Allah's Greatness cannot be Understood

Live Broadcast with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim
from Lefke, Cyprus 25 June 2009, ‘Asr time

[Shaykh Hisham: (reading from chat) Sometimes they miss the awrad because too much dunya, what they have to do?]

I am not concerned such things now, leave them. I am not sitting here to answer such questions. If she has a shaykh or naib ash-shaykh, she may ask. I am not occupying myself with answering such things. I am sitting here for whole world, not for what mureeds are doing, no, no. I dont like someone to ask such questions. There is Shaykh huna,[indicates Shaykh Hisham] such quesiotns he may answer and we may say only, we are sayng, first of all, as-salaam `alaykum, our brothers and sisters in Islam, or through human family. Brothers and sisters. We are only to speak, for whole nations from East to West from North to South. Please don’t ask any quesiton concering yourself, but for whole nation you may ask. I don’t like “what am I doing for our dhikr? What is the way for progress for my tariqah?” This is not important. That is something making shaytan to occupy such a meetings, not to be given granting to whole people. I am sorry and I am angry. Please no one asking any question concerning herself or himself, or his family, no. And we are saying as-salaamu `alaykum. Whole nations, that they are members of weak [big] human nature, tree, may Allah forgives us. [ameen]
Peace for you. I am asking from my shaykh or from my guide or from my teacher, asking from him, that he is supporting me, through spiritually, he is supporting. And I am asking humbly from my guide, that I am believing that whole prophets they are guides, and whole people that they are following prophets really, they are guides for mankind. And everyone from mankind must ask a guide.
And I am listening to my guide, what he is throwing to my heart, spiritual heart. I don’t mean to say when I am saying my heart, that piece of ...flesh, no. That every creature they have a physical flesh heart.
We are believers in holy books, Shaykh Hisham Effendi. That we have been created by the Lord of Heavens. Our physical being just that mentioned through whole holy books as Allah Almighty by His, by Himself, even saying “by His Hands,” but it is for understanding because wthout hands doing something, we can’t imagine.
Therefore the Lord of Heavens, [demonstrates with hand], asking to make a understanding for mankind because people may ask, they are asking, “first man, who created?” It is mentioned through holy books that first man is Adam, peace be upon him, and upon every prophet and upon the most glorified prophet Sayyidina Muhammad (s), it is not too much to people to stand up for his honor. Some people may object on that point, “For what Shaykh is standing up? For the name of the Seal of the Prophets?”
“Yes.”
Man, if they are knowing people, according to their knowledge they are knowing. But for so many things that they are not knowing they are ignorants. Yes, may object. They object because they are not knowing for what they are standing up.
I am asking a very surprised question to those that they are saying “Why Shaykh is standing up when the name of the Seal of Prophets just mentioned?” Yes. We are Muslims. And our knowledge from holy books and from holy ones; our knowledge is not a production from our..., or through our inspirations (searching for right word)...not inspirations...our knoweldge is not sammarat at-tafakkur, [it is not the fruit of reflection] it is not the fruit of reflection, yeah.
Two kinds of knowledge in eveyr religion but particularly in Islam. One `aqlee, naqlee, naqlee that is coming from Prophet, or from prophets, reaching to ourselves through Prophet’s inheritors. And thani, and second one, knowledge it is the sammara, the fruits of our thinking, that knowledge coming throughs according to the capacity of our understanding and according to our logics, [logic], [logic Sayyidee]. Logic.
Two kinds of knowledge in Islam: naqli, coming from Prophet (s) or from prophets, reaching to ourselves through the purpose of (spiritual) inheritance. And the second one, knowledge of the fruit of thinking, coming through according to the capacity and understanding, and according to our logic.
And Islam is coming as a heavenly message from Heavens and you must believe it without saying “why”, or “no”! You can’t ask for divinely revelation, you can’t ask “why?” or “for what?” You cant do a decision for heavenly revelations. You can’t use your minds or your logic because you have a logic (that) it is a miniature balance, and you are asking some questions for balancing on that small miniature balance. It is impossible. For example, you can balance this whole world on a balance? How? Impossible! Therefore, it if forbidden to use your own logic for balancing news that’s coming from Heavens as a revelation from the Lord of Heavens to His selected servants! That is the biggest problem!
People in our days are asking something that is (of) no possibility. They are asking impossible things, opening impossible things from their understanding! It is impossible. Man is created to be able to believe! Believing something and knowing is something else, because if you are trying to know everything, you can’t know it as you like. You can say amantu billah, I am believing, and that is the wrong way. Whole nations are asking, “Why this, why that?” Whole countries, it is so `ajeeb, very strange, unacceptable!
To believe, you must not use your logic! You must say, “Yes, this is coming from Heavens. I am believing because with … you are able to understand.
Therefore, Allah Almighty, jalla jallahu, He was using through revelations, a method that people may figure out, so that giving something as (the size of) a microbe of understanding, its very small; maybe their understanding is as much as an atom! Therefore, people are asking, “From where we are coming?” because they don’t know Heavens!
(Allah is) saying, “I created Heavens and Earth, and I created your first father, I created for understanding everyone,” He (Allah) is saying, “by My hands.”
We can’t imagine that we can do something; therefore, we don’t know Heavens descending to the levels of understanding of people, and saying, “I created Adam with My hands” then they are saying, “Yes, yes it is true.”
And there you must believe! You may ask, “Allah Almighty has hands?” If we are saying “no hands”, they are saying, “We have hands, and with our hands anyone…” they can’t imagine. That means they don’t know Heavens. Yes! He (Allah) has hands. Therefore when foolish people (are) objecting on the Seals of Prophets (s) and say “yadullahi maghloula” They are saying “Our hands are open but Your Lord’s hands are tied,” that is their understanding level, no more they can think on it. But the Lord of Heavens, glory to Him! He …. a hand, as you are thinking, or imagining, no! That is their level. They are saying, “Allah has this, yes, His hands are tied and our hands are open.”
He is not in need a Hand as you are thinking or tasawwur, imagining. No. That is their level. Level of understanding. They are saying “Allah’s hands are just tied but our hands are open.” And Allah Almighty refusing “bal yadahu mabsootataan” that his hands are just spread, to everywhere and to eveything. Everything taking their shares for being in existence from their Lords’ Divinely Hands reaching to everything and giving them everything that they are in need! MashaAllah! Holy Quran! Subhanallah, Ma `adhamoo. So big, so mu`azzam, Allahu Akbar, Allah Almighty’s words, Divinely Words, Divinely Descriptions the way people, so endless Oceans, may Allah forgive us!
Yes, we are coming for something that we are saying, bil inglize, [glorifying Prophet Sayyidee] ta’azeem an-Nabi, glorifying Prophet (s), glorifying the Seal of Prophets (s).
You may ask, do you think we need doctors in Islam? You would think Allah Almighty’s glorifying is something you can ihaata encompass. Allah Almighty’s words no one can do a limit of understanding. Yes. Allah Almighty just glorified Adam first. For what? Glorifying Adam for his most noble and glorified son, Sayyidina Muhammad (s) [adhan is called, Shaykh stands up] Allahu Akbar Allahu abkar, shahid al-haqq.
(Brief exchange with Shaykh Hisham in Arabic) Wasalna ila hadarat an-nabi. Kam kalima ba`dayn?
(Du’a)
(discussion of duration of recording, now at 40 minutes)
Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. What you are in need is an Ocean and don’t think that the Divinely Being has only one Ocean. Countless oceans! Therefore, we are coming and speaking something that (is) so small, so small, also sending according to the capacity of Mankind; as long as they are using their logic, it cannot be granted more than this, and it is an Ocean, even (though) you can’t put your feet in, not approaching (it), but from far away you may look and our Lord, His divinely attributes, His whole purpose, they are trembling for that addressing, His Holy Name, that Allah Almighty is (`Alaam al-ghuyyoob).
Yahtaz li `alaam al-ghuyoob - whole prophets they are trembling for that addrssing, His Holy Name, that Allah almighty is `Alaam al-ghuyoob. `Alaam al-ghuyoob. I am nothing, but every time but every time I am passing through some sentences that Allah Almighty `Alaam al-ghuyoob, my whole being trembling for the `azhamah, for the Greatness that yudhish al-`uqool, [make the mind astonished, stunned] astonished. Subhanallah!
Therefore, I think that once that we are granted to Mankind and we can … it is a very, very, very short association, we may continue on it after next week, next month, next year, never finishing. Do you think that a person with buckets can be able to make oceans water to take and throw it away? It is possible or impossible? Impossible! But we must say something what is impossible, because 21st century scientists or scholars think it is so easy to speak about the Lord of Heavens, and the Lord of Creation. Big mistake! I am saying they must be able to take a bucket and finish (emptying) the Pacific Ocean! First of all, he must have a (considerable) distance that when he is taking with his bucket from the Pacific Ocean and taking and putting there(he must have somewhere vast enough to pour that water). Possible or impossible? But people are thinking, when I am speaking, asking such foolish questions, that there is not meaning, and from their questions is a sign of their ignorance.
The Lord of Heavens is saying, “Ask to know, because there is not limits in knowing for you!”
If I was leaving you in a limited Ocean, you may say, “What is behind that limited Ocean?” And now that Ocean, you are asking to reach to that point.
Therefore, Allah Almighty is making them to think and always … their limited understanding.
Qaalat namlatun [ayat about the ant and King Solomon] Just one ant is speaking or spoke, or addressed, to whole ants according to its knowledge it was saying, and all the ants quickly run to their holes. (That ant instructed them), “Take care for yourself, that King Solomon and his soldiers are passing and may destroy you, and to your homes, quickly run away!”
That is the capacity of knowledge; that is the understanding, and we, what we are saying, knowledge of, you don’t know Heavens. If you are asking to know everything, His knowledge is a Pacific Ocean, the biggest ocean. You like to know everything, yes—take! Take in buckets (from Divine Knowledge)! Take! Finish!
First of all you can’t find a distance like Pacific Ocean, it’s a big mass. Then you are taking from here to put there, from here to put there. One ocean is not in limits. Because is it Allah Almighty’s Oceans (of knowledge). But ignorant Man is asking as if it is in limits, but take more! Yes, according to your capacity! Look at yourself in front of a mirror, and (see) what you are claiming. But people now are following Shaytan and Shaytan is giving them such a position, and we are such a people, and we must show everything how it is going to be.
That is the beginning of ignorance on Earth, because they are making people to get out of the circle of discipline (adab). They are asking people to pass their limits; it is not their capacity to pass on an ocean! SubhanaAllah! So knowledge that just reached from prophets, it is like an atom, it may be like an ocean, full of knowledge.
O Mankind, leave that pride and come say, “O my Lord! You are everything and we are nothing!”
People just lost their good adab, and always asking some things that it is not from good adab. Know your limit and keep your adab! May Allah forgive us. As salamu `alaykum.
[Shaykh Hisham: bahr sayyidee, a big ocean, Allah zeedak.]
Barakat Shaykh Hisham Efendi, lam yudhkar, na`m. Now is coming time to make some methods to make their heads down. Now their head like this with pride. Now just coming new generations that making old generations that are claiming something that is not for them, to make their heads down. O our Lord forgive us! O our Lord, bless us. O our Lord give peace to our hearts. You are the Only One; You are azali, Pre-Eternal up to Eternal. Thanks bi laa haddin, [without limit] to You. Thanks ever-ending thanks to You, O Our Lord. Please forgive us. Please bless us, ourselves, to be on your way. That you mentioned to your holy ones ,your beloved ones, your elected ones, your glorified ones’ way. Salaam alaykum. Fatiha.
[Shaykh Hisham: 50 minutes. ]
As-salamu alaykum. Fatiha.
Huuu, huuuu, huuu coming from that Ocean. And Mankind is so small, in limits, come with adab. O Man, don’t be proud! O Man, try to be a servant! Fatiha.
(Discussing with Shaykh Hisham how many people are logged on sufilive.com, and reading names of countries) Algeria, Brunei, Iran, Egypt, Italy, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Pakistan, Mauritius, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, France, Bangladesh, Argentina, Australia, Lebanon, Indonesia, Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, Canada, UK, USA.
(Shaykh Hisham explains to Mawlana Shaykh how people are watching via computer.)
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim: “Subhanallah!”

The Du'a of the Saint of Rajab

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

Tuesday, Sep 23, 2003
Allahumma inni astagfiruka min kulli ma tubtu lahu ilayka summa ‘udtu fih. Wa astagfiruka min kulli ma aradtu bihi wajhika wa khalatani fihi ma laysa fihi ridak. Wa astagfiruka linni`am allati taqawwaytu biha `ala ma’siyatik. Wa astagfiruka min azzunub allati la ya`lamuhu gayruka wa la yattali`u `alayha ahadun siwak wa la yasa`uha illa rahmatika wa la tunji minha illa magfiratuka wa hilmuk. La ilaha illa Anta Subhanaka inni kuntu min azzalimin.
Allahuma inni astagfiruka min kulli zulmin zalamtu bihi `ibadak. Fa ayyama `abdin min `ibadika aw amatin min ima’ika zalamtu fi badanihi aw `irdihi aw malihi fa atihi min khaza’inik allati la tanqus. Wa as’aluka an tukrimani birahmatik allati wasi`at kulla shay’in wa la tuhinani min ‘azabika wa ta`tiyani ma as’aluka fainni haqiqun birahmatika ya arhamur rahimin. Wa sallAllahu `ala Sayiddina Muhammadin wa `ala alihi wa sahbihi ajma`in. Wa la hawla wa la quwwata illa billahil Aliyyul Azim.

O Allah, I ask forgiveness of You for everything for which I repented to You then returned to. And I ask forgiveness of You for everything I displeased You with and all that concerns me with which You are displeased. And I ask forgiveness of You for the favors which I used for increasing my disobedience towards You. And I ask forgiveness of You for the sins which no one knows except You and no one sees except You and nothing encompasses except Your Mercy and nothing delivers from except Your forgiveness and clemency. There is no God except You alone. You are the Most High, and I was one of the [self] oppressors!
O Allah, I ask forgiveness of You for the injustice I committed against Your servants. Whatever of Your male or female servants whom I have hurt, physically or in their dignity or in their property give them of Your bounty which lacks nothing. And I ask You to honor me with Your mercy which encompasses all things. Do not humble me with Your punishment but give me what I ask of You, for I am in great need of Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful. May Allah send blessings upon Muhammad and upon all his companions. There is no power and no might except in Allah the High, the Exalted.

Love

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani

The Lord created us and loves us; that is why everyone loves love. No one complains of love or wants it to be taken from him, but all want to be loved more. Where are you seeking love? Are you taking pure water from the gushing source, or muddy, slimy water from the ditch? You love people, but they will die. Perhaps your love will be unrequited, or because of a small error or indiscretion on your part that person's heart will harden to you and love will be no more. You say that you love him or her, but do you love him or her unconditionally? Is your love permanent-love for the real immaculate divine essence living in that person, or temporary, as a result of some desirable attributes: beauty, youth, wealth, station or wit? When that beautiful, young, wealthy, clever, amiable socialite becomes an ugly, old, penniless, senile, grumpy outcast will you still love her? Is your love of the spirit or of the world?

Oh people, seek real love, a love that cannot go astray. That love is the love of God and the love of his creatures for the sake of His love for them. That love emanation may bind all receptive hearts. There is a common saying: "The friend of a friend is a friend", so love people if you love God, for you must know that He loves them. It is not always easy to love people, even good people, so what about the Korahs of this world?

Love pertaining to the ego is not love, as all the ego knows is to love itself, and what is commonly called love is but a mutual understanding to support each other's egoism. Don't trust your ego, nor anyone else's, for the ego is disloyal by nature. When the spirit gains ascendancy the ego may be harnessed and put to good use, as the Holy Prophet (sallallaho alayahi wasallam) said: "Your ego is your mount", but left to its whims it will take you many miles from your path in search of herbage.

This discourse is an Ocean, its summary is: what is of the world beware of, and pay attention to the dose. When crossing that ocean embark on a sturdy ship with well maintained lifeboats and life-preservers, and if you swim in it keep your head above water!

The Value of the Prophet's Worship

Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani

May 8, 2009

Lefke, Northern Cyprus

In The name of Allah, The All-Compassionate, All-Merciful, Audhu billahiminash shaytanirrajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, alhamdulillahi Rabbil alemiyn

 

As salamu alaikum!

Audhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

Allahumma ja'alna minallladhina yastami`oona min qawlaka wa yattabi`oona ahsana! Amin! Amin! Amin!

Madad ya Sultan-ul Awliya, madad ya RijalAllah!

If Allah Almighty asking to do something, nothing going to be difficult for Him Almighty. 'Tariqatuna as-sohbet wal khayru fiy jam'iyya', that is our ways, we're Naqshibandiyyin alhamdulillah Allah Almighty granting us that honor to be follower of Most Distinguished Naqshibandi Order. Allahu Qadirun Allah Almighty He can do eveything: only He's saying for something 'Be!' and coming in existence or going to be. O people, what do you think, you know mosquito, ha? You know? Don't be drunk people in front of me! You must give your hearing what we're saying; I'm not claiming that I'm a `alim knowing person, I'm only weakest servant for those distinguished servants of Allah Almighty, distinguished, most distinguished servants after Prophet's sahabe, sahabe companions, Naqshibandi Order. Listen! If Allah Almighty asking to hang this world on a wing of mosquito, He can do? Hahha, boyle sallanir da! anladin mi?! yoksa anlamadin? ha? And may tie like this, my beards, ne diyor ona, sen de ingilizce bilmen; sakalin teline ne derler? A beard, may put on it all this world and hanging on a mosquito; are you believing? Hahha, eh, He can do everything! Nasil, inaniyorsun yoksa, eh Allah, Allah Jalla Jalaluhu! You must, you must try to know about your Lord's power, power and His possibility that He can do! Everything that may come to your mind or through your heart, He may do.. beyond that that you can't reach, He can do, able to do!

Those people just going to be punished because they're not asking to know Allah Almighty's power and ability, capability, able to do everything and beyond that you can't think on it! That is biggest mistake for mankind living on earth now because they never thinking Who is their Creator! Qadirun Muqtadir, Able to do eveything that you can imagine, beyond your imaginations He's able to do eveything, Allah The Great, you must try to know. Should be last day, Day of Resurrection, Day of Judgment Day and should be balance in Divinely Presence that He's going to look through that balance what they did from goodness or they did from badness.

Through traditional knowledge from the Seal of Prophets Sayyidina Muhammad (Maulana stands up for holy Prophet's honor) sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, Destur ya Sayyidi! Two rak`ats/cycles from the Seal of Prophets Sayyidir Rusul Kiram Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam maybe put on one side of balance, and maybe put whole his nation's servanthood, their prayings with other nations, two rak`ats from the Seal of the Prophets Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, going to be down, heavy! You may, you may use your imagination: 2 rak`ats, how it is going to be more heavy, heavier than whole nations' servanthoods? How it had been? It's a very, very difficult but very important point that man must, must try to know something about their Lord's, yes, the Seal of Prophet's most, most glorified servant in Divinely Presence, that one, 2 rak`ats how it is going to be more agir heavier? Because no one knowing about the Greatness of our Lord Allah Almighty (Maulana stands up). And praying is a grant from servants' side to their Lord. Some bringing this water in a pot just from earth, some of them bringing in such a glass, some bringing through bu naylon nylon cups plastic cups, and therefore this taking a value according to its cup. No one knowing about The Lord of Heavens and earth and The Lord of Divinely Throne like the Seal of Prophets, no one knowing! Therefore Prophet's ta`zim respect towards his Lord about his knowledge the Greatness of The Lord Allah, therefore his respect that he's granting in Divinely Presence about his marifet knowledge about his Lord.

Therefore, O people, your value in Divinely Presence is only according to your knowledge about the Greatness of your Lord, your Creator. Now, people from east to west, Muslim world, non-Muslim world, they're not taking any care about to know Greatness of their Lord Allah Almighty. And I'm sorry, I'm ashaming that we're doing whole mankind doing so many bad things because they're not giving a real respect, and they're not running to know about their Lord's Power and Greatness. Whole cursing coming on people on that point. Therefore, O people, Ma`rifetullah. Asta audhu billah: 'Wa ma khalaqtu al-jinna wa'l insa illa liya'budun aw liya'rifun. Allah Almighty saying: 'I've created man and jinns only for My obediency, only My servanthood, that is their most important mission, missions' missions of mankind to give their highest respect to their Lord Almighty Allah. And, I'm sorry to say that even Islamic world people running after to know how they're reaching more, more, more money, dollars, dollars, dollars or euro, euro, euro, euro, that is.. or golden, gold, gold, gold; gold, they're making gold their God; take and going to be God, running after gold, not running after The Creator of golden, Allah Almighty.

O people, therefore sometimes they're making me to speak, I'm not collecting such a things from books and coming to speak to you but our masters giving something according to our understanding' s level. If anyone reaching something from such speeches or such an association, they should be happiest one here and hereafter. Leave to run after world and its treasures: all of them they're like imagination; when you're closing your eyes, finished, and one day coming that we're closing our eyes not opening, finished!

O people, when you're closing your eyes, another world coming in your sight and you will see what you did or what you're not doing through your life and repenting but useless!

O people, beware time for your Lord and His Divinely Existence to know more and more and more, and no way to know from your Lord's Identity without reaching to Prophet, HIs most selected one Sayyidina Rasulullah sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, through his way you can reach, and you can reach to Seal of Prophets only if you're reaching someones from mankind whom they have a way whom they're in relationship with Sayyidina Rasulullah sallallahu ta`ala `alayhi wa sallam; you must look after such people that they should be able to show you something else, something else, some other levels, then after that level another level, another level, another level.. endless levels for reaching to Allah Almighty's Divinely Presence.

O people, welcome to you! You're coming from far distances; Allah bless you! And I'm weak one but I've been ordered to make association with people, and don't blame me when I'm speaking something that it's difficult for understanding to you, and when I'm getting angry, it's spreading everyone here, don't blame me!

May Allah forgive us! (Amin!) May Allah grant from His Endless Mercy Oceans to you and give His Blessings! Be happy, and be gayretli you must try, you must have a arzu you must ask something more, something more, more for your souls to reach levels that never-ending levels! And every level it's enough for a person for eternity The Lord of Heavens giving more and more and more. Today we're here, when we're closing our eyes, finishing everything!

O people, don't waste your lives for nothing, for nothing; finally they're taking us to cemetery to bury our bodies. Our souls then they should be called in Divinely Presence to see, to know and what they did and what they left. May Allah forgive me, you also, and give you much more blessings to you also to understand and to be day by day a good one, good one today we must try to be better than yesterday and tomorrow you must try to be more than today, may Allah grant you here and hereafter from His Endless Mercy Oceans and Glory with the glory of His most glorified servant Sayyidina Rasulullah sallallahu `alayhi wa sallam, Fatiha..!

Run to the Cave of Naqshbandiyya

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

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 praise 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 yusalloona `ala an-nabi… o believers, Muslims, 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 (ra) .

إِلاَّتَنصُرُوهُ 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 (ra) 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 (ra) 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 (ra) 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 (ra), that means they have already acquire and inherited the secret of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (ra) 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 (ra) and with suhbat of all Sahaaba especially with Sayyidina `Umar (ra) and Sayyidina `Uthman and with Sayyidina `Ali (ra) 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) .

No One in their Gathering Will Suffer

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

Allah sent the Prophet (s) as mercy, he is the mercy for all
creation.

Allah created the creation but there is a secret that awliyaullahreceived from the heart of the Prophet and they leak it out to their followers but not everything.

I will say a few words, when Allah swt created He didn’t create yet anything, according to the hadith of the Prophet narrated by ibn Asaakir.

before Allah created anything Allah created the essence of the Prophet (s), the reality of the Prophet (s).

and He put that essence, it needs a very highly holy
divinely house.

Allah will not create without creating what goes with it. And Allah described it in Holy Qur'an as a lamp.

اللَّهُ
نُورُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ مَثَلُ نُورِهِ كَمِشْكَاةٍ فِيهَا مِصْبَاحٌ الْمِصْبَاحُ فِي زُجَاجَةٍ الزُّجَاجَةُ كَأَنَّهَا
كَوْكَبٌ دُرِّيٌّ

Allahu nooru as-samaawaati wa’l-ard. mathalu noorihi ka-mishkaatin feeha misbaah. Al-misbaahu fee zujaajatin az-zujaajatu ka-annaha kawkabun durriyy.

Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. TheParable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star… 24:35

This creation is like a lamp and He put the essence of His Holy Prophet in a kawkabun durri, in a heavenly pearls, heavenly pearly, from pearls, which we can speak about jewels as pearls are mainly white. A lamp that he put His Prophet, the essence, that there it will be more under Allah's direct manifestation.

That is why it is impossible to compare, there is not comparison. You are something and the Prophet (s) is everything. So Allah was manifesting His Light and His Beauty on that essence. And He put that in bahr al-qudrah the Ocean of Power, and that essence was whirling like an engine, turning and generating more and more lights.

So when the Prophet (s) was under that manifestation Allah asked him a question: "who am I and who are you?" O professor ibn Waqqaar!

Allah asked him, “Who am I and who are you? The Prophet (s) said, “Ya Rabbee! Anta al-Qahaar, You are the Subduer is there any other word [for Qahhaar] in English? Yeah but al-Qahaar is the One that crushes everything. The Destroyer who destroys everything. And he said, " wa ana al-`abd - I am the servant."

He didn’t say "a servant" he said, “ana al-`abd - I am the servant.”

It means there is no other `abd that really worshipped as the Prophet (s) worshipped, so there is no comparison.

And Subduer, in the meaning is what? It is the One that crushes, makes something that exists doesn’t exist. He didn’t say to him, “Ya Rabbee you are al-Razzaq; You are al-Hakeem; You are al-Wadud. No, he said, "You are al-Qahaar.”

He didn’t say, "You are al-Rahman and al-Raheem.” Because the Prophet (s) knows what he is saying.

We don’t say, "Ya Rabbee! You are al-Qahaar” because we are afraid of His qahr, He will destroy.

We say, "You are Rahman, al-Rauf, al-Sattaar,” but he said, "You are The Destroyer; The Terminator; nothing exists before The Exterminator. He is a medical doctor, is that correct? [all are correct]

And Allah said, "What do you mean Ya habeebee? Define.”

Who can define there? Can anyone define? No. Can anyone stand this position that the Prophet (s) stands in? No way.

And he said, “Ya Rabbee, did you create anyone yet?” Allah swt said " Ya Muhammad (s) you are the first to be created, so I didn’t create anyone.” The Prophet (s) said, “Ya Rabbee! You didn’t create creation and you are al-Qahaar, the Subduer. That means to me that You are the One that crushes all kinds of sins, [subhanAllah]that You will not let one sin to exist. You are the al-Qahaar, to qahr, to make sins to disappear. That is what I want from you, Ya Rabbee! To terminate and destroy and crush all sins that Your creation is going to do.”

He knew, he was able to see with what Allah gave to him and he said, “What about your description of al-`abd?”

He said, “Ya Rabbee, to me al-`abd is the one who in every moment is in continuous need of your mercy. [subhanAllah] not only when... this is Holy Prophet (s) who is saying, not from time to time, no but in every moment from the beginning of my creation to the end, when there is no end, “I am in need of your presence in dunya in akhira, I am in need always to be under Your Mercy.”

Allah said, " Ya Muhammad (s)! I created for you an Ummah that never gets tired of doing sins and I am their Lord that I never get tired of forgiving them.”

So what do you think now about we just finished dhikrullah, [whether] we were doing it correctly or with mistakes or whatever. The hadith of the Prophet (s), the holy hadith that Allah revealed to the Prophet (s) and the Prophet (s) revealed to the Ummah that “Allah has angels that are roaming in the streets – inna lillahi malaikatu yatufooona feet-turuqaat,
yatalamsoona majalis ahl adh-dhikr. They are roaming looking for the circles of dhikr like telephones roaming with you. That is an authentic hadith of the Prophet (s) and it is a long hadith where Allah asks them “do they know about My Mercy and do they know about My Paradise and do they know about My Hellfire…?” until He says at the end of the hadith to the angels, “fashhad annee ghafarta lahum – be My witnesses that I have forgiven them their sins.”

Sitting half an hour and Allah says, “O my angels you are my witnesses that I have forgiven them.” And the angels say “O there was one who was just waiting to take the keys of the car from one of them [is he included as well?]” Allah says, “hum ul-qawm la yashqa jaleesahmu.” “I am forgiving him for being with them, even though he is not part of that group.”

So we spent half an hour, doing dhikr do you think there will be any sin on us? No, that is a holy hadith of the Prophet (s). I was going to finish without doing dhikr but my shaykh came and said “do the dhikr and do the long dhikr even.” And I recited that as I saw new faces they will get the baraka of that dhikr.

And may Allah keep us on the right way and keep us connected with our shuyukh and especially with our master Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani, may Allah give him long life and give us.

How to Eliminate Negativity from Your Life

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

03-29-2009
Hounslow Mosque Milad

 

Salaam alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh

Please be seated

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Alhamdulillahi rabbil-alameen was-salaat was-salaam ala  ashrafil-`alameena Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala aalihi wa sahbihi wa sallim,

O brothers and sisters may Allah bless you all. It is an honor for me to be here today with Shaykh Suleymani, and Dr. Abdus-Salaam from Palestine and Shaykh Irfan Chisti. May Allah give to Shaykh Suleymani and the board to keep running this mosque on love of Sayyidina Muhammad .

I have to ask you that If you didn’t fill these papers you can fill them and give to us before you go out so we can arrange and call you to events.

Mawlana Shaykh has asked me and his asking to me is like an order to come to London frequently and to look after his students.

The topic I cannot speak about most is to speak about the Prophet . you can speak about any topic, such as discussing hadith and Tafsir, but when it comes to showing our love and the respect to our prophet, I feel my tongue is frozen. Because it is not an easy subject to say what we don’t experience.

To say as professor Dr. Abdul Salaam just mentioned how you love your son and your leader by saying salam day after one day. The feeling of love is not easy and the feeling that takes over your heart and possesses and to become honored by the, light Nuri Muhammad , is not something so simple that needs a lot of work. The Prophet has built up his Sahaba on that. We need builders, we need contractors, we need machineries we need all kind of wirings, we need all kinds of vehicles in order to be able to connect ourselves with this huge contractor that can contract to build us up in every dimension of our lives.

Wiring is not so easy, if you want that energy, that light, you need an electrician to come or an engineer to come and wire the whole system or it will burn everything it will not work. Our whole body has been wired by wires, by veins and capillaries and arteries. If you add them together these arteries and capillaries and veins make millions of millions of miles in order to understand Allah swt and understand the greatness of Sayyidina Muhammad .

That is why Imam al-Busayri was unable to describe the description of the Prophet greatness. Huwa basharun wa laysa kal-bashari - He is  a human being but he is not like human beings. He is the original and we are the copy. We are photocopying machine making copies. And it is good to be copies as they are not responsible. He is the original he is responsible. That is why he said, shafa`atee li ahl al-kabair min ummatee. So we are not responsible we and all scholars in all centuries are like an ant in front  of a lion.

But Allah said `amaloo. Do. So we must do. So we have to know is the wring working or not working.

Allah said in Holy Qur'an: 

 

هَلْ يَسْتَوِي الَّذِينَ يَعْلَمُونَ وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ إِنَّمَا يَتَذَكَّرُ أُوْلُوا الْأَلْبَابِ

hal yastawoon alladheena ya`lamoona walladheen la ya`lamoon - are those who know the same as those who know? [39:9]

What is the different between those who know and those who don’t know. What are these two groups? Those who know are whom? Are they scientists? are they professors, doctors, Nobel prizes’ people or are they scholars, or they are ulama are those who are eyes are opened..?

...

Allah gave that responsibility to Muhammad who is basharun wa laysa kal-bashari. How he went for Isra wa Mi’raj with this body. Did anyone check his body. How can we express… who saw his body, as scientists of today were able to check the body of the Prophet . that is why Muhammad al-Busayri is amazed and cannot express it very well he wants to express out of his love to Sayyidina Muhammad how the Prophet went for Mi’raj. We can understand how he went from Mecca to Madina and to masjid al-aqsaa some scholars say he went to Madina as well.

سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَى بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلاً مِّنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الأَقْصَى الَّذِي بَارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُ لِنُرِيَهُ مِنْ آيَاتِنَا إِنَّهُ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ البَصِيرُ

Subhan-alladhee asra bi `abdihi laylan min al-masjid al-haraam il al-masjid al-aqsa alladhee barakna hawlahu li-nuriyahu min ayaatina innahu huwa as-samee`ul-baseer

Glory be to He who transported His servant by night from the Inviolable House of Worship [at Mecca] to the Remote House of Worship [,at Jerusalem] - the environs of which We had blessed -so that We might show him some of Our symbols: for, verily, He alone is all-hearing, all-seeing. [17:1]

That we can understand. But can you go in space. You cannot go with very complicated machine. What Allah gave to him he was able to move beyond this universe. The creator is Allah swt cannot give direction or space on these issues. These issues we don’t open. But we know the Prophet was able to reach where no one reached. Not using any kind of machinery like they use to go to Mars today. And it has to go in a speed that it takes 3-4 years to reach mars and 3-4 years to return and that might be nearer than sun, where sun is 60 million miles and mars is shorter distance and going and coming needs 8 years.

Yet the Prophet ….

Today they call us extremist and radical but we are the ones who extend our hand to everyone. Love of the Prophet will take extremism from ourselves. Those extreme ideas that some Muslim are going deep into it.

Not to thinks as something from outside.

One sahabi, Sayyidina `Umar (r), he asked about Sayyidina Uwais al-Qarani, and that story I heard it many times from Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. And he said there are things that are known, those who know are not equal to those who don’t know. Those how have cataract cannot see and those who don’t can see. Even between Sahaba they differed on what they received from the Prophet . That is why those who came after, they were collecting the narrations, they were getting from different groups and not every Sahabi had all the knowledge. So the Prophet gave some to some and not to others and vice versa.

And so when the Prophet asked Sayyidina `Umar (r) and Sayyidina `Ali (r) to go to Sayyidina Uwais after he passed and give him a trust. So Sayyidina Uwais asked Sayyidina `Ali (r) can you describe the Prophet . and Sayyidina `Ali (r) said, "Ya Uwais I saw the Prophet one time, in a vision, he asked me to look at him and I saw him from at me from belly and up and I saw whole universe disappeared and up to his neck past the throne.”
“And then he said, ‘Look from my belly and down’ and I looked and everything disappeared of the whole universe and all I saw was the Prophet from the belly down to his knees which I were reaching to the seventh earth and I could not see below his knees”
“And then he said, ‘look at me all.’ And he said then everything disappeared and I saw the Prophet from up to down filling this entire universe.”
So Sayyidina Uwais said, yes, Ya `Ali you really saw him.

When we raise our children with love the Prophet then …

Let us ask ourselves are we able to do that?

Salaam alaykum [scholar leaves]

So when we go one hand they come to us, Allah swt said, I am waiting.

قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَى أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَّحْمَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ

Qul ya `ibadiya alladheena asrafoo `ala anfusihim la taqnatoo min rahmatillahi inna Allaha yaghfiru aldh-dhunooba jamee`an innahu huwa al-ghafooru’r-raheem.
Say: "O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah. for Allah forgives all sins: for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. Az-Zumar [39:53]

 

And we mentioned before in kuntum tuhiboon Allah:

قُلْ إِن كُنتُمْ تُحِبُّونَ اللّهَ فَاتَّبِعُونِي يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللّهُ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوبَكُمْ وَاللّهُ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ

In kuntum tuhiboona-Allaha fatabi`oonee yuhbibkumullah.
We are not stress this because, “If you really love Allah you follow Muhammad, Allah will love you.” [3:31]

That means as soon as you say I want to follow the way of Sayyidina Muhammad and you put your foot step one foot is enough for the Prophet to welcome us and taking us in Allah swt presence and take that cataract away.

You think in this mehfil you think in this gathering today there are no awliyaullah sitting here? But we don’t have eyes to see. There are no angels? There are, Allah mentioned it, the Prophet mentioned it in hadith. Where are they? We cannot see them. Why? Because we are blind.

Are we improving or not? We are improving, showing respect coming here but not enough. How many of us know about his event and didn’t not come. There is no excuse when the name of Sayyidina Muhammad comes in any mosque and any center you must run for it. Naqshbandi, Qadiri, Chisti, anything any tariqah. Even  those who have no tariqah, you hear they are remembering and celebrating the Prophet love and birthday run to celebrate. But we don’t know, we don’t do that.

I was visiting Imam Bukhari mosque in Bukhara where he used to teach Sahih al-Bukhari. It is a big mosque and a school. Not like this mosque, but bigger than that. A huge area. And it takes 10,000 people and I was told not only 10,000 people, but when Imam Bukhari sit to give hadith the masjid capacity is enough for 10,000 people if you include the courtyard and the “parking area” that no, there were more than 30,000 or 40,000 people and there was no speaker system. And everyone was hearing what he was saying. How did that happen? They are wired with this light. We are wired but we are blocked.

I will not be long, but when that light moves, that light of Sayyidina Muhammad the whole heavens, Allah is not waiting for us to make salawat on the Prophet . He ordered us to make salawat, but he and his angels are doing salawat in every moment. By Allah’s orders angels are yusalloon wa la yazaaloon – they are praising and not stopping. They are not in need of our salawat on the Prophet . I will leave that with you. That is the code. I know some people. Don’t smile and don’t laugh. I have to take example and you have to take example. I saw people who are reading 1 million salawat on the Prophet . That is by means of tayy al-lisan. Allah will fold your tongue. There are people with tayy al-lisan. That Allah put light on their tongue they do salawat even when they are talking with people they are doing salawat in their heart in spite of that.

So we must begin by doing salawat on the Prophet .

This will take us to bahr as-salam - the ocean of safety and take away all kinds of radicalization and extremism. I would like to thank Professor Sulaymani and the board and thank Sufi Muslim Council and may Allah give you long life in love of the Prophet . Don’t forget these papers fill them as quickly as possible and we will collect them.