Many Blessings Open in the Month of Sha’ban
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.
“Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Wa Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.”
﴾أَطِيعُواللَّه وَأَطِيعُوٱلرَّسُولَ وَأُوْلِي الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ… ﴿٥٩…
4:59 – “…Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil amre minkum…” (Surat An-Nisa)
“… Obey Allah, Obey the Messenger, and those in authority among you…” (The Women, 4:59)
Sha’ban is the Manifestation of Nurul Muhammadi ﷺ
Always a reminder for myself ana abdukal ‘ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim, wa jahl and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that we are still in existence. Alhamdulillah, that Allah (AJ) grant us a life in which to see these holy nights and the blessings of holy months. We pray that Allah (AJ) grant us to be in the lights of the holy month of Sha’ban opening, inshaAllah, tomorrow night, tonight, whenever it’s going to open in Madinatul Munawwara (luminous city of Prophet ﷺ) in the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Alhamdulillah that, that is the month for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and if Sha’ban is the birth of a light, “Subhana man huwal Khaliq anNur.”
سُبْحَانَ مَنْ هُوَ الْخَالِقَ النُّورْ
“Subhana man huwal Khaliq anNur”
“Glory to Him who is the Creator, the Light”
Rajab is the birth of that light and Allah (AJ) wanting to be known then what will be known is the reality of the month of Sha’ban.
قَال رَسُولَ اللَّه ﷺ، قَالْ اللَّه عَزَ وَجَلْ: ” كُنْت كَنْزاً مخفيا فَأَحْبَبْت أَنْ أُعْرَفَ؛ فَخَلَقْت خَلْقاً فَعَرَّفْتهمْ بِي فَعَرَفُونِي.” [حَدِيثْ اَلْقُدْسِي – بِحَارْ اَلْأنْوَارْ، اَلْعَلَامَةْ اَلْمَجْلِسِيْ، جُزْء ٨٤، صَفْحَة ١٩٩]
Qala Rasulallahi ﷺ, Qala Allah (AJ): “Kuntu kanzan makhfiyya, fa ahbabtu an a’rafa, fa khalaqtu khalqan, fa ‘arraftahum bi fa ‘arafonee.” [Hadith al Qudsi – Behar al Anwar, Al ‘Alama al Majlisi, Juz’ 84, Safha 199]
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said, that Allah (AJ) said: “I was a hidden Treasure then I desired to be known, so I created a creation to which I made Myself known; then they knew Me.”
This is the manifestation of the Nurul Muhammadi ﷺ (Light of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ).
رَجَبٌ شَهْرُ اللهِ، وَشَعْبَانَ شَهْرِي، وَرَمَضَانَ شَهْرِ أُمَّتِي
“Rajabun Shahrullahi, wa Sha’bana shahri, wa Ramadana shahre ummati.”
Rajab is Allah’s month, Sha`baan is my month and Ramadan is the month of my Ummah. (Abul-Fath ibn Abi Fawaris in his `Amalee from al-Hasan)
Nisf e Sha’ban is the Night in Which Everything is Written
Alhamdulillah the midnight, the midpoint of the month – Nisf e Sha’ban – the immensity of what Allah (AJ) writes upon that soul that contains all souls and whatever is destined and what’s written upon that soul is what we call the Night of Bara’ah, the Night of Forgiveness, the Night of Blessings because of what Allah (AJ) going to decree on that ocean of creation known as Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ.
That soul, the universal soul in which Allah (AJ) will decree and write; write what’s coming to the servant, who comes, who goes from this creation, what comes into this existence, what leaves this existence. The Night of Decree in which everything is written, night of immense blessings that Allah (AJ) dressing and blessing from the realities of Holy Qur’an upon the soul.
Shab e Bara’ah Opens a Special Meeting with Sayyidina Mahdi (as)
Laylatul Mahdi (as) that also has to do with the birth and the secret of Sayyidina Mahdi (as) and a special meeting always in Shab e Bara’ah (the Night of Salvation) with Sayyidina Mahdi (as) and inspiring the souls that have that ishq and the love for his presence to receive a guidance, isharat (sign) and lights and blessings upon their soul for the coming year.
In this year, that seems to have started off with a bang that looked like the opening of Armageddon and the opening of extreme difficulties of what is happening with Bani Asfar and the prophecies of that nation and the difficulties that are opening. As a result of these conflicts that are difficult to put down once they’ve opened that door and open that issue, it’s difficult to resolve and bring back to normal.
Are You Living a Life of Preparedness?
So, alhamdulillah, part of faith is to believe that, inshaAllah, these are the signs that Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ had given for us to watch for and to live our lives to be prepared for. We pray that Allah (AJ) grant us that preparedness with our faith and with our homes and with our families and with our communities and to live a life of preparedness. For people to have supplies within their homes, provisions within their homes, that to have given their charity, given their service, doing everything in perfection for the meeting with their Lord.
That Allah (AJ) to be pleased with them and that the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to be pleased with them. When the believer has that level of satisfaction within their heart that, ‘I’ve tried my best, ya Rabbi, to complete my deen (religion), to fulfill my promise. That inspire me where I’m coming short’ and in the end, to sleep in a state of peace. That whatever Allah (AJ) is decreed, then Allah (AJ) has decreed.
Perform Qurban to Take Your Burdens and Difficulties Away
But the nights in the next few nights drawing up to this Nisf e Sha’ban is the nights of our good character, good deeds. That, ‘Ya Rabbi, fulfill for me anything that I have done wrong. Let me to fulfill and to make a ransom for it.’ These are the nights of qurban (sacrifice) and the immensity of the qurban that Allah (AJ) take the burden from insan (mankind) and put upon that burden and that difficulty upon that qurban. The reality of what a qurban carries of the difficulties from the one whom is giving that nazar (gaze) and giving that offering.
Allah (AJ) then takes the satisfaction in the distribution of the meat to the poor and to the needy. It means these are all the opportunities that Allah (AJ) gives to us to recompense for our character, to make sure everything is to be clean, everything is to be perfected. Then these are the immense blessings that Allah (AJ) wants the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to succeed.
Births of Holy Souls Add to Blessings of Sha’ban
On the third, fourth and fifth is the sort of superpower – wiladat and birthdays of I believe it’s Imam Zain ul ‘Abideen (as), Imam Abbas (as) and Imam al-Hussain (as). Their births and the celebration of their birth and the immensity of the reality of Imam al-Hussain (as). Sayyidina Abbas (as) that served in the battles of Karbala and Sayyidina Imam Zain ul ‘Abideen (as) – As-Sajjad – that survived the calamities of Karbala to carry the light of Ahlul Bayt (Holy Family of Prophet ﷺ). The wilayat (sainthood) and the secret that the Ahlul Bayt carry and he carried that secret within his heart and survived those hardships.
We pray that Allah (AJ) dress us from these third, fourth and fifth of Sha’ban which I think will be coming so we would probably celebrate them on the fifth for our zikr (Divine remembrance) and that would be the Thursday, Friday on that weekend. The next weekend, inshaAllah, we’ll celebrate the wiladat and the birth of Imam al-Hussain (as), Imam Zain ul ‘Abideen (as), Imam as-Sajjad (as), inshaAllah. Allah (AJ) dress us from these blessed, blessed nights and blessings and by means of these blessings to save us and write good for us, ya Rabbi. Write that Your rida and satisfaction to be upon us, our families and all our loved ones and community, 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.
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