Sufi Tariqah is Dicipline

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani 
Saturday, August 15, 2009 | Fenton MI, USA

Authu Billah himanshaytanir Rajim
Bismillah Rahmanir Rahim

Association is one speak and the rest listen. Everything has to be with adab, respect and disclpline. Its not easy to be disciplined especially our ego's. It keeps running.

When you have a break on the horse, when you have a bridal on the horse, can slow it down, very difficult to break. But can slow it down.

All of us, have this problem. So because of that problem Shaytan can enter and destroy the life of people by taking thr bridal out and let you be free.

You got your freedom. Independence freedom for what? Name one? Do you think in this world got his freedom? Even a Wali, even a Prophet. 

Prophet, Allah gave them innocence purity but still Allah SWT calls them anytime they wants. We are from Allah and to Allah we return. People in their lives, they think if they have a car, business and house they have their freedom.

You have nothing. Freedom is when you surrender to Allah SWT work. Prophet (s) the only human being to have the choice to live more or less. Jibril and Izareel came to Prophet (s) and asked do you want stay longer to leave this world? Prophet (s) wanted to go.

We must ask for a bridal people feel shy not to ask for a bridal for animals donkeys also its for animals. We are talking animal because we are not different from them except Allah gave us a brain to think better than them and honoured us.

Since we are honoured, we must ask “Ya Rabee, we need a bridle Islam came to displine us. Religion came to discipline. Human beings except to discipline human beings. Are we displined?

You said not yet. That means, one day, you will be disiplined and we die not disciplined.
Diciplined are those who dont commit a sin. If they do, the repent immediately.

One story, I said it many times, to show how much we sin. Sayidina Bayazid Bistami qs, he was in his seclusion. He doesnt care whats happening in the village Sayyendena Bayazid Bistami (q) his seclusion was in a well 7 meters down. They used to put their students in graves they open the graves and do your seclusion there.

They close themselves down for 40 days, no life they want to go to abulution, they come out and go back in. You cannot. So can you say not yet. Its not easy. SOS. He was doing his seclusion in a well and they come to him "Ya bayazid, make dua”. He didnt listen to them. He has his on bridle polishing his ego down. 

Today, if someone say one word against, you go shouting. Allah doesn’t like arguments. Arguement will distinguish the light of the heart. Better to sleep slowly, slowly its ok. 

Its ibadah sleeping of a oppersor is ibadah. When sleep, nothing written for him. Every moment we do, there is shirk in there. I did that always you do good is from me, not from you and what is bad is from you. So they went back to Bayazid and he said go away I happy here with my Lord.

Awliya Allah, they are strong, they dont need water or food during seclusion. Dont think its so much. You dont feel appetite, you dont want to eat. They went another time and said,” Ya Bayazid, for Allah's sake and for Prophet's sake”. He said ok, now I want someone who never commited a sin.

From where can we find? No way, they went in the villages asking. No way. Finally One person said I will come with you. Did you commit a sin in your life? Hhe said,” Oh my sultan, teacher. Oh they say Sufi's are liberal? Tawwassuf is displine.

When you disipline yourself you carry Shariah in highest level. Islam is a mercy for humanity. We have sent you mercy for humanity. Islam is mercy for humanity, because Islam in represented by prophet (saw). Ask long as you accept Kalima Tawheed. Its ok.

So he said I will say amen,”Ya sayyidi, what is hidden, I d nt know what is not hidden for me, I feel I committed a sin. I dont know what is within me considered shirk. I know, I commited one thing not volunteraliy and I repented if you accept like that.

The one at the age of 70 might do more than the one at the age of 13. He said,” Oh my son, what you did?. He said,”One day I was going to Jummah, walking from my home to the masjid usuallaly, I look where I put my foot. My eyes are down. Are our eyes down?
Where we look? Every direction we are looking trying to fish something a beautiful lady or handsome man hunting. 

Our eyes hunts and when they hunt, we smile, when we smile, we talk, when we talk, we date this problem, they say if you dont have a date, you are awkward, backword old fashion. He said,” I was an old fashion person And I dont know how it happened and I looked to my right side I saw one the old neighbours. 

Drying machine any case, I was walking and I saw all these clothe soft a femine, mixed man and woman underwear. Immedialtly, I turned my face and I cannot pray now, I looked at something that was forbidden for me to look. He look at ladies clothes. You go any shopping centre, you see them hanging. 

So he went back home and said,” Ya Rabee, I dont want you to torture me, that eye of mine, I am taking it out. Look at what excent he was conservative. Means he was so hard to disipline yourself now.

Awliya Allah are giving you a plate of mercy. That why Allah SWT in the holy Quran everything that can accomodate you at any time of life. Can you on the conversative side or mercy side or else, people will run away. 

Thats why more mercy is opening. Thats why I will come to a conlsuon in 3 lines. He said I bought an oscure beat it and put it in my eye. “Oh my son, you are the one that can say ameen. But that story is for me, for show how much disipline is needed and still sending his mercy and forgiving us.

So he is begining his dua. Mawlana is making his dua and he continued, and the other one saying ameen. Then rain came, shower came, thunder coming out of the blue sky. The whole villages were flooded. People were really happy. Dua to be accepeted the Shaykh make dua the student says amen.

The Shaykh has full barakah of course, means I am nothing because of that students, dua was accepted. Why he want to show helplessness? No. Ya Rabee, I am completely helpless. Do we say, we are helpless yourself , myself. You might say it between you and Allah. We are weak and helpless but can you say it in front of people?. 

Look, Mawlana is saying I am the worst. How many times? I heard it might be 35 days, I am helpless in front of thousands. Everyone can hear it. He shows helplessness. You cannot say on the internet and say helpless. Awliya dont have arrogance means because of this student, the dua was accepted.

Now, all the village was fully watered day and night for 7 days they came running back to Bayazid and saying this is too much and said stop it. Why? Because oof discipline, no one has power to be stirng except the creator. Takbir Allahu Akbar, that greatness is for Allah SWT. Something that are we existing? But in reality we are not existing.

If something is existing, never it will never be destroyed. If we are existing, we should always be there. Thats why Pakistani are very clever. They say expired. I never knew that and I'm Pakistani (laugh). Expired milk, expired no, he dies means, pass away , means move from one to another. Like take away pass away from this location to that location.

So soemone is expired. Can you say he's existing? So Onely existence is For Allah SWT only. If we have so much existence, why are we so arrogannce? Even if you are King janiter in arrogance. 

There is a hadrah today please. From childhood, when you are born until 25 years 1/3 of your life is gone. You are studing and struggling and to be arrogant, even a kind with all his money and wealth, they struggle. How much they are feeling hardship. We have no reponsbility, they cannot go anywhere.

They dont have freedom. Only those who have freedom, are Awliya Allah, inheritors of the Prophets. Any one has anger in himself? Dont think too much, you have anger? Always. All of us have anger. 

What Prophet (Saw) said? Anger is disbelief. Shah Naqshband (q) said.”No one from humans or jinn can enter between mureed and Shaykh. There is no power. You cannot imagine a power that might stop you from the reality and blessings of the Shaykh, even you go far away from dunya, doing anything forbidden, Shaykh has power of initation to keep you not away from sin but on you behalf he is making istigfaar for you for Allah to forgive you.

These are the last days, as long as that mureed is under the vision of the Shaykh he cannot succed in writing down that sin. When they are sinners and mistaken they come to you,”Ya Muhammad (s) they ask Allah forgiveness in your presence. 

Awliya Allah intervene, a wali who does not intervene for his mureed, they are not a wali. Awliya Allah will cut what Shaytan did and not yet the angel can write, but they ask Allah SWT forgiveness for that sin for the mureed, even at the last breath of the mureed giving the last seven breaths, Shaykh and Prophet (s) will be there.

One of the meanings that Prophet (s) will be there death standing Prophet (s) there,”I witness Allah is my Lord and You Prophet Mumiins will say Shahada in front of Prophet (s) beyond understanding and he said that whenever you commit a sin you did it by that order by that devil that devil is coming and making you do it.

The work of the shaykh, is take that devil away. One after one devils will be thrown away in hellfire. May Allah SWT keep us under the visions of The Shaykh. Hurmatil Fatihah.
Its not something that you can describe to mind, to think May Allah SWT keep us in that boat of Sainthood. Fathia. 

Wa min Allah at Tawfiq