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.
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