Overcoming Laziness – Attaining Zeal (Himmah) Q&A

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

أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيطَانِ الرَّجِيمِ
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ 

A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

I seek refuge in Allah 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)

Question 1: Are we able to defeat the shayateen (devils) in spiritual warfare, and how can we equip ourselves?

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Do your madad (support), make your madad, your connection; you can do nothing. That was the whole talk: is you can do nothing.

It is not about you doing anything; otherwise, all of us would be potatoes glued to a couch. With the madad, with the love, with the salawats (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ), all of this. Their energy comes to us and begins to lift us. The madad to the shaykh is what is producing faith in action. Otherwise, you think these people are getting up miraculously on their own. So it just so happens, the people whom are studying madad are flooding the earth with actions. Others, that say madad is not important, they grow potatoes. People who become fat, sit on their couch and then make nasty comments on social media. It is not tariqah (spiritual path) and it was not the way of Prophet ﷺ.

So maybe there is a secret in the madad and there is a secret in tafakkur (contemplation). Because if people catch the connection with the shaykh, catch the faiz (downpouring emanation) and the energy of the shaykh, they can be granted a himmah (zeal). An energy, a zeal that pierces all of the darkness around them. They should have their ta’weezes (prayers for protection), the ta’weezes that shaitan don’t like. Other people say maybe it is not that important. So, you look at the formula of what is working in these days, in these dark days, to get people to have their faith in action. You look at their formula; they have their ta’weezes, they’re taught about meditation, they’re taught about making their connection, they’re taught about all these realities. As a result of these realities, you seem to see them on the move.

If you don’t teach those realities, it becomes a potato farm. Our anime guys will make that. Right? They can wear turbans too, but you just making potatoes. When you go around and just tell people, ‘Yeah, don’t do nothing. Okay, you’re all in, you’re all in. Okay, thank you very much.’ Now you have 500 people are like potatoes just growing into their couch, doing absolutely nothing, maybe taking care of their selves and their families. Their whole focus is on their own lives, not the tariqah, not the life of Prophet ﷺ, not the life of khidmat and service.

But then you look to the formulas that we’re propagating, that they have to support, they have to participate. They have to wear their emblems, they have to have their ta’weezes, they have to live a life of khidmat (service). As soon as they do their madad and support, they’re getting all sorts of energies and going out and accomplishing. What we tried to understand tonight was this is the way of companionship. We talk about the greatness of the Companions, well, because of the faiz of Prophet ﷺ. You think independent of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, nobody was anything. Only by the opening and the connection to Prophet ﷺ, everybody reached whom Allah (AJ) wanted them to be of their true reality. All full sainthood, all full realities of companionship to the last Hajj (pilgrimage). 124,000 companions all in perfection, in which Prophet ﷺ described, ‘Follow any of them; they’re like stars on a dark night.’ it means all huge awliya (saints).

“.قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: “أَصْحَابِيْ كَالنُّجُـــومْ بِأَيْهِمْ اَقْتَدَيْتِمْ اَهْتَدَيْتِمْ

Qala Rasulullahi ﷺ: “Ashabi kan Nujoom, bi ayyihim aqta daytum ahta daytum.”

The messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: “My companions are like stars. Whoever among them you follow, you will be rightly guided.”

When they entered into Makkah, there was no need for a battle, there was so much light, the shaitans ran, and everything else went into submission. So this is when you see mankind coming in droves. In the state of fighting and struggling, everybody has to fight, to struggle to find their own peace and their own reality. After they entered into the City of Lights and battle after battle after battle with shayateen, they become illuminated with all of their perfections.

Now go back and conquer your heart. No more battles in conquering your heart; the heart becomes the house of Allah (AJ), and every demon will be cast out. That system has to be copied on earth. You follow a shaykh, you have to fight, you have to struggle. Fight against your bad character to go out and support, to do, to accomplish. Not support yourself only, not accomplish only for your dunya (material world). That becomes the great struggle. They accompanied a shaykh, they struggle to look this way, to act that way, to do these things, to order these things, to participate in these things. As a result of struggle, struggle, struggle, one day Allah (AJ) will allow you to walk back into your heart, into your real Makkah, in which the devils will be running from a mukhles (sincere). Because they have no hold on a mukhles.

As a result, Allah (AJ) will activate that heart because you came in with the presence of Prophet ﷺ and the Muhammadan light into your heart. Allah (AJ) then establishes His home within that servant, and ‘Neither heavens nor earth can contain Me but the heart of My believer.’

عَنْ وَهَبِ بِنْ مُنَبِّهْ، قَال رَسُولَ اللَّه ﷺ، قَالْ اللَّه عَزَ وَجَلْ: ” مَا وَسِعَنِيْ لَا سَمَائِيْ وَلَا اَرْضِيْ، وَلَكِنْ وَسِعَنِيْ قَلْبِ عَبْدِيْ اَلْمُؤْمِنْ [حَدِيثْ اَلْقُدْسِي – اَلْغَزَالِي فِي اَلْإحْيَاء، وَ اِبنِ عَرَبِي فِي اَلْتَرَاجِمْ، صفحه ٢٢٤]

‘An Wahab ibn Munabbeh, Qala Rasulallahi ﷺ, Qala Allah (AJ): “Maa wasi’anee laa samayee, wa la ardee, laakin wasi’anee qalbi ‘Abdi al Mu’min.” [Hadith al Qudsi, Al Ghazali fi al Ihyaa, wa Ibn ‘Arabi fi al Tarajim, Safha 224]

Narrated by Wahab the son of Munabbeh that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said that Allah (AJ) said: “Neither My Heavens nor My Earth can contain Me, but the heart of my Believing Servant.” [Holy Hadith, by Imam al-Ghazali in Al Ihya, and by Ibn ‘Arabi in al Tarajib, Page 224]

But the believer has to be filled with the light of Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ for Allah (AJ) to reside and the reality of La ilaha illAllah Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ occupies their heart. So, our lives have to copy everything, inshaAllah.

لَا إِلَهَ إلاَّ اللهُ مُحَمَّدٌا رَسُولْ الله

“La ilaha illallahu Muhammadun Rasulallah”

“There is no deity but Allah, Prophet Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”

Question 2: Sayyidi, is there any way to conquer extreme fatigue during these difficult times and any Islamic ways to deal with extreme melancholy?

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Fatigue; just do your salawats, do your practices. Shaitan trying to inoculate people like a gas mask he putting on people to sleep.

Stop eating certain foods, don’t eat your starches and sugars, and maybe the diet is affecting certain people. They eat things, become lethargic, and then like cattle, they just fall asleep. So, means then we have to look at our diet, look at your exercise, look at your salawats and your practices. All of that is necessary. But shaitan is making instead of people to be futuwwa and chivalrous in Allah’s (AJ) ways, like knights, become like grazing cattle. That, ‘Eat this, snack on this, and then eat this.’ Why? It is intentional, so that to put them to sleep. So, then this is a battle in one of, we said, in these different gravities.

If shaitan is giving us a gravitational pull that eats from his diet – all of which is garbage and corn starch and sugars, why? So that we become lethargic and can’t move. The servant has to fight that, has to eat a diet based on goodness. Try to understand their nutrition and try to understand exercise. Battles are coming; how are you not going to exercise and get yourself in shape? So, these are all of the understandings of the talks. Everybody has to take care of themselves. So, when somebody says they’re falling asleep and excessively things, look at your diet. Look at what you’re eating, look at your level of exercise. All of that has to be fixed, and it can be done at home. You get some sort of a movement, you get calisthetics, you do push-ups, you do things off your own way, lifting, and everything is possible. If there is a will, there is a way, inshaAllah.

Question 3: Sayyidi, I want to ask about, can you talk about the 313 awliya who will bay’ah (pledge of allegiance) with Imam Mahdi (as) first, inshaAllah?

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: I didn’t talk about that. All the awliya they take their power from Imam Mahdi (as). So, I don’t know who are the 313 who took bay’ah with Imam Mahdi (as).

They have 59 and 40 that are always around, 7 that are always around his spirituality. The 313 awliyaullah, they’re given the permission to tabligh – to give knowledges. Not all awliya are permitted to speak. So, they have to have inherited from the 313 messengers of Allah (AJ), and they’re Warith ul Muhammadiya – they are inheritors from Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.

They have permission to propagate these channels and these knowledges inshaAllah for people to be ready and to be prepared. To prepare their homes, to prepare their lives, prepare their souls, and to have good character. So that Allah’s (AJ) favor be upon them, in the face of every demon and demonic act. That keep the ways of the heavens so that Allah’s (AJ) power, qudra and blessings and grace be upon the servant, 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: January 23, 2024

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