Dajjal’s Ultimatum: Accept Him as God or Be Eliminated – What Will You Do?
From the Realities of Mawlana (Q) as taught by Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi
أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ ٱلْرَّجِيمِ
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
I seek refuge in Allah (AJ) from the accursed Satan
In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, 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, unzur halana wa ishfa’lana, ‘abidona bi madadikum wa nazarekum.
Atiullah wa atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum. Always a reminder for myself, ana abdukal ‘ajeez, wa dayeef, wa miskin, wa zhalim, wa jahl, and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that we’re still in existence.
أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَأُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنكُم… ﴿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)
Islam is the Only Religion That Accepts No Man as God (Holy Qur’an, 2:163)
InshaAllah, from the barakah (blessings) of the holy month of Safar and going to the cave and the realities of Surat Al-Kahf and its dress upon this holy month taking the believers to the heart of mercy. That Allah (AJ) describes for the companions of the cave, that when they took their authorities and the authorities, at that time, decided to make themselves to be ilah (Divine), to instead of be an authority decided that they would claim to be gods as is happening now upon this Earth.
Anyone in their religion calls a man a god, then creates an enormous enormity against God. Allah (AJ) then describes the punishment of such an effect and now the Earth is filled with that. So, out of Abrahamic faiths, they’re all claiming that there’s a man who’s coming to be a god and the only safety is in Islam. The only religion is Islam in which accepts no man is God and that, “Ilahukum ilahun wahid,” that our ilah and our Divinity is only one in Allah (AJ).
وَإِلَٰهُكُمْ إِلَٰهٌ وَاحِدٌ ۖ لَّا إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الرَّحْمَٰنُ الرَّحِيمُ ﴿١٦٣﴾
2:163 – “Wa ilaahukum illaahunw waahid, laaa ilaaha illaa Huwar Rahmaanur Raheem”. (Surat Al Baqarah)
“And your Allah is One Allah: There is no god but He, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.” (The Cow, 2:163)
The Earthly System is Set Up Where a Human Will Be Called God
As a result, Allah (AJ) gives us the command: ‘Run, run to the cave’. If you stay amongst them because Qur’an is for every moment. It’s not a storybook of the past. It’s a book of revelation for now. So, that when we read it, it’s drawing and dressing us in this month to prepare us. That do you have eyes to see and do you see how they’ve set up a system in which a human will be called a god? You see it under ta’weezes. They have an all-seeing eye. Why do they think that they have an eye that can see everything?
Prophet ﷺ described, ‘Your God is not one-eyed’ because Allah (AJ) is not a symbol of a one eye looking at everything. So, they put their ta’weez, they put their symbols so we see it upon this Earth. For hajj, (pilgrimage) “Iqtarabatis Saa’at” is to watch the clock will appear and the clock appeared.
﴾اقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَانشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ ﴿١
54:1 – “Iqtarabatis Saa’atu wan shaqqal qamar” (Surat Al-Qamar)
“The Hour (of Judgment) is near, and the moon has split [in two].” (The Moon, 54:1)
Run to the Cave of Safety Where Allah (AJ) Will Settle Our Affairs (Holy Qur’an, 18:16)
So, we see the signs that Allah (AJ) giving to everyone that these days’ events are coming. As a result, be like Ashab ul Kahf (Companions of the Cave) in which they run from the oppression to a cave of rahmah (mercy). Our life is to find a cave in which Allah (AJ) describes, ‘It’s a cave of mercy’.
So, in our book, when we write: my life, at this point right now, apart from my spiritual practices, my physical life is to run towards a cave of safety. In that cave, Allah (AJ) because we should be reading Surat Al-Kahf and describes for us, ‘We will dress you with a mercy and settle your affairs’.
﴾وَإِذِ اعْتَزَلْتُمُوهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا اللَّـهَ فَأْوُوا إِلَى الْكَهْفِ يَنشُرْ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّن رَّحْمَتِهِ وَيُهَيِّئْ لَكُم مِّنْ أَمْرِكُم مِّرْفَقًا ﴿١٦
18:16 – “Wa idhi’ tazaltumo hum wa ma ya’budoona illAllaha fawoo ilal kahfi yanshur lakum rabbukum mir rahmatihi wa yuhayyi lakum min amrikum mirfaqa.” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“When ye turn away from them and the things they worship other than Allah, betake yourselves to the Cave: Your Lord will shower His mercies on you and disposes of your affair towards comfort and ease.” (The Cave, 18:16)
Be With Those Already in Allah’s (AJ) Mercy
This is immense. In a busy world, people are saying, ‘Shaykh, I don’t,’ in emails, ‘I don’t have time for all these things’. It means they’re trying to handle their affairs and then to understand their religion. Allah’s (AJ) promise at the beginning of Surat Al-Kahf to the Ashab ul Kahf was that, ‘Come to the cave of mercy and that we’ll settle your affairs’. That’s why this whole system comes to teach them: what is Allah’s (AJ) mercy because that was the secret of A’uzu Billahi Minash shaitanir Rajeem.
Before people can talk of all the knowledges they know from “Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem” on, first we have to understand the first gate. If we didn’t get through the gate, we’re not even in the room. So, the first gate is – A’uzu Billahi Minash shaitanir Rajeem. How am I going to seek refuge in Allah (AJ) from their accursed devil? It’s that I have to be with those whom are already in Allah’s (AJ) mercy. From “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)
The Cave of Mercy Represents the Heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
That to obey Allah (AJ), obey the messenger and obey those in authority. That becomes the safety that Allah (AJ) is describing for this cave. So, that I have to keep their company. We described before the cave is symbolic of a heart. The cave of rahmah (mercy) in which Allah (AJ) wants us to run to is the cave of the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ in which the believers run in that direction. Our life is how to enter that cave.
So, we want to be from Ashab ul Kahf. We want to accompany the Ashab ul Kahf. So, then they recapped and describe, ‘Well, we don’t have to think: oh, we’re all high stations.’ Many people are humble enough to recognize: no, they’re actually very bad. They do a lot of bad things.
Seal Your Ears Like Ashabul Kahf and Don’t Lend Your Hearing to Everything
So, we say, ‘Okay, we want to be at least like the dog of Ashab ul Kahf because thinking right away that we are capable of being the companions of the cave in which Allah (AJ) describes that He sealed their ears means their ears are only for Allah (AJ). How can somebody have sealed ears when they listen to everything? They listen to everyone? As a result, Allah (AJ) gives isharat (sign) and guidance that these companions of the cave, they had a certain gift Allah (AJ) gave to them that, ‘We sealed their ears and put them into their seclusion, into their muraqabah (spiritual connection), and tafakkur (contemplation)’.
﴾فَضَرَبْنَا عَلَىٰ آذَانِهِمْ فِي الْكَهْفِ سِنِينَ عَدَدًا ﴿١١
18:11 – “Fadarabnaa ‘alaa aazanihim fil Kahfi seneena ‘adadaa” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“Then We draw (a veil) over their ears, for a number of years, in the Cave, (so that they heard not)” (The Cave, 18:11)
So, the importance of ears to enter a state of serenity because now everybody’s ears are for everything, for every horrible music they hear, for every sound and guidance they hear. You watch social media, you become nervous after half an hour because all of them are telling you doom and gloom but, ‘Run off this cliff. Run off that cliff. Run into a car. Take these shots,’ every kind of craziness. Why? Because they’re all vying for the ear.
Dangerous Times are Coming Through an Extreme Authority
But Allah (AJ) gives to us: oh, if you want to be like Ashab ul Kahf and you see that men are coming out that are going to call themselves ilah, run because when they come out, such a person and such characteristics that are coming – when they think they’re going to be ilah, they’re going to kill everyone that doesn’t accept their ilahiyat (divinity). Right? Because you have to show complete authority, complete dominion over the Earth.
Otherwise, how can a person come say they’re god, but only half the people believe in front of them? That’s why the danger is they come to show an extreme authority. So, then Allah (AJ) gives to us: then move in that understanding. Be like the dog. Be humble. That, ‘Ya Rabbi, I have many sins’. So, the dog gives me an opportunity to be loyal, be consistent; characteristic of a dog is very loyal to the owner. That they threw stones at the dog to test is this dog going to eat them when they start their seclusion and the same in tariqah (spiritual path).
Be Like the Loyal Dog Who Hears and Obeys
Why Allah (AJ) tests the students? To see if they’re going to be loyal to the shaykh because if it become agitated and aggravated and they become violent, aggressive and difficult, that’s not somebody you want in your cave and Allah (AJ) sends them away. As a result of sending them away, they start to backbite and talk and say very bad things. That’s exactly the reason that dog was kicked out. So, it means then the characteristic that Allah (AJ) is looking for is then to be soft, be humble.
Know that our life is going to be tested and then look to Ashab ul Kahf to understand their characteristics. That the only way that they can establish the serenity and the peace that they need to go into their tafakkur was what? Allah (AJ) gave was the key, ‘We sealed their ears’. That’s why the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is a nation that should be “Sam’ina wa ata’na,” from ata – to obey.
﴾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)
We Cannot Submit Directly to Allah (AJ) Without Ulul Amr
But now if you say ‘ata’ to people, say, ‘We don’t obey anybody but Allah (AJ)’. That’s convenient considering they say there’s two types of people. One in which talk to Allah (AJ) is healthy, the other in which Allah (AJ) talks to them – they’re insane. So, no training and they’re all posting that God talks to them. They are clearly insane. It means then the secret of ata and obedience that they say is only for Allah (AJ) which we say is a lie. It’s from “Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum” because this lays, the tariqah lays – Naqshbandiya tul ‘Aliya (The Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Order). We don’t know about other tariqahs if they know these knowledges.
﴾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)
But this tariqah, this way, this from this heart of these guides are teaching that we are a people whom “Sam’ina wa ata’na”. My life is to submit my ears. Don’t shoot so high that you only submit to Allah (AJ). This is hypocrisy and this is the devil’s words. That my life is to find “Ulil amre minkum”. That’s why when you read then now Surat Al-Kahf the beginning verses, you’ll understand the word ‘Rab’. They play with the translation and how they…it’s convenient.
One Who Will Call Himself God Will Demand You Accept or Die
So, we clearly identified the translation is ‘authority’ and they were to seek the authority of the heavens and the Earth. Our life is to seek the authority of the heavens and the Earth because Allah (AJ) makes it clear. Those whom are authorized from the heavens, they have clear dominion over the authority of Earth. If their hand already reaches into the heavens, then no doubt they reach onto the Earth. The Earth is the dirty part. The heavens is the heart to get your hand into and that’s why the word ‘Rab’ is more clearly understood when we say the ‘authority’.
So, they were to run to the authorities of the heavens and Earth. Leave the authority that they had that all of a sudden decide he is going to be ilah because now that authority became corrupted. So, then we leave the corruption of the Earth. When they start to follow somebody who’s going to call themself god, anything they say and do is going to be to your submit or to your death. Because we said if their godly person, astaghfirullah (I seek forgiveness from Allah (AJ)), comes out, he’s not accepting that you don’t accept. So, it’s either accept or die.
Rabbaniyoon Learned the Book and Taught the Book That is Prophet ﷺ
So, then Allah (AJ) gives to the believers, ‘Run to the cave,’ understand the authority. Our life is to reach to Ulul Amr (people of the command). As a result of being with the men of authority, it means they are Rabbaniyoon (lordly souls). They learned the book, they taught the book because they even tell you the book is Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
﴾وَلَـٰكِن كُونُوا رَبَّانِيِّينَ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تُعَلِّمُونَ الْكِتَابَ وَبِمَا كُنتُمْ تَدْرُسُونَ ﴿٧٩…
3:79 – “…wa lakin kono rabbaniyena bima kuntum tu`allimoonal kitaba wabima kuntum tadrusoon.” (Surat Ali-Imran)
“…Be Lordly Souls/faithful servants/worshippers of Him, Because (of what) you have taught the Book and you have studied it earnestly.” (Family of Imran, 3:79)
Kitabullah (book of Allah (AJ)) is Prophet ﷺ, the walking Holy Qur’an. If you want to know Qur’an, you have to know Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and you have to love Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. If you don’t love Prophet ﷺ and you don’t know Prophet ﷺ, you have nothing to do with the Qur’an. The two are inseparable. That’s its secret.
Control Yourself at All Times in Your Testing
So, then Allah (AJ) gives to us that, ‘Be with these Ulul Amr’. As a result of being with them, this is now the characteristics of Ashab ul Kahf. That our life was to seal our ears. We passed the dog stage. We came through the door of humility and said, ‘We’ll be like a dog. We’re going to come. We’re going to be loyal’. At all times, we’re going to be tested. Control anger, control bad actions, control your words. You don’t like something, don’t say anything. Even in food, if you don’t like food, you don’t have permission to start attacking the food. You’re to remain silent.
Then imagine in the adab (manners) of accompanying the guides. You don’t like something, remain silent. When they passed dog stage, they start to look to Ashab ul Kahf. Allah (AJ) gives the key – their ears are sealed. Means what? They hear what Allah (AJ) wants. “Sam’ina wa ata’na” because these are Muhammadan haqqaiqs (realities). The Ashab ul Kahf is a reality and the seven wazirs (representatives) of Sayyidina Mahdi (as) are its reality. They were merely a reflection.
The seven sleepers and the one authorized guard is Sayyidina Mahdi (as) with seven wazirs and these are the original Muhammadiyoon reality. Shahamatul Fardani, Abdur Ra’uf al-Yamani, Yusuf aṣ-Ṣiddiq, Lisanul Mutakallimin, ‘Arifuṭ Ṭayyar al-Maʿruf bi Mulḥan, Burhanul Kurama Ghawth al-Anam, Ṣaḥeb al waqt Sayyidina Muhammad al Mahdi (as). Shahamatul Fardani, Abdur Ra’uf al-Yamani, Yusuf aṣ-Ṣiddiq, Imamul ‘Arifeen, Lisanul Mutakallimin, ‘Arifuṭ Ṭayyar al-Maʿruf bi Mulḥan, Burhanul Kurama Ghawth al-Anam, Sayyidina Muhammad al Mahdi (as).
Every Prophet was a Placeholder for the Reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
So, it means these are the seven real have eternally been in this position and Sayyidina Mahdi (as) is the lion of Allah (AJ) that guards. They guard the cave of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. These are the positions of their sainthood. At any moment, there’s on Earth one representing these positions. It means our life is to enter into that cave to be dressed by their reality and blessed by their reality because everything from below Prophet ﷺ was a placeholder. The real is from the Muhammadan reality.
Every prophet was a placeholder for a position in the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So, it’s true form, it’s true reality is the Muhammadan reality. There are 12 Ahlul Bayt (Holy Family of Prophet ﷺ) and that’s why there are 12 tribes. The 12 tribes of Bani Israel (childrent of Israel), they inherit from these 12 streams because the real is the Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ.
Gain Access to the Heart of Prophet ﷺ to Attain Mercy
So, in malakut (heavenly realm), this is the real fountain. Everything Muhammadiyoon is the real fountain. As it flows to dunya (material world), it becomes an imitated understanding upon this Earth because the risalat (prophecy) is one. There’s only but Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ if that is understood. So, it means our life is to gain access into the heart of Prophet ﷺ, to attain this mercy in which we have good character. We take the example that Prophet ﷺ brought for us – is to condition ourselves to hear and to obey in a life that is fighting for the hearing of people.
If you give somebody advice, you see they don’t listen. If you give somebody isharat (sign), you see they don’t listen. If you tell people, ‘Take this, take that,’ you see they don’t listen. So, it means then the ears are lost and this is 99.999% of people. Their ears have been lost. As a result, it becomes impossible to reach towards these realities and this is why the great struggle and the great difficulty. Everything that shaitan is doing is purposeful. It’s not random.
True Guidance Comes Through Connecting Your Heart to Your Guide, Not Social Media
So, TikTok and social medias are their algorithm is purposeful for shaitan to create panic, to create anxiety, to create a confusion in the guidance system of mankind because they can’t understand who they’re supposed to be listening to and what information is correct. That’s why then the true guidance not coming from that. The true guidance is going to be coming from connecting your heart. That those are entertainment. True guidance is when we connect our heart and we listen to the guides of that reality so that we begin to live a life in which I clean my ears and seal off my ears.
That I watch it for an entertainment purpose, social media, but it’s not my guidance. My guidance is in my connection to “Atiullah, atiur Rasul” (Holy Qur’an, 4:59) because how am I going to follow what Allah (AJ) wants for me when I don’t even know myself? How am I going to understand what Prophet ﷺ [wants] for me when I don’t know myself? So, then I accompany the Ulul Amr because I can hear them, I can see them and I can email them. Can you call them? No way! They’re not taking phone calls. These are ridiculous emails that, ‘We want to call and…’ What, there’s thousands of calls coming in this like everything is free for people and they have nothing to do but take a thousand phone calls. They need help just to answer emails.
Build Your Relationship With Ulul Amr By Following Their Teachings and Creating a Connection
But the email is the link towards their presence, not anyone else, not making contact with other people. It’s email [email protected]. For whatever guide you’re following, you have to have a communication. As a result when we follow the guidance, follow the prescriptions, make contact, build the relationship. As a result, we can enter into the reality of these Ulul Amr by following their teachings, by following their guidance and learning the process of loyalty.
As we learn the process of loyalty, then the guidance and testing for the ears begins. That my ears for guidance is only to that teaching and building the connection, building the tafakkur, the meditation, the contemplation so that my heart connection can take place and that my heart locks onto that connection. As a result, the subtlety of my heart picks up all of the energies that are coming. All the subtlety of my heart that comes becomes like a violin that the shaykh can play the strings because the heart becomes so subtle and the connection’s so strong that they’re hearing and feeling the vibrations, the guidance and isharat and what to do, what not to do and how to do.
Discipline Your Ears to Prevent Shaitan From Whispering
All of these realities, they come from the heart of insan (mankind) if they discipline their ears. If there’s no discipline for the ears, then what happens? Becomes shaitan takes the ear of that person as a microphone. That’s why we don’t listen to comments. It’s not encouraged to listen to anyone’s complaints. Why? Because then it’s like shaitan taking your ear, say, ‘Let me…oh, he opened up his ears now. Let me, let me start now complaining about everything.’
Since 99% of people are doing corrupt things, imagine then 99.9% of people trying to take your ear and fill it with garbage and garbage information, non-verified information, ghibah – backbiting, slandering. But the way was what? “Sam’ina wa ata’na” – ‘We heard and we obeyed,’ the heavens, what Allah (AJ) wanted for us, what Prophet ﷺ wanted for us which comes through the Ulul Amr.
Ashab ul Kahf Were in Deep Submission So the Sun Moved Them Left and Right (Holy Qur’an, 18:17)
What they say, what they teach – that’s it, that’s my guidance. Not the guy I think to the left, he’s pious; not the guy to the right I think he’s pious. It means now you’re giving your ear to everyone and again, that becomes corrupt and fasiq. So, it means Ashab ul Kahf and the way of Ashab ul Kahf is a very deep reality. That these were people whom when they submit, the sun moves them left and right.
﴾وَتَرَى الشَّمْسَ إِذَا طَلَعَت تَّزَاوَرُ عَن كَهْفِهِمْ ذَاتَ الْيَمِينِ وَإِذَا غَرَبَت تَّقْرِضُهُمْ ذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ وَهُمْ فِي فَجْوَةٍ مِّنْهُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ آيَاتِ اللَّـهِ ۗ مَن يَهْدِ اللَّـهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِ ۖ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُ وَلِيًّا مُّرْشِدًا ﴿١٧
18:17 – “Wa tarash shamsa idha tala’at tazawaru an kahfihim dhata al yameeni wa idha gharabat taqriduhum dhataash shimali wa hum fee faj watin minhu, Dhalika min ayati Allahi, man yahdillahu fahuwal Muhtadi, wa man yudlil falan tajida lahu waliyyan murshida.” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“And You would have seen the sun, when it rose, declining to the right from their Cave, and when it set, turning away from them to the left, while they lay in the open space in the midst of the Cave. That was from the Signs of Allah: He whom Allah, guides is rightly guided; but he whom Allah leaves to stray, for him you will never find Saintly Guide to the Right Way.” (The Cave, 18:17)
Prophet ﷺ is a Fiery Sun Followed By the Moon
Each year, we say that but one day somebody will understand and say, ‘I understand what you’re talking about’ because this way is called Shamsul ‘Arifeen (sun of knowers). Prophet ﷺ is a fire. “Shamsi wa duha”. The shams (sun), this is Prophet’s ﷺ description by Allah (AJ). That Prophet ﷺ is “Shamsi wa duha”. What’s the next? “Layli wal nahaar… nahaari wal layl”.
﴾وَالشَّمْسِ وَضُحَاهَا ﴿١﴾ وَالْقَمَرِ إِذَا تَلَاهَا ﴿٢﴾ وَالنَّهَارِ إِذَا جَلَّاهَا ﴿٣﴾ وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا يَغْشَاهَا ﴿٤
91:1-4 – “Wash Shamsi wa duhaha. (1) Wal Qamari idha talaha. (2) Wan nahari idha jallaha. (3) Wal layli idha yaghshaha. (4)” (Surat Ash-Shams)
“By the Sun and his (glorious) Brightness. (1) By the Moon as she follows him. (2) By the Day as it shows up (the Sun’s) glory. (3) By the Night as it conceals it. (4)” (The Sun, 91:1-4)
Prophet ﷺ is the Divinely Fire Powered By Allah (AJ) That Nourishes Everything Like the Sun Does for the Earth
Nahaar, they say is day. Nahaar, actually, it doesn’t mean day. It means fire. It means Prophet ﷺ is the Divinely fire and with all its splendour because Allah (AJ), la sharik (no partner). Say, ‘No, no, I thought the fire is Allah (AJ)’. But Allah (AJ) has no partnership, no image, no shekl. You can’t make an association and say, ‘Oh, Allah (AJ) is like this. Allah (AJ) is like that’. No, at these higher levels, this is no, no longer kindergarten. This is the way of ma’rifah (gnosticism). Allah (AJ), you have no way to understand so don’t even go there with your mind.
What Allah (AJ) wants us is try to understand Prophet ﷺ because he’s from creation. You are from creation. So, it means the sun is the symbol of light and it gives out a light because it has a fire. Allah (AJ) is the power of that fire and everything is in need of sunshine, sunlight and the energy emanating from the sun so that we are in need of Prophet’s ﷺ energy, in need of the spiritual nazar (gaze), the physical nazar. Everyone needs sunshine.
We Will Die Without Sunlight, Much Like the Need for Prophet’s ﷺ Nazar
This is a physical understanding of nazar, right? Because we understand, we’re not ignorant people so we say the nazar of Prophet ﷺ. Allah (AJ) made all creation to need the nazar of Prophet ﷺ. Because if you go into a cave and you live there for a year, two years with no sunlight, you’re going to die. You come out pale and white because your body takes in no nutrition. Your organs begin to fail, everything fail without access to sunlight.
That’s an example for nazar that we’re in need of the gaze of that reality because the sun is only the symbol of the light. If Allah (AJ), on this physical Earth, making the sun a physical matter to nourish and energize all of the creation upon this Earth, imagine the reality of Prophet ﷺ which is much more glorious than that sun. That everything grows by his beatific lights. Everything is nourished by his beatific lights ﷺ. Everything is rejuvenated and energized by the beautiful lights of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. “Shamsi wa duha” – by the sun and all its splendour. (Holy Qur’an, 91:1)
Ulul Amr Train You and Ripen You to Enter the Cave
This is for the entire created universe, just try to begin to understand the Earth. This becomes the immense importance of this reality. That their lives of turning left and right by the movement of the sun is a symbol that their life and their movement is by the direction of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So, it means they understood “Wa Ulil amre minkum” and the Ulul Amr trained them, raised them to become rushd. So, this word ‘rushd’ means to be ripened because rushd is in reference to the sun. That they received enough light and guidance from the sun, they are rushd. They are ripened and this is what they wanted to achieve when they entered the cave.
We want to achieve the mercy and that mercy set their affairs to be straight. (Holy Qur’an, 18:16) As a result, their ears were sealed (Holy Qur’an, 18:11) that they heard nothing from dunya (material world) anymore. They entered into their state of annihilation and fana in which their movement not by any human. They turn left, then they turn right by the power of the sun. Allah’s (AJ) described, ‘This was ‘ajeeb (strange), this was immense’.
Whom Allah (AJ) Guides is Rightly Guided; Whom He Leaves to Stray Will Never Find a Saintly Guide (Holy Qur’an, 18:17)
But this on a spiritual reality is then immensely important. That the guides, they follow the Ulul Amr. They continue to follow the Ulul Amr. As a result, they are in the oceans of Atiur Rasul ﷺ and that Prophet ﷺ moves their heart left and right. Prophet ﷺ moves their tongue left and right and moves every qadam (footstep) and movement left and right. It means every movement in the way is by the ‘izzat (honour) and might of Prophet ﷺ.
From Allah (AJ), “Atiullah” because who’s listening to Allah (AJ) in perfection? Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Every order that comes, every amr wal irada – every command and every will of Allah (AJ) emanates from the holy heart of YaSeen ﷺ. As a result, the command from Prophet ﷺ comes out and the Ulul Amr are moving left and right. If they reach to the hand of these Ulul Amr that represent Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, this is what Allah (AJ) describes, ‘You are now rightly guided. Whom are rightly guided are guided. Whom Allah (AJ) did not guide, there is no guidance for them and no waliyun murshidun (authorized spiritual guide)’. This is in Surat Al Kahf at the beginning.
﴾مَن يَهْدِ اللَّـهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِ ۖ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُ وَلِيًّا مُّرْشِدًا…﴿١٧
18:17 – ” …man yahdillahu fahuwal Muhtadi, wa man yudlil falan tajida lahu waliyyan murshida. (Surat al Kahf)
“… He whom Allah, guides is rightly guided; but he whom Allah leaves to stray,- for him you will never find Saintly Guide to the Right Way.” (The Cave, 18:17)
Read Surah Al-Kahf to Understand the Immense Realities of Safar
So, it means if Allah (AJ) didn’t direct you to the hand of this Ulul Amr, then Allah (AJ) describes in Surat Al Kahf, ‘Those whom Allah (AJ) did not guide, there is no guidance and there’s no waliyun murshidun assigned to them’. A wali (saint) means from awliyaullah (saints) and murshid means whom are authorized to guide. If they pretend to be murshid and they are not from wilayat (sainthood), is not from the guidance of Allah (AJ).
If they are awliya (saints), but they’re not authorized to be murshid then that’s something different. You can meet somebody who is of a status of awliya but they talk, it’s all over the place. You’ll be confused. That’s not a guide. They say things that don’t make sense left and right. So, this specific category is related to Ashab ul Kahf and the way into the heart of Prophet ﷺ to meet the Ulul Amr. That they are from waliyun murshidun. Their teaching is how to get towards the oceans of guidance, how to enter into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and this is just at the beginning of Surat Al-Kahf in the first 12 or 13 verses or 14 verses, inshaAllah. That please read Surat Al-Kahf to understand the immensity of the dress of this holy month and the realities and the immensity of the realities of guidance into the oceans of reality, inshaAllah.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi rabbil ‘aalameen. Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa ﷺ wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
Special thanks to our transcribers for their help with transcribing this suhbah.
Original Date of Suhbah: August 24, 2023
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