Divine Sounds of Hu and Salawats in Ancient Cities of ‘Aad and Thamud
From the Realities of Mawlana (Q) as taught by Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi
أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
I seek refuge in Allah 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)
Reality of Sayyidina Salih (as) and the Power of Salawats
Sayyidina Salih (as) Warned the Mountain‑Carving Giants of Thamud
Alhamdulillah, we went over the examples of Surat al-Qamar and the immensity of the month of qamar, the month of the moon, the full moon and its representation for guidance. Then Allah (AJ) gives us the treasures throughout the surah (chapter) and some information regarding the people of Thamud and the people of ‘Aad. That the people of Thamud, immense giants carving homes and hobbies into mountains; huge, huge mountains, not something small. Their size massive, their strength massive and Allah (AJ) sends to them a warner named Salih (as).
The way of ma’rifah (gnosticism) is to go within the heart and from the heart of awliya (saints) to the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. All prophecies exist within the prophecy of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Like an agency, that the representation of Allah (AJ) is Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. All the prophets (as) represent Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
People Harmed the Naqatullah Despite Warnings Not To
For Sayyidina Salih (as) to come and to warn his immense creation, immense strength and sends for them Naqatullah (she-camel of God), a camel and asks from the people that, ‘This camel came out of a mountain’; same mountains that they love and they were carving.
Like it carved for them a camel and Allah (AJ) brought the camel to life. That camel came amongst them and Sayyidina Salih (as) warned them, ‘This is a sign from our Creator. That don’t harm this camel and allow it access to drink.’ Because the camel was so immense in size, when it was drinking, it was finishing the well of its thirst. They were becoming angered and as a result, ultimately they harmed the camel. They slaughtered the camel.
﴾وَإِلَىٰ ثَمُودَ أَخَاهُمْ صَالِحًا ۗ قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّـهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَـٰهٍ غَيْرُهُ ۖ قَدْ جَاءَتْكُم بَيِّنَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ ۖ هَـٰذِهِ نَاقَةُ اللَّـهِ لَكُمْ آيَةً ۖ فَذَرُوهَا تَأْكُلْ فِي أَرْضِ اللَّـهِ ۖ وَلَا تَمَسُّوهَا بِسُوءٍ فَيَأْخُذَكُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ ﴿٧٣
7:73 – “Wa ila thamooda akhahum Salihan. Qala: ya qawmi ‘abudo Allaha malakum min ilahin ghayruhu. Qad ja atkum bayyinatunn mir Rabbikum, Hadhihi Naqatullahi lakum ayatan. Fadharoha takul fee ardi Allahi, wa la tamassoha biso in, faya khudhakum ‘adhabun aleem.” (Surat Al A’raf)
“And to the Thamud [We sent] their own brother Salih. He said, “O my people, worship Allah; you have no deity other than Him. There has come to you clear evidence from your Lord. This is the she-camel of Allah is a sign for you. So leave her to eat within Allah’s earth/land, and do not touch her with harm, or you shall be seized with a painful punishment.” (The Heights, 7:73)
Our Soul Thirsts for Divine Knowledge
In this understanding of immense realities is Naqatullah. The camel represents a reality of our soul. Allah (AJ) gave to us a creature. This creature doesn’t require much and can go long distances which is the reality of the soul. It exists. If you don’t feed it, it will go for an immense journey. But what Allah (AJ) asked of Sayyidina Salih’s (as) people, ‘Allow the access to the water.’ (Holy Qur’an, 7:73)
It means allow the camel to quench its thirst because this is a sign from Allah (AJ). Mawlana Shaykh (Q) comes and describes that that’s the reality of our soul. It’s that the water of our soul, the thirst of our soul are Allah’s (AJ) Divinely knowledges. Knowledges of dunya (material world) has no benefit for the soul. It takes nothing from it. These are the benefits for your physicality. You learn accounting, law, whatever these things we learn on this Earth for the benefit of providing for your rizq (sustenance), for whatever reason people are learning.
Don’t Deny Your Soul Access to Divinely Knowledges
It’s not the knowledge of the soul. Our responsibility – because every Prophet (as) has an eternal message for us – our responsibility for the immense secret Allah (AJ) gave, the miracle Allah (AJ) gave of our soul. That don’t deny this soul access to Divinely knowledges, the fountains of realities, the fountains of the Divine. As a result, if it has access to these fountains, you nourish and empower the soul.
The good deeds and selfless deeds, they give water and sustenance to the soul. Imam Ali (as) said, ‘When you feed yourself, when you eat, you feed yourself. When you feed others, you feed your soul’. It means our life is not only taking care of our physicality and that the physicality is comfortable and everything that the physicality wants.
“The nourishment of the body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others” – Imam Ali (as)
Unveil Your Spiritual Names By Feeding Your Soul
But we have a responsibility that qamar is reminding us in this month of guidance that we have a responsibility to our soul. That our soul has to be quenched from Divine realities and selfless deeds that nourish; meditation and tafakkur and contemplation that nourish and feed and give an energy to the soul. So, not only this camel can move, but can be empowered. Then we described last night that Salih (as), from the saad, the laam, alif, the ha at the end. But the main is the saad and laam and alif. That the element that Allah (AJ) puts, we said every name has a secret and every secret has a name because it’s an element. It’s an ingredient. Allah (AJ) didn’t reactive, it’s proactive. Allah (AJ) didn’t name him when he came onto the Earth, ‘alayhis salaam. It’s sent with this name.
His name, his jism (body) is his reality. It carries what he will be capable of in dunya (material world). That’s why the seeker seeks their own name, not only the name my mom and dad gave me hoping maybe they were inspired. If not inspired, then that has no power. But what are the seven names Allah (AJ) named me? From the highest into the Divinely Presence through the seven paradises and upon this Earth, Allah (AJ) wrote for us names. Those names have our realities and our secrets of who we are and who are we to be. If we can achieve that in this dunya (material world), we open the floodgates of our reality. As we ascend into the realities of the heaven and the spiritual ascension, it’s like an atom with seven rings. We exist on the outermost ring; the electromagnetic field, the least important ring.
Ascend to Your Nucleus From Your Seven Rings
What Allah (AJ) wants for our life? Make an ascension. This is not it. Your outer electron is not who you are. You have to reach to your nucleus. That what are you in this Divinely Presence? So, with this dot and seven rings, what happens when you start to ascend? You penetrate one ring. It means now the knowledges that were illuminating in that paradise, once you break through that ring, now floods to you – up, up, up, all the way up into the nucleus. What happens? Each of those rings now feed all the way down to your reality. It’s like you’re opening, I don’t know – from farming, it’s like a well of water. As soon as you open the path, it starts to flood towards you so that these seven realities are dressing the servant that his electromagnetic reality and his earthly reality is being dressed by all his spiritual realities. This was the purpose of our ascension.
When Allah (AJ) gives to the nation of Bani Israel (children of Israel), even before Sayyidina Salih (as) was from the Arabic prophets (as), not even from Bani Israel. The ‘Aad and Thamud were not in the Torah. It’s from the Arabic tribes and the Arabic prophets of that region. What Allah (AJ) gave for that prophet to destroy all of the creations they were making of rocks and gave them and his reality, like we described last night, a saad.
Saad is the Reality of Salawats, Granted to Siddiqs
It means that saad, we asked before, is that meditate. The siddiqs (truthful), why Allah (AJ) granted them to be called siddiq and granted them saad? As a result of that saad and the reality of the siddiqs, the servants whom are truthful in their deeds and actions. It’s not self-righteousness. We call ourselves something. But what Allah (AJ) wants is the praise of servants whom they are truthful in their deeds and in their actions. Their truthfulness is to love. As a result, Allah (AJ) granted this servant a saad.
This saad is the reality of salawat (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ). “Wa salli ‘ala nabi”. Why Allah (AJ) is asking us “salli ala”? Why to make salawat? Why to praise and pray? Because the reality of that saad, its power is from salawat. So, it means the haqqaiq (reality) is Allah (AJ) opened for Sayyidina Salih (as) the ability to do durood sharif (praising on Prophet Muhammad ﷺ). As soon as he began to make his durood sharif and salawat upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, what happens? In the realm of their ignorance, the truth of Allah’s (AJ) appearance begins to appear. Because Prophet ﷺ described, ‘If you remember me, Allah (AJ) sends my soul to praise upon you.’
عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكَ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ، قَالَ: قَال رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ:” مَنْ صَلَّى عَلَيَّ صَلَاةً وَاحِدَةً، صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ عَشْرَ صَلَوَاتٍ، وَحُطَّتْ عَنْهُ عَشْرُ خَطِيئَاتٍ، وَرُفِعَتْ لَهُ عَشْرُ دَرَجَاتٍ
Qala Rasulullah ﷺ : “Man Salla `alaiya Salatan wahidatan, Sallallahu `alayhi `ashra Salawatin, wa Huttat `anhu `ashru khaTeatin, wa ruf`at lahu `ashru darajatin.”
Anas ibn Malik narrated that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: “Whoever sends blessings [Praises] upon me, God will shower His blessings upon him ten times, and will erase ten of his sins, and elevate [raise] his [spiritual] station ten times.” [Hadith recorded by Nasa’i]
When Truth Comes, Falsehood Perishes (Holy Qur’an, 17:81)
With the appearance of the lights and the energies of Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ, what happens? Their entire mountain is brought to dust. When Allah (AJ) says, “Qul jaa alhaqq”. ‘Say, when the truth comes, falsehood will perish.’ Falsehood, zahoqan. It will crumble.
﴾وَ قُلْ جَآءَ الْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ الْبَطِلُ، إِنَّ الْبَطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا ﴿٨١
17:81 – “Wa qul jaa alhaqqu wa zahaqal baatil, innal batila kana zahoqa.” (Surat Al-Isra)
“And say, Truth has come, and falsehood has perished. Indeed falsehood, [by its nature], is ever perishing/bound to perish.” (The Night Journey, 17:81)
It means the falsehood of their belief had no way of surviving the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ by the durood sharif (praising on Prophet Muhammad ﷺ). What was a gift to other nations for their fight against oppression, Allah (AJ) made us from that reality. Being from Ummat e Muhammad ﷺ, Sayyidina Muhammad’s ﷺ nation. It is the gift that given to us and when we realize that power and that ability, it means that every durood, every salawat that we are making and energizing, destroys every mountain and every ignorance within ourselves. That’s what we were trying to go towards, the reality of that understanding. That when we’re waiting for Sayyidina Mahdi (as), it’s not an external event. It’s an internal event.
Recite Salawats to Soften Your Heart and Remove Ignorance
It’s an event that has to take place within ourselves. These examples of these realities of the prophets of Allah (AJ) are giving to us that as he destroyed an outside mountain and the hardness of the hearts and everything that a rock and a mountain symbolizes, destroyed it by the reality of the saad within his name. Allah (AJ) says, ‘I gave that to you because you’re from the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.’ Your mandate to say Prophet’s ﷺ name in your azaan (call to prayer), in your salah (daily prayer). Every part of our life is mentioning upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. When the ‘ashiqeen (lovers) begin to understand and know the durood sharif is the immense powers from Allah (AJ). As soon as they take a life in which to make the salawat, the praisings upon that reality, every ignorance, every hardness, every horribleness within the heart will be brought down and destroyed.
Without the salawat, there’s no way to take away the hardness of the heart. Once we say something, now think about the lack of it. So, the ones whom training to bring Sayyidina Mahdi (as) within their heart, they’re giving to us that you want to bring down a mountain outside, first bring the mountain inside. Take the rock out of your heart. Take the hardness out of your heart. Take every calcification within you that makes you to be hard and stubborn and ignorant. Destroy it with salawat an–Nabi ﷺ.
Prophet ﷺ Draws Near Through Your Sincere Love and Salawats
As your purity grows, your sincerity grows. Your salawats become much more powerful. Its power is by the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. He begins to accompany the servant. You’ll be with whom you love and whom you love will be with you. As a result, they begin to activate these realities.
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]
A servant whom does not make their durood sharif (praising on Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) and does not make salawat, how can they destroy the hardness of the heart? How can they destroy the mountain of ignorance that resides within someone? Nabi Musa (as) said, ‘I want to see you.’ ‘How you can see Me?’ Say, ‘You look to the mountain and it would be dust.’
﴾وَلَمَّا جَاءَ مُوسَىٰ لِمِيقَاتِنَا وَكَلَّمَهُ رَبُّهُ قَالَ رَبِّ أَرِنِي أَنظُرْ إِلَيْكَ ۚ قَالَ لَن تَرَانِي … ﴿١٤٣
7:143 – “Wa lamma jaa Musa limeeqatina wa kallamahu Rabbuhu, qala rabbi arinee anzhur ilayka, Qala lan taranee …” (Surat Al-A’raf)
“And when Moses arrived at Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to him, he said, “My Lord, show me [Yourself] that I may look at You.” [Allah] said, “you will not see Me,…” (The Heights. 7:143)
Allah (AJ) says, ‘If We reveal the Qur’an upon the mountain, it will be dust.’ But it’s revealed to the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
﴾لَوْ أَنزَلْنَا هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنَ عَلَىٰ جَبَلٍ لَّرَأَيْتَهُ خَاشِعًا مُّتَصَدِّعًا مِّنْ خَشْيَةِ اللَّهِ …﴿٢١
59:21 – “Law anzalna hadha alQurana ‘ala jabalin laraaytahu, khashi’an mutasaddi’an min khashyatillahi…” (Surat Al-Hashr)
“Had We sent down this Qur’an on a mountain, verily, you would have seen it obliterated to dust (from its power)…” (The Exile, 59:21)
The “Saad” Reality Brings Down Our Inner Mountains of Ignorance
It means this durood sharif that brings the presence of Prophet ﷺ. Allah’s (AJ) saying what? When the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ comes into our ruhaniyat (spirituality) and into our presence, every mountain will be brought down. The worst of mountains is the ignorance within the heart and the being of people. That saad, that reality is the weapon for the believer. That make durood sharif, increase the love for Prophet ﷺ. Bring down these mountains of ignorance.
Reality of Sayyidina Hud (as) and the Secret of Zikr “Hu”
Prophet Hud (As) was Sent to Humble the ‘Aad
Then awliyaullah (saints) give the second example of the people of ‘Aad and their immense technology, immense structures, beyond what we understand of structures today.Their prophet’s name was Hud (as) – Hu, daal. It means then his name must have an importance. So, you can’t call him David. You won’t take his secret. This goes to people saying, ‘It doesn’t really matter. We can call whatever we want’. No, you can’t. The devil put a trick on you so that you can’t activate a secret. You call somebody by the wrong name, you’re definitely not going to get the secret. But you may get that thing which you call and it’s not who you expect.
So, who is this prophet named Hu, daal that could bring down all of their structures? When Allah (AJ) gives to us, ‘They were more mightier than you,’ it means every time somebody thought they were mighty in this history, Allah (AJ) said, they were on top of all of them. Because He didn’t make a reference, they were more mightier than these people. Say, ‘More mightier than you in their structures.’ That at any time anyone would read this ayah (verse), Allah (AJ), ‘They were better than you, stronger than you, mightier than you. Their structures were immense’. They were brought with a wind.
﴾١٥﴿ فَأَمَّا عَادٌ فَاسْتَكْبَرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ الْحَقِّ وَقَالُوا مَنْ أَشَدُّ مِنَّا قُوَّةً ۖ أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّ اللَّهَ الَّذِي خَلَقَهُمْ هُوَ أَشَدُّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةً ۖ وَكَانُوا بِآيَاتِنَا يَجْحَدُونَ
41:15 – “Fa ammaa ‘Aadun fastak baroo fil ardi bighairul haqqi wa qaaloo man ashaddu minnaa quwwatan awalam yaraw annal laahal lazee khalaqahum Huwa ashaddu minhum quwwatanw wa kaanoo bi Aayaatinaa yajhadoon” (Surah al-Fussilat)
“As for ‘Aad, they were arrogant upon the earth without right and said, “Who is greater than us in strength?” Did they not consider that Allah who created them was greater than them in strength? But they were rejecting Our signs.” (Explained in Detail, 41:15)
Zikr Hu is Ignited By Love and Guidance
So, what’s the wind? It’s a nafas (breath). When the believer begins to activate their breath, what’s happening? We said before, nafas ur-rahmah (The Breath of Mercy), when they train and they begin to breathe and they bring the power of breath in, the visualization in their tafakkur (contemplation) is their breathing by zikr Hu. They take all the secret of Hu within the atmosphere and energy all around us and they bring that Hu into their lungs.
That energy of Hu comes into the lungs and begins to energize the blood and energize into the heart. They expel their waste and bad energy. They visualize positive energy coming in with zikr Hu and pushing out every type of negative energy. So that one day, as they reach their sincerity and more and more openings coming, nafas ur-rahmah begins to open. Why? Because Nabiur Rahmah (The Prophet of Mercy). The reality of Prophet ﷺ, from his qudra and his power, is pushing that energy into your breath igniting the very breath that you have, that it’s no longer the breath from dunya. You’re not taking the waste from dunya, but you’re breathing from a heavenly breath. That heavenly breath, when it comes in, is ignited with Hu, ignited with these elements and these realities. What does the Hu? It’s the hey and waw. It means what? The hey of hidayat (guidance) and the waw of wudood (love).
Zikr Hu Fills the Servant With Divine Love
It means Allah (AJ) begin to dress the servants with the realities of hidayat and guidance, with the realities of waw and wudood. It means these are the servants that carry the secrets of Divine Love. The Hu-men because Allah (AJ) has to dress you from the elements. What the huroof (Arabic letters) teaches you? You may not understand what I’m talking about. It doesn’t matter. It’s for entertainment purposes. So, Allah (AJ) has to, Allah (AJ) is going to dress you with waw. Waw. If you’re not dressed with waw, you always talk with no love. Like rules, ‘You better not do like that. You…you better do like that.’ People don’t listen to Allah (AJ), astaghfirullah. Why are they going to listen to you? Just rules, rules, rules, rules, rules.
What they’re trained with, when Allah (AJ) opens for them, because Naqshbandiya’s very strong with zikr Hu. It’s in their zikrs (chantings). Because Allah (AJ) will open the element within the servant. ‘I’m going to dress you from My waw.’ We become from Abdul Wadood because these are all under the hand of Prophet ﷺ. As a result, that is why when we travel, you would see the waw with an alif – ‘Izzatullah (Allah’s (AJ) Might and Magnificence) is on this waw. This creation is in existence by waw; strong force, nuclear force, weak nuclear force.
Atomic Forces are Manifestations of Divine Love
When you go into the atom, what’s the elements of an atom? Strong force, weak force. Right? How are the electrons coming and how are the electrons being pushed back? They say there’s a force. So, science has an understanding, but they don’t know this reality. What is that force? Love! Not a love that we understand – lust and desires. Allah (AJ) has a love. He puts a Divine love that everything wants to collapse upon it, like a powerful magnet.
If you have two powerful magnets, if you put it here, your finger would be crushed and taken because it would squeeze everything out for the two magnets to meet. He puts a drop of Divine love in an atom because everything is just a mass of more atoms; puts its Divine Love inside the atom. Everything wants to collide, creates a force that says, ‘No, you can’t.’ A strong force, a little bit weaker force that it comes a little bit but it really doesn’t. Then it begins to circumambulate, circumambulate. So, everything is based in that waw.
Waw of Wadood is the Force Behind All Creation
So, what happens when Allah (AJ) makes you Abdul Wadood? He’s granting you the secret within every element. It’s not something outside. He’s granting you. That I want you to be from the people who understand wadood and love; not the love of dunya (material world) – Divine love, the elemental love that is the glue and the power for our entire existence. Entire universes are based on atoms. The power within that atom is based on waw.
The whole of Qur’an opens from the power of waw. Right? As a result of the waw, Allah (AJ) is dressing the servants with Divine love. They are becoming the servants of love, Divine love. They have the ability to access every element of love within all atoms because it becomes your reality. That’s why they’re at peace with nature. They’re at peace with creation. If they go more into the tafakkur, more into their contemplation, what happens? They begin to access the waw in everything. Everything has the waw. Every animal, every creature. How Sayyidina Sulaiman (as) was speaking to the creatures? He was accessing the waw that is created from a Divine love. From that Divine love, they access and they understand its communication, its reality, its sustenance, everything that Allah (AJ) provided for that creation.
Holy Qur’an is a Guidance for Muttaqeen Only (Holy Qur’an 2:1-2)
The whole reason and understanding of its existence. Why? By the key of waw. So, as a result, these servants are dressed with waw. Then Allah (AJ) begin to dress them with hidayat, real guidance. So, we say other people, they talk guidance, but these are the guidances from the world of light. As a result, their five senses must be trained because hidayat is based on your senses. When we talked about that, is “Hudal lil muttaqeen”. The beginning of the Qur’an describes these people, right? “Alif, Laam, Meem. Zaalikal kitaabu laa rayba feeh, hudal lil muttaqeen.”
﴾الم ﴿١﴾ ذَٰلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ ﴿٢
2:1-2 – “Alif, Laam, Meem. (1) Zaalikal kitaabu laa rayba feeh, hudal lil muttaqeen. (2)” (Surat Al-Baqarah)
“Alif, Lam, Meem. This is the Book that there is no doubt/crookedness in it, it’s a guidance for pious people who are conscious of Allah.” (The Cow, 2:1-2)
Beginning of the Qur’an tells you that its guidance is not going to be for you. You’re going to get furqan (book of right and wrong). You’re not going to understand its realities. You’re going to get right and wrong, right and wrong. They think they’re extracting realities of Qur’an.
Muttaqeen Have True Certainty Over All Their Senses
Qur’an is telling you right at the beginning. This encryption code, “Alif, Laam, Meem. Zaalikal kitaab”. ‘Verily this book…’ They don’t know what the book is. The book is Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. “Zaalikal Kitaab”. There’s no crookedness in Prophet’s ﷺ reality. He carries and he’s the walking Qur’an, walking book of Allah (AJ). But hudan now is then described, it’s a guidance for muttaqeen (those with high level of consciousness). Not Aalameen. “Hudal lil muttaqeen,” it’s right at the beginning. You don’t have to go too far into it. Right at the beginning, after you read Fatiha, Allah (AJ) clarified for you, ‘No, this is an encrypted reality.’
So, then who are the muttaqeen? We talked many times before. Muttaqeen are those whom all of their senses have yaqeen (certainty). Right? In Ramadan, you don’t only fast with your mouth. You fast with your ears. You fast with your eyes. You fast with your breath. You fast with your senses. You fast with your desire. All five senses, your Ramadan is in fasting so that the yaqeen and the certainty of every sense begins to open for the servant. They’re trained how to have certainty of hearing. Cut off dunya hearing and keep training on your meditation so that you can hear your inspiration, your connection to the shaykhs.
Muttaqeen Carry the Secret of Waw With Discipline
Then Allah (AJ) begins to open your hearing, your seeing. Stop seeing the world. Close the eyes so that Allah (AJ) can begin to open the certainty of seeing. So, every sense has a sense that you use for dunya (material world) but you have to change and train that sense for its akhirah (hereafter) reality. As a result, these are the students in training for muttaqeen. As a result of muttaqeen and all their senses being trained, they are the people of the hey. So that these Hu, these people of Hu, they’re trained with guidance. It means all their senses have a yaqeen and certainty; have like a ya, they have a yaqeen. Allah (AJ) is giving them a certainty.
As a result, all their senses and to their darajats (stations). They can be infinite in what Allah (AJ) gives to you. The certainty of one person’s hearing and another person’s seeing, another person’s sense of touch, another person’s sense of speech. All of these senses have to be under tarbiyah (discipline) and the training of certainty. As a result, these are the people who carry the secret of waw. These are the guides of waw. When they make zikr of Hu, what happens? Allah (AJ) gives a sample about Hud (as). That he made a zikr. They don’t know that in the Qur’an. But Allah (AJ) describes these towers were destroyed by mighty winds.
﴾١٩﴿ إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ رِيحًا صَرْصَرًا فِي يَوْمِ نَحْسٍ مُّسْتَمِرٍّ
54:19 – “Innaa arsalnaa ‘alaihim reehan sarsaran fee Yawmi nahsin mustamirr”. (Surat Al-Qamar)
“Indeed, We sent upon them a screaming wind on a day of continuous misfortune”. (The Moon, 54:19)
Zikr Hu Unleashes Immense Divine Energy
It means as soon as they begin to make the zikr of Hu, it activates all the creatures of that reality. All the power of that reality begins to move all around them. As a result of its movement, we said it’s not even a category 3 tornado, category 4 tornado, beyond category 5 tornado of energy and movement of energy; movement of energy that ripped apart entire structures of whatever they built was completely ripped apart. More than what we have now. We think of our skyscrapers and homes and concretes and steel.
Allah (AJ) said, ‘Their creation was far more advanced. And we sent a mighty wind.’ It doesn’t describe openly what this wind is. This was the wind of Hu. As soon as they make the zikr of Hu, who’s activated? All the jinn (unseen being) nations come, all the different creatures of that Hu. All the power of all the atoms where Hu resides in that atom and holds it together, they bring all that energy force and begin to collapse the entire atomic structure of that structure because whatever they built it with, they had to build with an element.
Without Hu, Everything Collapses Revealing the World as an Illusion
That element is an atom. Whether the atom is called concrete, whether the atom is called steel, whether the atom is called wood. If you had the ability like a thread, if you had a secret of Hu, you could pull the thread out. So, whether it was steel, it would collapse. Whether it was metal, it would collapse. Whether it was wood, it would collapse. Now there’s a guy, Hutchinson, who would do energy exams. He would do vibrations of sound because Hu is based on sound. He could do certain vibrations where he would bring metal and wood and they would go together. That the metal would actually go in, like it became part of the wood.
Then they banned all his experiments and they said, ‘No, don’t do these experiments’. But they have scientists who have actively tried to understand this power of sound and what are the frequencies of these elements and how do they manipulate those elements. But from heavenly, their teaching, everything is based on an atom. Every atom, its core is Hu. If Hu pulls away, your atom is but dust. Allah (AJ) describes, ‘This Earth of yours, this creation of yours is but an illusion’.
﴾وَمَا الْحَيَاةُ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا مَتَاعُ الْغُرُورِ… ﴿١٨٥
3:185 – “…wa ma al hayaatud dunyaaa illaa mataa’ul ghuroor” (Surat Ali ‘Imran)
“…And what is the life of this world except the enjoyment of deception/delusion.” (The Family of Imran, 3:185)
Zikr Hu Dissolves Arrogance, Falsehood and Ego
So, what was meant by that? That it’s a hologram. It’s just atoms that are moving. As it moves very fast, it gives to you an appearance of something solid, right? The electrons move so fast, it appears to you as something solid. Allah (AJ) is giving to us in Qur’an that, ‘Your whole creation is but an illusion.’ Within that illusion, if Allah (AJ) pulls the Hu, the atoms will collapse. So, he merely with the ‘Izzatullah permission of Allah (AJ), that ‘Now is the time. Bring the tower down.’ Begin to make the zikr of Hu, bring entire tufan (storm) of energy and all the atoms within its reality dropped and it became like dust from whatever they built in front of them. Then go back to the awrads and the zikrs. That we have the zikr of Hu. We have strong bases of salawats and they’re giving to us that this, this is the importance. Destroy all the arrogance and pride and structures within the being and that Allah (AJ) give a command of Hu within the person.
So, that when that servant breathes, the Hu that’s coming in of Divinely power, it disseminates and disintegrates every falsehood and every arrogance that shaitan is trying to build within insan (mankind). Because the towers represent arrogance. When you build something high, you want to stand there and look down upon people as if they’re something small. That’s why Prophet ﷺ said, ‘Don’t build over three stories’.
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ، حَدَّثَنِي ابْنُ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنْ رَسُولِ اللهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ: لاَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ حَتَّى يَتَطَاوَلَ النَّاسُ فِي الْبُنْيَانِ.
Abu Hurayra reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “The Final Hour will not come until people compete with one another in the height of their buildings.”
We’re not a people who are proud. Be humble and low to the ground. But for the one for inner purification, it’s the destruction of every bad arrogance. The power of Hu, if Allah (AJ) ignite the breath, it begins to destroy everything inside of arrogance and pride. The salawat and durood sharif upon Prophet ﷺ to destroy the hardness of the heart and the mountain of the ego that exists in the servant.
Victory Comes Through Inner Purification Via Zikr
These are the tools for rijal (people of maturity) and for victory in Allah’s (AJ) way. Now think about dunya (material world) people, there’s no victory for them. They neither have victory over their heart and the hardness of the heart nor do they have victory over their arrogance and bad character unless they’re the people of zikr. That they do the zikr of Hu. They breathe and understand the realities of breathing, unlock the realities of breathing and understood the reality of durood sharif and salawat an–Nabi ﷺ. These are then the realities that prepare the servant for the internal reality and arrival of Sayyidina Mahdi (as).
That while people are thinking they’re preparing for a fight outside – Without zikr, not you’re going to take any mountain down, the mountain probably will fall on your head. Nor are you going to do anything with anyone’s tower. They, from their tower, they shoot you in the head. But this has to do with the inner battle of bad character. The inner battle has to be achieved. The inner battle has to be victorious. So, the servant then represents this Divine ocean of love. We pray that Allah (AJ) grant us from these realities and the immensities of these realities, 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.
Special thanks to our transcribers for their help with transcribing this suhbah.
Original Date of Suhbah: December 21, 2024
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