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.

All Movement is Powered by the Light of Muhammad Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam

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

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

Obey Allah, obey the Prophet (s) and obey those in authority. [4:59]

Every time, with Allah's swt blessings, people meet for a purpose, you don't see 2 people meeting without a purpose, without something that concern them or benefit them. That is why people meet. Especially for those meeting for the sake of Allah swt. Means they want the best of what they can achieve in Allah's way.

That is a microphone [taps mic] that can detect the sound and the voice of someone who is speaking. There are microphones that can detect wave, any kind of magnetic wave that is moving. But this microphone cannot detect it. There are others machines and instruments that can detect any movement that happens in earth at any level down until they reach a place they cannot detect anything. It means different instruments different functions.

And Allah swt has created different angels with different functions that they can detect anything on earth and in this universe. So there is no way to hide ourselves from Allah swt.

وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ

wa nahnu aqrabu ilaykum min hablil wareed. We are more nearer to you than your Jugular vein. [Qaf, 50:16]

And not only that, Allah swt is not only nearer, He is, His power, His angels are in you. In everyone of us angels are within our system. They are functioning in a way that keeps your life moving. The are responsible for the movement of every cell in your body. Don't think these cells in your body are functioning by themselves. There is an angelic power that makes them to move. In medicine they say the strongest muscle is the heart. That is always moving. It is moving continuously in every moment, non-stopping.

You cannot move anything in dunya without using energy. You cannot. Even you want to move this rihlah, a stand, you cannot except you have to exercise energy to hold it and move it. It cannot move by itself.

Anything you do today, you cannot move without using energy. That energy are you the producer of it or there is someone producing it? If you are the one producing that energy and you can move everything around, as they move rockets or planes or carrying a stone or carrying groceries, or whatever you do, you are moving, you are showing a movements. Because without movement there's no life. Life expresses itself through movement. If there is no movement there is no life. That's why body always in movement. Every cell in the body is moving. We have 3 trillion cells in the body.

Today they say $700 billon that need to be bailout. We have to bail out 3 trillion cells in front of Allah. Who is going to bail it out for us? There must be someone has to bail us out. It is Prophet (s). He has to bail us out. Here for dunya matter they want to bail us out for a dunya matter, you see the whole world is standing up and going down! what do you think in akhira when you need to be bailed out.

Everyone responsible for 3 trillion cells what they function and what is done. So everything is based on movement, If you say "No! I am doing that movement by myself." If you say "no", then you are Firaun [or Namrud].

أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِي حَآجَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ فِي رِبِّهِ أَنْ آتَاهُ اللّهُ الْمُلْكَ إِذْ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ رَبِّيَ الَّذِي يُحْيِـي وَيُمِيتُ قَالَ أَنَا أُحْيِـي وَأُمِيتُ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ فَإِنَّ اللّهَ يَأْتِي بِالشَّمْسِ مِنَ الْمَشْرِقِ فَأْتِ بِهَا مِنَ الْمَغْرِبِ فَبُهِتَ الَّذِي كَفَرَ وَاللّهُ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ

Alam tara ila alladhee hajja ibraheema fee rabbihi an atahu Allahu almulka ith qala ibraheemu rabbiya allathee yuhyee wa yumeetu qaala ana uhee wa umeet. qaala ibraheemu fa inna Allaha yatee b'ish-shamsi mina al-mashriqi fati biha mina al-maghribi fa-buhita alladhee kafara wa'Allahu la yahdee alqawma adh-dhalimeena

Hast thou not Turned thy vision to one who disputed with Abraham About his Lord, because Allah had granted him power? Abraham said: "My Lord is He Who Giveth life and death." He said: "I give life and death". Said Abraham: "But it is Allah that causeth the sun to rise from the east: Do thou then cause him to rise from the West." Thus was he confounded who (in arrogance) rejected faith. Nor doth Allah Give guidance to a people unjust. Al-Baqara [2:258]

Ok you say, as Fira`un, you are our Lord. You are saying about yourself, istaghfirullah, hasha, that you are a god. A god. Miserable, calling himself "god". You say like that. Ok, our Lord, Allah swt, our Lord is bringing the sun from the east; make it rise it from west! If you say you can move things, then move it. Ok, that is Sayyidina Musa Alayhissalam.

Ok, then for our level, for us at a lower level, this earth is turning on its axle, counter clockwise. Turn it clockwise if you have power. If you say you can do everything, because everything needs energy.

That is why angels are the one behind that energy. It is not you that you can turn everything. Allah swt is turning everything in you according to your behavior and according to your intention.

إنما الأعمال بالنيّات ، وإنما لكل امريء مانوى

Innama'l-`aamaalu bi'n-niyyaat wa innama li kulli 'imreeyin ma nawa.

The Prophet (s) said, "Verily all actions are by intentions and to every person is what he intended." [Bukhari and Muslim]

How is your intention it moves; angels moves. Your intention is "I want to be famous" ok then move in that direction. Someone says, I don't want anything I wan to sit in my corner, the will turn him this way. Then you make that intention. They inspire you according to your intention. Scholars say we are responsible for our actions. Although we cannot do the action itself, Allah swt creates action as soon as we intend.

That is why they used to debate between irada, free will or not. Do you have a will or everything is predestined? We don't want to enter into this subject but you have, Allah swt gave you free will, a partial free will. As soon as intend to do something Allah swt creates the action. So it is Allah's action created by Him, but it is your intention that wants to do it. That's why you are responsible according to your intention. That's why Prophet (s) said innama al-`aamaalu b'n- niyyaat.

As soon as you decide and intend to do it, the action comes. There is One behind every action, it is not you, you have the intention. If you say you have the action, then go turn the earth clockwise. It is turning anti-clockwise.

SubhanAllah, how is the earth turning? Nonstop. For thousands of years. What kind of energy does it have. It never complains, it never gets tired, saying, "Ya Rabbee!" Earth is submitting. Allah swt wants to give you calculation of day and night. If there was no turning, the side facing the sun could be in continuous light and the side facing away would be in continuous darkness.

Keep turning for one hour and what happens to you. Why doesn't earth get dizzy? It is strange. You have to ask this question. Why the earth doesn't get dizzy? Because when you are rejoicing in love of Allah swt you never get dizzy. The earth is dancing love of Allah.

تُسَبِّحُ لَهُ السَّمَاوَاتُ السَّبْعُ وَالأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهِنَّ وَإِن مِّن شَيْءٍ إِلاَّ يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدَهِ وَلَـكِن لاَّ تَفْقَهُونَ تَسْبِيحَهُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ حَلِيمًا غَفُورًا

Tusabbihu lahu as-samawatu as-sab`u wa'l-ardu w aman feehinna wa in min shayin illa yusabbihu bi-hamdihi wa lakin la tafqahoona tasbeehahum innahu kana haleeman ghafooran.

The seven heavens and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory: there is not a thing but celebrates His praise; And yet ye understand not how they declare His glory! Verily He is Oft-Forbearing, Most Forgiving. Al-Isra [17:44]

Everything is praising its Lord. Its life is through its praising. Its turning is through its praising, as long as earth praising earth turning. As long as Allah takes away that praising from the earth then it will stop. That is why Allah said"

يَوْمَ تُبَدَّلُ الأَرْضُ غَيْرَ الأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاوَاتُ وَبَرَزُواْ للّهِ الْوَاحِدِ الْقَهَّارِ

Yawma tubaddalu alardu ghayra alardi waalssamawatu wabarazoo lillahi alwahidi alqahhari

ne day the earth will be changed to a different earth, and so will be the heavens, and (men) will be marshalled forth, before Allah, the One, the Irresistible; Ibrahim [14:48]

When We change earth to a different earth and We change the Universe to a different universe. And we are all standing in Allah's Grandeur.

Where are we going with all our tyranny? Tyrants are filling the earth for what? For a little bit of money. We don't need kings; we don't need tyrants; we don't need anyone. There's one king: that is the King of kings. And one representative: Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلاَئِكَةِ إِنِّي جَاعِلٌ فِي الأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً

Wa idh qaala rabbuka lil-malaikati innee innee ja`ilun fil ardi khalipha. - Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: "I will create a vicegerent on earth."  [Al-Baqara, 2:30]

Allah sent Adam carrying the light of Prophet for him to be representative. His reality was carried from Sayyidina Adam Alayhissalam all the way to his father. From Sayyidina Ibrahim Alayhissalam to Sayyidina Isma`il Alayhissalam...

People are abnormal. We have to say the truth. When people go back to normal. We are abnormal. If we are normal we would see Prophet (s).

وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ فِيكُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

Wa `alamoo anna feekum RasulAllah. You have to know the Prophet (s) is among you, in you. Al-Hujurat [49:7]

So Allah swt made earth to turn to carry humanity to carry the human race, to carry the beloved ones, to carry the honored ones.

وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ

Wa laqad karramna bani adam. We have honored the sons of Adam; Al-Isra [17:70]

Earth is happy.

Why Mars and Pluto and Jupiter and Venus and all these stars there is no life on them? There was? But they were crying for human being to live on earth. They were crying, crying, crying until theynashara, dried up.

Other planets were crying until they dried up. Out of their yearning heart, when yearning for something and cannot get it, it became dry. These planets where full of happiness. When Allah swt chose and decided that it will be on earth they,...

When you cry what happens to your eyes? They become dry, and they become big and red. Swollen. These planets become dry out of their love because they wanted receive those whom Allah swt honored. They wanted them [human beings] on their planet. Allah gave them to earth and made the earth to turn around its axle, rejoicing, happy turning and praising Allah swt.

Allah wants to continue the time, the calculation. Allah created the moon to turn around the earth. Allah swt wanted to create month so moon turn around earth. Why the moon doesn't turn like the earth around it axle? Allah wanted to create the month.

And why Allah put the earth and moon together to turn around the sun? Allah wants to create the year. Every planet is praising the Lord, that is its life. When Allah wants he pulls that secret out and everything changes.

So movement is important in our lives. If our heart does not move towards to be attracted and to move towards love of the Prophet (s) then it is a dead heart. Because to be a living heart it has to living in the sense of real life, that is to observe everything.

But we cannot observe anything, what do we observe except these four walls?

As he said this story. As if no one saw him. The only one saw him was this one. That one was one of those awliya. Who came covering, veiling. Camouflage. Mawlana wants one person. Enough.

So Awliya can see what other people cannot see. Because they are in constant movement towards the Prophet (s). Because they are in one direction. Only one.

Our hearts how may directions we have in it? When we pray Salat an-Najaat and then

When we go into sajda. What is it we observe? Is anything happen to your eyes? Do you see light flashing in the eyes when you are in sajda. [yes] who said "yes"? Check yourself when you go tosajda. If you are making closing your eyes, making sajda, Its like camera flashes comes to the eyes. You are not paying attention. If you pay attention you can see it. When you close your eyes and you are in sajda, not during the prayer, and it takes a longer time, because you are doing sajda like 10 minutes, you begin to notice flashes like a camera flash, it comes and goes, comes and goes. That is one of the first levels that takes you towards the presence of the Prophet (s). They flash to you the light that if you follow you reach there. And that must happen if you really focus on it. Try it.

This is one of the secrets, Mawlana said, "give it out." So if you keep focusing on that you can see the flashes growing up; they are coming and going, coming and going. Might be two or three flashes come. Or it might be continuous flashes. That is blinking like a minaret. That light is blinking to show you the direction you have to follow. At that time you mist know that your shaykh is taking you to by your hand to Prophet (s). if you focus well it will keep coming and then suddenly a huge flash comes and you are there.

We are asking Allah to show us that and to keep these blinking continuous and to open to us in order that we are able to see what's necessary in order to guide us. We don't want to be arrogant with all our sins and say we are there. No we are not. We want them to take us.

So everything depends on movement and these flashes are movements. The movement of light; it is moving at a speed of 300 km. per second.

قَدْ جَاءكُم مِّنَ اللّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ

Qad ja'akum min Allahi Nurun wa kitabin mubeen. There hath come to you from Allah a (new) light and a perspicuous Book [Al-Ma'idah, 5:15]

The light is Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

The `ulama of Islam expressed that light, nur, as Sayyidina Muhammad (s). In physics everything has a variable speed except light. Everything in this universe is variable, it changes. And Allah swt said light is Muhammad. It is constant; it doesn't change. Only there will be change when light is coming with a speed of 300 km. per second, based on the criteria of earth and the atmosphere it might get less a little bit, it might change. That is where awliyaullah receive. The Prophet (s) gives them. Awliyaullah, Allah gives them from that secret and depending on where they are there might be a little variation in their light; there may be some friction. It depends on where it is moving, in the atmosphere or in space.

It can go from 300 km to 280 km per second. They reach their students in that speed, just as the light comes from earth to moon in one second.

That's why what Prophet (s) gives awliya is different, sometimes it depends on your environment. They are reaching you in that speed. Imagine how shuyukh are so quick to reach their students. By that light, the Nurul-Muhammadi, the Muhammadan Light. That's why his grandchildren are carrying that light until Judgment Day.

تركت فيكم ما إن تمسكتم به لن تضلوا كتاب الله وسنتي

That's why Prophet (s) said, "I have left among you two matters by holding fast to which, you shall never be misguided: Allah's Book and the Sunnah of His Prophet." [al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan al-kubra, al-Hakim and Malik in his Muwatta]

‏ ‏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

And the Prophet (s) said:

"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]

Take care of my family, don't give them - what do you say? A bad look. Respect my light in them at least if nothing but that.

We leave that here and we say, Ya Rabbee, this is last day of Ramadan. And tomorrow is Eid. We like to have Eid, but Eid to be in Your Presence and the Presence of Your Prophet (s) and presence of your Awliya. And to have real Eid. Real Eid is when we stop committing sins. Through Your Grace, Your Generosity, Your Mercy, for we are weak people, and for You to support us from not committing sins and to make us to be with the Prophet (s) in dunya and akhira. And to respect his family and to respect everyone else, and to give us a cure from every ailment: kullin dain wa dawwa'in. Ajarna min adhab an-nar wa min fitnat al-masih ad-dajjal. W'adkhalna al-jannata ma` al-abraar. Allahuma taqabal minna siyaam Ramadan wa atina Haqiqat siyam. W'albisna min haqiqat anwar ramadan. Albasni min khilat min anwarika.

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La yanfa`u dhul jaddi minka al-jadd.

O Allah change from imitational fasting to real fasting and dress us with robes of light from Your Prophet (s) and dress us from Your Beautiful Names and Attributes.

Bi hurmatil habbi, bi hurmatil-Fatiha.

This is, whatever we say is in limits and limits according to our levels. And to awliya it is higher. Common people have limits and awliyaullah have higher level limits and they have their limits. then there are higher level awliya and they have their limits that is why Allah said in Holy Qur'an above every knower there is a Bigger knowledge they can give. And then they have limits. Then there are higher Awliya.

نَرْفَعُ دَرَجَاتٍ مِّن نَّشَاء وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِي عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ

Narfa`u darajatin man nashao wafawqa kulli dhee `ilmin `aleem

We raise to degrees (of wisdom) whom We please: but over all endued with knowledge is one, the All-Knowing. Yusuf [12:76]

It means don't say about yourself your "I am something." There is one above you, so why to raise your head? There is one already there. If you raise your head, [he will say to you:] "O how are you?" "O, you are there!?" So you cannot go up.

ثُمَّ ارْجِعِ الْبَصَرَ كَرَّتَيْنِ يَنقَلِبْ إِلَيْكَ الْبَصَرُ خَاسِأً وَهُوَ حَسِير

Thumma irji`i 'lbasara karratayni yanqalib ilayka al-basaru khasian wa huwa haseer Yea, turn thy vision [upon it] again and yet again: [and every time] thy vision will fall back upon thee, dazzled and truly defeated [Al-Mulk (Dominion) 67:4]

You look up to the stars it reflects back to you, take your eyes from there you have limits. You cannot understand us. You are in limits. Even if you have hundreds of Hubble telescopes. Yes, why are you looking up. Your knowledge is superficial knowledge. So that is our limits everything in limits. Fawqa kulli dhi `ilmin `aleem  - Above every knower there is a higher knower.

Whatever you speak about there is higher. Everything ends up with the Prophet (s). Because from him this knowledge comes. Allah gives to him and he gives to us. May Allah swt teach us how to respect Prophet (s) and how to respect our shuyukh.

Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi hurmatil-Fatiha.

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.

Ya Ghulam! Establish Your Mind so Saints May Open the Doors of Heavenly Knowledge

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani ar-Rabbani qs
Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 | Burton, MI US
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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. Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem.
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

Are you adult or are you children? [children!] [a young child says “children”]. As long as you are following the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) you are on the track of adulthood. If we are not following the Sunnah of the Prophet (s) we are on the track of childhood. So you choose. You want to be on adulthood or on childhood. [adulthood] [adultery]

Childhood is not better - there is no responsibility. Adulthood too much responsibility. But if you want to be with the Prophet (s), dunya and ukhra you have to be with adults. If you wan to be with the whole other human race, normal common element then be child. So he taught to his students. Their advice, awliyaullah to their student is they tackle the problem of your ego. Because our ego is a big hump or on our back. And we don’t look at it. We only look at others.

That is why one day, Sayyidina Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani Qaddasallahu Sirrahu, he is from the children of the Prophet (s) and that is one of the main saints of the Naqshbandi order. He said to his follower, that is one of his students - and that student is usually one that he gives him hardship. Awliyaullah like to give hardship to one or two of their students - always. They like to keep beating them. It is only you can see 2, 3, 4, 5 he gives them a hard time. That means that they are so close to the shaykh, so near that the shaykh is relaxed when he is “beating” them up with his words. The others might run away.

So one day he said to one of these students that he is giving him a hard time, “I want you to go to the cemetery to take some lessons.” He said, "On my head, O my shaykh! You are sending me to cemetery I am going to cemetery.” He went to cemetery to make ziyarah to those how had died. He went to gate of cemetery and found it locked. And there was someone sitting on the gate of the cemetery. That one said, “O! What are you doing here?” He didn’t say to him, “O leave me alone!” In adab he said, “I came to make ziyarah.” “Ok then go in.” He said, “The door is closed.” He said, "No, it is open.” And the door was open. That one was Sayyidina Khidr. They entered the cemetery and the first grave he came to was the grave of a scholar 85 years of age. And you know when the mureed, the shaykh gives them an order they feel they are peacock now, “the shaykh gave me an order now, I am, I am, I am the… bigger than the whole world.”

Both of you.

“I am Antar ibn Shaddad. Because the shaykh gave me an order.” What, the shaykh gave you order? He wants to cut you down to pieces. So he was standing by the grave and reading Fatihah and du`a and the other said, "No, no, no you don’t need to do that.” The one who was on the fence, that was Sayyidina Khidr but the mureed doesn’t know. He said, "No you don’t need to do that. That one is already pure; he died a child.” He said, "No you are mistaken; he was 85 years of age.” The other says, “No he was two years old.”

What would we do if that happens. We would curse him to his father to all his ancestors. We would if we have a knife give him a poke. He said, "la hawla wa la quwatta illa billahi ’l-`aliyyi ’l-`adheem” then he said, " I will go to the next grave never mind. “ and that was very nice grave, two headstones and green very nice plants. On the Sunnah of the Prophet (s).

Then he saw the name of a scholar who died 75 years of age. Sayyidina Khidr said, "that one was like the other, but this one is a little older. He was two and a half years old.” Now this man is not happy, he is struggling. And he is feeling should he shout or not. [He told himself:] “Never mind. My shaykh sent me to visit the graves and to take lessons. Whether they are very old or 2 years old is not an issue.” So from one grave to another grave seeing and that one was telling him that not one of them had reached maturity. The highest age they reached was 9 years. So that mureed doesn’t want to argue. He returned to his shaykh.

“Did you make ziyarah?”

“Na`m ya sayyidee. I visited all these scholars and I took many lessons.”

And who was there beside the shaykh and veiled himself sitting beside Sayyidina Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani Qaddasallahu Sirrahu, listening, but veiled himself.

Then Sayyidina Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani Qaddasallahu Sirrahu said, “did you meet some other person there?” “Yes, I met someone, but I don’t know what he wants.”

Just then Sayyidina Khidr revealed himself to that mureed. He said, “It was this one! Catch him before he runs away. He was giving me a hard time. Each scholar he was saying is 2, 3, 4, 5 years old and all of them are 65, 75, 85 years old.”

Then Sayyidina Khidr was saying to the Shaykh, “O Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani, that mureed is the worst I have seen in my life, he doesn’t have any wisdom. I am telling him the age of these mureeds and he doesn’t accept anything I tell him. He is garbage!”

If that happens in the presence of your shaykh what will you do? You will try to defend yourself. But they don’t listen to you. Don’t think you are going to be given sweets and candies when you take initiation. They are going to give you Zaqqum. That tongue is the one that makes you to go to hellfire, this one and the other one.

قال رسول الله : من يضمن لي ما بين لحييه وما بين رجليه أضمن له الجنة.

The Prophet said, “Who can control for me his tongue and his private parts I guarantee for him Paradise.”

Then Sayyidina Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani Qaddasallahu Sirrahu began to revile that mureed, and he said, "O my brother I am sending him to cut wood and to cemeteries and … in order he doesn’t pollute his brothers. He is the worst mureed that I have.” They are both cursing and looking at his heart, how is his heart going to change. When the shaykh and the other shaykh are shouting at you and humiliating you in front of everyone you are finished. You begin to have doubts and you say, “I didn’t do anything. They want to blame you on something that you didn’t do in order to open for you the door of patience.”

This is how they open to you door of Paradise. This is how they open the doors of knowledge. Why these people go up - why do they call them mountain climbers? They go up and it might be they die up there.

They are going up and up and up on mountains and they know it is difficult but they like to go up in order that they say about them that they reached it. And how much difficulty they encounter to do that? And when they reach the top they will feel as if the whole dunya opened before them.

Awliyaullah have mountain that they want you to climb for akhira. And they open for you there visions that you cannot imagine. And they were shouting and cursing him. He was not hearing anything as if he is deaf. His heart is connected to his Shaykh. His heart he is not seeing Khidr or not Khidr. He is only seeing the heart of his shaykh and his love to that heart. And they were both giving him a harder and harder time and then the Prophet (s) appeared. He said, “Enough and it is too much. If you cut him to pieces then his love is not going to change, give him his trust.”

This is how they build you up. They don’t want to build you on your ego. If they build you on ego it will fail.

Contractors build building steel and cement. If not then the building will sink. They don’t want to build you on ego over ego. Then the building will fall down. So he says, Ya Ghulam! You saw all the students with turbans. All big turbans. You missed it with all these old men 85, 95 years of age. All of them sitting together and enjoying and pictures been taken and smiling. All these big ones. All of us are big ones.

He said no, no finished. You give him his trust. There is no more ego, his heart is connected to you. That is why they say “ghulam, ghulam.” Don’t think you reached the highest level still you are a child. We are still in the level of childhood.

O ghulam! If you don’t carry within you Islam, on its real basis, you are not carrying within you iman and you are not carrying within you ihsan. Islam is the basis the structure the five pillars. As long as you are struggling with them you are ghulam, you cannot come up more than that level. If you don’t have Islam in your heart there is no iman in your heart. If there is no iman in your heart there is no perfection in your heart. If there is no iman there is no ma`rifah in your heart. If your Islam is completely perfect it means you submit.

This one, every day this one tells him be here at 4:30. What time he comes. 4:45. Finally this one gets fed up. He doesn’t wait anymore. He comes without taking him. This one was your test in Ramadan. If you had submitted to that you would have got your trust.

They let you go the whole Ramadan questioning you and letting you to complain and complain and complain because they want to reward you. But you were not able to keep it up. Last week you finished. You got the explosion in yourself. You lost your trust. This one was so near that Mawlana will open on his heart. They sent this one as a test for you. And if that one had been patient on you and come early he would have got his trust. But both of you lost. They make you lazy to get…

You see how they work, awliyaullah use tricky ways. He never thought about that. He was coming happy, complaining about you. And this was happy because he was torturing this one. So both of them they lost. This is an example. Be careful, you don’t know where they are hiding for you behind the door and … That is why, O ghulam, don’t think don’t use the mind. Until they establish the mind.

Wa min allah at-tawfeeq, bi hurmatil Fatiha.

The True Meaning of Mahdi's Takbir

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
Sunday, Sep 28, 2008 | Fenton, MI US
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They took me to a pesantren one time and…My beard on this side begin to go, really they are pulling my jubbah, pulling my beard and they are rushing me from the back door.

These kind of people. I didn’t see that here. In some countries maybe in Bangladesh. Is this what happened?

And they came from early morning like from Fajr time, waiting on the streets and they have all these bazaars and vendors selling on the street. The school has 1000 orphans and maybe 5000-6000 students who study there and all on baraka.

I was asking Shaykh Tawfeeq, how do you feed these people? He said, " Rice” only rice. And I asked him how much does It cost to feed all these people? He said a very low figure, at that time, I remember it didn’t come to $500. 250 dollars to feed all these people. That is what they have rice and they have some sauce the dip it. And they are happy, reading quran, memorizing. Still there are places that Allah’s blessing on them. This area is blessed with teaching Islam like that.

Come Shaykh Mustafa and talk to people….

Shaykh Mustafa sits and speaks:

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. Salaam alaykum wa rahmatulalhi wa barakatuhu. Alhamdulillah wash-shukrillah…

As Mawlana said about the story of the visit to Pekalongen in Southeast Asia we just belong to a greedy nation about baraka. We didn’t understand the Arabic language, but many make study of Arabic language. We are in need of hp and we are in need of Holy Qur'an.

One person in Saudi Arabia, he said, " what is going on with your nation?” always we have a competition for recitation of Qur’an and international. Why always the winner is coming from your country and from Brunei and from Malaysia.

You are in morning Arabic, in afternoon Arabic, in night Arabic. You have no any romanticism with the hp. You are not in it to study the Holy Qur'an. But we are.

We went to study Arabic language until balagha, ar-… and many kind of substudy of Arabic lang. we studied poetry and everything .

Mawlana with very simple sentence but many of us capture the deep meaning. I am not speaking the Arabic language daily but I am reading Holy Qur'an and reading hadith daily.

And I am trying more to give the information of Mawlana to the people. I love them as Mawlana love him. So just some short story or some verses or some sunnat an-Nabi (s). and we are from our young age starting at 4 years old. I am not speaking Arabic language until I am in London much later.

Alhamdulillah we are very lucky as we have many saints and we are on our tradition to sit in front of our scholar and our saint and to listen.

But now everything is just changing in our country. We are in need of something. I just grew up. They say my grandfather was son of a saint. He doesn’t let me leave him until he finished his awraad of Fajr. He doesn’t let me to move even, then he throws a coin at me and I am so clever collecting coins. By the time of finishing the dhikr, my pocket is full of money.

My father takes me around to neighbor and to ask about their health about their food. No we have no rice. Come ot my house and take rice.

What about your.. what is your intention. I am going to make my ?? much bigger. So if I sell I will get much more money. No, don’t do that. As long as you are making enough, then you don’t need to do. Look the grass is making tasbeeh. So that is enough.

Oh yeah very nice.

And my father talking with me and saying, give to those who have no more clotehs. And then I release my money until no more coins in my pockets.

That is his education. I am so lucky to have something like that in my childhood. Until Mawlana picked me from the banks of the river.

At that time Mawlana had intention to visit Indonesia for 3 weeks, then reduce to 2 weeks. And then reduce to 3 days, then postpone.

Then I called and Mawlana said, "do you like to come to Singapore.” Yes, why not.

Mawlana said, I have no business with Jakarta. I am only coming on instruction of my master. But if you like me to visit I can come if someone accompany me.

You believe in newspaper not on Qur’an. So what you think is it favor for me to come to Jakarta.

So I was worried that he says, no, for 3 days so I said 2 days. Then Mawlana said, ok taher we are gong to Jakarta for 2 days.

My country has 2000 islands I am going to the big islands only. Whereever I am going they ar asking to see Mawlana when will Mawlana come.

That is my situation I am so happy to be with Mawlana and you. I don’t know what to say, I am just going to listen. That is just highlight story.

[finished? You usually speak one hour.]

no.

[continue.]

I am just thinking that muraqabah is our effort to get out from our laziness. To go out from our bad custom. From our arrogancy. That way if you are sitting around awliya, suddenly at one second we are attracted. That way I said to Mawlana , last 2 days before, after Mawlana explaining about what Mawlana is delivering to us, I said, " I am going to come after you Mawlana ” we are coming to stimulate our intention and our effort in accordance with our master what he is doing like that. Like in the time of sulook we are going after Mawlana .

One day when I was opening such salook at the end of dhul qaidah. I said to my people that we are leaving worldly life and to see Azraeel and to enter our grave and to pass the day of resurrection we are expecting to get shafa`a of Rasulullah anyone leaving dunya even for just a while, insha-Allah dunya doesn’t want to touch in the grave.

One medical doctor said to himself I don’t understand what Shaykh Mustafa said. So he said, " I just want to come to do that.” As soon as he begins, he said, " SubhanAllah. I am not dying but as if entering in my grave.” There was such an emanation he only knows about anatomy of chemistry. He never studied about the environment of hereafter. But he came to laugh by Mawlana . And everything going to be more clear for him.

I am so sad, that my community is not studying about Islamic religious knowledge. But alhamdulillah we have previous sings in our country and we influenced by sincere people, pure people. Alhamdulillah whatever we studied we have that custom and way. We are sincere in it.

I went with Mawlana to Sumatra and Bali and Java but many islands expecting Mawlana ’s coming. I am just conveying their happiness to expect Mawlana will come.

I ma just praying to Allah, who can guide people in front of me, just you. O holy prophet, these people are in need of your baraka. This not my job. I have nothing. These people are yours, "O Mawlana ”

As Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. When I met him in London in 1998. I asked him to make du`a for me. and he said, ,Grandshaykh like you, you don’t ask too much question and you don’t…

Keep this .. and you may go around on behalf of me and Grandshaykh. I didn’t ask that Mawlana .

So I came here only to put myself under Mawlana . I am also not good one. I have my bad ego and have my bad customs.

So I come by support of all my brothers and sisters. And I told that I am coming on behalf all people. And I sent message to my people on laylat al-qadr. And I forward that message to many people. Many people attending sufilive. They receive my message and they are so happy watching TV and imagining I am coming on their behalf.

I believe that muraqabah that is all. We are leaving our bad customs, our laziness, our ego. I am just learning about that.

Thank you Mawlana .

Allahuma salli wa sallim wa barik `ala Sayyidina Muhammad.

Look at him, he is not easy many. Here he is sitting very humble. There he is professor. What you used to study? In university.

Islamic studies and philosophy?. He left that and retired and began doing that work; now, alhamdulillah bringing thousands.

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

O human beings o people! You are asking akhira but still you are calling for dunya. We are always in a struggle, between dunya and akhira, what is our preference? Our preference by tongue is akhira but by heart is dunya. It has to be the opposite it has to be our preference by heart and by tongue is for akhira, but unfortunately we are in a struggle between good and evil. Dunya doesn’t take us except in vanity -love of dunya always takes us to place not accepted by Allah and His Prophet (s).

You might see a wali in your life that is working in dunya. You might think this is strange, "why is this wali so interested in dunya?" Because we are blind.

He is in dunya because he is forced to be in dunya. He doesn’t like to be in dunya. He has to be with people of different levels in order to bring them and to attract them. He has been forced when he left dunya and directed himself to akhira and Allah dressed with sainthood and made him an amir, then Allah sent him back to dunya. As awliya are inheritors of prophet, did he go back to dunya or not? Yes, he did. After his ascension on Laylat al-Isra w’ al-Mi’raj, when he reached the maximum, he is always ascending, but when he reached the highest presence, we cannot say “a place” because there is no place there, but he is ascending in that presence in every moment, where he saw his Lord with the eyes of his head.

But what happened after. Allah sent him back. To be between people. Awliyaullah they inherit from the Prophet (s), then they inherit from prophet’s secrets, after they went all this way. To reach their goal which is to be in presence of Allah swt, and not to have interest in dunya, then there is a test on them. They send them back to be in dunya among people.

Allah said:

وَالسَّمَاء وَالطَّارِقِ وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الطَّارِقُ النَّجْمُ الثَّاقِبُ إِن كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَّمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ

Wa’s-samai wa ’t-tariq. Wa maa adraaka maa’t-tariq. An-najmu’th-thaqib. In kullu nafsin lamma `alayha hafidh.

By the Sky and the Night-Visitant (therein);- (It is) the Star of piercing brightness;- And what will explain to thee what the Night-Visitant is?- There is no soul but has a protector over it. [Night Visitant, 86:1-4]

w ’as-sama’i wa ’t-tariq. Allah is putting question mar and exclamation mark. By the heavens and the one who knocked at it. In Arabic tariq is the one who is knocking. Ma adraaka maa ’t-tariq - Who is knocking? Who knocked on the doors of heavens? It is Sayyidina Muhammad (s).

Allah is saying, and showing the greatness of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). That he brought him to the nearness of the Divine Presence and said, "By the heavens and the one who knocked at them. And what do you know about that one? No, you know nothing.”

We know nothing. All that we know is a drop in oceans of knowledge. But when the Prophet (s) went and saw that, Allah brought him near and he said,

قُلْ إِنَّمَا أَنَا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْ يُوحَى إِلَيَّ

"Ya Rabbee, qul innama ana basharun mithlukum – Say! I am but a mortal man like ye all. It has been revealed unto me...” [the Cave, al-Kahf 18:110]

He was so humble when he saw the greatness of his Lord that he saw himself nothing. He, in his own eyes, he is nothing and Allah is everything. He can say that about himself but we cannot say that about him.

[saying: ] “Ya Rabbee! You are everything! I am nothing. You brought me there.”

Wa ma adraaka ma ’t-tariq. An-najmu ’th-thaqib.

“The striking star.” He strikes the heart of human beings. A star when it strikes it creates light. It creates energy, it creates explosion. That striking star that hits the heart of people. He hit the hearts of Sahaba.

Allah gave him the power, Wa ma adraaka ma ’t-tariq. An-najmu ’th-thaqib. He is the striking star.

What do you know about the one is knocking. Tariq, the one who hits; tareeq is the way you have to follow. He didn’t leave you in blindness. [it means:] “What do you know about that one, taraqa is the verb, tareeq is the noun, tariq is the noun (doer)

So Sayyidina Muhammad, Allah said about him:

وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ فِيكُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

wa’alamoo ann feekum rasulullah.

Know that the Prophet of Allah is in you,” [Al-Hujurat 49:7]

He is knocking your heart in pieces directing you to love of Allah, direct you there. The Prophet (s), Allah swt perfected him. When He perfected him He raised him, when He raised him he brought him near, when He brought him near He made him to see the Divine Presence, with the eyes of his head.

Anyone whose heart is open will be in the Divine Presence. The Prophet (s) is waiting for us to come to his nearness to the nearness of the Prophet (s) in order that he will take you and show you the way. That is why muraqabah is important.

He was speaking about the experience of the grave. Before in old time, when someone is asked to go for seclusion they don’t put them in a room, they put them in a grave. They make their seclusion in a cemetery and they say “go there.” You cannot enter a cemetery in daytime [from fear], what do you think about night time.

In a cemetery which are not like today’s cemeteries. Here you don’t see anything but a lot of grass and one flag flying. A cemetery in Muslim countries… they have a lot of saints in these cemeteries and there are a lot of majestic manifestations on these graves from the awliyaullah that are there.

Or there are cemeteries where there is punishment and you feel the earth quaking. Imagine you are doing your seclusions in an open grave. Imagine you are going down in the grave to do your awraad, how many worms will come?

In 1996, when Mawlana ordered us to go that year for seclusion, he pointed to a place and we said, "ok.” It was on a mountain in a complete jungle, that you cannot hear except the wind, moving fast. There is no living species there. No people. It is Sayyidina Danyal’s Alayhissalam [Prophet Daniel] mountain, one of the prophets who was living there on that mountain. It is full of jinn. You cannot step in. You will run away. “There - you are going to make seclusion there.”

[We said:] “Ok.” What you can you do? Nothing. You have to go.

Before, but to go there, who is going to bring water, who is going to bring food. It is a deserted area, you have to drive miles and miles, where there is no one, and you might drive 50 miles in any direction. But they prepare you.

Meditation is difficult; it is not easy. Today they sit and make meditation. It is a beginner, that is what we can do but in reality when awliyaullah go for seclusions, which is meditation, they carry lot of hardship and difficulty.

I said, "Yes, as you say, Ya sayyidee.” Before that by one week he said, "I changed the place” that was in Syria. He said, "I changed it to Istanbul, in one of the mosques.” But part of the mosque is all graves of the saints of tariqah. All their graves with turbans. And he asked the person who maintains the place to arrange the seclusion. So before the seclusion by two days I was there and he took me and was showing me where I have to do seclusion. I looked and I saw it might be that mountain was better. He prepared a grave, a real grave, around these awliya.

In daytime you cannot enter their presence; you feel frightened of their presence, their tajallis. I looked at him and said “Ok.” We are changed from the desert and coming to another place. What can we do?

And Mawlana called me there, and he asked, "how you see the place?” I said, “Alhamdulillah it is good.” I said, "Mawlana he built a grave and on top of it is a box, and there is small window and they give you the food through that. And they take the box off in order to go out for wudu.” Then he said, "la hawla wa la quwatta illa billah, let me talk to him.” Then he said to him, “Give him my room.”

So from century to century hardship is more and more. So that is why they make it easy on you. That is why in the past you can see many awliya. Now no, this is not the time for awliya to be between people. Until ignorance will fill the earth Sayyidina Mahdi will not come.

So when complete ignorance comes - that means when a completely bad situation arises - then Allah will give permission for Sayyidina Mahdi Alayhissalam to come. Authorization and permission to appear and say "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar. Allahu Akbar." What is the meaning of Allahu Akbar?

I was one time looking at these on TV they have these church stations. And one priest was saying to people, “Do you know what is meaning of these Muslims when they say Allahu Akbar?”

You know these big churches where they have thousands of people? Say, "Allahu Akbar!” in a loud voice. And he said, “When they say Allahu Akbar, they mean their god is better and bigger than your god.”

And they all said, "awww! See how much they are humiliating our god?”

What does Allahu Akbar mean when Sayyidina Mahdi says Allahu Akbar?

Anyone hearing that voice, all the poison in the heart of the people - it is gone. That means he will take all that is disrespectful out of their hearts. If all human beings will hear that then all their hearts will be clean. He is not coming with the power of swords and guns and planes - [as some people foolishly believe.] No! He is coming with heavenly power. That is with the secret of that word.

means: There is no one you can compare to Allah. He is above description, He is above any understanding and He is above anything that you can think about.

Even in akhira no one will know the greatness of Allah, even the Prophet (s). Even the Prophet (s), he is ascending in the presence of Allah and learning about Allah’s Greatness. But not completely, else he will be shareek to Allah.

So that takbir of Sayyidina Mahdi Alayhissalam will clean you completely and make as if all your life was in complete worship; as if you were reading Qur’an and hadith and doing your awraad, from the day of your birth until the day of your death, as if you are in complete worshipness in the presence of the Prophet (s). That is one meaning of Allahu Akbar.

He is not going to make groups to say “come and listen to my lecture.” He is not a lecturer. Kun fayakoon. Every secret has to appear in the end of the day. That is why anything you think is hidden inside the earth or in the oceans is going to appear on top, so that you can see.

Grandshaykh said, "Technology will become like spit from the mouth of people. Whatever you reach of technology in the last years. In the later part of century, Allah is going to enable people to bring very high technology in a very short time. That is a sign of Mahdi.”

Grandshaykh didn’t see [high] technology [when he made that statement] That was in 1970s. He said that “the scientists will bring up all kinds of thing that never appeared before and all this high technology is going to be like ‘a’ in the alphabet like one letter in the alphabet of Sayyidina Mahdi when he comes with the spiritual secrets that Allah is giving him, that technology will become like zero.” [it will be] like epsilon - the minimum you can count.

So meditation is not simple. As the time is coming nearer for appearance of Sayyidina Mahdi jahiliyya is increasing, and knowledge is decreasing.

عن عبد اللّه بن عمرو بن العاص قال: قال رسول اللّه صلى اللّه عليه وسلم: إن اللّه لا يقبض العلم انتزاعا ينتزعه من الناس ولكن يقبض العلم بقبض العلماء، حتى إذا لم يترك عالما اتخذ الناس رؤوسا جهالا فسئلوا فأفتوا بغير علم فضلوا وأضلوا “

‘Abd All?h bin ‘Amr Ibn al-’?s Radiallahu anhu related that the Prophet (s) said:

All?h will not take knowledge from the hearts of the scholars but he takes the scholars (they die). There will be no more scholars to take their place so people will take extremely ignorant leaders. They will be asked questions and will give fatwas (legal rulings) without knowledge. They are misguided and they misguide others. [Sah?h Bukh?r? 1:33, “Kit?b al-‘ilm.” Sah?h Muslim #157, “Kit?b al-‘ilm”]

This book is from one thousand years ago, al-Fath ar-Rabbani. Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani Qaddasallahu Sirrahu was one thousand years ago. And in every page of that book is a lecture that he was giving to his students. And they record the day and number of lecture and the day and the year. And every time he mentions we are in time when conspiracy and corruption and is filling the earth. Don’t be surprised if you today see corruption. Now it is increasing. Now it is more. 1000 years ago it was there. Now it is coming to your home. Before it was not coming to your home. Sins and forbiddens. With these cable and satellite channels, all kind of bad, whatever it is. Still in America it is still regulated. But you go outside and the satellite is free, and you get it all free, thousands of channels free. All kinds of bad in them, like the internet. They gave it to the children ready, “eat it.” So what you want now to control, it is impossible.

قال رسول الله ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏إن من ‏أشراط ‏الساعة أن يرفع العلم ويظهر الجهل ويفشو الزنا...

Anas bin Malik Radiallahu anhu said, “… I heard the Messenger of All?h (s) say: “Verily, among the signs of the Last Days are that knowledge will be taken away, ignorance will appear, intoxicants (wine) will be drunk, fornication will be widespread,…” [Sah?h Bukh?r?, (1:28) “Kit?b al- ilm.” Muslim #2671, “Kit?b al-‘ilm,” Tirmidh? #2206, “Kit?b al-Fitan”]

The Prophet (s) said, “Ignorance will fill the world.” Now even in desert they are filling up with ads. And they show you a person at the North Pole and with snow, snow, and a Stone Age man coming and saying, “my ATT is working.” With his parabola [dish]. So they want to take you everywhere to fill the earth with corruption. Fasad.

So that is why up til that time they will fill the earth [with corruption]; then Sayyidina Mahdi Alayhissalam comes. For that reason, before, they put you in graves to do seclusion. They know it is difficult today, you cannot do that. So they put you in normal room.

Like Shaykh Mustafa, [with him] 30 to 40 people entered seclusion,s two or three times now, but in rooms, not in graves.

But saints have more power they turn your room into a grave without you being in a grave. It has to be a grave, but they turn it into a grave. As soon as you make that intention and you are getting that power and experiences in a nicely wrapped way and in reality they take the burdens and difficulties on themselves and they wrap it and give to you on a golden plate. This is their power. That is why now to see how much the Prophet (s), as Allah said in that verse w ’as-sama’i wa ’t-tariq, by the heavens and the one who is knocking. What do you now about him. You know very little he is the one who is gong to be the intercessor.

If you follow him your heart will be ready to receive secrets and your heart will become in the Divine Presence. And that is why he said, “sudoor as-siddiqeen…when you empty your heart and make it full from presence of Allah, then you become a Siddiq, the one who said, "’Yes’ to the Prophet (s). At that time Allah will fill it with light of secrets of His Beautiful Names and Attributes. He makes your heart full of energy, full of diya. It is like a factory. Like the sun. The sun brings you daylight. It becomes like a sun. The moon does not have rays. But the sun has rays it shines. The moon is to itself, it is the light it acquires from the sun, like a mirror. But the sun is giving rays, and you become lie a sun giving rays to any individual that comes to sit in your situation.

So if the heart becomes like that full of brightness and … your heart will be full of small stars. These stars are secrets.

So when you fly in an airplane they say you cannot go in this area you are not allowed to go in this area, airway. That way you don’t have collisions.

Awliyaullah are able to send these rays to their students and give them airways to life them to Presence of Allah and His Prophet (s).