [unclear] ummah.

The Prophet (s) said, "Afdal al-ummah akhyar al-ummah, akhir al-ummah - The Ummah that has been most mercied by Allah is this ummah, and the last of this ummah.” You might be from these 7007 saints, Allah knows best. Very few are coming and attending Mawlana Shaykh Nazim’s lectures. Who knows. They might be 7007. There are always 7007.

So first to be ordered after Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq Qaddasallahu Sirrahu and Sayyida Fatima az-Zahra Alayhissalam is Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu. And that day, because you know that if you have a hundred golden coins and a generous person came and said, "this is 100 golden coins and every week I am giving to this center.” And he asks the shaykh or imam to distribute to whoever is attending that center every week, equally. And if there is 100 people every one will take one. And if there are 10 people everyone will take 10. And if there is only one person he will take all the 100.

And on Day of Judgment the intercession of intercessors will be cumulative. First Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and then Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq Radiallahu anhu and then Sayyida Fatima Radiallahu anhu and that is her dowry.

And that is when she was asked to marry Sayyidina `Ali (r), the Prophet (s) asked if she accepted and she said “no.” And the Prophet (s) was not happy with this answer, and Jibreel came to him and said, " ask her why? And the Prophet (s) asked and Sayyida Fatima said, "you were always asking ‘my Ummah, my Ummah!’ In birth you were saying, ‘my Ummah, my Ummah!’ and in your life you are asking, ‘my Ummah, my Ummah,’ and in your grave you will be asking, ‘my Ummah, my Ummah,’ and on Judgment Day you will be asking ‘my Ummah, my Ummah!’ So I too want to be like you in saving the Ummah, and so I am asking that my dowry will be the whole ummah.

Now the dowry is that - she owns that dowry. Now there is custom that they bring a wife and say, "make a marriage.” There is no dowry, no wakeel, how is that? You must give a dowry. You must not be cheap. You must give as much as you can to respect the honor of your wife.

Today they make a marriage and they give two rings. What is that $10, and $10!?

Bring her something that will benefit your wife in her future, she and her children. That is why the dowry will be important for her. It might be khatm al Qur'an [recitation of entire Qur’an]. It might be you do 1000 salawat on her behalf every day.

So her dowry was she got married with the whole ummah as her dowry. At that time she will come and say, "O My Lord, I am asking my dowry.” If she doesn’t get her dowry then her marriage is not accepted. Her marriage was accepted and authenticated by Allah. And they say there is no respect for ladies. One lady will take everyone to Paradise, men and women.

So they are… she intercedes for the Ummah. Sayyidina Abu Bakr Radiallahu anhu intercedes for the Ummah. Sayyidina Muhammad (s) for sure will intercede for everyone. Then awliyaullah one after one, will intercede and that will accumulate. That trust will accumulate on us. From the Prophet (s) , from Sayyidina Abu Bakr Radiallahu anhu, from Sayyida Fatima Alayhissalam from awliyaullah, so they will accumulate and then the mercy of Allah will come. So we will all be under that.

So after that Allah will give permission to Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu to use his eyes. There is no “how” in religion, there is kun fayakoon. How many human beings are on earth today? 6 billion. Can you put 6 billion in one saaha, or one playing field or one courtyard? Let us say you can put them. There is a huge area bigger than this earth that can accommodate these 6 billion people and you see them and you see this huge gathering jam`an ghaafir, too much like an ocean that has no beginning and no end. Bigger than oceans. There are 6 billion in one courtyard. Can you identify one in the middle with your eyes like that? No. you cannot. Imagine then, not imagine, but think, forget 6 billion, on the day of resurrection not only 6 billion, but everyone is going to be on that huge playing field that Allah creates. This is beyond our understanding but at least it will give us an idea and open our minds to think.

We never thought like that before now Mawlana is sending that information. So you look not at 6 billion but at trillions of human being, standing in this playing field. Each with a name and with a personality and with different features. No two looks the same except twins. They don’t look the same. And think what kind of power Allah gave to Sayyidina Muhammad (s) to identify each one from this crowd. He knows them one by one - he cannot intercede for them without knowing their names. Allah will open for him an ocean of knowledge that he (s) will know each of them from beginning to end.

Can you imagine that? Try to draw it in your mind, as if you are looking at this playing field on Day of Judgment and asking Allah, “Ya Allah! We are weak servants forgive us our sins” and we are seeing Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and the awliyaullah and they will intercede for us in our sins.

At that moment after whomever Allah wants to intercede first, when Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu’s turn comes, he will release that energy that he has stored up from those two Beautiful Names and Attributes: al-Qadir and ar-Rahman, from that light he was accumulating in his eyes all his life, he will release it out and make that light as thin as possible and he will send it as much as it can go to the right. He will send it as much as it will stretch right it will go right and when it cannot reach any more right, it has to go to the other side, it goes like rectangle, as much as it can go vertical over this crowd. He is standing beside the Prophet (s) and releasing it and it goes right as much as it can go and then vertical as much as it can go and then left as much as it can go and then vertical again as much as it can go from his right eye all the way to make a square or a circle or a rectangle and then finally coming all the way around back to his left eye. Whoever is inside the rectangle, square or circle will go inside the intercession of Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu Qaddasallahu Sirrahu besides the intercession of the Prophet (s). And awliyaullah say in the way he does it he will pull out from this crowd what will fill four paradises.

That is why he didn’t want to waste his sight in dunya. It is not worth it. He is saving it for akhira, when everyone is in need of it, when everyone runs from wife, runs from his father, runs from his mother and runs from his children saying, “myself and myself.”

And awliya say, “If Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu did that by himself, cannot the rest of awliya fill the remaining three paradises. Look one wali, Allah gave that power to Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu. That is one of his characters that awliyaullah they like to save their energy their power for the last day. They don’t like to show, Naqshband saints for dunya, they like to keep it for akhira. What is benefit if I tell to Muhammad Amin to rise up and then he rises up. What is the benefit? Sayyidina Muhammad (s) brought a miracle that last from beginning to end, that there is no beginning and no end. The Holy Qur'an. Allah spoke these words to Jibreel and Jibreel to the Prophet (s) and the Prophet (s) brought it to us. Not any other religion has these words of Allah to be given to their nation. We have been give the words, the letters of the words that Allah gave to Jibreel Alayhissalam and Jibreel Alayhissalam revealed to the Prophet (s). `Allama al-qur’an – He taught the Qur’an - that is the Word of Allah, the Letter of Allah and it is what Allah likes. Only looking at the Qur'an will intercede for you in Day of Judgment and in the grave. Even a convert if you cannot read, even looking into Holy Qur'an will benefit you.

If people give you this recorder as a gift you will be happy. What about when Allah is giving us His Holy Words revealed to Sayyidina Muhammad (s) by Jibreel Alayhissalam? What better gift do you want?

So Naqshband shaykhs don’t like to do miracles - don't ask them for miracles. They will make du`a for you, but not in direct way. They want to hide themselves, hiding their powers. They want to use it in Judgment Day. So Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu was saving the power of his eyes to use in the Judgment Day to fill four paradises. When he was passing away he was on the bed and as Sayyidina Azraeel Alayhissalam was coming to take his soul, and say Azraeel in one of the hadith says, if I knew and if I felt, ("knew” here means “felt”) if I know how much difficulty is the taking of a person’ soul I would not take except with softness. As on the last day, when Allah orders him to take the soul of every angel, he takes his own soul and except for Sayyidina Israfil. So he takes the soul of himself and he says if I knew how it was to take the soul, I would never do it except with ease.

So as Sayyidina Azraeel Alayhissalam was coming to take his soul he was falling from the bed to floor. And the mureeds were putting him back on the bed, and each time he would fall down again. And each time he is on the floor and rubbing his head and his beard on the floor and saying Ya `Afuw, Ya `Afuw. This majestic saint, with the light of his face and the light of his sainthood and the breath of spiritual incense that comes from him, was rubbing his face on the floor when he falls and saying Ya `Afuw, Ya `Afuw and they carry him and put him back on bed and he falls again and says Ya `Afuw Ya `Afuw Ya `Afuw. If he has to do like that what about us? Look at how you are spending your life and look at yourself and how you can fight your ego.

Seven times he was falling down and saying, “Ya `Afuw, Ya `Afuw….`afuw `anna Ya Kareeem `afwak wa ridaaka. Bi sirri suratil Fatiha.

The one who will fill four paradises is rubbing his face on floor and from something he considers a big sin. We know there are big sins and small sins, kaba’ir and sagha’ir. He considered he did a big sin, bigger than the biggest sin. The big sins are known. Lying cheating, drinking alcohol, zina, eating pork, these are big sins. Kaba’ir. Sagha’ir are whatever you do outside these, they are sagha’ir. For these you make ablution and pray two raka`ats and ask Allah’s forgiveness, they are gone, Allah will forgive.

The Sultan al-Awliya, the one who spread the tariqah, east and west, and after whom the tariqah takes the name. What he did to say, "Ya `Afuw.” It is good to say, "Ya `Afuw.” But in that emotional way.

Allah is reminding him on the time of his death, “Ya Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu, you are inheritor of the secrets of the Prophet (s), you are My saint.

أَلا إِنَّ أَوْلِيَاء اللّهِ لاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ

Alaa inna awliya’Allahi la khawfun `alayhim wa laa hum yahzanoon.

Behold! verily on the friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve; 10:62

Ala inna awliyaullah… you have nothing to fear. But Ya Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu, what you did was not accepted.”

Look He is speaking to him not from our levels. Inspiring his heart. We have to be careful when we say these things it is not for our level, we are beginners. These are levels of saints. The Maqam al-Ihsan the level of submission to Allah and not interfering except you are submitting and accepting to say ashhadu an la ilah illah Allah wa ashhadu anna muhammadun Rasulullah you are bearing witness with vision not with the maqam al-awwaam that is normal communal level. But kashf if you are speaking in at-tahiyaat, al-mubarakat lillahi was-salawatu at-tayyibaat,… you are in the Divine Presence my salaams to him Ya Muhammad (s), you are seeing him there. So that level is not for us. That is level for what Allah inspiring Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu. He said, "Ya Muhammad (s) Bahauddin Naqshband. What you did is not for a saint to do. My Will is My Will. My Will no one will interfere in it.” “Ya Rabbee what I did?” He is speaking to himself, speaking to Allah, getting an inspiration. “Remember in the village when you had a drought, remember what you did?” That is why he was falling off the bed and saying Ya `Afuw. He said, "I learned the lesson not to interfere in anything You want.”

That is why when you got to wali you ask him to pray, he will pray but if he has no permission to change that destiny, it will not change. That is a code.

What he did Sayyidina Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu to cause this humiliation at the time of his passing? There was drought in his village for many months. There was no food - so they came to him saying, “Ya Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu, we have nothing to eat. Children have nothing to eat. We are begging you to intercede.” So instead of praying as it must be done in the Naqshbandi way, instead he did something to teach the Naqshbandi students [what not to do]. And he asked the richest family, “Do you have any slight amount of wheat in your home?” That villager said, "W’Allahi if you look through whole village you will not find any wheat at all but I have a small amount that I saved.” Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu said, "bring it.” So he brought it and you know in the village they have grinding stones and they have two cows or buffalo and they put the yoke on the cow and he turns the grinding stones. He put one yoke on himself and one on a cow and put the wheat between the stones. And he began to turn the grindstone, and he told the people “come and bring as many people as you can and wheat will be coming out for all the day.”

And as he was turning the people were filling their bags with flour and filling and filling. It was filling the whole area, from morning to evening. He did that physical miracle one time. Allah made him to make istighfaar when he was leaving dunya saying to him, “Why you interfered in My Will?”

“I put My Will like that. Why did you put your finger in it? It is not your business, it is not your job.”

It is Allah’s iradah. “You want to do it you do it, but you must take permission.” That is why after that story, awliyaullah cannot do miracles except with permission of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). So Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu considered that a big sin, bigger than the big sins and he was asking Allah’s forgiveness, and finally, after seven times falling and saying “Ya `Afuw…” he stopped falling from the bed and Allah forgave him and he passed away on his bed.

So that is one of many stories from the line of saints of Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu, and I didn’t plan to have that story and also I am hearing that story from Mawlana Shaykh now and maybe to take a new understanding. And whatever Grandshaykh spoke he took his mureeds to the level that was spoken about. And that means we don’t leave here without he level that Shah Naqshband Qaddasallahu Sirrahu was dressed and what other awliyaullah have been dressed and so we will insha-Allah be with him under that light that comes from his two eyes and under the shafa`ah of the Prophet (s) and all awliyaullah.

2009-02-16T09:59:00.001+08:00

Direct ticket to the Divine Presence- Holding the hand of ProphetSallallahu Alayhi Wasallam

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Saturday, Sep 13, 2008 | Fenton, MI US

Michigan Zawiya

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

So we are continuing where we left the previous session.

He is advising, Grandshaykhs they are always advising their followers, their students, not to look at dunya and we explained that last time. So in summary he says, look at dunya as an ugly, how is an ugly person, you don’t like to look at him or her because of too much committing forbiddens in life, they become in their late age ugly.

Bride and groom in young age, they are what? They are beautiful. When they grow up what becomes? Beauty goes. What is left? Only beauty of the soul, the physical beauty of the body is gone. So he says, look at dunya, that beautiful body is going to be gone. Where is that beautiful body going? To the grave. There in the grave, according to what you have done in dunya, your grave will be a piece of Paradise and if your amal is bad it will be hufran min hufar an-niraan, a ditch from hellfire.

So he is advising before you reach that level, look at yourself and look at your dunya that one day you are going to die. You are leaving behind everything that you have made, except your reputation. Except `ilm, knowledge.

Prophet said, “yanqati` amal abni adam illa min thalath: sadaqatun jariya, a flowing donation that you give fee sabeelillah in any way, wa waladin salihun yada`u lah, a child that remembers you when you die and prays for you, wa `ilmun yantafi`u bih - a knowledge you leave behind that people benefit by it.” These kinds of associations leave behind a knowledge that you can teach and your children can teach. And that will be written for you as you spread it already.

Don’t be lazy. Allah doesn’t like lazy people. Go and be like a hunter. Always a hunter has company with him. Why to bring the prey. Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, always used to say to us, “You are so important and all of you are so important to the shaykh, as the dog is important to the hunter. Without his loyalty and sincerity that dog will never bring the prey to his master to shoot it or hunt it, to put it down.”

So important is we must be helpers for the hunter. Hunt good and precious people, bring them from their caves, the caves of dunya from where they have been hiding. They are lost. Don’t sit and you do only your own job but you don’t care for others. Be a diplomat, with the flag of love and peace and bring people to your shaykh.

After a while you are going to die.

وَلِكُلِّ أُمَّةٍ أَجَلٌ فَإِذَا جَاء أَجَلُهُمْ لاَ يَسْتَأْخِرُونَ سَاعَةً وَلاَ يَسْتَقْدِمُونَ

Wa likulli ummatin ajalun fa idha jaa ajaluhum laa yastakhiroona sa`atan wa laa yastaqdimoon

To every people is a term appointed: when their term is reached, not an hour can they cause delay, nor (an hour) can they advance (it in anticipation).

Al-A'raf [7:34]

When the time for them to leave and Allah orders Azra`eel to come and take their souls they are not going to be delayed or advanced one second. So it means be careful. Do as Sayyidina `Ali (r) said, `amal li-dunyaka ka-annaka tamootu ghadan. Wa `amal li- akhiratika ka-annaka ta`ayshu abada – live for this life as if you would live forever and live for the next as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Now he is making tasbih, moving his hands. He doesn’t know if his thumb is going to move to the second tasbih or his soul will be gone. You cannot plan. People are planning for 2020, 2030. what are you planning for 2030. one hurricane can take all that you have planned. Who sent that hurricane? Allah swt. Can they do anything? Can they go and fight? No way. When Allah wants something. These hurricanes are signs for us. When Allah wants he sends and we have to take a lesson and Allah said:

َ تُبَدَّلُ الأَرْضُ غَيْرَ الأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاوَاتُ وَبَرَزُواْ للّهِ الْوَاحِدِ الْقَهَّارِ

yawma tubaddal al-ardu ghayrul-ard was-samawaati wa barazoo lillahi il Wahid al-Qahhaar.

One day the earth will be changed to a different earth, and so will be the heavens, and (men) will be marshalled forth, before Allah, the One, the Irresistible; Ibrahim [14:48]

As the hurricane comes suddenly, you don’t know when it comes. So one day there will be a great change for earth, suddenly. Whatever we have collected in our hand we lose in one second. Look thy have built homes, and what happened to these homes? In one second, not more. You are leaving and going. This one leaves his wife and this one leaves his son. And then who is going to be his companion in the grave? [your actions] worms. The dirt is your companion, that grave. All these worms, snakes, wild chars that you have in yourself, Allah will make them alive to bite you, eat you.

There was a very, a student of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, may Allah give him long life, in Lebanon Tripoli. There is a cemetery there that Mawlana likes, too many awliya there. That one is the one who digs the holes and prepares the graves. He said, "sometimes I see black snakes coming from the grave. Sometimes I see human bodies, burned. When I put them they are not burned, but when I open to put another person in, I find them burned.:

That is Allah giving signs. That as the Prophet (s) said, “either is it hole from Hellfire or it is going to be a Paradise.” It depends on the character of every person. So whatever we polish a stone to get a diamond, you have to keep polishing and polishing and polishing. these meetings are where Mawlana polishes us. We have to many bad characters. People think they are clean but you are not.

So your partner in the dirt is the worms and that they throw on you. You are going to be living with them. If you have been living for dunya. But if you have been living to akhira you will only find your grave to be a piece of Paradise.

Enter to Allah with the hand of the Prophet (s). Don’t try to go by yourself. Keep connection with the Prophet (s). They might ask how you keep connect with the Prophet (s). It is easy. It is easy to say it but difficult to act on it.

Keep your hand in the hand of the Prophet (s) means keep remembering him. Keep making salawat on him. As Allah said,

وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِن رَّسُولٍ إِلاَّ لِيُطَاعَ بِإِذْنِ اللّهِ وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ إِذ ظَّلَمُواْ أَنفُسَهُمْ جَآؤُوكَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُواْ اللّهَ وَاسْتَغْفَرَ لَهُمُ الرَّسُولُ لَوَجَدُواْ اللّهَ تَوَّابًا رَّحِيمًا

"wa maa arsalnaa min rasulin illa li-yuta'a bi-idhnillahi. wa law annahum idh dhalamu anfusahum jaa'ooka f ’astaghfirullaha w ’astaghfaralahum ar-Rasul la-wajad-Allah tawaaban raheema"

"And We have sent no Messenger but that he should be obeyed by the command of Allah. And if they had come to thee when they had wronged their souls, and asked forgiveness of Allah, and if the Messenger had also asked forgiveness for them, they would have

surely found Allah Oft-Returning with compassion and Merciful." [an-Nisa, 64]

“when they were oppressors to themselves they come and ask forgiveness in your presence.”

Always keep the Prophet’s presence in your heart. It is easy to say it. Make him your teacher. Make his hand to comb you, to pet you. Make him happy with you. When he is happy with you, Allah is happy with you. Allah said:

مَّنْ يُطِعِ الرَّسُولَ فَقَدْ أَطَاعَ اللّهَ

Man yuti` ar-rasul faqad at`a-ullah. – “He who obeys the Messenger, obeys Allah” [4:80]

Another simple question “are we obeying the prophet or not? We are struggling. We don’t want to say “no” or “yes.” We are struggling, we want to obey. Shaytan comes and says, “Why? a little bit my share a little bit your share. A little bit for the Prophet (s) and then a little bit for me.” Then slowly, slowly he takes you to shaytan. So obedience to the Prophet (s) is to always remind yourself that the Prophet (s) is the one who will take you to Allah. And you have to put in your mind that your Shaykh is the one who takes you to the presence of the Prophet (s) .

Humbleness will make them happy with you. Arrogance will make them upset with you.

If you are humble to everyone, extend your hand to everyone, Allah will be happy with you, prophet will be happy with you. Imaatati ’l-`adaa min at-tareeq min al-eeman.

Even the littlest thing you can do, to move a stone from the way or even the banana peel if you see it on the street, tae it away, throw it, that is from imaan. That shows you have imaan in your heart. Imaatati ’l-`adaa min at-tareeq - that show we still have the light of faith in our heart. You take away something you don’t want anyone to be harmed by it.

Let the Prophet (s) be happy with you. He is al-Haakim bayn al-arwaah - He is the judge between souls.

الارواح جنود مجندة , فما تعارف منها ائتلف , و ما تناكر منها اختلف

“al-arwaahu junoodun mujanada - The souls are like armies grouped together” and the Prophet (s) is the judge between them. Let our Prophet be our judge when something happens, let him take the decision, leave the matter to him. As Allah said in Holy Qur'an:

فَمَنْ عَفَا وَأَصْلَحَ فَأَجْرُهُ عَلَى اللَّهِ

“whoever makes peace and forgives, Allah will reward him.” Ash-Shura [42:40]

Reward him what? To make his hand with the hand of his Prophet.

If you are walking with your child in the street, son or daughter, how much you care to hold the hand of the child. Why? For safety only but you love ot hold the hand. If you are still not married but let’s say consumed the marriage, how much before that you like to hold the hand of the bride or groom. Are you holding the hand? Are you not shouting when you are holding the hand.

[Shaykh indicates someone]: jazbah comes to him. When he is like that know he is far from that presence. When he is in that trance, that state that means he is there. That is a sign to learn from him. That kind of trance is not the one we are looking forward for. What we look forward is perfection. That is still in the first levels. They cannot hold themselves, some people they go and make different remembrance of Allah or mentions Allah in a crowd, something like what he did today.

So Allah swt wants us to hold the hand of His Prophet. If you hold the hand of the one you love how much you care to hold the hand of that person. Ho much you care to hold the hand of your Prophet. When you are holding the hand of your Prophet, you have a direct ticket to the Divine Presence. Finished.

Today there is election, huh? Is there not an election here in this country. If you hold the hand of one of these nominees, one of these presidential candidates, you can pass through security without anyone asking question. Can anyone say to you, “where are you going?” No you’re holding the hand of the candidate. That is a normal human being. What do you think about the hand of the Prophet (s), holding it?

So holding the hand of the Prophet (s) takes you in directly, it is a direct ticket to where you need to reach. Allah swt made him the Master, the Leader, the Master of masters and Leader of leaders.

So when you enter to the Presence of Allah, the Divine Presence, holding the hand of the Prophet (s), how do you enter? What do you need to do? When we are praying - where are we entering? What do you need to do? We are entering the Divine Presence, we are between the hands of Allah swt. Let it be a real entry. So when you enter what do you do? You do dhikrullah.

So when you reach the stage of holding hand of the Prophet (s) and entering in. Then they tell you , you have different job, a different experience. Now what do you have to do to come in? Keep your tongue wet with dhikrullah.

جاء رجل إلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم و قال” يا رسول الله إن شرائع الإسلام قد كثرت علىّ فدلني على عمل أتشبث به قال لا يزال لسانك رطباً بذكر الله

When that man came to the Prophet (s) and said, “inna shara`iah al-islam qad kathurat `alaya - Shariah of Islam became too much for me, but give me something besides it that is easy for me.” It doesn’t mean he was not following Shariah, but he wants something that makes it easy to him.

Like you are drinking tea with no sugar. You want sugar. Shariah has things that are difficult and something is not difficult. You need something sweet in it.

People send there children to learn Qur’an. They tell you we don’t want that. Why? They need something sweetener to make it sweet when they are reading. Because Shaytan comes and make obstacles. So what did the Prophet say? "Keep your tongue wet with dhikrullah."

Now you want to enter the presence of Allah holding the hand of the Prophet (s), you must keep in dhikrullah. Even when you are sleeping with your wife. Keep the heart constant in dhikrullah - dawim `ala dhikrullah. When the remembrance of Allah open in heart it opens doors that have never been opened before.

Allah put in your heart 6 doors that have never been opened before. They are haqiqat al-fayd, haqiqat al-jazbah, haqiqat at-tawassul, haqiqat at-tawajjuh, haqiqat al-irshad, haqiqat at-tayy.

One student of Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani, may Allah bless his soul, one of the great great saints of the Golden Chain. He is buried in Merv near Bukhara. He has a student. And that student - one of his students - the shaykh always gives him job to do. When shaykh ask you to do something be sure there is a test behind it. Don’t be happy he gave you a job to do. Run away from jobs. Because any job he gives there is a test.

Giving him a job to go and cut wood from the jungle. He goes in the morning and comes in the evening. He didn’t cut anything. La hawla wa la quwwattta illa billah il `aliyy il-`adheem. "It is cold and snowing and you didn’t cut wood. What happened?" "O sayyidee, I was so busy reading Qur’an and doing dhikr.” “You cannot cut wood and do dhikr?”

“No, I cannot mix them.”

“So now I will give you another job. Go and take my sheep and be a shepherd, give them food. That is the easiest thing I can give to you. All prophets were shepherds.”

Did you make shepherd in your life?

The Shaykh said, “I am giving you my flock because that is what we are eating all the time. So take and feed them in these mountains.” He was happy he took them and went.

And the shaykh after a while called him, after say one year. He said, “What happened? Did you give food to them, did you increase them, as they give every year lambs?” He said, “W’Allahi, ya Sayyidee they are finished.” He said, “Why are they finished” He said, “Rajab comes, I said this is the Month of Allah, and I begin to slaughter them, and give to people. 27th Rajab comes, I slaughter and give to people; Sha`ban, the month of Prophet comes, I slaughter and give to people; Ramadan comes, the Month of the Ummah, I slaughter and give to people. Eid comes, I slaughter and give to people. Ashura comes, I slaughter and feed the people.”

The Shaykh said, “You are the worst between my students. That is why I sent you away, to avoid contaminating all the students with your ignorance! Go and I don’t want to see you here.”

And he kicked him out.” Then looking at his heart - did it change? His heart didn’t change.

Sometimes you hear from the shaykh a word. Shaytan brings to your hear all kinds of questions. Why he is upset, I brought to him a gift. They are happy with their gifts.

As Bilqees sent a gift to Sulayman.

So the shaykh knows that mureed is very dedicated to shaykh. He prayed Isha and after all the people left he was hiding himself behind the pillars in the mosque. He was speaking to himself: “You are the worst of the students! You are so ignorant. Shaykh tried you in this and this and this and you failed in all of them. And to make sure you are the worst, (he wants to give a very solid confirmation. People don’t dare to do that as they don’t believe it. He was believing himself to be the worst completely.)

Do you think you are the worst. No, you were complaining on Ali, that he delayed you 10 minutes.

He believed he was the worst - that is why when he gave the oath and that oath was not effective because he believed he was the worst.

So we, if we give that oath, then we are not certain on it, we will be cut in half by that oath, we cannot come out of it.

So what is that oath. He said, "W’Allahi, if I am not saying the truth, then between me and my wife is haraam.” What does that mean? It means there is no play there - finished. “My wife is divorced from me and me from her 3 times, if I am not saying the truth.”

That means if even 1%, that he is not saying truth, then his wife will be split from him.

Look between thousands of students he thinks he is the best and if he doesn’t sit on table of the shaykh he gets upset.

So what did he do? His shaykh is hiding behind another pillar [qutb].

So he knows the heart of his student. He was laughing, saying, “Come Ahmad, come.” “O you are here my shaykh?” “Now you showed me what I was waiting from you. You showed me you reached complete submission.”

[the clock rings] That is telling you have to submit to the time.

“You have reached complete submission, by order of the Prophet (s) I pass you your amanaat.”

You see his amanah how it came easy. But he was making dhikrullah and reading Qur'an. At that time 124,000 pigeons came and were circling the mosque. Then a green bird came, that symbolized the Prophet (s). If the Prophet (s) appears [directly], immediately that person will faint. Then the Prophet (s) appeared and said to his shaykh, “Give him his trust.” His shaykh didn’t do anything but sat on his knees and with his shahada finger like a laser machine he opened to his heart whatever is in his heart. That is not what is being put there, but what is already there in the heart.

These 6 powers haqiqat al-fayd, haqiqat al-jazbah, haqiqat at-tawassul, haqiqat at-tawajjuh, haqiqat al-irshad, haqiqat at-tayy, he was opening one after one, with the shahada finger. What was he opening? Ma`rifatullah. We will continue this today at noon. Insha-Allah. Bi hurmatil Fatiha.

It means to reach ma`rifah we need to completely make our self in full submission. It means die before death. Die before you die.

If you die before you die it means no ego. You completely surrendering to Allah and his prophet. May Allah guide us to the right path, the path of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and awliyaullah and give our Shaykh long life and give us long life to see Sayyidina al-Mahdi.

Bi hurmatil Fatiha.

2009-02-08T12:03:00.001+08:00

Be with Siddiqeen

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Friday, Mar 09, 2007 | Oakland, CA US

لا تكثر لهمك

ما قدر يكون

و الله المقدر

و العالم شعون

Laa tukthir li-hammik

Ma quddir yakoon

W’Allahul-muqaddir

Wa `alam shu`oon

Don’t worry too much

With anything that happens to you.

Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala is the one who decrees destiny

And this world has many different affairs.

نحن الخلاءق

كلنا عبيد

و الاله قينا

يقعل ما يريد

Nahnu al-khala’iq

Kulluna `abeed

Wa-l-ilahu feena

yaf`alu maa yureed

We are the creation;

All of us are servants

And with us God

Will do as He likes.

سَلْ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ كَمْ آتَيْنَاهُم مِّنْ آيَةٍ بَيِّنَةٍ وَمَن يُبَدِّلْ نِعْمَةَ اللّهِ مِن بَعْدِ مَا جَاءتْهُ فَإِنَّ اللّهَ شَدِيدُ الْعِقَابِ

Sal banee israaeela kam ataynaahum min ayaatin bayyinaatin wa man yubaddil ni`mata Allahi min ba`di ma jaa’athu fa-inna Allaha shadeedu’l-`iqaab

Ask the Children of Israel how many clear (Signs) We have sent them. But if any one, after Allah's favour has come to him, substitutes (something else), Allah is strict in punishment. Al-Baqara [2:211]

ثُمَّ اتَّخَذُواْ الْعِجْلَ مِن بَعْدِ مَا جَاءتْهُمُ الْبَيِّنَاتُ فَعَفَوْنَا عَن ذَلِكَ وَآتَيْنَا مُوسَى سُلْطَانًا مُّبِينًا

thumma ittakhadhoo al-`ijla min ba`di maa ja-athumu albayyinatu fa `afawna `an dhaalika wa atayna moosa sultaanan mubeena

Yet they worshipped the calf even after clear signs had come to them; even so we forgave them; and gave Moses manifest proofs of authority. Women, 4:153

Ask the Children of Israel how many clear signs we brought them. After these clear evidences, clear signs, came, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala is the Forgiver who forgives whom He likes, as not everyone goes along with what has been given to them.

And Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala has given to Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam Sultan: Sultan al-`ilm, Sultan ash-Shariah, Sultan al-marifah, Sultan al-quwwah, Sultan al-asma’a, sultan for everything. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala gave Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam authority and power of knowledge, on ma`rifah, on power, on authority, on understanding Shariah, on understanding haqiqat, on understanding marifah, on understanding azeemah. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala gave him that sultan.

That is why, when He sent him to Fira`un, and he saw Fira`un with all his surroundings he was worried. And he said:

اذْهَبْ إِلَى فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّهُ طَغَى قَالَ رَبِّ اشْرَحْ لِي صَدْرِي وَيَسِّرْ لِي أَمْرِي وَاحْلُلْ عُقْدَةً مِّن لِّسَانِي وَاحْلُلْ عُقْدَةً مِّن لِّسَانِييَ فْقَهُوا قَوْلِي وَاجْعَل لِّي وَزِيرًا مِّنْ أَهْلِي هَارُونَ أَخِي اشْدُدْ بِهِ أَزْرِي وَأَشْرِكْهُ فِي أَمْرِي كَيْ نُسَبِّحَكَ كَثِيرًا وَنَذْكُرَكَ كَثِيرًا إِنَّكَ كُنتَ بِنَا بَصِيرًا

“Yafqahu qawlee. wa j`al wazeeran min ahlee, haaroun akhee, ashdud bee azree w’ashrikhu fee amree kay nusabihuk katheeran wa nadhkurak katheeran innaka kunta bina baseera.”

When He ordered him to go and deliver a speech to bani israeel he said, “Haroun is a better speaker. I am not that speaker.” Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala gave everyone a talent. Haroun is a nabi and Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam is a nabi. And Sayyidina Musa asked, “Oh, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala give me a helper.” That is an indication that if Nabi Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam needed a helper, then everyone needs a helper. No one can do anything by themselves. People think they can do things, and understand things, by themselves - that they don’t need a teacher.

Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala is, throughout the Holy Qur'an, teaching that Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam was asking for a helper: “he speaks better than me, ashdud bee azree - I will let him know what is going on with me and deliver the message to Fira`un.” Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala is showing us here that we need a friend. If people don’t have a friend, they feel they are lonely; they feel like they cannot do what is needed to be done. They want someone to go along with them in order to ask, “Is this correct, or is it not correct?” and who is better than someone to show you the way and Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala said, “Yaa ayyuhalladheena aamanoo ittaqullah wa koonoo ma` as-saadiqeen.” Be with trustworthy people: by yourself you are not guided. You need someone to tell you this is the way.

Recite one more time about Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam.

وَاجْعَل لِّي وَزِيرًا مِّنْ أَهْلِي هَارُونَ أَخِي اشْدُدْ بِهِ أَزْرِي وَأَشْرِكْهُ فِي أَمْرِي كَيْ نُسَبِّحَكَ كَثِيرًا وَنَذْكُرَكَ كَثِيرًا إِنَّكَ كُنتَ بِنَا بَصِيرًا

“wa j`al wazeeran min ahlee, haaroun akhee, ashdud bee azree w’ashrikhu fee amree kay nusabihuk katheeran wa nadhkurak katheeran innaka kunta bina baseera.”

…Before that. Rabbee ashrah lee sadree ya yasser lee amree w’ahlul-`uqdatan min lisaanee yafqahu qawlee.

He said: “Ya Rabbee, Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam, yasser lee amree, make my way easy since you are asking me to deliver your message. Make it easy and ashrah lee sadree and open for me my heart that I will accept firaun and give me patience that I will speak with him and wahlul uqdatan min lisanee and untie my tongue because my tongue is tied together. It means open one of them (the knots). It means there are many, right? Wahlul uqdatan min lisaanee yafqahu qawlee. It means that which you have already planted in me from your knowledge and the knowledge of the Prophet (saws), which you have shown me and I learned it in tur sina, which Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala revealed to him that he didn’t reveal to anyone. Where he said:

إِذْ رَأَى نَارًا فَقَالَ لِأَهْلِهِ امْكُثُوا إِنِّي آنَسْتُ نَارًا لَّعَلِّي آتِيكُم مِّنْهَا بِقَبَسٍ أَوْ أَجِدُ عَلَى النَّارِ هُدًى فَلَمَّا أَتَاهَا نُودِي يَا مُوسَى إِنِّي أَنَا رَبُّكَ فَاخْلَعْ نَعْلَيْكَ إِنَّكَ بِالْوَادِ الْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى وَأَنَا اخْتَرْتُكَ فَاسْتَمِعْ لِمَا يُوحَى

Idh ra’a naaran fa-qaala li ahlihi amkuthu innee aanastu naaran la`allee aateekum minha bi-qabasin aw ajidu `ala an-naari huda Fa-lamma ataahaa noodiya ya moosa Innee ana rabbuka Fakhla` na`layka innaka bi’l-waadi ’l-muqaddasi tuwaa. Wa ana akhtartuka fastami` limaa yoohaa

Behold, he saw a fire: So he said to his family, "Tarry ye; I perceive a fire; perhaps I can bring you some burning brand therefrom, or find some guidance at the fire." But when he came to the fire, a voice was heard: "O Moses! Verily I am thy Lord! therefore (in My presence) put off thy shoes: thou art in the sacred valley Tuwa. "I have chosen thee: listen, then, to the inspiration (sent to thee).”al-Anbiya, 20:10-20:13

He was moving from Yemen after he completed his contract with his father-in-law after he married one of his daughters and completed ten years of work. He left with his family for Egypt. On the way he told his family, “Oh, I saw a fire. It is cold at night…When he reached there: innee ana rabbuka. He heard a voice: “Verily I am Allah your lord, remove your shoes.” Innee bil waadi al-muqadassa tuwa. You cannot enter with your shoes. Can you enter the mosque with shoes on? Can you enter the mosque to pray five raka`ats with your shoes on? Can you enter to make circumambulation of Ka`bah with your shoes on? No.

Wahabis say they can. They go and circumambulate Ka`bah with their shoes on. There is a little bit of fireworks here. You cannot. It is sacred place. That is not respectful.

You can, but then it is not respectful. They take from an incident that in a time of the Prophet (saws) he wore his shoes. That was a time when it was rough; all rocks and one might enter your foot.

You cannot wear your shoes.

When someone puts on his shoes, what does that mean? When someone puts his shoes on, it means he is traveling; going out of the house. If you see new shoes in a dream it means that you are going to travel and there will be new rizq in it. Shoes in a dream, means rizq and travel in front of you.

So he took off his shoes and he said, “Go take it, take it away.” Because shoes, as we explained yesterday, in these days are made up of leather and what kind of leather did we mention? [Cowhide leather?] - Cow? - Ox? - Tiger? [Donkey]

Donkey! They used to make their shoes from donkey leather. Donkeys are the sign of ignorance. It means, “Ya Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam, don’t come to me with your ignorance.” [Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam doesn’t have ignorance but Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala is teaching us.] It means, “Don’t come to me with your ego, then it will be two.” Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala is only One; there is no two. If you say Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala ended up in three it is going to be kufr. If you say two, it is kufr; so only One. So, “Oh, Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam, don’t come to Me except with purity. When that purity comes, that opening will come. So if you want to come to Me, come to Me mujarradan min kull shay; stripped of everything. Don’t come to My door;” (This is not for Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam, it is for us). “Don’t come to My door with all the dirtiness of dunya.” This story gives the answer.

When they were running to catch and crucify Sayyidina `Isa Alayhissalam:

بَل رَّفَعَهُ اللّهُ إِلَيْهِ وَكَانَ اللّهُ عَزِيزًا حَكِيمًا

“bal rafa`ahu Allah ilayh. Ma al-massih ibnu Maryam illa Rasulullah (s)…ta`am. Yufakoon.”

Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise;-

مَّا الْمَسِيحُ ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ إِلاَّ رَسُولٌ قَدْ خَلَتْ مِن قَبْلِهِ الرُّسُلُ وَأُمُّهُ صِدِّيقَةٌ كَانَا يَأْكُلاَنِ الطَّعَامَ انظُرْ كَيْفَ نُبَيِّنُ لَهُمُ الآيَاتِ ثُمَّ انظُرْ أَنَّى يُؤْفَكُونَ

Ma al-maseehu ibnu maryama illa rasoolun qad khalat min qablihi’r-rusulu wa ummuhu siddeeqatun kaana yakulaani’t-ta`ama undhur kayfa nubayyinu lahumu ’l-ayaati thumma indhur anna yufakoona

Christ the son of Mary was no more than an apostle; many were the apostles that passed away before him. His mother was a woman of truth. They had both to eat their (daily) food. See how Allah doth make His signs clear to them; yet see in what ways they are deluded away from the truth! Al-Ma'idah [5:75]

Sayyidina `Isa Alayhissalam is a Rasulullah (saws) and his mother is a siddiqa. That level comes under the Prophet (saws). Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala mentioned

وَمَن يُطِعِ اللّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ فَأُوْلَـئِكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللّهُ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاء وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَـئِكَ رَفِيقًا

M`a alladheena an`ama Allahu `alayhim mina an-nabiyyeena wa’s-siddeeqeena wa’sh-shuhada’i wa’s-saliheena wa hasuna ulaika rafeeqa.

All who obey Allah and the apostle are in the company of those on whom is the Grace of Allah,- of the prophets (who teach), the sincere (lovers of Truth), the witnesses (who testify), and the Righteous (who do good): Ah! what a beautiful fellowship! An-Nisa [4:69]

So she is under the level of the Prophet (saws); she is Siddiq. She is not godly; he is not godly. kaana yakulaani’t-ta`ama - They were in need of food. One who needs to eat food is in need of something so how can they be ilah. I didn’t go deeper into the word; if you like that deeper explanation or that is ok. It is not high, it is low this one.

It means when someone eats food, what does he have to do at the end of the day? How do you say that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala… He said it in a very eloquent way in the Holy Qur'an. He said “they were eating food,” so you can understand from that what you need to understand.

So Allah ordered Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam to first… what did he say? Rabbee ashrah lee sadree. First level, “open my heart. Ashrah lee sadree - expand my heart. Wa yasser lee amree - and make my affairs easy.” After expanding the heart, expansion: “yasser lee amree, make my thing easy; wahlul uqdatan min lisaanee, and to make it easy untie one of these knots in my tongue.”

How many knots on the tongue? He said to untie one, but it means there were many. It means, “Ya Rabbee, you want me to be messenger to Fira`un, one drop from your ocean is enough. He said, “Open one of those knots.” Then he said, “Yafqahu qawlee,” - so they understand my words. “Will you untie one of my tongues”… yafqahu qawlee. Fiqhu shay is not to read something. Allahuma faqihna fid-deen. That is a prayer: “Oh Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala, make us deeply rooted in the understanding of Islam, the religion.” Like a mufti, you go inside the Holy Qur'an and bring out verdicts. “So by taking out one knot, I will be able to understand by going into everything in depth. And when they are like that, give me my helper; make him a minister to me - ushdud bee azree. Make him support me. When You give that to me, after these people understand and their minds get bigger and they begin to go deeply into this matter, then what? At that moment, give me someone to help me take care of them; to follow up.

Waj`al lee wazeeran min ahlee haarouna akhee - Give me my brother to build them up, kay nusabbihaka katheeran.. now he untied one knot and gave him a wazeer then he is making dhikrullah. Tasbeeh. Kay nusabihaka katheeran… how do you mention Allah swt? Through dhikrullah. And he said, “kay nusabihaka katheeran, wa nadhkurak katheeran - we praise you too much and we remember you too much.” That Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala is showing us through Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam that we have to be like that to learn; in order for us to understand that guidance is always needed, or a friend that you can relate to is needed. Like Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam took a friend, Sayyidina Haroun Alayhissalam, people also need a friend. That is why the Prophet (saws) said, “If you are three, put one amir.” Assign one “friend” to conduct you. Don’t have it that everyone puts in a word and then you fight. Now, in order not to fight, they say to use democracy: elect or vote for anything. So if we are one hundred people, are we going to vote on everything? If someone is not hungry, and the rest are hungry, then we vote? That is why Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala said, “One amir.” That amir is not a normal person: he must be someone that understands every person in that community in order that when he says something everyone accepts and it is for the benefit of the whole community. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala gave us something that we are in need of. He showed us that you need to be with trustworthy people, as we said at the beginning:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ اتَّقُواْ اللّهَ وَكُونُواْ مَعَ الصَّادِقِينَ

Ya ayyuhaladdheena aamanaoo ittaqutAllah wa koonoo ma` as-saadiqeen.

O believers, fear Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala or have taqwa; be with trustworthy people. 9:119

[Sincere] people [are those] who know more, who are pious and sincere, so that you can learn from them. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala did not say, “Accompany”; He said, “accompany trustworthy people.” He didn’t say, “Accompany muslimeen.” There is a big difference. Muslimeen is two billion. He didn’t say, “Be with 2 billion.” He didn’t say, “ittaqullah wa koonoo ma` al-muslimeen.” He said, “IttaqutAllah and be with sadiq.” Where is a sadiq? Find someone saadiq.

You cannot be with everyone at the same moment. You are limited. You are in this area; you cannot see more than this area. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala said, “Koonoo ma as-sadiqeen.” In this area, there are a few saadiq people. Find them and be with them. If you find someone, follow. Be in his meeting, in his associations. These saadiqeen people are the traditional people. Today, to find traditional people is very difficult. There are a lot around dunya; you can find them, but in this country it is very difficult. There is no more tradition. There is only qaala wa qeela. You understand qaala wa qeela: he said, it is said. You want to write a book now and they tell you, “Oh, you don’t have footnotes.” Why do I have to footnotes? That is to show that you are an academician. You have to support what you said in footnotes. Who are in these footnotes? If it was the Prophet (saws) of course I have to put footnotes. But it is not; it is scholars who passed through centuries. Islam is always growing. You need fresh footnotes, can you find them? Dr. Nazeer, who does not like tasty footnotes anymore? When you have fresh footnotes, that is why koonoo ma as-saadiqeen. Saadiqeen are those who are allowed to give fresh footnotes, fresh knowledge. Every moment there is knowledge.

We hope that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala will bless us and give us that knowledge. I was in… we were in jumu`ah today and we explained about tark as-salaat and how dangerous it is to leave the prayer. It isn’t simple. What did we say, Shaykh Yasser? [It is not simple. Between kufr and belief is leaving salaat] If you want to be considered mumin, or Muslim, or you want to be considered in kufr [kufr meaning here ungrateful, not unbelief] the difference is prayers. Someone doing his prayers is considered mumin and someone who is leaving his prayers may be ending into kaafir.

I was telling the young ones also; the old ones we are falling into regret if we didn’t pray our prayers, because we are going to pray them on the lid of hellfire:

يَوْمَ يُحْمَى عَلَيْهَا فِي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ فَتُكْوَى بِهَا جِبَاهُهُمْ وَجُنوبُهُمْ وَظُهُورُهُمْ هَـذَا مَا كَنَزْتُمْ لأَنفُسِكُمْ فَذُوقُواْ مَا كُنتُمْ تَكْنِزُونَ

Yawma yuhma `alayha fee naari jahannama fa-tukwaa bihaa jibaahuhum wa junoobuhum wa dhuhooruhum. haadha ma kanaztum li-anfusikum fadhooqoo ma kuntum taknizoona.

On the Day when heat will be produced out of that (wealth) in the fire of Hell, and with it will be branded their foreheads, their flanks, and their backs.- "This is the (treasure) which ye buried for yourselves: taste ye, then, the (treasures) ye buried!" At-Tauba [9:35]

fatukwa biha jibahahum…when their faces adn their sides and their back they are going to be like ironed, they are going to pray on the lid of hellfire. Yet young ones can save themselves from that by praying in dunya. What is it going to take? The maximum time it takes is five minutes. But we are running after Shaytan… no one gives attention to ar-Rahman anymore. We give attention to whom? - To Shaytaan. Shaytan says to you, “You have been sitting home with your family and working all week, now today you need to take them outside." O that is good. "Take them to a movie theatre.” So you take them to a movie theatre and then you miss a prayer, either Asr or Dhuhr or Maghrib. On top of that, you pay $100. Who is happy with that? - Shaytan. Don’t tell me that people don’t go to a movie theatre and miss their prayers. Can anyone say, “I didn’t miss a prayer in my life”? Ask. Can anyone say? [ "no." ] Then it means we are going to pray them on the lid of hellfire: Those who did it qada and knew they didn’t make it on time and made it at night, they will be forgiven. But those who didn’t even care, and they missed it, it is better for them with every prayer to pray another prayer, to cover what they missed before. This is very important. It is more important than love of the Prophet (saws) and knowledge. If we don’t build our basic house then what is benefit? We try to build it and Shaytan tears it down. It is better to build it with no Shaytan influence there. It is said that if you keep your prayer and don’t miss it then the distance between you and Shaytan is like the distance between east and west. He cannot approach you.

And Allah swt, we ask Him Subhanahu wa Ta`ala to support us and we ask Him to send good people to find mosques for us to pray in. Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala will send rewards to those people for each that prays there because they are the ones who arrange the place.

wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi-hurmatil Fatiha

[What about the knots that were in the tongue of Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam?]

When he was in Yemen and learned what he needed to learn from the manifestation of Beautiful Names and Attributes it was as if Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala had put knots in his tongue, because pious people they cannot speak of the great things they received of heavenly knowledge to present to people. Oh, Allah Subhanahu wa Ta`ala, if you want me to give this knowledge, then you may explain.

[I have heard it said that he has damage in his tongue from when he was a child.]

In that ayah it does not relate to the knot in his tongue that he received when he was a child. It is not that frozen issue that is in his tongue; we are not after that, we are after the knowledge that is in his tongue. If you have something to describe, then people will be happy if you share it with them.

[Can you make up one or more than one prayer at a time?]

You can do make up prayers at any time. The intention is to make it daily so that with every prayer you pray, you make up one prayer.

2009-01-27T15:31:00.001+08:00

A year of opportunities

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Thursday, Jan 01, 2009 | Lefke CY

[Transcribed by Khairiyah Siegel]

A message from Mawlana to you!

Audhu billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu’l-arbay`een, nawaytu’l-`itikaf, nawaytu’l-khalwah, nawaytu’l-riyada, nawaytu’s-saluk, nawaytu’l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fi hadha’l-masjid

Ati` Allahu wa ati`ur-Rasul wa ulu’l-amri minkum.

Meded, ya Sayyidi, ya Sultanu-l Awliya, Sayyidee Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani.

First of all I would like to say that Mawlana has asked and ordered me to say to you that he loves you, he is missing you and you are in his heart. And insha-Allah as soon as the weather changes, he will be as usual always with you, always with anyone coming and visiting and always with anyone that he needs an advice.

Sometimes awliyaullah are difficult to understand and wherever you are, wherever we think that we are, a lot of, many years with them, but still it is very difficult to understand a drop of the meaning of a wali.

the Prophet (s)… and as everyone knows that he used to speak with his Sahaba and give them ahadith, sayings, teaching them, delivering the message of Allah Swt - through the Holy Quran and through the Sunnah of the Prophet (s). And as many of you know that not one single Sahabi, means one single Companion, knew everything. What I means to say with everything means, was present at every moment with the Prophet (s), when he was giving advices or teaching. And that s why we see the compilation of ahadithu Nabi (s) as it is; it was being compiled: This Sahabi said this, this Companion said that... this Companion heard this, that Companion heard that from the Prophet (s)... Some of them they heard ten hadith, some of them heard 20, some of them 100, 1000, but in reality that not all of them heard everything at the same time.

That s why Sahaba, sometimes some of them they say: Oh, we didn’t hear that. They used to have these arguments; I am not going to explain it in detail, but they used to have these arguments between themselves, that (one of them said): I didn’t hear that or the other one said: No, I heard it , and the other one said: No, I didn’t hear it. And different ahadith. It changes from one to one, not all of them heard it. - If you heard something, I didn’t hear it, I might tell you: Oh, I didn’t hear that. You might tell me: No, I didn’t hear that.

So there will be a situation that after the time of the Prophet (s), there were the Sahaba, the Companions, and after the Companions there was the compiling of the ahadith, to bring them together and to compile them. And Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, if you want to give an example, small example: He mentioned 24 or 25 ahadith. That s it; he didn’t mention more than that, although he was the (one) very close to Prophet, when Allah mentioned in Holy Quran about Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq Radiallahu anhu, where He said:

إِلاَّ تَنصُرُوهُ فَقَدْ نَصَرَهُ اللّهُ إِذْ أَخْرَجَهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ ثَانِيَ اثْنَيْنِ إِذْ هُمَا فِي الْغَارِ إِذْ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِهِ لاَ تَحْزَنْ إِنَّ اللّهَ مَعَنَا فَأَنزَلَ اللّهُ سَكِينَتَهُ عَلَيْهِ وَأَيَّدَهُ بِجُنُودٍ لَّمْ تَرَوْهَا وَجَعَلَ كَلِمَةَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ السُّفْلَى وَكَلِمَةُ اللّهِ هِيَ الْعُلْيَا وَاللّهُ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ

Illa tansuroohu faqad nasarahu Allahu idh akhrajahu alladheena kafaroo thaniya ithnayni ith huma fi’l-ghaari idh yaqoolu li-saahibihi la tahzan inna Allaha ma`ana fa-anzala Allahu sakeenatahu `alayhi wa ayyadahu bi-junoodin lam tarawha wa ja`ala kalimata alladheena kafaroo as-sufla wa kalimatullahi hiya al`ulya w’Allahu `azeezun Hakeem.

If ye help not (your leader), (it is no matter): for Allah did indeed help him, when the Unbelievers drove him out: he had no more than one companion; they two were in the cave, and he said to his companion, "Have no fear, for Allah is with us": then Allah sent down His peace upon him, and strengthened him with forces which ye saw not, and humbled to the depths the word of the Unbelievers. But the word of Allah is exalted to the heights: for Allah is Exalted in might, Wise. [Tawbah, 9:40]

The Prophet (s) is saying to Sayyidina Abu Bakr, “Don’t be sad, Allah is with us.” And what he said? 24 or 25 ahadith he related! Where are the other ahadith?

So what I want to say and come to the conclusion is that awliyaullah, it is very difficult to understand them. You might hear something; I might hear something. It depends what time and at that time, at that moment, where he was, in which level of ascension with the Prophet (s) he was and he said that advice.

If you look at the ahadith of the Prophet (s), you see (that) one hadith says something, the other hadith comes in more detail that it was not mentioned in the first time. Why? Because first time the Prophet (s) for example was speaking from this level - lets say level X. Next time, when he was ascending more and more, he was speaking from level Z. So from this level to this level the hadith will increase or might change. It depends on the time and the situation.

And this is where it is very important to understand awliyaullah because they are inheritors of the Prophet (s). How to understand them, when they say something and then, in another time, they say the same thing, but in more detail or they might change it? And then you become thinking “Oh, what he meant?” You say, “What he meant?” The other one heard it differently, he says, “Oh no, it is what he meant this way.” That is why not everyone can understand a wali! We cannot understand from awliyaullah even a drop of their knowledge.

I was coming and he said to me, “Send my love and support. Tell them about I love them and I support them.” So what does that mean? It is an ocean, when he is saying, “I love them and I support them.”

Allah said in Holy Quran to the People of the Cave:

وَإِذِ اعْتَزَلْتُمُوهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا اللَّهَ فَأْوُوا إِلَى الْكَهْفِ يَنشُرْ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّن رَّحمته ويُهَيِّئْ لَكُم مِّنْ أَمْرِكُم مِّرْفَقًا

Wa idhi i`tazaltumoohum wa ma ya`budoona illa Allaha fa’u ila-l kahfi, yanshur lakum Rabbukum min rahmatihi wa yuhay lakum min amrikum mirfaqa.

When ye turn away from them and the things they worship other than Allah, betake yourselves to the Cave: Your Lord will shower His mercies on you and disposes of your affair towards comfort and ease." Al-Kahf [18:16]

They were debating:, "Where we have to run?" and the advice came, "Run to that cave! Run to that cave!" Allah swt, in that cave Allah sws is going to manifest His Mercy on you. Regardless of what you are doing, Allah will send His Mercy on you and He will adjust and show you his guidance, the way. So when Mawlana said, “Say to them I love them, I support them,” it means, we are in his cave! He is that cave that we run to.

For us that cave is like today you want to look at GoogleMaps for skies or you want to go to Google to see any building on earth - what you do? You check: you give the address and then shows you an area, but it is so huge, so you want to zoom in, in order to see more closer, to where you want, what you want to see. Awliyaullah, when you zoom in, when they speak and you enter their cave, if you are entering with complete belief, you can zoom in, because they will zoom you into the presence of the Prophet (s). As much as they show you that zooming in, as much as you are reaching and approaching the presence of the Prophet (s).

Is not so easy to zoom in - it is very difficult. A wali has to carry the responsibility of his students in order to zoom him into the presence of the Prophet (s). And the Prophet (s) has to carry the responsibility and the difficulty of the Ummah, in order to zoom them in into the Divine Presence.

When he said, “Send my love to them,” it means: If someone loves someone it means he will take care of him or her. If you love your child, you take care of your child. You cannot say: O, I love my child, and when he is sick you say, “I don t care.” No, you keep up all night to take care of your child. We are children in the eyes of awliya. Even we have big long beard, we have a black beard, we have a white beard, we have a red beard... still we are children in the eyes of awliyaullah; they have to carry our problems and our difficulties.

One time Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, said, that the wali is in need for his students. If there are no students, there is no wali. He is saying that to show how much the wali carries responsibility. He said: Why a wali to be a wali, if he doesn’t have students, disciples? The disciples make the wali to... Allah to open on his heart, whatever they need to hear and whatever they need, in order to improve and move on, forward. That is why it is very important that a wali, when he speaks, he is reaching the hearts of his students And we have to be very attentive, because he is carrying us; because he is opening. If we don t open our heart to receive from him, we are in problems. He is not in problems, we will be in problems.

One day Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani, may Allah bless his soul, has a khalifa and that khalifa was an old person and he was not really `alim; he was, how we say? Self-learned. And he was learning from Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani humbleness . Because in tariqah the most important issue is humbleness If we don t have humbleness, we must look for it and try to learn it and try to practice it. Humbleness is necessary. Humbleness means: you don t give an excuse to your ego for pride, you don t let (your) ego to get proud of itself. The Prophet (s) was the most humble. What Allah said about him in Holy Quran? Because Prophet was looking at these Oceans of Knowledge that Allah opened to him in his night of Isra wa-l Miraj:

قُل لَّوْ كَانَ الْبَحْرُ مِدَادًا لِّكَلِمَاتِ رَبِّي لَنَفِدَ الْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ أَن تَنفَدَ كَلِمَاتُ رَبِّي وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِهِ مَدَدًا

Qul law kaana al-bahru midadan li-kalimaati rabbee la-nafida al-bahru qabla an tanfada kalimaatu rabbee wa law ji’na bi-mithlihi madada

Say: "If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted than would the words of my Lord, even if we added another ocean like it, for its aid." [Kahf, 18:109]

When he saw those Oceans of Knowledge he said:

قُلْ إِنَّمَا أَنَا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْ يُوحَى إِلَيَّ

Qul: Innama ana basharun mithlukum yuhaa ilaya. Say: "I am but a man like yourselves, (but) the inspiration has come to me….." [Kahf, 18:110]

The Prophet (s) says about himself: “I am only a human being like the rest.” He is different!

Like Imam Busairi (said). What did he say? “Bal huwa yakutatun wa naasu ka-l hajari - He is a gem, a diamond, and human beings are like pebbles, rocks!” He is completely different, but he was humbling himself. He went into Isra wa’l-Mir`aj, he made himself more humble. So our duty is to show humbleness to each other. It s not only to show humbleness to the shaykh, it is easy to show humbleness to the shaykh, but it is difficult to show humbleness to each other.

So that khalifa of Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani, whenever Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani sent him to speak in different villages or in different associations, he sat and spoke (and) everyone, as soon as he opened his mouth to speak, people were listening, they were very... their eyes were open. Not like me and some other people when Mawlana speaks - we sleep! People divert their minds different ways... But everyone was listening, even you throw a pin, you can hear it.

That Shaykh had a son, but his son was very educated in Islamic Shariah. Explanation of Holy Quran, explanation of Holy hadith, memorizing the Holy Quran, memorizing the hadith, knows every details in Shariah. He was looking to himself. Every time his shaykh, who was his father, sat and spoke, people are listening and he, in his heart, was saying, “O, what about me if I speak? Of course, I am more educated than my father, then everyone will be not only opening his eyes, but opening his eyes and his heart to what I will say and people will appreciate what I say!”

So his father knew that this is the sickness of his son, so what he did? He said, “O my son!” next week that came - “I am sick this week. You go and speak! Go and give the people a suhbat.” He was so happy, he didn’t believe that he is going to give a suhba to people. He went and sat on the chair of his father and the father was in the other room, hiding himself, looking what’s going to happen. As soon as that son was beginning to speak - he is `alim, very big `alim in his time - like when we go to conferences - I go a lot and I see that - the professor or the presenter is giving a presentation and most of the audience is sleeping. No one is listening, they get bored. So why do they get bored? There is a secret here.

And the secret in this story is that the son, big `alim, big professor - there is no professor at that time, but he is an `alim - and as soon as he began to speak, everyone was sleeping. So he was speaking and speaking and speaking and looking and saw: most of the people were sleeping. He was so surprised. He finished as soon as possible quickly and went to his father. He said: O my father, what s going on? I am more educated than you, I know more than you. When I spoke, everyone slept. When you speak, everyone is open eyes and open heart. What s going on? He said, “O my son! That is the problem of today’s scholars at that time - they are proud of themselves, they are arrogant of themselves. When I sit to speak, the message that I am delivering to everyone, is coming from the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). So when I am speaking, I have to be the first listener to what I am saying. I am the first student sitting there; I don t see myself as the representative and I don’t see myself as the `alim; I see myself the least among everyone, the lower between everyone. That is the humbleness that it should be experienced, when you are going to give your speech or you will make everyone bored.”

So when we zoom in with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim s speech, when he is speaking to us, we have to make sure, that our eyes and ears and heart are open, because we are not sitting in their presence only. At that moment their presence is the presence of the Prophet (s). How we have to be sitting? How Sahaba were sitting in the presence of the Prophet (s), student has to sit, to imitate that way. Although no one can reach the level of Sahaba and the wali cannot reach the level of the Prophet (s). But we have to imitate their ways, in order that we will be able to reach, what they want us to reach.

And that s why I said one time before here that: Anyone entered the cave, is safe. When you enter the presence of Mawlana Shaykh s cave, we are safe. That s why I said last time about Grandshaykh. When he was asked to carry the guidance, irshad . He said to Shaykh Sharafuddin - I am cutting it short - he said to his shaykh, “What is the benefit of I take the khilafa from you and I know my students are not going to do anything? They are going to be lazy; they are not going to do, except their prayers and that s it! So if you give me the authority that anyone sitting in my presence I will raise him to my level, then I will accept irshad!”

That is a good tiding for all of us: that this secret is with Mawlana Sultanu’l-Awliya Sayyidee Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al Haqqani - may Allah swt give him long life.

When we are sitting in his presence, he is lifting us is like a lift. They are lifting their students up to their levels. Don’t think the shaykh will accept someone will be in the hand of Shaytan chained. Like a general in the army cannot let one of his soldiers to be prisoner in the hand of the enemies, awliyaullah will not allow their students to be prisoners in the hands of Shaytan. The Prophet (s) will not allow his Ummah to be prisoners in the hands of Shaytan. Allah swt will not allow one of His servants to be prisoner in the hands of Shaytan. That is why Ummatun-Nabi (s) ummatu marhouma, will be sent to Paradise!

So he said, “I sent them my love,” which means, “I take care of them. Tell them not to worry. And I give them my support.” It means we are supported. There are many people they say that Mawlana is sick, we don’t need to come. No, come, if your heart says to you, “Come!” It is enough to come to the maqam. The maqam is... his presence is here, it cannot be away. Allah swt honored us to be from Mawlana’s followers and from Ummatun-Nabi (s).

He said also, “Tell them that this is a year of opportunities.” What does it mean “year of opportunities”? A year of opportunities means “Don’t let any opportunity to pass without taking advantage of it.” That is why they use that word too much in the financial world, brokers, stock-market – opportunities. It means, “Don’t let a stock that you can see there is a benefit from it, it is an opportunity, grab it!”

“This year is the year of trading” he said, “with Allah swt, because it is a year full with problems, full of revenge and punishment.” So it is a year of opportunities for those who are humbling themselves; those who are doing their awraad; those who are praying their prayers; those who are trying to elevate themselves against the desire of their egos! Those are these opportunities! Don’t let these opportunities to be lost, especially this year! And he said, “This year is going to be a very heavy year on evil powers and easy year on believers!”

May Allah swt keep us and make us believers with the baraka of our shaykh, Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, and with the blessings of Sayyidina Muhammad `alayhi afdala as-salaat was-salaam.

2009-01-19T11:21:00.003+08:00

Argument extinguishes the light of the heart

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Saturday, Jan 10, 2009 | Fenton, MI US

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

I remember when we were your age, we used to go to drive for many many hours, snow or rain, to reach Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, or Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani may Allah give him long life, to sit and listen to some of their advices.

And to what they are going to guide us for. I see that masha-Allah Allah swt gave you also this kind of guidance, that driving and coming snow or rain, in order to come to get what? To come and get some advice and go.

And these advices that we try to speak about is.. they are from knowledge that Allah gave to awliyaullah to their hearts and they convey it to us and we are trying to explain it.

I want to make another time sure that you can understand that your coming here is not for wasting time, but Allah swt wit his mercy, you don’t know what He is rewarding those who are coming, leaving behind their homes, their families, their work, coming for 1,2 hours listening and going back, don’t think that will go without a reward and these rewards cannot be explained. Because it is not in the hands of anyone it is in the hands of the prophet of what Allah reveals to him of the rewards that he is giving to those sitting and remembering him in such associations. Many difficulties will be taken way from those who are coming leaving behind dunya and coming and listening to something for akhira and also they will be appointed for them angels that will take care of them and this will be the responsibility of that wali that will look after those people and that wali is one of the 5 qutbs that takes care of those people who leave their dunya for their akhira.

We hop that Allah swt will grant us to be with His awliya and with His qutbs that are supporting every step we are going forward. Allah’s Siffaat, characteristics are not like human characteristics. Allah swt His Siffat, his characters are something that are beyond our understanding. Our characters are molded with dunya stuff that makes everything a soup.

Mawlana may Allah give him long life said that characteristics of human beings and their behaviors and their manners are sometimes, not sometimes, but most of the time, are very heavy on each other. People might not like each other because of their behaviours. Because everyone think himself or herself that he is better than the other. Everyone thinks he is higher than the other. Everyone doesn’t like what the other is doing because he is himself or herself, their egoes will never accept the others. They want only what they like to be done and to be accepted. And what the others are saying they don’t like it.

Our behaviours are what point to our levels. Look at yourself and see your shortcomings. You will find a lot of them, but still with all your shortcomings you go and you try to advise someone else although it is better for you to advise yourself first. We go and try to give advices to the others when we ourselves need these advices but because of our arrogance and pride we cannot accept that although we know we have shortcomings we cannot accept to put our head down and accept what others are saying. This is one of the main bad ego characters that is delaying from reaching the stations that awliyaullah are trying to pull us to.

People say why I cannot see, why I cannot see kashf visions, why I cannot have this or that hwy I have this problem or that problem because we are not trying to humble ourselves. We are trying to be other than ourselves, there is a word I like it in English, when I hear it: they say “be yourself.” It means don’t be someone else. It means don’t pretend to be someone else. If you are not happy with yourself and you try to be someone else then why you don’t try to uplift yourself in order to be someone else. Whey don’t you come against your shortcomings and become better disciplined person. So our characters and manners point to our personalities.

If you want to understand someone look to what he says or what he speaks. That is why they have these what you call them, not psychiatrists, but psychologist, you go and speak with them. They call them counselors. What is counselor? [u speak to someone about your problem and they have to analyse they want to give advice.] and they need someone to council someone. They have already lost their minds. We are going to council with them about our problems. Why not go and counsel with the Prophet (s). why not go and council in Divine Presence and ask Allah swt. Why you don’t go and council with awliyaullah .no, but because this one is a counselor who has cert. firm a university

Ah, awliyaullah have certificates from the prophet. The Prophet (s) is authorized from Allah swt. Which is better? Allah said in Holy Qur'an when they are oppressors to themselves or they need counseling, let them go to you, Ya Muhammad (s).

وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ إِذ ظَّلَمُواْ أَنفُسَهُمْ جَآؤُوكَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُواْ اللّهَ وَاسْتَغْفَرَ لَهُمُ الرَّسُولُ لَوَجَدُواْ اللّهَ تَوَّابًا رَّحِيمًا

" wa law annahum idh dhalamu anfusahum jaa'ooka f ’astaghfirullaha w’astaghfaralahum ar-Rasul la-wajad-Allah tawaaban raheema"

"And if they had come to thee when they had wronged their souls, and asked forgiveness of Allah, and if the Messenger had also asked forgiveness for them, they would have

surely found Allah Oft-Returning with compassion and Merciful." [an-Nisa, 64]

They come to the Prophet (s); to his door and ask forgiveness. And forgiveness has many meanings. Wa law annahum idh… oppressors to themselves has many meanings. It is not necessarily they did something bad, they oppressed themselves by not understanding themselves. They don’t understand their manners, their behaviours, they get sad quickly they get emotional. What they have to do? They have to come to you, Ya Muhammad (s).

And ask forgiveness. Forgiveness here means “Ya Rabbee I am coming to Your door, asking guidance.”

When you repent and ask forgiveness what does it mean? It means he has been guided and directed to the Divine Presence. There the Prophet (s) will guide and counsel them. If they go to the Prophet (s) what are they doing? They are counseling with the Prophet (s) why they have to go and waste their money? Never mind they waste their money, but they go to those counselors and speak with them, what are they going to give them? They give their opinions. They might be correct or might be wrong. You go and reveal yourself to that foreigner who doesn’t know anything about your background, your religion, your culture revealing everything. What is the benefit. Go to Allah fa firru ila-Allah - Run to Allah. Fa firru il Allah when you run to Allah will He close His door? Allah’s characteristics is not like us. His behavior is mercy. His Beautiful Names and Attributes describe Him as He is the merciful; He is the one that accepts everyone; forgive everyone, guide everyone.

إِنَّكَ لَا تَهْدِي مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ وَلَكِنَّ اللَّهَ يَهْدِي مَن يَشَاء وَهُوَ أَعْلَمُ بِالْمُهْتَدِينَ

Innaka la tahdee man ahbabta wa lakinna Allaha yahdee man yasha’u wa huwa a`lamu bil-muhtadeena

It is true thou wilt not be able to guide every one, whom thou lovest; but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance. Al-Qasas [28:56]

Allah will guide whom He likes. But run to Him.

We are not running. We are sitting and saying, “I have a problem.” “What is your problem?” “I don’t like the way I am living.” “What do you want?” “I want to be this or I want to be that. I don’t like to be with my parents.” “Where you want to be.” “I like to be by myself.”

Go, try.

La tukthir li-hammik, ma quddir yakoon… don’t make too much problems to yourself, what Allah wants is going to happen you cannot change it. Don’t go to this or that one, they cannot change it. It can only be changed by door Allah opened for us.

وَابْتَغُواْ إِلَيهِ الْوَسِيلَةَ

Wabtaghaw ilayhi al-waseela – “Seek a means to him.” Al-Mai’dah 5:35

If it is a problem of work, you seek a means of those who know that kind of work. But if it is a spiritual problem within yourself then you have to seek the means of waliullah and the Prophet (s). wabtaghaw ilayhi al-waseela. You have to seek the means to him, Allah opened way. But we are not accepting these way and not looking at these ways and try to solve according to our own understanding and not accepting advice from elders. That is problem we are facing today, problem between parents and children, wives and husband. Then at end when they cannot solve the problem what do they say? Go and with your wife and see counselor. Or go with your son, and counsel. What happens? Nothing - you will be worse.

Allah swt Allah doesn’t hate His servant. From our behavior we hate each other. Allah swt doesn’t hate His servants. We hate each other. We have problems with each other, with father, mother, sister and brother. Allah is not like us.

لَئِن شَكَرْتُمْ لأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ وَلَئِن

Wa lain shakartum la azeeadanakum.

If ye are grateful, I will add more (favours) unto you; 14:7

It means I will change everything that you are not happy with it but ask me. But we are not asking. We are asking whom? The counselor. We are asking the counselor what we have to do. Allah does not get frustrated, he is patient. His name is as-Saboor the last Beautiful Names and Attributes. The Absolute Patient One. When someone is patient in dunya, a servant, they say, "This servant is patient what ever you try to make him angry he will not,” then they go and speak with him.

What about the One who created that one and put in his heart patience. Allah swt is the Most Patient. That means whatever you do wrong, He is patient. Go and ask, He will forgive.

One time Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, said, "Allah said, ‘Ya Muhammad (s). Why are you worried about your ummah? I gave you a nation that will not stop doing sins. Every step they are making a sin.’”

All of us are like that. Don’t say, "this one doesn't make any, this one makes.” No all of us. “And I am their Lord who created them, they don’t get tired of doing sins and I don’t get tired of forgiving them. I gave you an ummah already forgiven, already blessed. Don’t worry about it. I am their Lord, I created them and I gave them to you. I don’t know what they ar going to do in dunya? All of us have shortcomings Allah doesn’t know we have shortcomings. That is why Allah said to the Prophet (s), "O Muhammad! I gave you an ummah that doesn’t get tired of making sins and I don’t get tired of forgiving them.”

This is our ummah today. But Allah doesn’t like anyone to kill someone with no reason. Anything you do but don’t kill. Don’t make bloodshed on earth. Allah does not like bloodshed. If someone kills one person it is as if he killed everyone. If someone saved one person as if he saved everyone. Allah will reward him. So if you save someone from bloodshed of shaytan, as shaytan is trying to slaughter and kill us. There is a satanic bloodshed not blood shed of fighting each other. There is a spiritual fight also. Allah doesn’t like spiritual blood shed. What does that mean? Fitna, backbiting, namima, Allah does not like these bad characters. If you do sin you do sin, Allah will forgive you. but if you make ghiba and namima Allah will forgive you if that person you spoke about forgives you. If you spoke bad about someone Allah will forgive you if that person forgives you that is big. If I speak bad about someone that one might not forgive you. that is a problem. You cannot be forgiven if that person doesn’t say, "Ya Rabbee, I forgive him. I don’t want …? That is why when prophet point to one sahabi, and said this one is going to Paradise with no account. So Sayyidina `Umar (r) followed that one to his house to see what he is doing extra. He stayed and followed him for three days and found he doesn’t do anything extra than any other Sahaba do. After three days he asked him, "O my brother, the Prophet (s) said you are one of the people of Paradise. And I am staying with you for three days and I am not seeing you anything different than all of us, of extra prayers or fasting.” He said, "Ya `Umar (r). I don’t do anything extra. But before I go to sleep, I forgive anyone who harmed me. Anyone spoke bad about me or made rumors about me, I forgive him.”

So that backbiting or spreading rumors that are not right, Allah doesn’t not like that. But if you do a sin or try to fight, Allah will forgive you. It is coming back. Allah is the Forgiver.

But backbiting, no, you have to go back to that person and ask him to forgive you. You have to be very careful of that.

Allah’s mercy is so huge that no one can describe it except in a few words, as Mawlana said, "that if there was no rahmat on earth if Allah didn’t manifest his mercy on earth earth will be like Mars or like Venus, or like whatever planets, no life. We don’t know if there is life there or not but if we went to take it generally. It means there will be no nature no life, no water, no nature, everything will disappear. That is why Allah’s mercy is big. So if you have a problem go to Him, “Ya Allah you are the arham ar-rahimeen ihdina at tareeq al-mustaqeem. If You don’t guide us who is going to guide us? Counselors?”

You have a counselor? You counsel with whom? With yourself?

Allah swt he is the One who will open his door to everyone. Come to the homes from their doors - abwaabiha. Don’t go through the window; you cannot jump it is dangerous. Allah swt said in Holy Qur'an, “If you want to come to yourself to your heart, to your inn, to see Allah and His Prophet there you feel His light and the Divine Presence there, go through the door. And My door is the Prophet (s).”

May Allah swt guide us to His door. And don’t take us right or left because we are weak servants.”

Too many people today are lost they don’t know what to do. Too much dhulmah. Darkness. You cannot see, it means you cannot know what to do. It is too much darkness as if curtains over all the doors and windows; it is dark in layer and layers you cannot see the light. When we are in darkness we don’t know what to do that is why we are lost. The only thing we have to do is to keep Allah’s Presence in our heart and the Prophet’s presence in our heart by saying la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah.

Rabbana taqabal minna bi hurmatil man anzalta alayhi suratul Fatiha.

Today you see people mutaraddiddeen - hesitating. They cannot see the light, where to go. I dot this or I do that. They don’t know what to do. Too much problems and negative energy. Too much spiritual pollutions. They look after pollution of earth but they don’t look after the pollution of themselves. they study pollution of the earth and the environment. But you cannot study the pollution of yourself. You need such spiritual classes to understand the pollution of yourself. And this you must spend time. You cannot just come one time per year. You must spend regular time, coming for long time months and months then you find solution to your problems.

Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi-hurmati 'l-Fatiha

Anyone’s heart is clean, Allah makes him successful.

2009-01-05T11:20:00.001+08:00

Oh kid! It's not enough to say La ilaha illallah, Muhammadur Rasul Allah
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Saturday, Sep 20, 2008 | Fenton, MI US
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Michigan Zawiya

Salamu alaykum

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu'l-`uzlah, nawaytu's-salook lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

Allah swt sending for us all kinds of messages, thru his messengers and thru the Seal of Prophets and messenger, Sayyidina Muhammad, who has, the Prophet (s) has made sure that there are people whom Allah loves them and they love Allah that they carry continuously the message of Sayyidina Muhammad tilt he day of judgment.

O Muslims! Awliyaullah are trying their best to make sure that the message of action, not the message only of “qeel wa qaal – this one said this and this one said that.” No they want action.

You can hear that word too much, “Action!” Where do you hear it? In the movies. Why do they use that word “action”. Why they don’t keep talking? You hear that too much “action”. Who says that? The director. So any director in the spiritual realm teaches actions. Prophet wants them teach actions. And Allah wants from his prophet to make sure the Ummah do actions in their lives. Without actions there is nothing. You did action, you came here. If you didn’t do that action you would be staying at home.

So what they want to tell us today is that don’t only make your concern what you eat and what you drink. What you eat and what you drink is the action fro your body. But remember o my servant that there must be action for your soul. There must be something that will fill up your soul that will give it energy and change the batteries. If you don’t charge them the batteries will slowly begin to die and then “there is no benefit at that time to regret - La yanfa` al-nadm.” Regret is over. You are going to face a hard time.

Don’t say, I say, “la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah, Ya Ghulam!! O kid!" “O child.”

“Don’t think if you say la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah it is enough. It is not enough.”

O why he is saying like that!? Why that wali, that Grandshaykh is saying that? Because we know that whoever says la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah illa-Allah will enter Paradise. Why is he saying, “that is not enough”? Because he doesn’t want you to enter Paradise. Because prophet said, “whoever says la ilaha illa-Allah” and of course “muhammadun Rasulullah” will enter Paradise. He doesn’t want you to enter Paradise. That is not enough.

There is a big meaning here. Whoever says la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah. will enter Paradise, but which paradise? Prophet is giving you the limit. Of course if you say kalimat at-tawheed you will enter Paradise, but which paradise? But if you say la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah, and say something else with it you will be in the paradise with the Prophet (s) and siddiqeen and shuhada and saliheen, and you will be in the higher level, not in the lower level. That is why we always pray that “O Allah put us in paradise with Your Prophet (s). We don’t want to be away.”

So what do you have to add? You have to add to iman, faith, qawlan wa `amal. Faith is not only theories - it is action. You have to show action. No action, then no movie. Your life is a movie. One day it is going to be closed. But your akhira is a reality. When you do action for akhira it is not only a movie but it is going to be continuing forever and every moment you are ascending to a higher paradise and higher paradise and higher paradise. So don’t think when you go to paradise these paradises are not ascending. No, they are ascending in higher and higher levels. When you are with the Prophet (s) then you are ascending with him. And what we are saying now is theory, but it is real theory. You have to show action.

Allah says, “O My servant!” to us. And the Prophet (s) says, “O my nation!” to us, [meaning] “those who believe in me.” And awliyaullah says, “O kid!” We are all servants. So Allah swt calls us servants. We are all from ummat an-Nabi (s), so the Prophet (s) calls us ummat. And awliyaullah call us “Ya Ghulam!! O kid!” They teach us day to day and know our reality.

Don’t come to Allah swt with sins and ma`siyyya and zallaat. Zal al-lisan means “the tongue slipped.” Don’t slip and come to us with forbiddens.

If you left behind your prayers and your fastings and your actions and you are coming to Me with forbiddens and sins, don’t expect you are going to be in a continuous action. Until you repent.

So if you want to acquire a higher level come with actions. And these actions are what?

A man came to the Prophet (s) and said, " ya Rasulullah, I love Allah.” Do you love Allah. [insha-Allah] do you love Allah swt?

Then what did the Prophet (s) say? Ittakhidh lil-bala’i jilbaban. A man came to the Prophet (s) and said, " I love Allah.” He said, "Ok make from afflictions a jubbah.” Ittakhidh lil bala’i jilbaban. Bala’an he described as a piece of cloth. And what do you do with a piece of cloth? You dress it. So prepare yourself with whatever afflictions come to you from Allah, be patient. Bala. The Prophet (s) was patient on the abuse of his tribe. Be patient from those who harm you. Don’t say this and that about them. Carry the responsibility in front of Allah swt. [Say:] “Whatever obstacles are there, Ya Rabbee, I am continuing.”

Or else if you don’t be patient on afflictions, on bala, when you say la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah illa-Allah muhammadun Rasulullah it is only by tongue it is not by reality.

A man came to the Prophet (s) and said, "O prophet I love you.” The first one came and said, " “I love Allah” and the Prophet (s) said, " take affliction as your robe.” He said, "asta’id lil faqri jilbaban - Prepare for poverty to be a dress for you.”

It means don’t be bankrupted from Allah’s mercy. Because everyone thinks faqr is what? It is for someone to be poor. These awliyaullah are not poor, they are rich. It is not richness of wealth. It is the richness of knowledge. He said, "Prepare to be poor and dress the dress of poverty.” That means always show to your Lord that you need more from his blessing and from ma`rifatullah. Of good character show that you have nothing and you are asking for more and for more and for more. Then when you show that Allah is al-Ghani, we are the poor. It means poor to reach that eternal to be in that ocean of eternal love and blessings. That is what you need, the tajallis of Jamal and Jalaal - the manifestation of [Divine] Beauty and Majesty. Then you are rich. Then form poverty, Allah makes you rich. As much as you are rich, still you are poor, in relation to Allah’s greatness.

Who is not poor. It is only one, Sayyidina Muhammad whom Allah raised him and said, “I perfected you, Ya Muhammad!” وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلى خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ wa innaka la-`ala khuluqin `adheem - You are of trememdous highly character.

So don’t come with la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah with no action. If no action you will go to where you came from, at the first level in paradise you will stay.

Allah doesn’t accept qawlan bila `amal- a statement without action. What is the action? It is imtithal al-amr wa intiha `an il-munkar - to submit to the order. It means to be ready for any order that comes to submit to it immediately and to try to stop yourself from falling into the tricks of shaytaan. The tricks of shaytan are too many. He tricks you in every moment of your life and Allah swt is observing you how you are not going to listen to what shaytan is saying.

O Muslims! O believers! Those who are going to win are those who are going to be patient. Poverty and patience, come together in the heart of a believer.

Don’t be proud. To be poor means not to be poor, but be happy with what Allah is giving. Al-muhiboon mubtaloon.if you are really a believers, really believers face a lot of problems. Now today in the way that people are holding tight to their religion, what happened to them. They face a lot of problems. If you have a beard what happened to you. Go to a Muslim country, if you have a beard they stop you and question you: “Why you have a beard?” “O Allah gave me a beard. What can I do? I don’t have a razor.” “No you have to have a razor.” “No I don’t want a razor.” “No, you have to have a razor, else you are a terrorist.”

Everyone who has a beard, becomes in eyes of people disgusting. Why Allah made us to have a beard? To shave it or leave it?

So a believer is afflicted. Wherever you turn your face, from one problem you try to run out from that problem, another problem comes.

But if you be patient, Allah will inspire you. Allah will love you. Allah will give you. So don’t expect a gift from people. But wait for the gift that comes from heaven. The gifts that come from heaven are too many but our duty is to wait in order to get it. You cannot be lajuj, insisting, "O where is my gift? Where is my gift?” You are not worshipping for a gift. Allah wants to give, He gives. Allah said,

وَلِلَّهِ الْعِزَّةُ وَلِرَسُولِهِ وَلِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

" all-`izzatu lillahi wa li rasulihi wa l’il-mumineen.- But honour belongs to Allah and His Messenger, and to the Believers.” [63:8]

So He promised that. Therefore wait for it.

Not like Sayyidina Musa, saying “when, when?” It took 40 years to get rid of Fira`un. Since he asked, if he had not asked it would have taken one moment.

Prophet never asked anything. When you nag, you are nagging, then people get upset with you. What do you think about Allah swt. Submit to him. Don’t be nagging, like this one.

Huh?

O corrupted! He is speaking to whom, he is saying “O corrupted!” He is speaking to his people. If we say now “O corrupted!” everyone will run away. Grandshaykh said, " “When a wali says to his student “O corrupted”, "O backbiter!” or anything, or “O cheater”, then he is taking that bad character away. He doesn't say it to humiliate you but he is saying it to get it out of you by their power. He says it in front of people in order you will be feeling that humiliation, but in reality he wants you to be humiliated in dunya not in akhira. So he takes that bad characters from you. Because every one of these students is a scholar, everyone is a big balloon, full of air. You see big, flying these scholars. So he wants to take that bad character out of their heart, that arrogance, that pride. O corrupted, don’t sit wit believes!

Why? He wants them to be pure to sit with believes. Al-jins m`a al-jins. Gender with gender. Same element with same element. You cannot mix apples and oranges. You cannot put water with juice but must be water with water. You put believers with believers, corrupted with corrupted. O corrupted that you are looking at me. Ayyuha ’l-fasiq! Ittaqi ’l-mumin - Beware of that believer that sits besides you. La tadkhul ma`hu wa anta mulawis ma` al-ma`asi - Don’t come and sit with him and you re polluted with sins because there is going to be reflection.

How they know that, 1000 years ago, that there is pollution? They think that modern science found pollution. But from back then awliyaullah know about negative and positive energy. Ayyuha ’l-fasiq is negative energy and corrupt energy. He is speaking to the spirits of these people. The Prophet (s) said,

اتقوا فراسة المؤمن، فإنه ينظر بنور الله‏.‏ ‏(‏ أخرجه ابن عبد البر في كتاب جامع بيان العلم وفضله ج سنة 196 ‏)

“Ittaqoo firasat al-mumin fa innahu yandhuru bi-nurillah - Beware of the vision of the believer, for truly he sees with the light of Allah.” You cannot hide, they see everyone they look at you they see you and he hears and how much you are lying in front of them. You sit like a lamb and you are a fox.

You see a lamb, grazing, but they see you from behind the veil, looking at the heart, you are a hyena eating the carcasses of the people. That is why don’t sit in front of a wali too much, run away. That is because you are corrupted. You sit in front of them you are polluting them. But awliyaullah they have char. That whatever bad character, Negative character, you come with they swallow into their ocean and dilute it. Anything come it becomes so dilute that it doesn’t show anymore.

He said, "Don’t sit among believers and pollute them with your forbiddens and your sins and make them like you but come and sit with them with a clean heart.”

You are a blind person. You are a blind one. You don’t know that awliyaullah can’t see your heart. You are trying to come to them showing them that you are praying and fasting to show you are good. No, they know your heart.

When the Prophet (s) asked the Sahaba, “Who is the poor one, the bankrupted one – man al-muflis?” They said, "The one who has no wealth. He said, " no the bankrupt one is the one with no `amal.” The are the ones who have no `amal, they hide their personality. They are like hyenas and wolves they want to eat everyone; they are blind. If you are blind what do you need to do? Some people come to eye doctors and say, “we cannot see.” He says, “Ok, take these eyeglasses and you can see now.”

And some people come and even with eyeglasses they cannot see. They have cataracts. Then they say, "O we have to take that one out and put new for you in order for you to see.’ That means, “O corrupted ones, come to the doctor. In order to take that blindness from you, you need ot come to a doctor the take that blindness from you. Without a guide you will never take away that corruption.

Allah is guiding us to those guides who carry the message of Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

He said, "When he was asked, to when O my shaykh is that blindness to disappear?” he said, "You have to be between the hands of a doctor and you have to show… tuhsin dhannak feehi. You have to trust Him and you don’t doubt Him.” [It means:] “You have to take your children and sit at this door waiting from him to come to you and accept you in.”

One person came to a wali and said, "O my shaykh! Accept me at your door. He said, “What I have to accept you. He said to be like these ones, the mureeds.” He is jumping to be at high level.

Mureed is high level as we said before we are all lovers we are not yet mureeds.

He said, "I cannot accept you as mureed.”

He sad, what about these. He said, they never reached level of mureeds, all of them .

He said, " then what you want to accept me as?” so the mureed was thinking how to humiliate himself to make the shaykh happy with him. He said, "O my shaykh accept me as a donkey at your door.” For what, I am riding all of them.

“Donkey” here means patience. “Teach patience. Accept me as only a means to bring out for me that character of patience; to dress my heart. Then I will be patient on my bros and sisters. Then I will be patient on the afflictions in my life, and then I wont nag too much.

He said, “No I have too many of that,” and he was thinking and thinking. That was Grandshaykh story and Mawlana Shaykh’s story. And then he said, "Accept me as a dog at your door. “

You know that the dog is important for hunters, you cannot go hunting without a dog. That is why in Islam a dog is accepted for hunting. Because the dog at the door of the shaykh will bring the prey and the shaykh will immediately catch it.

So it means the one who has been give permission or the one who is so hard worker, they get more people, dragging them to the shaykh in order that the shaykh will clean them.

So it means “Accept me at your door in order to make me loyal and sincere.”

And he was trying as much as possible to bring himself down in order to be accepted at shaykh’s door. [saying:] “Don’t leave me blind, O my shaykh!”

That perfects la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah illa-Allah, so that it comes with action. When the shaykh accepts you, you have to accept his sour medicine. Because there are sicknesses that they have medicine for them today but they are very sour. Doctor! Is that correct? Sour in what? [in taste] In taste? Not only in taste. But they are very sour in treatment. Like today they give today chemotherapy. That is a very sour medical treatment. That makes the people suffer more than the cancer itself. But at the end with Allah swt’s cure it will give some good result. So he is saying, “You have to be patient on his medication that he will give to you because it is going to be very sour.”

[It means:] “Don’t run away you are already a patient. You have a spiritual cancer that makes our heart dead, that makes your spirit dead.”

He wants to rejuvenate the positive energy in your soul. He has to give you big spoonfuls of that sour medicine.

Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, used to say that “When you enter tariqah don’t think you are entering to find peace.”

The Prophet (s) said, لا راحة فى الدين "la rahata feed-deen - There is no relaxation in religion.” you are always going to suffer because you have to be patient and carry more and more, more and more.

He said, “[it is] like one person, who was in the jungle…” Just as we are all in the jungle of this world. The world is like a jungle. All of it is like wild characters, wild animals surrounding us.

[so he said,] "Like someone in the jungle, and someone… and these hyenas come on him. And he is on a high cliff.”

What he will do? He wants to run away from them. So he is standing on the cliff and they jump on him and what happens? He falls all the way down in the valley. And they go down. To do what? To eat him and to bite him.

He said, “When someone enters tariqah he is going to fall from the cliff all the way down and then all these hyenas will bite him, bite him and bite him, until he is completely dead. That is tariqah. You like it, enter.”

They didn’t show us all this [yet]. They are only playing with us, giving us candies.

They want you to fall from that cliff of egoism and they want to bring you down. They send all of what Allah gave them of power, very fierceful power, to cut you in pieces until you submit completely to Allah’s will and the Prophet’s will. They are not bringing you in to keep feeding you and feeding you and feeding you.

Tariqah today is candy compared to what it was before. People today are different they run away. Before they will not run from the door of the shaykh. Even they see all kinds of problems . they don’t say, what will I have for tomorrow. Today people all ask, “What do I have for tomorrow?”

Life is what you can face today of difficulties. The Prophet (s) said, “I am the most who was abused and tortured from my tribe” and he is the Prophet (s).”

So tariqah is to take that blindness out. To take that cancer out; to take that wild characters out. To make you to say la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah. We are asking Allah for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and for sake of our shuyukh to take that imitational, when we say la ilaha illa-Allah muhammadun Rasulullah to turn it into a real one with action and with power. Because when a wali says la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah he shakes the heart it if he wants. So when he says it, it takes kufr away. When a mu’min says it, he takes the kufr of himself out and he feels it like an earthquake.

When you say la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah you have to feel that sword coming from your belly and going across the right side and coming over the left side where the heart is, cutting the ego in half and it will shake it like an earthquake. May Allah show us the reality of la ilaha illa-Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah, Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi hurmatil Fatiha.

At noon here. Dhuhr and subhat. And evening at the masjid, maybe for food.

2008-12-19T09:49:00.001+08:00

The Sacrifice of Sayyidina Ibrahim Alayhissalam and Sayyidina Ismail Alayhissalam

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Friday, Dec 05, 2008 | Burton US

O Muslims! Believers. In two days time it is the Eid of al-Adha. It is the day that Allah swt ordered Sayyidina Ibrahim Alayhissalam to slaughter and to give as a sacrifice his son, to Allah swt.

And that is an important day that Ibrahim Alayhissalam was been tested and it was on Arafat day, one day before Eid. When Allah swt wants to see if Ibrahim Alayhissalam will listen and obey or not.

So before entering in the story, which we will summarize it, the Prophet (s) mentioned many hadith about the day of Arafat and I will quote one or two hadiths in order that it will benefit us.

It says that `an abi hurayran `an an-Nabi (s), man saama yawma `arafa ghafar'allahu ta`ala ma taqadam min dhanbih. Allah will forgive All his sins up to that day. For Allah that is a very important day. All the pilgrims who went for hajj are asking Allah for forgiveness and saying labayk Allahuma labayk, labayk la shareek laka labayk. Inna al-hamda w'an-ni`mata laka wa'l-mulk la shareeka lak. They are showing unity in one cloth, one dress, king, president, normal people in one dress keeping the hadith: "there is no different between Arab and non-Arab except through righteousness."

It is so simple if Allah will give us energy and support to fast that day which is Sunday the benefit is that all sins you made form before that day have been forgive and you will be as if newly born. and the Prophet (s) said in another hadith said:

عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه قال سمعت النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول :( من حج لله فلم يرفث ولم يفسق رجع كيوم ولدته أمه ) رواه البخاري

"Whoever make hajj and does not engage in (lawful) sexual relations and does no wickedness and does not argue, returns as the day his mother bore him." [Bukhari

for as Allah said:

الْحَجُّ أَشْهُرٌ مَّعْلُومَاتٌ فَمَن فَرَضَ فِيهِنَّ الْحَجَّ فَلاَ رَفَثَ وَلاَ فُسُوقَ وَلاَ جِدَالَ فِي الْحَجِّ وَمَا تَفْعَلُواْ مِنْ خَيْرٍ يَعْلَمْهُ اللّهُ وَتَزَوَّدُواْ فَإِنَّ خَيْرَ الزَّادِ التَّقْوَى وَاتَّقُونِ يَا أُوْلِي الأَلْبَابِ

Al-hajju ashhurun ma`loomatun faman farada feehinna 'l-hajja falaa rafatha wa laa fusooqa wa laa jidaala fi'l-hajji wa ma taf`aloo min khayrin ya`lamhu Allahu wa tazawwadoo fa-inna khayra az-zaadi at-taqwa wat-taqoonee ya olee alalbabi

For Hajj are the months well known. If any one undertakes that duty therein, Let there be no obscenity, nor wickedness, nor wrangling in the Hajj. And whatever good ye do, (be sure) Allah knoweth it. And take a provision (With you) for the journey, but the best of provisions is right conduct. So fear Me, o ye that are wise. Al-Baqara [2:197]

So: la rafatha wa la fusooq wa la jidaala fi'l-hajj, … you cannot have any sexual relations with your wife and you cannot look at anything that is haraam and if you avoid arguing too much, then you return from hajj as if you are newly born.

So it means that Allah doesn't like in hajj arguments or backbiting or rumors in hajj and he doesn't allow any sexual relationship because you are going for worship you cannot do that in worship.

So the most important principle of hajj is Arafat, if you missed it you missed the main principle and fundamental of hajj. That is why Arafat is the most important day of hajj and why the Prophet (s) recommended to fast that day.

When Allah revealed the verse about Arafat:

الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الإِسْلاَمَ دِينًا

alyawma akmaltu lakum daeenakum wa atmamtu `alaykum ni`matee wa radeetu lakum al-islamu deena.

This day have I perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion. 5:3

This day I have completed for you religion and I am continuously giving you my favor. And the Sahaba were happy that they have been victorious evil powers and they opened Mecca and they were able to go back and make pilgrimage. All were happy but Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, he was crying. They asked him, "why are you crying?" He said, "maa b`ad al-kamaal illa an-nuqsaan - When you achieve the highest level there is nothing except going down." [It means] When the moon reaches the full there is nothing else but to go down.

He said, "we are going to see sadness in our lives. I feel that the Prophet (s) is not going to be among us." And after exactly 80 days the Prophet (s) left dunya. So it was the last hajj and the last `umrah for the Prophet (s). and that hadith came for the importance of fasting on that day.

So O Muslims! Try to fast on that day. If you have excuse it is ok if you don't have sickness s or dizziness it is ok. Then if you can fast then Allah will forgive you your mistakes.

It is called `Arafat because `Arafat is from `arafa, it is that Allah introduced or made something clear. What did he make clear? He made it clear to Ibrahim Alayhissalam to sacrifice his son and that is one of the reasons it has that same. To make clear to Ibrahim Alayhissalam.

And it is said in traditions. In the seerah, in Tafsir an-Nisaburi, that Hajar the wife of Sayyidina Ibrahim Alayhissalam was not happy after Sayyidina Ibrahim Alayhissalam married her and she was feeling that there was a problem with his wife Sara, the first wife and so she decided to leave. And when she was leaving she heard a message saying to her, "Where are you going? You are going to have a child. You are going to have too many offspring that are coming from you. Stay where you are, don't run away."

She stayed and Allah made her pregnant with Sayyidina Isma`il Alayhissalam. And after the boy grew up Sayyidina Ibrahim Alayhissalam was taking care of that child and used to love him so much and one day, Allah swt, in a certain moment ordered Jibreel, "go, Ya Jibreel and tell Ibrahim Alayhissalam to slaughter his son for me!" and Jibreel Alayhissalam he said, "Ya Rabbee. I made a good relations hip with Ibrahim Alayhissalam. You were sending me with revelation to him. I cannot. I will do Your order, but if there is a way he will get that directly without me giving him that news that will be great." Allah is the merciful one he sent that ruya to Ibrahim Alayhissalam.

فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ مَعَهُ السَّعْيَ قَالَ يَا بُنَيَّ إِنِّي أَرَى فِي الْمَنَامِ أَنِّي أَذْبَحُكَ فَانظُرْ مَاذَا تَرَى قَالَ يَا أَبَتِ افْعَلْ مَا تُؤْمَرُ سَتَجِدُنِي إِن شَاء اللَّهُ مِنَ الصَّابِرِينَ

Falamma balagha ma`ahu as-sa`ya qaala ya bunayya innee araa fi 'l-manaami annee adhbahuka fa undhur madhaa taraa qaala ya abatee if`al maa tumaru sa-tajidunee insha- Allahu mina as-saabireen

Then, when (the son) reached (the age of) (serious) work with him, he said: "O my son! I see in vision that I offer thee in sacrifice: Now see what is thy view!" (The son) said: "O my father! Do as thou art commanded: thou will find me, if Allah so wills one practising Patience and Constancy!" As-Saffat [37:102]

Qaala ya bunaya innee araa fi'l-manami… he is seeing the dream one after another time.

So the first time he sacrificed 100 sheep for the sake of his son.

So that is why sincere people today when they have a serious sickness like cancer, they go an sacrifice 100 sheep and many times we observe that the patient was cured due to the sacrifice.

So after that he saw the dream another time. And he thought Allah would accept the slaughter of 100 sheep. But he saw dream again and then 3rd time.

Then he told his wife to put oil on the head of his son and he would take him out. And the wife asked "where are you taking him?" He said, "I have been ordered by Allah to sacrifice my son." She looked at her son and looked at Sayyidina Ibrahim Alayhissalam and said, "If Allah ordered you to do that, you do it." And then he took his son up to the mountain and then told him, "Let us play as they play today, hide and seek, put on the blindfold."

Isma`il Alayhissalam said, "O my father why are you wasting my time. Do what you have been ordered. I am not afraid. He wants me to be a sacrifice let it be. O my father be patient on difficulty, no problems. Don't lose your temper. I am ok, take me and slaughter me but take the shirt that is on me and take it to my mother before it gets blood on it. And take it to my mother so she will remember me with that shirt, and tell my mother that I left my son to the One who is better than everyone. I left my son to Allah swt."

Faqala Ibrahim ya rabb irham d`afee wa kibra sannee. Ibrahim said, "O Allah be merciful with me," fa in lam tarhamnee farham hadha al-walad alladhee la dhamba lah. They say he was 7 or 9 years and the angels fell into crying and doors of heavens opened, as soon as that happened he took the knife and put it on his neck and in some narrations they say that Isma`il Alayhissalam smelled some meat barbecuing. He said, "O my father what happened? I am smelling barbecue." He said, "O my son this is the smell of my heart."

Look how Allah is giving us good life and we are complaining. Allah ordered Jibreel to go quickly: "adrikhu idha qata` as-sakeen shaya la-mahwanaak - If you don't stop it I will take you from My Presence" and Jibreel ordered the knife to stop fa lam taqta` shayan and in the Tafsir of an-Nasafi, Ibrahim Alayhissalam felt he didn't fulfill the order of Allah and he took it and threw it as if it became a useless knife. Allah hid from him that He had ordered Jibreel to prevent the knife from cutting. The knife asked, "Why are you angry?" to Ibrahim Alayhissalam and he said, "Because you didn't cut what Allah wants you to cut." And the knife said, "If you are angry with me why are you not angry with the fire of Nimrod that they throw you in and it didn't not burn you?" he said, "because Allah ordered the fire not to burn me." And the knife said, "And Allah ordered me not to cut Isma`il's neck." And the knife said, "Jibreel ordered me 70 times not to cut - I was cutting and I was ordered not to cut."

And then Isma`il Alayhissalam, when Ibrahim Alayhissalam took him out and Allah ordered him to slaughter a ram for safety of Sayyidina Isma`il Alayhissalam he said to his father, Let me ask this question of you. Are you more generous or you? a-ana akramu minka aw anta." Qala Ibrahim Alayhissalam, ..ana akram minka fa ana takaramtu waladee… Ibrahim (s) said, " I gave you - I gave my son." (and remember Sayyidina Isma`il Alayhissalam is carrying the light of Sayyidina Muhammad (s), how is he going to die? It is test for Sayyidina Ibrahim Alayhissalam. It is test for us. Are we going to sacrifice for sake of the Prophet or not. Are we doing to follow his Sunnah or not. Are we going to obey or not).

So Sayyidina Isma`il Alayhissalam said, "No I am better. You were generous to give me but I gave my soul - Ana takaramtu ruhee. I am the one who is losing. You are not giving your soul. You are giving me. For the sake of the whole Ummah." He is carrying the secret of Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

This `Arafah is an important day and it is day of sacrifice. Let us try to fast that today and asking Allah "O our Lord! Forgive us our sins, for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad (s), for the sake of Sayyidina Ibrahim Alayhissalam; for the sake of Sayyidina Isma`il Alayhissalam and for the sake of those standing on `Arafah. Share us with their pilgrimage and write us from those who went for this pilgrimage and with every pilgrimage and share us with the Prophet's pilgrimage."

2008-12-17T16:43:00.001+08:00

Love of the Prophet PEACE BE UPON HIM

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

Islamic Educational Center, Fremont, January 27, 2003
[Began w/ an Introduction by host Professor Muhammad Ahmad]
Audhu billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem Bismillah ir-rahman ir-raheem
Nawaytul-arba`een, nawaytul 'itikaaf, nawaytul khalwa, nawaytul `uzla, nawaytus salook, nawaytul riyaada lillahi ta`ala al-`adheem fee hadhal masjid.
It is an honor for me to come and listen to the advice, it is not a lecture, an advice from the Professor on the love of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). I really came to listen only. I am not feeling that I have to add anything, because when the love of the Prophet (s) comes, we must all feel burned in that love.
"Ya Sayyidi ya Rasulullah!" Just now I was hearing that in the advice that was being presented by the Professor. On the necessity, Dr. Professor Muhammad Qadri, to love the Prophet (s). There is no need to say professor or doctor, Muhammad Ahmad is enough of an honor. Alhamdulillah.
It is a fakhr to be named after Sayiddina Muhammad (s). We are not Wahabi, happy with the diploma we take from the university. Who cares for that?
I heard that at the beginning, when this gathering first started, there were two people coming and listening. Since then it has been continously improving and now we are seeing hundreds of people here.
That shows you are on the right path. I was in Houston yesterday and I was giving an advice in Ghawth `Adham mosque. And masha-Allah, a lot of people from Tariqat al-Qadiriyya invited me to that big event and you could feel there that same feeling of love for the Prophet (s).
Now to love the Prophet (s) is something that we have to feel in our hearts. If we don't feel it and don't know it and don't learn it and don't practice it, then it is only by the tongue. That is why Shaykh Muhammad Ahmad Qadiri, mentioned a hadith of the Prophet (s), "la yuminu ahadakum hatta akunu ahaba ilaykum min walidihi wa waalihi wa an-naasi ijma`een." That means, "You will not achieve true belief until you love me; you have to love me more than you love your parents, yourself and your children and the whole of humanity."
If we look at ourselves today, if our child is sick and you need to take him to a hospital, your life is disturbed. You cannot sleep one hour, without feeling, "My son" or "My daughter." You keep saying to yourself, "My son," or "My daughter" You have that feeling of taking care of that son or that daughter. That is the simple balance or scale that we can use to look at ourselves with. Is that love to the Prophet like the love of our children in our heart or not? If that does not exist, and I am sure it does not, then we have to improve it.
That is what Shaykh Muhammad Ahmad also mentioned that verse:
"Qul in kuntum tuhiboon Allaha fat-tabi`oonee yuhbibkumullah wa yaghfir lakum dhunubakum."
"Say: 'If ye do love Allah, Follow me: Allah will love you and forgive you your sins: For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.'" [3:31]
It is not the Prophet (s) who said it - it is Allah who said: "Ya Muhammad, say to them, 'If you love Allah, then follow me, Allah loves you.'" Who is that verse for? For everyone; for the Sahaba. I love the Prophet I hope, and everyone loves the Prophet (s). And the Sahaba loved the Prophet (s). So how am I going to love the Prophet when I need to see him and to follow him? How do I follow him if I don't see his footsteps?
So the Sahaba saw the footsteps of the Prophet (s) and he showed them the reality of how to follow. He took them by the hand and they moved, he was guiding them.
But that verse of the Holy Qur'an is for the whole Ummah, from its beginning to its end. That is giving a hidden meaning here. The Prophet (s) was with the Sahaba to guide them. That means the Prophet's presence must exist at all times for all the people, for mankind to follow.
"Wa`alamu anna feekum Rasulullah."
"Know that the Prophet is within you." [49:7]
He did not say he is "baynakum", "among you", but He swt said, "feekum" - "in you." The Holy Qur'an is delicate in every letter and every sentence. If the Prophet (s) is in us, so then Allah is saying to us here, "where then is he now?"
I was hearing an example of this [taps mike]. Are you hearing this? [yes] Why are you hearing it?
That is a voice. That tapping is creating a voice that has a wavelength and the wavelength moves all around space, throughout the universe, and never dies. Those who know physics, eng., know that. That wavelength is moving through space, so that when I tap, that wave moves through space - if you have a receiver you hear it and if you don't you do not hear it.
We are hearing from billions of years, voices coming from the universe, because we have big receivers, we are hearing some thing and yet we are not able to hear something else, it is impossible. Every voice has to be heard if you have the right equipment, because waves move around the world.
When Sayiddina Muhammad (s) read the Holy Qur'an, that wave is ever-living and it does not end. If you want to take it from a Physics point of view. So if that voice is there, why can we not hear it? Because there is something wrong with our equipment.
There is something wrong. What about the hadith, "ma zaala `abdee yataqaraba ilayya bin-nawaafil hatta uhibah. Fa idha ahbabtahu kuntu sama`ulladhee yasma`u bihi wa basarahulladhee yubsiru bihi, wa yadahulladhee yubtishu bihi wa lisanahulladhee yatakallama bih." "My servant does not cease to approach Me through voluntary worship until I will love him. When I love him, I will become the ears with which he hears, the eyes with which he sees the hand with which he acts and the tongue with which he speaks."
A servant approaches through voluntary worship until I love him, as Shaykh Muhammad Ahmad Mahmoud Qadiri, [add that] said that love of Sayiddina Muhammad is important. The Sahaba, from love of the Prophet, they did listened to the Prophet and said, "Yes, Ya Rasulullah, we accept whatever you said." The munafiqeen (hypocrites) tried to create doubts. But the Sahaba said, "na`m sadaqta ya Rasulullah!" on the night of Ascension. But that love is important. It comes about not through obligations, but He said, "ma zaala `abdee yataqaraba ilayya bi-nawaafil hatta uhibah" - through voluntary worship.
Is that obligation in Qur'an, came in heavens or the Prophet did it himself out of love. Out of love the Prophet (s) did it. The obligations, you have to do, you are forced, if not you go to jahannam. It is an obligation, you cannot reach to love of Allah through it. Voluntary worship, there is a way out of it, because if you don't do it you will still go to paradise. But you will not be in that situation mentioned in that hadith. That means if the servant loves Me through Muhammad, by means of nawafil, voluntary worship, then I will love him, it is a reciprocal relationship. It has to be from you first, because Allah already loves His servant. But you have to put your plug, your wire and make the connection from your side.
Then what happens. The hadith "kuntu sama`ulladhee yasma`u bih" That means, "I will give him a special receiver to hear, that he will hear only what that wali can hear." I am going to give him what people cannot hear? What can people not hear? You cannot hear, he cannot hear, . you will hear the voice that people cannot hear because they don't have that opening in their ears. He will give you from that attribute as-Sam`ee, as Sariya heard Sayyidina `Umar's voice from Sham. "O Sariya! Keep to the mountain," from Madina to Sham.1
Sariya was able to hear. Sayyidina `Umar (r) was able to hear and to see. So Sariya has an audio voice only. Sayyidina Umar has video and audio. That is technology from 1400 years ago, since the time of the Prophet (s). Then the hadith continues, "I will give him sight that he can see with, I will be the eyes which he can see with." At that time you have audio, video and TV. Then you can see the Prophet (s) - how he is moving, how he is speaking, how he is acting, and then you can follow. If you cannot see that, then follow those who can. Not everyone can do that, only a few can do that, only awliya can do that, like Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani.
Even though you mentioned Ibn Taymiyya, I don't like to mention him except to show the Wahabis that your "master" was a slave at the door of Sayyidina Abdul Qadir al-Jilani, and he praised him in the book Fatawa ibn Taymiyya.
Then you have audio, video, and that gives us the meaning that the prophet is always present, looking at you and seeing what you are doing. And if you are clever you will be able to see it. And if you are not, then follow one who is. That is an order in hadith, "in kuntum thalathah, fa-ameeru ahadakum" - "If you are three, make one your leader."
That ameer must not be blind, he must not be an unintellectual person. He must be a person who can see the footsteps of the Prophet (s).
I heard this story from my Shaykh and his father and grandfather are from the Qadiri tariqat. He did a complete seclusion in the maqam of Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani for one whole year.
One lady brought her son to Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani and said, "Ya Sayiddi I know you are the Ghawth, and I know for the sake of the Prophet you give." She was a poor lady and she always attended the suhbat, and she would see all the mureeds, disciples, attending the subhat (advice) and dhikr. And in front of each one was a big chicken and they were eating.
She said to herself, "Alhamdulillah, I am poor and Sayyidina Abdul Qadir is rich in both dunya and akhira. I will give my son to sit there. At least he will eat morning and evening."
She said, "I want my son to be your mureed."
He accepted. He was a very good-sized child. He told one mureed, Muhammad Ahmad, "Send him to the basement and give him the awrad for seclusion. And give him one piece of breads and olives to eat each day."
That lady came after one month and thought her son would be eating chicken. Then she saw the mureeds sitting and eating with perfect manners (adab); eating chicken.
She asked the Shaykh about her son. He said, "He is in basement eating special food." She was happy, as she thought since the mureeds are eating chicken, then probably he was eating beef.
She went down and saw her son - he had become very slim. But he was sitting reciting, and light was emitting from his face.
She came to him and said, "What is this?" He said, "That is what I am eating - a piece of bread." She went to Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani (q), "I brought my son to be with you." As she spoke the Shaykh ordered his mureeds, "Eat." Each ate the chicken in front of him, not the pieces, but the entire chicken, with the bones. Then he said to her, "If you want your son to reach the level to eat the chicken with the bones, then he must go through tarbiyya - training." That tarbiyya is for raising and training the ego, which is the most difficult thing. That is what is needed.
al-Fatiha.
Allahumma salli 'ala Sayyidina Muhammadin nabi al-ummi wa 'ala Alihi wa Sahbihi wa sallim. Jumu`ah Mubarak.
NOTES:
[1] It is reported from Hazrat Ibn `Umar (r) that he said that Hazrat `Umar (r) dispatched an army, making one man called Sariyya (r) leader (amir) over it. It is said that one day Hazrat `Umaar (r) was delivering the Friday sermon. In it he said loudly "Ya Sariyya al-jabal!" "O Sariyya! [towards] the mountain." Then a courier came from the army and said: "O Commander of the Faithful! We were on the verge of being defeated when we heard a voice thrice: "Ya Sariyya al-jabal!" So we moved the back our army near the mountain and Allah Most Holy defeated them." Ibn `Umar (r) says that Hazrat `Umar (r) was told that it was he who was shouting in that voice.

Hazrat Ibn `Umar (r) mentions that his father Hazrat `Umar (r) was delivering a sermon on Friday in the middle of his khutba he shouted, "Ya Sariyya al-jabal!" "O Sariyya! [towards] the mountain," and then he resumed his khutba and said, "He who stole a wolf, he oppressed." (i.e. he who fed and watered the enemy, he committed an act of oppression). So some people look at others (i.e. what is this matter?). Hazrat `Ali (r) said to them "He himself would say (something) about this statement." When the people had finished the prayer, they asked Hazrat `Umar (r). He said, "The idea crossed my mind that the idolaters defeated our brethren and the idolaters would run towards the mountain. So if the Muslims moved towards the mountain, they would have to fight from one side only, if they advanced, they would be destroyed. So those words escaped my mouth about which you say that you heard these words."
After a month came the deliver of good news. He said, "The people of the army heard Hazrat `Umar's (r) voice on that day. We all went towards the mountain and Allah made us victorious."

It says in one tradition that the people said to Hazrat `Ali (r), "Did not you hear Hazrat `Umar that while delivering the sermon from the pulpit he said, "Ya Sariyya al-jabal!"? Hazrat `Ali (r) said, "A thousand pities for you! Leave Hazrat `Umar (r) alone! Whenever he has entered anything, he has surely acquitted himself well.

Both riwayat mentioned in Life of the Companions, by Shaykh Kandhalvi.

2008-12-17T00:16:00.001+08:00

Follow the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam until the Light within You Shines

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Monday, Sep 29, 2008 | Burton, MI US

Shaykh Omar Kone:

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Dastoor madad ya sayyidee

Alhamdulillah wa’sh-shukrulillah w’Allahu Akbar wa la hawla wa la quwatta illa billah il-`aliyy il-`adheem

We are giving endless thanks for the favor of being here tonight. If we are giving shukr until the end of time, it is not enough.

Sultan al-`Arifeen, Bayazid al-Bistami, was once addressing his students and saying that on Judgment Day Allah `azza wa jall is going to be calling all his servants and questioning them and on that day everyone is going to be so fearful that people don’t know their parents and from the heat of that tajallis their brain is going to be boiling.

On the day, when Allah is going to call me, whatever is the issue on that day it is ok. If He wants to send us to heaven it is ok and if He wants to send us to hellfire, it is ok.

Because on that day, Allah `azza wa jall, with all His mightiness, with all His greatness, with all His majesty, it will be such a favor that He calls us, that is enough for us. The issue of judgment or hell or heaven at that time, is not important.

So the favor of even being to say “Allah” one time is a great favor.

And we are heedless ones and I can speak only for myself. And that favor to say Allah’s name it is coming and coming and coming. We are favored to be from the last generation and favored to even know about Mawlana Shaykh, Sultan al-Awliya, if we are going to be thanking Allah, because the Prophet (s) blesses his Ummah from his presence but only Sahaba were witness to him. We were sitting all those nights and speaking about all these big awliya, and from our chain, Bayazid al-Bistami, Shah Bahauddin Naqshband, and Ghawth al-`Adham and Sayyidina Muhyideen ibn `Arabi and we are hoping we could even see one of them.

But we are forgetting and not recalling that what is with those is with our master Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. And to be able to see him, know him and praise him and to say salaam to him, that awliyaullah were looking all their life to be given such a favor. And we are so spoiled we are not even recognizing what we have.

And today Mawlana Shaykh was speaking about the blessings that are coming and raining on earth. So the few that are doing they are getting everything. For a favor that Allah `azza wa jall is showering us, to meet His holy servants. And Allah made us to be included in that special gathering and that group.

Those favors ...as we are weak ones and complaining day and night. We are ungrateful. The Prophet (s) warned us to recognize the favors and not be ungrateful.

Allah addressing his Holy Qur'an through His uncreated Words of light and lowering from His endless mightiness to the language of humankind. And what is more precious to us than the carrier of light of the Prophet (s)? The Sultan al-Awliya are carrying the light of Prophet (s). As that light was manifested for life to be in existence. And it cannot be leaving the earth. When the Prophet (s) was veiled from this world it was transferred from one to one to one until Mawlana Shaykh we believe in that. And that favor, I am shy to be addressing and it is enough we should be always remembering.

We should give shukr and hamd for all these favors and instances. Even so many times we are coming and kissing the hand of Mawlana Shaykh Hisham. And from the elementary laws of physics, when touching something atoms are exchanged and this is safety for us on Day of Judgment. That “O our Lord! We are the weakest ones and we have elements of that holy one.”

May Allah forgive me for addressing in front of Mawlana Shaykh and elders. And to be here on Eid night.

And may Allah grant us from the baraka of this majlis and the baraka of Mawlana Shaykh.

Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

When you put a switch on, lights come, electricity comes and these lights shine, giving us light. We put the switch off, no more lights, even you have the lamps there, but no more light.

Theories are too many. But laboratories to get results to make discoveries, you have to go through laboratories in chemistry, and physics; in science. You cannot only go on theory. Theory is something that says to you “O there is light; this chandelier will give you light” but you don’t see the light. What is the benefit? So theories are too many that we learn, we hear but if it is not accompanied by laboratories, lab experiments you cannot see the result.

And what we are after is the result, not the theories. Speakers, they speak all over but unfortunately it is a theory because even speakers who achieved level of education, they don’t have training experiences in the result.

They can describe for you the chandelier but they cannot describe fro you the light. Because there is no light, the switch is not on, If is off.

Awliyaullah have a switch, it can be on, it can be off. And it can be, as they discovered today, dimming. You can have a very bright light or you can dim the light to a very low light.

We are lamps in their hands. Everyone of us is a lamp. Allah swt as he said, "He honored us.” He made us lamps. Shining. When a child is born, he is born shining. He is born with a light and slowly, slowly that light become dimmer and dimmer and fade and disappeared because of too much negative energy, pollution comes. He will be veiled or she will be veiled.

Why we are here, for what reason. Always it is a question. We are not seeing anything. We are in tariqah for many many years and we are not seeing. Is it correct. We cannot claim we are saying. Are you seeing? What we are seeing. Only ourself. Because the switch is not on, we are in darkness we cannot see.

So what is then the benefit? Awliyaullah they want us to shine but they want to put on the plug but they don’t want to burn the lamp. Because if you cannot absorb the electricity that is coming, the light that is coming, what happens to the lamp? It blows up. So they don’t want to blow you up. They want you to shine up.

Ey, we are coming and cleaning, but still there is a sign that we are trying to be on the main track because we are coming together. That is a good sign, although we are not seeing anything, but coming together is a sign that there is some kind of booster, that is coming form our shuyukh, from our shaykhs, boosting us at least to come, in at least a loving situation. Still it is a loving situation, muhibeen. We are not yet beginners in tariqah. That is why we must not claim that “we are this” or “we are that”. We must claim that “we are babies in this journey”. Whatever you try to speak, as we said in the previous session:

وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِي عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ

Wa fawqa kulli dhi `ilmin `aleem - Above every knower there is a greater knower. Yusuf [12:76]

So what we are? If another higher knower comes you are nothing. If a knower above that come, then that one is nothing. So that is why we say Sultan al-Awliya. That is the Ghawth, no one higher in knowledge than that one, except the Prophet (s).

Just today when we were sitting before Maghrib, sitting to break fast someone handed me the phone and said, " “O there is a call. Someone from Mecca, Ahl al-Bayt, a scholar, is calling.”

I am giving that example only to show where we are standing and where is reality. And this I am speaking to everyone who likes to hear. And that is to me and to everyone. He said salams from this one and salaams from that one, many ashraaf from Mecca the descendants of the Prophet (s) sending their salaams. And he said, "they called and you gave him the telephone, he said, "I want to tell you this dream. It is a very significant dream to me.”

That happened two days ago, before I sent him an SMS congratulating for an important event, two days ago. He called back and said, "I want to tell you what I saw in the dream when you sent the SMS. I was sleeping after praying taraweeh, doing my awraad, I was sleeping and a shaykh appeared. And it was that shaykh I know him very well, he is our shaykh Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. But he was not talking to me, and there is one on his right side, who I know very well who was talking to me.” And I will not mention his name and he is at a lower [station].

And he said to me, “How do you hear the voice of Allah? And how you see Allah?” In that dream Mawlana Shaykh Nazim is not saying anything, but that one is saying to me and he said, "I didn’t know what to answer.” That is in the dream. I didn’t know what to answer. Then he looked at me and said, "Do you want to see and do you want to hear?” Adab, I didn’t say anything. Of course I want to see and I want to hear. But my mouth is frozen. Then he put his shahada finger on my jugular vein on my neck and I was feeling the beat of the heart; the pumping of the heart. Here you can put your finger and you can feel it. Do you feel it? I was feeling the beat of the heart and the skin below moving. As soon as he put the finger everything opened up. I was seeing things that I never imagined. I was in an ecstasy that I never felt it before and I begin to hear voices and praise of angels that I never heard before. Then I woke up, but in a state of rash, shivering in Allah’s love was with me until today. I am telling you that. Then in the morning my wife said, "what is on your neck.” I looked in the mirror and I saw the sign of the finger on my neck and it is there up to today.

That is what he saw, and then he is asking me some questions to read these questions and what I explained for him of the dream. And he said, "til now that sign is still there. At the moment he talked to me and I am feeling under that place where that shaykh put his hand, the heartbeats and every heart beat says ‘Allah, Allah, Allah.’”

That is a reality; that is an experience. But because he is not yet to the level of vision, it came through a dream, else he will immediately be in a complete coma, he cannot take it. It will be like voltage through a switch of 360. There are 360 ways in the heart of human being. Every way, and every tariq, and every direction, there are 360 directions that the Prophet (s) told us that Allah created in our system, as the Chinese say, points, that each of them shows you a way to Allah.

Now I am throwing that to you. Think where are you at what level compared to that person’s level. Where are we standing? Zero.

So the beauty of tariqah is not theory. We can speak day and night. But the importance is action. What we have to act and what are going to be the results. It is not only “qawlan bal `amalan - it is not only to say, but to act and have an action.” When you end there must be a result. When you do something there is a product. But when you say by tongue there is no product. So if you la ilaha illa-Allah it means “there is no god except Allah.” But our ego what is says? “I am your god. O you cannot come out of my control, I will kill you.” There is a struggle. So when you really act on what you say then you can active these experiences that some people have achieved as they have already gone further down the road in tariqah and thy begin to fee that. Now on the way you may find many hypocrites that claim they see or claim they hear. Either they are hallucinating because the one who is achieving must be very pure: who Doesn't talk too much, doesn’t backbite. There are signs you can read from people’s eyes. There are many claiming that but these are charlatans. But our problem is we are struggling in order to take away the charlatan picture from us and to purify our self. What I mean by charlatan, is those who didn’t reach a level and still they claim they reached. No! For what? Say, “I don’t know anything.” Allah will cover you and veil you but you cannot claim something and do the opposite. Say, “I am like you. I am heedless, helpless and weak, and we cannot achieve. We are asking that our shaykh to switch on - that is what we need.”

And that light will come. Now there is light. There is a lamp but it is still in a dim position. From one to another it changes everyone according to his level. But we have to do more.

For example they told us we have to do 500 times “Ya Samad” a day. Why? To take away the childish action of the ego. Why? Because the child has a childish ego, if he doesn’t get something he cries, cries, cries. When a child asks for something don’t give him. When he forgets then you give. But we have a problem: we have been raised on the ego. So the problem we have to recite “Ya Samad.” That is a secret to bring down the ego. That is the child of the blameworthy self.

Is it correct.? He said “yes”. So 500 “Ya Samad” will take that down. So slowly, slowly your ego cannot claim anything. But we are not doing it. So we are leaving loose our ego. And awliyaullah want you to be like a horse with a bridle. You pull it, the horse stops from running. The ego is like the horse, running everywhere. You have to put the bridle to stop that horse. How? 500 times “Ya Samad.”

We are claiming that we are attending associations of shaykhs. Of course their associations are full of beauty and love and manifestations of blessings that Allah will shower us with. But that is from Allah’s mercy. Allah wants us to do an action. To act on what we are supposed to do. So once they said, "awliyaullah do 500 times ‘Ya Samad’.” That will take that problem down.

So for everything there is sickness and there is a medicine. The awliyaullah give right medicine for the right sickness. If you want to benefit you must follow.

قُلْ إِن كُنتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللّهُ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَاللّهُ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

Qul in kuntum tuhibboon-Allaha faittabi`oonee yuhbibkumu Allahu wa yaghfir lakum dhunoobakum w’Allahu ghafoorun raheem.

Say: "If ye do love Allah, Follow me: Allah will love you and forgive you your sins: For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." Al-Imran [3:31]

Allah said to the Prophet (s), “If you really love me follow.” Are we following?

You know in some airports there is a car, before, now the plane goes direct to the gate. But before there was a car written on it “follow me”. When the airplane lands it follows the sign. It goes and stops in the yard or area for airplanes - there was no jetway at that time.

Allah said, "Follow Muhammad." If we follow we reach. If you really love Allah follow. Then what will happen? Then you being to see as that person was seeing - in a vision. So that is an example of one person. How many of these there are in the journey of gnosticism. So real teaching, real awliyaullah, they have their mureeds who are able to move mountains; not their representatives even. Their mureeds.

Now there are two kinds of representatives. There are lovers (muhiboon) and representatives among the lovers. And there are representatives from among mureeds who have the power of guidance. So we are asking, “Ya Rabbee, make our shuyukh to be happy with us that they will guide us to the right way and to switch on the switch. We ask them from here. You know we are heedless and You say You are generous. Because Allah gave them generosity. What is the problem if You push that switch? What are You going to lose. Kun fayakoon – Be! And it will be.. Put that plug up and finished. Why are You making us to suffer? To run and run and run. Put that plug up. That switch up. Everyone finished will be in that [Divine] presence. Why do we have to do this and do that?"

جاء رجل إلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم و قال” يا رسول الله إن شرائع الإسلام قد كثرت علىّ فدلني على عمل أتشبث به قال لا يزال لسانك رطباً بذكر الله “

One person came to the Prophet (s), and said, “The laws and discipline in Islam is too much I cannot take it.”

See how much they are becoming a reality between them and the Prophet (s). So the Prophet (s) is patient with them, he hears and listens to them. “Give me something easy, please. I am fed up.” So he said, لا يزال لسانك رطباً بذكر الله - ija`la lisanak ratban bi dhikrullah.” He left. He was happy with doing dhikr. What they are going to lose if they put that switch on for us. We are asking a question .you are the ones that Allah and his prophet has chose. We are coming to your door, is there any harm to you put on the switch. If not, then that is our property that Allah gave to you. Give it to us. They like that they ar spoiled brats. If they want to close their door to where are we going. Which door we have to go?

قال رسول الله ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏إني قد تركت فيكم ما إن أخذتم به لن تضلوا بعدي ‏الثقلين ‏أحدهما أكبر من الآخر كتاب الله حبل ممدود من السماء إلى الأرض ‏وعترتي ‏أهل بيتي ألا وإنهما لن يفترقا حتى يردا علي الحوض

I am leaving among you that which if you hold to it, you shall never go astray, one of them greater than the other: Allah's Book?a rope extended down from the heaven to the earth?and my mantle (`itra), the People of my House. These two shall never part ways until they come to me at the Pond. Look well to how you act with them after me. [al-Tirmidhi (hasan ghareeb) and al-Hakim]

تركت فيكم ما إن تمسكتم به لن تضلوا كتاب الله وسنتي

The Prophet (s) said, “I left behind me the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah.” [al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan al-kubra, al-Hakim and Malik in his Muwatta] And the Prophet (s) said, “I left behind the Holy Qur'an and my family.” [two different hadiths]

The Prophet (s) said that, so you are the one who has the control on the switches. He said, “My family.” We are from your family, Ya sayyidee, ya Rasulullah.

Then what will happen. The elder ones will ask. You think on Judgment Day that Allah will not save the family of the prophet. Of course hasha, istaghfirullah, will he lose anything. If he sends His servant to Paradise what is the loss? It is benefit. It is loss for shaytan. Allah is not going to let shaytan to win. The power is for Allah. May Allah forgive us. I was not going to speak but Shaykh Omar made me to speak.

Bi hurmati’l-Fatiha.

You have to show a very delicate issue in tariqah. You have to show you are worthless. You have to show humility and humbleness. Whenever there is an opportunity, try. You cannot sit and say, “I know everything I am going to speak.” No let this one speak, let that one speak. Then Allah’s mercy will come. He knows you are trying to put these people u and he will put you up. If you put people down He puts you down. Show you are in need to listen to them. Don’t always to sit on the main chair and say, “I am the shaykh.” Be a sheep; don’t be a shepherd. The shepherd is responsible. We have to run away from responsibility. O Allah keep us children. We cannot save ourselves and not those around us. We are coming to the Prophet (s) and those around him asking them to save us.

2008-12-17T00:10:00.001+08:00

The Story of How Shaykh Hisham Kissed the Threshold of Prophet Muhammad

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Friday, Oct 24, 2008 | Chicago, IL US

Introduction by Imam Haqqani

I think that Allah gave us baraka and blessings that fadilat ash-shaykh `Abdus Sattar Khan and fadilat ash-shaykh Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani we will get the baraka. I have been asking the Shaykh to come for long time and alhamdulillah that day is here.

Shaykh `Abdus-Sattar Khan

Qad qaala Allah swt b`ad Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem ya ayyuhalladheena aamanoo ittaqoollah wa koonoo ma` as-sadiqeen

[speech in Urdu]

Shaykh Jamaluddin

I did not come to here speak my only intention to come here was to hear Shaykh Hisham speak.

My first meeting with Shaykh Hisham was in Madinat al-Munawwarah and he was there at the grave of Sayyida Fatima az-Zahra, and he was praying there and I was watching him and he was praying for so long, I don’t know what kind of supplications he was making, for 45 minutes and after that I went and kissed his hand.

I am not a great orator, Allahuma innee asa’luka bi sirri Abu Bakr as-Siddiq…

Fadilat ash-shaykh Hazrat Kabbani sahib is a well known shaykh and well-known scholar, may Allah bless him and we are so proud that shaykh is here and I don’t have to say anything because everyone is aware of that.

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

After your permission.

As-salama layaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakutuh.

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem alhamdulilahi rabbi’l-`alameen was-salaat was-salaam ala sayyid al mursaleen … wa nashadu an la ilah ila-Allah wa nashadu anna Sayyidina Muhammad (s) …khatim ar-rusul sayyid al-bashr, rasuli rabbi’l-`alameen.

I don’t know from where I begin. May Allah bless Husayn Haqqani we are very happy we are here in this place that he opened with a lot of difficulties but this is a place for Ahl as-Sunnah wal-Jama`at.

And I asked for a title of what to speak and he said, "spirituality in Islam” and in front of Mawlana Abdus Sattar Khan I feel I have nothing to say and he is a role model for everyone to follow and brother Jamaluddin he brought a story that is many, many years behind.

And I will bring the story from the beginning.

That is one day I was in Jeddah and I decide to visit, because every Friday and Thursday I used to go to Madinat al-Munawwara to pray there as I was most of the time living there. So one day I was going and to the house I received a call form my Shaykh who is Cyprus and many of you know him and especially Shaykh Abdus Sattar Khan he is Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani. He said, "Where are you going?” if there is permission I am going to visit the Prophet (s). He said, "Kiss his threshold for me.” And when someone says something like that to you what do you say, "Especially your shaykh. But your mind begins to think, “How am I going to do that with all these barriers and guards? It is impossible.”

So I went and I said it yesterday and I repeat it today: that when the Prophet (s) went into Isra and Mi’raj - and this is problem many of us are facing today and the answer comes with this story, and this is the meaning of spirituality. Spirituality is not something you hav to do but it is something besides charity and fasting and prayer and hajj but it is the way to reach the maqam al-ihsan that Mawlana Abdus Sattar quoted the hadith of Sayyidina `Umar (r) to reach state of Ihsan, you have to do the five pillars of Islam and accept the 6 pillars of iman and how to reach the state of Ihsan. And especially that is very complex and difficult to something you say I will go to that station by myself and then find oneself turning in circles. You must have guide. And if you seek out you will find the guides. Saints. And all saints are brothers and all of them love each other. I am not speaking about false saints but I am speaking about real saints that give their lives for their students.

So that time I went and that time I was driving 150, 160 km./hour about 120 miles per hour in order to reach quickly. Because he said, "go and kiss the threshold of the Prophet (s). There must be an opening. So I reached there safely and quickly by baraka of the Prophet (s). And I have to take a shower and go that holy place that Allah made piece of Paradise. The holy grave of the Prophet (s). The mistake we all make when we go to the Muwajaha, the holy place of Paradise I don’t like to say grave it is heavy on my heart to say “grave”; it is qata`n min al-jannah a piece of Paradise. So when you pass by a Paradise in this world what do you do? You stay as long as you can, you don’t want to go out.

So when we visit the Prophet (s), it is adab to stand as much as we can in his presence even not making du`a but only standing there trying to connect our heart with his heart. In a way that taffakur sa`atin khayran min ibaadati saba`een sunnah. That is for one hour when you are contemplating by yourself. How do you think it is when in presence of the Prophet (s)?

Everyone when passing there might stand 5 minutes, 7 minutes, 10 minutes and then go. Some might stand more and more and more and depends on how much they are in that connection. So in the guidance of our shuyukh we have visited the Prophet (s) with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim many times and may Allah give him long life and give long life to Mawlana Abdus Sattar. And I have seen how Mawlana Shaykh used to stand there and make du`a three and It is not a du`a really it is more like a conversation. You feel that you don’t see that but you need a lot to reach that level of mushaahada. But you feel the presence.

Since I used to go with my shaykh since 1967 he used to spend one hour or 1.5 hour there was no barrier as there is today. You have to kiss and move today.

So he used to stand one and a half hour and then he moved to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq and he stood another half hour and then to Sayyidina `Umar (r) another half an hour and then to Bab Jibreel, mahbit al-wahy - you know where Sayyidina Jibreel used to come with wahy to the Prophet (s) - and then we go back to the maqam of Sayyida Fatima az-Zahra that Grandshaykh said, "that angels have moved Sayyidina Fatima holy body to the end to the place where Sayyidina `Isa is to be buried” that is why awliyaullah see Sayyida Fatima there. and there he spends 45 minutes and then he goes to Bab at-Tawbah where he makes special du`a there (which is now closed) and makes sajda.

You have to take opportunity and whatever in my heart I was taking opportunity usually many guard come and tell you to move. But usually I don’t stand by the beginning I stand by the wall. And that night however many guards and one of them with red beard and he is head of these guards. And he didn’t approach me and didn’t let one guard to come to me. It is strange. Because you cannot stand one hour there or one and a half hours. They will come and say move even after five minutes.

So I finished and I went to kiss the pillar the big pillar which is in back as no one will see you. Then one of the big guards the head of them, came to me and I said to myself, it is finished now. He came to me and said you want to kiss the threshold of the Prophet (s) . I said yes. He took me to the door of the Prophet (s) and I was able to kiss the threshold of the Prophet (s) and everything disappeared no guards and I was seeing nothing but the threshold of the Prophet (s). And I kissed the threshold, and then I stood up and then everything came back as normal and then he came to me and said, "give my salaams to Shaykh Nazim” that is where you saw me there. I went and left. He never knew Shaykh Nazim and Shaykh Nazim never called him and he never called Shaykh Nazim.

I left and went to a school that is called Madrasat ash-Shoonah, ash-Shoonah School that Shaykh Nazim usually goes there. And I heard footsteps running behind me. And I said, "O they are coming” and I turned and one of the guards came and he was holding a very beautiful decorated Qur’an. And he gave it to me and said, "O Hisham. This is a gift from my father for Shaykh Nazim.” I thanked him and didn’t say anything or ask him anything. That is tark al-adab - beyond good conduct - to ask a question. Tariqah is not to ask anything, “asma`oo wa awoo – listen and act on what you heard.”

So I was so into it I was as if lost. So you cannot understand it though I don’t understand it now.

But is the mind in the head or the mind is in the heart Shaykh Abdul Haqq. They asked the students this question and they said, "is the mind in the head.” And he said, " no the mind is in the heart.” Is the mind in the heart bigger or the mind in head bigger. The mind in the heart is bigger. Evidence? The mind in the head with hit can you understand the universe.

ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ الْبَصَرُ خَاسِأً وَهُوَ حَسِيرٌ

Thumma irji`il-basara karratayni yanqallib ilayk al-basar khasiyan wa huwa haseer. Again turn thy vision a second time: (thy) vision will come back to thee dull and discomfited, in a state worn out. Al-Mulk, 67:4

Look at one star. Look two times even. Look at one star even.

Yanqalib ilayk al basaru khasiyan wa huwa haseer. Your sight returns back defeated. Your eyes are defeated from one star. What do you think about 80 billion stars in our galaxy? So what do we know? Nothing. So by mind in the head we know nothing.

But by mind in our heart we know everything. What did Allah say to the Prophet (s) and the Prophet (s) said to us?

يقول الله : ما وسعني أرضي ولا سمائي ولكن وسعني قلب عبدي المؤمن

That is why Allah, the Exalted, said, “Neither heavens nor earth contained Me, but the heart of My believing servant contained Me.”

Meaning: “the believer’s heart contained My light, My attributes, the understanding of the universe.” Not the Essence.

You think awliyaullah don’t have power to pass beyond this universe. They have or they don’t have? [they have!] Evidence? The Prophet (s) went beyond this universe or not? That universe that we are not seeing even one star. The Prophet (s) passed through 80 billion stars in our galaxy and then he passed 60 billion galaxies he passed all that and even further. Beyond this universe even. He reached Qaaba qawsayni.. so adna is what? It is so less that might be one centimeter might be 1 millimeter.

So Allah said to prophets, but specially to his saints. Qul ya Muhammad (s) in kuntum tuhiboon Allah fatabi`oonee yuhbibkumullah. This is khaas understanding for them.

Do awliyaullah follow the Prophet (s) or not. We might struggle to follow but they do not. They gave up their lives for the Prophet (s). That is spiritually. That means to follow the Prophet (s) in every step. That means that if prophet went for Mi’raj you go for Mi’raj. Else you are not a wali. Wali must follow in footsteps of prophet. Does wali love Allah or n ot. Yes that is condition to be wali. That means they are following in footsteps and going in Mi’raj. That is why they can guide. They are following and learning and giving.

Look what Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani said? This is Fath ar-Rabbani. I was reading this today and I said, "I have to mention it.” I hope I still have it.

He said, "Ya Ghulam!” He calls his students who are big scholars, sitting facing them. They are sitting facing him and he is the Ghawth. He says, “Ya Ghulam!” You are a child still. You didn’t reach maturity yet. That is dangerous if we ware not mature how are we going to obey? How are we going to be responsible? Are you going to be responsible Abdul Haqq, yes or no? I am asking you. You have to understand when he says, “Ya Ghulam!” There is a secret there.

Because he is Ghawth. I never said that before, because we were going through that book in Ramadan every morning. But they are saying to throw it now.

So it means you aren’t responsible. You are still the the one responsible. Awliyaullah are responsible. If you take hand of your guide he is responsible to guide you. If not he is the one responsible.

Fee katab al-`ilmi wa hifshizh bi ghayri `amal. Without doing it. That is why it is dangerous. Many, many, many scholars spend their lives in doing what. They are doctors and scholars writing presentations but they are not doing what they learned.

He said, " aysh yanf`ak. This is not literature Arabic, this is slang. They put I like that as it is important. What is it going to benefit you if you are not doing it and not practicing it. You donkey. Spirituality is practice. Even you practice one amal a day it is better than memorizing thousands of them.

And he quoted hadith of the Prophet (s) which I like to mention yaqool Allah azza wa jall bi ’l-anbiya wa ’l-`ulama, Allah says on Judgment Day to the prophets and scholars, which means the pious people, “O if you thought yourself antum kuntum ru’atu khalqee, that you are the ones authorized to be shepherds for the nations, what you have done with your sheep, with your flocks? What you showed them and what you taught them. You are responsible and you are liable.”

That is why all prophets in Judgment Day where do they run towards Sayyidina Muhammad (s). As what are they gong to answer. So if anbiya run to the Prophet (s) where is the `alim on that day. Is there any more `alim? Even Anbiya are shaking. Where are the `ulama that are sitting on chairs in dunya and giving fatwas as if they are the biggest peacocks.

Then they have to run to the Prophet (s) - not directly to Allah. If not accepting then go to hell directly.

So you see too many kings today, sitting on his chair like rooster on his chickens. We are thinking ourselves kings. We ourselves think we are kings. Ask 2 people that are similar in their understanding. Do you find. No you won find. Because each has his own opinion. So the Prophet (s) said, "If you are three, put one an amir.” If you do that now they will fight one hour to see who is amir.

That is no spirituality it is to submit. Taslimiyya.

Allah says to them antum kuntum khazaan kunuzikum you were the trustees or the containers of my treasures. Because all the treasures are in hands of kings. Hal wasaltum al-fuqara. Did you make relation his with the poor. Sayyidina `Umar (r) when he became calipha, he was crying. His wife asked him why are you crying you became calipha. He said, now I have to cry. Now anyone is hungry I am responsible. he sued to carry sacks of food on his back and distribute to the poor people.

They are kings and queens they are holding the treasures of the world. They are raising the price of oil and sucking the blood of people. Today it is 60 from 160. Who raised it and who lowered it. In order to build their Gulf nations into prostitution. Go and see there. How that happened by them raising the price as a monopoly. And the poor become poorer and rich become richer.

And that is hadith of the Prophet (s) and quoted by Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani and mentioned in Kanz al-`ummaal. Did you take care of the poor and did you take care of the aytam, orphans, how much food is sent to orphans and you find it next day in the market being sold. Wherever there are orphans and the food is sent to them like Pakistan and Kenya and..

Did you take from your money that is written on you as my right and give to poor people.

So were do we stand now. Are we ghulam now or not? We are ghulam now because we are responsible. But since we are ghulam we are not responsible. It is not me saying, it is Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani saying it. He will take responsibility for them. One wali is enough to take everyone and put in Paradise in maq`ad sidqin. Be happy. You think the Prophet (s) can be alone in Paradise he has to have people with him.

Be happy, smile! that is maqam at-tashrif. And we go back to what we were saying.

When the Prophet (s) went in ascension, he saw Musa and always Sayyidina Musa has questions; he likes to ask questions.

Musa said ya rabbeee arinee anthur ilayk. It is so easy like that. Never the Prophet (s) has any question. Listen and obey. Listen to Sayyidina Jibreel. Never did he have questions.

Only one time. When he left seven heavens and he was going up he asked are you not coming with me. He asked for him to accompany as friend. He said, "I cannot.” The

Prophet moved to Divine Presence alone. He was in maqam at-tawheed. Today that is all they speak about tawheed, tawheed and all Muslims are kafir. Tawheed al-iloohiyya, tawheed ar-ruboobiyya and tawheed I forgot. Is prophet going to be alone with only this group that came recently. What about the Muslims who came before they were not on tawheed.

Ya akhee. Even he said, "Ya akhee” but he said, "Ya sayyidee, Ya Rasulullah! Of course he said, ana sayyidi waladi adam wa la fakhr. He said, “Can I ask this question as this comes to my heart all the time.

You said, "`ulama ummatee ka anbiya Bani Israel.” With all respect to scholars and not these scholars but the real scholars like Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani .

You said, "They are inheritors of the Prophet (s), could it be their knowledge is like our knowledge? Inheritors are not like prophets but they have knowledge like prophets.

“Can you give me the answer ya Rasulullah how these people are going to inherit from prophets?”

He called one, through the souls, fil arwaah, as Allah said, "alastu bi rabbikum qaaloo bala. So the Prophet (s) can bring any soul he wants in past and in future. He brought one and that is one coming in future after time of the Prophet (s). He said, "That is one.”

Musa said, "What is your name?” He said, "Muhammad bin Muhammad,… Ghazali. Seven times. If he were able to say it 100 times he would have said it. But he felt shy form the Prophet (s). Musa said, "what is this? I thought you were an inheritor of the Prophet (s). Why did you say ‘Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ghazali’?”

If I can say Muhammad (s) until Judgment Day it will not sop. Why because as much as you say the name of the Prophet (s), Allah send angels to say salaams on you.

So he said, “Ya Musa , why you object when I say ‘Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ghazali’ why didn’t you object on yourself?” He said, " why?” because when Allah asked you what is in your hand, you said, " … you gave all the classifications of the can that you are going to use in your lifetime. Why? Because that is an honorary place. Maqam at-tashrif.

He said, "That is place of honor for me to be with the Prophet (s).

So that is difference between `alim and wali. How ot imitate the Prophet (s). He is happy to say Muhammad bin Muhammad. He can say Muhammad (s) Rasulullah, I can say Muhammad (s) Sayyid ar-Rusul. I can say ...

So practice is what is important.

And I would like to add to what Mawlana Abdus Sattar said that hadith of `Umar (r), that after he mentioned maqam al-ihsan and Sayyidina Jibreel said, "sadaqta” and then Sayyidina Jibreel had other questions. And he asked, “mata` as-sa`at ya Rasulullah.” Then the Prophet (s) said, "the one asked doesn’t know more than the one who is asking.” That is humbleness that he wants to hide himself. Then give the signs of it: “An tara al-hufaat al-araat yatataawaloona fil-bunyan - To see the naked barefooted Bedouins competing in high buildings.” Now go to see the Gulf and you find them building the highest rises in the world and you find them building of one kilometer. Buildings they are building in the desert and you still find them wearing slippers, they are Bedouins. Even they go to visit the kings of Europe they wear slippers.

So that is not humiliating anyone but that is hadith of the Prophet (s).

“When you see the barefooted naked Bedouins competing in building high buildings.” Are we seeing that or not? There is no more time, O Muslims!

Allah shook the earth three weeks ago. Did you see that earthquake? Allah can make the earth to shakes when He wants to - that was the stock market crash. That day [of judgment] is coming. So don’t let it to cheat us.

Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani says in this book another place, yunaadee munadee yawm al-qiyama ayn adh-dhalamah – on the Judgment Day a caller will call out, “Where are the oppressors? Let them come!”

We are afraid to be oppressor to ourselves. Are we oppressors or not? We don’t know. Even he who doesn’t know if he is oppressor, he is struggling. If we are not oppressors to ourselves it means we don’t make sins. Then he is not oppressor. Do we make sins? Yes, say, "yes”, and ask forgiveness. That is better than saying, “no”.

Did we do hidden shirk or not? Anything related to themselves is hidden shirk.

And then it comes ayna awwaam adh-dhalama. Ayna man yara min qalaman. The oppressors used pen to judge people and send them to prison though the are innocent. Dhalama is one who will benefit from anyone, even they kill people. That is what we call mafia.

Look today mafia everywhere. Today if you don’t pay your car ticket what happens they send you to jail even. For a ticket that costs 60 or 10 you are afraid and you try not to go to jail. These CEOs that sucked billions of dollars of human being no one said I will put one of them in prison. Are they oppressors or not. All these people who benefit form stock market will be asked on Judgment Day, they made rich richer and the poor poorer. Where are the brokers. They made the rich richer. They are the commissioner. He knows them the commissioner they chat you. They buy for you gold sell gold. They come to you when gold drops, they say, "Sell quickly. Where are these one he says.

Ayna liman yara lahu qalamun. Did you find anyone in this crowd that has ink bottle?

Has anyone seen an ink bottle? Come here to witness on them.

Ajma`oohum waj`alhum fee taaboot min an-nar. Akhrajahu adh-Dhahabi and ibh Hajr.

That is from Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani . That is general meaning of dhalam. Are we dhalama or not. Break it down. Zoom it in. we find ourselves dhalama in many things. So what Allah said in Holy Qur'an? And dhalama must go to that. Not those who suck money f people. But we say we are dhalama and Allah gave a way to dhalam in the zoom-in process.

وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِن رَّسُولٍ إِلاَّ لِيُطَاعَ بِإِذْنِ اللّهِ وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ إِذ ظَّلَمُواْ أَنفُسَهُمْ جَآؤُوكَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُواْ اللّهَ وَاسْتَغْفَرَ لَهُمُ الرَّسُولُ لَوَجَدُواْ اللّهَ تَوَّابًا رَّحِيمًا

Wa maa arsalnaa min rasoolin illa liyuta`a biithni Allahi wa law annahum idh dhalamoo anfusahum jaooka faistaghfarullaha wa’staghfara lahumu ar-rasoolu la-wajadullaha tawwaaban raheeman

We sent not an apostle, but to be obeyed, in accordance with the will of Allah. If they had only, when they were unjust to themselves, come unto thee and asked Allah's forgiveness, and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah indeed Oft-returning, Most Merciful. An-Nisa [4:64]

Come to presence of Muhammad (s). From here you can go to the presence of Muhammad (s) and say, "Ya sayyidee, ya Rasulullah.” Allah said, "They come in your presence Ya Muhammad (s), and you ask forgiveness on their behalf.”

We ask istighfaar `inda hadarati Mustafa wa bi jahi al-Mustafa.

2008-12-17T00:06:00.002+08:00

Why they try to diminish the greatness of Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Saturday, Nov 08, 2008 | Chicago, IL US
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Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah `azeez Allah

Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah kareem Allah

Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah subhan’Allah

Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah Allah sultan-Allah

Suhban’Allah, da’im wa abadan.

A`udhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

Obey Allah, obey his prophet and obey those who are on authority. Women 4:59

Sometimes people because of their short visions, they might give an analysis that diminishes the respect of people. That is why you have to be very careful in a situation that too much, give too much, like you praise someone so much, he thinks he knows everything and he covers all areas. Like these …. [adhan sounds, Mawlana stands up] They think they cover all areas because they become professors and they become doctors. Not these doctors [points to the doctors in audience] but especially doctors in Islamic Shariah. As soon as they get jealous from medical doctors because medical doctors are the ones who are called doctors. We know this since we are children. We never called a scholar a doctor. I never heard that except recently in the last 30 or 40 years. When we were young in our twenties or less we never heard someone is called doctor in Shariah.

They got jealous now from medical doctors, now everyone wants to call himself a doctor. With respect to their knowledge you want a scholar to be a real scholar at least he has to have decent respect to the Prophet (s). He has to have at least a respect to Sayyidina Muhammad (s) that when he speaks he knows what he is speaking. And because in front of their name “doctor” they think they have the right to say anything they like.

Unfortunately, [picture falls] this is a sign, another sign. So there is a sign in everything. Humbleness is needed to someone to be respected - he has to be humble. Not humble in your house or humble when you speak with someone, but to be humble to know you knowledge is not enough compared to knowledge of awliyaullah or Sahaba or the Prophet (s). Don’t try to speak as if the Prophet (s) doesn’t know.

I was looking at this article in this newspaper. It is from al-Ahram, an Egyptian newspaper, international page and I am looking, they spoke, they are speaking about at-Tibb an-Nabawi, showing it, the Prophetic Medicine. And if you look at these pictures only one has a turban. Only one has a turban - you see it. All the rest they have tie and suit, is it not? And at least keep respect. If they want to say, "we are doctors,” say, "we are doctors.” In front of all their names, doctor, doctor,… except one in front of his name is shaykh and the rest no turbans and they have in front of their name dal, d. abbreviation for doctor.

And because they are doctors they think they know everything. Why? The Prophet (s) gave them his secrets. And they say things here that they don’t feel shy or ashamed to mentioned. They are going to feel ashamed on Judgment Day and they say that the Prophet (s) doesn’t know about prophetic medicine. They say the Prophet (s) doesn’t know why we have to take what the Prophet (s) prescribed in his time. They were saying he was trying it on himself, thinking it will work.

One topic was “al-Qur'an shifa’un li’s-sudoor wa laysa li’l-abdan – the Qur’an is cure for the hearts, and not for the bodies.” What kind of … and this is a doctor, ad-dawktar among 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 doctors, everyone giving a different article. The other one says, al-`Asr an-nubuwwah la yukaas `alayh. Something in the time of the Prophet (s) and the Prophet (s) did in medicine and those people hukama wise people did something you cannot build on it. That is wrong. Don’t build on it. Go according to technology today.

Then another topic. “At-tibb lays bi-himmat arrusul - The medicine is not responsibility of messengers.”

Look the messengers are coming to guide human beings. Cannot the Prophet (s) Sayyidina Muhammad (s) - who went for Mi’raj - say to someone how to be cured and he will be cured? Instead they said “that is not the job of messengers.”

So that is scholars today. Scholars of the Ummah.

Another scholar here in al-Qudsu ’l-Arabi, from another university. Yarmi qissat gharamahu bi zawjatahu ath-thaniyya. Narrating the story of the love with his second wife and he says:

Al-hubbu janoon wal-janoon funoon- love is craziness and craziness is a kind of art.

When you become crazy you become an artist.

Wal-hayaatu shujoon - life is something full of pain suffering

Wa lillah fee khalqihi shu`oaon - And Allah has in his servants what He gave to them.

And he is speaking of his love for his second wife, and he is very famous, he is [even] called Shaykh al-Islam today. I don’t have anything but respect for them. But don’t bring Islam so low.

For Sayyidina Muhammad (s) you don’t want to accept things he did and in one article you reject what he said and in another you don’t feel ashamed to speak about what you did in love. He might be very old and he is marrying someone very young. What effect on those who are very young if our shuyukh are doing something like that, what about they youth?

So these who call themselves doctors in Islam, they don’t have any more wisdom. They don’t have except what they memorized or what they learned. They are not like the four Imams: Imam Abu Hanifah, Imam Malik or Imam Shafi`ee or Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal or other Imams who came through history. They are not wise anymore

If they are wise at least five a good description of the Prophet (s)ic medicine. Don’t say it is not worth anything to do today. In everything that happened in this life, in everything that the Prophet (s) did. Didn’t they read in Surat an-Najm, that even if the Prophet (s) coughs it is revelation:

وَمَا يَنطِقُ عَنِ الْهَوَى إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا وَحْيٌ يُوحَى

Wa ma yantiqa an il-hawa in huwa illah wahyun yuhaa - and neither does he speak out of his own desire: that [which he conveys to you] is but [a divine] inspiration with which he is being inspired An-Najm, 53:3-4

He never said anything that is from his own desires. It has to be revelation.

Is it not Shaykh Abdus Sattar? [Yes haqqan.] haqqan wa sidqan. What they are saying in these articles is that all these medicines that the Prophet (s) used to prescribe for people are not important, as it is not revelation. It is an experience he tried it, it didn’t work out, it failed; it didn’t fail. They are telling the Ummah that don’t follow the Prophet (s). That is the smallest meaning we can understand. Because in everything that the Prophet (s) said there is a secret. Awliyaullah in every move they do, you go to a wali and ask “what do I have to read?” he will tell you what to read, and in it there must be a secret.

I will tell you a story. Grandshaykh may Allah bless his soul, he said, "Ahl ul-Aza’im ahlu’t-tariqah. Ahlu ’l-aza’im at-tariqah are Ahl at-tariqah. Those who try to hold very tight on the azeema, on the strongest the highest level of Shariah law or discipline they try to hold on that not to go to easy way, the easy is allowed - no problem - but the highest way is better so they keep on the highest way.

Like for example the easy way when you want to go to sleep you don’t sleep on wudu. But awliyaullah don’t accept. They say we must sleep on wudu and must pray two raka`ats. And Ahl al-aza’im if they wake you up at night they must make new wudu if they get up at night [to use bathroom] that is in cold places even. Even if they go to bathroom five times they must make wudu and pray Sunnat al-wudu five times. That is different between Ahl al-aza’im vs. Ahl al-rukhas. He said al-wali min ahl al-aza’im.

They must take the hardest level on themselves but with students may take easier way.

[ala Qadir ..]

He said that “according to their levels, Allah will open of them al-maqaam la-fardaani the Unique Station. It is a unique station. The al-maqaam la-fardaani, for every wali there is a unique station for that wali. And above all of them you reach to Sultan al-awliya the Ghawth, he is on the highest unique station the ibn `Arabi described in his Futuhat, that the Nabi is the golden brick and on the other side facing him is Sultan al-awliya who is the silver brick. That means that Sultan al-awliya is always facing Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and receiving from him to dispatch to all other walis. And don’t say there are only wali in Naqshbandi. There 124,000 wali. This one sitting beside you is a wali [points to Shaykh Abdus Sattar Khan]. Anyone in Chicago goes to him, Allah accepts his du`a.

So anyone who is in that circle of al-maqaam la-fardaani is going to be in the circle of the Prophet (s). And he said that, “one time”, and I am quoting Grandshaykh in the story he mentioned. In his village there was a rich businessman in his area in Dagestan. Mawlana was young at that time. There was a rich man wants to go for hajj. So they take first, they walk on camels until they reach a sea and they take a ship and they go for Jeddah, then Jeddah to Mecca. He was accompanying another person but that person was one form awliyaullah , a wali. So he took him with him and said, “You are my companion. I will spend everything on you, you come with me.” That wali has reached the maqam al-fardani one of the unique stations. When you accompany a wali, don’t think it is going to be easy now. It is better not to accompany now because you go and come is not going to be easy. He wants to be sure your hajj is accepted. That is why he said there are three things you have to ask your shaykh. One is when you want to travel for hajj you have to ask your shaykh he gives permission or not. Because not every time Allah sends his mercy or his manifestation on the people at Arafat. Because hajj is Arafat. When you stand on Arafat that is hajj even you didn’t follow the rest it will not be complete but you will be called hajji. So they look at Lawh al-Mahfouzh is it this year Allah is sending his manifestation of his Beautiful Names and Attributes. If not they tell you don’t go. They tell you go next year. But if you never went, then you must go. Because it is obligation. But when you begin to go more and more then you ask as it into obligation.

Also when you want to marry, you might be in love with someone but you must ask the shaykh as it might not be the one written for you. And when you want to migrate from one place to another you must ask. You cannot go without asking, three places.

So he went to that man and said, "I want you to accompany me to hajj.” And he said, "yes”, and he took him and went. On the way they took a boat and they went on the boat. That man, like today, when you carry your passport and your money what do you do with it? You keep hiding it - you don’t want to lose it.

Everyone is holding onto their money. So was that rich man who is accompanying that shaykh. That Shaykh is from the Naqshbandiyya from the silsilah of Grandshaykh. There are 7007 shaykhs. Not each one is carrying from the main line the secret. There might be one main shaykh and there are five or ten that he gives secrets, to do work here and there. So he was accompanying him and he told him, “Where are you putting your money?” He said, “I am putting it on my chest and I am tying it under my clothes. I don’t want it to be lost.” So he said, "give it to me - I will take care of it.” So that man doesn’t want to give it to that wali.

Sometimes we make mistakes. If a wali asks you something don’t say “no”. Allah might save you from many difficulties you don’t know about.

So he said, “Give it to me; I will keep it for you.” He said, "No, I am putting in a safe place.”

So he said, "As you like.” Then they were on the boat. And suddenly and this was one of these big boats that used to come to Jeddah, 90 years ago. On it, someone has a monkey on the boat. Bringing with him a monkey to Jeddah; it might be he wants to live there and raise monkeys, Allah knows. So that monkey came out of nowhere jumping on that man and stealing that money from that man and going all the way up on the sur, the mast of the boat. No one can reach there. And then he opened the bank, and in it was 1000 golden coins. One golden coin he throws to the man, and one golden coin he threw to the sea. One to the man, one to the sea. That man was crying that the money is gone. One to him, one to the ocean. One to him, one to the ocean until it is finished. 500 the ocean took and 500 the man took.

That man was so angry, he had his wife with him he was so angry. The wali said, "Why are you angry?” He said, "You didn’t see what happened?” He said, “Ok, that is good what happened. But look nothing will happen without Allah’s Will. And don’t talk too much or else I will be away from you.” Then he was worried as he knows this is a wali.

As they are speaking like that, the man is still angry but the wali is reciting some awraad and he is teaching it to the man’s wife and she was hearing that and he asked her, “What are you learning?” He said, "Can I read it?” Then she … at the moment he was arguing with the shaykh the women was taking ablution and she slipped and fell in the ocean. So look if you want to accompany the shaykh it will be difficulty. So that is why they say, “If you want to be near the shaykh it is being near fire.”

So what happened?

The lady disappeared. They looked, they stopped the boat they looked, they didn’t find her. So the man was crying. He lost his wife and he lost his money. He was shouting, “What kind of shaykh are you? What kind of wali are you? Why did I bring you?”

Why I brought this story. These doctors, they don’t understand the Prophetic medicine. They said, “no” to prophetic medicine: “why to eat this or that?” They don’t know, they are not wise anymore. They were more wise in the past. Even `Ali al-Qaari they were finding very smallest detail to praise the Prophet (s) and now they are trying to find every smallest detail to put down the Prophet (s).

So what happened? That businessman kafara, not in the meaning that he denied Allah’s presence. We say kafara in Arabic, but in the meaning that he got fed up with the shaykh. He doesn’t want to see him anymore.

The shaykh didn’t talk anything and the boat is sailing. They reached the port. And the people are coming out. Look. And the man saw his wife. By the boat, on the dock. …

He was so happy that he saw his wife. And he looked at her and he said, "I am happy to see you. How you… you fell down in the ocean in the sea, what happened?” She said, "Ask the Shaykh.”

Now he understood he made a big mistake. Why to tell him “ask the Shaykh”? It means she saw something coming from that wali. “Ask the wali, ask the Shaykh!” He came to him and said, “Ya sayyidee!” Now he is saying “Ya sayyidee!” Before he was denying. He said, “I am still angry because I lost the money, but I am happy to see my wife.”

Don’t underestimate the power of awliyaullah. Don’t say, "Why we are not seeing these miracles anymore?”

This is the century of ignorance. That is what the Prophet (s) said that, “when ignorance is over all the earth then Allah will send one of my grandchildren to bring out the knowledge.” There are awliyaullah but there tongues are frozen. They cannot say. If they say it is scrambled. Allah changes their tongues. If they want to say, "I saw Sayyidina Mahdi and he is here in this room and he is ordering his deputies to be here and listen to the suhbat.” And that wali’s words will become scrambled so that what he is saying is like reciting Qur’an or reciting a hadith. And he says that but the people will hear something completely differently. That is why in the same association the people hear the shaykh differently. They hear in a different code and different wavelength and that is why they hear different.

So that wali said, "O my brother. I learned from my Shaykh and he learned from his Shaykh and he learned from his Shaykh all the way to the Prophet (s) that if anyone wants to travel from one place to another by boat or camel, that there are a lot of beings on these streets. They might be heavenly they might be earthly. There are a lot of animals, might be domestic and might be wild. And there are many … might be tyrants. If you recite ‘Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem dhaalika taqdeer al-`azeezu ’l-hakeem’ Allah will take care of you, even if the boat is drowning, Allah will send special angels to take you to shore.”

That is why Grandshaykh and Mawlana Shaykh said, "When you travel on a boat or plane and recite ‘Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem dhaalika taqdeer al-`azeezu ’l-hakeem’ and Allah will send angels to protect you. And on that wird there are angels who are responsible for anyone who recites it.

The shaykh said, "I taught that to her to recite and she was reciting that every day and when she fell she saw an angel come and take her from the ocean.”

And she said, "sadaqa ash-shaykh- the shaykh spoke the truth,” The Shaykh said, "If I was not with you, your wife would be dead now. That is first help I did for you. The second one, you are coming for hajj and you owe Allah money because you didn’t pay your zakaat. So in order for your hajj to be accepted you have to pay the zakaat money. You didn’t pay voluntarily so we sent that monkey to take that money and send Allah’s right to the ocean and give whatever balance is for you.”

“That is second thing that made your hajj to be accepted.”

I brought that story by Mawlana’s permission, answering those who wrote that article on Tibb an-Nabawi, Prophetic medicine. These people are blind from being saints. `Ulama al-ummah they were before scholars and awliyaullah at same time, Allah gave them secrets. Today they are doctor, doctor, doctor. That is arrogance! Take that doctorship and throw it. Why do you want to put in front of your name dal, “doctor”? Why do you want to say “doctor”? You are telling the people you are a doctor. You are trying to find a way to please the newspaper and because they brought that question to you in order to say the Prophet (s) didn’t know. Why? You want to make non-Muslims not to look at the Prophet (s) high? They want to diminish the status of the Prophet (s). This is Muslim and non-Muslims read that. If a non-Muslim reads that what will he say? “How do you say your Prophet went for Mi’raj and he cannot prescribe a medicine?”

Why to stir the mud? If you are blind don’t make the Ummah blind.

There are secrets in every Word of Allah and in every one of the Beautiful Names and Attributes and in every word that the Prophet (s) said in his life from the beginning of his life when his mother gave birth to him up to his passing. He was asking for his Ummah. Why Sayyidina `Isa Alayhissalam can talk in the birth and Sayyidina Muhammad (s) cannot talk in his birthday?

About Sayyidina `Isa Alayhissalam,

فَأَشَارَتْ إِلَيْهِ قَالُوا كَيْفَ نُكَلِّمُ مَن كَانَ فِي الْمَهْدِ صَبِيًّا قَالَ إِنِّي عَبْدُ اللَّهِ آتَانِيَ الْكِتَابَ وَجَعَلَنِي نَبِيًّا وَجَعَلَنِي مُبَارَكًا أَيْنَ مَا كُنتُ وَأَوْصَانِي بِالصَّلَاةِ وَالزَّكَاةِ مَا دُمْتُ حَيًّا وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَيَّ يَوْمَ وُلِدتُّ وَيَوْمَ أَمُوتُ وَيَوْمَ أُبْعَثُ حَيًّا

Fa ashaarat ilayhi qaaloo kayfa nukallimu man kaana fi’l-mahdi sabiyya, Qaala innee `abdullaahi aataaniya al-kitaaba wa ja`alanee nabiyya wa ja`alanee mubarakan ayna ma kuntu wa awsaanee bi’s-salati wa’z-zakaati maa dumtu hayya; Wa barran bi-waalidatee wa lam yaj`alnee jabbaaran shaqiyya. Wa’s-salaamu `alayya yawma wulidtu wa yawma amootu wa yawma ub`athu hayya.

Thereupon she pointed to him. They exclaimed: "How can we talk to one who [as yet] is a little boy in the cradle?" He said: "I am indeed a servant of Allah. He hath given me revelation and made me a prophet; and [has endowed me with] piety towards my mother; and He has not made me haughty or bereft of grace. "Hence, peace was upon me on the day when I was born, and [will be upon me] on the day of my death, and on the day when I shall be raised to life [again]!" Maryam [19:29-30]

Ataanee al-kitab - He gave me the Kitaab, al-Injeel. He still didn’t give to him nubuwwah, still he was a baby in the cradle. First he said, "I am `Abdullah.” He didn’t say, "I am a Nabi.” He said, "I am a servant.” You cannot be a prophet before you become a servant. When you reach that level. All of us by tongue we say we are `abd but we didn’t reach the level of servanthood. He said, “I am a servant of Allah and He gave me the Book,” before he received the book. You have to have a book before you become a prophet – “Wa ja`alanee nabiyya - Then He made me a prophet. Then He made me blessed wherever I am and He commanded me to pray and commanded me to give charity as long as I am alive.”

Why the Prophet (s) who went for Mi’raj? Sayyidina `Isa Alayhissalam is in the first heaven, he was raised waiting permission to come. Sayyidina Muhammad (s) went to:

فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَى

Fa kaana qaaba qawwsayin aaw adna – two bow’s length or nearer. An-Najm [53:9]

Sayyidina `Isa Alayhissalam was curing the sick and he was raising the dead. If Sayyidina Muhammad (s) said eat “this cloth and you will be cured” - you will be cured. Not listening to these stupid people and what they are saying - with all my respect to what they study.

Look today every true Muslim is carrying the shoes of the Prophet (s) to show it is honor for us to up the shoes of the Prophet (s) on our head. They ask, their followers to be dust on the shoes of the Prophet (s). And if you go into what scholars have said about the Prophet (s), you know that he and one pair of shoes and four khuffs. If you look explanation of scholars for his shoes, if his shoes has baraka, what he says about medicine is not full of baraka. I am not saying not to go to doctor. Go but don’t come against the Prophet (s) with such article. That is why in every wird or adab you mention there is a secret. Awliyaullah give you to recite as they want to raise through recitation to take you up to the Maqam al-Fardani to the unique station that is not simple and not easy. Awliyaullah are not playing with us.

He said whoever likes to go to paradise it is simple - follow the five obligations: Shahadatu an la ilaha illa-Allah anna Muhammad Rasulullah, wa iqamus-salaat wa ita’uz-zakaat, wa sawmu Ramadan wa hajju’l-bayt. But if you want to be with the Prophet (s) in

فِي مَقْعَدِ صِدْقٍ عِندَ مَلِيكٍ مُّقْتَدِرٍ

maq`adi sidqin `inda maleekin muqtadir - In an Assembly of Truth, in the Presence of a Sovereign Omnipotent. Al-Qamar [54:55]

You have other procedures to follow you have to follow the other procedures.

So Grandshaykh said, you do your obligation - that is ok. But that doesn’t mean you are not a wild animal. Because the human being is a “talking animal - haywaanin naatiq.” You cannot say why he is calling us talking animal. You can be wild or you can be domestic. He said, "awliyaullah they look at these doctors, now I am adding this up, they say they look at these people who only do five obligations without doing the Maqam al-Ihsan they are not trying to perfect their behavior and they are looking only from very narrow perspective the minimum not looking at azeema but following rukhsa. They are like wild animals that have been release in a jungle. They go everywhere they are wild.

And he said, "Those who are awliyaullah and their students who are following a wali, their description is like a mountain and what you find on the mountain. You find on the mountain wild animals.”

All these doctors, doctors, doctors that think they are the peacock of the Ummah are stepping on the mountain thinking they can crush it. But who can harm a mountain? If a million people will step on mountain they will not affect it. Awliyaullah are mountains. And their followers are rocks on these mountains. And it is very difficult to remove these rocks. These people can mingle among the mureeds but they cannot distract their levels. Always they are going higher and higher, awliyaullah.

He said “la tabadal wa la tughayyir - No change and not alteration to mountains, like oceans.” Look he is quiet. They are like oceans. Even you throw all, look Chicago here, where all the sewers go? To Lake Michigan. And lake is sweet and it is a lake. It becomes dirty? No. What you think then about the ocean? It never gets dirty and even all sewers of whole world will go in it is still clean you can clean with it and take shower with it.

Awliyaullah are like oceans they eat the sins of human being and their waste. They clean them and send them back clean. They can pay and reach the Prophet (s).

He said you are connected with an ocean you are connected with a sultan that connects you with Sultan as-sultan Sayyidina Muhammad (s). May Allah keep us always with the Prophet (s) and we will continue this later insha-Allah Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi-hurmati 'l-Fatiha .

2008-12-16T19:11:00.001+08:00

What Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam taught us on how to live with Jinn

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Wednesday, Aug 20, 2008 | Kuala Lumpur MY

Biggest weapon against them is water and most people use water. Most people these days.

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

That is why Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem they leave us alone.

The most thing that harms them is water. And all of us today don’t use water as we use it at night. Because during the day, either the wife is working or the husband is working. So water isn’t being used in day.

During night is jinn life that is hwy awliyaullah don’t like people out after Isha. After Isha to Fajr time is time of life for jinn they are active at that time. That is why sahaar al-layaali making the nighttime alive, to make your night like daytime, people today don’t like to live except a that time…

They don’t like to watch TV except at night, they don’t like to do dhikr except at night, they forget about dhikr during the day, then at night they sit and watch TV and do dhikr. So what is that dhikr? It’s ok, at least you are doing dhikr. But not the real dhikr.

So the most thing that harms them is water. And not only water, jinn like to live in places that are not clean, bathroom you must say as prophet taught us, “اعود بالله من الخبث و الخبائث - Audhu billah min al-khubthi wal-khabaa’ith.”

So when a child will go to bathroom passing urine immediately they posses him. Why because by mistake a jinn is passing then if that urine will drop on him, he is dead completely. on that jinn it will die immediately. And then the family of that jinn as a group they don’t leave that person alone, they will all come together to attach that person.

So all of us must give thanks to Allah day and night that you have not been attacked by jinn. Many people come to see me or my brother or Grandshaykh and Mawlana shaykh to really been attacked. You become like that on floor and the speak thru you. You are not yourself anymore. Your eyes become big, your ears grow up, your mouth open and your shout like voice of man or a lady like the voice of a man. And then they fill all the crawling spaces, [i.e. fill all space with crawling thing]. They fill all the crawling spaces and come to you making you to feel afraid, scaring you, all kinds of scaring you. Every type of things that makes you scared they throw it there.

And if you go to and that person especially, it might be the whole family is not attacked, only one person attacked or two, [but] then the whole family is disturbed. They become affected, they cannot sleep.

after coming from Cyprus, a family came to see me. I didn’t know what is the problem. They came to see me. and brought someone like that. Usually I am not doing that anymore. After that day. One time I was in Canada and they brought one time and after that I said I am not going to do that anymore. Because they attack you.

They brought that boy with them who looks very strange. His eyes look like cat’s eyes. When jinn comes they turn the eyes into cat’s eyes. They make the iris straight, not round. Not everyone can see that. So they said, “Our son is mentally sick, he has a problem - they diagnosed him as bipolar.”

What is bipolar? He is possessed! They don’t understand. They say that person is bipolar, because he hears voices coming. This doctor here approves that theory. He doesn’t understand that. But this doctor he understands. They call it bipolar two personalities, it is not split personality. What do you call it? Split personality. It is not split personality, that is what the Prophet (s) said about jinn.

It is a jinn personality and a human [one]. When the jinn personality wants to show itself up, it becomes different than the human. They begin sending different information, “Do this, do that, throw yourself from the window.” That is what happened. They say, “His mind doesn’t function well he gets these voices ordering him to do this, hallucinations.” That is not [the case], that is what jinn are ordering him to do.

That boy came as soon as I was looking at his eyes, and it was Jumu`ah prayer, and I have to give the Jumu`ah, and immediately when he looked at me and I looked at him, immediately [when] he turned his eyes I knew, and he pulled all my energy. It was so heavy that I was walking very slowly, slowly to the Jumu`ah. I wasn’t telling people. Then I went and give the khutba, and you can see it in the internet, it is very slow. You have them on Sufilive.com. Then coming to pray, the Jumu`ah, I said, “I cannot be imam. I cannot stand.” I asked one, Sahib who is a hafiz of Qur’an, “you stand imam.”

First rakaat I was praying but I was falling down. Second rakaat we prayed the first; the second I sat down, I prayed it sitting. Then I left to the office, the room where we sit in the masjid.

Then it slowly, slowly it came back. Because I was not ready to him - to that jinn that is inside that boy. So then they [the family] stayed and I read and read and read, and he was better and better, better. But at that time my energy was going so they left - they have to go.

But I usually don’t like to do it, when I can say [to the family] “you do this, you do that,” [i.e. different recitations or actions to do over time to help the jinn-afflicted person] but to take them out, it is big, it is a battle zone.

That lady that they brought to me [in Montreal], was a normal lady. She speaks English, speaks French, speaks Swahili. You were there. She was from not from your country. You were there at that time? No you were not yet coming. In Montreal? To Mohammad Mousa’s house from Djibouti. You remember it.

And she was normal, then suddenly jumped on me, and as if I was seeing her nails coming out. No one can control her, like ten of them jumped to put her down and she was stronger than these ten. Because she knew I have to take that one out.

What to do first? It is to bring her down, the one that is in her, and he is speaking fluent Arabic. She doesn’t know Arabic. She doesn’t know one word in Arabic. You didn’t see jinn really [yet]. Alhamdulillah you are “smelling the smell” but with Mawlana’s protection you didn’t experience that.

So with all her force in Arabic language and she was opening her mouth and her mouth become like that, and saying in Arabic, “ureed an ahraqak. I want to burn you.” I am feeling it up to today. I want to burn you! You read Qur’an, whatever you read. I am burning you. No I am burning you. She is burning me, I am burning her. She begins to make kufr in Qur’an and in Prophet. She…

It really became so that I would not touch someone possessed by jinn. We used to do it a lot. So they brought that child.

Now that lady when she begins to speak like that you see fire coming from her. She wants to attack you and burn you. And everything in perfect Arabic and in male voice.

So then I told here you have 3 choices. Up to today they speak about that in Montreal. I told the jinn, “Either you go peacefully from her mouth and we have nothing to do with you. Or you go from the belly. Or you go from the big toe.”

They don’t like to go from big toe. That is humiliation. They consider it humiliation. As when Iblees was ordered to make sajda to Adam.

There are 3 kinds: normal jinn, mu’min (believer) jinn and ifreet. Mu’min jinn are easy to work out. But ifreet - she harmed it because she was using water at night and she was washing the floor and the window with a hose and not saying:

اعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم اعود بالله من الخبث و الخبائث

“Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem Audhu billah min al-khubthi wal-khabaa’ith.” So she killed [one of its family] and it came and possessed her.

So I said, “I am giving you three choices.” She said, “No I am not choosing. … I will burn you.” Then I begin to recite Naqshbandi silsila. As I am reciting that jinn was becoming more and more wild, attacking, and more aggressive. And I was shaking, really I was shaking. Because I am not able to control him - if he comes out he will enter in me. If you don’t have enough power to stop it. So it came to my heart, from Mawlana Shaykh “recite the silsila quickly.” And so I began to recite the silsila and as I finished it I said “You have to come out!” and he said, “I will not come out and you can read whatever you want to read.”

Then I read something special that Grandshaykh gave us, as soon as I began reading these verses and du`a that lady was calming down. So when I began reciting like that the jinn must go from the toe. Then the lady was opening her eyes. Everyone left and ran away. And only Hajjah Naziha was sitting beside me. I told her go behind the wall, because I didn’t want it to attack her.

So that is why I said I won’t do it anymore. I normally don’t speak about it anymore because I know the consequences.

So to give a recitation [for the family to recite on the afflicted person] is ok.

They live in groups. So let us conclude. After that the lady didn’t know one word of Arabic. She was speaking Swahili, English, French, [not] Arabic. She was from country, lot of jinn there.

Then a lot of people coming to me, telling me…

There was one Pakistani there. He said, “come, come…”

In any case they live in stations, like police stations. In groups or communities, kampongs, villages; all in one house together. If you harm by mistake one, all of them come, send signals and they come and attack. So that is why after Isha, it is recommended you do what ever you want before Isha. Then after Isha, you use some recitation. If you want to clean dishes [or use water].

Mawlana Grandshaykh and Mawlana Shaykh they cannot put a light after Isha. Wake up early. Why do you want to be up late at night? It is only allowed [to use water] for wudu and when you go to the bathroom or when you need to shower at night. Those three things are allowed to use water. Not [other things], because you can do that during the day. Else someone will be harmed if it by chance it hits one of them. Too many people they get it when they are in a forest or in a jungle, especially men, children, boys, they pass urine standing. That might spray them. That is why a boy or girl, if they need to, they must do it sitting; they cannot do it standing. Now we have problems now with boys more than girls because of that problem.

So now you see that people’s children at certain age they become bi-polar, they say split personality. It isn’t split personality. What do they do [to solve this]? They give them tablets to keep them half-sleeping. They don’t treat them Islamically. They don’t know. They are hearing voices. Where are voices coming from? Really it is very difficult when jinn possess someone, it is not simple that is why we ask Allah swt to protect us. We must know we cannot harm them. If you harm one, they come in hundreds. They are like tribes. You go have a fight with one of them, the whole tribe come against you, against your whole tribe. They come all of them. So doctors what they say? Bi-polar. Why did he became bipolar at the age of 30 suddenly? Why [suddenly] if someone is not bipolar? Because [they say] there is a certain gene activated when he is older.

Jinn turned it into “gene”!

Now they suck your blood – they put you in the hospital, and take your money. No he is not bipolar, he is affected by jinn. Now they give him medicine. They make him a vegetable. His body is sleeping. So the jinn cannot bring the body up. When the body is alert they make the body stronger. But when they are sleeping they cannot bring it up.

So that is problem today they think bipolar and in fact it is not - it is jinn.

So jinn travel in groups and they live in stations. They will not disturb you, you will not see them. You can live with them. As long as you give them an alert they don’t bother. That is why the Prophet (s) taught us to say:

اعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

بسم الله الذي لا يضر مع اسمه شيء في الأرض ولا في السماء وهو السميع العليم

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem bismillahi alladhee la yadurru ma` ismuhu shayun fi ’l-ard wa la fi ’s-sama wa huwa as–samee` ul-`aleem.

So whenever we come home we read it, whenever we go out we read it. At night, before we sleep we recite 3 Qul huw Allahu ahad, 3 Qul Audhu bi rabbil falaq, 3 Qul Audhu bi rabbin-naas, Ayat al-Kursee, one Fatihah blow on yourself on the children and on the

whole house then sleep.

Islam gave us prescription we forget it, so that is the problem. And as long as people recite these their places are safe, their homes safe. In these countries lot of jinn. Africa and here. West less. Europe less; very less. Because they like more equatorial areas, more jungle or desert.

[some say they are from generations from grand parents and] they keep coming. [this is especially happening, especially Malays] no, in Indonesia a lot, Thailand a lot, they like equatorial places, Somalia is equatorial, they are there. That is why you see where the equator has split the earth in half they mostly live there.

May Allah protect us. And we don’t want anyone to harm us and we don’t want to harm anyone, we say always Fatiha, for sake of Your Prophet, for the sake of Your awliyaullah, for the sake of our shaykh, Sultan al-Awliya, that Allah keep us protected dunya and akhira.

2008-12-16T19:05:00.002+08:00

What Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam loves most from our dunya

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Sunday, Aug 10, 2008 | Jakarta IN
Rabbani Zawiya

That is big topic in the West today. Why they gave them [women] no rights. Allah gave them more rights than men? Can you do anything at your home without their permission? [cannot absolutely cannot.]

What they said? [absolutely]. Ask Tufayl? [laughs] Can he do anything without his wife’s permission, at home? Ha? Tufayl? He said, “NO, he cannot.” Ask the men, can you do anything without their permission?

[no.] they cannot. Allah swt gave superiority for women in many cases and gave superiority for men in many case. Allah balanced. He is just. His justice is everything. He made men and women equal,

الناس سواسية كأسنان المشط

as the Prophet (s) said, "people are equal like the teeth of the comb." That means he made men and women equal, like the teeth of the comb.

I will give you an example to show how much women in Islam have been honored. The Prophet (s) coming after Mina, on hajj, the last hajj, coming back from Mina he has to shave, does he not. He asked his Sahaaba to shave their heads. You can cut or you can shave. Allah said,

مُحَلِّقِينَ رُؤُوسَكُمْ وَمُقَصِّرِينَ

“muhallaqeen ru’usakum wa muqassireen – shaving their heads and cutting [their hair].” Al-Fath [48:27]

He asked the Sahaaba to shave. It means no hair. The Sahaaba didn’t cut their hair. The Prophet (s) went inside his tent and he was unhappy, the Prophet (s) became sad as the Sahaaba did not follow his order. And his wife Umma Salama Radiallahu anhu asked him, “Why are you not happy? You performed the hajj and completed everything.” He said, “I asked the Sahaaba to shave and they didn’t shave.” She said, “Can I say something? Can I give an advice?” He said, “yes.” She was afraid, but she said, his wife, “Can I give an advice?” O give to Sayyidina Muhammad (s) an advice?! But the Prophet (s) said “yes,” because he wants to show how much Allah gave women mind and intelligence. So he listened to her advice. She said, “O Prophet (s)! You go shave first, then they will go and shave.” So you see how Allah gave inspiration to women to consult and give advice. So even the Prophet (s) consulted his wife.

Prophet (s) said in hadith to show the respect of women in his heart. He said, Allah made me to love 3 things from this dunya so much. If the Prophet (s) loves someone then that someone or something must be with the Prophet (s) whereever he is, in Paradise also. So if I love my children I want them wherever I go. If I love my wife I want her to be with me wherever I go. So if the Prophet (s) loves someone it means he wants that person to be with him wherever he goes. If the Prophet (s) says he loves the Ummah it means he wants the Ummah to be with him in paradise.

Before I explain the hadith I want to say a story. There was a king, and this is a true story. There was a king that was a very lovely king, a very generous king. And someone, a poet came to him and said to the king, “I made a poetry for you praising you,” and someone was passing by and he heard that, he entered behind the poet, in the presence of the king. And the king said, “ok, say it.” And the poet began to recite his poetry, very nice poetry praising the king. As soon as he finished, the king was very happy. But that one who was behind him, was very clever. He said, “O king. That one, he stole my poetry. It is not his poetry.” The king looked and saw and he didn’t know what to do. His prime minister the clever man who sits beside the king said, “Don’t worry, we’ll get the one who wrote the poetry. If the one who claims to have written it ask him to recite it.”

So the king was so happy. And he said, “stand up and recite it if it is yours.” The man stood up and recited it from beginning to end. Then the man said, “How do you say it is your poetry, he recited it from beginning to end?” The poet said, “it is my poetry, I wrote it.” And the second man said, “No, he stole it! it is my poetry.” And now the story is more complicated.

So what happened? [it is very difficult] the man looked, the king looked, the poet looked, the one who came behind, was so happy, he had made everything so complicated. The king said, “Both of you I am going to cut your necks, if you don’t tell me the truth.” The second one said, “If you give me your amna al-aman, safety that you will not cut my neck, then I will tell the truth.” He said, “Ok, I will give you safety, say whatever you want.”

He said, “O my king. Allah gave me intelligence so that if anyone reads anything in front of me, I memorize it from beginning to end. So when he read it immediately I was able to recite it because already I knew what he wrote.”

So don’t be surprised if Allah gives intelligence to someone who gives ability to memorize something that anyone can say because today we can take it so easy, to make a photocopy. Cannot Allah give intelligence to a man’s brain to make hundreds of copies of hundreds of pages in one second. That is because the part of the brain that Allah gave us is like the chip of a lentil. This lady, Allah gave her intelligence like a photocopy machine. You say something, she keeps continuously is saying everything without missing one word and at the end she adds in order to make it short in order for everyone to understand. You have to translate everything because we trust you in your translation.

Don’t think it is too much. Look. This is a tape recorder. This is a tape recorder, you say one hundred pages, you press a button it repeats the hundred pages. You think what Allah has given us of a tape recorder in your brain or a camera in our brain cannot tape what it hears. This camera can tape whatever it sees and hears. This brain, O human beings, can tape everything! Allah gave you huge power, use it. Allah said in Quran,

أَلَمْ تَرَوْا أَنَّ اللَّهَ سَخَّرَ لَكُم مَّا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ

“alam taraw anna Allaha sakhara lakum ma fee’s-samawaati wa ma fi’l-ard. Have ye not seen that Allah has made subject to you whatever is in heavens and whatever is on earth.” Luqman [31:20]

Don’t sit at home and be lazy. Go out and be active in your society in order to show the greatness of Islam.

If you type on the computer, Allah, or you say by y0our voice Allah, now today there are computers that whatever you type they say the word. You don’t need to speak it. Don’t you think if you say “Allah” the computer will say “Allah, Allah, Allah” until Judgment Day. Until you tell it to stop. Now if you say “Allah” do you think it stops. No, because it is a wavelength that goes on forever it doesn’t stop. That is why a person with earphone, very strong earphones can hear something very far away. That is why they say now they have satellites that can hear voices from the outer limits. That is true.

So that is why the angels can hear what you are saying and it is written as hasanaat not as sayiaat.

The Prophet (s), I ask you a simple question: Do you love the Prophet (s)? Do you believe the Prophet (s) [yes!] So when the Prophet (s), we go back to the beginning:

" حبب إلي من دنياكم: الطيب والنساء وجعلت قرة عيني في الصلاة

So when the Prophet (s) said, “Allah made me to love three issues, three main big things, that in my life I love them.”

It means those things are going to be with Prophet (s) on Judgment Day. First what did Prophet (s) say, “I love from human beings”, from nature? What did he say, “I love first?”

First he said, hubiba ilaykum min dunyakum thalath. Allah made me to love from your dunya three things. First: women - an-nisa.

It means when the Prophet (s) says, “women, Allah made me to love women.” Because they are honorable, Allah made them to carry the human race in their wombs. They carry the human beings, the children in their wombs. Allah made them to carry that difficulty for nine ten months and they are so happy with that pain, getting those children and bring generation after generation without getting fed up or bored. Especially Indonesian ones, everyone gets 12 children or 15 children.

Only six. In America one, or half. So the Prophet (s) is showing the honor, showing that they must not be maqsooreen al-janah. They must not show they have low self-esteem they must not show that people don’t respect them and they must know the Prophet (s) respected them and he accepted the advice of his wife and he said, “Allah made me to love them.”

And also he wants to show that women shows beauty and beauty is the sign of heavens. That means they are the heavens of the earth because they are the beauty of the earth. So the Prophet (s) is showing that characteristic that they carry. That is why you see there is Miss Universe. You never see there is Mr. Universe.

Who is going to be Mr. Universe? No Mr. Universe. … might be.

So we go back, we skip some sense of humor in the lecture. In America if you don’t do that they are not interested. Here they are interested in anything you say. You don’t need to do that. That shows the purity of heart. Here they are so pure, so innocent. Not all of them, but most of them.

So then after that beauty and sign of heavens he (s) said “the beautiful smell, fragrance, the nice smell.”

This is an indication that the Prophet (s) likes everything nice, everything sweet. Look these flags that you are showing here, that shows the sweetness of the host. That is something so easy to do, so sweet to do. But that shows the sweetness of the host to the guest. Not for me no, nothing I am like an ant that can be crushed under the feet. I hope that Allah will keep me under feet of the Prophet (s) even. But this will show the sweetness of anything, that is sweet smelling at-teeb, tayyib.

Any gesture, you smile in your brother’s face, that is from iman. Look he is serious. The Prophet (s) said, “The smile in the face of your brother or sister is a charity.” So that means make your life in heaven is with sweetness.

Everything sweet is nice. Everything you put sugar in the food, it makes the food very sweet, very nice. You like to eat it don’t you? But today they are cheating: they don’t put sugar they put Equal, which is fake sugar. Look at this Diet Coke. What is Diet Coke? You are cheating people. Put sugar, don’t make fake things.

Islam is sweet. If you come against Islam you are coming against sweetness. At the same time you have no right to come against anyone’s religion. If they want their religion leave them, Allah will judge between everyone. If Allah sends everyone to Paradise will you be sad? We hope that He will not judge us to be sent to hellfire; that we will be sent to Paradise.

The third thing that Prophet (s) said, “I love from your dunya, is qurratti `aynee fee as-salaat.” Look how this hadith is miraculously put together. First he said, “I love beauty.” When you make your life beautiful, and look how he used the word ‘women’ to reflect beauty. Make your life active and then you make it happy and sweet. Then after you make your life sweet, you end up with thanking Allah and making a prayer. So those three things in one hadith: first beauty, then sweetness, then worshipness.

Everything, render it to Allah. Don’t keep it in your heart. Many women come to me and say, “I have a problem. My husband cheated on me.” Really, and this is what happened.

Bloom what is bloom. “not yet’ so they come and say, “Is there any du`a for me?” Of course there is a du`a. If the husband is cheating then Allah will take revenge.

Sayyidina Ya`qub said,

قَالَ إِنَّمَا أَشْكُو بَثِّي وَحُزْنِي إِلَى اللّهِ

“innama ashku bathee wa huznee ila-Allah.” “He said, ‘I turn my problem and complaint to Allah.’” 12:86

Allah will take your right, when you make yourself, saying, “O Allah you are my judge; You are my supporter; You are the one who can make me overcome my problem.”

Because Allah is more powerful than any other judge, any other king, any other kind of… that is why you find awliyaullah they don’t have any problems because they are always on the right track.

May Allah forgive us and bless this meeting and make everyone happy and turn our life into happy life and turn around all our problems and difficulties and give shifa to everyone. Mash-Allah she is good translator and not just translator but actor also.

Finito.

2008-12-16T19:00:00.001+08:00

Ya MuhammadSallallahu Alayhi Wasallam! I created for you an ummah that never gets tired from doing sins and I'm their Lord who never gets tired of forgiving them

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008 | Fenton, MI US
ASIM

In Pakistan they have special schools, only after you memorize Qur'an and hadith and memorize Shariah. And that is one year just how to speak. That is why they can speak like machine guns. India same way. They make them to learn how to speak.

Also in Arabic language, to become khateeb to deliver Jumu`ah they have to give you a lesson in how to give khitaab, how to speak. That is why they are so fluent.

[Shaykh Hisham requests Abdul Haqq to speak.]

Shaykh Abdul Haqq

La hawla wa la quwatta illah billah

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Note book is coming.

[Mawlana: we will continue after, you open the road for me]

tariqat as-suhba wa’l khayru feel-jami`a.

Allah, Allah, kareem Allah.

…

anta rabbuna wa nahnu `ibadak, wa an abduk ad-da`eef. Forgive me, my sins have caught up with me. Allah is lord. No on can say they know anything about Allah swt in his absolute greatness and all of us are coming as weak servant. I am coming as a weak servant. It might be that everyone in this circle is form high awliyaullah.

Mawlana said to me once, you may consider everything to be a robot. You are in the presence of your Lord and he is showing you what he wants to show you. And that the others are all appearances. And especially when I was getting very angry, that was every few seconds. Nothing except Allah. Kullu man alayha fan, la yabqa illa wajha. There is nothing except the face of Allah. Everything is going to disappear except his intention.

Allahuma salli wa sallim` ala Sayyidina Muhammad. Everything should vanish except that its intentions should show up.

I saw in a book by Sayyidina Muhyideen ibn Arabi, who is buried by our Grandshaykh in Damascus. And he wrote a poem “when the dust clears we will see who is sitting on horse and who is sitting on a donkey.”

And yesterday we were discussing that ayah that Allah will never change the situation of a people until we change what is in our own hearts.

Allah is not going to .. until we make our rebellion firm like Fira`un. Or he is not going to change us to better until we show an action towards it.

And Mawlana explaining a new view, wa fawqa kulli dhi `ilmin `aleem

That Allah is not going to change anything in our situation until we change our intention. According to our good intentions we will find a way out. Everyone is into something, into some test, especially in this tariqah. It is good because it is the way for us to improve. Else we are never struggling therefore never improving.

So we have nothing, we must ask Allah to inspire us with good intentions that through those good intentions you should be happy with us. That we need to find a way. Ilahee ant maqsoodee wa ridaaka matloobee. It is only by tongue but we are asking Allah to make it a reality and to make more good intentions to come up and through those good intentions he will create in us more good actions that he likes.

Mawlana was speaking today about the village where they were doing matches, matchmaking marriages according to the proper matches. Our problem is that our acquiring of targets is wrong. We don’t have the equipment to know what is correct target and what is not. We don’t know that when we are gong to do something if it is the perfect situation. We were once doing some repairs at dergah. We asked him, is this is a good idea. It is a very good idea, but we have to check if it is a perfect idea. The lowest level is waste of time and at worst it could be something harmful.

Sayyidina Abu Bakr Radiallahu anhu used to say, "O Allah show me truth as true and falsehood as false so I can avoid it.” And he said, asked the one nearest you. Show us. Show us truth as being true we can move on it and grant us good inspirations to move on it with whatever himmah we have. And show us falsehood as falsehood. Make us to see falsehood as falsehood, make power to avoid it, shaytan will not make falsehood look bad but make it to look nice.

We must not just have nice party but to have some learning. Every second believer is confronted with something to do and not to do. To avoid wrong and to go for goodness. To ask to run on what is good. I am asking on behalf of everyone.

May Allah grant us blessings and for sake of Rasulullah and sake of Mawlana Shaykh

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

May Allah bless this tongue.

[Shaykh Abdul Haqq: it is enough of blessing to sit in your presence.]

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah, nawytu as-siyam lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

Anyone who wants to sit for remembrance of Allah even for short time, it is advisable to make the intention that I am making intention for making 40 days seclusion, and I am making intention of itikaaf for 10 days of Ramadan, and you will be written that as you made the intention. And I intend spiritual exercise and I intend salook. To be on that way and to follow my shaykh and nawaytu as-siyaam, I intend to fast from talking nonsense in this masjid.

Allah will give the benefits of what we are asking. Sometimes people have in their lives different states. They pass through different trances. I am like everyone, I am passing that trance. That I feel ashamed to speak. I used to speak a lot. Directly. From whatever I get thru my heart. But I begin to realize that this has some kind of, not some kind of, but it has a problem. Which is a problem of ego. Because you show that you know something and you are getting directly. But that is ok. That is a trance you pass in it. But now I feel shy not to open a notebook, not to open Mawlana Shaykh’s or Grandshaykh’s notes, to show we are in need of their words. Because every word they say is an ocean. It opens for you big distances.

Always Grandshaykh used to say, and I used to write every word he says, since the day I knew him until he passed away. I used to write hundreds of these notebooks. And one time he said to me, and I will share this with you for the first time.

One time he said to me, “Hisham.” “Na`m sayyidee.” He said, " have something to say for you, good tidings! As Allah swt made Ka`b al-Ahbar for the Prophet (s).”

You know Ka`b al-Ahbar, he is the head of priests or rabbis that accepted the Prophet (s), he is writing everything that the Prophet (s) used to say, although what I wrote is very minimal. But he wants to show his love and that it is good to take notes.

And if you go to Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, you see thousands of notebooks in his home in Damascus. All these years that he was with Mawlana Grandshaykh Abdullah, and he was writing.

And he said to me and to Shaykh Adnan, “Whenever you speak read from my notes and speak.” So I feel in that state now that it is not nice to directly, although Mawlana gave us that authority, but it is better to go through what he says, as his words are like jewels. Our words are like pebbles. We need pebbles to build a building, we cannot build it from jewels. We are all like that that; we try to give what come to our heart. I believe that all Mawlana’s representatives have been given that authority and they have been given spiritual support that when they speak Mawlana will open to them.

So I like to speak or explain from what Mawlana Shaykh or Grandshaykh has said.

As we said previously that the Prophet (s), whatever Allah revealed to him, and what he gave to the Ummah, all what he gave to Ummah and to awliyaullah are only from the level of Sayyidina Jibreel and down. All these knowledges are from where Jibreel Alayhissalam stands and down. Not above. Above what Sayyidina Jibreel Alayhissalam has, only Allah gave to Sayyidina Muhammad (s). So there are 3 levels here. There is level below Sayyidina Jibreel Alayhissalam; the level of Sayyidina Jibreel Alayhissalam and the level above Sayyidina Jibreel Alayhissalam.

On the night of Mi’raj, Jibreel Alayhissalam moved the Prophet (s) to a certain level and then he stopped. Then Jibreel Alayhissalam said, "I cannot proceed any further, I will be burned.” Then the Prophet (s) continued on his way alone.

All knowledge we have today, scientific, and spiritual and books that have been written and most books that were written were written after the Prophet (s) and mostly only of philosophers, Socrates and Plato. Only after prophet came these books were written and these formed huge libraries. All of that knowledge is from Sayyidina Jibreel Alayhissalam and down. All that awliyaullah are telling is form that level and down.

The rest of the knowledge is for Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Allah has no partner as creator and similarly the Prophet (s) has no partner [in knowledge and in station], he has no partner as all other servants are under him.

وَقُلْ جَاء الْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ الْبَاطِلُ إِنَّ الْبَاطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا

Wa qul jaa al-haqqu wa zahaqa al-batilu inna al-batila kana zahooqa.

And say: "Truth has (now) arrived, and Falsehood perished: for Falsehood is (by its nature) bound to perish." Al-Isra [17:81]

This means that falsehood is completely crushed. Even that secret, the secret of that verse not one wali has opened it. No one got the secret of that word. Only for the Companion of Mahdi Alayhissalam did Allah open to his heart.

Not Mahdi Alayhissalam, but Sahib al-Mahdi - the one that comes near time of Mahdi Alayhissalam, who comes before when Mahdi [will appear], it will open secrets from above the maqam of Sayyidina Jibreel Alayhissalam that the Prophet (s) opens to Sayyidina Mahdi Alayhissalam.

So for now Allah opened for Sahib al-Mahdi, Allah opened for him the secret of that holy verse. It means: “I am the one that is going to destroy falsehood and kufr. That I have that secret that Allah opened power for me to destroy any falsehood that is in the Ummah.” Not one wali had that power or Allah gave him.

And Mawlana Shaykh inherited that secret from Grandshaykh. Sometimes you hear him say, “I am going to crush falsehood” and he says, “falsehood is under our feet; we want to take it away.”

So all these knowledges that he is going to open in this suhbat that he gave which we are going through it now, we can make for future sessions also, to continue on that. I will speak about what Allah gave to us, but before that, the knowledge that is above maqam of Sayyidina Jibreel Alayhissalam where the Prophet (s) has no shareek in knowledge he is going to pass it to Sayyidina Mahdi Alayhissalam before he is going to appear. He is going to appear with takbir: Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar , Allahu Akbar ! With that takbir he will fill the hearts of the believers with secrets, they don’t necessary have to see him to be attracted to him. You know how you put a magnet and it will attract nails even if it is far. So his appearance is like a magnet to the whole world and he will attract people from the whole world and people will feel driven to his appearance. He will appear in Medina and in Damascus, anyone who is in western Hemisphere or eastern Hemisphere will be driven to his presence.

He said, "he will be inheriting the secrets of knowledge and he will come with knowledge higher than awliyaullah and coming with knowledge higher than the knowledge of previous prophets by 700 times, bringing these secrets up.”

The Prophet (s) didn’t give everything out, he hid many things [the Ummah cannot understand yet]. He will bring that up. Because at that time nothing will remain hidden, it is the Last Days and nothing can remain hidden. It will be the Golden Age. That is why we ask Allah to give us life to see Mahdi Alayhissalam. At that time every person will have a spiritual sword and hold it against his self - in a few seconds he will defeat it. After that, each person will be able to read the Preserved Tablets in the morning to know what he has to do today.

And that is very near. Don’t think it is too late. It is so near.

And he said that "it is very important for those following the path to reflect. Reflect on what? Reflect on what Allah swt will give us of wisdom if we leave our ego down if we put our ego down."

[It means we must ask] “Ya Rabbee, give us power. We are reflecting that You are the one who can save us from our ego”. That will give us the knowledge of wisdom that you will be coming with that, that every movement you move will be wisdom. When you talk wisdom comes. When you sleep, your sleep is `ibadah. Your day will be `ibadah and your night will be ibadah. Ahl at-tariqah, the people of that Sufi path, must think two times. Sabahan wa masa’an morning and evening and when we reflect we must not look at what other people are doing, we must not look at their uyyoob, their shortcoming. We must veil our eyes from that, that is not our business. Don’t take that from here and spread it there. You are seeking that path and you are looking to find the path that takes you to shore of safety. Don’t look right or left, else you will deviate from the path, the track.

Awliyaullah give you a track like a train so if the tires go right or left what happens you will be derailed. Else you will be like those people who said we pass deregulation. They deregulated everything and now it is all a big mess. Now to go back to the path they have to happy the price. Now we have derailed we have to pay the price. They told us not to go right or left. That price will be high not simple as we promised to go along. When we took hand of shaykh we promised. We cannot make a defacto on our promise (default) - you promised, now you have to fulfil it. المومن اذا وعد وفا Al-mu’min idha wa`ada wafa. We promised Allah on the Day of Promises to obey Him and we are now derailing. The prophet was pulling the Sahaba on track. The Sahaba, after the Prophet (s) were pulling people on track. After Sahaba, awliyaullah are pulling people on track.

If you don’t derail and accept not to look at other people mistakes, and Mawlana Shaykh said, " we in tariqah, we don’t accept paradise.” You want paradise. But the people of the path don’t want Paradise, they want Ridwan Allah al-akbar. They want Allah’s greatest pleasure that Allah be happy with you. Ridwan Allah al-akbar will take you to be with prophet in the highest level in paradise. You don’t want to be in lowest level of paradise you want to be in the highest level with the one you love. Then if you fulfill what they are asking, you will be in the station of :

وَمَن يُطِعِ اللّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ فَأُوْلَـئِكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللّهُ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاء وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَـئِكَ رَفِيقًا

Wa man yuti`i Allaha wa’r-rasoola faula’ika ma` alladheena an`ama Allahu `alayhim mina an-nabiyyeena wa’s-siddeeqeena wa’sh-shuhada’i wa’s-saliheena wa hasuna ula’ika rafeeqa.

All who obey Allah and the apostle are in the company of those on whom is the Grace of Allah,- of the prophets (who teach), the sincere (lovers of Truth), the witnesses (who testify), and the Righteous (who do good): Ah! what a beautiful fellowship! An-Nisa, 4:69.

He said: “O my children these words I am telling you are like a naqsh. They will not change. La yatazalzalu wa la yataghayr. What I am saying is not going to change and what I am saying is from the Prophet (s). I speak with evidence and if there is no evidence I don’t speak.”

He said, “because I am speaking from the heart of the Prophet (s). That he is not accepting except what he is saying. There are awliyaullah, min bayyin al-awliya la yu`aadoohum - from Allah through the Prophet (s) they are able to say, "O you went through that journey and deserve to be a saint,” but they refused. They say “what is the benefit?” They say, “We want to be from maqam al-awwam – the common people. We don’t want that responsibility. - La yureedoon al-mas’ooliyya.” They don’t want responsibility. “Why do I want responsibility?” Because when given authority, and made saints by Allah and the Prophet (s),

أَلا إِنَّ أَوْلِيَاء اللّهِ لاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ

Ala inna awliyaa Allahi la khawfun `alayhim wa la hum yahzanoon

Behold! verily on the friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve; al-Anbiya 10:62

Awliyaullah don’t have anything to fear, not that what we explained every time: that they are ok and they are not sad. No, [here] it means that “you are not responsible if you carry sainthood. I am leaving it to how you see it as you are giving it to your students.”

They don’t want responsibility, awliya, because it is big responsibility. When they have been given the level of sainthood they are under responsibility. So Allah promised them and the Prophet (s) promised them “don’t worry. - There is nothing to fear and no sadness for them”; that means Allah will clean all their students. They present them to the Prophet (s) and the Prophet (s) presents them to Allah. That is how they accept sainthood; else it is a big responsibility and he said, speaking about himself, “When that has been given to me” (and I explained many times, how he refused until he got the answer from the Prophet (s) accepting his condition that anyone taking baya` from him would be raised to whatever level he is, without looking at their worship or actions) but from that secret Allah opened to my heart a wisdom that in the night of ascension, Laylat al-Isra wa’l-Mi’raj, Allah said to the Prophet (s), “I gave you a nation that will never get tired of making sins, doing forbiddens. All their lives they are committing sins. But, Ya Muhammad, I gave you an Ummah that before I created them I forgave them.”

“Before I created them I forgive them.” This is for everyone, not only for tariqah people. “When I received that from the heart of the Prophet (s), I relaxed. Sakana qalbee. My heart went into peace and satisfaction, it became still.”

[Other hadith with similar meaning:

The Prophet Muhammad (s) quoted Allah swt as saying:O My servants, you sin by night and by day, and I forgive all sins, so seek forgiveness of Me and I shall forgive you..."

Hadith Qudsi, Number 17

The Prophet (s) also quoted Allah swt as saying: "O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you..."

Hadith Qudsi, Number 34]

All awliyaullah’s work is to save their followers. And the Prophet’s works is to save the Ummah. But Allah is saying to the Prophet (s), “Before I created them I forgive them” and he said that the daleel for that is that Adam Alayhissalam, when he committed the sin, he went into sajda for forty years.

Allahu Akbar. Can you do that? For forty years he went into sajda. And tears were coming from his eyes, when he went into sajda it is like flowing rivers coming out of his eyes. He never raised his head and if Allah did not call him “Ya Adam” he would have left his head in sajda until Judgment Day. If Allah gave him life until Day of Judgment there would have been tears coming from his eyes and in sajda. Why he made sajda? On behalf of everyone. Instead of staying in Judgment Day in sajda he made it in dunya. He asked forgiveness for everyone according to the name that Allah gave that person on the Preserved Tablets.

Your name is strange Soihibou. It means sahib but in a humble way you say it.

[So Allah told him:] “O Adam stop crying!” All these tears, every drop of these tears represents one person. Until he covered every person then Allah said, "raise your head. I forgive them. I forgive them because you asked me for sake of Muhammad. I am forgiving you and forgiving them.”

We continue next time.

[adhan is called]

2008-11-02T11:38:00.003+08:00

All Movement is Powered by the Light of Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Monday, Sep 29, 2008 | Fenton, MI US

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

Obey Allah, obey the Prophet (s) and obey those in authority. [4:59]

Every time, with Allah’s swt blessings, people meet for a purpose, you don’t see 2 people meeting without a purpose, without something that concern them or benefit them.

That is why people meet.

Especially for those meeting for the sake of Allah swt. Means they want the best of what they can achieve in Allah’s way.

That is a microphone [taps mic] that can detect the sound and the voice of someone who is speaking. There are microphones that can detect wave, any kind of magnetic wave that is moving. But this microphone cannot detect it. There are others machines and instruments that can detect any movement that happens in earth at any level down until they reach a place they cannot detect anything. It means different instruments different functions.

And Allah swt has created different angels with different functions that they can detect anything on earth and in this universe. So there is no way to hide ourselves from Allah swt.

وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ

wa nahnu aqrabu ilaykum min hablil wareed. We are more nearer to you than your Jugular vein. [Qaf, 50:16]

And not only that, Allah swt is not only nearer, He is, His power, His angels are in you. In everyone of us angels are within our system. They are functioning in a way that keeps your life moving. The are responsible for the movement of every cell in your body. Don’t think these cells in your body are functioning by themselves. There is an angelic power that makes them to move. In medicine they say the strongest muscle is the heart. That is always moving. It is moving continuously in every moment, non-stopping.

You cannot move anything in dunya without using energy. You cannot. Even you want to move this rihlah, a stand, you cannot except you have to exercise energy to hold it and move it. It cannot move by itself.

Anything you do today, you cannot move without using energy. That energy are you the producer of it or there is someone producing it? If you are the one producing that energy and you can move everything around, as they move rockets or planes or carrying a stone or carrying groceries, or whatever you do, you are moving, you are showing a movements. Because without movement there's no life. Life expresses itself through movement. If there is no movement there is no life. That's why body always in movement. Every cell in the body is moving. We have 3 trillion cells in the body.

Today they say $700 billon that need to be bailout. We have to bail out 3 trillion cells in front of Allah. Who is going to bail it out for us? There must be someone has to bail us out. It is Prophet (s). He has to bail us out.

Here for dunya matter they want to bail us out for a dunya matter, you see the whole world is standing up and going down! what do you think in akhira when you need to be bailed out.

Everyone responsible for 3 trillion cells what they function and what is done. So everything is based on movement,

If you say "No! I am doing that movement by myself." If you say “no”, then you are Firaun [or Namrud].

أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِي حَآجَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ فِي رِبِّهِ أَنْ آتَاهُ اللّهُ الْمُلْكَ إِذْ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ رَبِّيَ الَّذِي يُحْيِـي وَيُمِيتُ قَالَ أَنَا أُحْيِـي وَأُمِيتُ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ فَإِنَّ اللّهَ يَأْتِي بِالشَّمْسِ مِنَ الْمَشْرِقِ فَأْتِ بِهَا مِنَ الْمَغْرِبِ فَبُهِتَ الَّذِي كَفَرَ وَاللّهُ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ

Alam tara ila alladhee hajja ibraheema fee rabbihi an atahu Allahu almulka ith qala ibraheemu rabbiya allathee yuhyee wa yumeetu qaala ana uhee wa umeet. qaala ibraheemu fa inna Allaha yatee b’ish-shamsi mina al-mashriqi fati biha mina al-maghribi fa-buhita alladhee kafara wa’Allahu la yahdee alqawma adh-dhalimeena

Hast thou not Turned thy vision to one who disputed with Abraham About his Lord, because Allah had granted him power? Abraham said: "My Lord is He Who Giveth life and death." He said: "I give life and death". Said Abraham: "But it is Allah that causeth the sun to rise from the east: Do thou then cause him to rise from the West." Thus was he confounded who (in arrogance) rejected faith. Nor doth Allah Give guidance to a people unjust. Al-Baqara [2:258]

Ok you say, as Fira`un, you are our Lord. You are saying about yourself, istaghfirullah, hasha, that you are a god. A god. Miserable, calling himself “god”. You say like that. Ok, our Lord, Allah swt, our Lord is bringing the sun from the east; make it rise it from west! If you say you can move things, then move it. Ok, that is Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam.

Ok, then for our level, for us at a lower level, this earth is turning on its axle, counter clockwise. Turn it clockwise if you have power. If you say you can do everything, because everything needs energy.

That is why angels are the one behind that energy. It is not you that you can turn everything. Allah swt is turning everything in you according to your behavior and according to your intention.

إنما الأعمال بالنيّات ، وإنما لكل امريء مانوى

Innama’l-`aamaalu bi’n-niyyaat wa innama li kulli ‘imreeyin ma nawa.

The Prophet (s) said, “Verily all actions are by intentions and to every person is what he intended.” [Bukhari and Muslim]

How is your intention it moves; angels moves. Your intention is “I want to be famous” ok then move in that direction. Someone says, I don’t want anything I wan to sit in my corner, the will turn him this way. Then you make that intention.

They inspire you according to your intention.

Scholars say we are responsible for our actions. Although we cannot do the action itself, Allah swt creates action as soon as we intend.

That is why they used to debate between irada, free will or not. Do you have a will or everything is predestined? We don’t want to enter into this subject but you have, Allah swt gave you free will, a partial free will. As soon as intend to do something Allah swt creates the action. So it is Allah’s action created by Him, but it is your intention that wants to do it. That's why you are responsible according to your intention. That's why Prophet (s) said innama al-`aamaalu b’n- niyyaat.

As soon as you decide and intend to do it, the action comes. There is One behind every action, it is not you, you have the intention. If you say you have the action, then go turn the earth clockwise. It is turning anti-clockwise.

SubhanAllah, how is the earth turning? Nonstop. For thousands of years. What kind of energy does it have. It never complains, it never gets tired, saying, "Ya Rabbee!” Earth is submitting. Allah swt wants to give you calculation of day and night. If there was no turning, the side facing the sun could be in continuous light and the side facing away would be in continuous darkness.

Keep turning for one hour and what happens to you. Why doesn't earth get dizzy? It is strange. You have to ask this question. Why the earth doesn’t get dizzy? Because when you are rejoicing in love of Allah swt you never get dizzy. The earth is dancing love of Allah.

تُسَبِّحُ لَهُ السَّمَاوَاتُ السَّبْعُ وَالأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهِنَّ وَإِن مِّن شَيْءٍ إِلاَّ يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدَهِ وَلَـكِن لاَّ تَفْقَهُونَ تَسْبِيحَهُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ حَلِيمًا غَفُورًا

Tusabbihu lahu as-samawatu as-sab`u wa’l-ardu w aman feehinna wa in min shayin illa yusabbihu bi-hamdihi wa lakin la tafqahoona tasbeehahum innahu kana haleeman ghafooran.

The seven heavens and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory: there is not a thing but celebrates His praise; And yet ye understand not how they declare His glory! Verily He is Oft-Forbearing, Most Forgiving. Al-Isra [17:44]

Everything is praising its Lord. Its life is through its praising. Its turning is through its praising, as long as earth praising earth turning. As long as Allah takes away that praising from the earth then it will stop. That is why Allah said”

يَوْمَ تُبَدَّلُ الأَرْضُ غَيْرَ الأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاوَاتُ وَبَرَزُواْ للّهِ الْوَاحِدِ الْقَهَّارِ

Yawma tubaddalu alardu ghayra alardi waalssamawatu wabarazoo lillahi alwahidi alqahhari

ne day the earth will be changed to a different earth, and so will be the heavens, and (men) will be marshalled forth, before Allah, the One, the Irresistible; Ibrahim [14:48]

When We change earth to a different earth and We change the Universe to a different universe. And we are all standing in Allah’s Grandeur.

Where are we going with all our tyranny? Tyrants are filling the earth for what? For a little bit of money. We don't need kings; we don’t need tyrants; we don’t need anyone. There's one king: that is the King of kings. And one representative: Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلاَئِكَةِ إِنِّي جَاعِلٌ فِي الأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً

Wa idh qaala rabbuka lil-malaikati innee innee ja`ilun fil ardi khalipha. [Al-Baqara, 2:30]

Allah sent Adam carrying the light of Prophet for him to be representative. His reality was carried from Sayyidina Adam Alayhissalam all the way to his father. From Sayyidina Ibrahim Alayhissalam to Sayyidina Isma`il Alayhissalam...

People are abnormal. We have to say the truth. When people go back to normal. We are abnormal. If we are normal we would see Prophet (s).

وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ فِيكُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

Wa `alamoo anna feekum RasulAllah. You have to know the Prophet (s) is among you, in you. Al-Hujurat [49:7]

So Allah swt made earth to turn to carry humanity to carry the human race, to carry the beloved ones, to carry the honored ones.

وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ

Wa laqad karramna bani adam. We have honored the sons of Adam; Al-Isra [17:70]

Earth is happy.

Why Mars and Pluto and Jupiter and Venus and all these stars there is no life on them? There was? But they were crying for human being to live on earth. They were crying, crying, crying until they nashara, dried up.

$Other planets crying until dried up. Out of their yearning heart, when yearning for something and cannot get it, it became dry. These planets where full of happiness. When Allah swt chose and decide that it will be on earth they,

When you cry what happens to your eyes? They become dry, and they become big and red. Swollen. These planets become dry out of their love because they wanted receive those whom Allah swt honored. They wanted them [human beings] on their planet. Allah gave them to earth and made the earth to turn around its axle, rejoicing, happy turning and praising Allah swt.

Allah wants to continue the time, the calculation. Allah created the moon to turn around the earth. Allah swt wanted to create month so moon turn around earth. Why the moon doesn’t turn like the earth around it axle? Allah wanted to create the month.

And why Allah put the earth and moon together to turn around the sun? Allah wants to create the year. Every planet is praising the Lord, that is its life. When Allah wants he pulls that secret out and everything changes.

So movement is important in our lives. If our heart does not move towards to be attracted and to move towards love of the Prophet (s) then it is a dead heart. Because to be a living heart it has to living in the sense of real life, that is to observe everything.

But we cannot observe anything, what do we observe except these four walls?

As he said this story. As if no one saw him. The only one saw him was this one. That one was one of those awliya. Who came covering, veiling. Camouflage. Mawlana wants one person. Enough.

So Awliya can see what other people cannot see. Because they are in constant movement towards the Prophet (s). Because they are in one direction. Only one.

Our hearts how may directions we have in it? When we pray Salat an-Najaat and then

When we go into sajda. What is it we observe? Is anything happen to your eyes? Do you see light flashing in the eyes when you are in sajda. [yes] who said “yes”? Check yourself when you go to sajda. If you are making closing your eyes, making sajda, Its like camera flashes comes to the eyes. You are not paying attention. If you pay attention you can see it. When you close your eyes and you are in sajda, not during the prayer, and it takes a longer time, because you are doing sajda like 10 minutes, you begin to notice flashes like a camera flash, it comes and goes, comes and goes. That is one of the first levels that takes you towards the presence of the Prophet (s). They flash to you the light that if you follow you reach there. And that must happen if you really focus on it. Try it.

This is one of the secrets, Mawlana said, "give it out.” So if you keep focusing on that you can see the flashes growing up; they are coming and going, coming and going. Might be two or three flashes come. Or it might be continuous flashes. That is blinking like a minaret. That light is blinking to show you the direction you have to follow. At that time you mist know that your shaykh is taking you to by your hand to Prophet (s). if you focus well it will keep coming and then suddenly a huge flash comes and you are there.

We are asking Allah to show us that and to keep these blinking continuous and to open to us in order that we are able to see what's necessary in order to guide us. We don't want to be arrogant with all our sins and say we are there. No we are not. We want them to take us.

So everything depends on movement and these flashes are movements. The movement of light; it is moving at a speed of 300 km. per second.

قَدْ جَاءكُم مِّنَ اللّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ

Qad ja’akum min Allahi Nurun wa kitabin mubeen. There hath come to you from Allah a (new) light and a perspicuous Book [Al-Ma'idah, 5:15]

The light is Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

The `ulama of Islam expressed that light, nur, as Sayyidina Muhammad (s). In physics everything has a variable speed except light. Everything in this universe is variable, it changes. And Allah swt said light is Muhammad. It is constant; it doesn’t change. Only there will be change when light is coming with a speed of 300 km. per second, based on the criteria of earth and the atmosphere it might get less a little bit, it might change. That is where awliyaullah receive. The Prophet (s) gives them. Awliyaullah, Allah gives them from that secret and depending on where they are there might be a little variation in their light; there may be some friction. It depends on where it is moving, in the atmosphere or in space.

It can go from 300 km to 280 km per second. They reach their students in that speed, just as the light comes from earth to moon in one second.

That's why what Prophet (s) gives awliya is different, sometimes it depends on your environment. They are reaching you in that speed. Imagine how shuyukh are so quick to reach their students. By that light, the Nurul-Muhammadi, the Muhammadan Light. That's why his grandchildren are carrying that light until Judgment Day.

تركت فيكم ما إن تمسكتم به لن تضلوا كتاب الله وسنتي

That's why Prophet (s) said, “I have left among you two matters by holding fast to which, you shall never be misguided: Allah’s Book and the Sunnah of His Prophet.” [al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan al-kubra, al-Hakim and Malik in his Muwatta]

‏ ‏قال رسول الله ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏إني قد تركت فيكم ما إن أخذتم به لن تضلوا بعدي ‏الثقلين ‏أحدهما أكبر من الآخر كتاب الله حبل ممدود من السماء إلى الأرض ‏وعترتي ‏أهل بيتي ألا وإنهما لن يفترقا حتى يردا علي الحوض

And the Prophet (s) said:

"I am leaving among you that which if you hold to it, you shall never go astray, one of them greater than the other: Allah's Book?a rope extended down from the heaven to the earth?and my mantle (`itra), the People of my House. These two shall never part ways until they come to me at the Pond. Look well to how you act with them after me." [al-Tirmidhi (hasan ghareeb) and al-Hakim]

Take care of my family, don’t give them - what do you say? A bad look. Respect my light in them at least if nothing but that.

We leave that here and we say, Ya Rabbee, this is last day of Ramadan. And tomorrow is Eid. We like to have Eid, but Eid to be in Your Presence and the Presence of Your Prophet (s) and presence of your Awliya. And to have real Eid. Real Eid is when we stop committing sins. Through Your Grace, Your Generosity, Your Mercy, for we are weak people, and for You to support us from not committing sins and to make us to be with the Prophet (s) in dunya and akhira. And to respect his family and to respect everyone else, and to give us a cure from every ailment: kullin dain wa dawwa'in. Ajarna min adhab an-nar wa min fitnat al-masih ad-dajjal. W'adkhalna al-jannata ma` al-abraar. Allahuma taqabal minna siyaam Ramadan wa atina Haqiqat siyam. W’albisna min haqiqat anwar ramadan. Albasni min khilat min anwarika.

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La yanfa`u dhul jaddi minka al-jadd.

O Allah change from imitational fasting to real fasting and dress us with robes of light from Your Prophet (s) and dress us from Your Beautiful Names and Attributes.

Bi hurmatil habbi, bi hurmatil-Fatiha.

This is, whatever we say is in limits and limits according to our levels. And to awliya it is higher. Common people have limits and awliyaullah have higher level limits and they have their limits. then there are higher level awliya and they have their limits that is why Allah said in Holy Qur'an above every knower there is a Bigger knowledge they can give. And then they have limits. Then there are higher Awliya.

نَرْفَعُ دَرَجَاتٍ مِّن نَّشَاء وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِي عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ

Narfa`u darajatin man nashao wafawqa kulli dhee `ilmin `aleem

We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. Yusuf [12:76]

It means don't say about yourself your “I am something.” There is one above you, so why to raise your head? There is one already there. If you raise your head, [he will say to you:] "O how are you?” “O, you are there!?” So you cannot go up.

ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ الْبَصَرُ خَاسِأً وَهُوَ حَسِير

Thumma irji`i ’lbasara karratayni yanqalib ilayka al-basaru khasian wa huwa haseer Yea, turn thy vision [upon it] again and yet again: [and every time] thy vision will fall back upon thee, dazzled and truly defeated [Al-Mulk (Dominion) 67:4]

You look up to the stars it reflects back to you, take your eyes from there you have limits. You cannot understand us. You are in limits. Even if you have hundreds of Hubble telescopes. Yes, why are you looking up. Your knowledge is superficial knowledge. So that is our limits everything in limits. Fawqa kulli dhi `ilmin `aleem.

Whatever you speak about there is higher. Everything ends up with the Prophet (s). Because from him this knowledge comes.

Allah gives to him and he gives to us.

May Allah swt teach us how to respect Prophet (s) and how to respect our shuyukh.

Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi hurmatil-Fatiha.