Jealousy and the Spiritual Ramifications of Online Trolling
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. 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 in this holy month.
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)
Remembering Sayyidatina Fatima Zahra’s (as) Immense Realities
Alhamdulillah, blessed weekend for celebrating the birth of the most blessed soul in all of paradises in which Allah (AJ) granting the soul of the daughter of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ Fatima Zahra (as) immense realities of the secrets of khaliq and creation and that everything that comes into existence by a secret, that secret and all secrets given to the reality of the soul of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and Prophet ﷺ giving that as an inheritance to the soul and the reality of Sayyidatina Fatima Zahra (as) and infinite other realities. We ask that Allah (AJ) dress us and bless us from ishq (love) and muhabbat (love).
Do Not Assume Everyone Has Good Manners
That stations that can never be achieved by worshipness, by fasting but by good character and manners. Many times and recently somebody emailed saying that, ‘We sent the post somewhere and I was astonished because of the backlash that the leaders of a chat group and leaders of this or that started to attack and say very, very sort of belligerent things, awful things and started to attack you, attack your teaching system, everything.’ Everything is a reminder that this way is based on manners and the assumption that people have that, ‘Oh, everybody has these manners.’ It’s false and Allah (AJ) allows us to understand the beauty of the teacher that we have and what was taught to us would then be conveyed to our students.
In our youth and younger age when we would travel, we would come across so many who claim to love Mawlana (Q) and love the teaching but Allah (AJ) exposed that they were not taught. To love someone and to just say that, ‘Make your prayers and follow them’ is incorrect. That you can’t make rules against the way of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. The problem when people feel they can make a rule that supersedes Islam. One – you’ll create a immense amount of ignorance and bad-mannered people and that’s within the family of tariqah (spiritual path).
Beware of Those Who Claim to Have Love But Exhibit Nasty Character
Tonight is not about outside but inside because that’s the sadness attached with Ahlul Bayt (holy family of Prophet ﷺ). Their issues were not from outside but the issues that continuously struggled against was the battle inside the family of Islam, inside. For us, the tariqahs and the tariqah ways and that’s why when we teach the students: you merely post and run. Don’t engage anyone because we understand the system of wild dogs. Unfortunately, the students are under the assumption all must have been trained the same as if everybody got the same degree. In our youth when we traveled, we realized that very quick – absolutely not.
Many claim to have love the way, love the shaykhs and love with all sincerity and absolutely had no manners and you could not distinguish them between a prisoner and a prison in the middle of South America. The belligerence, the nastiness of character, the nastiness of mouth and action as if like a hoodlum from street gangs and still same demeanor. They say they lead zikr (Divine remembrance), they lead groups and they’re in different areas. They’re…they brought their hoodlum and hooliganism into Islam and they run it with the same demeanor. That’s the sadness because this is the month of guidance.
Even Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ was Told to Leave Ignorant Ones
This is the month of qamaron and what this holy surah (chapter) is guiding for us and this event happening in this month – it’s not a coincidence. We say ayah (verse), 5th ayah, if we can read, Shaykh Shahid, from Surat Al-Qamaron, Qamar 54, ayah 5.
Reciter: “ A’uzu Billahi Minash shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Hikmatun baalighatun famaa tughnin nuzur”. SadaqAllahul aliyyul ‘Azim.
حِكْمَةٌ بَالِغَةٌ ۖ فَمَا تُغْنِ النُّذُرُ ﴿٥﴾
54:5 – “Hikmatun baalighatun famaa tughnin nuzur”. (Surar Al Qamar)
“Extensive wisdom – but warning does not avail/benefit [them].” (The Moon, 54:5)
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Wa barakat Rasulul Kareem (the most generous messenger) and that in this month of guidance Allah (AJ) sends a reminder that, ‘Even in the face of extensive wisdom but a warning does not avail them.’ That they see the product, they see the teachings, they see all these realities. Immense amounts of wisdom and knowledge is coming out, but it does nothing to them. So, the next ayatul kareem (the generous verse of Holy Qur’an), Allah (AJ) describes to Prophet ﷺ, ‘So leave them, ya Nabi, ya Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, unto the day that the caller calls to something forbidding.’
فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ ۘ يَوْمَ يَدْعُ الدَّاعِ إِلَىٰ شَيْءٍ نُّكُرٍ ﴿٦﴾
54:6 – “Fatawalla ‘anhum; yawma yad’ud daa’yi ilaa shai ‘in nukur”. (Surat Al Qamar)
“Therefore, (O Muhammad (pbuh), turn away from them. The Day that the Caller will call (them) to something forbidden/terrible affair”. (The Moon, 54:6)
It means that in the face of these times of ignorance even with all the wisdom that people can give, the bad character people leave them, leave them to their destruction within their own hands. When the system doesn’t teach them and doesn’t encourage them to seek knowledge, they become like a water that’s not flowing. You know the water for wudu (ablution) has to be like a river that’s flowing. Stagnant water becomes spoiled because it’s no longer fresh. It’s no longer clean for wudu because elements, bacteria everything starts to gather within it.
Nobody Takes This Path for You – You Must Make Effort!
It means our Islam and our reality and our knowledges must be in a continuous state flowing. When a group decide that, ‘No’. They replied, ‘You don’t need to seek any knowledge. Just you pray, the shaykh will take you to paradise.’ What part of the message of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ was that? Nobody can take your path for you. This is not about that. It’s about you have to follow the shari’ah (Divine law), you have to wash, you have to pray. You have to do all those efforts and the greatest achievement is the servant that seeks knowledge. Prophet ﷺ described, ‘Seek it all the way to China if you have to’. It means from wherever you are seek the furthest bounties of realities and knowledges and that knowledge is power.
أُطْلُبُوا الْعِلْمَ وَلَوْ فِي الصِّيْنِ
“Uthlubul ‘ilma walaw fis Seen.”
“Seek knowledge even (if it is) in China.” Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
You Must Fight for Peace, Not Just Declare It
Every word and kalaam from awliyaullah (saints) is a power upon the soul, is a fire against bad desires and bad character. The one whom is devoid of knowledge has no protection. He’s in a state or she’s in a state of ignorance and that ignorance then begins to rule them, so that’s not Islam. Islam was not that you stay a stagnant water, wait in the corner, somebody will pick you up and take you to your destination. But your Islam exactly meant what it says is that to submit and submission is a great fight. Like when people ask and they’ve asked us in new age events, ‘Oh, what is peace, Shaykh?’ It’s the greatest fight you’ll ever put in your life. It’s not that you declare peace and sit by a tree and it comes to you. Prophet ﷺ described peace is a great jihad (struggle), more than fighting people. When you determine that you’re going to seek a path of knowledge, shaitan now is on the other side saying, ‘Okay, I’m going to call in ten more shaitans to come after you’ and that is the greatest struggle. It means now the fight is on.
The one who sits in ignorance, sits on their couch, does nothing, moves nothing, reads nothing, learns nothing is like the water of wudu, is soiled and of no value, become najes (dirty). It even becomes dirty for people. Why? Because if you put it on to somebody, they become dirty from it. It’s no longer a wudu that cleans you. Imagine you take a filthy water from the toilet and throw it to somebody. They’re in worse condition than when they didn’t have wudu.
There is No Safety From Shaitan
Our life’s purpose was to seek knowledge. Our life’s purpose in tariqahs was to seek manners. So, that’s why then we travelled in those days and we understood the extent of our manners by meeting people who had no manners. Otherwise, you don’t know what you have until you see other places. We travelled to Lefke and everyone thought that, ‘Oh, there’s going to be salawats (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) everywhere and people going to listen to salawats and make their zikrs and make their…’ There was absolutely nothing. There was no salawats. We had to get permission to open up that cafe, play the salawats, teach the muraqabah (spiritual connection). When Sultanul Awliya (king of saints) was alive, they gave permission for that. Just assuming everybody in tariqah has good manners, everybody in the masjid is going to govern themselves correctly then you’ve already lost because shaitan went into paradise and took Adam and Eve outside, in paradise and brought them down.
So, it means there is nowhere safe from shaitan and he goes everywhere. Allah (AJ) gave that permission. So, our life was to achieve knowledges; knowledges that are not dunya (material world). So, it means you’re not studying accounting only for all your life but the knowledges that benefit the soul and the reality and my eternal journey. That was the greatest purpose and we posted all the Hadith from Riyad as Saliheen, the gardens of paradise which is the most, most popular Ahlus Sunnah (people of prophetic tradition), a book of collective Hadith and beautifully categorized, people of zikr seeking the people of knowledges.
Engaging with Negative Comments Online is to Engage with Shaitan
So which part of that, you know, they make all these horrible comments and they say, ‘Oh, this is against this, is against…’ when they give no proof and they slander and backbite. As soon as you come across people like that, that’s why don’t engage shaitan. You’re never supposed to engage shaitan. You’re merely supposed to post because that becomes like you’re traveling. Where before people would travel with their shaykh and they would get to see the characteristics of people so that they would make their faith to become real.
Faith in action. Our way, our motto is ‘faith in action’. You can’t read about somebody’s charity. You have to go out and be charitable and if you can’t do the charity then support us to give to the people who can do the charity. Then post these articles, post these videos and if people are bold enough to make and their horrible character to come out than just merely observe and say, ‘This is what the shaykh was talking about’. That when somebody becomes a wild dog like foaming from their mouth, saying horrible things, bad things, backbiting, backbiting a shaykh, backbiting an ‘aalim (scholar), backbiting Ahlul Bayt (Holy Family of Prophet ﷺ), all of them in one package when you come against the shaykh. Then you can see that’s what the shaykh was talking about. For whoever taught this person, actually taught them nothing and that’s the exact sickness of why they need those videos.
One Who Curses Others Without Proof Have Left Islam
So, there are people who go around traveling, ‘You don’t need all these knowledges’. Well, because they don’t have them. ‘Just you pray and your shaykh will take you to paradise’. That’s against Islamic aqidah (belief) and creed. That somebody else will carry you and do your path for you? Or you’re supposed to do all of your Islam and you’re supposed to seek knowledge and you’re supposed to accompany a guide. It means our whole life was to seek knowledges, seek realities and as a result of seeking knowledges, we would have sought good manners because the foundation of all knowledge is based on akhlaaq (character). In the schools of tarbiyah (discipline), that anyone who accompanied the shaykh, wanted to learn, went and sat with the shaykh, he should have been taught that one – how to talk, how to respond, how not to respond, how not to backbite, how not to slander and that’s again, a learning for our students. So our students are taught – you’re not supposed to engage anyone. So, you merely posted. So, you did the noble thing, then look at the reaction of the other person. They became extremely belligerent. Now you know how they’re outside of Islam. They’re throwing all sorts of expressions that make them and push them outside of the boundary of Islam.
Forget about Ahlus Sunnah – as soon as you curse a shaykh, you curse their aqidah, you curse their belief, you gave no proof, no daleel. That person left Islam and they have to immediately repent, but for our people it’s good to watch and say, ‘Oh, this is what the shaykh is talking about’. These people are not being taught any manners. For whoever taught them could not have taught them anything. Why did they respond like this? Why do they talk like this?
If You Don’t Like Something or Don’t Understand, Stay Quiet and Move On
It means even in the adab (manners) of food, how food is such a small but important reality. That Prophet ﷺ described that when you go to eat, it’s a ni’mat (blessing) from Allah (AJ). Don’t kick that ni’mat for Allah (AJ) will punish you. As the result of going to eat something and you don’t like it, you don’t have to make a comment. Put it gently aside because all of it is a blessing. If you don’t like that flavor, who cares? Your manners should have taught you say nothing and put that aside. Now come to something so much greater in importance. If you come across a reality that you don’t understand, you come across a teacher you don’t understand, you come across a teaching you don’t understand from authorized guides whom have written ijazahs (permissions) from Allah (AJ) – Prophet ﷺ all the way through Sultanul Awliya – when you don’t understand something, stay quiet, stay silent. Just say, ‘Thank you very much, pray for us,’ and go your way and that’s the school of manners.
Someone like that would have been taught by somebody who knows how to teach manners. When you don’t like something, put it aside. You don’t have to make all the comments. You don’t have to make the sarcasms and criticisms. You don’t have to begin to render attacks because you dig your own grave. You, in no way, harm the shaykh because anyone who slanders somebody, actually shaitan is inspiring them to carry the burdens of that person so that’s also good for us. So, when people are slandering, alhamdulillah, because then Allah (AJ) takes whatever sins we have and give to them; could be thousands of people the shaykh are involved with. So, imagine the weight of those sins – they get to leave the shaykh and go on that person whom is backbiting.
Don’t Rely on Anyone to Carry You on This Path
So, it means that our way is only based on manners but it’s an excellent experience for people to post everywhere and if you encounter people with this horrific character, it’s there for us to understand. This is what the Shaykh is talking about. These are the people who have absolutely no manners and they make a version of Islam that not understood; learn nothing, don’t worry about anything, one person will carry you – that’s not Islam. Because if you rely on that one person and you should fall or that person should fall, all your Islam is in an incorrect belief. Everything of Islam was to seek knowledge, to have the love for Allah (AJ), the love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, the love for Holy Qur’an, the understanding of Hadith and seeking ilm and knowledges. The greatest of knowledges are that which are of an eternal reality, the knowledges of the soul and malakut (heavenly realm). The schools of adab teach: what you don’t know, what you don’t understand, what you dislike, stay quiet and move on.
Hasad (Jealousy) is the Most Demonic Characteristic of People
In regards to the family of Prophet ﷺ, it teaches us and the calamities of the Ahlul Bayt and the holy companions was jealousy. That the greatest sickness that, ‘Shaykh, why? Why is it happening?’ which we’re not allowed to ask ‘why’ but we’ll give you ‘why,’ that why are there certain people like this? Why are the people who come against and begin to attack and have so much to say but they don’t know anything? They never read it, they never even understood it. They can’t ever come back and say, ‘Oh, this is line is incorrect, this is incorrect,’ nothing. Just throw out blanket sarcasms. Why and the why of why they killed Imam Hussain (as) is the same why. They’re jealous. We describe that in the talks of Sayyidatina Maryam (as). Why they came to kill Sayyidina Isa (as)? Why they came to kill Imam al-Hussain (as)? Why they came and killed the holy companions? Because of jealousy. That the most demonic characteristic of people is hasad (jealousy).
When jealousy enters into a person, a shaykh, a person, a mureed (devoted disciple) – doesn’t matter what – there’s no titles for Allah (AJ). Either you clean yourself or you didn’t clean yourself. When jealousy enters the heart of an insan (mankind), immediately, it blocks them from seeing anything. It’s the hasad that causes a veil and that veil is like a veil over the eyes and the ears because they hear nothing and see nothing from that reality of that person.
We are Blocked and Veiled When We are Jealous
The turuq (spiritual path) is based on humility. They released a video just two days ago from our videos of Muharram and it’s all about humility. It’s coming in now into qamar (moon) to remind our people and our teaching and myself that, of course, people are jealous. When they don’t understand a subject, they don’t understand how you teach it, where you got this from, what’s this reality. As soon as that jealousy comes, they no longer can even hear what you have to say. [Shaykh imitates person speaking] It’s completely blocked for them. That’s why Allah (AJ) is describing in the ayatul kareem (the generous verse of Holy Qur’an) that we read that even in the face of hikmatun, like immense amounts of hikmah (wisdom), they are not going to hear the warning (Holy Qur’an, 54:5). It means they’re not hearing the hikmah, they’re not hearing the knowledges. They definitely, when they look they’re not seeing it because hasad has come and begin to veil them.
They begin as a result of hasad (jealousy), to begin to take actions. That’s what we said – the shaykh is nothing in comparison to holy people because in the history of Islam, this is the history. That doesn’t matter what their station was if they became jealous. They became veiled of who the other side was and they began to attack. That was the great calamity because these people were calling ‘azaan (call to prayer), the jealousy veiling them and on the other side, they went and slaughtered the family of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ but they called the ‘azaan, they were praying. These were not khawarij who left Islam. They were in Islam and making their salah (daily prayer) and slaughtering on the other hand, the family of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Hasad Leads to Disturbing and Aggressive Behaviour
Why? Because jealousy. That, ‘What you have, we don’t have. What you represent, we don’t have that.’ For whatever reason, be it true or not true, that hasad (jealousy) enters a person and each step they make is against – they want to cut the person. They want to ignore the person. They want to be rude to the person. For what? Was something rude done to them? No. There’s not even been any communication from other sides, ‘But the mere fact that you’re alive disturbs us,’ because that’s what somebody can say. Allah (AJ) will ask them, ‘Why, why was… what was wrong with this person?’
‘Just a mere fact he’s alive, I’m disturbed.’
‘Has he said something against you, your family, your understanding?’
‘Absolutely nothing.’
So, why? Well, because of hasad. Hasad enters into the heart of somebody, they no longer can hear what this person’s saying or teaching. As a result, they become blind to it and from that blindness, they begin to react in a way that can become very aggressive and very disturbing. As a result, they propagate that to other students; teach the bad manners, teach the bad character, be very rude to them, be belligerent to their…and all from these are the realities of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That’s the danger, that’s the immense danger.
People Try to Destroy Others When They’re Jealous
In the last days, that people become more and more filled with hasad (jealousy). They’re doing it now in dunya (material world). That when the person has more materials than the other person, they intentionally try to collapse them, destroy them, bring them down. Then they do it in the last days in the spiritual realm. Why? They do it in in the realms of Islam and religion where in their hasad, they try to take a person down. What Sayyidina Jalaluddin (Q) and these are the ways of awliyaullah (saints), that by taking someone’s light out it doesn’t make your light to burn any greater.
Your issue should be with Allah (AJ). That, “Ya Rabbi, zidni ‘Ilm e Laduni wa hikmati bis Saliheen (Divinely knowledge and wisdom of the righteous).” ‘Grant me, ya Rabbi, the heavenly knowledges and the hikmah in which to use it.’ Your problem is with Allah (AJ), not with the shaykh, thinking, ‘I will take this shaykh down therefore my light will show more’. No, as a matter of fact, your light is diminishing every time you attack that shaykh. They become devoid of light because a hasad has overtaken them, anger has overtaken them. Every type of bad characteristic has overtaken the insan.
Beware: Your Hasad Can Lead You to Come Against Saints of Allah (AJ)
That’s the dangers and that’s why the true guidance is to teach your students: whoever these people think they are, they lead a zikr, they lead a community, they’re here, they’re there – teach and learn Divinely knowledges and teach manners, teach khuluq and character, good character. That which you don’t like, just stay quiet and Allah (AJ) will bless you. That which you can’t understand, you stay quiet to it, Allah (AJ) will bless you. As soon as you take the characteristics of shaitan and begin now to lunge attacks and how do you know whom Allah (AJ) has favored? Now you may fall under the character…characteristic in which Allah (AJ) says, ‘I will declare war against anyone who comes against My wali (saint).’
عَنْ أَبِيِ هُرَيْرَةِ رَضِّيَّ اللهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ :” إِنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَىٰ قَالَ: ” مَنْ عَادَى لِي وَلِيًّا فَقْد آذَنْتهُ بِالْحَرْبِ” [اَلمَصْدَرْ: صَحِيحْ الْبُخَارِيُّ – رقم:٦٥٠٢]
‘An Abi Hurairah (ra) Qala, qala Rasulullahi ﷺ: InAllaha Ta’ala qala: “Man ‘ada li waliyan faqda adhantahu bil harbi,…” (Hadith Qudsi, Sahih al Bukhari, Raqam: 6502)
Narrated by Abu Hurairah (ra) that: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said that: Allah the Almighty said: “I will declare war against him who shows hostility to a Wali (saint) of Mine…” [Holy Hadith – Authentic by al Bukhari 6502]
Always Keep the Best of Manners
If a person should, by any chance, be of a saintly character, Allah (AJ) only knows, not the people whom think they’re saintly, whom Allah (AJ) grants and knows. As a result of avoiding that difficulty, Mawlana Shaykh (Q) always said, ‘Keep the best of manners.’ The school was of manners and stay quiet. That which you don’t understand, stay quiet until Allah (AJ) gives a hikmah and an understanding and a wisdom within the heart. But we understand why it’s happening is hasad (jealousy). So, then those whom are taught by these guides, our students is that you propagate the knowledge and sit back and watch the reaction like a science class. If the post begins to fizzle because people are going all over the place, then you understand the sickness of people. Their comments are like the experiment. Why are they fizzling when you introduce a video, an article, a salawat (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ)? Like we described when we go live on TikTok, oh he was going crazy as if you put vinegar and sodium bicarbonate together and then…going to start to foam everywhere. The two elements didn’t seem to be matching, but at least now you can see the sickness.
So, alhamdulillah, always a reminder for myself and Holy Qur’an is guiding us this month. Allah (AJ) is reminding that, ‘Even in the face of whatever types of knowledges, they’re not going to hear because hasad has overtaken them, pass them by and go to the next’. It means that train is in a continuous movement. Who’s understanding, who’s polite to it, who acknowledges it, alhamdulillah. Those whom don’t, may Allah (AJ) guide them. Those whom are belligerent and exhibit all sorts of nasty characteristics for no particular reason and lunge all sorts of slanders, accusations, may Allah (AJ) send them to schools of knowledge and to the schools of adab and good manners. We pray that Allah (AJ) grant us these lights, these blessings and the oceans of forgiveness and maghfirah.
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: 12 January, 2023
Related Articles:
- Reality of Binary Code in Shawwal and Sickness of Gheebah (Backbiting)
- Keep a Path of Silence, Put a Rock in Your Mouth
- The Way of Testing is to Remain Silent and Have Good Character
- To Draw Near to Allah (AJ) By Patience and Testing
- Stay Silent and Control All Your Senses
Please Donate and support us to spread these heavenly knowledges.
Copyright © 2023 Naqshbandi Islamic Center of Vancouver, All Rights Reserved.