Ascend Spiritually By Controlling Your Senses
From the Realities of Mawlana (Q) as taught by Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi
A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the rejected one
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘aalameen, was salaatu was salaamu ‘alaa Ashraful Mursaleen, Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammadul Mustafa ﷺ. Madad ya Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem, Ya Habibul ‘Azeem, unzur halana wa ishfa’lana, ‘abidona bi madadikum wa nazarekum.
“Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.”
﴾أَطِيعُواللَّه وَأَطِيعُوٱلرَّسُولَ وَأُوْلِي الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ… ﴿٥٩…
4:59 – “…Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil amre minkum…” (Surat An-Nisa)
“… Obey Allah, Obey the Messenger, and those in authority among you…” (The Women, 4:59)
Sayyidina Muhammad Physically Travelled the Night Journey
Always a reminder for myself ana abdukal ‘ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim, wa jahl, and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that we are still in existence. Allah’s (AJ) rahmah and mercy, and the greatest rahmah and mercy is for Allah (AJ) to guide humanity towards the love and the ishq (love) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. InshaAllah, Allah (AJ) dress us and bless us from these lights.
InshaAllah, Haji Shahid, lets recite from Surat Al-Isra, first verse, inshaAllah. Surat Al-Isra, the first verse describes the Isra wal Mi’raj (Night Journey and Ascension) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
17th surah (chapter), verse 1.
Reciter : “A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Subhaanal lazeee asraa bi’abdihee lailam minal Masjidil Haraami ilal Masjidil Aqsal-lazee baaraknaa haw lahoo linuriyahoo min aayaatinaa;innahoo Huwas Samee’ul-Baseer.” Sadaqallahul ‘aliyyul ‘azim.
﴾سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي أَسْرَىٰ بِعَبْدِهِ لَيْلًا مِّنَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ إِلَى الْمَسْجِدِ الْأَقْصَى الَّذِي بَارَكْنَا حَوْلَهُ لِنُرِيَهُ مِنْ آيَاتِنَا ۚ إِنَّهُ هُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ ﴿١
17:1 – “Subhaanal lazeee asraa bi’abdihee lailam minal Masjidil Haraami ilal Masjidil Aqsal-lazee baaraknaa haw lahoo linuriyahoo min aayaatinaa;innahoo Huwas Samee’ul-Baseer.” (Surat Al-Isra)
“Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al-Aqsa, whose surroundings We have blessed, to show him of Our signs. Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Seeing.” (The Night Journey, 17:1)
Prophet ﷺ was Brought Within Two Bows Length to the Divinely Presence (Holy Qur’an, 53:9)
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi : Sadaqallahul ‘azim, wa barakah Rasulul Kareem (The Most Generous Messenger) ya Habibul ‘Azim (The Beloved of the Magnificent).
Allahu ala hayy, ala Hayyul ya Qayyum. Allahu ala hayy, ala Hayyul ya Qayyum. Allahu ala hayy, ala Hayyul ya Qayyum. Allahu ala hayy, ala Hayyul ya Qayyum. Allahu ala hayy, ala Hayyul ya Qayyum. Allahu ala hayy, ala Hayyul ya Qayyum. Allahu ala hayy, ala Hayyul ya Qayyum. Ya Rabbil ‘Izzati wal ‘Azhamati wal Jabbaroot wata quwwati wal malakut. Fa alhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘aalameen, was salaatu was salaam Ashraful Mursaleen.
يَا رَبِّ الْعِزَةِ وَالْعَظَمَةِ وَالْجَبَرُوتْ
“Ya Rabbil ‘Izzati wal ‘Azhamati wal Jabaroot”
“O Lord of Honor and Might and Magnificence, Imposer of Thy Will.”
InshaAllah, Allah (AJ) guide us to these infinite lights and realities and that Allah (AJ) exalted be He who took His servant by the night from Masjid al-Haram to Masjid al-Aqsa.’ Alhamdulillah, we described the event of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and alhamdulillah, for the people of ma’rifah and gnosticism. The people whom wish to reach a reality, they know that their movement is not to Allah’s (AJ) Divinely Presence and “qaaba qawsayni aw adna” but their mi’raj (ascension) is in the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
﴾فَكَانَ قَابَ قَوْسَيْنِ أَوْ أَدْنَىٰ ﴿٩
53:9 – “Fakana qaaba qawsayni aw adna.” (Surat An-Najm)
“And was at a distance of two bow lengths or nearer [to the Divine Presence].” (The Star, 53:9)
The Heart of the Believer is the House of the Lord
Allah (AJ), Glorified be He, that describing the way for the servant is that ‘I’m going to lift My servant. Glory be to Me whom I lift My servant from their Masjid al-Haram to Masjid al-Aqsa.’ Alhamdulillah, in this way of gnosticism, this way of tariqah (spiritual path), masjid is the ‘heart.’ “Qalb al mu’min Baitullah” is the House of Allah (AJ).
قَال رَسُولَ اللَّه ﷺ، قَالْ اللَّه عَزَ وَجَلْ: ” قَلْبَ الْمُؤْمِنْ بَيْتُ الرَّب.” [حَدِيثْ اَلْقُدْسِي]
Qala Rasulallahi ﷺ, Qala Allah (AJ): “ “Qalb al mu’min baytur rabb.” [Hadith al Qudsi]
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said, that Allah (AJ) said: “The heart of the believer is the House of the Lord.” (Holy Hadith)
Purify Your Heart With Zikr and Performing Good Actions
Masjid al-Haram is that the servant, Allah (AJ) is asking the servant that ‘Leave haram. Leave the forbidden actions so that they don’t enter your heart. That your heart becomes a holy precinct of purity and cleanliness. Washing the heart, circumambulating the heart.’ We’ve talked in the earlier months about the heart being the Ka’bah; wash the heart with zikrullah (remembrance of Allah), with good actions and with your nazar (gaze). To be vigilant on the heart is the tawwaf (circumambulation), is that my life should be moving around – what’s good for my heart and not what’s only good for my body.
﴾أَن طَهِّرَا بَيْتِيَ لِلطَّائِفِينَ وَالْعَاكِفِينَ وَالرُّكَّعِ السُّجُودِ ﴿١٢٥…
2:125 – “…An Tahhir baytee liTayifeena, wal ‘Aakifeena, wa ruka’is sujood.” (Surat Al-Baqarah)
“…Purify/Sanctify My House for those who perform tawwaf (circumambulation) and those who seclude themselves for devotion, and bow and prostrate [in prayer].” (The Cow, 2:125)
As a result of that heart becoming purified, Allah (AJ) will begin to describe, ‘That is a Haramain.’ That, ‘My Light and the love of the love of My reality, the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is occupying that heart.’ It’s a clean heart, washing heart, continuously in the process of washing with zikrullah; not that it’s a perfected heart.
Perfected Hearts are for Nabiyeen, Siddiqeen, Shuhada and Saliheen
The perfected heart are for nabiyeen (prophets), siddiqeen (truthful), then we come towards shuhadayi (witnesses) was saliheen (and the righteous) whom they’re trying all their lives to keep their hearts to be clean with zikrullah, with salawats (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ), with good actions and good ‘amal (good deed).
﴾وَمَن يُطِعِ اللّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ فَأُوْلَـئِكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللّهُ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاء وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَـئِكَ رَفِيقًا ﴿٦٩
4:69 – “Wa man yuti’ Allaha war Rasola faolayeka ma’al ladheena an’ama Allahu ‘alayhim minan Nabiyeena, was Siddiqeena, wash Shuhadayi, was Saliheena wa hasuna olayeka rafeeqan.” (Surat An-Nisa)
“And whoever obeys Allah and the Messenger (pbuh) are in the company of those on whom Allah has bestowed His Favours/Blessings – of the Prophets, the sincere Truthful, the Martyrs/Witnesses to the truth (who testify), and the Righteous, and excellent are those as companions.” (The Women, 4:69)
Be Vigilant With Your Practices at Night for Your Mir’aj
That, ‘I lift that servant in the night, in the layl.’ It means that they’ll be trained at a time in which the world shuts off. The lifting doesn’t happened in the daytime. That the mi’raj (ascension) for the believer doesn’t happen in the daytime. Allah (AJ) is teaching for us that ‘The mi’raj and My lifting, My coming to grab you is not while you’re busy at work’ and everyone’s using the system. Everybody’s busy on their networks. Everybody’s busy on their brains. But take a life in which you have Qiyamul Layl (Nightly Devotion). That you keep the night vigilant, all of the night, was the first command. If you can’t keep all of the night in worshipness, not internet and playing, then half of the night, then portion of the night.
﴾يَا أَيُّهَا الْمُزَّمِّلُ ﴿١﴾ قُمِ اللَّيْلَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا ﴿٢﴾ نِّصْفَهُ أَوِ انقُصْ مِنْهُ قَلِيلًا ﴿٣﴾ أَوْ زِدْ عَلَيْهِ وَرَتِّلِ الْقُرْآنَ تَرْتِيلًا ﴿٤﴾ إِنَّا سَنُلْقِي عَلَيْكَ قَوْلًا ثَقِيلًا ﴿٥﴾ إِنَّ نَاشِئَةَ اللَّيْلِ هِيَ أَشَدُّ وَطْئًا وَأَقْوَمُ قِيلًا ﴿٦
73:1-6 – Ya aiyuhal muzzammil, Qumil laila illaa qaleelaa, Nisfahooo awinqus minhu qaleelaa, Aw zid ‘alaihi wa rattilil Qur’aana tarteela, Innaa sanulqee ‘alaika qawalan saqeelaa, Inn naashi’atal laili hiya ashadddu wat anw wa aqwamu qeelaa.” (Surat Al-Muzzamil)
“O you wrapped in garments (Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)! Stand (to pray) all night, except a little. Half of it or a little less than that or a little more. And recite the Qur’an (aloud) in a slow, (pleasant tone and) style. Verily, We shall send down to you a weighty Word (i.e. obligations, laws). Verily, the rising by night (for Tahajjud prayer) is very hard and most potent and good for governing oneself, and most suitable for (understanding) the Word (of Allah)” (The Enshrouded One, 73:1-6)
Then Naqshbandiya teaches: at least an hour before Fajr (dawn prayer) time, wash. Have your tea. Get ready and begin to do your night practices, your zikr (Divine remembrance), your salawats, all the etiquettes and adabs (manners) that have to be recited. Because this is Allah’s (AJ) Command that, ‘I’m going to grab My servant. I’m going to grab their heart in their layl (night), in their time when it’s dark and they’ve isolated themself from the world.’ As a result, Allah (AJ) draws near to that soul and begin to lift that soul from that reality.
Allah (AJ) Takes Souls on Mi’raj Towards the Heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
Then Masjid al-Aqsa is then the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That the ‘heart of the farthest boundary’ means the ‘masjid within the heavens.’ If the heart is on Earth and the masjid is the heart on this Earth, then where is the masjid and Baitul Mamur within the heaven? It means that house, that house of worshipness is the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. From that heart, it’s all emanation of Qur’an; every majestic light and power emanating from that heart. Awliyaullah (saints) understood that Allah (AJ) takes their soul on a mi’raj (ascension), from their physicality into the light and into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
And as a result, Allah (AJ) describing for them that, ‘In that vicinity that you’re going, no doubt it’s holy. No doubt that it’s exalted and beatific. It’s the location of where the Qur’an is being emanated.’ It means the reality is nothing that could be understood.
Layatul Qadr is Dressed by Isra wal Mi’raj
It means that this dress that Allah (AJ) want to take the believer is that, ‘Come into this ocean of power.’ That’s why on Ramadan, the opening and the dress. Why that the Laylatul Qadr (Night of Power) in the Ramadan on the 27th? It’s to be dressed by the Isra wal Mi’raj (Night Journey and Ascension), the dress in which Prophet ﷺ taking from his haqqaiqs and his realties in the origin and the birth of his Divinely lights dressing upon the nation on Laylatul Qadr. ‘Night of Power’ because it’s from the oceans of power.
Our Mi’raj Begins with Sifat as-Sami, the All-Hearing
That Allah (AJ), “As-Sami’ul-‘Aleem” – the One whom is hearing. He’s hearing and He’s seeing, “Sami’ul-Basir.” That this sifat (attribute) of hearing, it opens the attribute of vision. So, this is isharat (sign) for those who are doing their tafakkur (contemplation) because every moment for them is an Isra wal Mi’raj, is a mi’raj (ascension). That every moment in their meditation, their tafakkur, their contemplation, all their worshipness is for their tafakkur. They pray so that to make themselves to be disciplined. They use that salah (daily prayer) at the end to make their mi’raj into the Divinely Presence.
So, everything they’re doing is for that moment of that tafakkur, that moment of the mi’raj. They pray. They give their zakat (charity). They give and they do their charity so that Allah (AJ) open for them their mi’raj. That their soul continuously moving to Masjid al-Aqsa. As long as they keep themself in a state of haramain, of purity and cleanliness, that their heart to be clean and have this ishq and this love. They’re continuously, all their actions, all their usool (principles) is for that Allah (AJ) grant them continuously their mi’raj. That their soul and their light moving with the light of Prophet ﷺ and they pray that they be granted the vision and its reality of that movement, that proximity, all of its lights and all of its dress.
Sifat as-Sami Opens Sifat al-Basir, the All-Seeing
Then Allah (AJ) gives the key at the end, “As-Sami’ul-Basir.” Sifat as-Sami’ – the one whom hears and Sifat al-Basir – The All-Seeing. That if you want to achieve these realities then opening As-Sami’ (the one who hears) Al-Basir (The All-Seeing). On the Divinely Face, As-Sami [right ear], Al-Basir [left ear] are the ears. As-Sami [right ear], Al-Basir [left ear]. Why it’s on the ears? Because the ear is the door to the soul. The ears are the door to the soul. Sadaqallahul ‘azim, wa barakah Rasulul Kareem.
As a result of understanding that the ears are the door to the soul, the eyes are a window to the soul. So you can look through the eyes and you have a glimpse of somebody’s reality. But awliyaullah are using the door. When Allah (AJ) says, ‘Enter the home through the proper door,’ it means what?
﴾وَلَيْسَ الْبِرُّ بِأَن تَأْتُوا الْبُيُوتَ مِن ظُهُورِهَا وَلَـٰكِنَّ الْبِرَّ مَنِ اتَّقَىٰ ۗ وَأْتُوا الْبُيُوتَ مِنْ أَبْوَابِهَا ۚ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّـهَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ ﴿١٨٩…
2:189 – “…Wa laysal birru bi-an tatol buyoota min zuhooriha wa lakinnal birra manit taqa, wa’ tol buyoota min abwabiha, wat taqollaha la’allakum tuflihoon.” (Surat Al-Baqarah)
“…And it is not righteousness to enter houses from the back, but righteousness is [in] one who fears Allah. And enter houses from their doors. And be Conscious of Allah that you may succeed.” (The Cow, 2:189)
Lower the Gates on Your Ears to Allow Your Soul to Move
Is that – give your ear to Allah (AJ), and that’s why this nation is “Sam’ina wa ata’na – we heard and we obeyed.”
﴾سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا غُفْرَانَكَ رَبَّنَا وَاِلَيْكَ الْمَصِيْرُ ﴿٢٨٥
2:285 – “Sam’ina wa ata’na, ghufranaka Rabbana wa ilaykal masir.” (Surat Al-Baqarah)
“…We hear, and we obey: (We seek) Thy forgiveness, our Lord, and to Thee is the end of all journeys.” (The Cow, 2:285)
When you pray, you go ‘Allahu Akbar (Allah is the Greatest), Allahu Akbar’ [Shaykh shows each thumb on each earlobe], it means Allah’s (AJ) Greatness and Power and Might. That to open my ears, ya Rabbi, and grant my soul to release and have a mi’raj. Your soul doesn’t leave through your eyes. It leaves through the door [shaykh points to ears]. As soon as you hear and you hear with perfection, that’s why the salawats and the nasheeds (songs of praise) and when we meditate with nasheeds and Qur’an, it means what happens? Allah (AJ) is giving awliyaullah (saints) a permission ‘Use sifat as-Sami’’ (attribute of the one who hears). That the sifat as-Sami’ begin to lower the gate on their ear. As a result of lowering the gate on the ear, the soul is free to move.
Shaykhs’ Souls Move Towards Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
This is how the shaykhs are sending their soul out and begin to energize. At the same time, all the students, their lock is coming down in the association and then their souls are coming out to enter onto that ship. As that ship immediately moves into the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, nabiyeen, siddiqeen, shuhadayi was saliheen and Allah (AJ) with them, ‘It’s the best of company.’
﴾وَمَن يُطِعِ اللّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ فَأُوْلَـئِكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللّهُ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاء وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَـئِكَ رَفِيقًا ﴿٦٩
4:69 – “Wa man yuti’ Allaha war Rasola faolayeka ma’al ladheena an’ama Allahu ‘alayhim minan Nabiyeena, was Siddiqeena, wash Shuhadayi, was Saliheena wa hasuna olayeka rafeeqan.” (Surat An-Nisa)
“And whoever obeys Allah and the Messenger (pbuh) are in the company of those on whom Allah has bestowed His Favours/Blessings – of the Prophets, the sincere Truthful, the Martyrs/Witnesses to the truth (who testify), and the Righteous, and excellent are those as companions.” (The Women, 4:69)
Clean Hearts Make Mistakes, But Must Always Go Back Towards Love
So, it means that the mi’raj (ascension) is that the heart that’s been purified becomes the haramain, becomes the Ka’bah of Allah (AJ), becomes washed and purified. We described before that your heart will have the love of Allah (AJ) but filled with the souls of nabiyeen, siddiqeen, shuhadayi was saliheen in your heart because Prophet ﷺ described, ‘You will be with whom you love.’
عَنْ أَنَسٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ: … فَقَالَ (رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ): ” أَنْتَ مَعَ مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ.” ]اَلْمَصْدَرْ: مُسْلِمْ:. ٧٥٢٠ ]
‘An Anasin (ra): … Faqala (Rasulullahi) ﷺ: “Anta ma’a man ahbabta.”
Narrated Anas ibn Malik (ra) that …the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: “You will be with whom you love.” [Source: Muslim 7520]
If a heart is clean and a heart has good actions, even a heart can make mistakes. People make mistakes. People have bad character but the heart is clean and filled with ishq (love) and always moving back towards ishq, never goes towards hate. It means the hypocrite is the one whom loves and hates in an instant. When you love and hate, there was really never any love. But when you love and you love and you love and you disappointed, but you love and you never leave that state of love, then the heart is filled with nabiyeen, siddiqeen, shuhadayi was saliheen because the holy hadith ‘You’ll be with whom you love.’
All Prophets and Holy Ones are Entrusted to Watch Over Us
‘If you love all My prophets of Allah (AJ), they’re all a brotherhood. If you love them and respect them all, they occupy your heart. As a result, you love all my companions, they’re siddiqeen. No doubt they occupy your heart. They fight for you to accomplish your love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.’ This is the greatest khidmat (service). They’re not sitting up and having kebabs, thinking, ‘Oh great, we made it. Oh, heck with the rest of them.’
This is the greatest service that they can provide to the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. It’s ‘Watch over my nation, I love them. That keep within them your nazar (gaze). Watch over them. If they have love, they’ll be with whom they love.’ When we love them, no doubt they’re occupying our heart. They’re watching and vigilant for ourselves, our families and our communities.
When You Love Pious Souls, They Accompany You
Shuhada (witnesses) means all these awliyaullah (saints) whom they’re Ahlul Basirah (the people whose hearts are opened), they operate with their heart. This is a reality of an everyday mi’raj (ascension). We are people whom train for everyday to have a mi’raj to the Divinely Presence. As a result of this heart, that’s haramain. It becomes a duplicate of the Ka’bah. That this love you carry with you all this love. It’s not what you know in life but it’s who you know, who you love. When you love them, they accompany you. You’ll be with whom you love and whom you love is always with you.
That’s the source of power. That’s the source of inspiration. That’s the source of good character and muhabbat (love). As a result, Allah (AJ) describes ‘I lift that heart into the presence of al-Aqsa, into the farthest boundary’ which is the Muhammadan haqqaiq (reality), the Muhammadan heart, Manzil ul Qur’an (where the Holy Qur’an emanates) in which all of Qur’an and Divinely speech of Allah (AJ) flowing through that reality of the heart. It’s nothing that can be understood but Allah (AJ) giving isharat (sign) ‘But open up your Sami’ al-Basir – open up your sifat to hear and to see.’ Sadaqallahul ‘azim, wa barakah Rasulul Kareem.
Watch Your Mouth – You’re Accountable for Your Words
With that understanding, the talk for tonight was about sam’ina wa samt (we hear and be silent). That this life of ours and this characteristics of sam’ina and samt is an impossible two attributes for people to master and that opens all these realities. It means the path is a path of samt, silence. That’s why all turuqs (spiritual paths), their first step is silence because people don’t have the ability to control their comments, their mouth. What they say, they’re accountable for what they say. The every word that people put from their mouth has an energy. It has a cause and effect of what will come to the servant and what departs from the servant. So, it means these two attributes is the whole struggle that the tariqah students are struggling and in difficulty with.
Sam’ina is that we took a path in which to hear and that’s why Allah (AJ) describes, ‘They have ears but they don’t hear.’
﴾وَلَقَدْ ذَرَأْنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنسِ ۖ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لَّا يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لَّا يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ آذَانٌ لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا ۚ أُولَـٰئِكَ كَالْأَنْعَامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ ۚ أُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ الْغَافِلُونَ ﴿١٧٩
7:179 – “Wa laqad zara’naa li jahannama kaseeram minal Jinni wal Insi lahum quloobul laa yafqahoona bihaa, wa lahum a’yunul laa yubisiroona bihaa, wa lahum aazaanul laa yasma’oona bihaa; Olaayika kal an’aami bal hum adhal; Olaayika humul ghaafiloon” (Surat Al-A’raf)
“Many from the Jinns and human beings, We have created for hell: They have hearts with which they don’t understand, they have eyes with which they don’t see, and they have ears with which they don’t hear. They are like cattle, nay they are more misguided. They are heedless (of warning).” (The Heights, 7:179)
Every Salah Can Be Our Isra wal Mi’raj if We Perfect Our Hearing and Remain Silent
It means to hear is what we’ve been talking about for the last week. It’s that I took a life in which to be silent so I put a rock in my mouth and a life in which to perfect my hearing. If a servant can master those two, they reach towards this ayatul kareem (the generous verse of Holy Qur’an). That every salah (daily prayer) be an isra (night journey) for them, a mi’raj (ascension) for them in which they’re leaving badness and they’re entering and praying in Divinely oceans.
Each to their darajat (spiritual rank). Some pray in an ocean of power. Some pray in the presence of Prophet ﷺ. Some pray in the hand of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That’s why the Holy Companions (as), they swore, they swore, ‘I swear by the one whom holds my soul in his hand.’
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ:” فَوَالَّذِي نَفْسِي بِيَدِهِ لاَ يُؤْمِنُ أَحَدُكُمْ حَتَّى أَكُونَ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ وَالِدِهِ وَوَلَدِهِ ”. [صَحِيِحْ اَلْبُخَارِي، كتاب ٢، حديث ١٤]
‘An Abi Hurairah (ra), anna Rasulallahi ﷺ qala: “Fawal lazi nafsi bi yadihi, la yuminu ahadukum hatta akoona ahabba ilayhi min walidihi wa waladihi.” [Sahih Al Bukhari, Kitab 2, Hadith 14]
Narrated by Abi Hurairah (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: “By Him in Whose Hands is my soul, none of you will have faith till he loves me more than his father and his children.” [Authentic by Al Bukhari, Book 2, Hadith 14]
Do You Apply the Teachings to Yourself or Simply Dismiss Them?
It means they see their arwah (soul), their light in this world of light on the hand of power. It means immensity of what is possible but what Allah (AJ) wants from us is – take a life of sam’ina. That to hear, do you really hear the guidance? Do you hear the teachings? We’re speaking but you’re not hearing. When you’re vigilant with your hearing is that the shaykh just talked about this. This is the reality of this, this, this, this and I’m absorbing it and bringing it into my life; not that they hear it and two seconds later, they go down and they exactly come against what was just said. It’s not but even two minutes after something is said, somebody will actually do the opposite of what was said.
So, then they don’t take a life of sam’ina (to hear) and they’re wasting their time. Years they could be sitting, thinking, ‘Oh, I’ve been in tariqah for how many years.’ But it’s not a prison sentence where you serve an amount of time and then you’re paroled and enter into paradise. It’s a path in which to perfect oneself. If we live a life of: I have to master my sam’ina. That I hear and I obey and in my life, I have to hear the guidance and these are going to be comments I like, I don’t like. I’m going to open the reality of my hearing. If that opening of the reality of hearing is opening and opening and opening, especially with isharat (signs) and guidance that they took the teachings and it entered in [Shaykh points to ear]. They took the teachings they entered in and then as a result, they took a life of silence.
Follow Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (as) Who Mastered Silence
Stay silent. Your mouth actually will ruin anything you try to achieve. Some people have to make a comment for everything, ‘It’s like this. You’re like that. This like that. This like that.’ Allah (AJ) doesn’t like that. Allah (AJ) doesn’t like comments. He chose for His holy prophets (as) the way of silence.
He chose for all the Holy Companions (as), silence. They put a rock in the mouth not to talk. Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as) carried that rock and its reality, seven years. What Allah (AJ) was dressing of realities from Siddiq al-Mutlaq (the absolute truthful) not to speak? Not because he’s going to say anything bad. These are perfected servants of Allah (AJ).
We Gain the Anger of Allah (AJ) When We Speak Inappropriately
What Allah (AJ) was going to dress of its realities is unimaginable in its immensity. But for us, we are of the people whom are continuously using our mouth in an inappropriate way, in an incorrect way and it’s the vehicle for shaitan (satan). As a result of the vehicle for shaitan, then people are losing. As a result, they gain the ghadab and the anger of Allah (AJ). If they can reach to this perfection because they want to be from Sami’ul-Basir. They want, ‘Ya Rabbi, open for me as-Sami.’ Well then, keep a path in which you’re silent.’
As soon as you’re silent, you’re not going to talk. You’re not going to come against and as a result, you can clearly hear. The less you talk, the more you’re hearing. Some people, they talk so much, they don’t even want to hear. They just want to wait until you’re finished and then they want to now start making comments. So, it means these two attributes or these two realities if a servant can master them.
Strive to Achieve Sam’ina wa Ata’na, to Hear and Obey
Put on a post-it note in your home. Put a post-it note on your meditation area, ‘I have to live a life of sam’ina wa ata’na (Holy Qur’an, 2:285). That I heard and I obeyed. That I want to hear these teachings and really act upon them.’ My life is to hear from Qur’an, act upon it. As a result of my sami’ and my hearing, my samt (silence). I keep a way of silence and a path of silence. I don’t have to comment. I don’t have to continuously try to correct things, give…what’s it even correction they give, all sorts of whatever comments you call them. This is not to do with the comments of saying, ‘Mashallah, great.’ This not that but the comment that someone always has to say something back to correct most likely what they heard.
These two are locks. If we can master these realities then the servant is ready and prime for a mi’raj (ascension). Their mi’raj is into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ through ishq (love) and muhabbat. These gathering and these associations, they are the way of immense love. That you ahear from what the shaykhs are describing, that all these beautiful lights, that like birds, we recite and enter into their presence and this dress and lights that Prophet ﷺ dress upon everybody.
Our Hearts Can’t Open If We Don’t Open Our Ears and Lock Our Mouths
But everybody goes home saying, ‘I wish I could feel that. I wish I could experience that’ when all it requires that we put an opening upon the ears and a lock upon the mouth. That truly try to take a path in which you hear it and that you going to do it all the way from when you left the association and keep that way and that covenant of fulfilling what you heard.
Otherwise, it’s lost and the hearings are never opening because they become a people whom which they don’t hear. They just have ears but they don’t hear the reality and then they sit and say that, ‘Nothing is opening and my heart is not opening.’ We pray that Allah (AJ) grant us these openings and these lights and that this mi’raj (ascension) into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and these Rasulul Kareem – the beatific lights and merciful lights that dress the soul, dress the character and that the heart always to remain in an opening of love and ishq for Allah (AJ) and his beloved Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi rabbil ‘aalameen. Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
Special thanks to our transcribers for their help with transcribing this suhbah.
Original Date of Suhbah: 20220227
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