Our Spiritual Path is Difficult When Faced With Social Pressures

November 7, 2025 November 7, 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)

Run to the Cave of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ

Alhamdulillah, that the holy month of Safar, the month of the oceans of eternity and hayat (ever-living), the cave of the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. The leaving of dunya (material world) and the satanic kingdom and running to the heavenly kingdom. As a result of running into that heart, Allah (AJ) dressing with knowledge and wisdom. For resides all knowledge and all wisdom emanating from the reality of the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.

So, alhamdulillah, that Allah (AJ) give to us this tariqah (spiritual path), this path and this way towards the immensities of its ma’rifah, of gnosticism and its realities. We pray that Allah (AJ) to dress us and bless us and grant us to see the lights of Mawlidun Nabi ﷺ (celebration of the birthday of Prophet ﷺ) and the opening of that light and that reality, the prophetic light that opens within the heart of believers and is their najat and their salvation.

Our Path is Difficult When Faced With Social Pressures

Alhamdulillah, that in the next few days, I believe Safar ending and…or 4, 5, 6 days and Mawlidun Nabi; Rabi’ul Awwal opening. We pray that Allah (AJ) to give us a life in which to see those days and nights and to be blessed by its eternal reality. We talked last night about the Surat Al-Kahf and the reality of Sayyidina Khidr (as) and the interaction with Sayyidina Musa (as).

We only touched on the reality of social pressure and not able to endure our path based on social pressure. That the guidance coming in for our time now from Surat Al-Kahf as Surat Al-Kahf is guiding the Earth. Holy Qur’an is guiding the Earth. Surat Al-Kahf’s guidance for us is that social pressure is difficult and the immensity of that social pressure and following your path.

Even Sayyidina Musa (as) Battled With Social Pressures

If Sayyidina Musa (as) whom is kalimullah, one whom speaks to Allah (AJ), is so affected by what people would think, the path, it gives for us an opportunity to understand our own personal dilemma. The danger that shaitan (satan) is playing with social media that, ‘How can I follow?’ The social pressure that, ‘Oh, you’re going to be like them. Oh, you look like them. Oh, you’re going to have wear like a turban like them’ and every type of social pressure that comes to distract the believer from their path.

That’s the danger that everyone is facing now. We talked about the realities and understanding, now the realities of manifestation and the power that Allah (AJ) gave to us that we are unaware of. We don’t really know and the majority of people don’t really know the danger of the power that Allah (AJ) has given to them in the hands of shaitan. Because shaitan knows the gift that Allah (AJ) has given, “Wa laqad karramna bani adam.”

﴾وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ…﴿٧٠

17:70 – “Wa laqad karramna bani adama…” (Surat Al-Isra)

“And We have certainly honored the children of Adam…” (The Night Journey, 17:70)

Shaitan Uses Our Gift to Entice Us Towards Punishment

That’s why he [satan] fell from grace because he wasn’t chosen for it. So, he knows exactly the gift and he wants to use their gift to entice them towards punishment. So, in the reality of manifestation, when people are creating their alter ego, giving their alter ego a force, a life. They’re bringing and resurrecting that horrific creature.

As a result of giving that creature any type of credibility because the tariqah (spiritual path) is based on mawt qablil mawt (death of desires before physical death) – is to kill that creature. The name I have and the identity I have growing up, my whole life was to bury it, to rid it, put it into the ground, read Surat al Fatiha for it and not to resurrect it, not to resurrect the bad identity.

When We Feed Our Bad Character, It Will Pull Us Down

But all that shaitan has done and is doing is that every bad desire and every incorrect understanding, he makes them to bring out. So, with social media, they make these profiles. They put images of themselves. They bring out all of their desires. So, that is a reality that’s happening. So, every…everything that you bring out of that bad character actually is becoming stronger and stronger and stronger. As a result of the strength of that bad character, it will pull the servant down.

So, that’s something that we have to sort of meditate and contemplate about. People whom are posting these identities of themself and you see somebody who was moderately believing and tries to – for example, we’ll use just an example – they tried so hard to have moderate belief. They go and they make a profile. As soon as they have a profile, they’re enticed by shaitan for likes.

Beware of Deserting the Muhammadan Way in Favour of Popularity

As a result of the enticement for likes and attention and recognition because that’s the danger of the nafs (ego) and especially in the levels of the nafs. When we talk about the danger of why people have anger at certain levels of the tariqah (spiritual path) because they feel that they’re due a certain respect. They want the shaykh to call them. They want everything to bow to them and to be recognized. This is a danger of the self.

Well, shaitan’s well aware of that. So, in this example of somebody thinks they’re moderately coming into Islam, that they have things to share for people. As soon as they enter into the playground of shaitan, he entices them to get likes, to build your account with friends where they’re not even your friends. You don’t even know any of these people. As a result, to move towards the likes, you see these people, their profiles changing. ‘Oh, maybe it’s not so popular.’

They start to take their kufi (hat) off. Then they begin to look like hipster imams (religious leaders) – long hair and beads around their neck and all sorts of looks and appearances. They left the example and the sunnah (traditions of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. They left the look of modesty and the sunnah and the way of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. They became a hipster – somebody from the streets, somebody trying to look like they’re, you know, from amongst the people. They think, ‘Oh, it’s not a big deal. Don’t worry about it, Shaykh.’

Influencers Who Change Themselves Will Take You Down

But what happens is that identity that you gave power to, it will pull faith from you because you’re not getting anything from it. You’re feeding your demon and a result of feeding that demon, it will pull your faith away until later you hear one day that, that person is not really even praying anymore, not even doing any of those things anymore. Because that creature they created took them down. Then look at some of the influencers of female influencers who are covered and all of a sudden, say, ‘Well, we want to put out a profile on makeup and how to do this and how to be fashionable.’

As soon as they do that and they build an audience and build an audience and build an audience, that demon that you’re making all of a sudden decides that – no longer going to cover and no longer going to represent the Islamic identity. That demon took down that person who had faith and 10,000 people or 5,000 people that are being influenced by them because he uses the term ‘influencer’ so they were ‘influencing’ people. That’s how big the game is with shaitan. They didn’t only take the one person down who was moderate in their belief, trying and struggling in the way of Allah (AJ). They thought, ‘Oh, for money and likes, I’ll just, you know, take everything and change my whole appearance.’ But the 10,000 people who were looking to you for a sense of understanding or following and thought it was something nice, they were taken down.

Run From Those Who Look Pious But Spread Doubt

So, then the danger of what’s happening and how we are now manifesting our worst identity. That manifestation will have its own power that comes back to attack the believer and back to attack that insan (human being). That’s exactly what shaitan knows. Alhamdulillah, that Allah (AJ) guide awliyaullah (saints), that they know what shaitan is doing. That’s why their advice and their teachings are, ‘Don’t do that. Don’t enter into that arena. Don’t create those profiles and don’t get involved with that sickness as the danger of it will pull the person down.’ This is a reminder for myself from the secrets of manifestation. These are a subject that I don’t think anyone is touching.

The ability of insan (mankind) and basically anyone with a red tablecloth on their head on a YouTube channel, change it. Don’t look at it! Don’t listen to it! Anyone wearing a kiffeh that look like an Italian restaurant, change the channel! That don’t listen to the Wahhabi teachings. Don’t listen to a moment of their advice and two words from their mouth because there’s going to be an energy and negativity from them. They take away the faith and the ‘Azimat (Magnificence) of Allah (AJ) because they make everything to be, ‘No, there’s no like this. There’s no power like this. There’s no power for the soul. There’s no movement of the soul.’ These realities that are flowing from the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ – they have and require a faith. They require a purity of faith.

Shaitan Uses Our Own Minds to Attack Us

If we contaminate our heart by listening to hizbul shaitan (party of satan) and the people who have absolutely no faith. Then the danger is, it puts a doubt. They shoot the arrows of shak and doubt. They shoot arrows of doubt into the heart so that the person is listening and thinking, ‘Oh, what, what, is like that? Is it like that?’ That’s a danger. This way is based on such a high level of faith that when we have that ocean of reality, we listen to it. We go into it and begin to open the heart towards its understanding. The power of manifestation in which Allah (AJ) has given to insan (mankind) is immensely powerful. What they think, they can conjure up. What they draw, what they produce and what they make in movies, Allah (AJ) make it to come into existence based on what they have put out. As a result, shaitan inspires them because they [the shaykhs] understood and they were taught this in seclusions. That, when they go into a seclusion, whatever their mind knows, shaitan will use that mind and its images to attack them.

So, somebody who lives a life that hasn’t seen, hasn’t been involved in anything – when they go into their seclusion, what’s the scariest thing that their mind can conjure for them to come and attack them? A mouse, a rat, maybe an old time picture of a dragon. That was the danger because that servant, their mind and heart was clean. They didn’t expose themself to these manifestations. Then shaitan can’t affect them and attack them to the degree that he wants. But when he knows the ability that Allah (AJ) gave to the servant, he inspires them to make all of these horrific images, horrific movies, horrific creatures within these movies. As a result of that servant trying to go in seclusion, or everyone will do a seclusion in the grave; the shaitan will come and bring the images that the person was aware of.

Step Into the Arena of Battle With Shaitan and Fight With Your Divine Abilities

So, when they’re being attacked by these negative energies, it will be every demonic force that they ever countered with their eyes. Shaitan will make those demons to appear and begin to attack the servant. That’s, that’s what his goal, that’s what he wants is to destroy insan (mankind). He’s not happy that he didn’t receive the khalifa (representative). So, his whole goal is the destruction of people and humanity and creation. When we understand that game that he’s doing, then alhamdulillah, we’re at least involved in this arena of battle. That the believer is to purify their heart and visualize the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, Rauza e Sharif (holy burial chamber) and to go towards the oceans of rahmah (mercy) and love and mercy so that the Divine light can dress them and bless them.

As a result of that blessing, it can subdue all the negativities because if your overwhelming ability is positive and of a Divinely loving nature, that positivity can outdo the negativity and subdue all the bad characteristics. But imagine what he’s doing to all these 99% of the population in which they’re seeing all these negativities. Then they go into the grave with all those images and all those difficulties. That’s all that shaitan wants. We pray that Allah (AJ) dress us and bless us with the lights of guidance and the realities that Allah (AJ) want to open within the heart of insan and especially those whom are lovers of the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, inshaAllah.

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

Special thanks to our transcribers for their help with transcribing this suhbah.

Original Date of Suhbah: October 1, 2021

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