Protect yourself from hellfire by even half a date

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Saturday, Nov 01, 2008 | Burton, MI US

O Muslims, believers! Allah swt created us and perfected us. And Allah doesn’t like for His servants to be oppressors or to be oppressed. As Allah doesn’t like to Himself, He is dignified, glorified and exalted as He doesn’t like Himself to be an oppressor also He doesn’t like His servants to be oppressed or oppressors.

That is why Allah swt has given us ways not to be oppressors. Everyone of us is an oppressor to himself in some way, in a way that he might not think about it but in reality it is happening.

People think that they are doing good to themselves. But to Allah they are not. If someone says, I am good but I don’t like to pray, he is oppressor. If someone says, “I don’t like to give charity or sadaqa,” he is an oppressor. If someone goes and lies, he is an oppressor. So there are many ways that people are oppressors that they don’t realize it.

Many people go to work and they are in the car and a car overpasses them and they get angry. They might use bad words. One of Allah ‘s names is as-Saboor. If Allah can be patient on us cannot we be patient on each other? He is sending His mercy because He is patient. He isn’t looking at the small thing we are doing, we are still children. He doesn’t look at us and the Prophet doesn’t look at us, in the eyes of the Prophet we aren’t yet mature. Though we are all getting older, but if we are mature, then according to the verse of Holy Qur'an:

قل إن كنتم تحبون الله فاتبعوني يحببكم الله

qul in kuntum tuhiboonAllah fatabi`ooenee yuhbibukumullah – Say: if you really love Allah then follow me, Allah will love you. Surat Aal-`Imran [3:31]

Are we following 100% as the Sahaba followed? It is simple question. Dunya is passing and age is passing. We were yesterday young; now we are old. What are we going to say to Allah?

The Prophet has given us many things in order to avoid hellfire. Don’t think by our `amal we can save ourselves from hellfire. That is why the Prophet said, "If you know what I know, you would have laughed little and cried a lot.” We look everyone is laughing at each other. We tell jokes and we look at ourselves and we laugh a lot.

The Prophet said, " If you know what I know you would have laughed little and cried a lot.” Allah showed the Prophet hellfire in night of Isra and Mi’raj and the Prophet said in a very eloquent to-the-point hadith.

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: "اتقوا النار ولو بشق تمرة، ولو بكلمةٍ طيبة".
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`Ali (r) said that he heard the Prophet say, "ittaqu ’n-naar - be aware of hellfire.” Prophet saw what was happening in hellfire. He doesn’t want his Ummah, his beloved ones to be in hellfire. He is giving them a way out, he says, “Beware of hellfire.” So if they want to beware of something, they tell you, “give presentation and then give us bullet points of what we have to follow. Give us a summary.”

The Prophet said, "ittaqu ’n-naar wa law bi shiqi thamar - Avoid hellfire, even by half of a date.”[1]

What is meaning of half of a date? A piece of a date by which you avoid hellfire. It means avoid hellfire by means of sadaqa, a charity. A charity that is not in your eyes too big. Not millions and millions but by a small piece of a date.

That is showing to care for someone else. You are caring for someone else, you are seeing a poor person, he doesn’t have anything, you give him a piece of date, half for him, half for you - you avoid going to hellfire.

Look Allah’s mercy is so easy. Fill your pockets with dates. That means keep your pocket full of good things. Go and find poor people and help them. Smile in face of your brother as the Prophet said, "that even smile in face of your brother is a sadaqa” don’t always show in your face that you are not happy. When you are happy everyone around you will be happy. When you are happy your will wife be happy. Avoid your house to be hellfire. Houses today are hellfire, fighting with husband with wife, brothers with brothers, children with parents, parents with children. Be generous, give a donation. Go to your home, give your wife something, make her happy. Give something to the children, smile in their face, help them. That will avoid hellfire for us in akhira. When we do that Allah is happy with us, Allah will bless us and mercy us more. That is why he said:

وَإِذْ تَأَذَّنَ رَبُّكُمْ لَئِن شَكَرْتُمْ

"wa la’in shakartum la-azeedanakum - If ye are grateful, I will add more (favours) unto you;”

and when you give charity then you are thankful, then Allah will give more.

Even if you sit in a masjid and recite a hadith and explain that, it is sadaqa. If you don’t have money share your knowledge, guide them to the way of Allah swt. You are doing a sadaqa.

حدثنا إسماعيل قال حدثني أخي عن سليمان عن معاوية بن أبي مزرد عن أبي الحباب عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه أن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال : (ما من يوم يصبح العباد فيه إلا ملكان ينزلان فيقول أحدهما اللهم أعط منفقا خلفا ويقول الآخر اللهم أعط ممسكا تلفا).

Wa `an abi Hurayrah qaala an-Nabi qaala ma min yawm yusbihoo al-`ibaadu feehi illa malakaana yanzilaan feehi. As soon as the day dawns two angels are sent to every person and they say… " these two angels that Allah sent to earth. Fa yaqoolu ahadahum ya rabbee atihi munifiqan.Give someone more because he is giving charity and giving in your way. Provide him more he is giving out, giving a smile, giving charity, helping someone, taking by the hand of someone that cannot walk, teaching someone knowledge.

“Give someone who is giving out for your sake, ‘`ati munfiqan khalafa – give the one who is giving out something to replace it,’ and the one on the left says ‘Allahuma `ati mumsikan talafa - The one who is holding back give him something evil to make him to lose his mind.’”

وَاضْرِبْ لَهُم مَّثَلًا رَّجُلَيْنِ جَعَلْنَا لِأَحَدِهِمَا جَنَّتَيْنِ مِنْ أَعْنَابٍ وَحَفَفْنَاهُمَا بِنَخْلٍ وَجَعَلْنَا بَيْنَهُمَا زَرْعًا كِلْتَا الْجَنَّتَيْنِ آتَتْ أُكُلَهَا وَلَمْ تَظْلِمْ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا وَفَجَّرْنَا خِلَالَهُمَا نَهَرًا وَكَانَ لَهُ ثَمَرٌ فَقَالَ لِصَاحِبِهِ وَهُوَ يُحَاوِرُهُ أَنَا أَكْثَرُ مِنكَ مَالًا وَأَعَزُّ نَفَرًا وَدَخَلَ جَنَّتَهُ وَهُوَ ظَالِمٌ لِّنَفْسِهِ قَالَ مَا أَظُنُّ أَن تَبِيدَ هَذِهِ أَبَدًا وَمَا أَظُنُّ السَّاعَةَ قَائِمَةً وَلَئِن رُّدِدتُّ إِلَى رَبِّي لَأَجِدَنَّ خَيْرًا مِّنْهَا مُنقَلَبًا قَالَ لَهُ صَاحِبُهُ وَهُوَ يُحَاوِرُهُ أَكَفَرْتَ بِالَّذِي خَلَقَكَ مِن تُرَابٍ ثُمَّ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ ثُمَّ سَوَّاكَ رَجُلًا لَّكِنَّا هُوَ اللَّهُ رَبِّي وَلَا أُشْرِكُ بِرَبِّي أَحَدًا وَلَوْلَا إِذْ دَخَلْتَ جَنَّتَكَ قُلْتَ مَا شَاء اللَّهُ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ إِن تَرَنِ أَنَا أَقَلَّ مِنكَ مَالًا وَوَلَدًا فَعَسَى رَبِّي أَن يُؤْتِيَنِ خَيْرًا مِّن جَنَّتِكَ وَيُرْسِلَ عَلَيْهَا حُسْبَانًا مِّنَ السَّمَاء فَتُصْبِحَ صَعِيدًا زَلَقًأَوْ يُصْبِحَ مَاؤُهَا غَوْرًا فَلَن تَسْتَطِيعَ لَهُ طَلَبًا وَأُحِيطَ بِثَمَرِهِ فَأَصْبَحَ يُقَلِّبُ كَفَّيْهِ عَلَى مَا أَنفَقَ فِيهَا وَهِيَ خَاوِيَةٌ عَلَى عُرُوشِهَا وَيَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أُشْرِكْ بِرَبِّي أَحَدًا

A’ûdhu bil Lahi minash Shay?anir Rajim

Bismillahir Ra?man ir Rahim

Wa’drib lahum mathalan Rajulayni ja`alna lia?adihima jannatayni min `anaabin wa hafafnahuma bi-nakhlin wa ja`alna baynahuma zar`an (32)

Kilta ’l-jannatayni aatat ukulaha wa lam tadhlim minhu shaya wa fajjarna khilalahuma naharan (33)

Wa kaana lahu thamarun fa qaala li-saahibihi wa huwa yuhaawiruhu anaa aktharu minka ma lan wa `a’azzu nafaran (34)

Wa dakhala jannatahu wa huwa dhalimun li-nafsihi qaala ma adhunnu an tabeeda hâdhihi abadan (35)

Wa ma adhunnus-sa`ata qaaimatan wa la’in rudidtu ila Rabbi la ajidanna khayran minha munqalaba (36).

Qaala lahu wahibuhu wa huwa yuhawiruhu a’kafarta billadhee khalaqaka min turaabin thumma min nutfatin thumma sawaaka rajulan (37)

Lakinnna Huwal Lahu Rabbi wa la ushriku bi Rabbee a?adan (38)

Wa laula `idh dakhalta jannataka qulta ma sha`al Lahu la quwwata `illa bil Lahi `in tarani `ana `aqalla minka maalan wa waladan (39)

Fa’asa Rabbi `an yutiyani khairan min jannatika wa yursila `alayha husbanan mina ’s-sama`i fatusbiha sa’eedan zalaqan (40)

`Aw yusbiha maauha ghawran falan tastati`a lahu talaba (41)

Wa uheeta bi-thamarihi fa-asbaha yuqallibu kaffayhi `ala ma anfaqa feeha wa hiya khawiyatun `ala `Arooshiha wa yaqoolu ya laytanee lam ushrik bi-rabbee ahada (42)

Set forth to them the parable of two men: for one of them We provided two gardens of grape-vines and surrounded them with date palms; in between the two we placed tillage.

Each of those gardens brought forth its produce, and failed not in the least therein: in the midst of them We caused a river to flow.

(Abundant) was the produce this man had: he said to his companion, in the course of a mutual argument: "more wealth have I than you, and more honour and power in (my following of) men."

He went into his garden in a state (of mind) unjust to his soul: He said, "I deem not that this will ever perish,

"Nor do I deem that the Hour (of Judgment) will (ever) come: Even if I am brought back to my Lord, I shall surely find (there) something better in exchange."

His companion said to him, in the course of the argument with him: "Do you deny Him Who created you out of dust, then out of a sperm-drop, then fashioned you into a man? But (I think) for my part that He is Allah, My Lord, and none shall I associate with my Lord. Why didst you not, as you went into your garden, say: 'Allah's will (be done)! There is no power but with Allah.' If you dost see me less than you in wealth and sons, "It may be that my Lord will give me something better than your garden, and that He will send on your garden thunderbolts (by way of reckoning) from heaven, making it (but) slippery sand! Or the water of the garden will run off underground so that you will never be able to find it."

So his fruits (and enjoyment) were encompassed (with ruin), and he remained twisting and turning his hands over what he had spent on his property, which had (now) tumbled to pieces to its very foundations, and he could only say, "Woe is me! Would I had never ascribed partners to my Lord and Cherisher!" Surat al-Kahf 18:32-42.

That is why in Surat al-Kahf, the story of the two neighbors, one is mu’min and one is not, they are arguing with each other. The one does not want to give in Allah’s way anything and he says, “I have a big garden and I am happy with it.” The other says, “don’t say like that, Allah may destroy your garden.”

So anyone Allah gives and he doesn’t give, you must be careful to give more. Don't be afraid that Allah will reduce your amount.

قال رسول الله " داووا مرضاكم بالصدقة"

The Prophet said, "cure your patients with sadaqa.”[2] Sahaba were curing patients with sadaqa. Give in the way of Allah and you will see if your health improve or not.

That might be bad news for doctors. They like to see more patients. But if those doctors give in way of Allah, Allah will give them more.

My teacher said to my brother who was a doctor, “Don’t reject anyone who comes to you. Pray two raka`ats when you go to your clinic then say, ‘O Allah I am going to work for your servants.’ Allah will open for you.”

So if you are doctor, pharmacist, engineer, you say, "O my Lord! I am working to help Your servants (Not working to cheat Your servants).”

You help, they help and Allah gives more.

ففي صحيح البخاري ومسلم عن جابر بن عبدالله رضي الله عنه قال : " ما سئل رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم شيئاً قط فقال لا" . وقال أنس بن مالك رضي الله عنه : " ما سئل رسول الله شيئاً قط فقال لا"

And Jaabir said about the Prophet , “ma su’ila rasullahi shayun qat fa qaala la - Never was the Prophet asked anything and he said ‘no.’” Anything you asked you find an answer. Anything you request you get. Anything you want the Prophet will give. Even if yuthir `ala nafsihi. If he has one date he will give it to you before he will eat. How much people as and we say no. O Muslims let us avoid hellfire, as we begin with hadith of Hatib that “avoid hellfire even with half a date.”

Let us save yourselves by doing good. Any `amal you do good will help to save you Allah from hellfire.

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[1] حَدَّثَنَا ‏ ‏أَسْوَدُ ‏ ‏حَدَّثَنَا ‏ ‏شَرِيكٌ ‏ ‏عَنِ ‏ ‏الْأَعْمَشِ ‏ ‏عَنْ ‏ ‏خَيْثَمَةَ ‏ ‏عَنِ ‏ ‏ابْنِ مَعْقِلٍ ‏ ‏عَنْ ‏ ‏عَدِيِّ بْنِ حَاتِمٍ ‏ ‏قَالَ ‏
قَالَ النَّبِيُّ ‏ ‏صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ‏ ‏ اتَّقُوا النَّارَ قَالَ فَأَشَاحَ بِوَجْهِهِ حَتَّى ظَنَنَّا أَنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا ثُمَّ قَالَ اتَّقُوا النَّارَ ‏ ‏وَأَشَاحَ ‏ ‏بِوَجْهِهِ قَالَ قَالَ مَرَّتَيْنِ ‏ ‏أَوْ ثَلَاثًا ‏ ‏ اتَّقُوا النَّارَ وَلَوْ ‏ ‏ بِشِقِّ ‏ ‏ تَمْرَةٍ فَإِنْ لَمْ تَجِدُوا فَبِكَلِمَةٍ طَيِّبَةٍ

[2] At-Tabarani in al-Awsat, and al-Mu`jam al-kabir and in al-Du`a, Ibn `Adee, Abu Nua`ym in his Hilya, al-Khateeb al-Baghdadi, al-Bayhaqi in his Sunan, from Ibn Mas`ud.

As Donkeys Do and the Importance of Sham

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Friday, Oct 10, 2008 | Burton, MI US

O Muslims! Allah swt gave us signs and examples in this dunya and Allah from the beginning said that this dunya is not lasting.

One time is coming and everything is going to be change and people are going to be judged. And He gave us many examples and one of them is death. The biggest example is that you are leaving everything behind and going towards your lord. At that time there is no one who can do anything for you except Allah’s mercy and the shafa`ah of an-Nabi .

Allah gave us signs in order to take example. You go to mountain and there is a lot of snow and you see how these snowballs come down the mountain and get bigger and bigger and then they hit, then a lot of homes will be destroyed and a lot of people will die.

And Allah gave us a lot of signs that this snowballs does exist and don’t think that this earth will not be shaken by it.

And that is Surat al-Zalzalah.

إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ الْأَرْضُ زِلْزَالَهَا وَأَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ أَثْقَالَهَا

When Earth is shaken with her (final) earthquake And the earth throws up her burdens (from within). 99:1-2.

What is in comes out and what is out goes in. “When what is inside the earth comes out.” What is inside the earth? Volcanoes, oil, yes, fire? Yes.

But there are some others. There are human beings in the earth, inside their graves and they are going to come out. It is going to tell everyone and they are going to tell what they are seeing there. We have to take these signs, when allah says something in Holy Qur'an that is there, it is going to happen. Hellfire is there. Allah is going to send people to hellfire, punishment , or paradise, reward. That is not abstract. Allah says “kun fayakoon - Be! and it is!” We don’t know where is paradise or where is hellfire but we must believe. If you want to be a believer.

So today we see a crisis that is occurring like a snowball. People say we lost all our retirement, all our money that is a sign that "O human beings! What you have saved and you are going to spend it. If you did something wrong it is going to eat from what you have of good. That is what you have of stocks will eat from the profits."

So similarly the bad deeds will eat the good `amal. That means you must not mix them. Then when you will end up in presence of Allah you will be bankrupt.

As the Prophet said, man huwa al-muflis? They said “the one who has no money.” The Prophet said, “No, it is the one who has no `amal, wa in sama wa in salla, even if he prays and fasts.” It means that when he does something bad it will eat what is good. It will eat what he saved.

So we don’t want to be like snowball for akhira. This is sign for us, this economic crisis. This is saying to "be careful." Every day passing is one day less, every moment passing is one moment less.

That is why I am going to mention this hadith of the Prophet related by ibn Habban and al-Bazzar.

وحديث عبد الله بن عمرو “ لا تقوم الساعة حتى يتسافد في الطريق تسافد الحمير “ أخرجه البزار والطبراني وصححه ابن حبان والحاكم

“L? taq?m us-s?‘atu hatta yatas?fadu fit-tar?qi tas?fud il-ham?r. Qult inna dh?lika la k?’in? Q?la na‘m layak?nanna.”

“The Hour will not come until there are men and women in the streets having sexual relations with each other like donkeys do.”

What is that? That is the donkeys they are making sex with each other.

On the streets. The donkey doesn’t know it is on street or not on the street. There is no shyness in religion. People will not feel ashamed, they are doing it in the street and in the parks. Don’t you see them there? They are doing it everywhere. The Prophet mentioned 1400 years ago.

“Qultu a-inna dhaalika la-ka’in - I said, is that real, (that they will do that like donkeys)? Qala na`m la-yakoonana, he said, ‘yes it will happen.’”

Is it not happening in your home, in these movies on TV. They are doing it front of you on TV, in that box. It is no longer on street only it is in homes, everywhere.

عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: “والذي نفسي بيده لا تفنى هذه الأمة حتى يقوم الرجل إلى المرأة فيفترسها في الطريق فيكون خيارهم يومئذ من يقول: لو واريتها وراء هذا الحائط. (مسلم في كتاب الفتن و الهيْثمي في الزّوائد، رواه أبو يعلى ورجاله رجال الصحيح)

And from Abu Hurayrah, another hadith, “Walladh? nafs? bi yadihi la tafn? h?dhihil-ummah hatta yaq?m ur-rajulu ilal-mar’ati fayaftarishuh? fi-tar?q fa yak?nu khiy?r?hum yawma’idhin man yaq?l law ra’aytah? war? h?dha al-h?’it.

– I swear an oath by the One in Whose Hand is my soul, that this Ummah will not vanish until a man will stand up and have sex with a woman, in the streets.”

Are we seeing that or not? We see them in the park on the benches you see them in street kissing each other. And on movies and TV, even our children are seeing that.

And the best of them the Prophet said, (look he didn’t stop), “the best among you at that time, (they don’t do it, there is some struggle in their hearts), but they say to themselves, if I see that lady behind that wall I will do it also.”

There are two groups of people: one they do it, they don’t care. And there are people passing by and the Prophet said, “fa yak?nu khiy?r?hum yawma’idhin man yaq?l law ra’aytah? war? h?dha al-h?’it - to the others they are righteous. But that one is seeing if I could have seen her behind the wall I would have done it.”

Are we seeing that or not? Yes, we are seeing it, it is a snowball coming quickly.

That means that if the beginning of the last days is seen then it is like snowball its end is near.

So there is no time to trade now - our duty now is to trade and ask forgiveness and repent.

حدثنا عبد الله حدثني أبي حدثنا يزيد أنبأنا بهز عَنِ أبِيهِ عَنِ جَدِّهِ قال: قُلْتُ يا رَسُولَ اللهِ أيْنَ تأمُرُني قال-ها هُنا ونَحا بِيَدِهِ نَحْو الشّام قال إنَّكُمْ مَحْشُورُونَ رِجالاً ركباناً وتجرون علىوجوهكم.‏ (رَواهُ أحْمَدُ في مُسْنَدِهِ)

Innakum mahsh?r?n rij?lun wa rukb?nun. Wa tujar?na ‘al? wuj?hikum h?-hunn?. (Wa awma’a biyaddihi nahwa ash-sh?m).

And the Prophet said, from Ahmad, from Abham bin Hakeem.

You are going to be gathered either riding or walking or men and women, and you are going to be pulled by your faces and the ones riding are the good ones. And he directed his finger towards bilad ash-Sham. That is where Sayyidina `Isa is coming according to the hadith of the Prophet, at the white minaret. There is the ard al-mahshar.

الشامُ أرْضُ المَحْشَرِ و المَنْشَرِ

“Wa `an Abi’d-Darda. Al-sham ard al-manshar wal manshar – Sham is going to be the land of resurrection and the Day of Judgment.”

Are we far from that or not?

“Wa `an Amr bin al-`As, Layat?yanna ‘al? an-n?si zamanun la yabq? ‘al? al-ardi mu’minun illa l?hiqa bi ash-sh?m. - There will be no mumin left on earth except he will be moving to Sham.”

-قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم … عليك بالشام فإنه خيرة الله من أرضه يجتبي إليه خيرته من عباده… فإن الله عز وجل قد توكل لي بالشام وأهله. ُ(رواه أبو داود و أحْمد في مسْنده)

“`Alayka bi’sh-sham fa innahu kheeratah-Allahi min ardihi yajtabee ilayhi kheeratahu `ibadihi – Keep to Sham for it is the purest of God’s Lands and the most sincere people in creation live in it.”

That day is coming. If that day is coming in our day or it is coming in a later time we don’t know. No one knows. But it might be tomorrow. The signs are there. If you look into Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim and other sihah and look at signs of Last Days, what the Prophet mentioned of signs, it happened already.

Now everywhere there is crisis. They are not speaking about watr any more. They are speaking about economics, they are speaking about money. Money is more dear to them than water even.

Allah said, idha zulzilat al-ardu zilzaalaha wa akhrajit al-ardi athqaalaha. Yawmaydhin tuhadithu akhbaraha.

It might shake now. O Muslims! O believes, keep your heart clean and repent to Allah swt and ask forgives. All of us must do that.

Someone asked, "is hellfire real and is heavens real or is it only a complex understanding of that situation that it is a theory that people have to be good and people have to be better and if there is a punishment it might be punishment where we are living or whatever?"

No, that is not true. As dunya exists and Allah created earth, so too did Allah create heavens and create hellfire. As Allah can say kun fayakoonHe can and did create heaven and hellfire. As He made earth to turn around the axle, He created heavens and hellfire. As He made the earth to turn around the sun, He did create heavens and hellfire. May Allah save us.

Even Angels are Fearful

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani 
Friday, Apr 17, 2009 | Burton, MI US
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O Muslims! Everyone of us try to achieve something in his life. Some people Allah give them to be doctors or engineers or lawyers or whatever specialty they are getting and some others Allah gave them to be businessmen to work to do their best to make their living.

So everyone is trying to do something. You cannot sit and say “I am waiting, that comes to you by a basket from the roof.”

A basketful of provisions. You are not that one. We are not that one. That is only for those whom Allah swt wants them to be like that, He will give and he will provide them without doing anything. As we saw in Holy Qur'an where Allah is sending Virgin Mary without her doing any work and not doing anything and forgetting about that - Allah is sending to her directly.

If Sayyida Maryam is like that then for sure Allah will send Sayyidina Muhammad (s) him whatever he likes. But the Prophet (s) never wants anything like that because the Prophet (s) wants to show the greatness and importance of doing work. The Prophet (s) used to work; sahaba used to work; the Khulapha raashidoon used to work. No one was lazy as today people are lazy and try to get from here and there and not to work.

So everyone of us is trying to achieve something. What about akhira. Is anyone of us trying to achieve for akhira. We say, “Ya Rabbee we are praying for You and we are fasting for You and we are giving charity for You.”

No, you have to do that, for you, because you don’t want to be in scary position on Day of Judgment; you don’t want to be punished; you want to be forgiven. So when you think like that you will find that Allah swt has mentioned many things through His Prophet to be able to do something for your akhira.

Today when people finish a Master’s Degree or PhD or BS they go and celebrate, they are happy. Did we celebrate getting a PhD for heavens? Did we try to get PhD for heavens? Is there PhD for heavens? Yes there is - it is bara`at, it is innocence from hellfire. No we didn’t get that.

Look at that hadith of the Prophet (s). Rawahu ad-daylami…`an jabir `an ibn rawah, that the Prophet (s) said,” lama kana laylat usra bihi - when the night of Mi’raj and I was in Mi’raj - ra’aitu Jibreel Alayhissalam - I saw Jibreel, although Jibreel was with him but when they arrived… mulk min khashiyyatillah. He saw Jibreel at that level where Jibreel said, “stop, you go forward from here.”

He saw him on something made of haseer, like a straw mat thrown on the floor, why? It means Sayyidina Jibreel was in a position very clear to the Prophet (s) that he is afraid, min khashiyyatillah - if Allah swt will throw him in hellfire - and he is Jibreel. From that Divine Presence he is fearing - that Allah might throw him away. That is Jibreel. Are we Jibreel? If Jibreel is like that what about us?

That is sometimes when you read these ahadith and think about them, this the book of al-buqa wa’r-riqa, the books of softness and crying, tears. When you see these hadith you will say where I am going if Jibreel is like that and if Mikaeel is like that , and the Prophet (s) is like that where he said, “If you know what I know you will laugh little and cry a lot.”

And … why I don’t see angel Mikaeel yadhak smiling, not only serious but the opposite of smiling, like someone always worried from something, as if he is afraid. And about Jibreel he said, ma dahak Jibreel … nar. He never smiled since hellfire was created. That means that these four angels, Jibreel and Mikaeel and .. and Azraeel and Ridwan and Malik were created before this dunya life, before sins. So when hellfire was created, and when Sayyidina Adam Alayhissalam ate from the tree.

So when Jibreel was asked by the Prophet (s)about Mikaeel, he said, “I never saw him smiling since hellfire was created.”

We know we are going to leave this dunya one day. Are we preparing a PhD for our Lord to say “we prepared something.” If we cannot say that then we must worry about ourselves when Allah asks us “what have you done for Me O My servant?”

Hadhathna ibn Ibrahim … an an-nabi qala li Jibreel… rawahu al-bayhaqi fee shu`b al-iman. That the Prophet (s) said to Jibreel, “la tateenee illa wa anta saamun bayna aynay. I see you coming to me Jibreel never smiling but like someone who has serious problem, his front here, [forehead] becomes so near each other and his forehead becomes so stressed.” He said, “all the time you are coming to me like that. You never came to me smiling.” That means the Prophet (s) never saw Jibreel coming except shaking. Might be Allah changes and says, “Ya Jibreel you did something wrong!”

And one day Jibreel came to the Prophet (s) and he was crying . “ma yubkeek?” “Ma jafat lee aynun minma khalaq-alahu jahannam - My eyes are always in tears the moment Allah created hellfire. “

So if that is Mikaeel and Jibreel and they have been discussed by the Prophet (s) and telling us what we have to do, what is our situation towards our worshipness and making sure we are safe on Judgment Day. I am not saying these things to make ourselves not happy, no but dhakkir fa inna adh-dhikra tanfa al-mumineen. Remind them, that will benefit all of us by reminding.

And he said, “ma jaffat lee aynun … makhaftan an `asee wa yulqeenee fee - I am fearful I will do something wrong and then Allah will throw me in hellfire.”

O Muslims, Sayyidina Adam Alayhissalam when he ate from the tree that was the first sin to be committed. What is the meaning in Arabic of `asee mentioned in another even, the meaning of insan. The root of it comes from “to forget.” It is coming from someone who forgets. Insan is the one who is forgetting always. That is why Allah with His mercy put in us, that kind of forgetfulness. Because if we keep remembering we will regret all our lives as all did something wrong that we will regret. So Allah blessed us to forget. That is because we don’t remember what kind of sin we did yesterday or the day before or one month ago or one year. That is to keep this dunya running else all will stop and we will spend time remembering.

But there are people who don’t forget, those sincere people they are sincere and having nothing to fear. Ala inna awliyaullah laa khawfan `alayhim wa laa hum yahzanoon. They are in continuous repentance remembering what hey have done. Like Rabi`a al-`Adawiyya. She was in repentance after every prayer. They asked her why she was repenting and she said, “My repentance need repentance.”

They say when Adam Alayhissalam ate from the tree, the ornaments and beauty of paradise he was dressing was stripped away. Like when you have a beautiful nice painting and you put some water on it, what happened? All the colors go down and it becomes naked.

So when Adam Alayhissalam ate from the tree, all these heavenly decorations like a painting, they began to melt and nothing was left from the zeenat except the crown and the iqleel, the crown of flowers.

And wa ja`ala an yaskat alayhi min waraq al-jannah… as much as he was covering himself with leaves of Paradise it was falling apart.

So we cannot cover ourselves from Allah swt. Allah will see us. You are in bed - He sees us, you are in mosque - He sees us. Wherever you are you cannot hide. Remembering these things will keep us awake and aware that one day we will see and our eyes will be opened and we will see good and see bad and if we didn’t do good in this dunya we will see bad in akhira.

Wa min Allah at Tawfiq

Go Back to The Village

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani 
Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 Burton, MI US 
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Bismillahir Rohmaanir Rohim
Allahuma salli `ala Sayyidina Muhammad

I am a little bit debating where I begin. Every one of Grandshaykh notes is like an ocean. I am turning pages and I say, "O I speak from this” then the other page has more.

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem 
Nawaytu'l-arba` een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid. Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

May Allah swt bless Grandshaykh soul, and give long life to our Shaykh, Shaykh Nazim and insha-Allah to give us long life to see Mahdi.

Wherever you open the pages of Sayyidina Grandshaykh. It is like an ocean. It might take on year. If I go from the beginning, this subhat has been given 11 Sha`ban 1391. 38 years ago.

He said, "title of every action or `amal you want to do have to put in front of you, a note in front of your eyes, that you have to be under Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum. There are 3 issues. To obey Allah, to obey the prophet and to obey those in authority.[4: 59]

He said If you want power of this life, the strength of this life and akhira, if you want happiness in dunya, you want happiness in akhira, if you are no t in need of a doctor or you don’t want a guide, then you have to follow these 3 issues: Obey Allah, obey the Prophet (s) and obey those in authority. [4:59]. If you do that then Allah will give you happiness in dunya and happiness in akhira.

When you say Ati` Allah –Allah that is an ocean we cannot limit it. It means surrender to Allah swt. Ok when we say ati`-Allah what does it mean? Obey Allah. What to obey. It means in this obedience, in that word, the secret, but not only secrete but everything that is created is under that khitaab address.

So when you obey it means all these what are created it is opened up to you to know about. He said, "all holy books that Allah revealed to his prophet and the Holy Qur'an that Allah revealed to the Prophet, when we obey all the knowledge that is in these holy books and all their secrets will enter their heart. If you are really obedient. What is it to be a wali, to be obedient. Kullu `uloom al-munazall bi kull haqa’iq all of the knowledge of these books with all their secrets will be given to the wali.

How many letters in Holy Qur'an? Nearly 500,000. how many verses of Holy Qur'an, 6,666. 4 sixes. Multiply 4 x 6 what happened 24. 2 + 4 = 6.
Every verse is made of words and every word is made of letter and every letters awliyaullah must take from each at least 12,000 oceans of knowledge.

Allah opened from 24,000 to 12,000 knowledge up to the level of that wali. And that knowledge is to the levels of al-`arif billah. We have to go into meaning of `arif billah. I started first page. That was from 8th page. So imagine 500,000 letters and multiplied by 24,000 meanings or knowledges. If you read it one time then read it another time then it is a different set of meanings and knowledge. [yartada ilayk tarfak..]

That enters under what? Under Ati` Allah. We cannot claim that wilayah is so simple. Wilayah is so difficult to reach but not so difficult to give to people if they are in love with Allah and His Prophet. It is so difficult to give if it is based on your work. But if based on love then is it so easy to give. So then look at ourselves. We are representatives. representatives on what? On eating and drinking not more.

But on knowledge it is difficult. We are waiting for them to give us.
You are on the truck. Even it is slow. In past they have trains that run on coal. Later the introduce trains that run on electricity. Today they have turbine train that go like a rocket. Depends on what track we are using. If we are using coal we go slowly but we reach they be happy with you. Ajalla al-karamaat dawaam at-tawfeeq - The best of miracles is the continuity. Be slow but consistent.

So awliyaullah put them under that dress of ati-Allah. When you obey then you can go inside you be able to open it. He said, “if you follow that, obedience, we know you cannot reach full obedience, but if you obey on one, then Allah will take away the whole kufr that is in you. Allah will pull it out, if you are on the truck.

What is obedience. What does it mean to obey? We give a small example. For example when you fast you are obeying. You obey when you give charity is it not? You obey if you pray. You obey when you do good. Is It correct? [yessir!}

That is for sure. That is not the obedience they want from you. For sure you have to do that. What is the obedience they want? When you face a sin and you say, "O Allah I faced a sin for you and I dropped it from my desire. You try to stop yourself form a sin, then Allah will reward it to your more than what you are praying to stop yourself from committing a forbidden. That he said is more difficult than praying day or night. Because it will throw all its power to stop you from obedience. It is not simple. So that is the cost of it. Awliyaullah in their lives they stopped their bad desires.

Os everything comes back on these 4 enemies, nafs, dunya, hawa, shaytan.
Then you are on obedience then Allah will take all kufr away from you. He will say "My servant did not follow his desires, I am giving him whatever he wants." See the words of awliyaullah you cannot find these in books. I was reading from so many books before but from Grandshaykh' s knowledge you cannot find anyone who spoke like that.

He said, that "if a kafir will work from his book for 40 hours, then whole dunya will be under his command." Who said that before? Nobody. Because they have no courage. They have no idea about this knowledge. This knowledge is for someone who obeys Allah.

He said, that is an unbeliever acts on the book that Allah has sent for him and acts with sincerity Allah will make the entire dunya under his control. But he said, at the end, there is no one that can do that.
He said if they can do that, then they can command under their command.

But no one in this time will really follow with sincerity what is in their books. It means before there were. But now where is not. Fee hadhal waqt. If the unbeliever is like that what do you think of the one who believes in Holy Qur'an. What you think about the one who is always on his tongue and dhikr an-Nabi (s). what do you think he will be getting ? to read one letter from one surah it has enough light to guide you and save you in Judgment Day.

That is why Grandshaykh said, "Take your finger, and put it under the letters and move it under the letters and that will purify you, that is light. That will give you enough power to take you to Paradise."

There are people who are reading Qur’an through curiosity. They are interested to know about Islam. For sure those who read that way will be saved in last moment. Except those who are studying for attacking. That is a different issue. And we skip forward here to Ati` ar-rasul.

He said that there are at least 300,000 to 500,00 hadith. He said, "the meaning of ati` ar-rasul is that if you obey out of these 500,000 hadiths, one hadith for forty days, your heart will be filled with all kinds of wisdom and all kinds of negativity and najasa that are within will be taken out and dumped. And everything from the Beautiful Names and Attributes with the interceding of the Prophet (s) He will send it to your heart. Following one hadith. But halan fa`lan. By mouth and by action. Take one hadith and follow, you will end up what Grandshaykh was saying.

And he said, "that anyone who is doing that will enter the ocean of shafa`t an-Nabi (s) and the Prophet (s) will be monitoring him always, bringing him back to the same track, not to go right or left or to fall in hellfire. Faman shadda shadda feen-naari abadan. Whoever deviates will fall into the fire."

What does that mean? If you follow the hadith of the Prophet, and you are following that hadith for 40 days, and your ego is pushing you to deviate right or left. If you deviate what will happen? You fall into the fire. That doesn’t mean jahannam here; it means you will feel the pain of not reaching the presence of the Prophet and it will be delayed that you feel the fire of not reaching him.

That one hadith is enough to follow for 40 days that you can reach presence of the Prophet (s). He said, "the first 3 days after a child is born he can see everything. When a child is born, what does he do? He cries. Why he asked, does he cry. Because he said , they cannot come out. Allah will freeze their tongues. Let them cry. He doesn’t want to come to this dunya. He doesn’t want to come to see this dirtiness in this dunya. Inside he is in seclusions, he is clean. And he said that for 3 days he can see and he can hear and he can praise his Lord and praise the Prophet (s). Imagine that someone no sin on him, praising Allah and praising the Prophet. Someone who is keeping his tongue wet with dhikrullah. What will happen to him? He will go to paradise.

Everyone on earth did praise Allah and praise the Prophet (s). The moment he comes out of the womb of his mother he is praying and crying non-stop for 3 days. What do you think Allah will do for someone who does that for 3 days? That is why Allah said, yulid al-insanu ala al-fitrah.

That is why we say, “children are innocent and no sins are written on him.” What do you think about an innocent person who is doing dhikrullah. He will do it on perfect worship. With `Ishk he will be doing 3 days of worship with true love. And those 3 days, how long Allah will stretch them to become, might be for 20 days, might for 20 years.

He said some children will not be veiled. And he said that "since the age of five or lower, in his city, but not in big cities in the old time, anyone who wants to come and marry, the bride and groom come, or the parents come and ask him, 'what about this marriage?'”

He was five years of ages or less. Most of them come to him asking him which boy the girl has to marry or which girl is good for the boy. He said, "never did Allah close my eyes. Since birth I read the names on the Preserved Tablets. And I tell them this one for that one and this one for that one.”

That is why most of that city was full of sincere people. Not like now you choose without knowing what you are doing. Men or women. at age 5 he was choosing for people , and it will come a good match. Now they are making a commercial now only to make money. Website for singles. We match you. What you match? You are matching dogs, donkeys with pigs. Dogs with pigs, what are you matching.

You know how to match? Computer knows how to match? No more value, value is lost. And today even Muslims learned from others and they are matching because the parents are giving a lot of troubles to the children. If not the parents the culture and the society are giving a lot of trouble. They are giving very hard time for someone to find someone good. And after a time they come crying that “my son has problem, my daughter has problem.”

If you are going to live like that, go back to the village. It is your responsibility so you decided to come to “civilization “ but don’t come and complain later. You want everything to be democracy, democracy so pay $700,000,000, 000.00. The rich become richer and the poor become poorer, that is democracy is it not Shaykh taher?

For mu’mins, faman shadhdh shadhdha feen-naari abada. For the mu’min, fire is to be away from his Lord, to be cut from being connected. The Prophet (s) wants you to follow his hadith up to the end in order not to be disconnected. He said, "Whatever Allah gave to the Prophet, he is ready to give to his Ummah. But come to him. You want to move like an ant you receive like an ant. You want to receive like a cheetah, then you receive more than the others, you will be the first. Don’t be lazy. Don’t look back. You look back you lose. Be consistent."

It means don’t spend your eyes on something not necessary. Unfortunately we are falling into a life where all you spend you life in wasting it. Before what were they doing? Planting the crops, planting their fields. Getting their crops, fixing their food. Digging wells and drinking. And writing books. And teaching students learning from scholars. Is there more that that? Now everything is completely different.

It means go back to the village. The village is in your heart. The heart always wants to be relaxed. Ala bi-dhikrillah tatma’in al-quloob. We want peacefulness this is what you need to do. As much as you love your children, you must love the Prophet (s) at least one percent. The Prophet (s) is saying "if you love me one percent I will give you everything."

How much you love your children? You would kill yourself for your children. What will they benefit you? Especially in this culture. They come at the end and give you a hard time. You prepare everything for them and at the end they only want to bury you quickly and never they will visit your grave.

But go back to the village you came from, you will find yourselves day and night at the grave of your parents; mother and father. You say Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem for them. As we said in the previous sessions that man who left his wife pregnant and died. And that man was a criminal and his grave always in snowy times was dry and hot and in the village they used ot hear someone crying, like someone who has a very deep wound, moaning. They used to hear that moaning, crying. 

When his son became 7 years they took him to the shaykh to teach him Qur’an. He looked at him and said, "your father was the worst criminal and I know you don’t have money to teach you, but I will teach you for Allah’s sake. Say 'Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem'!" and he said, "Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. That child with them. That night the whole village, with the imam and the child they all saw a dream where Allah said to the one in the grave, "How am I going to punish you when your son is praising Me?" They saw the snow now coming on the grave.

Give one small love to Sayyidina Muhammad (s) as you love your children. And keep in mind that they are going to leave you one day. You feel sad, you give, you give, you give, but they don’t care. They say to you, "I want to move from the home, I want to be independent. I want to live by myself."

Why do you want to live by yourself? What is the excuse. "I want to be away from you." "For what you want to be away?" And they tell you still send us money and cars and money and everything. They want everything from you and they want to be away. And what do we do? We say, “yes ok, no problem.” the Prophet (s) is saying, “I give you what you like, come only one step towards me.”

That is why in the holy hadith of the Prophet (s), “Whoever comes to Me one hand I come one arm and whoever comes to Me walking I come to him running." One step is enough to get in Presence of the Prophet and the Presence of Allah.So in forty days of sincere striving you will get all these knowledges. Allahuma salli `ala Sayyidina Muhammad.

All knowledges that Allah gave to Sayyidina Muhammad, the Prophet (s) gave to anbiyaullah although they were before him. He was giving them because his light was in their foreheads. He was reaching them through that light that was in Sayyidina Adam’s forehead and that light was transferring from one nabi to another. And all the knowledge that was given to the prophets was distributed by the Prophet (s), “Ana al-qassim.”

His name is al-qassim.” Ana al-mahiy wa ana al-qassim, wa ana taha wa Yasin - And I am the one who takes the sins away and erases them. And I am the one who takes from Allah and distributes to all creation.”

All knowledge is in his hand. So come to him for one hadith and see what kind of miracles will occur. We are praising the Prophet (s) and many are praising the Prophet (s) around the world but if really that is coming from the heart, Allah will open for you whatever is in heavens and in earth. Like that story that I said yesterday.

Someone asked me are you going to do suhbat? I said, "no, you can go home.” Then suhbat came. As I said yesterday, I was sitting before Maghrib and phone ringing, Ishaq gave me the line. He said, "O someone from Mecca wants to speak with you. I know him. He mentioned his name and I took the phone and he mentioned about Eid. “Eid mubarak. May Allah bless you bless us and bless Mawlana Shaykh.” And then he said, "I saw a dream, strange dream.” I said, "a dream or a vision?” He said, "no a dream.” I know that person, he is Ahl al-Bayt and he always writes qasidas of praise for the Prophet (s).

He said, “I saw a dream where is saw very tall shaykh and I knew him; he was Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. And I saw another shaykh besides him, but shorter. Mawlana Shaykh Nazim is not saying anything but looking and observing.” Sultans they observe. They leave their doorkeepers to interfere; to bring the prey.

That short one, he said, " look at me” and he said, "did you see Allah?” and “did you hear Allah?” and that one who saw the dream was frightened and was shaking and he said, "no.” he said, "do you want to see?” he said, "my heart was excited” and he wants to see, and he said, "he knew what I want.” He took my shahada finger and put it on my jugular vein. And he begins to hear his heart saying “Allah, Allah, Allah” then he began to hear it louder and louder and then he saw a huge explosion that he had never seen anything like it before and he said, "my heart was rejoicing at what I was seeing. I was no longer able to take it and like you have goosebumps and my whole body was shaking. Then he took his head and disappeared along with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. Then I woke up and I felt something burning there (on his neck). I looked in the mirror and I saw the print of the finger on my neck.”

That was two days ago. Awliyaullah reach anyone at any moment. If that one is moving towards the door of the awliyaullah, moving towards the door of the Prophet (s). That one is moving towards door of Mawlana and of course he will receive that sort of treatment. His sins will be taken and replace by all kinds of goodness. We stop here.

Follow the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam until the Light within You Shines

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani 
Monday, Sep 29, 2008 | Burton, MI US SufiLive.com

Shaykh Omar Kone:
Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem
Dastoor madad ya sayyidee. Alhamdulillah wa'sh-shukrulillah w'Allahu Akbar wa la hawla wa la quwatta illa billah il-`aliyy il-`adheem

We are giving endless thanks for the favor of being here tonight. If we are giving shukr until the end of time, it is not enough.

Sultan al-`Arifeen, Bayazid al-Bistami, was once addressing his students and saying that on Judgment Day Allah `azza wa jall is going to be calling all his servants and questioning them and on that day everyone is going to be so fearful that people don't know their parents and from the heat of that tajallis their brain is going to be boiling.

On the day, when Allah is going to call me, whatever is the issue on that day it is ok. If He wants to send us to heaven it is ok and if He wants to send us to hellfire, it is ok.

Because on that day, Allah `azza wa jall, with all His mightiness, with all His greatness, with all His majesty, it will be such a favor that He calls us, that is enough for us. The issue of judgment or hell or heaven at that time, is not important.

So the favor of even being to say "Allah" one time is a great favor.

And we are heedless ones and I can speak only for myself. And that favor to say Allah's name it is coming and coming and coming. We are favored to be from the last generation and favored to even know about Mawlana Shaykh, Sultan al-Awliya, if we are going to be thanking Allah, because the Prophet (s) blesses his Ummah from his presence but only Sahaba were witness to him. We were sitting all those nights and speaking about all these big awliya, and from our chain, Bayazid al-Bistami, Shah Bahauddin Naqshband, and Ghawth al-`Adham and Sayyidina Muhyideen ibn `Arabi and we are hoping we could even see one of them.

But we are forgetting and not recalling that what is with those is with our master Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. And to be able to see him, know him and praise him and to say salaam to him, that awliyaullah were looking all their life to be given such a favor. And we are so spoiled we are not even recognizing what we have.

And today Mawlana Shaykh was speaking about the blessings that are coming and raining on earth. So the few that are doing they are getting everything. For a favor that Allah `azza wa jall is showering us, to meet His holy servants. And Allah made us to be included in that special gathering and that group.

Those favors ...as we are weak ones and complaining day and night. We are ungrateful. The Prophet (s) warned us to recognize the favors and not be ungrateful.

Allah addressing his Holy Qur'an through His uncreated Words of light and lowering from His endless mightiness to the language of humankind. And what is more precious to us than the carrier of light of the Prophet (s)? The Sultan al-Awliya are carrying the light of Prophet (s). As that light was manifested for life to be in existence. And it cannot be leaving the earth. When the Prophet (s) was veiled from this world it was transferred from one to one to one until Mawlana Shaykh we believe in that. And that favor, I am shy to be addressing and it is enough we should be always remembering.

We should give shukr and hamd for all these favors and instances. Even so many times we are coming and kissing the hand of Mawlana Shaykh Hisham. And from the elementary laws of physics, when touching something atoms are exchanged and this is safety for us on Day of Judgment. That "O our Lord! We are the weakest ones and we have elements of that holy one."

May Allah forgive me for addressing in front of Mawlana Shaykh and elders. And to be here on Eid night. And may Allah grant us from the baraka of this majlis and the baraka of Mawlana Shaykh.

Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem
Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

When you put a switch on, lights come, electricity comes and these lights shine, giving us light. We put the switch off, no more lights, even you have the lamps there, but no more light.

Theories are too many. But laboratories to get results to make discoveries, you have to go through laboratories in chemistry, and physics; in science. You cannot only go on theory. Theory is something that says to you "O there is light; this chandelier will give you light" but you don't see the light. What is the benefit? So theories are too many that we learn, we hear but if it is not accompanied by laboratories, lab experiments you cannot see the result.

And what we are after is the result, not the theories. Speakers, they speak all over but unfortunately it is a theory because even speakers who achieved level of education, they don't have training experiences in the result. They can describe for you the chandelier but they cannot describe fro you the light. Because there is no light, the switch is not on, If is off. Awliyaullah have a switch, it can be on, it can be off. And it can be, as they discovered today, dimming. You can have a very bright light or you can dim the light to a very low light.

We are lamps in their hands. Everyone of us is a lamp. Allah swt as he said, "He honored us." He made us lamps. Shining. When a child is born, he is born shining. He is born with a light and slowly, slowly that light become dimmer and dimmer and fade and disappeared because of too much negative energy, pollution comes. He will be veiled or she will be veiled.

Why we are here, for what reason. Always it is a question. We are not seeing anything. We are in tariqah for many many years and we are not seeing. Is it correct. We cannot claim we are saying. Are you seeing? What we are seeing. Only ourself. Because the switch is not on, we are in darkness we cannot see.

So what is then the benefit? Awliyaullah they want us to shine but they want to put on the plug but they don't want to burn the lamp. Because if you cannot absorb the electricity that is coming, the light that is coming, what happens to the lamp? It blows up. So they don't want to blow you up. They want you to shine up.

Ey, we are coming and cleaning, but still there is a sign that we are trying to be on the main track because we are coming together. That is a good sign, although we are not seeing anything, but coming together is a sign that there is some kind of booster, that is coming form our shuyukh, from our shaykhs, boosting us at least to come, in at least a loving situation. Still it is a loving situation,muhibeen. We are not yet beginners in tariqah. That is why we must not claim that "we are this" or "we are that". We must claim that "we are babies in this journey". Whatever you try to speak, as we said in the previous session:

وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِي عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ

Wa fawqa kulli dhi `ilmin `aleem - Above every knower there is a greater knower. Yusuf [12:76]

So what we are? If another higher knower comes you are nothing. If a knower above that come, then that one is nothing. So that is why we say Sultan al-Awliya. That is the Ghawth, no one higher in knowledge than that one, except the Prophet (s).

Just today when we were sitting before Maghrib, sitting to break fast someone handed me the phone and said, " "O there is a call. Someone from Mecca, Ahl al-Bayt, a scholar, is calling."

I am giving that example only to show where we are standing and where is reality. And this I am speaking to everyone who likes to hear. And that is to me and to everyone. He said salams from this one and salaams from that one, many ashraaf from Mecca the descendants of the Prophet (s) sending their salaams. And he said, "they called and you gave him the telephone, he said, "I want to tell you this dream. It is a very significant dream to me."

That happened two days ago, before I sent him an SMS congratulating for an important event, two days ago. He called back and said, "I want to tell you what I saw in the dream when you sent the SMS. I was sleeping after praying taraweeh, doing my awraad, I was sleeping and a shaykh appeared. And it was that shaykh I know him very well, he is our shaykh Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. But he was not talking to me, and there is one on his right side, who I know very well who was talking to me." And I will not mention his name and he is at a lower [station].

And he said to me, "How do you hear the voice of Allah? And how you see Allah?" In that dream Mawlana Shaykh Nazim is not saying anything, but that one is saying to me and he said, "I didn't know what to answer." That is in the dream. I didn't know what to answer. Then he looked at me and said, "Do you want to see and do you want to hear?" Adab, I didn't say anything. Of course I want to see and I want to hear. But my mouth is frozen. Then he put his shahada finger on my jugular vein on my neck and I was feeling the beat of the heart; the pumping of the heart. Here you can put your finger and you can feel it. Do you feel it?

I was feeling the beat of the heart and the skin below moving. As soon as he put the finger everything opened up. I was seeing things that I never imagined. I was in an ecstasy that I never felt it before and I begin to hear voices and praise of angels that I never heard before. Then I woke up, but in a state of rash, shivering in Allah's love was with me until today. I am telling you that. Then in the morning my wife said, "what is on your neck." I looked in the mirror and I saw the sign of the finger on my neck and it is there up to today.

That is what he saw, and then he is asking me some questions to read these questions and what I explained for him of the dream. And he said, "til now that sign is still there. At the moment he talked to me and I am feeling under that place where that shaykh put his hand, the heartbeats and every heart beat says 'Allah, Allah, Allah.'"

That is a reality; that is an experience. But because he is not yet to the level of vision, it came through a dream, else he will immediately be in a complete coma, he cannot take it. It will be like voltage through a switch of 360. There are 360 ways in the heart of human being. Every way, and every tariq, and every direction, there are 360 directions that the Prophet (s) told us that Allah created in our system, as the Chinese say, points, that each of them shows you a way to Allah.

Now I am throwing that to you. Think where are you at what level compared to that person's level. Where are we standing? Zero.

So the beauty of tariqah is not theory. We can speak day and night. But the importance is action. What we have to act and what are going to be the results. It is not only "qawlan bal `amalan - it is not only to say, but to act and have an action." When you end there must be a result. When you do something there is a product. But when you say by tongue there is no product. So if you say la ilaha illa-Allah it means "there is no god except Allah." But our ego what is says? "I am your god. O you cannot come out of my control, I will kill you." There is a struggle.

So when you really act on what you say then you can active these experiences that some people have achieved as they have already gone further down the road in tariqah and they begin to feel that. Now on the way you may find many hypocrites that claim they see or claim they hear. Either they are hallucinating because the one who is achieving must be very pure: who doesn't talk too much, doesn't backbite. There are signs you can read from people's eyes. There are many claiming that but these are charlatans. But our problem is we are struggling in order to take away the charlatan picture from us and to purify our self.

What I mean by charlatan, is those who didn't reach a level and still they claim they reached. No! For what? Say, "I don't know anything." Allah will cover you and veil you but you cannot claim something and do the opposite. Say, "I am like you. I am heedless, helpless and weak, and we cannot achieve. We are asking that our shaykh to switch on - that is what we need."

And that light will come. Now there is light. There is a lamp but it is still in a dim position. From one to another it changes everyone according to his level. But we have to do more.

For example they told us we have to do 500 times "Ya Samad" a day. Why? To take away the childish action of the ego. Why? Because the child has a childish ego, if he doesn't get something he cries, cries, cries. When a child asks for something don't give him. When he forgets then you give. But we have a problem: we have been raised on the ego. So the problem we have to recite "Ya Samad." That is a secret to bring down the ego. That is the child of the blameworthy self.

Is it correct.? He said "yes". So 500 "Ya Samad" will take that down. So slowly, slowly your ego cannot claim anything. But we are not doing it. So we are leaving loose our ego. And awliyaullahwant you to be like a horse with a bridle. You pull it, the horse stops from running. The ego is like the horse, running everywhere. You have to put the bridle to stop that horse. How? 500 times "Ya Samad."

We are claiming that we are attending associations of shaykhs. Of course their associations are full of beauty and love and manifestations of blessings that Allah will shower us with. But that is from Allah's mercy. Allah wants us to do an action. To act on what we are supposed to do. So once they said, "awliyaullah do 500 times 'Ya Samad'." That will take that problem down.

So for everything there is sickness and there is a medicine. The awliyaullah give right medicine for the right sickness. If you want to benefit you must follow.

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

Qul in kuntum tuhibboon-Allaha faittabi`oonee yuhbibkumu Allahu wa yaghfir lakum dhunoobakum w'Allahu ghafoorun raheem.

Say: "If ye do love Allah, Follow me: Allah will love you and forgive you your sins: For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." Al-Imran [3:31]

Allah said to the Prophet (s), "If you really love me follow." Are we following?

You know in some airports there is a car, before, now the plane goes direct to the gate. But before there was a car written on it "follow me". When the airplane lands it follows the sign. It goes and stops in the yard or area for airplanes - there was no jetway at that time.

Allah said, "Follow Muhammad." If we follow we reach. If you really love Allah follow. Then what will happen? Then you being to see as that person was seeing - in a vision. So that is an example of one person. How many of these there are in the journey of gnosticism. So real teaching, real awliyaullah, they have their mureeds who are able to move mountains; not their representatives even. Their mureeds.

Now there are two kinds of representatives. There are lovers (muhiboon) and representatives among the lovers. And there are representatives from among mureeds who have the power of guidance. So we are asking, "Ya Rabbee, make our shuyukh to be happy with us that they will guide us to the right way and to switch on the switch. We ask them from here. You know we are heedless and You say You are generous. Because Allah gave them generosity. What is the problem if You push that switch? What are You going to lose. Kun fayakoon – Be! And it will be.. Put that plug up and finished. Why are You making us to suffer? To run and run and run. Put that plug up. That switch up. Everyone finished will be in that [Divine] presence. Why do we have to do this and do that?"

جاء رجل إلى رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم و قال" يا رسول الله إن شرائع الإسلام قد كثرت علىّ فدلني على عمل أتشبث به قال لا يزال لسانك رطباً بذكر الله "

One person came to the Prophet (s), and said, "The laws and discipline in Islam is too much I cannot take it."

See how much they are becoming a reality between them and the Prophet (s). So the Prophet (s) is patient with them, he hears and listens to them. "Give me something easy, please. I am fed up." So he said, لا يزال لسانك رطباً بذكر الله - ija`la lisanak ratban bi dhikrullah." He left. He was happy with doing dhikr. What they are going to lose if they put that switch on for us. We are asking a question .you are the ones that Allah and his prophet has chose. We are coming to your door, is there any harm to you put on the switch. If not, then that is our property that Allah gave to you. Give it to us. They like that they ar spoiled brats. If they want to close their door to where are we going. Which door we have to go?

قال رسول الله ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏إني قد تركت فيكم ما إن أخذتم به لن تضلوا بعدي ‏الثقلين ‏أحدهما أكبر من الآخر كتاب الله حبل ممدود من السماء إلى الأرض ‏وعترتي ‏أهل بيتي ألا وإنهما لن يفترقا حتى يردا علي الحوض

I am leaving among you that which if you hold to it, you shall never go astray, one of them greater than the other: Allah's Book?a rope extended down from the heaven to the earth?and my mantle(`itra), the People of my House. These two shall never part ways until they come to me at the Pond. Look well to how you act with them after me. [al-Tirmidhi (hasan ghareeb) and al-Hakim]

تركت فيكم ما إن تمسكتم به لن تضلوا كتاب الله وسنتي

The Prophet (s) said, "I left behind me the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah." [al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan al-kubra, al-Hakim and Malik in his Muwatta] And the Prophet (s) said, "I left behind the Holy Qur'an and my family." [two different hadiths]

The Prophet (s) said that, so you are the one who has the control on the switches. He said, "My family." We are from your family, Ya sayyidee, ya Rasulullah.

Then what will happen. The elder ones will ask. You think on Judgment Day that Allah will not save the family of the prophet. Of course hasha, istaghfirullah, will he lose anything. If he sends His servant to Paradise what is the loss? It is benefit. It is loss for shaytan. Allah is not going to let shaytan to win. The power is for Allah. May Allah forgive us. I was not going to speak but Shaykh Omar made me to speak.

Bi hurmati'l-Fatiha.

You have to show a very delicate issue in tariqah. You have to show you are worthless. You have to show humility and humbleness. Whenever there is an opportunity, try. You cannot sit and say, "I know everything I am going to speak." No let this one speak, let that one speak. Then Allah's mercy will come. He knows you are trying to put these people u and he will put you up. If you put people down He puts you down.

Show you are in need to listen to them. Don't always to sit on the main chair and say, "I am the shaykh." Be a sheep; don't be a shepherd. The shepherd is responsible. We have to run away from responsibility. O Allah keep us children. We cannot save ourselves and not those around us. We are coming to the Prophet (s) and those around him asking them to save us.