
Make Your Faith Real to Unlock & Attract Unlimited Positive Energy
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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.
A’udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
Nawaytul arbaeen, nawaytul itikaf, nuwaytul khalwa, sulook was siyam fi hadhal majlis Ya Rabbil Arshil azeem.
نُوَيْتُ الْاَرْبَعِينْ، نُوَيْتُ الْاَعْتِكَافْ، نُوَيْتُ الْخَلْوَة، نُوَيْتُ الْعِزْلَة، نُوَيْتُ الرِّيَاضَة، نُوَيْتُ السُّلُوكْ لِلّهِ تَعَالَي اَلْعَظِيمْ فِيْ هَذَا الْمَسْجِدْ(فِيْ هَذَا الْجَامِعْ)
Nawaytul Arba’een, Nawaytul ‘itikaf, Nawaytul Khalwah, Nawaytul ‘Uzlah, Nawaytur Riyada, Nawaytus Sulook, Lillahi Ta’al al ‘Azhim fee hadhal masjid (or fee hadhal jami’)
I intend the forty (days of seclusion), I intend seclusion in the mosque, I intend seclusion, I intend isolation, I intend discipline (of the ego), I intend to travel in God’s Path, for the sake of God in this mosque.
Keep the Line of Communication Open
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 and we took a path in which to be nothing. That anyone has questions – [email protected] – and that to keep the line of communication open. Ask the questions that you have. The encouragement of asking the questions online. If anyone has a question that they think is appropriate for the entire audience and within the same subject matter of meditation, tafakkur (contemplation).
Alhamdulillah, if they don’t answer it or don’t ask the question, don’t be discouraged. Sometimes it may not be relevant and it’s difficult to go from A to Z, Z to X and keep bouncing back with all sorts of different directions because there’s a live audience listening and we’ll just confuse them at home with all the different subject matters. So, it’s not that they’re disrespecting anyone, but it’s maybe not appropriate for the live audience. But you can email them and email the questions that you have.
Run to the Presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ!
The biggest concern is to make our tafakkur and our contemplation. How to make the connection and how to develop that relationship with the Divinely Presence. We said before that there are many people teaching 2+2, 2+2, 2+2 but they don’t give the answer and everything from Islam is an answer. Every Hadith leads to an answer. If in these days, the person teaching is not giving the answer that is necessary for our survival in days of difficulty. That when Allah (AJ) describes oppression and when you have oppressed yourself, ‘Run! Jaooka!’ Run to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
﴾وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ إِذ ظَّلَمُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ جَاءُوكَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُوا اللَّـهَ وَاسْتَغْفَرَ لَهُمُ الرَّسُولُ لَوَجَدُوا اللَّـهَ تَوَّابًا رَّحِيمًا ﴿٦٤
4:64 – “Wa law annahum idh zhalamoo anfusahum jaooka fastaghfaro Allaha wastaghfara lahumur Rasolu lawajado Allaha tawwaban raheema.” (Surat An-Nisa)
“And if, when they had wronged themselves, they had but come to you and asked forgiveness of Allah, and asked forgiveness of the messenger, they would have found Allah Forgiving, Merciful.” (The Women, 4:64)
Understand the Key of Faith – “A’uzu Billahi” From “Shaitanir Rajeem”
It’s the tenet of our very belief that before you can understand “Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem,” you have had to have mastered “A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.”
أعوذُ بِٱللَّهِ مِنَ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنِ ٱلرَّجِيمِ
“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”
It means that of all the knowledges and all the realities you’re going to build off of a solid foundation and it can’t be built off of a cliff. So, it means when someone doesn’t know this key then everything they build their knowledge on is on a cliff. It has no foundation, like quicksand.
So, the importance of all knowledge, all reality, every type of difficulty is what is Allah (AJ) want when He tells us to seek refuge? Seek refuge – A’uzu Billah, in that illahiyat and in that divinity. Seek refuge in the billah from Shaitanir Rajeem. So, where are we going to seek refuge in Allah (AJ) from shaitan (satan) when he’s everywhere? He’s every place and every location is shaitan.
Awliya Teach to Unlock the Key By Running to the Presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
So, awliya (saints) come into our life and teach that this key and this reality of opening everything is to understand that we have to run to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That is the key and the solution. That our life is to run to that presence and by running into that presence we are unlocking the key, the most important key of A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.
Then every knowledge, its foundation will be correct, right? If you pour your knowledge on anything other than that, it’s not correct. It has a chance of flipping. There are many scholars who started off talking, you know, interesting Hadith, ‘Last days this, this one this, this one this, this one.’ They became popular, popular, popular but the foundation was never about Muhammadun Rasulullah ﷺ. So, later on, you can see then how that knowledge began to deviate and just became like, you know, just telling your own stories and the reality of “A’uzu” wasn’t understood.
Nothing You Do is More Powerful Than Salawat an Nabi ﷺ
That the tariqah (spiritual path) is to come and say, ‘Make no man more important than the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.’ There is no zikr (Divine remembrance), no khatm, no nothing you can do more powerful than salawat an Nabi ﷺ (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ). There’s no one that you can love if your love is not complete and kamil (perfected) for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and there is no love that can save you if your love is not for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Because that which you love, that’s imperfect is imperfect so that’s an imperfect love. That which has even a drop of ignorance or imperfection is not kamil and not perfected and so for every prophet of Allah (AJ), He gave them an imperfection.
All Prophets Rely on the Grand Intercession of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
That’s why shari’ah (Divine Law) describe “Shafa’at al Kubra” (The Great Intercession). They debate about intercession on a scale on this Earth and they all agree with the Grand Intercession of the day of judgment. When every prophet will gather their nations and they come to Sayyidina Adam (as), his nation says, ‘Intercede for us.’ Say, ‘Yeah, I can’t, I sinned. I ate from an apple and we fell. How I can represent Allah (AJ)? I have a deficiency in my account. Go to the one whom is more pure.’ They go to Sayyidina Nuh (as) and say, ‘I can’t. I actually prayed for azaab (punishment) on my nation and Allah (AJ) flooded and killed them all.’ He’s not the one who’s going to intercede for creation. Nabi Musa (as) says, ‘I can’t. I hit someone with my hand and he died.’
﴾وَدَخَلَ الْمَدِينَةَ عَلَىٰ حِينِ غَفْلَةٍ مِّنْ أَهْلِهَا فَوَجَدَ فِيهَا رَجُلَيْنِ يَقْتَتِلَانِ هَـٰذَا مِن شِيعَتِهِ وَهَـٰذَا مِنْ عَدُوِّهِ ۖ فَاسْتَغَاثَهُ الَّذِي مِن شِيعَتِهِ عَلَى الَّذِي مِنْ عَدُوِّهِ فَوَكَزَهُ مُوسَىٰ فَقَضَىٰ عَلَيْهِ ۖ قَالَ هَـٰذَا مِنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ ۖ إِنَّهُ عَدُوٌّ مُّضِلٌّ مُّبِينٌ ﴿١٥
28:15 – “Wa dakhalal madeenata ‘alaa heene ghaflatim min ahlihaa fawajada feeha raju laini yaqtatilaani haazaa min shee’atihee wa haaza min ‘aduwwihee fastaghaasahul lazee min shee’atihee ‘alal lazee min ‘aduwwihee fawakazahoo Musaa faqadaa ‘alaihi qaala haaza min ‘amalish Shaitaani innahoo ‘aduwwum mmudillum mubeen” (Surat Al-Qasas)
“And he entered the city at a time of inattention by its people and found therein two men fighting: one from his faction and one from among his enemy. And the one from his faction called for help to him against the one from his enemy, so Moses struck him and [unintentionally] killed him. [Moses] said, ‘This is from the work of Satan. Indeed, he is a manifest, misleading enemy.'” (The Stories, 28:15)
Sayyidina Isa (as), ‘Oh boy, yeah, I can’t, they took me as god.’ And you don’t know it now, wait in a few months when you start hearing about his presence on Earth and he start calling himself god. He’s coming, the anti-one, to call himself a rab and lord on this Earth. Sayyidina Isa’s (as) going to say, ‘I can’t. This people they took me as an illah because I showed too many miracles’ which was against the adab (manners) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Listen to Allah’s (AJ) Ancient Order to Follow Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
So, khuluqal ‘azheem (magnificent character) is then the key for all realities. That’s why Allah (AJ) then teaching, “Qul in kuntum tuhibbon Allaha fattabi’oni.”
﴾قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّوْنَ اللَّـهَ فَاتَّبِعُوْنِيْ يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّـهُ وَيَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ ذُنُوْبَكُمْ ۗ وَاللَّـهُ غَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ ﴿٣١
3:31 – “Qul in kuntum tuhibbon Allaha fattabi’oni, yuhbibkumullahu wa yaghfir lakum dhunobakum wallahu Ghaforur Raheem.” (Surat Ali-Imran)
“Say, [O Muhammad], “If you should love Allah, then follow me, [so] Allah will love you and forgive you your sins. And Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.” (Family of Imran, 3:31)
If they want and you think Allah’s (AJ) speaking to this little dot on this planet and what is it – the billion of us sitting here? Or this Qur’an is for all of creation. What sound and what manifestation it has on every planet and every crack and crevice of this entire universe is under the command of Holy Qur’an. Allah’s (AJ) ancient command is a command to all the angels, to all the prophets, to all the jinn (unseen beings), all the creation we know and what we don’t know, “Qul in kuntum tuhibbon Allah.” An ancient order like, ‘Don’t come to Me. I have no interest in you unless you are fattabi’oni, unless you are following the way of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. He is Sayyidina Siratal Mustaqeem ﷺ (The Straight Path). This is our key. This should be the key for whatever you listen to.
Beware of Those Whose Words Don’t Match Their Belief
You listen, say, ‘Oh, this is a good speaker.’ Yes, because Prophet ﷺ described, ‘Their tongue in the last days will please you because the qira’at (recitation) is perfect, their Arabic is perfect.’ Arabs are the worst in belief, the worst in belief; most in munafiqeen and hypocrisy and kufr (unbelief) and these are Allah’s (AJ) words; surah Tawbah, verse 97.
﴾٩٧﴿ الْأَعْرَابُ أَشَدُّ كُفْرًا وَنِفَاقًا وَأَجْدَرُ أَلَّا يَعْلَمُوا حُدُودَ مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَىٰ رَسُولِهِ ۗ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ
9:97 – “Al A’raabu ashaddu kufranw wa nifaaqanw wa ajdaru allaa ya’lamoo hudooda maaa anzalal laahu ‘alaa Rasoolih; wallaahu ‘Aleemun Hakeem” (Surah Tawbah)
“The Arabs of the desert are the worst in disbelief and hypocrisy, and most likely to be in ignorance of the limits of what Allah has sent down to His Messenger: But Allah is All-knowing, All-Wise.” (The Repentance, 9:97)
Don’t take because they’re Arabic is good and you think it’s entertaining for you. But the words have to match the belief. We’re seeing now the whole Arab world – what they’re doing with Allah (AJ) gave them of their zaban and their language? They say, ‘We’re the chosen ones and we know this language.’ You know the language, you don’t know the deen (religion), what are you doing? You have more Christmas ornaments in your stores than the celebration of Milad un Nabi ﷺ (celebration of the birthday of Prophet ﷺ). We won’t go into that.
Barefoot Bedouins are Just a Façade
The ‘poopoo train’ (laughter). They build skyscrapers, the barefoot Bedouin. Barefoot because they belong in the desert playing with the camels. They made themself adaam for us. They came and pretended that they were big human beings but they really like to take their shoes off and run in the desert. And they built this huge five diamond structure buildings. Did you know that they don’t even have the ability for their waste to go into the ground? So, the poopoo trains of Dubai, six miles long of trucks that have to come into the city just to take the waste of those buildings and then drive them back out into the desert. Last days, it’s the time of deceit where Allah (AJ) asks, ‘You have eyes, but you don’t see.’
﴾وَلَقَدْ ذَرَأْنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنسِ ۖ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لَّا يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لَّا يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ آذَانٌ لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا ۚ أُولَـٰئِكَ كَالْأَنْعَامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ ۚ أُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ الْغَافِلُونَ ﴿١٧٩
7:179 – “Wa laqad zara’naa li jahannama kaseeram minal Jinni wal Insi lahum quloobul laa yafqahoona bihaa, wa lahum a’yunul laa yubisiroona bihaa, wa lahum aazaanul laa yasma’oona bihaa; Olaayika kal an’aami bal hum adhal; Olaayika humul ghaafiloon” (Surat Al-A’raf)
“Many from the Jinns and human beings, We have created for hell: They have hearts with which they don’t understand, they have eyes with which they don’t see, and they have ears with which they don’t hear. They are like cattle, nay they are more misguided. They are heedless (of warning).” (The Heights, 7:179)
You think this is the place of glitter and glamour and you see it to be all so beautiful, ‘Let’s all go there.’ But you don’t see behind the scenes that Allah (AJ) doesn’t even let them to put their waste into the ground. They have to take it by trucks to take it out. What happens if in difficulty, four days of difficulty? Who’s going to drive those trucks out? They’ll be swimming in that. It’s all a façade, all the bad characteristics. These are the days in which to…don’t be impressed by the qira’at (recitation) of somebody but go to the depth of the reality of what they’re talking and it should be based on the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
We Are Safe in the Sunnah, Love and Good Character of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
So, you verify yourself, Suratal Tawbah, which is the gate and the baab (door) of all these teachings. Verse 97.
﴾٩٧﴿ الْأَعْرَابُ أَشَدُّ كُفْرًا وَنِفَاقًا وَأَجْدَرُ أَلَّا يَعْلَمُوا حُدُودَ مَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ عَلَىٰ رَسُولِهِ ۗ وَاللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ
9:97 – “Al A’raabu ashaddu kufranw wa nifaaqanw wa ajdaru allaa ya’lamoo hudooda maaa anzalal laahu ‘alaa Rasoolih; wallaahu ‘Aleemun Hakeem.” (Surah Tawbah)
“The Arabs of the desert are the worst in Unbelief and hypocrisy, and most fitted to be in ignorance of the command which Allah hath sent down to His Messenger: But Allah is All-knowing, All-Wise.” (The Repentance, 9:97)
Ameen. Sadaq Allahul Azeem wa barakah Rasul-e-Kareem.
They gave the most trouble to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So, it means these are the days to be careful with our belief. The key for belief and understanding and knowledges and reality is in the “A’uzu.” If the formula is not telling us to run, run to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Your safety is in the sunnah (Prophetic traditions) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, in the love and in the khuluq, in the character. They’re some who adhere to the sunnah but they’re very angry and mean.
Bake Your Perfect Love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
So, it’s an ingredient: how to bake a perfect love. One must have the pot called Muhammadun Rasulullah ﷺ. Its main ingredients must be immense love, immense good character, every type of goodness and tolerance and patience. Then it is going to produce the beatific Muhammadan ﷺ flowers. We call, “Gul-e-Muhammadi ﷺ” – the perfected roses of the Divinely Paradises and Divinely Gardens. This is what we’re in search of. This is what our whole life. Whatever you’re listening to, whoever you’re listening to – if the solution is not running to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, there is no man on this Earth who can promise to help you and save you that he can’t save himself. Don’t forget that. The only salvation and safety is if we ran to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
So, that’s why they’re emailing that, ‘I’m sick. I’m not feeling good. I’m this, I’m that, I’m this…’ Okay, there is no man that can help you. There is no one that you can email that takes away your problem. Only help is in the love of Allah (AJ). That love of Allah (AJ) is to love Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Are You Doing Your Practices to Gain Prophet’s ﷺ Nazar?
That’s why then they’ll ask you, ‘Are you doing your practices? We’ll make du’a (supplication) for you, no problem, but are you praying for yourself too? Are you doing your salawats? Are you doing these teachings? If these teachings are coming from the presence and the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, then are you doing the tafakkur (contemplation) that he’s inspiring and teaching? You’re doing your wudu (ablution)? You do your practices to keep your energy? You stick with your wudu, you do your awrad (daily practices), you do your salawats, you do all your salah (daily prayers), you do all your practices? When you do those, it’s a sign of love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
What did we think loving Prophet ﷺ was? We want him ﷺ to be happy with us. We want him to look and say, ‘This, mashAllah, this from my nation. Look, look this ambassador is from my nation. Look how he struggles with himself or herself. He does his practices. He does everything he’s supposed to do. He tries his best or her best to have the best of character.’
Gain a Better Understanding of the Ummah by Completing Half Your Deen Through Marriage
Every father feels that pride and they feel the shame if the child does the reverse and does bad and does bad and does bad. You have to bail them out from everything; bail them out from school fights and school problems all the way until you get into dealing with the police. That’s not something that Prophet ﷺ wants – to keep bailing you out from Allah’s (AJ) punishment. So, it’s no difference. We understood our life is a reflection. Why Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ described that, ‘Your married life is half of your deen’?
عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ، أَنّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ:”مَنْ رَزَقَهُ اللَّهُ اَمْرَأَةً صَالِحَةً، فَقَدْ أَعَانَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَى شَطْرِ دِينِهِ، فَلْيَتَّقِ اللَّهَ فِي الشَّطْرِ الثَّانِي”
[اَلْلطَبَرَانِي، اَلْمُعْجَمْ اَلْأَوْسَط٩٩٢ وَاَلْسُيُوْطِي صَحِيحْ فِي اَلْجَامِعِ الْصَغِيرْ٨٧٠٤]
‘An Anasin bin Malikin (ra), Anna Rasulallahi ﷺ qala: “man razaqahu Allahu amra atan salihatan, faqad a’aanahu Allahu ‘ala shatri dinihi, falyattaqi Allaha fish shatrith thani.”
Anas ibn Malik (ra) reported: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said, “Whoever Allah (AJ) provides with a righteous wife, Allah (AJ) has assisted him in half of his religion. Let him fear Allah (AJ) regarding the second half (of his religion).”
[Al Tabarani in al Mu’jam al Awsaṭ 992 & Authentic according to Al Suyuti in Jami’yil Saghir 8704]
Because he knows as soon as you become married you’re going to understand what ummah (nation) means. How your child and family, how you’re responsible, how you have to take care of them and keep everything together. Now we understood the immensity of this love. We want him to be proud of us ﷺ. We try our best for our salah, all our practices, all our readings, all our recitations, every zikr and every durood (praising upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) and everything that we can do and then we gain the nazar (gaze). Then we support! As we support, then we give our khidmat (service) and give my time. All of these become evidence of love.
Allah (AJ) Wants You to Know Your Faith
We’re not the people that I debate with other people or talk with other relatives or they’re of a different faith. Say, ‘You don’t pray?’
‘Oh, I pray in my heart.’
‘Oh, you’re one of those.’
‘Yeah, I’m good with God, I pray in my heart.’
‘Get out of here.’
There’s no love that doesn’t expose itself and show itself. Islam’s first step was to give your shahadah (testimony of faith). Why? Allah (AJ) knows your faith, if He gave it to you, He gave it. If He didn’t, He didn’t but Allah (AJ) wants you to know your faith. That give your shahadah. Remind yourself you’re a Muslim before you’re doing these things. What are you doing? Wake up! Allah (AJ) didn’t need to hear it. Allah (AJ) wanted me to hear it. Same, why Allah (AJ) needs my salah? Said, ‘No, you pray because you’re about to do bad things. Remember, soon as you pray, remember, I am your Creator and you are My servant.’ Salah (prayer) is a reminder and tarbiyah, a discipline upon ourselves. It’s not for God, it’s not for Allah (AJ). It’s for myself. If I’m not disciplined enough to do these practices, then we understand this is then the difficulty. So, we do all that we do for the nazar of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Did your zakat (charity), you did your salah, you did all your awrads, you did your salawats.
The Highest Zikr of Allah (AJ) is Praising Upon Prophet ﷺ
You should have a tasbih (prayer beads) always with you. In front of people, put it away so that don’t have your nafs (ego) involved. When no one’s around, you’re doing salawat all the time, driving doing your salawat all the time. Is there a moment that you think I would die and I wouldn’t be making salawats? That ya Rabbi, if I get an accident now, at least they find me with a tasbih in my hand praising upon your Divinely Presence because that durood sharif (praising upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) is the highest zikr of Allah (AJ). Not the zikr, ‘Allah, Allah, Allah.’ Allah (AJ) doesn’t need that. Allah (AJ) said, ‘InnAllaha wa malayikatahu yusalluna ‘alan Nabi.’
﴾إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيماً ﴿٥٦
33:56 – “InnAllaha wa malayikatahu yusalluna ‘alan Nabiyi yaa ayyuhal ladhina aamanu sallu ‘alayhi wa sallimu taslima.” (Surat Al-Ahzab)
“Allah and His angels send blessings upon the Prophet (Muhammad ﷺ): O you that believe! Send your blessings upon him, and salute him with all respect.” (The Combined Forces, 33:56)
Allah’s (AJ) zikr is to praise upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and that’s why that praise is ‘Allahuma Sali ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa ala ali Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.’
اَللَّهُمَ صَلِّ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ، وَّعَلَى آلِ سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدْ
“Allahumma salli ‘ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ‘ala aali Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ“
“O Allah! Send Peace and blessings upon Muhammad and upon the Family of Muhammad (Peace be Upon him)”
No One Can Save You Without the Love of Prophet ﷺ
So, it means everything that we are doing, this is a solution for many emails that are coming, ‘Shall I listen to this? Can I do this? Can I do that?’ Do whatever you want. If the solution is not pulling us in the direction of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, and there’s not a human out there that can claim to give you salvation, to help you, to lift you, to do anything, if it’s not involving the formula of the love and supremacy of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. It sets every love perfect.
There’s no family member of the Prophet’s ﷺ family that will save you. There’s no companion that will save you and there’s no white-bearded person that will save you if we don’t have the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. It’s supreme, it’s supreme. Without that love and that’s why the shaykh has to start with a foundation, ‘Do your durood. Do your salawats. Attend the mehfil, attend these associations because that’s the supreme love. That’s the love that Allah (AJ) is only, only interested in.
The Light & Reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ Enters Us When We Make Salawats
Allah (AJ) didn’t mention anything else in Qur’an. Allah (AJ) mentioned this love. Why? Because as soon as we make our salawat, as soon as we make our durood, “feekum” – he’s ﷺ inside you.
﴾كَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا فِيكُمْ رَسُولًا مِّنكُمْ يَتْلُو عَلَيْكُمْ آيَاتِنَا …﴿١٥١
2:151 – “Kama arsalna feekum Rasulam minkum yatlo ‘Alaykum ayatina…” (Surat Al-Baqarah)
“Just as We have sent among (within) you a messenger of your own, reciting to you Our Signs, …” (The Cow, 2:151)
Because you made one salawat, the light and the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is now entering into you. “Harisun ‘alaykum bilmuminina raufun rahim.”
﴾لَقَدْ جَاءَكُمْ رَسُولٌ مِّنْ أَنفُسِكُمْ عَزِيزٌ عَلَيْهِ مَا عَنِتُّمْ حَرِيصٌ عَلَيْكُم بِالْمُؤْمِنِينَ رَءُوفٌ رَّحِيمٌ ﴿١٢٨
9:128 – “Laqad jaa akum rasulum min anfusikum ‘azizun ‘alayhi maa ‘anittum harisun ‘alaykum bilmuminina raufun rahim.” (Surat At-Tawbah)
“There has certainly come to you a Messenger from amongst/Within yourselves; it grieves him that you should perish; [he is] concerned over you, and to the believers he is most kind and merciful.” (The Repentance, 9:128)
Open Your Heart to Become a Recipient of Prophet’s ﷺ Light
Every reality of Allah’s (AJ) description of Prophet ﷺ is entering within you and your heart is actually becoming the Ka’bah and Prophet ﷺ is the greatest defender of the Ka’bah. “Shahidan” (a witness) inside you, he’s witnessing everything. “Mubashiran” (bearer of glad tidings), every emanation and tajjali (manifestation) and blessing is coming from who? Between me and you and Allah (AJ)? Allah’s (AJ) sending you tajjalis because He’s so happy and excited about your existence?
﴾يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ شَاهِدًا وَمُبَشِّرًا وَنَذِيرًا ﴿٤٥﴾ وَدَاعِيًا إِلَى اللَّـهِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَسِرَاجًا مُّنِيرًا ﴿٤٦
33:45-46 – “Ya ayyuhan Nabiyu inna arsalnaka shahidan wa mubashshiran wa nadheera. (45) Wa daiyan ila Allahi`bi-idhnihi wa Sirajan Muneera. (46)” (Surat Al-Ahzab)
“O Prophet, indeed We have sent you as a witness and a bringer of good tidings and a warner. (45) And one who invites to Allah, by His permission, and an illuminating lamp.” (The Combined Forces, 33:45-46)
Or that you have the light of Prophet ﷺ inside you? Allah’s (AJ) always sending blessings upon that light, tajjalis upon that light, love upon that light. You become the lucky recipient of that light. That’s why, ‘Lagi jany bom bom bom’ (Shaykh hums “Lagiya Ne Mojaa”). How they achieve these blessings? Because this light came into the heart.
چنگے آں کے مندے آں
نبھائی رکھی سوہنڑیا
لگیاں نے موجاں
Lagiya ne moja hon laayi rakhi soniya
Changay aa, Ke mande aa
Nibhayi rakhi soniya
Lagiya ne moja
Generous blessings are upon us, Keep on dressing us, O Beloved
Whether we are good or bad, Keep us with you, O Beloved
Generous blessings are upon us
The Muhammadan ﷺ light entered into the heart. “Inna Fatahna laka Fathan Mubeena.”
﴾إِنَّا فَتَحْنَا لَكَ فَتْحًا مُّبِينًا ﴿١
48:1 – “Inna Fatahna laka Fathan Mubeena.” (Surat Al-Fath)
“Verily We have granted you [Muhammad (pbuh)] a manifest Victory.” (The Victory, 48:1)
This light and this opening that the light of Prophet ﷺ has entered into your heart. He’s bringing these tajjalis, he’s bringing Mubashiran. He’s bringing Allah’s (AJ) happiness, satisfaction, joy and pleasure. Every tajjali from the light of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is dressing that servant’s heart because of the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ within you.
Muqaddam is to be Guided by the Muhammadan Light
Then when you love Prophet ﷺ, “Nadheeran.” He’s going to tell you, ‘Now that me and you we… I love you; you love me, I want you to love my family, respect them and love them.’ Samina wa Atana (Shaykh places his hands upon his head) – your word upon my head and you do everything in your life to show that love.
﴾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)
That, ‘I want you to love my companions, they gave their life for me.’ Fedat besham (I’m willing to sacrifice myself for you). That I say, ‘Oh, let me to die in their way, that they be happy with me because you love them and they loved you. Nadheeran, that Prophet ﷺ will guide us. ‘This one, no, this one, yes.’ You tell me if your heart is filled with that love, immense love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. He’s not guiding and calibrating for you? If his love is overwhelming you, he doesn’t guide you to his love too? Like a magnet, he’ll draw you to other Muhammadans. If they’re not drawn to you, they don’t have that love. When his love overtakes you, you find every Ka’bah. You’re drawn to it. In all this city, they’re not drawn to it? If that love is there, you’ll be drawn to the Muhammadan reality because it’s Prophet ﷺ inside of you, pushing you and guiding you, directing you. That’s what it meant to be muqaddam. That, ‘You follow on my steps. My light is in your heart. My love is in your heart. Your love is in my heart.’ You move where I tell you to move. You love who I tell you to love and everything about them is a reflection.
Beg for Sayyidina Muhammad‘s ﷺ Forgiveness & Seek His Satisfaction
Everything is to seek the rida and satisfaction – “Illahi anta maqsodi, wa Ridaka Matlob” – I beg your forgiveness and seek your satisfaction.
اِلَهِيْ اَنْتَ مَقْصُودِيْ وَ رِضَاكَ مَطْلُوْبِيْ
“Illahi anta maqsodi, wa Ridaka Matlobi.”
“O God, You are my destination and Your Pleasure is what I seek.”
Illahi, the Divinely Presence and asking the Divinely Presence which encompasses Allah’s (AJ) Might and Majesty and is under the authority and Sultanate (Kingdom) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Illahi anta maqsodi – I’m begging your forgiveness. Forgiveness of who? Of Prophet ﷺ. Guide me, be within me, your light to overwhelm me and command me to keep away from what Allah (AJ) doesn’t want and to do what Allah (AJ) will be satisfied and pleased with and the rida and satisfaction of Allah (AJ) be upon. Because if Allah (AJ) and I’m moving in the way that Allah’s (AJ) happy and I have this immense love, imagine then your life is a blessed life, filled with lights and fragrances.
So, it means in these days and all these questions that are coming in of doing this and doing that and most supreme, and most supreme and foundation for everything is the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Is someone drawing you to that love? Do you feel in your heart that that love has increased? Then good tidings to you, for you are successful on your journey.
What You Give of Your Dunya Will Be Exchanged for Muhabbat e Nabi ﷺ
Is from what you covet of life, of badness and bad character being taken out for everything that you give of your time, of your wealth, of everything Allah (AJ) has given to you? It creates a void and Allah (AJ) will replace that void with the love and muhabbat of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. You understand the giving? People think that giving is something going to be taken and they fall short in life. But Allah (AJ), ‘No.’ Your being is like a inventory of garbage. When Allah (AJ) opens the heart, all that you possess in life is garbage that has no value to your akhirah (hereafter).
As soon as you give in the way of Allah (AJ) to these servants who talk this reality and they walk this reality, everything you gave from that closet, Allah (AJ) exchange it with muhabbat e Nabi ﷺ (love of Prophet) ﷺ. Then Allah (AJ) describes back in Surah Tawbah, this is the gate of our whole journey is Surah Tawbah, that they made an exchange. They took what they had of dunya (material world), they gave it. But Allah (AJ) gave something in exchange. Nothing is wasted in Allah’s (AJ) way.
﴾إِنَّ اللَّهَ اشْتَرَىٰ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُم بِأَنَّ لَهُمُ الْجَنَّةَ… وَعْدًا عَلَيْهِ حَقًّا فِي التَّوْرَاةِ وَالْإِنجِيلِ وَالْقُرْآنِ وَمَنْ أَوْفَىٰ بِعَهْدِهِ مِنَ اللَّهِ فَاسْتَبْشِرُوا بِبَيْعِكُمُ الَّذِي بَايَعْتُم بِهِ وَذَٰلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ ﴿١١١
9:111 – “Inna Allaha Ashtara Minal Mu’umineena ‘Anfusahum Wa ‘Amwalahum Bi anna Lahum AlJannata, …Wa’dan ‘Alayhi Haqqan fit Tawrati wal Injeeli wal Qur’ani, Wa Man Awfa Bi ‘ahdihi Mina Allahi, Fastabshiro Bi bay’ikum Al Ladhi Baaya’tum Bihi, Wa Dhalika Huwal Fawzul ‘azeem.” (Surat At-Tawbah)
“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise…[It is] a true promise [binding] upon Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. And who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? Then rejoice in your Bayat which you have contracted. And it is that which is the great achievement. (The Repentance, 9:111)
Don’t Wait for Calamities – Make Your Deen Real Now!
When you give from your dunya, Allah (AJ) gives you akhirah instead and the greatest akhirah is the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ for you don’t know when you’re going to die. You don’t know when sickness comes. Grief and calamity is a character that waits at every door and you don’t know when he’s going to ring that doorbell. At that time is not the time to make your bargain. ‘He’s here. Shut the door. Now let me start to do something.’ But make your bargain now. Make your approach now. Make your deen real now.
They give all these formulas, don’t be fooled. Don’t be fooled by the clever tongue but doesn’t lead us to the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. When we found the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, then know that his hand is there and everything you do, the hand of Prophet ﷺ is taking and in exchange, filling that heart and that soul with all its realities. So, on the day that they leave and pass from this world, from whatever Allah (AJ) wants them to pass with, they have a hisab and an account and a love with the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, inshaAllah.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi rabbil ‘aalameen. Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
Special thanks to our transcribers for their help with transcribing this suhbah.
Original Date of Suhbah: November 27, 2020
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