Fasting with the Eyes & Realities of Light and Eternity

August 21, 2021 November 23, 2021

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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

Alhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘aalameen, was salaatu was salaamu ‘alaa Ashraful Mursaleen, Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammadul Mustafa ﷺ. Madad ya Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem, Ya Habibul ‘Azeem, unzur halana wa ishfa’lana, ‘abidona bi madadikum wa nazarekum. 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 still in existence.

Alhamdulillah, that the holy month of Ramadan is approaching and Allah (AJ) inshaAllah give us a life to see the immensity of that month. The month of immense power – qudra, Divinely lights, in which Allah (AJ) completes His favours upon His creation. All the months of practices, all the blessings of Rajab, all the blessings of Sha’ban, Allah (AJ) dress it with the lights of Ramadan, inshaAllah. Alhamdulillah, somebody had contacted for further information about fasting from the senses. That we’ve talked many times on fasting of the reality of fasting.

Secrets of Alif, Laam, Meem & Muhammadan Ocean

“Hudal lil muttaqeen,” that Allah (AJ) at beginning of Qur’an, “Alif, Lam, Meem. Dhaalikal kitaabu laa rayba feeh, fa hudal lil muttaqeen.”

﴾الم ﴿١﴾ ذَٰلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ ﴿٢

2:1-2 – “Alif, Laam, Meem. (1) Dhaalikal 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)

That from all the secrets of “Alif, Laam, Meem” and the whole conveyance of realities from Izzatullah (Allah’s (AJ) Might and Magnificence) to the laam and the lisan and the tongue of truth. Allah (AJ) clarifies this oceans of Al-Muheet (All Encompassing)of immensity, in which everything and all-encompassed within the ocean of Muhammadun RasulAllah ﷺ.

In this World of Lies, There is No Crookedness in Holy Qur’an

“Dhaalikal kitaabu laa rayba feeh,” (Quran 2:2) that, ‘Verily this book, there is no crookedness.’ That’s why we established in the nights before that look how a society where everything is crooked, everything is a lie, everything from Santa Claus to its bunnies, its trees and everything around us. It’s just all crookedness and all lies. Allah (AJ) says, for these last days understand how important it is that you’re surrounded by crookedness but, ‘Verily, this book has absolutely nothing of crookedness.’ It’s pure of pure, the haq and the truth of all truth.

Follow Muttaqeeen Who Teach Fasting with All Senses

It’s a guidance for muttaqeen (those with high level of consciousness). It’s a guidance of light, of reality, but that’s a guidance for everyone.

﴾الم ﴿١﴾ ذَٰلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ ﴿٢

2:1-2 – “Alif, Laam, Meem. (1) Dhaalikal 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)

But Allah (AJ) is then describing and bringing our attention that this reality of “Huda” and this reality of a light and guidance into the heart that we have to study from muttaqeen. The muttaqeen whom their level of taqwa and their level of consciousness in Allah (AJ) is not at just one, but Allah (AJ) has trained them. Prophet ﷺ has trained them, dictated to them that all their senses are being trained. The highest training is the siyam and the fast.

So, muttaqeen from beginning of Holy Qur’an, Allah (AJ) is describing for us after the immensity of Suratul Fatiha in which all Qur’an, all realities, everything is dressed in Suratul Fatiha. Then we begin with Holy Qur’an and Allah (AJ) then clarifying this immensity of “Alif, Laam, Meem”. That in the end, follow these muttaqeen and they teach the reality of the fast from all senses.

Allah (AJ) Orders the Believers To Lower Their Gaze

When people are inspired to come to the tariqah (spiritual path), first Allah (AJ) describing throughout Holy Qur’an is that, ‘The believer to lower their gaze.’ So, it means that the immensity of the importance of the eyes and the reality of the eyes.

﴾قُل لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَغُضُّوا مِنْ أَبْصَارِهِمْ وَيَحْفَظُوا فُرُوجَهُمْ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ أَزْكَىٰ لَهُمْ… ﴿٣٠

24:30 – “Qul lilmu’ mineena yaghuuddoo min absaarihim wa yahfazoo furoojahum; zaalika azkaa lahum…” (Surat an-Nur)

“Say to the believers/believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty/private parts: that will make for greater purity for them…” (The Light, 24:30)

Verses of Holy Quran are Like Seeds Blossoming in Awliya’s Hearts

Awliyaullah (saints) come from every isharat (sign) of Qur’an and like it’s a seed that is going to blossom. Allah (AJ) blossoms Holy Qur’an. Every ayah (verse) of Qur’an that Allah (AJ) brings is like seeds of realities. He placed into the heart of these awliyaullah which include from the Holy Companions, the holy Ahlul Bayt (Holy family of Prophet ﷺ), they are all awliya (saints), all the way down to the awliya of today. They are taking these holy seeds into their soul and Allah (AJ) blossoms it’s reality. They’re blooming like trees giving fruit, of the immensity from one word, one letter of Holy Qur’an, how much it can be expanded.

Be Firm on Your Tariqah to Fulfill Your Trust

When Allah (AJ) drawing attention to them, that, ‘Lower your gaze,’ (Quran 24:30) then the turuqs (spiritual paths) came as the paths of perfection. “Isteqaamoo fit tareeqat” where Allah (AJ) described in Suratul Jinn, ‘Keep firm to your tariqah.’

﴾وَأَن لَّوِ اسْتَقَامُوا عَلَى الطَّرِيقَةِ لَأَسْقَيْنَاهُم مَّاءً غَدَقًا ﴿١٦

72:16 – “Wa alla wis taqaamoo ‘alat tareeqati la asqaynaahum maa’an ghadaqaa” (Surat Al-Jinn)

“And [ Allah revealed] that: “If they had only remained firm on their tariqa (straight path), We would have bestowed on them Rain/water in abundance. ” (The Jinn, 72:16)

Because the tariqah is here to bring you towards your amanat and the trust which you promised Allah (AJ) in the heavens. Before He put you into your physical body, you promised Allah (AJ). So, tariqats are here to fulfill our covenant with Allah (AJ).

﴾وَإِذْ أَخَذَ رَ‌بُّكَ مِن بَنِي آدَمَ مِن ظُهُورِهِمْ ذُرِّ‌يَّتَهُمْ وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ أَلَسْتُ بِرَ‌بِّكُمْ ۖ قَالُوا بَلَىٰ ۛ شَهِدْنَا. أَن تَقُولُوا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِنَّا كُنَّا عَنْ هَـٰذَا غَافِلِينَ ﴿١٧٢﴾

7:172 – “Wa idh akhadha rabbuka min banee adama min Zhuhorihim dhurriyyatahum wa ashhadahum ‘ala anfusihim alastu bi Rabbikum? Qalo bala shahidna. An taqolo yawmal qiyamati inna kunna ‘an hadha ghafileen.” (Surat Al-A’raf)

“And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam, from their first appearance/loins – their atoms/descendants and made them testify concerning themselves, [saying to them], “Am I not your Lord?” They said, “Yes, we do testify!” [This is] – in case/lest you should say on the day of Resurrection, ‘Indeed, we were of this unaware.’” (The Heights, 7:172)

Principle of Naqshbandiya ‘Nazar bar Qadam’ is to Lower Desires

From that reality of the eye, Mawlana Shah Naqshband (Q) is bringing “Nazar bar qadam” (gaze upon the feet), that’s from the 11 principles of Naqshbandiya. On the website NurMuhammad.com, you can go to the 11 principles of Mawlana Shah Naqshaband (Q). It means it’s the essence of the tariqah. Nazar bar qadam is giving to us ‘Keep your eyes on your on your qadam, on your feet’ because lowering the gaze and the immensity of the reality.

Then awliya come and now begin to expand that this nazar bar qadam, they’re teaching us that these eyes are the reality of hawa (desire). Your eyes are the reality of your dunya (material world) desire. If you leave it unchecked and you don’t ever fast with your eyes, as much as your eyes see, as much as your dunya will be increasing. Your desire for material life is all related to your eyes. Tariqah is based on this reality of these eyes. That every hawa and desire is related to the eyes. As much as the eyes see, as much as the dunya desire is increasing.

Are You Guarding or Destroying Your Eyes?

The eyes are window to the soul. We have then ‘Who’s guarding?’ and ‘Who’s destroying it?’ Allah (AJ) wants us to guard your eyes because it’s the window for your soul. So, imagine all day long, you’re throwing mud on the window, mud on the window, mud on the window; your heart becomes blackened and there’s no light coming to the soul. For us to have an analogy, when you say ‘the window of the soul,’ it means what comes to the eyes will reflect onto the soul.

When we know that the positive from malakut (heavenly realm) is Allah (AJ) wants, ‘Keep your eyes pure’ because all of the lights and reflections will be reflecting onto your soul. Later, that opens up spiritual power. That awliyaullah (saints), whom they have an immensity of light, their eyes have an immense amount of spiritual light coming out. They don’t even have to open their eye. They can keep their eyes closed and the lights from their eyes are coming out.

The Eyes of Prophet ﷺ – Imam Hassan (as) and Imam Hussain (as) Carry Nur and Hayat

We go from malakut (heavenly realm) down to dunya (material world). From the left eye is Bahrul Hayat (Ocean of Ever-Living), that Allah (AJ) has dressed them “Qurratol ‘ain, jaddal Hassani wal Hussain.”

أَسْيَادِي الْحَسَّنْ وَالْحُسَّيْنِ إِلَي النَّبِيْ قُرَّةُ العَيْنِ
يَا شَبَابَ الْجَنَتَيْنِ جَدُّكُمْ صَاحِبُ الْقُرْآنَ

Asyadil Hassan wal Hussaini Ilan Nabi qurrato ‘aini
Ya shabaa bal janna’taini Jaddukum Saahibul Qur’ana

Our Masters, Imam Hassan (as) and Imam Hussain (as),
They are the coolness of Prophet’s (pbuh) eyes.
O the Youth of the Paradises,
Your grandfather (Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)) is the owner of the Holy Qur’an.

That this nur (light) that comes from them, the right eye is Nur and the left eye is Hay (The Ever-Living). So, Rahman and Raheem. Right eye – sifat ar-Rahman (attribute of The Most Compassionate), left eye – sifat ar-Raheem (attribute of The Most Merciful). Right eye – Imam al-Hassan (as), left eye – Imam ul-Hussain (as). They inherit from “Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.” [img 1

﴾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)

That what Prophet ﷺ gave to his family of Ulul Amr (People of the Command) of the reality of their soul, what Allah (AJ) has partitioned. The immensity of light that comes from the right eye is what Allah (AJ) wants us to inherit. From the eyes of Prophet ﷺ coming to the eyes of his beloved descendants, coming to the eyes of Sahabi Kiram (Holy Companions of Prophet ﷺ) and then coming to the population.

Saying Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem Brings out Nur

That Prophet ﷺ wants for us to inherit sifat ar-Rahman. When we say Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, the rahmah and the mercy and the light that comes out from the eye. That what type of a nur (light) that comes out from that eye that is dressing people, blessing people.

When Allah (AJ) is asking for us ‘lower your gaze’ is because one – the malakut is what type of immense lights Allah (AJ) wants to dress in Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. When we say Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem – that all of Holy Qur’an is in Fatiha, all of Fatiha is in Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.

Just by saying Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, the light of the right eye has a nur that comes out. This is a light from the paradise that has no end, from Allah’s (AJ) Divinely Power. It’s not something that diminishes. It’s not something that goes down in its power, but Allah’s (AJ) infinite Oceans of Power begin to dress the right eye of the servant with this light of rahmah and immense mercy.

The True Believer Sees with the Spiritual Vision

This light is of the lights of paradise. That when it’s said, ‘Watch for the believer because they see with the light of Allah (AJ).’

عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏”‏ اتَّقُوا فِرَاسَةَ الْمُؤْمِنِ فَإِنَّهُ يَنْظُرُ بِنُورِ اللَّهِ. ‏”
ثُمَّ قَرَأَ ‏:‏‏(‏ إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لآيَاتٍ لِلْمُتَوَسِّمِينَ ‏)‏

‘An Abi Sa’yidel Khudriyi, qala Rasulullahi (saws): “Ittaqoo Firasatal Mu’min, Fa Innahu yanzuru Bi Nurillah. Thumma Qara’a: “Inna fee dhalika la ayaatun lil mutawassimeen.” (Surat al Hijr)”

Narrated by Sa’yidel Khudri that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: “Beware/be conscious of the true believer’s spiritual vision, for indeed he sees with Allah’s Light.” Then he recited from holy Quran: “Surely in this are signs for those who see” (The Rocky Tract, 15:75). (Tirmidhi, Book 47, #3419)

They reflect from this holy Hadith (traditions of Prophet ﷺ) when Allah (AJ) says ‘You came. You did all your fard (obligatory). Now you’re approaching with voluntary worship.’ These are all these ayahs (verses) and hadith and teachings of awliyaullah, how they all come together. ‘I’ll be the seeing in which you see.’

عَنْ أَبِيِ هُرَيْرَةِ رَضِّيَّ اللهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ‏،‏ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ ‏:‏‏‏ إِنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَىٰ قَالَ‏:‏” …‏وَمَا تَقَرُّبِ إِلَيَّ عَبْدِيِ بِشَيْءٍ أَحُبَّ إِلَيَّ مِمَّا اِفْتَرَضْتُ عَلَيْهِ. وَلَا يَزَالُ عَبْدِي يَتَقَرَّبُ إلَيَّ بِالنَّوَافِلِ حَتَّى أُحِبَّهُ، فَإِذَا أَحْبَبْتُهُ كُنْتَ سَمْعَهُ الَّذِي يَسْمَعُ بِهِ، وَبَصَرَهُ الَّذِي يُبْصِرُ بِهِ… “
[حَدِيثْ اَلْقُدْسِي – اَلمَصْدَرْ: صَحِيحْ الْبُخَارِي – رقم:٦٥٠٢]

‘An Abi Hurairah (ra) qala, Qala Rasulullahi ﷺ : InnAllaha ta’ala qala: “ Wa maa taqarrubi ilayya ‘abdi be shayin ahubba ilayya memma iftaradhtu ‘alayhi. Wa la yazaalu ‘abdi yataqarrabu ilayya binnawafile hatta uhebbahu, fa iza ahbabtuhu kunta Sam’ahul lazi yasma’u behi, wa Basarahul lazi yubsiru behi…” [Hadith al Qudsi, Sahih al Bukhari, Raqam: 6502)

Narrated by Abu Hurairah (ra) that: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said that: Allah the Almighty said: “… My servant does not draw near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have obligated upon him. My servant continues to draw near to Me with voluntary acts of worship so that I shall love him. When I love him, I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees…” [Holy Hadith, Authentic by al-Bukhari, # 6502]

Awliya Send Nur through Their Eyes to Those Deficient in Light

When Allah (AJ) going to dress from His seeing, He’s going to dress the servant with Rahman [right eye] and Raheem [left eye]. This Rahman is going to dress with the lights of mercy. From the rahem to the noon and this nur that begin to come from their eye. For the one whom their light is deficient, it’s enough that the believer (shaykh) look at them – eyes closed, eyes open – and begin to convey a light. [Img2]

Many people have an experience through watching the videos of the shaykh. That they saw a light come from his eye and come into their eyes and to their heart because the shaykhs image is the same as his personality. It doesn’t matter if you saw his photo and this happened to you. You saw his video and it happened to you because his soul is behind that image. If you draw the shaykh’s face, no. That’s why they don’t like drawings and they don’t even like what the drawings look like. So, better to never draw the image of a shaykh because you portray him in something funny looking and that can be insulting. It’s best to only use a photograph of the shaykhs because this is what Allah (AJ) created. The other is what you’re making with your hands. What Allah (AJ) has created, there’s a reality of the soul behind that image.

The Powerful Light from the Eye of Mawlana Shah Naqshband (Q)

When they’re looking from malakut (heavenly realm), this Rahman from right eye and this nur begin to dress. Mawlana Shah Naqshband’s (Q) qudra (power) is so powerful that from his eye, he will fill four paradises of souls that their lights were deficient. As a result, his nazar bar qadam was not to use it in dunya (material world). Not to send the light to people everywhere you go, stare into their face, fill them with light. Then they go and lose it the next day doing horrible things and looking on the internet and looking at all sort of forbidden things. But they keep this light for Yawmul Mahshar (Judgement Day) in which Allah (AJ) will allow them to bring that light and that reality out.

Shaykh Dresses us from Eternal Light, Whenever We Look at Him

Shaykhs are able to bring that light out in every association. That from their soul they are attending the association. From their right eye goes a light out to whoever is watching in present, past, future. It doesn’t make a difference between time because light has no time. The moment the light is flowing in these associations, it’s not based on 8 O’clock. There’s no time for that light that came out. You watched this video 5 years ago, 10 years from now, 100 years from now, makes no difference. It has no expiration date, right? It’s not like a fish that would go bad after a week. This is from the heavens. So, this light has no time. It immediately come out and begin to dress anybody who’s looking at it.

That’s why hizbul shaitan (party of satan), they can’t watch the videos. They can only make very bad comments based on the thumbnail image. They never even watch it. They just say, ‘Oh, this is this. This is that, that’s like…’ all these horrible comments because the hizbul shaitan, they can’t take the light of what’s being emitted.

Guard Your Eyesight from the Indulgence of Shaitan

So, this is why Allah (AJ) say, ‘Lower your gaze.’ Why? Because we take from what Allah (AJ) gave to Prophet ﷺ and what Prophet ﷺ gave to Holy Companions, Ahlul Bayt and awliyaullah. They are our guideposts of what we should be achieving in life. So, they described that this light of Rahman [from right eye] comes out as a nur that begins to dress.

Then the siyam (fast) and the fasting for the believer is ‘Guard your eyesight.’ Not only for Ramadan – tariqah (spiritual path) comes and it takes all of these trainings into the training of the khawas and the elite. That at every moment, guard your eyes, men and women.

24:30 – “Qul lilmu’ mineena yaghuuddoo min absaarihim wa yahfazoo furoojahum; zaalika azkaa lahum…” (Surat an-Nur)

“Say to the believers/believing men that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty/private parts: that will make for greater purity for them…” (The Light, 24:30)

Shaitan Continuously Feeds Our Eyes to Distract us

You don’t have to look at only nakedness to lose your eye, but you look at dunya (material world). Now look how shaitan (satan) is coming after the eye. There are 10,000 cars, 10,000 models, 10,000 places, 10,000 images; anything that can attract your attention. It doesn’t have to be haram (forbidden) because you could say, ‘No, I’m looking to halal (permissible) things.’ Women are looking at other women and they have too much makeup, they have too much expression, too much this, too much jewelry, whatever it is of dunya, it’s feeding the eye.

This doesn’t have to be haram (forbidden). This is not something about haram but anything that shaitan wants us to indulge in, to look at and keep looking at. That’s why now his systems have gotten so advanced. Before when you looked at a picture, you paused and changed. Now TikTok doesn’t even allow you to pause. It just feeds through, ‘One, two, three, four, five, six.’ So, you see these kids are sitting there for hours just ‘Prr, prr, prr, prr’ [scrolling up’s sound effect] because it’s one video after another video, after another video, after another video, after another video. Because shaitan is feeding them [Shaykh points to right eye] and they have an insatiable appetite. He knows he’s feeding them from haram, to not haram and whatever it is, he’s feeding the eyes. Why? So that they don’t become from sifat ar-Rahman.

Fasting of the Eyes is to Abstain & Not Absorb

The eye that is keeping itself fasting and the reality of fasting is abstaining. When you abstain, your body is purifying. When you’re not abstaining, you are absorbing. You are consuming and eating. So, you’re eating through your eye.

So, what does it make a difference between the eye, the belly, or any other part of the essential organs? The ears, the breath – there’s no difference. They all eat but in a different way. So, the one who eat too much, we’ll talk about later, the power of the stomach and what’s happening in the stomach. What Allah (AJ) wants is the pure eye to be dressed from sifat ar-Rahman and Divinely lights; these Divinely lights to come out and to conquer all negativity.

Consuming Too Much with Our Eyes, Darkens the Heart

Shaitan wants to feed the eye from every type of vision so that the heart becomes darkened. The heart becomes blocked. That’s why the dajjal (man of deceit) and the covering of his eye (right eye). That, ‘I want to give you from my eye the life of dunya, the love of dunya, but I have no nur to give you. I have no light to give you.’ So, it means shaitan comes to take away the light of Rahman from the (right) eye.

So, you can see how intense by technology, how close we are to the last days. He’s feeding the eye so fast, it’s harder and harder to clean. It’s impossible for people to reach a reality in which their eyes are so immersed in visions and pictures and images.

Don’t Fill up the Memory of your Heart with Images

heart-low-battery-charger You can’t even sit to meditate and tafakkur (contemplation) because you’re just going through all the pictures, pictures. It could be ladies going through thousand different styles and images. As soon as you sit to meditate, you can’t. You say, ‘Shaykh, I can’t meditate.’ I know why you can’t meditate. Because your eye filled up with so much data. It’s like a phone, you have maybe 10,000 images and your phone begins to slow down. Unfortunately, this technology is the heart and the more images we put in, the darker the heart is becoming, the more suppressed the heart is becoming. [p5]

Abstain and Keep Your Eyes on The Path

So, the reality of fasting with the eyes is that is to abstain. As much as possible to keep our nazar (gaze) on our feet. The reality of the feet is the qadam, that ‘My path, ya Rabbi, keep my eyes on my path. That keep my eyes on what’s important for me to reach of these realities. That keep my eye on Madinatul Munawwara (luminous city of Prophet ﷺ). Keep my eye on these holy souls. Keep my eye on my practices.’

How to Wash Away Desires & Clean the Heart?

Then they teach how to wash these desires. That when you enter into the shower, you have to step with your right foot into the shower. Enter with left foot into the bathroom, and with right foot into the shower. Don’t email us that, ‘We made wudu (ablution) wrong and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.’ No, the bathroom, you go with left foot, but the shower is a holy sanctuary. You don’t lose your bodily functions in the shower. You’re going to have like a ghusul (ritual shower) of death. That ‘Ya Rabbi, when I enter in this shower, wash me like the dead bodies are washed of all my bad character. Everything that my eye and my body has been dressed by shaitan, wash it away.’ You step into the shower with the right foot.

When you sit under the water of the shower, you close your eyes and see your soul is moving. You ask, ‘Ya Rabbi, let my soul to come out and to push away all of the filth of what has been put upon me and is attempting to be put upon my heart.’ You spend five, six, seven minutes just washing away all these badness and all these bad visions and everything that the eye has seen. So that you keep yourself in a state of wudu. Not only you make wudu on the outer body but when you make your ghusul, make the wudu of your soul that ‘Ya Rabbi, wash this away from me. Wash all of these contaminants and anything that I have seen. Wash it away and keep my heart to be pure.’ Shaitan’s purpose then is to attack that eye, to make sure that everything that is coming to that eye to be of a download of negativity and begin to darken the heart.

Khidr (as) Inherited from Ocean of Hayat & Revitalized the Dead Fish

The left eye – sifat ar-Raheem – is the oceans of al-Hayat, the oceans of eternity. It means that from your left eye, what they want us to inherit is the oceans of Hayat. That they come across the servant and they revitalize the dead. That’s why the fish came to life in the presence of Sayyidina Khidr (as) and Nabi Musa (as). When he said, ‘I want a sign from one of these servants of Allah (AJ),’ Nabi Musa’s (as) dead fish for lunch, that was put on a rock next to a stream, the fish came to life. This is in Qur’an. This is not the hocus pocus of shaykh. It’s in holy Qur’an, the fish came alive and jumped into the river and Allah (AJ) described it was ajeeb (strange).

﴾فَلَمَّا جَاوَزَا قَالَ لِفَتَاهُ آتِنَا غَدَاءَنَا لَقَدْ لَقِينَا مِن سَفَرِنَا هَـٰذَا نَصَبًا ﴿٦٢﴾ قَالَ أَرَأَيْتَ إِذْ أَوَيْنَا إِلَى الصَّخْرَةِ فَإِنِّي نَسِيتُ الْحُوتَ وَمَا أَنسَانِيهُ إِلَّا الشَّيْطَانُ أَنْ أَذْكُرَهُ ۚ وَاتَّخَذَ سَبِيلَهُ فِي الْبَحْرِ عَجَبًا ﴿٦٣

18:62-63 – “Falammaa jaawazaa qaala lifataahu aatinaa ghadaaa’anaa laqad laqeena min safarinaa haazaa nasabaa. (62) Qaala ara’ayta iz awainaaa ilas sakhrati fa innee naseetul hoota wa maaa ansaaneehu illash Shaitaanu an azkurah; wattakhaza sabeelahoo fil bahri’ajabaa (63)” (Surat Al-Kahf)

“So when they had passed beyond it, [Moses] said to his boy, “Bring us our morning meal. We have certainly suffered in this, our journey, [much] fatigue. (62) He said, “Did you see when we retired to the rock? Indeed, I forgot [there] the fish. And none made me forget it except Satan – that I should mention it. And it took its course into the sea amazingly (63)”. (The Cave, 18:62-63)

Shaykhs Can Bring Dead & Hopeless Hearts to Life

That reality of these servants is that the dead come to life. They can bring the dead to life; not the one who already went to Allah (AJ) because he’s with Allah (AJ), he doesn’t need to come back here. But the one whom feel they have no hope. That they have darkened their souls so much that shaitan made them to feel that they have no hope. But Allah (AJ), through a light in the eye of that servant, begins to emanate Bahrul Hayat (the Ocean of Eternity).

Goodness of Both Worlds is with Two Imams – Hassanat fid Dunya wal Akhira

The Bahrul Hayat come out and Hay (The Ever-living). So ‘Raheem’ has ‘Hay’ within it. This is under the authority of Imam al-Hussain (as). ‘Rahman’ is under the authority of Imam al-Hassan (as). That’s why the love of Imam al-Hassan (as) wal Imam al-Hussain (as), Allah (AJ) described is to ‘Give Me fid dunyaa hasanat wa fil aakhirati hasanat wa qinaa azaaban Naar.’

﴾وَمِنْهُم مَّن يَقُولُ رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِي الْآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ ﴿٢٠١

2:201 – “Wa minhum mai yaqoolu rabbanaaa aatina fid dunyaa hasanatawn wa fil aakhirati hasanatanw wa qinaa azaaban Naar.” (Surat Al-Baqarah)

“Our Lord, give us in this world [that which is] good and in the Hereafter [that which is] good and protect us from the punishment of the Fire.” (The Cow, 2:201)

That ‘Ya Rabbi give me from the goodness of Imam al-Hassan (as) and Imam al-Hussain (as) because that means ‘Little Hassan.’ That keep me in their company. Keep me under their love. Keep me under their dress.’

We Don’t Understand the Importance of Loving the Ahlul Bayt ﷺ

When you love them, that’s the secret of love. When you don’t try to put in your mind who’s important and who’s not important. Love! Love comes free. When you love them, especially the family of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ , we have no understanding of what Allah (AJ) has dressed them.

As much as we talk can fill books and books and books and still we have no understanding of what their reality is. But we know that they inherit from the oceans of generosity, love and compassion. That just by loving these Ahlul Bayt – that’s why Allah (AJ) makes a test for everyone. Allah (AJ) makes all these stories and all these schisms and all these groups that are breaking in paths. Makes it difficult for people to follow the reality. It’s a test! Someone says ‘This is shia, this is this.’ Say, ‘I don’t know what you’re calling it. This is the family of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and it’s my duty and obligation to love them.’ When you pass all the fitna (confusion) and all the façade, we don’t know the reality of what one act of love towards them will be dressing us by.

Love Imam Hassan (as), He’ll Dress Your Right Eye with Nur

Imagine bringing a cake for Imam al-Hassan (as) and he dresses you and intercede for you that sifat Rahman to bless your eyes and wherever you go, this light comes. It’s not from shaykhs or from tariqahs (spiritual paths) because some people say, ‘This is from shaykh so and so, big shaykh. This from shaykh so and so.’ No, no, this is from Imam al-Hassan (as)!

If Imam Hassan (as) gives you from his right eye, light will come from sifat ar-Rahman. When you say ‘Bismillahir Rahman,’ light will begin to emanate from your eye. They are the owners. Then awliya said, ‘Oh we are from jaddal hassani wal hussaini’ because they are inheriting from this jad (grandfather). That’s important, not that it came from that wali (saint). That wali was not the source of that reality, he came from these two big family members. They inherit from their jad, from their descendancy. So, this sifat (attribute) and the reality of the right eye is with Imam al-Hassan (as).

Love Imam Hussain (as) – He has Secret of Rabbir Raheem & Ocean of Eternity

Left eye is Sayyid as-Shuhada, who is the master of witnessing and the master of how he died upon this earth. What Allah (AJ) gave to him is the keys of Al-Hayat, the ocean of eternity, the oceans of immense reality. “Salamun qawlam mir Rabbir Raheem.”

﴾سَلَامٌ قَوْلًا مِّن رَّبٍّ رَّحِيمٍ ﴿٥٨

36:58 – “Salamun qawlam mir Rabbir Raheem.” (Surat YaSeen)

“Peace,” a word from a Merciful Lord. (YaSeen, 36:58)

That in the heart of Prophet ﷺ, Suratul YaSeen. If your love is so perfect so correct…that’s why Mawlana Shaykh (Q) said, ‘Even you should shed a tear for Imam al-Hussain (as).’ Why? Because this key of “Salamun qawlam mir Rabbir Raheem” is with that one that you don’t seem to be crying about. Shame on you that you didn’t cry for the sound and the story of his death. Imagine what he’s carrying. He carries “Salamun qawlam mir Rabbir Raheem.” He is the rabb and the lord of sifat Raheem.

He carries the oceans of Al-Hayat because his name is Hussain (as) and has the ya within that. The ya of yaqeen (certainty) is in there in that reality. It means that this light in the left eye of oceans of Al-Hayat, the servant then is being dressed from oceans of eternity.

The Eyes of Awliya Carry Nur (Light) and Ocean of Eternity

Ya Hussain Sayyid as Shuhada MSNj Dua Imam Shrine These [two] are the balance lights of all realities. That [awliya] through their eyes, they have the ‘lights’ of paradises and the ‘ocean of Al-Hayat’ from paradises. These are the paradise servants. They carry these lights and these emanations wherever they go. Whoever looks at them, gaze upon them, attend their associations, they’re being dressed by oceans of light from ar-Rahman. They’re being dressed from the oceans of Al-Hayat from sifat ar-Raheem. This is the immensity of saying Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, what Allah (AJ) dresses of these lights upon them.

Fast With All Senses & Allah (AJ) will Complete His Favours Upon you

Why shaitan is blocking? Because he has no power of Al-Hayat. Shaitan‘s only purpose is to take away the reality of the light and this is the power of Ramadan.

This is the power of fasting. When Allah (AJ) say, ‘Okay, you came one year, you fasted Ramadan. Mabruk (congratulations)! Now next year, fast with all your senses.’ It’s not only fasting with the mouth but complete the fast. Fast with the ears, fast with the eyes. Tonight, we’re talking about fasting with the eyes. So that Allah (AJ) can complete His Ramadan favour upon you. That, ‘You fasted these 30 days. That only I can give you the reward that I want to give you. I want to dress your eyes with Al-Hayat. I want to dress your left eye with Hayat, your right eye with Nur. I want to complete my favours upon My servant.’

Tariqah Teaches PhD Courses to Achieve Something

This is the immensity of these realities. Always remember that tariqah comes and teaches ‘azimah (determination), not ruksiya – the easy. When people are saying, ‘Why we should do like this? Why we do like that?’ You don’t have to do anything. You can do whatever you want. But the tariqah comes and teaches the most difficult and the highest reality so that we are always trying to achieve something.

If you just teach kindergarten then people never leave kindergarten. But when we teach the college course, PhD courses, we have something that we should be aspiring for. They say ‘Shaykh, I’m new, I don’t think I can even do Ramadan.’ InshaAllah, Allah (AJ) give you strength. Don’t worry about it. Next time, you’ll understand how to fast with more senses and all of these understandings. We pray that Allah (AJ) give us more and more understanding of the reality and the importance and the immensity of purifying the eyes. Now in the purification (of the eyes) and the fasting is abstinence.

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: April 1, 2021

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