MSN.7 APR 2010.PREPOST.ENG

 Cheating and Dishonesty Will Destroy You

Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

7 April 2010   Lefke, Cyprus

 

Prelude to holy suhbah:

So many people are occupying our time, occupying these cameras also, but most important is that people must imagine only who is speaking when other things are making them to lose something else, because their attention is going for other things also.  Therefore, when finishing Fatihah (at the end of the live broadcast) close all things; that is coming to me tonight; it is official for people to hear. It is not good with whom you are speaking, no need, even as-salaat w 'as-salaam is taking perhaps ten minutes. Some people are busy and they are shy to leave and go; therefore, after the broadcast you may do as-salaat w 'as-salaam and any people also if they are giving salaam and going, no need. We are official. We must do this and it is not true to force people to wait for as-salaat w 'as-salaam. It may be they are in a hurry to go. Inshaa-Allah, inshaa-Allah.

Amaan yaa Rabbee, bismillah. Dastoor yaa Rabbee. (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Dastoor yaa Sayyidee. Madad yaa rijaalAllah.

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah,`Azeez Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah

 

Wa nashahadu, we are testifying that the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (s) is the most glorified, most honored one in Divine Presence. Allahumma salli wa sallim wa baarik`alayh. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) Astaghfirullah. Madad.

 

As-salaamu `alaykum attenders! Happiness to you and honor to you, for attending a heavenly meeting that now is very rare to find heavenly meetings for the sake of Allah Almighty. Yes, you may find official centers where official people may do some meetings or discussions. We don't like discussions, or using arguments because Shaytan is ordering to them to be arguing ones. You speak, your understanding is correct, yes. And we are saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. As Islamic adab, good manners, we must address first to Allah Almighty with His Holy Name, then this addressing runs to whole Creation, particularly on our planet, and everyone is going to be ready for defeating Shaytan and its works!

To say, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem is Allah Almighty’s order and we must use it. But when we are asking that, it is quickly running for guardians of Mankind in the east and west who are hearing from where it comes, and in which meeting people are saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem, then they are running there and defeating Shaytan and its soldiers away! Yes! Therefore, it is important to say, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem as a special protection comes on that meeting. Now there are so many meetings, but they are not using, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. They are thinking they are enough to protect themselves but it is wrong, because Man is created weak and we are always needy for a connection with Unseen Territories that may reach us. Without that, we are going to be on Earth like an animals' world. No, you must do a tameez, differentiate, you must do that. We are belonging to Mankind, the Children of Adam that has been honored to be deputies for the Lord of Heavens! SubhaanAllah!

And we are saying, bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem. Now we are taking heavenly sword in our hands. Who is forgetting to take his sword may be easily falling into tricks of Shaytan, or may be easily caught in shaytanic traps. Therefore, people in our days are so strange; to find such a meeting it is so rare, rare, rare! And people mostly are official ones and rasmiyaat, officiality is taking away familiarity from people. Officials are not opening to each other in their hearts, but they are using their official identities and leaving their real beings (as Muslims) and taking an imitated personality that has no value. Do you think (a synthetic) diamond is the same as a real diamond? But from far away you may say both of them are diamonds, but no, never!

 

So that officiality is making people leave their real beings and dress in imitated identities, and that is a shaytanic order. Therefore, one of the biggest awliya in the Islamic world, Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (q), was saying, "O People! Be as you are showing yourself to people; don't cheat them, don’t use two personalities. Use one personality and your real person is going to be in your spirituality. But you are not using; you are hiding your real being and showing yourself (opposite to) that. That is haraam. Be as you are!" Don't use two personalities you may cheat people but you can’t cheat the Lord of Heavens, you can’t cheat heavenly beings, no!  About those who cheat people, the Seal of Prophets (s) is saying, "That one is not from my nation." That is a very heavy warning from Prophet (s)!

O Our Salafi `ulamas! You must know this hadeeth shareef, the holy words of the Seal of Prophets (s)! This is a very important warning and caution also for whole Nation of Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Zidhu yaa Rabb, nooran wa suroora wa ridwaanan wa sultanan. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.)

This is giving full fear, because (in that state) you can’t change your direction to righteousness and leave that way because you are using something for your egoistic wishings. That is a very important warning. Where can we find such people now? Old people now are trying to show themselves not as their real personality, but they are asking to cheat people using two personalities: one keeping for themselves (private behavior), and one when they are dealing with people. They are using their second personality for the sake of Shaytan. That person may show, "I am so trustworthy. I am like good," but when reaching his target he removes his mask and shows who he really is, taking power from people and cheating them. That is the worst shaytanic characteristic that all prophets warned against, saying, "Beware of Shaytan, because he is trying to make people use two faces!" Cheating people caused the whole world to fall into such a crisis. It is not really an economical crisis; it is a crisis of our characteristic, (that changed good character to bad). ِas-sukoot min dhahab, “Silence is gold.”

 

Our characteristics have now been taken under a shaytanic hegemony in the east and west, in the Muslim world and non-Muslim world. All of them are following shaytanic ways and leaving heavenly advices for them, and the Seal of Prophets (s) taught people the highest good manners. من غشنا فليس منا Man ghashanaa falaysa minna, “Those who are not on the Right Path are not from us.” (This warning may address) Christians to Christians, Jewish to Jews, Muslims to Muslims: when they were glorified with honor, why was that taken from them? And now they are ugly, as heavenly lights were taken from their faces and they are finished!

 

Therefore, it is an important point that we must now follow heavenly advices for `islah, correction! If we are not correcting our characteristics, even seventy kings' treasures and the (massive) treasures of Qaroon will never save people from an economical crisis, no! Allahu akbar! Therefore, we are saying now, we are a handful of people who the Lord of Heavens sends from His servants to wake up people.

 

O People! Leave ghafil, heedlessness and think on it. Now this is declared in the east and west. I am not thinking, but I am knowing what we are saying, it has reached from all prophets to their nations. That was the declaration of Sayyidina `Ibrahim (a), Sayyidina Nuh (a), Sayyidina Adam (a), Sayyidina Yaqub (a) and twelve tribes of the Children of Israel, up to Sayyidina Moses (a), after to Sayyidina Dawud (a), after Sayyidina Sulayman (a)! All of them were warning what we are saying now. No one may say that anyone from the Seal of Prophets is not speaking the truth, no one! And reaching to Sayyidina Zakariya (a), Sayyidina Yahya (a), reaching to Sayyidina `Isa (a). Sayyidina `Isa, a prophet and ruhullah, "the spirit of Allah (swt)," is mumayyaz, distinguished. No one can say that one, from the nation of the Seal of Prophets, is lying, no!

 

Therefore, I am addressing to His Holiness, the pope, is my declaration to all nations true or not? And I am asking the chief rabbi, is it true or not? They can’t say it is not true! Who are cheating their prophet have been thrown away, and their (false) books are also thrown away! And up to today, anyone in the Muslim world who is not using written and inspired heavenly values can’t truthfully say, "That servant (Shaykh Nazim) is not speaking the truth!" No one can find a way to save the whole world from a crisis if they are not doing what we are saying now:

الأمانة تجلب الرزق والخيانة تجلب الفقر

al-amaanatu tajlibu ar-rizq, wal khiyaanatu tajlibu 'l-faqr.
Honesty brings good tidings, just as dishonesty/betrayal brings (all aspects of) poverty.

 

O Salafi `ulamas! Don't you know that hadith? Speak and warn all nations what heavenly inspirations are ordering. Is it not true what the Seal of Prophets (s) said? Be honest, as honesty brings heavenly treasures! But if you are khiyaanah, betraying, that carries faqr, poverty. That weakness scares people to be dishonored ones.

 

O People! Everything is so clear! If we may use one of Prophet's (s) holy words, it is enough to save all nations, but Shaytan is saying, "Don’t hear, don’t listen. Do as I say, use your mentality!" Why are you cheating? Why are you not a righteous one? Why are you not running to be an honored one? Perhaps some people are giving you honor, but their intention is to take some manaf`iya, benefits for their lives. They are not real ones. Why are you not running to reach heavenly honor? If you are running for people on Earth, they will be like your servants and giving you their high respect; if not, they are swearing on you because you are changing the way to be deputies of Allah.

 

O People! Come and listen to reach honor here and Hereafter. Don’t think imitated honor is giving to you something; it is giving to you nothing. But real honor you will find in your Eternal Life! Prefer one of them. One is only for your short lifetime on this planet, and when you are leaving you will be taken to another world, to Allah Almighty's territory. You will be nadmaan, regretful, but it will be too late. Before coming our last breathing you make your tadaarik, preparation. You may prepare yourself for that day when you are leaving this unofficial being and coming to your official beings for heavens, and your regrets will not be useful for you then!

May Allah forgive us for the honor of His most beloved one, Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.) Therefore, we are asking Allah Almighty to send someone to change our characteristics, to change our bad habits to good habits, from good to better.

O People! Just dunya after a while is reaching its last station, and its daftar, registration book, will finish and the heavenly seal comes on it, and it will be sent to the Day of Resurrection. O our Lord, forgive us! O our Lord, we are weak ones! Send to us from Your special servants to teach us and lead us, Your weak servants, from wrong ways to right ways.

O Salafi `ulamas! Try to be one of them. We must call people to truth, and we must teach them what is truth. Holy Qur’an is full with truth and leads people to truth, and guides people to the right ways (that will benefit them) on Day of Resurrection. O our Lord, forgive us!

 

Bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.

 

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Rabbee anta Hasbi, anta Rabbee, anta Hasbee, anta Rabbee, anta Hasbee, yaa man hul mulku wal malakoot.

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah,`Azeez Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah,`Azeez Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah

 

Fatihah.

 

(Mawlana Shaykh speaks with his beloved daughter, Hajjah Naziha, on the phone.)

 

 

 

 

MSN.1 APR 2010.PREPOST.ENG

If You Need a Guide for the City, What About Heavens?

Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

1 April 2010 Lefke, Cyprus

 

(Mawlana Shaykh stands.)

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah.

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, SubhaanAllah.

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultan Allah.

Alfu salaat, alfu salaam `ala Sayyidi 'l-awwaleen wa’l-akhireen min al-azal ilal-abad, Sayyidina Muhammad! (Mawlana Shaykh sits.)

 

As-salaamu `alaykum yaa `ibaadullah! Attenders to our humble association with the shaykh. We are asking for forgiveness first of all, and for cleaning ourselves. Cleanliness is first and most important order from heavens to people. Salutes and our greetings to our master on this world, in this life, to be on him heavenly salutes, heavenly greetings, and we are asking for those heavenly salutes and greetings to reach to you.

 

O People! We are sitting here for fighting Shaytan and its armies, soldiers, supporters, and followers! That is my mission; I am nothing but they are granting to me a mission. And that is to fight against Shaytan and against Shaytan’s followers; that gives us honor. And we are saying, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani 'r-rajeem. That means, "O our Lord, we are running to You against Shaytan and its tricks and traps." And we are saying when the heavenly command comes, "O My servants! I just granted you such a sword that may destroy in east and west every shaytanic way, shaytanic idea and shaytanic efforts, when you are saying, bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem!" (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.) No one can come and face that sword! That is very important and you must know it, you must believe it and you must use it. For what is Allah Almighty sending bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem?

 

O Salafi `ulamas! As-salaamu `alaykum! They are looking and waiting to hear something. I am also sitting here to hear something that makes my ego under my feet. Have you tried it, O Salafi `ulamas, to put your egos under your feet? What is your opinion? Daily you are following someone’s commands and obeying that one’s order. And in east and west a majority, 99 percent of people, are running to fulfill what Shaytan is asking! Are you trying to put your foot on the neck of Shaytan? Have you tried it? Have you tried to jump on it and to use it under your command, O Salafi `ulamas? Have you ever seen Shaytan? No? A`oodhu billahi min sharr ash-Shaytan. (Mawlana Shaykh laughs.)

 

Shaytan has so many masks and each time he is putting them on the faces of people, carrying mirrors to them, saying, “Look at yourself, look!” and they are thinking that mask is really for him or her.But Shaytan is carrying countless masks, putting on one and watching how you are looking at yourself. (Mawlana Shaykh holds eyeglasses.) I am looking on this side to another mask, and to that side another mask. I am seeing nothing, no. First on the left hand, because you are leftist, then come to right hand, because you are a rightist, but you are a liar! Who is looking at the left is leftist, it is true, but who is looking between the two is looking at his real face, wasat, the middle. The nation of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) is ummatan wasatan, not just going to the right or only to the left hand, but wasat, the middle way. Allah Almighty is giving Man both a right hand and a left hand, but making his body to only go in one direction. He can use the right and left hands to help in working on the right aim, which is to be successful, to go on the right way.

That carries people to heavenly stations. All heavenly stations are spiritual targets. Spirituality is for Mankind, but we can’t say that our being in the Seven Heavens is like our spiritual being. No, no,100 percent no! There are seven levels of heavens. Don’t think the seven levels are similar, first to the second, or second to the third; each has a specialty or special identity. When you enter one and find your identity in the first level, you will faint, you will lose yourself and your physical being just disappears. You are going to be dressed with an identity in the first level, which is never similar to your physical being on this planet, no. You will be surprised at who you are, thinking, "Is that me? Really?? Is that me?" You can’t think to ask, "O, I am in doubt if I am this one or that former one?"

O People! O Salafi `ulamas! We are knowing nothing of what has been said in holy books of real meanings and keeping messengers. In heavenly messages, all prophets were knowing there are seven levels, but when you are reaching first level of heavens you will be surprised, (asking) "Am I this one or that one?" making himself like this, like that. But I am not that one, so different from your being in first level of heavens. And you will be so happy in that level that you enter in it, and your personality that belongs to first level of heavens may open your knowledge, coming altogether, and you can’t be able to open it. In dunya’s life, only anbiya, prophets, were knowing something about that level, till they are reaching and their knowledge here is going to be there with, raiy al-`ayn, certainty. Now your knowledge about heavens is something in your understanding, which is never giving you a complete picture about the Seven Heavens.

You will find an identity that will be so hayraan, astonishing, “Ohhh, am I that one?”

"(And you will hear the answer) Yes, that is you on first level of heaven."

"(And you will answer) Look to you, O my Lord!" and fall into sajdah, and getting up from sajdah, that you are asking to grant your thankfulness to your Lord, standing up!

And another, the second level of heavens. If they were similar, we would not say "Seven Heavens." Each of those levels are pointing to that and in front of you there are seven kinds of heavens, until you are reaching and going to be one. And from the smallest part from that level, you will not understand anything. Your understanding will just change, fully. You will run to Allah Almighty and make sajdah, then another opening is coming. You may see an appearance of yourself in the first level which gives to you such pleasure you can’t imagine! It is beyond our imagination! You will say, "O our Lord, O our Lord, O our Lord! You have endless grants for your deputies!" The top point of honor in all Creation is to be Allah Almighty’s khalifah, His deputy! Now the sultanate is using 'deputy' and saying it is the level of crown prince, which is a grant from pre-Eternal up to Eternal. You can’t imagine, you can't say, "Enough!" No, you are asking to be there eternally, up to Eternity, and the Lord of Heavens is changing it (for you) by His command.

 

O Salafi `ulamas, marhaban! Are you understanding such things that they are making me to speak? What are the Seven Heavens for? Are they to look at, as we are looking at a TV screen, except to see it from far away, or we are going to enter in it? Why are you not speaking about the Seven Heavens to people (instead of) claiming you are doctors? What is a "doctor"? You are sick ones and need someone for treating you. About those from whom we must learn about heavens, Allah Almighty says: (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) 

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ اتَّقُواْ اللّهَ وَكُونُواْ مَعَ الصَّادِقِينَ

yaa ayyuha 'l-ladheena 'aamanoo ittaqu-Llaha wa koonoo ma `as-saadiqeen.

O you who believe! Fear Allah, and follow my true ones! (9:119)

(Mawlana Shaykh sits.) What does it mean, koonu ma` as-saadiqeen? How are we going to be with true ones? Why not giving a meaning to us for that holy verse? There is a khitaab; it is addressing all Mankind that they must take of their shares from that holy verse. Why you are claiming you are `ulamas? You know nothing! They make me to speak only on the surface. Looking from outside, it is an ocean but you are not yet entering it. When entering in the oceans in the first level, you will find what you are asking to find, so that you are not going to ask for another level. Salafi `ulamas? Coming a question to you. With whom you are going to be in that first level of heavens? That is an important question. With whom are you going to enter the first level of the seven levels of heavens? When you come to a big city and when come off the plane, you ask for a guide, yes?

"Where is the guide? This is a huge city and I am coming here for my first time. How I can find my way in this huge city? I need a guide!"

We say, "Yes sir, we have a guide for you!"

You are asking for a guide in a big city, but what about your heavenly journey? When you are leaving this life and the angels are taking your souls up, who is going to be your souls' guides? Do you know them? Is your knowledge enough to find the way in the first level of heavens? Never! Some people come to this small village and are ask, "Where is Shaykh’s place?" It is a small place, but they are asking for guide, not finding it themselves. They are declaring every night (the suhbah), "We must see him, learn from him and understand from him." And this is a handful-place, so small. Then what about where there is no beginning or ending for the seven levels of heavens! What is Heaven, do you know? Say! Your knowledge is going to be the key for opening realities in front of you! 

This is ghaayatu 't-t`azheem, extreme point of the glorifying of the Lord of Heavens, and we must try to give our extreme glorifying to our Lord for understanding. You are never going to understand about the seven levels of heaven until you are reaching a guide here, a guide there, a guide in past time, a guide in future time. You can’t be mustaghnee, you can’t be without the need of a guide. Therefore, Allah Almighty is sending guides to His servants to teach and guide them from first to second to third steps. Step, step, step, countless steps!

May Allah forgives us.

 

O People! It is a magic introduction for such Unseen, Mystic Worlds. If you are claiming that we are guides, why are you not saying to people? Your most important mission is to fight people who are not following your ideas or teaching. No, stop it and try to be a students, learning some realities. Realities in Islam are countless, never ending, from pre-Eternal up to Eternal. May Allah forgive us.

Fatihah.

(38 minutes)

 

Therefore, they are so powerful ones, Salafi `ulamas, so strong ones, insisting not to learn or not to teach. All (major) religions (have) their level of Unseen Worlds and Unknown Oceans for the Lord of Heavens!

O People! Our short time is not enough for understanding even one point (as small as) an atom; we must plant a very small seed and you must wait till that small seed grows, growing, growing. And what Allah Almighty plants is never ending, there is no limit for their growing!

O People! Don’t be idiots! Come and look and hear from holy books and be happy for your future after this life. May Allah forgive us.

Fatihah.

(43 minutes)

As-salaamu `alaykum! "Dome dome dome dome" is endless pleasures for believers and endless darkness for unbelievers!!

 

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(Mawlana Shaykh speaks with Shaykh Hisham Effendi on the phone.)

 

 

 

MSN.2 APR 2010.PREPOST.ENG

Nurture the Pearl in Your Shell

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani
2 April 2010    Lefke, Cyprus
Suhbah after Jumu`ah

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem. (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Dastoor, yaa Rijaal Allah. Madad, yaa Saahib az-Zamaan!
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah.
Alfu salaat, alfu salaam `alayka wa `ala aalika yaa Sayyidi 'l-awwaleen wa 'l-aakhireen. Zidhu yaa Rabbee `izzan wa sharafan wa nooran wa surooran wa ridwaanan wa sultaana.(Mawlana Shaykh sits.)

Dastoor. As-salaamu ` alaykum ayyuha 'l-ghaafiloon. Heedless people are coming to me, because I am qutb of heedless people, chief! Maa yatoo naas ghayru ghaafileen, illa bi aghfal min al-ghaafileen. Allah, Allah.

O People! As-salaamu ` alaykum. As-salaamu ` alaykum. This salaam is going to be in east and west for all Mankind. We hope that safety and blessings are coming on our small group of attenders for this association. Welcome to you! Anyone of you aqlin raihuna, anyone claiming to be more clever and good? Smart.  (Mawlana Shaykh addresses a guest.) Sayyid is coming and giving us honor. If he asks to address to people, for him, yes sir!

 

And we are saying, a` oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. We must run away from Shaytan. Allah, Allah. All tragedies from beginning up to end are for the reason of Shaytan, khaza`ahullah. May Allah Almighty make that one under Hell, a prison for that one, so we may be in safety! But we are now in this life, and Allah Almighty is asking to show value and honor of Mankind in His Divine Presence. And every time that Allah Almighty is sending to Mankind, humanity, human nature, from His endless Honor Oceans, Shaytan is exploding and `adhaab (punishment) is coming on him, punishment of fire!

O our Salafi `ulamas! Marhaban! What is your opinion, if fire is giving punishment to fire? Is that a question? Yes, Shaytan is created from fire. How fire is giving punishment to fire, `adhaab? I know punishment, but fire burns man, and he is getting in endless pain because that fire is from Earth, a fiery burning. But what about Shaytan? I am asking Salafi `ulamas, you are all heedless people and are not understanding! Only Salafi `ulamas are saying, "We are `ulamas." I am asking you, if fire is giving punishment to fire? What is your answer? No, it is not something you can answer by thinking, it is a grant from Allah Almighty. Where is my stick? I don't know, but they are giving an answer to me. May fire give a trouble to fire? A question we are asking: if Shaytan's punishment going to be in Hells, Hell is fire and Shaytan is fire, so do you think fire gives punishment to fire?

Suffering. Yes, that is a question so many people are not knowing an answer to. Once a philosopher who was proud with his philosophy was asking a wali or any ordinary believer from Muslimeen, all of whom are believing but levels of their beliefs are different. His beliefs are on a level that you are not on, and the level that you are on, he is never knowing about, and his level of faith you can never understand.

وَلِكُلٍّ دَرَجَاتٌ مِّمَّا عَمِلُواْ وَمَا رَبُّكَ بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا يَعْمَلُونَ

Wa li-kullin daraajaat mimma `amiloo wa maa rabbuka bi-ghaafilin `amaa ya`maloon.
To all are degrees (or ranks) according to their deeds: for thy Lord is not unmindful of anything that they do. (6:132)

Are you understanding Arabic or not? What does it mean wa li-kullin daraajaat? Allah Almighty is saying, for everyone there will be a level. Wa li-kullin, it is an ocean! We may ask daraajaat that belongs to Believers. One level, another level, another level. Therefore, for the people of Paradise, their Paradise is granted from Allah Almighty to them and you can't find the same. No, just 100% different. There may be billions of people, trillions of people, quadrillion, pentillions; you can't find the Paradise of one to be the same for another. That is from the Greatness of the Lord of Heavens, Allah (swt)! Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.) Because Allah Almighty is never using a photocopy machine. No, no, no. If you are looking in this world, so many homes, one never going to be similar from the inside to a second one. And Paradise is for Eternity. Darajaat. You can't find two people on the same level. Allahu akbar! (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.) Daraajat, plural of darajah. Darajaat means "level," countless, countless, countless levels. Everything is kun fayakoon, "(Allah Almighty gives the holy command) 'Be!' and it is." Allah Almighty is only saying, kun fayakoon:

إِنَّمَا أَمْرُهُ إِذَا أَرَادَ شَيْئًا أَنْ يَقُولَ لَهُ كُنْ فَيَكُونُ

 innamaa amruhoo idhaa araada shayan an yaqoola lahu kun fayakoon. 

But His command, when He intendeth a thing, is only that he saith unto it: Be! and it is. (36:82)

O People! Try to learn about your Creator's Divine Attributes. Yes, darajaat. And the Holy Qur'an is an ocean, but not one ocean. Not only you, even prophets can't reach the limits, the fine points of the Holy Qur'an.

O People! Appreciate the Holy Qur'an! You can learn everything without using technology. Technology is the dirtiness of Shaytan, making you to first appreciate that technology (above other things), yes. For example, this instrument (Internet) from technology is sending our humble meeting through east and west. It is such a surprising thing, but Allah Almighty is granting to His deputies; they are like Light Oceans. That is nothing! That is only sukhkhir, what Allah (swt) is giving to believers and unbelievers, to use this instrument of no value. But what Allah Almighty is granting to His valuable, honored, honorable, and glorified servants is such a power; that he may be able to command "Be!" for something and it will come into existence!

O Salafi `ulamas! There is one hadith, you must know about that Hadith Qudsi. Don't say this is da`eef (weak) hadith. Allah `azza wa jall yaqool, yaa `abdee. (Allah, the Exalted and Magnificent says: "O My servant!") Rabbuna subhanahu wa t`aala, He is saying, "O all people! Yaa `abdee, a`atiyanee, O My servant! Obey me!" a`atiyanee ija`laka rabbaaniyyan. (Obey Me! I will make you "lordly").What is the meaning of rabbaaniyyan? Taqoolu li-shayin kun, fayakoon. (you say to a thing "Be!" and it will be) When Allah Almighty is giving such an honor and authority to that one, ij`aaluka rabbaniyyun taqoolu li-shay kun fayakoon! (I will make you "lordly", you say to a thing "Be!" and it will be). Sah (correct)? Wayhaq (Woe to you)! Wayhaq `ala kulli bashiriyyah (woe to all humanity). First of all, including the Muslim world, and I am saying I am nothing, but they are making me to say to Salafi `ulamas, what is your opinion about that hadeeth qudsi? If you say it is not true, you may get out from Islam (murtaad, apostate)!

I am nothing, but they are making me, such a useless one, to speak. Shoo `azhaamat, so glory on this hadith! "Yaa `abdee," are those who are not running after the pleasure of their physical beings! Himmatuhum, they are on highest level of effort, and thinking only to make their Lord happy with them. When are you going to be happy with your Lord? When you are going to be under His command? When your obediency's darajaat, so many levels, when you are reaching that level that you will be ahlun, suitable for that khitaab. Allah (swt) is saying to you, "Yaa `abdee!" Who is that one? Who is only for his Lord's `uboodiyyah, servanthood, only for his Lord, no obediency for their egos, Shaytan, dunya or hawa.

 

O Salafi `ulamas! You are understanding? Say! And you are making a declaration that, "Shaykh is kharfaan, what he is saying is not true!" Can anyone say this? If so, in the morning you may find his dead body. Keep your tongues from (targeting) someone whose anger is coming from heavenly anger!  When you are reaching to that level you can say for everything without using technology. Shame on muslimeen, wa `ala `ulamai 'l-muslimeen, particularly Salafi `ulamas! Why you are not speaking on the power of Islam, the power of imaan? You only know, "This is bida`, that is shirk!" No! Leave this; come and learn something else. Enough for your tuhmat, accusing people of shirk, kufr, bida`, haraam! Take them up. Can you carry them up? If you are under the seven levels of Earth, how are you going to carry people up to Seven Heavens? This day the fight is beginning, because the time is up for the Last Day, Yawm al-Qiyaamah (is near).

O People! Think on it! Only pearls will be protected and their shells thrown away. Why you are not using your chance to be a pearl; (instead) you are being an empty shell. Ask yourselves, for what?

O People! Not every egg bring chicks. This is an egg and that is an egg, but this one brings a chick. By itself, it cannot. A person can't reach the levels of heavens by himself; there must be muraafaqah (accompaniment), as a hen making muraafaqah with a rooster and bringing chicks. Why did the Lord of Heavens send 124,000 prophets? To put that pearl in your shell! Therefore, if hearts are locked there can't be anything in them. If hearts are open, the Seal of Prophets (s) can put in them the atom of a pearl (a treasure)!

 

This is enough; it is an endless ocean! (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) May Allah (swt) forgive me and you, for the honor of the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (s). (Mawlana Shaykh sits.)

Fatihah.

(Guest speaker in Arabic.)

(51 minutes)

MSN.30 MAR 2010.POST.ENG

Allah Does Not Look at Your Appearance

Sultan al-Awliya

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

30 March 2010     Lefke, Cyprus

 

Dastoor. Allah, Allah. Bismillahi ‘r-Rahmaani ‘r-Raheem. A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem. (Mawlana Shaykh stands.)

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah

Yaa Rabbana, zid habeebika nooran wa surooran wa ridwaanan wa sultaana, zidhu yaa Rabb, zidhu yaa Rabb, zidhu yaa Rabb! Ultuf bina bi hurmati habeebika, al-Mustafa! (Mawlana Shaykh sits.)

Thumma 's-salaamu `alayk, yaa Saahibu 'l-Waqt! Thumma 's-salaamu `alayk, yaa Qutbu 'l-Mutasarrif! Thumma as-salaatu w 'as-salaamu `alaykum, yaa `ibaadullahi 's-saaliheen fee mashaariqi 'l-ardi wa maghaaribiha wa muwakiloon`ala duwaalee wa muheetaat, `ala 'l-bahari wa okyanos. As-salamu `alaykum.

(Mawlana Shaykh sings.)

RijaalAllah, rijaalAllah `ayeenoonaa bi `awnillah!

RijaalAllah, rijaalAllah, wa koonoo `awnan lana bi fadhlillah!

RijaalAllah, rijaalAllah, rijaalAllah, rijaalAllah!

Madad, yaa Sultaan al-Awliya, yaa Sayyidina. Thumma 's-salaamu `alaykum!

 

O Our Attenders! Give a time daily for listening, even some minutes. I know when TV's saying that tonight will be addressing from president of U.S., perhaps millions of people are taking care to hear what he is going to say; how he is going to address Eastern countries or Western countries, or what he is going to say to United European countries, what he is going to say about Libya, how he is going to address the Russians, Iraq, China. Because that person is VIP (Very Important Person), or jalaalatu 'l-malik al-malik Saud, wafaqahullah...

(Someone walks behind Mawlana Shaykh.) tawbah, astaghfirullah!  Shaytan coming to make something, a distraction. When my heart is just relating heavenly moments, I do not like anyone to make a movement, astaghfirullah!! Yes, what is he going to say, His Majesty, king of Saudi Arabia? What is he going to say, to inform people or warning people; they are taking a care. But for a person that has no value, I know lowest person, and you must think, "Who is making that weak, old one to address to all nations?"

They must not be millions, but billions of people! They must try to hear something of heavenly news. But, I am sorry to say, majority of people are followers Shaytan! Therefore, they are never going to be successful through anything. I am that one who is making governments like X. I am that one who is going to close them down, never going to be open. They are thinking they have been created for dunya or that they are going to follow Shaytan and therefore they are never having time to listen!!! That is a heavy bombardment, but not heavy if they may be bottom blocks, falling down. Warning now coming! Astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah. Tubtu wa rajaatu ila-Allah.

 

We are knowing nothing! O our Lord, send us one to correct our steps, to correct our intentions. O our Lord, we need that. Send us! And we are saying our attenders, as-salaamu `alaykum. That is holy blessings through this salaam, comes on those people whom they are taking care for hearing something about heavenly news, will be granted to them through their hearts, peace and satisfaction.

And we are saying now, a`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani ‘r-rajeem, as always Shaytan is urging people to do the opposite of heavenly orders! Shaytan's mission is to make them (to think), "You are doing nothing now, but don't listen to what is coming from some broadcasting that is urging you to keep heavenly orders, no need. You enjoy yourself, or you may occupy yourselves with so many important subjects. You must prepare this for tomorrow!" (Mawlana Shaykh laughs.)  Subhaan Allah. Heedless people are taking care for tomorrow and preparing themselves for tomorrow. Today is Tuesday, tomorrow is Wednesday. So many people are thinking about Wednesday, “What is going to happen? How can I make more profit? How I can we stop the economical crisis, not to damage my capital?" They are thinking about Wednesday now, on Tuesday!

 

This is a very strange thing because Man, every one--small ones, young ones, elder ones, old ones--are thinking for tomorrow, but you can't even find one person who is going to think, "Perhaps tonight I am sleeping in my bed, and tomorrow perhaps I may be sleeping in my graveyard." They are not thinking! They may say, "We are kings, we are ministers, we are majors, we are generals." You may be. Those people with their uniforms, looking in mirrors, making like this, like that. (Mawlana Shaykh preens.)

 

"How do I look? O my darling, how am I going to be seen?"

(Looks through magnifiying glass) "O my darling, I see your nose like a hill. Your eyes are like the eyes of a giant. I see you are like a wild beast! Everything like such a wild beast, but where is your tail?"

"Don't say that, my darling!"

“No, I must speak. You are very proud!! Every day looking like a woman, to be handsome as a pharaoh preparing to be on parade, and you are not that one. Why are you trying to take a copy from pharaohs or Indian kings or Chinese kings? Why you are asking to be like such people? Oh my darling, I like such a humble appearance for you, I like it. I don't like that you are changing yourself with clothes and trying to be seen as a pharaoh or a Nimrod. I don't like it!"

"Men may be seen as number one of our tribes and we will try to be seen as `azheem, to be dressed for glory or to try to be seen as mighty ones who can do anything!"

And his wife says, "O my darling, you are going to be seen as a Nimrod or as a pharaoh, so please take off those clothes and look at your real being!"

 

Women are trying to say to those who make with honor or glory with their clothes. Allah Almighty is making that woman to wake up that person! And she is saying, "O my husband, my precious friend through this life, try to look at your real being. But you can't look with those decorated clothes, so take them away and look at yourself."

I am saying, do you think you can take those clothes and make people to look at you? Why are you not looking to your real being without clothes, look at yourself. And without clothes you will be ashamed at yourself, saying, "I am a great one." You are a liar!! Now Shaytan is making people to do this.

 

O Salafi `ulamas, you know much more hadith ash-shareef, and I think that just passed hadith. Prophet (s) saying:

إن الله لا ينظر إلى صوركم وأموالكم ، وإنما ينظر إلى قلوبكم وأعمالكم

in allaha la yunzhuru ila suwarikum innama yanzhur ila quloobikum wa a`maalikum.

Verily Allah does not look at your appearances but He looks at your hearts and your deeds.

That Allah Almighty is not looking at peoples out-looking (appearance). This is not important, out-looking, but looking at your real being in you. These clothes changing your real out-looking appearance, you may say, but (it is not changing) your real being, no!

 

O People! As if they will cry if that king is coming only with his belt, and people around him start saying, "You are dressing a magic dressing! If no-mind people can see you, dressing a beauty!" Ministers, advisors, if you have enough mind for a king, some of them you may throw away. Some people now are thinking with their clothes they may be a king, a minister, a president, to be a VIP one. Shaytan is trying to show people that they are important ones, but they are riding on a horse naked, with nothing on! And the king is very angry with you. This small one (child) is saying, "But he has nothing on!" I am keeping this story from 75 years ago, what my English teacher told us. "People are gathering, going like this (applauding) and a small one says, 'Father, he has nothing on!'" Shaytan is making people so ugly in appearance, saying, "How we can say he has nothing on?" But a small one says, "He has nothing on." My English teacher told this story and I am remembering it.

O Salafi `ulamas! I am keeping so many things, I have seen so many things, I have read so many things, and I understand so many things! Please give respect to everyone, don't swear to everyone. What Allah Almighty is dressing us with is a real dress. Therefore, the Seal of Prophets (s) gave a heavenly warning, "You must not look at a person's out-looking (appearance)." Allah Almighty never looks at what you are dressing in, it is not important. The Companions (a) of the Seal of Prophets (s) had only one piece of cloth, to cover their shoulders or their heads, and they never dressed the dress of kings. But Allah Almighty said, radi`Allahu `anhum wa radu `anh' , "They love Allah, and Allah is pleased with them."

O Salafi `ulamas! Why are you not saying this to kings, to ministers, and to businessmen? Why are you not warning them,“Today I am dressing like this, perhaps tomorrow they will put me in white clothes and take me to the graveyard?” Why are you not warning people that the Seal of Prophets (s) was warning Sayyidina `Umar, saying: كفى بالموت واعظا يا عمر kafaa bi 'l-mawti wa`izhan, yaa `Umar. O `Umar! Why are you quickly taking your dead bodies and secretly, silently burying them? This is not good. Let people see who that person was; yesterday he was an amir, malik, and today let people come and pray for that one. And they are asking, “Who is that one?” They will say, “That is the amir of Yemen, or prince of Najd, or king of Adan, or imam of Yemen. This is his janaazah for his dead body.”

 

One boy may ask like I am asking, "O my father, that is amir?” like you are saying, "Amir Hassan, Amir Shareef, or Amir Malik, this is his body?" "O my father, that is his body, but its owner, maalik, where is he? I understand this is his dead body, but where is he?" That is why Prophet (s) was saying:

كفى بالموت واعظا يا عمر

Kafaa bi 'l-mawti wa`izhan, yaa `Umar

O `Umar, you must warn your people morning and evening.

Don't occupy yourselves with Wahabiyya, Salafiyya, Doctoriyya, Saudiyya, Iraqiyya; no, it is not for you. (There is) no ikhtilaaf, opposition in Islam. Islam is all rabbee Allah wa 'n-nabi Muhammadan. (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.) Kitaabee al-Qur'an `azheemu shaan, madhabee Ahlu ’s-Sunnah wa ’l-Jama`ah. Anything wrong? Why are you not attacking those people who are attacking Ahlu’l-Sunnah? That is important because Allah will ask you! Think on it from tonight up to next night. Any attack on ummat Habeebullah, you will be responsible. I am a warner! I am not claiming anything. I am saying I am `AbdAllah from ummat Habeebullah!!

May Allah (swt) forgive us. O people, as-salaamu `alaykum.

 

Ad-deenu naseeha, "Religion is advice." (Hadith of Prophet [s]). I am advising to my ego, and you advise to your egos. You must fear from Judgment Day, al-Qaadi Huwa Allah, Who giving His judgment, Allah Almighty. But not to give judgment on each other, but you must know what you are doing, what you are following, if not the real way (genuine).

 

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Kareem Allah

Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Raheem Allah

La hawla wa la quwatta illa billahi 'l-`Aliyyu 'l-`Adheem. Yaa Rabb, yaa Rabb!

 

(Mawlana Shaykh speaks to Shaykh Hisham and Hajjah Naziha on the phone.)

(Shaykh Hisham: Today the UN called and asked if Shaykh Nazim can give khutbah to the gathered UN leaders, kings, and presidents! It seems that the king of Jordan had been following Mawlana Shaykh's suhbahs and proposed this to the UN.)

MSH.2 APR 2010.Khutbah.POST.ENG

Who Are the Best in Faith?

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
2 April 2010     Burton, Michigan
Jumu`ah Khutbah at As-Siddiq Mosque

Allahuma salli wa sallim wa baarik `alayk, yaa Sayyidee, yaa Rasoolullah, yaa Rahmatan li 'l-`Alameen!

Once the Prophet (s) was sitting with Sahabah and a man came, they didn't know him, very clean, no sign of travelling on his clothes, and he came and asked the Prophet (s) many questions. Sayyidina `Umar said that whatever the Prophet was asked, the man answered, "Yes, you spoke the truth, sadaqta." Yasa'lahu wa yusaddiqahu, he asked him and he believed him. Sayyidina `Umar and the Sahaba were astonished, "Who is that one? They never saw him,  he appeared at the door. And that is the first hadith Imam Bukhari (r) put in his collection of the most authentic hadith (Sahih Bukhari). Imam Bukhari (r) would not put a hadith without making istikhaara and he asked Allah (swt) to show him in the dream what is correct and what is not correct. He always saw the Prophet (s) in every dream saying, "I said this hadith and this I didn't say." And then the Prophet (s) would tell him where to put this hadith and under which chapter. And it was in the chapter of imaan that Imam Bukhari put that hadith in, "Kitab al-Imaan". That is the hadith in which Jibreel (a) asked the Prophet (s) about Islam, about imaan, about ihsaan, the three main parts of our religion.

Sayyidina `Umar was surprised and asked the Prophet (s),"Who is that one, yaa Rasoolullah?"

He said, "That is Jibreel (s), who came to teach you your religion, and he came to ask me these questions and they are revelation," and even saying that 'sadaqta' is part of revelation.

The main point is the importance of imaan. After shahadah, praying, fasting, zakaat and hajj, which is the first part in the structure of Islam. And when he asked what imaan is, "What is faith yaa Muhammad (s)," he gave the six pillars of imaan: 

قال جبريل للنبي صلى الله عليه وسلم : فأخبرني عن الإيمان ؟ قال : أن تؤمن بالله وملائكته وكتبه ورسله واليوم الآخر ، وتؤمن بالقدر خيره وشره ، قال : صدقت

an tu'minu billahi, wa mala`ikatih, wa kutubihi, wa rusulihi, wa 'l-yawmi 'l-aakhir, wa tu'mino bi 'l-qadri khayrihi wa sharrihi.

"To believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His prophets, and in the Day of Resurrection, and in Destiny, the good and bad of it."

These six pillars which are the `aqeedah (belief) of People of Islam (Muslims). Al-`ibadaat is your worship, during the year, the week, the day. So the second part of the question was about imaan, if your `aqeedah is correct or incorrect. So part of the `aqeedah is (the pillars of) imaan, and as much as you are worshiping, that is (an indication of) how much imaan you have in your heart, how much you increase your imaan. I will relate this hadith that shows that you are lucky to be from Ummat an-Nabi (s), lucky and especially the last of the ummah, after 1400 years passed from the time of Prophet Muhammad (s). So increase yourself in worship to Allah (swt).

Allah (swt) said:

كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللّهِ

kuntum khayra ummatin ukhrijati lin-naas, tamaroona bil-ma`roof wa tanhawna ani 'l-munkar.

You were the best ummah that was sent to humanity, calling for what is good and forbidding what is bad. (3:110)

Today, they do the opposite, calling for the bad and forbidding good! All of us do that, (calling for) the ego, the selfishness, the poison. Shaytan has poisoned us in many ways. He is not sleeping and we are! Shaytan is running, active day and night, and we surrendered to our ego, our selfishness. We want to go here and there, and everywhere there is a sin facing us, wherever we go there is a sin in front of us. That is a problem. That is why Sayyidina `Ali (r) said, "Close your mouth and don't look." Many shuyookh said, "Look where you put your feet, not further. If you look further you will make a mistake."

Avoid approaching bad desires. There are good desires that Allah (swt) gave us. Sahabah (r) in their time rode horses, did archery and swimming, and active work to fill their entire day, giving from within themselves, trying to do something in which there was no sin. That is good desire. But for us today, we are running after bad desires. What are bad desires? Discos, movies, boyfriends meeting girlfriends, a lot of lying and cheating, deceiving and fighting with each other. These are bad desires from which we must pull ourselves as much as we can. This hadith will make you content and satisfied at how much Allah (swt) is giving you, this ummah, not because of us, but because of Sayyidina Muhammmad, `abduhu wa habeebuh, `alayhi 's-salaatu wa 's-salaam!

 

وأخرج البزار وأبو يعلى والحاكم وصححه عن عمر بن الخطاب قال : كنت جالسا مع النبي صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم فقال : أنبئوني بأفضل أهل الإيمان إيمانا ؟ فقالوا : يا رسول الله الملائكة ، قال : هم كذلك ويحق لهم ، وما يمنعهم وقد أنزلهم الله المنزلة التي أنزلهم بها ، قالوا : يا رسول الله الأنبياء الذين أكرمهم الله برسالته والنبوة ، قال : هم كذلك ويحق لهم ، وما يمنعهم وقد أنزلهم الله المنزلة التي أنزلهم بها ، قالوا : يا رسول الله الشهداء الذين استشهدوا مع الأنبياء ، قال : هم كذلك ، وما يمنعهم وقد أكرمهم الله بالشهادة ، قالوا : فمن يا رسول الله ؟ قال : أقوام في أصلاب الرجال يأتون من بعدي يؤمنون بي ولم يروني ويصدقوني ولم يروني ، يجدون الورق المعلق فيعملون بما فيه ، فهؤلاء أفضل أهل الإيمان إيمانا وفي إسناده محمد بن أبي حميد وفيه ضعف .

Once Sayyidina `Umar (r) was sitting with the Prophet (s), who asked, anbiyoonee bi afdali ahlu 'l-imaani imaana. He was speaking to his Sahabah and asking a question, also giving the answer, "Tell me who are best of the people of faith, who are the ones that Allah (swt) created that have the best faith?" Isn't it easy to say who has the best faith?

They said, "Yaa Rasoolullah! The best ones to have faith are the angels, al-mala`ikah." That is not strange, as certainly the angels have the best faith as they don't sin.

The Prophet (s) answered, wa maa yamna`ahum min dhaalik wa qad anzalahum Allah manzalatahum allatee anzalahum bihaa. "How are they not going to have the best faith when Allah (swt) created them as a heavenly creation, at a very high level? But there are some others who have more faith."

They said,  "Yaa Rasoolullah, the prophets, might be they have more faith than angels?" 

Al-ladheena akaramahumullah bi risaalatih wa 'n-nubuwwah.  The Prophet (s) said, "Allah (swt) ordered them to be prophets; they are ma`soomoon, infallible, they don't sin, they are prophets." And he said, "How is it going to be the prophets (are most faithful) when they are feeling and receiving the revelation, and seeing the angels and Jibreel (a), and they know that Allah (swt) sent them?"

Of course they are going to have belief, but who else has better belief? Is there anyone more high than prophets? No, but he wanted to show them something important. 

Qaala, hum kadhaalik wa yahaqq lahum wa maa yamna`uhum min dhaalika wa qad anzalahumallahu bil manzali 'llatee anzalahum bihaa. "What kept them from having the best faith when Allah (swt) gave them that level of prophecy and that honor; certainly they have to have faith."

Then they said, "Yaa Rasoolullah, ash-shuhadah, the martyrs."

And Prophet (s) answered, Alladheena tashhadoo m`a 'l-anbiyaa, "The martrys that got the shahadah when fighting alongside Prophet (s) and gave their lives for Allah (swt), His religion and His Prophet (s), hum kadhaalik wa qad akramahumallahu bi 'sh-shahadah, bal ghayruhum, "no, because Allah (swt) allowed them to be shuhadah, martyrs, so they knew that. But there are some others who have more faith."

The angels are always under the manifestation of Allah's Beautiful Names and Attributes, they see that. Prophets are under revelation. Martyrs see what Allah (swt) gave them when they were martyred in His way.

Then the Sahabah (r) said,  faman, yaa Rasoolullah, "Then who is that, O Rasoolullah?" Then who are these people, better than angels and prophets, in the meaning of how much is imaan important in the hearts?

And Prophet (s) answered, Qaala aqwaamun fee aslaabi 'r-rijaalun yaatoona min ba`dee y'uminoona bee lam yarawnee. "Men (and women) of strong faith who are the best descendants in the loins of those who are pious."

That is why it is important to have pious parents, or the children will be lost. When you are pious and sincere, and your son and daughter see your piety and sincerity, they imitate you as their role model, doing what you are doing. But when you leave them to their desires and say, "I will do this and that for you (as you like)," and take them by your hand to Shaytan, what is going to happen then? They are no longer going to be pious from the pious ones.

So the Prophet (s) said, aqwaamun min aslaabi 'r-ijaal yaatoona mim baadee, y'uminoona bee wa lam yarawnee. "A group of people, who will come after me till the Day of Judgment, from the piety of these men (like the Sahabah), who will believe in me and they never saw me."

When you don't see someone or something, how do you believe? The Sahabah, the angels, the martyrs were all able to see, and the prophets knew that they were coming from the Prophet's ummah, they were receiving revelation. But you mu'mins, one day, and we are in it, coming after Prophet Muhammad (s), yu'minoona bee wa lam yarawnee wa yusaddiqoonee wa lam yarawnee, . "They believe and they never saw me."

There will be, "People coming till the Day of Judgment and they believe in me and they didn't see me. They confirm what I said without having seen me."

yajidoon al-waraq al-mu`allaq fa y`amaloona bima feehi. "They will find papers, skin, (they will find the Qur'an, they will see its papers)."

That means the Holy Qur'an will reach them and they will read it and they will, yu'minoona bimaa feehi, "do according to what Qur'an has said."

That is why a Muslim's constitution is the Holy Qur'an. In your belief is as a Muslim, you have to believe in the  Qur'an: read it and follow what it is saying.

Fa-haaulaa'i afdal ahlu 'l-imaani imaana, "They are the best of imaan."

You Muslims never saw the Prophet (s) and still you accepted him! You never saw him receiving revelation and giving it to the Sahabah, and you accepted the Qur'an. So you are the best of Muslims! That hadith is related by al-Haakim and al-Bazzaar.

O Muslims! Time is approaching; we are not left with too much time. And some ask, "How do you know that the time is approaching?" Allah (swt) said in the Holy Qur'an:

اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَانشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ

Iqtarabati 's-sa`atu w 'anshaqqa al-qamar.

The Hour has drawn near, and the moon has been cleft asunder. (54:1)

And that was in the time of Prophet (s)! Allah (swt) was saying that the time is approaching quickly and the moon was split by His order to the Prophet (s), as a miracle for the unbelievers. Allah (swt) at that time said that the Day of Judgment was so near. Allah (swt) was saying, not we. And you don't know if at any moment your life may be taken. Is that not your Day of Judgment, leaving dunya behind and not taking anything with you? Except waladun saalihun yad`u lah, three things you will take with you only, as Prophet (s) said:

عن أبي هريرة -رضي الله عنه- أن رسول الله -صلى الله عليه وسلم- قال: إذا مات ابن آدم انقطع عمله إلا من ثلاث: صدقة جارية، أو علم ينتفع به، أو ولد صالح يدعو له، رواه مسلم، أرجو أن يتفضل سماحتكم بشرح هذا

Idhaa maata bn' Adamu anqata` `amalihi  illa min thalaath, "The deeds of the sons of Adam will be cut except for three." Sadaqatun jaariyyah, "a flowing donation, which is given to a hospital, or a mosque, feeding the poor, or giving to a Muslim school." That is sadaqatun jaariyyah that will be written for you even if you are dead. `Ilmun yantafa`u bihi, "and knowledge which you leave behind and others benefit from it." Writing books on Islamic beliefs that people read and get benefit from. "And a child you leave that is young or old, but will pray for Paradise for you and recite Fatihah on your grave, sending the beautiful words of Qur'an on you that will never stop."

And so, this dunya is only moments. O Muslims! Open your minds and understand that one day we are going to be in the Presence of Allah (swt). You come with nothing; you come to life with no clothes and you leave with no clothes except a sheet to cover you.

May Allah (swt) forgive us.

Du`a.