Celebrity Worship: The Modern Day Idolatry
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 Ashrafil Mursaleen, Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammadul Mustafa ﷺ. Madad ya Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem, Ya Habibul ‘Azeem. Alhamdulillah, A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Atiullah wa atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.
أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَأُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنكُم… ﴿٥٩﴾ …
4:59 – “…Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulul amre minkum…” (Surat an-Nisa)
“…Obey Allah, obey the Messenger, and those in authority among you…” (The Women, 4:59)
Always a reminder for myself ana abdukal ‘ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim, wa jahli, and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that we are still in existence. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘aalameen Ya Rabbil ‘arsh ul ‘Azim. Allah Hu, Allah Hay, Allah Hayyu ya Qayyum. Allah Hu, Allah Hay, Allah Hayyu ya Qayyum. Allah Hu, Allah Hay, Allah Hayyu ya Qayyum. Allah Hu, Allah Hay, Allah Hayyu ya Qayyum. Allah Hu, Allah Hay, Allah Hayyu ya Qayyum. Allah Hu, Allah Hay, Allah Hayyu ya Qayyum. Allah Hu, Allah Hay, Allah Hayyu ya Qayyum. Bi madadikum wa nazarekum Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem.
Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is in Continuous Mi’raj to the Divine’s Presence
Alhamdulillah on such a blessed night and blessed weekend and zikr (Divine remembrance) of Allah (AJ) that this immensity of Isra wal Mi’raj (Night journey and Ascension) is an immense rahmah (mercy) for the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That as Allah (AJ) brought up the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to His Divinely Presence. That, that reality and the arwah (soul), the light and the nur of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is in a continuous Mi’raj (Ascension) and movement towards the Divinely Presence. As a result of that immensity of that station and proximity to the Divinely Presence, we’re all blessed by that light, dressed by that light.
That Allah (AJ) opens that gate on the 27th of Rajab to sit and to be dressed and blessed by that emanation, a door towards that reality to uplift the servant. To grant the servant a dress and a light that can’t be achieved by any action other than the action of love. Because the one whom loves Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, sits to meditate and contemplate on such a great event, in such a blessed event. Only through that observation and the observance of that night, sitting in that night in praise and in praying, in zikr – chanting, and all good actions. Then in the next day sitting to be dressed by its realities, blessed by its realities.
Prophet ﷺ Dress His Ashiqeen with the Light of Isra wal Mi’raj
Alhamdulillah Allah (AJ) grants that from love. That ‘ashiqeen and lovers, lovers of the Divinely Presence, lovers of the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, they come with that love. Only by means of that love, their souls are on a mi’raj flying into that reality. Like a comet, if Prophet ﷺ is in front moving into that ocean, into that reality, then all the ‘ashiqeen (lovers) their souls are being dressed and blessed by that light, its beatific lights.
Such an immense night in which Allah (AJ) brings all the angels, means all of paradises are adorned on this night. That all the angels from paradise they come out to greet the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. There’s no time. That means it’s a pardeh (veil), a light and event that is a perpetual event. That, that hijab (veil) when it hits onto the 27th of the 7th lunar month, then this entire dress of all the angels coming out of their paradise realities to greet the Muhammadan light as it’s being dressed and blessed. All the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ that are accompanying with that love moving in that Mi’raj to be dressed and blessed by these lights. The immensity of the Divine love for that reality.
Loving Prophet ﷺ is an Immense Blessing from Allah (AJ)
Alhamdulillah by just loving and imitating that love, Allah (AJ) granted us this immense opportunity to be dressed and to be blessed by it. InshaAllah Allah (AJ) complete His ni’mat (blessing) and His favours upon our soul. And dress us from the heat, where you feel the heat within your being of that light and of that love. By means of that light to cleanse us, take away every difficulty from us and to bless us.
As the world is coming into its final chapter that Allah (AJ) complete His favours upon our soul, upon our families, our communities and all our loved ones. That, Ya Rabbi dress us from these lights, bless us from these lights. That for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ forgive us our wrongdoings and our bad character. And regardless of those Ya Rabbi dress us and bless us for the sake of your love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, inshaAllah.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi rabbil ‘aalameen. Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
State of Particle Vs. Wave
The Role of the Nafs (Ego) is to Stop us from Reaching Our Wave Reality
Barakah shafa’at, ya Rasulul Kareem. Alhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘aalameen. That when we talked about the particle and the wave, always a reminder for myself. That the nafs (ego), somebody had asked that the nafs its role in this understanding is to keep the servant from becoming a wave. So it means that everything that the nafs it inflicts upon a person and their humanity is to keep and restrict them from achieving their wave reality. To achieve the light reality that’s within them. That’s the role that the nafs is playing. It’s to keep the person to be in their physical and in their physical desires. That’s the difficulty of achieving any spirituality or any significant improvement in our spirituality, if we can’t reach to the wave reality. So that was an interesting email that somebody had asked that, ‘What’s the role of the nafs in the particle and the wave?’
Those Who Follow their Ego Too Much Turns to Statues – The Idols
Allah (AJ) put the nafs there as a source in which to keep us as a particle. That’s our testing in life. If we’re going to follow the nafs, then the nafs whole duty is to make us a particle in which we are not capable of observing ourself. That we don’t reach to any spiritual maturity so that we constantly are required to remain under supervision. As a result of that supervision we cannot reach to our wave reality.
Those that follow their nafs too much and their desires, then you can see that its completely making them particle. So much particle, almost like a statue. That they’re not just semi-dunya, they’re like full dunya (material world). They become what they call, what? What’s a popular terms for these people? ‘Idols.’ So there’s nothing hidden. Shaitan (satan) makes everything to be out. It’s that people just don’t have ears and eyes to see it. That when they become so much in their dunya, they actually become Mujassamiyoon (Anthropomorphists) – they become a statue, they become an idol. They have no longer any relationship to their soul and to their wave reality. They have calcified and actually has become a statue.
Idol Worshipping of the Past Vs. Modern Day Idolatry
As a result of their statue-ness they call out to people to worship them. What they call their ‘fans’ and those whom are idols and idol worshipers. So you can see how much difficulty shaitan has put upon this earth. If you think at idol worshiping before was for what? That they took a symbol of something and thought by putting their attention on it, which is worshipness. Putting all their thought and their mind and following, everything about their being is put upon that idol thinking it had some sort of benefit for it. Allah (AJ) would describe that neither it can benefit you nor harm you, it actually has absolutely nothing to do or for you.
قَالَ أَفَتَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ مَا لَا يَنفَعُكُمْ شَيْئًا وَلَا يَضُرُّكُمْ ﴿٦٦﴾
21:66 – “Qala afataAAbudoona min dooni Allahima la yanfaAAukum shay-an wala yadurrukum.” (Surat Al Anbiya)
He said, “Then do you worship instead of Allah that which does not benefit you at all or harm you? (The Prophets, 21:66)
Look at modern day idolism. It’s from their own words, not words we’ve made up. They call themself ‘Idols’. They have shows to make an idol. And everybody who follows these idols they’re like worshiping them – every moment what they’re doing, how they’re eating, what clothes they wear. Allah’s (AJ) reminding that the old school idol worshiping which is backwards compared to today’s idol worshiping. Because today’s idol worshiping they have brought an immense amount of technology into their idol worshiping. Old school idol worshipers would look at us and say, ‘Woah where you guys took this. You’ve taken it such an advance level.’ They had one little statue and look how much Allah (AJ) was angry with them.
Worshipping the Idols of Material World is a Wasted Life
Now everything in our existence on this earth now is an idol. Which idol you think you’re going to follow that will lead you to somewhere, have some sort of benefit for you. Watch what they drive, watch what they eat, watch what they dress. None of which you can do, none of which has any benefit for you and has a tremendous amount of harm. That it wasted human life, it wasted their focus. Instead of focusing upon the reality and on the heavens. And closing our eyes from this world and trying to reach within our spiritual reality. Then Allah (AJ) is reminding for us, ‘Look at how shaitan has brought idol worshiping into your realm.’ And how significant it is that 90 percent to 99 percent of the population are all following it.
They Follow Them Until They Fall into the Hole of Distraction
We said before there are people with a certain style of recitation that come from South Central Los Angeles. But now they’re being the same recitation in Japan, in Hong Kong, in Indonesia, all of the world. They have never seen these people but they sound like them, they dress like them, they act like them. All of that is from the Hadith of Prophet ﷺ that, ‘You’ll follow people, you’ll follow them. You’ll follow them all the way until they take you within the hole.’
عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ رَضِّيَّ اللهُ عَنْه، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ :” لَتَتْبَعُنَّ سُنَنَ مَنْ كَانَ قَبْلَكُمْ شِبْرًا شِبْرًا وَذِرَاعًا بِذِرَاعٍ، حَتَّى لَوْ دَخَلُوْا جُحْرَ ضَبٍّ تَبِعْتُمُوهُمْ . (صَحِيحُ الْبُخَارِيِّ ٧٣٢٠
‘An Abi Sa’yeed Al Khudri (ra), anin Nabiyi ﷺ qala: “Latat taba’unna sunana man kana qablakum shibran shibran wa zira’an bi ziraa’in, hatta law dakhalu juhra dhabbin tabi’tumu hum.” [Sahih al-Bukhari 7320]
Narrated Abu Sa’yeed Al Khudri (ra): The Prophet (pbuh) said: “You will follow the ways/customs/traditions of those nations who came before you, span by span and cubit by cubit (step by step and inch by inch). So much so that even if they were to enter a hole of a lizard, you would follow them.” [Authentic by al-Bukhari 7320]
So they left their Islamic identity and they began to associate with these idols and begin to worship them. They give their money to them, they give their heart to them, they give their eyes, their eyes and their breath to them. We pray that Allah (AJ) destroy idol worshiping within our hearts, within our lives, within our families and our children and our communities. That He open from His blessings this love and this ishq for Divinely Presence, that only Allah’s (AJ) light can save us.
Gathering for the Love of Prophet ﷺ Saves Us from Difficulties
Means that when we sit for these nights, people are asking, ‘What’s the importance of sitting?’ Because we don’t understand the danger that we have entered into. When awliyaullah (saints) come and inspire within our heart that – you know that you’re in the midst of immense idol worshiping, immense badness, immense ‘azaab (punishment), immense ghadab and anger of Allah (AJ). These nights, what their importance are is just you’re lucky to be sitting on that carpet because if Allah (AJ) begin to dress the soul, He dresses it and washes it from His anger, washes it from any type of difficulty and badness.
These are not things that can be taken away with just our salah (daily prayers) and our zakah (charity). It has to do with the ishq and love that, Ya Rabbi those whom they love Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ they’re gathering for that love. Allah (AJ) promise in Qur’an, ‘I won’t not punish them while you are amongst them and that they’re asking for forgiveness.’
وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَأَنتَ فِيهِمْ ۚ وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ مُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَهُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ ﴿٣٣﴾
8:33 – “Wa maa kaanal laahu liyu’az zibahum wa anta feehim; wa maa kaanal laahu mu’az zibahum wa hum yastaghfiroon” (Surat Al-Anfal)
“And Allah would not punish them and (while) you (Muhammad ﷺ) are amongst them, and Allah (AJ) would not punish them (while) they seek forgiveness.” (The Spoils of War, 8:33)
We Gather for Divine’s Remembrance to Seek Protection
Means every majlis (association) of ours we’re asking for Prophet ﷺ that, ‘Ya Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem Allah (AJ) going to punish us. We’re in the midst of immense difficulty, keep your nazar (gaze) upon us, keep your love upon us, keep your company upon us. For your company is like a shield from the anger of Allah (AJ) and from every difficulty coming.’ With that love and with that ishq that you dress us and bless us. Your majestic light if it looks to us it take every dirtiness away and make it be beatific. So that when Allah (AJ) look at that light, He finds a happiness because He sees whom He loves – He sees ‘Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ’ that light emanating from your heart and from your souls.
The immensity of these nights and gatherings is not entertainment. It’s praying and immense amounts of prayers and worshipness that, ‘Ya Rabbi let us to catch these blessings. Save us from these difficulties, save us from these hardships that are coming. Wherever they are in their homes, on their carpets, on their couches wherever they are dress them from that rahmah, dress them from that blessing. Take away the dirtiness and difficulties in which shaitan has put upon us and made every type of hardship to come upon us.’
All Prophets (as) will Seek Prophet’s ﷺ Intercession on Judgement Day
Only through this love and this intercession, this intercession of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Every prophet received a gift. Khalilullah, Ruhullah. The gift of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is shafa’ah, an intercession. That why is it intercession? Because Nurul Muhammad ﷺ (Light of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) is the only light that can destroy every light and bring it back up to its majestic beauty.
Shafa’at ul Kubra (The Highest Station of Intercession) on the Day of Judgment all nations, all nations will be running to Prophet ﷺ. With all their prophets (as) saying, ‘I’m not the one who can save us. Let us run to Sayyidina Adam (as), from Sayyidina Adam (as) let us run to Sayyidina Nuh (as) to intercede for us. Let us run to Sayyidina Ibrahim (as) and Sayyidina Musa (as) to intercede for us.’ They all gather to Sayyidina Isa (as) and Sayyidina Isa (as) will say, ‘No my people worshiped me like a god, let us run to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ – the grand intercessor for Allah (AJ).’ [hds 1]
[Hadith 7510, Chapter: Monotheism, Sahih Bukhari/Sunan Ibn Majah/Majma uz Zawaa’id]
The Sajdah of Prophet ﷺ in Qiyamah Will Save Us
Prophet ﷺ described, ‘I begin to make a du’a (supplication) that no one has heard. I go into sujood (prostration) and I begin to make du’a and praise upon Allah (AJ). With every praising Allah (AJ) accepts.’ Awliyaullah have seen with their heart that the du’a that Prophet ﷺ is making of lights and immense lights that emanate like waves.[hds 2]
The Du’a of Prophet ﷺ Will Crush All the Badness
We see in movies, the imitation of the movie images a wave that hits every soul and crushes all of its badness and brings it back up to its beatific light. Prophet ﷺ begins again another wave of light through his recitations. ‘Liwal al hamd’ (Flag of Praise), that the significant power and majestic reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is that tongue that reveals Holy Qur’an begins to make a zikr and a munajaat and a du’a to Allah (AJ), as if the du’as of Qur’an coming out, that Allah (AJ) not to refuse it. The lights not something that can be imagined and like waves dressing upon souls taking away every badness, every bad character and returning them to be beatific, angelic realities, above angelic realities.
We pray by these nights that we come and we sit for these event that Allah (AJ) recognize that we’re only gathering for love. Ya Rabbi, that we’re trying our best to be of service and to be dressed by these lights, take away difficulties, take away all our bad character. Save ourselves, our family and our loved ones, save our communities. And keep us in the embrace and the love of 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: 20220228
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