Explanation of Sultan al-Awliya's (q) Order
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
21 October 2010 Lefke, Cyprus
Suhbah before Dhikr
A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.
every day in (new) Splendour doth He (shine)! (ar-Rahman, 55:29)
First of all, I would like to say that Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) is sending salaams to all of you, those who are here and those who are viewing us from all around the globe. He is sending salaams and saying, “As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh.” As you know, we are all students of our shaykh, we are disciples, and all of us are on the same level in his eyes. He wants us to always be united and to work together as much as we can, in order to keep his name up so he can be happy when presenting every one of us every night to the presence of the Prophet (s). Awliyaullah have a time with Prophet (s) in the spiritual realm. They present their mureeds to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and they have a connection. We can say that some of them have an audio connection, and we can say that some of them have a video connection, and some of them are always in his presence. And tonight, the message is clear and carries many meanings that he made yesterday. I am thanking everyone who heard it.
He said, and I am not repeating it, this is what he said just now, “This is one chapter that passed and we are moving to the next chapter. For that first chapter that passed, people must learn what I have said.” And this is what I am quoting, “For one year and a half on the Internet, with about 500 suhbahs, associations on the Internet, people must understand our way and know what we say. And they have to think about every word that I have mentioned. And every word I have mentioned, people have to meditate on it.”
This does not mean listening to his suhbah, with the words going in one ear and coming out the other; that is not a real, perfect hearing. Hearing must be with two ears and be kept inside, to digest and to study what he has said.
There was one `alim in Beirut, who was the head of all scholars in Lebanon and some Middle Eastern countries. In the Middle Eastern countries, whenever they needed a fatwah for a very heavy issue but were unable to put one out, they went to that `alim so he could give them a fatwah. We were at a young age and we were begging that `alim to come and visit Grandshaykh `AbdAllah al-Faiz ad-Daghestani (q) and Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q). But he was an `alim, although not an ordinary `alim; his knowledge was above everyone.
Allah (swt) said:
وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِي عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ
wa fawqa kull dhi `ilmin `aleem.
Above every knower is a (higher) knower. (12:76)
Above every `alim there is a (higher) `alim. In his mind, he knew everything. Finally he came with us, entering into the presence of Grandshaykh (q) and Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q). He came in and shook hands with both of them, but nothing more because he was an `alim. And Grandshaykh (q) opened the suhbah in the presence of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q), that `alim, me, and Shaykh Adnan for three hours, non-stop. As the time passed, that `alim began to melt from sweat. He realized there was a big difference between his knowledge and the knowledge that Grandshaykh (q) was giving and Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) was translating. So, I’m not going to enter into what they discussed, but at the end, and you know in Islam it is not acceptable in Shari`ah to go on the feet and kiss the feet, but people do that out of their love, which is forgiven. It is not the niyyah of a sajdah (of worship) since sajdah is exclusively for Allah (swt), but it is the niyyah of expressing the love and the humbleness towards your shaykh. That is it, and it is acceptable.
So that `alim, with his study and his memorization of Qur’an, when he was seven years of age he was a walking encyclopedia! When the suhbah finished, he kissed the feet of Grandshaykh (q). He said to us in the car when we were going back to Beirut, “If I am going to put out books from every word that Grandshaykh (q) mentioned, each word would give a book of not one-hundred, but in one-thousand pages I can give an explanation of every word he spoke! And about these issues, I had seven issues I had put in my heart before I came to see him, and he answered my seven questions without me having to ask him!" One of them I will mention, that `ismAllahi 'l-`Azham, one of the greatest Names of Allah (swt), about which Sayyidina Musa (a) asked, “Yaa Rabbee! Show me that Name!” So, in any case, what we want to say is when awliyaullah say something, they know that our physicality cannot take it, but the heart can. Therefore, they filled our souls and our spirituality with all these different knowledges that they were pouring.
Recently Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) said, referring to the 500 suhbas he gave (on Sufilive) within one year and a half, “I want them to understand that what I have said, they have to learn it by themselves.” Go back and check his suhbahs. Write notes, put questions and answers to yourself, and learn what he gave or else we are considered lazy! If we only want to sit and hear what he is saying, without thinking and learning what he is saying, how can we deliver his message; what are you going to say to people? We have to learn!
Allah (swt) said to Prophet (s):
“Time is approaching,” Mawlana said. He said yesterday, “There is no more Sufism,” this means he wants to address those who criticize tasawwuf. That is the literal meaning, the meaning that everyone can see. It is like saying to your opponent, “Alright, cancel Sufism, but cancel Salafism and Wahhabism as well.” Because Salafism does not exist; it exists only in Salaaf as-Saalih, the three centuries after Prophet (s). That is what is considered in Islamic history the "Salaaf as-Saalih", real Salaaf. It means they followed in the footsteps of Prophet (s), where all the imaams came in that time. So it means, "Alright, we will not say there is tasawwuf, and you don’t say there is Salafism.”
Allah (swt) said:
And he is waking us up to reach the third level of Islam. What is the third level of Islam? It is Maqaam al-Ihsaan, about which Prophet (s) said:
An ta`bud-Allah ka-annaka taraah fa in lam takun taraah fa-innahu yaraak.
To worship Allah as if you are seeing Him and if you cannot see Him, know that He is seeing you.
When Jibreel (a) asked Prophet (s), “Yaa Rasoolullah! What is the status of Maqam al-Ihsaan, the level of moral excellence?" Prophet (s) answered, "To worship Allah as if you are seeing Him.” It means Rabbaaniyoon, that is the era of now opening that maqaam on every mureed that was previously closed. You have to achieve it, you have to run for it! Now, there is tajalli for them, they know what they say, that has been opened for their petitions and their du’as, that they come to Prophet (s) every day. They are asking, begging, and requesting that Allah (swt) will open something from that tajalli! So that is coming for everyone who is connected to Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q).
Allah (swt) said in Holy Qur'an:
قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَى أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَّحْمَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ
Qul yaa `ibadeeya 'Lladheena asrafoo `alaa anfusihim laa taqnatoo min rahmatillahi innallaha yaghfuru 'dh-dhunooba jamee`an, innahu huwa al-ghafooru 'r-raheem.
Say (yaa Muhammad), "O you servants of mine who have harmed themselves! Don't despair of Allah's mercy. Ask forgiveness, and Allah will forgive you. (39:53)
وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا مِن رَّسُولٍ إِلاَّ لِيُطَاعَ بِإِذْنِ اللّهِ وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ إِذ ظَّلَمُواْ أَنفُسَهُمْ جَآؤُوكَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُواْ اللّهَ وَاسْتَغْفَرَ لَهُمُ الرَّسُولُ لَوَجَدُواْ اللّهَ تَوَّابًا رَّحِيمًا
Wa law annahum idh dhalamu anfusahum jaa’ooka f 'astaghfarullaha w 'astaghfara lahumu 'r-rasoolu la-wajadoollaha tawwaaban raheema.
If only, when they had been oppressors to themselves, they had come to you (O Prophet) and asked Allah's forgiveness, and if the Prophet had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah oft-Returning, Merciful. (4:64)
Allah said in Holy Qur'an:
قُلِ اللّهُ ثُمَّ ذَرْهُمْ فِي خَوْضِهِمْ يَلْعَبُونَ
qul Allah wa dharhum fee khawdihim yal`aboon.
Say "Allah," then leave them to plunge in vain discourse and trifling. ( Surat al-An`am, 6:91)
(Mawlana Shaykh Hisham recites khatm.)
After khatm:
He said, “They closed from up.”
We said, “Yaa Sayyidee! You are the one up and you can open it back again!”
He said, “Tell them,” and this is today, just now, this last part, “we will see.”
So all of you, it is our duty here and those who are hearing and watching us (on Sufilive), to request to Allah (swt) that he will give back what he used to give in suhbahs. And truly, his tajalli was very strong yesterday! Awliyaullah have sealed something and they are not saying what it is. That means a permission came from Prophet (s) to Sayyidina Mahdi (a), because he is waiting for a permission to say Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Something has been passed to the hearts of awliyaullah, because I know that Mawlana never stopped suhbah in all his life, he can speak all night and all day, but there have been some changes. So tonight in the sajdah of Salaat an-Najaat, ask for Mawlana Shaykh to resume what he said he would stop, and we ask for that from all of us!
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