Don’t Expect Sympathy If You Don’t Remember the Love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ

July 17, 2024 January 29, 2025

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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

Atiullah wa atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.

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)

Religion, Common Sense and the Heart All Coordinate

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 are in existence. Alhamdulillah, with all the people whom are posting and sharing and spreading these knowledges and these teachings and the immense amount of reach that it comes across and the people that come across. Always a reminder that fiqh (Islamic Jurisprudence) and religion and common sense and the heart – they all coordinate. If they don’t, then whatever that person is practicing is incorrect.

Love is the Foundation of True Religion

That the sama (whirling); when we whirl, we whirl with the heart so that the body follows the heart. The hadrah (presence) is focusing on the heart. The zikr (Divine remembrance) is focusing on the heart. Everything is based on the qalb (heart) and everything is based on an ishq (love) and muhabbat. We said what distinguishes true religion from what people think they’re practicing is their love. This religion is based on the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. It is our foundation.

Love Prophet ﷺ More Than Yourself

The foundation we talked about of humility and good character is all directed towards the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ because we’re aiming for faith. What Prophet ﷺ described in fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) of what is faith when he described to Sayyidina Umar al-Farooq (as), ‘Ya Umar (as), you have to love me more than you love yourself, than the father and the… and the son.’

عَنْ أَنَسِ بْن مَالِكٍ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ” لاَ يُؤْمِنُ أَحَدُكُمْ حَتَّى أَكُونَ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ وَالِدِهِ وَوَلَدِهِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ ‏”‏‏.‏ [صَحِيِحْ مُسْلِمْ، حديث ٤٤، واَلْبُخَارِي، كِتَابُ الْإيْمَانْ، حديث ١٥]

‘An Anas ibn Malik (ra) qala, qala Rasulullahi ﷺ “La yuminu ahadukum hatta akona ahabba ilayhi min walidihi wa waladihi wan nasi ajma’yeen.” [Sahih Muslim, Hadith 44, wa Al Bukhari, Kitabul Iman, Hadith 15]

Narrated by Anas son of Malik (ra) that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: “None of you will have faith till he loves me more than his father, his children, and all mankind.” [Authentic by Muslim, Hadith 44 & by Al Bukhari, Book of Faith, Hadith 15]

You Can Only Approach the Heavens Through the Heart

It means that any familiar love is not in comparison to the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. We are moving towards an ocean of faith. So, everything is common sense but many people lack a heart. They lack common sense and they put in its place what they believe to be Islamic law, jurisprudence – fiqh. They think that they’re going to approach the heavens with their head and that they’ll understand something new. The only way to approach the heavens is through the heart. It has to be through muhabbat (love). It has to be a foundation of humility and immense amount of ishq and love.

Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ Knew the Coming Fate of His Grandchildren

When you enter into something of love, common sense in love guides everything and in this love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, we enter into the events of Karbala and begin to think that how much love we have for Prophet ﷺ. The ground and the soil that Prophet ﷺ walked on is holy, is beyond measure. How all the nation would love to go to Madina and touch something that Prophet ﷺ touched, to walk where Prophet ﷺ walked. This was the faith before. This is supposed to be the faith continuing.

When we have this level of ishq and love then we have to ask ourselves what Prophet ﷺ felt in these events? What type of character and immense patience that Prophet ﷺ exhibited when he kissed Imam al-Hussain (as) on his neck as a child, continuously kissing and kissed Imam al-Hassan (as) on his lips for one day he would be poisoned through his lips and for one day Imam al-Hussain (as) would be cut on his neck and his head with a sword. How much it must have saddened Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ that his nation would do this to his family and to his grandchildren and in which he held and he loved and they played around Prophet ﷺ.

Be Guided Through Your Heart, Not Your Brain

The immensity of that love and that emotion is the believer’s responsibility. You have to have your heart to guide you, not your brain. Not your brain to tell you things and to confuse you but the heart must guide the believer. When you love someone more than you love yourself, you can’t imagine how did they touch a hair from something he loved and how much he tried to give a warning that, ‘Please I leave behind Qur’an and my family.’ That was a sign that, ‘If you love me, love them. If you love me, watch over them.’

عَنْ زَيْدِ بْنِ أَرْقَمَ، رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا قَالاَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: “إِنِّي تَارِكٌ فِيكُمْ مَا إِنْ تَمَسَّكْتُمْ بِهِ لَنْ تَضِلُّوا بَعْدِي, أَحَدُهُمَا أَعْظَمُ مِنَ الآخَرِ, كِتَابُ اللَّهِ حَبْلٌ مَمْدُودٌ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الأَرْضِ, وَعِتْرَتِي أَهْلُ بَيْتِي, لَنْ يَتَفَرَّقَا حَتَّى يَرِدَا عَلَيَّ الْحَوْضَ فَانْظُرُوا كَيْفَ تَخْلُفُونِي فِيهِمَا.” [جامِعُ التِّرْمِذِي ٣٧٨٨، كِتَابْ ٤٩، حَدِيثْ ١٨٧]

‘An Zayd ibni Arqama (ra) ‘anhuma qala: Qala Rasulallahi ﷺ: “Inni tarikun fikum ma in tamassaktum bihi lan tadhillu ba’di. Ahaduhuma a’zamu minal akhari: Kitabu Allahi hablun mamdudun mins sama’i ilal ardi, wa ‘itrati Ahlu Bayti, wa lan yatafarraqa hatta yarida ‘alayal hawda fanzhuru kayfa takhlufuni fihima.” [Jami’ at-Tirmidhi 3788, Kitab 49, Hadith 187]

Narrated Zaid bin Arqam, (ra) that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: “Indeed, I am leaving among you, that which if you hold fast to them, you shall not be misguided after me. One of them is greater than the other: The Book of Allah is a rope extended from the sky to the earth, and my family – the people of my house – and they shall not split until they meet at the Hawd, so look at how you deal with them after me.” [Jami’ at-Tirmidhi 3788, Book 49, Hadith 187]

If You Love Allah (AJ), Follow Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ (Holy Qur’an, 3:31)

It means you have to see that light and that love and that ishq and Allah (AJ) taught the same that Allah (AJ) was telling creation, ‘If you love Me then you must follow and love Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.’

﴾قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّوْنَ اللَّـهَ فَاتَّبِعُوْنِيْ يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّـهُ … ﴿٣١

3:31 – “Qul in kuntum tuhibbon Allaha fattabi’uni, yuhbibkumullahu…” (Surat Ali-Imran)

“Say, [O Muhammad], “If you should love Allah, then follow me, [so] Allah will love you …” (Family of Imran, 3:31)

Understanding True Love for Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

For if you truly understood and you fell in love with Prophet ﷺ, it was Allah (AJ) that you loved because the light of Allah (AJ), the love and ishq of Allah (AJ) resides within the wujud (existence) and the essence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Those who came against Prophet ﷺ, they came against Allah (AJ). That’s what Allah (AJ) was telling Prophet ﷺ, ‘Don’t be sad. They’re not against you but they’re against Me.’ Because he took it personally that, ‘Why these people are so harsh? Why these people are so rough?’ Allah (AJ) teaching that, ‘They’re coming against you because My love for you and if they love you, I will love them.’

So, this is a story of love. So, how can we love Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ? Imagine on a day and on these last five, six days when they had entered the family into the region of Karbala and they came for trade and for da’wah (religious propagation). They didn’t come for weaponry and fighting. When they were denied access to water and they see the events are going to become not good, ‘We’ll go back. We’ll go back to Madina’ and they said, ‘No.’ They had already made their mind up that they were going to slaughter the holy family of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ whom amongst him are his grandchildren that have the shekl and the likeness of Prophet ﷺ, whom they saw Prophet ﷺ carrying and holding Imam al-Hussain (as), kissing Imam al-Hussain (as).

Karbala: a Horrific Slaughter of the Holiest Family

The household and the women of the family are in those tribes and in those tents. What kind of people would do such a thing and how would they find a justification in such a horrific act?! ‘Ashiqeen; ‘ashiqeen and lovers – why they cry? Because they cry at the feeling of what happened, that why did they do such a horrific act to the one whom I love more than I love myself? What Prophet ﷺ must have felt! From whatever station that Prophet ﷺ is looking at and seeing the horrific nature of a community in which he gave his everything, his entire love for that community and look what they’re doing to his holy family. They’re not killing like war. They killed liked barbarians in which they slaughtered and cut the pieces of the body. They slaughtered from children all the way to the adults. The children died first and the adults were watching.

Imam Hussain (as), the all, the younger went in and then in the final battle, Imam al-Hussain (as) entered in. What Prophet ﷺ must have felt to witness that? That’s what believers are supposed to meditate and think. That how, how a community can do this to the family of their prophet and then profess that they believe in Allah (AJ) and they are the people of faith and right character? Then think to ourself that how and what Prophet ﷺ must have felt of a betrayal. That every year we enter into that same example where Prophet ﷺ is looking at his nation. The thought and the feeling is that, ‘My nation has forgotten me and as a result of forgetting me, they forget my family. They forget to feel a sadness. They forget the station of love and muhabbat.’ People now talk like illogical, ‘Oh, why are you to be sad?’

We Have Forgotten the Love of Prophet ﷺ

They achieved immense stations. Oh, what they achieved is not your business. It’s like I throw somebody from a plane and say, ‘I threw you from the plane but at least you got a big reward from Allah (AJ).’ No, we don’t care what the reward. That’s between Allah (AJ) and the servant. The question is: why aren’t you sad? Why don’t you feel a remorse and a sadness for what happened to the family of the most beloved in creation? How the family and how these people were slaughtered in a desert without access to water? They denied them water and they could have used their own spiritual ability to bring that water. Why to kill them in such a way? Why to cause such a grief and such a horrific harm?

That’s the danger. That’s the danger that people are facing now that they don’t have that sense of love. They don’t have a sense of compassion and they view these as just events in history that came and went. Every year of ‘Ashura, I believe the heart of Prophet ﷺ is continuously sad. That today, there are people whom are forgetting the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Everywhere his Ahlul Bayt (holy family of Prophet ﷺ) and descendants of his Ahlul Bayt are being killed, are being harmed, are being tortured. You don’t think that, that saddens the Prophet ﷺ of Allah (AJ) who’s the container of ishq and love that sees till today that, ‘They’re forgetting me, they don’t love me more than themselves, they don’t praise upon me, they don’t pray for me and look how they treat those whom love me.’

Do You Shed a Tear for Karbala?

That’s the danger that we entered in now into the time of Sufyan – in which a people will rise and say that, ‘Oh, we don’t need these people who love Ahlul Bayt.’ That naming your children after Ahlul Bayt (holy family of Prophet ﷺ), they will hunt them down. What kind of people are coming that would target that type of love? They are a people who are devoid of ishq and love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. As a result, they attack everything dear to the Rasul (messenger). Anything that’s dear to Prophet ﷺ, their target is that and that’s the danger.

That’s why Mawlana Shaykh (Q) was teaching that – you shed a tear for them. Sit and think how much you love Prophet ﷺ and how did this happen? How is it happening now? Why is that people are not sad? If somebody’s child is hurt, they call and text for weeks that, ‘Grant them a recovery. Pray for his recovery. Pray for this. Pray for that’ and then what do you think about the slaughtering of a holy family where there are no cameras, there are no videotapes, there are no images to keep sending all over the world so they don’t forget, but it’s the responsibility of Ahlul Bayt and ashiqeen (lovers) to revive that.

Don’t Cry for Yourself if You Cannot Cry for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ

That don’t let that to be forgotten. Don’t let what happened in that desert to be forgotten. Don’t let the blood of these innocent Ahlul Bayt (holy family of Prophet ﷺ) to be forgotten. It’s our responsibility that we owe to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ that we don’t let it to be forgotten. What was done was not right! What was done was horrific! If someone doesn’t cry, doesn’t say a word, doesn’t propagate these videos, these articles about these events of Karbala, the haqqaiq and the realities of Karbala then when difficulty and hardship enters at your door, don’t cry out to anyone. Don’t ask for anyone’s najat (salvation). Don’t ask for anyone’s help for you couldn’t cry for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and his holy family. Do unto yourself… do unto your brother as you want for yourself.

أَنَسِ بْن مَالِكُ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ قال؛ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ : “لَا يُؤمِنُ أحدُكُمْ حتَّى يُحِبَّ لِأَخِيهِ مَا يُحِبُّ لِنَفْسِهِ [صَحِيِحْ الْبُخَارِيُّ وَمُسْلِمٌ]

Anas bin Malik (ra) qala: An Nabi ﷺ Qala: “La yuminu Ahadukum hatta yuhibbu li akhihi ma yuhibbu li Nafsihi.” [Sahih Al Bukhari and Muslim]

Anas bin Malik Narrated that the Prophet (pbuh) said: “None of you (truly) have faith till he loves for his brother that which he loves for himself.” [Authentic by Al Bukhari and Muslim]

Everything in the fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) of our deen (religion) is about that. Everyone wants to cry for their family and their children and want to promote all over internet when something happens and for this massacre of the family of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ they don’t want to take the post. Then they say, ‘Why is there to cry? They achieved the station.’ Achieving station is not your business. Your business is the sadness and the event of what happened. Don’t let the world forget what happened for they’re about to do it again. When they come after your family and your children, there will be nobody to cry for you because you should close your mouth at that time and say, ‘Oh, look at the station that my slaughtered family has achieved.’

How Can You Take From the Kawthar When You Didn’t Shed a Single Tear?

It means every person wants people to cry for them but when we ask and teach that – no, no, cry for those whom greater then us, more blessed then us and look how the world treated them. Look how what happened in this dunya (material world) to these ‘ashiqeen. These are the birds of paradise, the paradise that we wish to walk in. How will we go before them, greet them in their paradises, ask and ask that, ‘Grant us access to your paradises. Let us to drink from your fountains, to sit in your associations’?

How could we ask to do that and we didn’t cry here for them? We cried only for our children and for only our family. How can I walk in their paradises? They look to you and say, ‘Don’t you remember what we did? You didn’t shed a single tear for how we died but now you want to take from these Kawthar (fountain of abundance), take from these realities.’ Common sense guides the heart. Nobody has to teach your brain. Your heart tells you that common sense is, ‘These people suffered. These are the people whom I love dearer than myself and I have to let everyone know this was wrong. These events were wrong.’

Govern Your Life With Love and Common Sense

These are the immense realities that Imam al-Hussain (as) brought into this world and until the day of judgment, Allah (AJ) will keep people to remember his accomplishment. We pray that Allah (AJ) grant us from these lights and from this love, the immensity of these blessings. That these are not something that can be achieved and the immensity of the sorrow that it puts within the heart of people and they should govern their lives with love and ishq and common sense. Common sense is everything.

Somebody was bold enough to say that, ‘No. Shaykh doesn’t know fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) and he says that you shouldn’t have weddings on Muharram.’ I said, ‘In the first ten days, you have to be a lunatic to have a wedding in Muharram. You have to have something completely off in your mind and in your heart must be dead if you think like that. That are you telling me that if the shaykh and his family were all slaughtered in ten days of Muharram, those are the ten days that you would choose to have a wedding where you would dance and celebrate while somebody was slaughtered on those days? It’s common sense. It’s common sense that out of respect for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and his blessed family, I’m not going to dance and celebrate and put such a joyous occasion of a wedding or a ceremony on such a day. I would wait until after. Out this whole world and 360 days, why would you celebrate and jump up and down on those ten days? Like a Yazid, like you’re happy with something. Common sense. Never in the history of this reality was that done. It means awliyaullah (saints), their ishq and muhabbat and love guides them, guides them with an ihtiram and a respect for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and that never to cause offense to Prophet ﷺ, to have an understanding and a respect.

We Have Lost Meaning on Commemorating Occasions Respectfully

No doubt these are immense days of lights and blessings and as a result of these horrific events, these are the days in which to commemorate what was done, the sacrifice that was done and all zawiyahs (spiritual schools of Sufism) to give out haleem and food to people for the sake of Imam al-Hussain (as), that he intercede for us on these days. That’s what we said when we reach towards the end of this nation and this Sufyani is to appear very soon. We reached into our jahiliya (time of ignorance) in which the nation completely forgot their deen (religion). They go back into a time of arrogance and when they celebrate days they’re not supposed to celebrate.

We described before on Ramadan the day of Eid, the night of Eid the nation is to stay in remembrance and worshipness and all the way to the time of Eid to be in worshipness, to receive the blessings of Ramadan. What the nation does now, 90%? They have parties on the last night of Ramadan and go out to bazaars and celebrate but that wasn’t the nation. The nation was to stay in remembrance and zikr and ibadah (worshipness) to be paid the benefit and the barakah (blessing) of Ramadan.

Nobody Will Hear Your Tears and Shouts if You Forget the Love of Prophet ﷺ and Ahlul Bayt ﷺ

It means that all of these things are lost and what becomes commonplace and what they think, ‘No, we should be able to do everything at every time.’ No, no sir. You’re completely wrong and your heart must be dead. There’s no celebration on these ten days. There’s commemoration and remembrance of what was sacrificed and for the love and the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.

That shed a tear for this family, give a remembrance, give water and give food for their remembrance for a day will come when suffering and hardship enters your door and there’ll be nobody to cry for you. Nobody will hear your tears and your shouts. If you were dead to the reality of Prophet ﷺ and that your heart was dead to the ishq and love and muhabbat of Ahlul Bayt.

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: August 7, 2022

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