Keep the Company of Ashab ul Kahf to Guard Yourself Against Dajjal

August 16, 2025 August 21, 2025

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From the Realities of Mawlana (Q) as taught by Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi

أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ ٱلْرَّجِيمِ
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

I seek refuge in Allah (AJ) from the accursed Satan
In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

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

Atiullah wa atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum. Always a reminder for myself, ana abdukal ‘ajeez, wa dayeef, wa miskin, wa zhalim, wa jahl, and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that we’re still in existence.

أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَأُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنكُم… ﴿٥٩﴾‏ …

4:59 – “…Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil amre minkum…” (Surat an-Nisa)

“…Obey Allah, obey the Messenger, and those in authority among you…” (The Women, 4:59)

Enter the Divine Cave of Mercy in the Blessed Month of Safar

In the holy month of Safar and the opening of Divine cave, the cave of rahmah and mercy which Allah (AJ) said that, ‘Enter into this cave and I protect you from difficulty and shower you from Divinely rahmah.’ InshaAllah, we read from Surat al Kahf, we start at verse 9. These are a description of these rijal (mature men). This surah (chapter) gives the character, the adab (manner) and the reality of this way and this path into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Haji Shahid, we can recite Surat al-Kahf, verse 9.

Reciter: “A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Am hasibta anna Ashaabal Kahfi war Raqeemi kaanu min Aayaatinaa ‘ajabaa.” SadaqAllahul ‘Aliyul ‘Azim.

أَمْ حَسِبْتَ أَنَّ أَصْحَابَ الْكَهْفِ وَالرَّقِيمِ كَانُوا مِنْ آيَاتِنَا عَجَبًا ﴿٩﴾‏

18:9 – “Am hasibta anna Ashaabal Kahfi war Raqeemi kaanoo min Aayaatinaa ‘ajabaa.” (Surat al Kahf)

“Or have you thought that the companions of the cave and the inscription were, among Our signs, a wonder?” (The Cave, 18:9)

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Wa barakah Rasulul Kareem (Most Generous Messenger). InshaAllah, also verse 10 please, sorry.

Reciter: “Iza aw al fityatu ilal kahfi faqalu Rabbana atina min ladunka Rahmatan wa hayyi lana min amrina rashada.” SadaqAllahul ‘Aliyul ‘Azim.

﴾إِذْ أَوَى الْفِتْيَةُ إِلَى الْكَهْفِ فَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا آتِنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ رَحْمَةً وَهَيِّئْ لَنَا مِنْ أَمْرِنَا رَشَدًا ﴿١٠

18:10 – “Idha aw al fityatu ilal kahfi faqalo Rabbana atina min ladunka Rahmatan wa hayyi lana min amrina rashada.” (Surat Al-Kahf)

“When the young men fled for refuge to the Cave and said: Our Lord! Give us mercy from Thy presence, and shape for us right conduct in our plight.” (The Cave, 18:10)

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Barakah Rasulul Kareem, Habibul ‘Azim (The Beloved of the Magnificent).

Run to the Cave for Allah’s (AJ) Mercy and Guidance

InshaAllah, Allah (AJ) directing us that to run to this cave and that by running into this cave, that retreated into the cave. Allah’s (AJ) promise for them is, ‘To grant from ourselves a mercy, and prepare for us our affairs in rightly guidance.’

“Wa hayyi lana amrina rashada”, to become rushd and to become ripened in Divinely realities that only the sun and the source of light can dress upon the soul. Allah’s (AJ) next verse that they’re entering in, ‘We’re running from shaitan (satan), run from all that this dunya (material world) will call us to worship.’

﴾وَإِذِ اعْتَزَلْتُمُوهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا اللَّـهَ فَأْوُوا إِلَى الْكَهْفِ يَنشُرْ‌ لَكُمْ رَ‌بُّكُم مِّن رَّ‌حْمَتِهِ وَيُهَيِّئْ لَكُم مِّنْ أَمْرِ‌كُم مِّرْ‌فَقًا ﴿١٦

18:16 – “Wa idhi’ tazaltumo hum wa ma ya’budoona illAllaha fawoo ilal kahfi yanshur lakum rabbukum mir rahmatihi wa yuhayyi lakum min amrikum mirfaqa.” (Surat Al-Kahf)

“When ye turn away from them and the things they worship other than Allah, betake yourselves to the Cave: Your Lord will shower His mercies on you and disposes of your affair towards comfort and ease.” (The Cave, 18:16)

Recite Surat Al-Kahf on Jum’ah for Protection From Dajjal

It means that now we know that these are times of immense testing. That as much as somebody believes, their belief is going to become much more difficult in the time of dajjal (man of deceit). What Prophet ﷺ described for us and that’s why it’s highly recommended to recite Surat al Kahf on Jum’ah (Friday). They say that this is a protection, a hadith, that this is a protection against dajjal (system of deceit).

عَنْ أَبِي الدَّرْدَاءِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ: “مَنْ حَفِظَ عَشْرَ آيَاتٍ مِنْ أَوَّلِ سُورَةِ الْكَهْفِ، عُصِمَ مِنَ الدَّجَّالِ. [صَحِيحْ مُسْلِمٌ، رِيَاضُ الصَّالِحِينْ ١٠٢١]

‘An Abi ad Darda (ra), anna Rasulallahi ﷺ qala: “Man hafizha ‘ashra aayatin min awwali Suratil Kahf, ‘usima minad Dajjal.” (Sahih Muslim, Riyad as Salihin 1021)

Abu al Darda’ (ra) reported the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: “Whoever memorizes the first ten verses of Suratil Kahf, will be safe/protected from (the trial of) the Man of Deceit (Antichrist).” [Authentic by Muslim, Riyad as Salihin 1021]

Seek Protection From the Companions of the Cave Against Dajjal

More important is then to be from Ashab ul Kahf (Companions of the Cave) and to ask to be in that reality for it’s a immense protection against the fitna (confusion) of dajjal. Everything about dajjal (system of deceit) is to take faith away so that they worship other than Allah (AJ). That they believe that they can be saved by other than Allah (AJ). It means the immensity of fitna that will be brought by dajjal is not something it can be imagined.

That, as everyone is sick, dajjal comes to heal and says that, ‘If you come to me, I will heal you. You don’t need to believe in anything above. You don’t need to believe in any creator, anything. Just come to me, I will heal you. Come to me, I will give you wealth. Come to me, I will feed you.’ Because of the amount of fitna that will be onto the Earth.

Know Nothing Protects You from Deceit Except Allah’s (AJ) Power

How much people will be in difficulty and dajjal (man of deceit) will be offering them a means in which to receive their health, their wealth, their sustenance and food. This, Allah (AJ) is giving a permission for this to happen. So, we can see that how we’re entering into that testing phase where Allah (AJ) inspiring within your faith that, ‘There is nothing that can help you through these difficulties except by Allah (AJ).’

That everybody is running in different directions thinking, ‘No, this will help. That will help. This will help. These…take three of these. These will help.’ We see how confused that fitna can be and it’s only going to be intensifying. That’s why it’s important that every step of the way to believe, and to believe firmly because Allah (AJ), “Ya ayyuhal lazeena aamanoo aamanu”.

﴾يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا آمِنُو… ﴿١٣٦

4:136 – “Ya ayyuhal lazeena aamanoo aaminu…” (Surat An-Nisa)

“O ye who believe! Believe…” (The Women, 4:136)

Make Your Faith Stronger and Deeper Like the Evergreen Tree

The belief will be tested again to go deeper and deeper and deeper; deeper as in the roots of your faith, to be so deep like an evergreen tree. That the faith is so strong that you blossom from the outside as an evergreen; evergreen, like an eternal. You’re not withering. Your energy, your force from Allah (AJ) is very strong. You’re not withering away. It’s rooted deep with immense faith.

So, Allah (AJ) is asking that and describing from these youth and all these qissahs and stories are placeholders for the Muhammadan reality. That, the position of seven sleepers and one guardian – the reality of that is not a dog, but it’s in the sense of an obedience and a lion from Allah (AJ).

Seek Guidance Through the Seven Eternal Stations of Divine Light

That these are seven eternal stations of souls and saintly darajat (spiritual ranks) in which Allah (AJ) describes them, ‘They entered into the cave. Allah (AJ) sealed their hearing.’

فَضَرَبْنَا عَلَىٰ آذَانِهِمْ فِي الْكَهْفِ سِنِينَ عَدَدًا ﴿١١﴾‏

“Fadarabna AAala athanihimfee alkahfi sineena AAadada” (Surat al Kahf)

18:11 – So We cast [a cover of sleep] over their ears within the cave for a number of years. (The Cave, 18:11)

Then the next ayatul kareem (Generous verse of Holy Qur’an) describes how their movement was based on the sun. The sun shined on this way, they moved. The sun shined on them another way, they moved to show the immense reality of the isharat (signs) and the guidance that coming to them.

﴾وَتَرَى الشَّمْسَ إِذَا طَلَعَت تَّزَاوَرُ عَن كَهْفِهِمْ ذَاتَ الْيَمِينِ وَإِذَا غَرَبَت تَّقْرِضُهُمْ ذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ وَهُمْ فِي فَجْوَةٍ مِّنْهُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ آيَاتِ اللَّـهِ ۗ مَن يَهْدِ اللَّـهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِ ۖ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُ وَلِيًّا مُّرْشِدًا ﴿١٧

18:17 – “Wa tarash shamsa idha tala’at tazawaru an kahfihim dhata al yameeni wa idha gharabat taqriduhum dhataash shimali wa hum fee faj watin minhu, Dhalika min ayati Allahi, man yahdillahu fahuwal Muhtadi, wa man yudlil falan tajida lahu waliyyan murshida.” (Surat Al-Kahf)

“And You would have seen the sun, when it rose, declining to the right from their Cave, and when it set, turning away from them to the left, while they lay in the open space in the midst of the Cave. That was from the Signs of Allah: He whom Allah, guides is rightly guided; but he whom Allah leaves to stray, for him you will never find Saintly Guide to the Right Way.” (The Cave, 18:17)

Run to Allah (AJ) and Keep the Company of Ashab ul Kahf

That what they want because so many understandings and haqaiqs (realities) in these holy verses and this holy surah for the way of tariqah (spiritual path), the way of ma’rifah (gnosticism). What Allah (AJ) is then giving of an isharat? That when you follow this guidance, leave what shaitan is asking you to worship. That you have to know that anything coming from shaitan is a disaster upon you.

Run to Allah (AJ) and to Allah’s (AJ) servants whom He has inspired every remedy and every relief from every difficulty to keep their company, to keep the company of Ashab ul Kahf — to be from the people who represent the Muhammadan heart upon this Earth. Then Allah (AJ) describe that, ‘When they enter into that cave, they sealed their hearing.’ (Holy Qur’an, 18:11) We talked last year about that. Every year is more and more important in understanding.

Guard Your Hearing to Protect the Heart From Whispers

This way of ma’rifah (gnosticism) and this way of opening the heart has a significant importance upon the hearing. Our way is, ‘We hear and we obey.’ Everything is, is grabbing for our ears. Everyone is asking to speak into our ears. Allah (AJ) is giving for us an understanding because Allah (AJ), every word that Allah (AJ) is giving to us, must have immense realities.

﴾سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا غُفْرَانَكَ رَبَّنَا وَاِلَيْكَ الْمَصِيْرُ ﴿٢٨٥

2:285 – “Sam’ina wa ata’na, ghufranaka Rabbana wa ilaykal masir.” (Surat Al-Baqarah)

“…We hear, and we obey: (We seek) Thy forgiveness, our Lord, and to Thee is the end of all journeys.” (The Cow, 2:285)

So, that we know and the people of tafakkur (contemplation), when they begin to train, your ears are the door to your soul. When you sit to do your tafakkur (contemplation), you have to seal your ears from the waswas (whispers) of what shaitan is trying to do, ‘Come do this work, come do this, come…’ Then they can’t sit for more than five minutes because of the waswas. So, we said then you have to play salawats (praises upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ) in your ears. You have to play Qur’an in your ears so that you block the waswas.

Seal Your Hearing With Salawats to Free and Elevate Your Soul

The power of these salawats (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) that Allah (AJ) is giving to awliyaullah (saints) when they’re teaching is that when you seal the ear with these salawats, you’re sealing it from shaitan not to enter. But, as a result, the soul will be pulled by these salawats and the soul will be free. You seal the physical body from the attack of shaitan so that the soul is free to leave the body.

When that soul is able to leave the body, even for an instant, this becomes the reality of the kashf (spiritual visions) and all the tajallis (manifestations) and the haal (spiritual feeling) that the servant can enter into when they train on how to close off their hearing. That, they sit and they listen to their salawats and they make their connection. The stronger they have the ability to seal themselves where they block off waswas (whispers), they hear their salawats and they’re able to connect with the shaykh.

Protect Your Ears Carefully for They are the Gateway to Truth

That’s going to give them the power of how much they can reach into that tafakkur (contemplation), how much they can reach into that reality. So, then that becomes the training. Then Allah (AJ) is directing us, Prophet ﷺ directing us, awliyaullah (saints) teaching to us, then, ‘Everything is after your ears.’ If you truly understood that, you’d be careful who you talk to. Everyone is vying for access to your ears. Why?

Because only a few carry the truth and the rest are agents for the nafs (ego), for bad character, for bad energies. We said before, 99% of people have given themselves to bad desires, bad energies, bad creatures. That 99% is not leaving humanity alone. It means that every moment, they’re trying to get the ears of those whom believe through every medium of television, of radio, of shows, of relatives, of friends. Everyone, by the push of shaitan, is coming for the ears of the believer.

Seek Refuge in the Cave to Preserve Faith and Receive Divine Mercy

So, then this is…that just contemplating that Allah’s (AJ) giving us a sign, they’re running from the evilness of shaitan, trying to get them to worship the satanic kingdom. Their faith and belief in Allah (AJ) is that they have to run to keep their faith.

‘Ya Rabbi, we have to run just to keep our faith. We want to enter into this cave. By entering into this cave, ya Rabbi, perchance Your rahmah (mercy) will dress us and that You set our affairs. It means You’ll block everything, sustain us, maintain us, so that we can keep the state of faith until the moment that we have to depart from this Earth and enter into the heavenly realm.’

18:16 – “Wa idhi’ tazaltumo hum wa ma ya’budoona illAllaha fawoo ilal kahfi yanshur lakum rabbukum mir rahmatihi wa yuhayyi lakum min amrikum mirfaqa.” (Surat Al-Kahf)

Keep Faith in Your Heart and Reject Doubt Entering Through Your Ears

For the dajjalic understanding is that everything is coming for the ears of people. The shaykhs will say one thing and ten people will tell you something different within your ear until your mind is trying to analyze.

They said, ‘If it entered into your mind, you already lost your faith on that issue.’ If your mind is trying to rationalize, ‘Oh, but like this and what about like this and what about like that?’ Your mind already is grabbed and has taken that issue. This way of faith is that it has to be within the heart that, “Sam’ina wa ata’na” – ‘I heard it, I believe it.’

﴾سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا غُفْرَانَكَ رَبَّنَا وَاِلَيْكَ الْمَصِيْرُ ﴿٢٨٥

2:285 – “Sam’ina wa ata’na, ghufranaka Rabbana wa ilaykal masir.” (Surat Al-Baqarah)

“…We hear, and we obey: (We seek) Thy forgiveness, our Lord, and to Thee is the end of all journeys.” (The Cow, 2:285)

Lock Faith Within Your Heart to Succeed on the Spiritual Path

As a result, it’s your belief. It’s not the shaykh’s belief that you’re going to get. The shaykh has his own belief. They’re merely like a microphone. They convey what needs to be conveyed. Some people say, ‘It’s oh…it’s only his personal opinion. This is like this.’ Yeah, this is all the rational mind trying to understand the communication that’s coming. The communication that comes is a guidance. Whom takes it, takes it.

The one whom successful in their faith, they take it. They bring it in within themself and they lock it into the heart. As a result of that, Allah (AJ) rewards that servant’s faith. That’s when we tried to talk the other nights before. It’s not the shaykh’s faith that you’re inheriting and that you have to be sort of convincing yourself. In ten people, everyone will have a different level of belief.

Believe Fully to Be Guided Through Every Trial and Difficulty

The one next to you may have such a strong belief that whatever the shaykh is saying, the person is believing; not only hearing it, believing it. They take all the internal, external actions based on that belief. Allah (AJ) opens for that servant what no eyes have seen and no heart has…no ears have ever heard. That faith is what will direct them through every type of difficulty.

But when people are not getting it, then they’re not passing all of these. They’re trying to hear these things, rationalize it, ‘Maybe that was for him, maybe for her, maybe for this.’ That becomes then the difficulty of faith. That becomes the difficulty of how shaitan and dajjal (system of deceit) and the dajjal system is geared to break the faith of people in which they want assurities and there is no assurity. They want security and there is no security.

Live and Die By Faith to See and Feel Divine Truth

Everything that people want of something tangible proof, that’s not faith. That’s why these days of difficulty require so much, based on faith. That people believe it, they put it into their heart and they live and die by that faith. Allah (AJ) makes that faith to become real for them. They see what Allah (AJ) wants them to see. Their heart opens. They feel what Allah (AJ) wants them to feel.

They live from a world of light and all the guidance in the world of light. That becomes the importance of the character of Ashab ul Kahf (People of the Cave) because Allah (AJ) wants to open this in the opening of entering into the cave. Because later, we’ll go in verse 60, into the qissah (story) of Sayyidina Khidr (as) and Sayyidina Musa (as), which is Allah’s (AJ) heavenly adab (manners), not tariqah adabs.

Accompany the True Servants Taught and Blessed by Allah (AJ)

Not the people wrote this adab, but Allah (AJ) wrote this adab, of how to accompany these rijal (mature men). These people whom are taught by Allah (AJ), who they taught…they attained a rahmah and Allah (AJ) taught them Ilm al Laduni (Divinely knowledges).

﴾فَوَجَدَا عَبْدًا مِّنْ عِبَادِنَا آتَيْنَاهُ رَ‌حْمَةً مِّنْ عِندِنَا وَعَلَّمْنَاهُ مِن لَّدُنَّا عِلْمًا ﴿٦٥

18:65 – “Fawajada ‘abdan min ‘ibadinaa ataynahu rahmatan min ‘indina wa ‘allamnahu mil ladunna ‘ilma.” (Surat Al-Kahf)

“So they found one of Our servant from among Our servants, on whom We had bestowed Mercy from Ourselves and whom We had taught [unseen/heavenly] knowledge from Our own Presence…” (The Cave, 18:65)

Run Into the Cave of Mercy Through Muhammadan Love

It means they attained a rahmah (mercy) because these Ashab ul Kahf (People of the Cave) are asking for a rahmah. They’re asking that, ‘When we enter into this cave and running from shaitan and everything that we do.’ So, everyday we enter into the cave. Everyday we’re asking, ‘Ya Rabbi, please protect us from this disbelief and from this absurdity that people spread and keep us within your rahmah.’

What’s the rahmah? It’s the light of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That’s why that the awrads (daily practices) and the salawats and all these practices and the mahfil (association). All of…all of these are signs of the love of Prophet ﷺ. ‘You’ll be with whom you love.’

“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]

Carry the Light of the Prophet ﷺ as Your Everlasting Shield

So, they encourage us to build that love so that, that rahmah (mercy), the presence and the light of Prophet ﷺ is always with us, always with ourselves, our family and our community. For a moment outside of that light is an immense ocean of difficulty. We fill ourself with the Muhammadan light by our salawats, our durood (praising upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ) and our character.

The adab (manners) and the character of our following and guidance and everything that they are teaching, it builds the good akhlaq (character). That the light of Prophet ﷺ stays within the servant, accompanies that servant. Everywhere they move, they move with that rahmah because everywhere is around is in a ocean of difficulty. So, Allah (AJ) puts the shield of the cave all around them. They take that cave with them. ‘You’ll be with whom you love.’ Doesn’t have to be at this time, a particular location.

Know the Cave of Prophet ﷺ is With You

Oh, Allah (AJ) ordered every body into the cave during the pandemic. That Allah (AJ) granted a particular location, which people would retreat into their homes, and showered them from that mercy and that rahmah. But now when everything is open, the cave is something that they take with them. ‘You’ll be with whom you love.’

If your love is for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and you show it in every way that you possibly can, then you have to know that cave is with you. That protection is with you. As a result, that’s why then it begins to teach the adab and the manners of this cave. That, if this light is dressing you, blessing you, then this is the protection and the light, and the love that Allah (AJ) want to dress the servant, and to settle their affairs during all of this satanic understandings, and difficulties and hardships that are entering upon this Earth.

18:16 “Wa idhi’ tazaltumo hum wa ma ya’budoona illAllaha fawoo ilal kahfi yanshur lakum rabbukum mir rahmatihi wa yuhayyi lakum min amrikum mirfaqa.” (Surat al Kahf)

We Are All Merely Representatives of the King, Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ

We said the seven Ashab ul Kahf, they are placeholders for the real Muhammadan representative. Everything in creation, its highest point, is the sultan (king), sultanate (kingdom) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So, like a corporation for people to understand, it means the head, the king or a kingdom. The king is Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and everybody that came onto this Earth was merely a representative of the king; not the king themself, but merely a representative.

So, every prophet had an agency within the prophecy of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Every qissah and every story is a placeholder for the Muhammadan reality. So, it means that the seven in the cave and the one that guards, then has an immense reality upon the Muhammadan kingdom in which Allah (AJ) describes that the Muhammadan kingdom is based on Wajhi hil Kareem, a Divinely Face, that everything perishes but that Divinely Face.

﴾كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُ ۚ ﴿٨٨

28:88 – “…kullu shayin halikun illa wajha” (Surat Al-Qasas)

“…Everything (that exists) will perish except His holy Face…” (The Stories, 28:88)

Understand the 7 Divine Attributes Guiding Souls By Muhammadan Light

It has seven attributes. As a result, there are seven souls, seven stations of awliyaullah (saints) that reside on that haqaiq and that reality. Each of their souls represent one of Allah’s (AJ) attributes upon this Earth. Their light, Allah (AJ) describes in Surat al Kahf that, ‘They take their direction from the Muhammadan light.’ That, the light shines upon them for all of its isharats, and all its guidance, and they are moving within the guidance of the Muhammadan light.

So, these are the seven of the highest lights. This is the reality of those seven. For the time of Sayyidina Mahdi (as), then it becomes Imam Mahdi (as), Shahmatul Fardani (q), Abdur Ra’uf al-Yamani (q), Yusuf as-Siddiq (q), Imam ul-‘Arifin (q), Lisanul Mutakallimin (q), ‘Arifu ‘t-Tayyar al-Ma’ruf bi Mulhan (q), Burhanul Kurama Ghawth il-Anam (q). It means these seven and Sayyidina Mahdi (as), they represent these maqams (stations). They take from the essences of Allah (AJ) and they represent the Divinely Face.

Follow Sayyidina Mahdi (as) as Guardian of the Cave to Prophet’s Heart ﷺ

They represent seven diamonds upon this Earth in which they are tajallis (manifestations) and jewels from Divinely Presence. [It] has immense realities and they’re all Naqshbandi and Mawlana…Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (as), who held a stone of that reality for seven years, being dressed by its tajallis and its blessings because they carry Siddiqiya (Truthful) realities and haqaiqs for every year, for each one of their realities that he would be eternally dressing these awliyaullah from that reality.

So, it means that that immensity of these Ashab ul Kahf (People of the Cave) and what they represent under the Muhammadan kingdom is the highest. That’s why Sayyidina Mahdi (as) is the lion of Allah (AJ) that guards the cave to the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ eternally. This is an eternal position. So, it means the lion of Allah (AJ) that guards that cave.

The Seven Stations of Blessed Souls Shine as Jewels on Earth

That within the cave reside the seven eternal maqams (stations) of souls that are in the highest level of realities dressed by the attributes, essences of Allah (AJ). Those essences represent the Divinely Face that never perishes. So, it means that this cave has an immense power, immense reality that the souls that, that operate within that reality, they’re like diamonds upon this Earth.

They are a source of power that emanate and a source of power for the Earth, their souls. So, it means the immensity of these lights, the immensity of these blessings. So, it’s not something small. It’s an immense power, an immense reality, immense jewels from the Divinely Presence. When we’re asking to enter into these lights, enter into these blessings and to be dressed by these blessings, and by these characteristics, that Allah (AJ) wants for us in these oceans of immense power.

Ask to Be Dressed in the Reality of the Oceans of Grandeur and Majestic Power

Bahrul Hayat (Ocean of Eternity), Bahrul Qudra (Ocean of Power), the oceans of grandeur and haybah (majestic power). The oceans of haybah, and majestic might, and power emanate on this month, and that is the power that dresses this Earth. That is an immense blessing that Allah (AJ) to ask, is to be dressed by its realities, to be dressed by these souls, by…dressed by the Divinely Face, and all that this represents.

When Allah (AJ) is describing this cave for the sleepers, that they’re entering into this reality and the immensity of this reality, ‘Would have seen the sun rose over them passing away…and these are the signs of Allah (AJ),’ in Surat al Kahf verse 17: ‘He whom Allah (AJ) guides is rightly guided, and he whom Allah (AJ) leaves astray, he will not find for him waliyun murshidun (saintly guide).’

وَتَرَى الشَّمْسَ إِذَا طَلَعَت تَّزَاوَرُ عَن كَهْفِهِمْ ذَاتَ الْيَمِينِ وَإِذَا غَرَبَت تَّقْرِضُهُمْ ذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ وَهُمْ فِي فَجْوَةٍ مِّنْهُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ آيَاتِ اللَّهِ ۗ مَن يَهْدِ اللَّهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِ ۖ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُ وَلِيًّا مُّرْشِدًا ﴿١٧﴾‏

18:17 – ”Wa tarash shamsa idha tala’at tazawaru an kahfihim dhata al yameeni wa idha gharabat taqriduhum dhataash shimali wa hum fee faj watin minhu, Dhalika min ayati Allahi, man yahdillahu fahuwal Muhtadi, wa man yudlil falan tajida lahu waliyyan murshida. (Surah al Kahf)

“And You would have seen the sun, when it rose, declining to the right from their Cave, and when it set, turning away from them to the left, while they lay in the open space in the midst of the Cave. That was from the Signs of Allah: He whom Allah, guides is rightly guided; but he whom Allah leaves to stray, – for him you will never find Saintly Guide to the Right Way.” (The Cave, 18:17)

Accompany Saints Who Are Dressed With Allah’s (AJ) Divine Senses

It means that this reality of this teaching is that when Allah (AJ) wants to guide at these levels of reality, they’re not normal understandings. These are not common people understandings. These are when Allah (AJ) want to guide a servant, He sends them the guidance. Whom Allah (AJ) doesn’t guide, they don’t have waliyun murshidun.

So, Allah (AJ) is saying in Surat al Kahf, which is the way of tariqah (spiritual path), waliyun murshidun, that not only they’re a wali (saint) and of a saintly nature, because Allah (AJ) has to be dressing their attributes, they have to represent hadith al qudsi. That, ‘They are My Hearing, they are My Seeing, they are My Hand, they are My Feet, they’re the breath in which I breathe.’ Allah’s (AJ) qudsi hadith of Prophet ﷺ must be dressing a servant to make them saintly and murshidun (authorized guide).

… وَلَا يَزَالُ عَبْدِي يَتَقَرَّبُ إلَيَّ بِالنَّوَافِلِ حَتَّى أُحِبَّهُ، فَإِذَا أَحْبَبْتُهُ كُنْت سَمْعَهُ الَّذِي يَسْمَعُ بِهِ، وَبَصَرَهُ الَّذِي يُبْصِرُ بِهِ، وَيَدَهُ الَّتِي يَبْطِشُ بِهَا، وَرِجْلَهُ الَّتِي يَمْشِي بِهَا، وَلَئِنْ سَأَلَنِي لَأُعْطِيَنَّهُ،.” [ رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ]

“…, wa la yazaalu ‘Abdi yataqarrabu ilayya bin nawafile hatta ahebahu, fa idha ahbabtuhu kunta Sam’ahul ladhi yasma’u behi, wa Basarahul ladhi yubsiru behi, wa Yadahul lati yabTeshu beha, wa Rejlahul lati yamshi beha, wa la in sa alani la a’Teyannahu, …”

“…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, his hand with which he strikes and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask [something] of Me, I would surely give it to him…” Hadith Qudsi (Sahih al-Bukhari, 81:38:2)

Follow the Souls Whose Light Pulls Servants Into Divine Guidance

That, only that, but they are also been given the isharat (sign) to guide. That, they guide through their light. They guide through their tongue. They guide through every bit of their characteristic through the world of light. They’re guidance is not that people listen to them, make an understanding, say, ‘It sounds logical’ and come. But Allah’s (AJ) guidance and through this reality, is through light.

That, if they see the face of these servants, the light that emanates from them will grab them. The light comes out from them and literally grabs people and brings them into the oceans of guidance. So, they guide through the reality of their soul. They reach the servant in the oceans of malakut (heavenly realm), and guide them in the oceans of light. As a result, that is the real guidance from Allah (AJ); not the chattering and talking and people coming with, you know, through hearing.

Receive the Blessings of Seven Souls Guiding Through Divine Light

But, this is a guidance through the world of light. That Allah (AJ) when He opens from that, and that’s why it’s in this surah (chapter). That these souls that represent the seven – when these seven souls are dressing a servant, they’re dressing the eyes of the servant. They’re dressing the ears of the servant. They dress the breath of the servant. They dress the tongue of the servant, grant them lisan as-Siddiq al ‘Aliya (The highest tongue of truth). That they’ve been granted the truthful tongue, most high.

As a result, all their attributes of their face are guided and dressed by these awliyaullah (saints), and their madad, and support upon that face. As a result, when that face speaks, it brings out light and guidance and pulls the souls of people back into the oceans of Allah’s (AJ) Divinely guidance. We pray that Allah (AJ) open the realities of the immensities of the month of Safar and the oceans of immense grandeur and blessing. “Subhanal ’Alimul Hakim”.

سُبْحَانَ الْعَلِيْمُ الْحَكِيمْ

“Subhanal ’Alimul Hakim”

“Glory be to the All-Knowing, the Wise”

Seek Knowledge With Wisdom From Devoted Servants Under Ar-Rahman

That throughout this holy surah (chapter) is the secrets of Divinely ilm and knowledge and knowledge with wisdom. Whom Allah (AJ) grants a knowledge and grants them wisdom, has been granted Allah’s (AJ) greatest gift because knowledge without a hikmah (wisdom), you just say random things that are inappropriate and not for the right audience. That knowledge can be something very difficult and very bad because you harm people with the knowledge.

But, ‘Alimul Hakim is that Allah (AJ) will give them a hikmah, that they are balanced servants. Allah (AJ) dresses them from an ancient ‘ayn’ because they are from the ‘abd of Allah (AJ). They’re from the servants of Allah (AJ). They were trained as rijal and higher than rijal are Abdullah (devoted servants of Allah (AJ)).

That’s why we say, ‘Ibadur Rahman’ (devoted servants of The Most Compassionate) because they’re under the ‘arsh ar Rahman (Throne of the Most Compassionate). They are under the authority of “Ar-Rahman al ‘Arsh astawa”

الرَّحْمَٰنُ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ اسْتَوَىٰ ﴿٥﴾‏

“Ar-Rahman al’al ‘Arsh astawa” (Surat Taha)

“The Most Merciful [who is] above the Throne established.” (Taha, 20:5)

Serve the King, Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, With Divine Wisdom

The king who operates and governs sifat ar-Rahman (attribute of The Most Compassionate). These awliya (saints) are his servants and they serve that reality. As a result, Allah (AJ) make them to be Abdullah wa Ibadur Rahman.

As a result of the ancient knowledges, Allah (AJ) balance their demeanor with hikmah and wisdom. When to speak, when not to speak, and to what level to speak, inshaAllah, so that people are not harmed by their knowledge. It’s okay to be confused by the knowledge because this is for the soul and not for the head.

Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi rabbil ‘aalameen. Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.

Original Date of Suhbah: September 10^th, 2021

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