BE CAREFUL NOT TO BE LAZY!

Khutba Jumuah
Lefke, Cyprus: 11 January 2008

O Muslims, believers! This is a new year that Allah SWT has blessed us with it. 1429. This is a year that remind us how Prophet SAW migrated from Mecca to Madina with the company of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq. This is a year where Sayyidina Ali was sleeping on the bed of Prophet SAW when the enemies, when Abu Jahal and his people came to kill Prophet SAW. He sacrifices himself. It remind us about sacrificing the self for the honor of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW and for the honor of Islam.

O Muslims, the enemy that is against us always that is looking for us at any moment we are heedless to attack us is our ego. And the one who is working with shaytan his ego will be strongest and that one who is working with Prophet SAW and with his teacher in order to be in the door at the door of Allah SWT in the Divine Presence is the one that is safe.

It is said in Arabic, man `alamanee harfan sirtu lahu `abdan - Who teach me one letter; I will become a slave for him. Imagine, Sahaba… they were sitting in the presence of Prophet SAW and they were learning from him all of them they became servant of Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. They become like stars as Prophet SAW said Ashabee kan-nujoom bi ayihim aqtadaytum ahtadaytum - My Sahaba, My Companions is like stars with anyone you take you will be guided. And inheritor of Sahaba are those day, those awliya Allah that Allah SWT put them under His Dome, where Prophet SAW said, from a holy hadith Awliyaee tahta qibaabee, la y`alamahum ghayree - My Saints are under My Dome, no one knows them except Me. Means Allah SWT has given every wali a dome that he is hiding himself behind that dome. And Prophet SAW said, in holy hadith man adhaa lee waliyan faqad adhantahu bil-harb - Whoever come against one of My awliya, I will declare war against him. How we come against a wali? How we attack a wali? Although the wali is giving us, is teaching us, is supporting us, how we allow ourselves to attack a wali is very easy, is by listening to our ego and not to listening to our shaykh. That is the problem.

Today, our problem is that our ego come first then the Shaykh come second. Our benefit come, advantage come first then the Shaykh come second. That's why the Prophet SAW has mentioned in a hadith that: Be careful not to be lazy. And they said: Ya Rasulallah, how we will be lazy? And he said: It's very simple to become lazy. And I will call the hadith, it's in Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim (narrated by Abu Hurayra RA) that Prophet SAW said..

عن أبي هُرَيرَة رضي الله عنه أنّ رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: (( يعقِدُ الشيطان على قافيةِ رأس أحدكم إذا هو نام ثلاثَ عُقَدٍ يضرِبُ على كل عقدة مكانها عليك ليلٌ طويلٌ فارقُد، فإن استيقظَ فذكرَ الله انحلّت عُقدةٌ، فإن توضّأَ انحلّت عُقدةٌ، فإن صلّى انحلّت عُقَدُهُ كُلُّها، فأصبح نشيطاً طيّب النفس، وإلاّ أصبحَ خبيثَ النّفسِ كسلانَ )).


When someone sleep, Shaytan comes quickly and make three ties, put three ties, three veils on that person immediately. When as soon as he go to sleep. That's why it is recommended to go to sleep on wudu, because shaytan will not come.


People…too many people today, they sleep without wudu. They sleep without two rakaat. All of us, we have this problem although our shuyukh teach us: don't sleep without wudu. So Prophet SAW said: shaytan come and put three ties on everyone, put it on your head, on the head of people and he say: O you have a long night, sleep, don't bother yourself. You waste your times till twelve o'clock, one o'clock in the morning looking on the TV, looking on things that it doesn't concern you, instead of sleeping early after Isha by one hour or two hours, go and sleep. Shaytan says: you have long night, don't worry about it. Because he doesn't want you to wake up for Fajr and what Prophet SAW said: As soon as you wake up and not listen to Shaytan, you wake up at night immediately mention Allah's name, say: ash-hadu an lā ilāha ill-Allāh wa ash-hadu anna Muħammadur rasūl Allāh or lā ilāha ill-Allāh Muħammadur rasūl Allāh or say Allah, or say whatever you want, make salawat on Prophet SAW. He said as soon as you wake up, open your eyes, immediately mention Allah's names, or Prophet's SAW names, or your Shaykh's names because Prophet SAW said: By mention name of pious people, saints, sincere people, Rahma will come. So mention any name, one of these ties immediately will be taken away, there will be left two ties.

If immediately that person wake up mention Allah's name, one tie will be lifted up, quickly he go to take wudu the second tie will be taken away, the second of the veils, second difficulties will be taken away. If he prays, all the ties will be taken away. He'll become strong, energetic after two rakaat wudu, all his veils will be taken away, all his difficulties will be taken away and he'll be able, he'll find energy in himself and his breath will become fresh that Allah likes, that angels like. They are coming to take his hasanat to the Divine Presence.

If he doesn't do that, what Prophet SAW said? If you don't do that, if you don't wake up, if you don't mention Allah's name, if you don't make wudu, if you don't pray, what happened to you? He will become the dirtiest ego person. His self become very dirty, lazy, not able to do anything during the day and that's why people come during the day and say: Oh—to Mawlana Shaykh, to our Shuyukh and say: Oh Mawlana, we have this problem; oh Mawlana we have this difficulties; oh Mawlana… Look what you have done at night. Did you wake up? Did you pray tahajjud? Did you pray salatun Najat? Did you pray Salatu Tasabih? Did you pray Fajr on time? No! So what will happen with us? We face problems during the day.

And I will quote another hadith; Sayyidina Abu Hurayra RA said that Prophet SAW said: the best time fasting after Ramadan is the month of Muharram which we are in it now. Prophet SAW recommended to fast these days. When he entered Madina, he saw the Jewish are fasting a day, the tenth of Muharram and he asked, "why the Jews are fasting that day?" and they said "because in that day Allah saved Sayyidina Musa AS from Firaun." He said: "We have more right for Sayyidina Musa AS than them," and that's why he fasted the tenth of Muharram and he said "if Allah SWT grant me to the second year, I will fast the ninth and the tenth," or in some ahadith they say the tenth and the eleventh.

And he said the best of prayer after the obligation prayer, the five prayers is the prayer at night when everyone is sleeping, when everyone listening to Shaytan and you are standing in the Divine Presence, listening to Allah SWT and praying for Him.

It is narrated that the Prophet SAW said afshoo as-salaam: O human being, O people! Say salaam to each other, don't keep hatred within the heart. If you see your enemy, you say salaam… no problem. If you see someone you're not speaking with him, you say salaam to him. It's an order! Prophet is ordering us: say salaam and give food and be generous. Don't make your table only for yourself and your wife and your children. Invite people; let your table be from East to West. So open, Allah will give more! Allah SWT like generous people and we are in a generous house. We have to pray for that house, we have to pray for that person who is on the top of that house; we have to pray may Allah give him long life, insha Allah.

And pray at night. Don't keep your night sleeping all night. Pray at night, when people are sleeping. You will enter Paradise peacefully and you will enter Paradise that Allah SWT happy with you and Prophet SAW happy with you and I will end with Ibn Mas'ud RA, what he said. And this is hadith also in Bukhari and Muslim that: They mentioned to the Prophet SAW that a person, a man, slept all the night until he didn't pray Fajr even. He wake up when the sun is up. What you expecting Prophet SAW going to say? What you are expecting Prophet going to say? This is very important! He said, "this is a person that Shaytan passed urine in his ears." Shaytan peed in his ears. "That person is dirty, his whole day is dirty!"

O Muslim, we must not make our day dirty. We must listen and we hope that Allah SWT give us the power to listen to our Shuyukh, to our teachers because as I said before, the one who teach me one letter, it is said in Arabic, I become a servant and a slave for that person. May Allah SWT keep us servant at the threshold of our Shaykh.

Aquulu qawli hadza…