Prepare for the Hereafter: Faith in Action, Spiritual Protection and Balance Between Dunya & Akhirah Q&A

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)

InshaAllah what we have from our SMC families? InshaAllah people sharing, putting out articles, the websites, supporting the websites, supporting the charities. We’re going to end in the next few days, 10 days, we end the holy month of Muharram. The month of Safar the realities of the holy cave, the realities of entering into the cave. Leaving badness and entering into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. It becomes our month in which to truly prepare for the immense realities of Mawlidun Nabi ﷺ (celebration of the birthday of Prophet ﷺ). That Allah (AJ) keep us safe through the holy month of Safar by our love and support for the Miladun Nabi ﷺ, inshaAllah.

Question 1: Sayyidi you had mentioned about Prophet’s ﷺ thirteen (13) years of struggle in Makkah and ten (10) years’ life in Madinatul Munawwara (luminous city of Prophet ﷺ). What’s the secret message behind these numbers? 13 represents letter meem and 10 is a binary code of 1 and 0. Please forgive our ignorance. 

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Meem. Yeah, that’s the Muhammadan Haqqaiq (realities). So, this meem is the position of, 13 represents the position of meem. So, this is the Muhammadan way and represents 40. That’s why then we become mature at the age of 40. We do the 40 days of seclusion in which to take ourself from being a seed and becoming a tree and to be rooted in the Muhammadan haqqaiq.

That’s why shaitan (satan) doesn’t like 13. He doesn’t put 13 in an elevator or in a building or on a floor. Because they say, superstition, they’re scared of 13. They’re scared of Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ. Because this is the opponent to what kingdom shaitan and satan and evilness has put upon this earth. This is his kingdom. So, when he cast upon this earth he said, ‘Okay I make this my kingdom and I’m going to destroy God’s servants.’ So, every Prophet (as) brought the prayer that, ‘Thy kingdom come.’

“…Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done. On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” – The Lord’s Prayer

All of them had asked that, ‘Please God bring Your kingdom upon this earth to destroy the satanic kingdom.’ Allah’s (AJ) kingdom is who? Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ is the king, Malik al Hayat (King of Oceans of Eternity), Malik ad Dunya (King of Manifested World), “Meem, ha, meem, daal.” Within the huroof (Arabic letters) of the name of Prophet ﷺ – means he is the king of all life. Because all life comes from the light of Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ. Dunya (material world) that anything manifesting is under that authority, anything not manifesting is under that authority.

So, ‘Thy kingdom come and Thy Will be done.’ Whose will, will be done? That’s why we say attaullah (obedience to Allah (AJ)) is impossible. You’re not going to follow God’s Will, you don’t know God’s Will. So, who brought God’s Will upon this earth? Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ. Look now, if people want to say God’s Will, what’s God’s Will? That a man comes onto this earth says that, he is god now? That where the people come and say, ‘You have to accept so and so, he is god.’ I said, ‘That is God’s Will that a man will come onto this earth and say he is god?’ The other one is slaughtering people like you slaughter chickens. Say, ‘This God’s Will?’

So, who is representing God’s Will? Because it is in their prayers: Thy kingdom come, Thy Will shall be done. What will is that? So, I think the will of God is seen through the actions of Muslims. Not the Muslims that other countries have made but the true nations of Islam in which they fast 30 days of Ramadan. See one billion people or two billion people on this earth now fasting in Ramadan, that’s the Will of God. That they dressed in modesty, they abstain from alcohol, they do their five prayers, you see the Will of God in them. But there are Muslims that other people made and they dress them, fashion them and send them out to do all sorts of atrocities. In which no Muslim recognized them, no scholar recognized any authority within them.

But the true nation that represents the heavenly kingdom, they fast, they pray, they give charity. They dress in modesty, they’re concerned about their families. So, that’s the kingdom of God through actions, faith is actions not words. Anyone who wants to say they represent the kingdom of God then come and say, ‘Okay what part do you represent?’ Saying that a man is god, that represents what God wants? Or the slaughtering of people, that’s what God wants? Or praying, fasting, being modest, being kind, being caring, having family, that represents the heavenly kingdom? InshaAllah. 

Question 2: Sayyidi you had said we are to transform from the worm to the butterfly, what makes us fear our transition?

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Death. Somebody came and convinced you death was bad. So, now people if you talk about death they go, ‘Oh I don’t want to talk about it.’ ‘Are you planning for your death?’ ‘Oh, I don’t want to talk about it.’ ‘You have insurance?’ ‘I don’t want to talk about it.’

‘You put your estate aside, you have things all set up,’ and you’re, ‘I don’t want to talk about it.’ It means they don’t want to be a butterfly, they don’t think it is going to be a butterfly. That’s why we said the people whom don’t prepare for their transition are the most dangerous people Allah (AJ) has created. Those same dangerous people they say, ‘No, no the people who want to be butterflies they’re very dangerous, they’re death cult.’ What kind of crazy thing is that?

How could you be dangerous? If your life is about your transition to be something much more beatific, don’t you think then every step and every day you would be conscious of everything? ‘Oh I better not cheat because maybe I won’t be a butterfly with beautiful wings. I won’t be angelic. Maybe I’ll go into the cocoon and I’ll be burned.’ So, that preparation gives us the beatific character that I’m my whole life is in preparation for my transition. What I say, what I eat, what I do, how I do, how I have character, everything is based on my transition. Because I believe in that and my whole life is for that. Every good deed is so that I have a beautiful and beatific transition. As a result I prepare for my family, I prepare for everything to be left behind.

You live a life of preparation. There are people who still don’t get their grave, they don’t have their family, their assets, their anything in order. Why? You don’t think you’re going to die? Tomorrow you get hit by a bus God forbid but you don’t know when death comes, it just waits for you. So, our life is about a preparation, these are the stages of faith. When someone has faith, they have prepared to meet their Lord. As a result, this is a person entering towards sincerity and Allah (AJ) grants them in the stations of sincerity.

If you’re not preparing to meet your Lord but you think you have faith, there is something wrong. The people whom are against the transition, very dangerous. That’s why they do such evil things. They say, ‘No, no we’re worm, we’re dood [dude] and we’re just going to be a dead worm in the ground’. So, means everything they do is horrific because they’ve already given up their transition. So that’s a dangerous person, that’s a dangerous ideology.

But the one whom governs their entire life based on a beatific transition then alhamdulillah. Like now even people who say they have faith, they burn themself in the grave. They say, ‘Oh don’t put me in the grave. Just burn me and cook me like I’m a kabob.’ That’s your transition? You’re hoping that from a burnt kabob Allah (AJ) make you into an angel? You burned everything. Who told you to burn that? That wasn’t your body to burn. But because you listen to the fiery one then even in the grave you’re under his dominion. He put you into fire because he is from fire. So, you know people if they’re guided in dunya with shaitan, shaitan will guide them all the way into the grave into horrific stations and difficulties. But if you’re guided in life then you should be guided all the way to get your grave. So, these are the realities and these are the blessings of believing and sincerity, inshaAllah. 

Question 3: During our mourning for Imam Hussain (as) as in the first 10 days, is it better for us to be in seclusion rather than to be seen crying publicly? Forgive my poor adab (manners).

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Yeah, whenever you feel more comfortable with. But I don’t know if you’re going to be crying publicly – everywhere you go crying, then no. You should stay home. But this year more than ever I think it is important when people are saying, ‘We’ll never forget, we’ll never forget.’ They’re liars, they forgot. They forgot the most important death which is the death of Imam al-Hussain (as), the family of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So, no they forget.

Human nature is to forget. But you know when people want you to cry out, protest and encamp yourself, why you don’t do that for Imam Hussain (as)? Protest the people who don’t like Prophet ﷺ. Protest the people who come against the Ahlul Bayt (Holy Family of Prophet ﷺ) and the love of Ahlul Bayt (as), put your camps in their places. But people don’t do that, people don’t think these things are important. They say, ‘Why you have to remember and cry?’ But you’re telling us to cry because something is happening now that affects you. Because you, when you’re short-sighted you see everything just now. They tell you, don’t celebrate the holy birth of Prophet ﷺ, they forget. Two weeks later they put a happy birthday for their children. Why, why that’s happy? Why is that to be commemorated?

So, means people are short-sighted and fooled by shaitan. But because of the atrocities that are happening around the world and the sort of horrific killing of innocents. Then remember how the holy family of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ they gave themselves willingly with themselves. Their children, their families for the sake of establishing what Allah (AJ) wanted. That live a life, “Fasali li rabbika wanhar.”

فَصَلِّ لِرَ‌بِّكَ وَانْحَرْ‌ ﴿٢﴾ 

108:2 – “Fasali li rabbika wanhar. ” (Surat Al-Kawthar)

“So pray to your Lord and Sacrifice.” (The Abundance, 108:2)

That live a life of sacrifice and pray. It means if you pray and you have no sacrifice, you’re not Kawthari (people dressed from the Fountain of Abundance). If you sacrifice and don’t pray, you’re not Kawthari. So, the formula for these people of the Kawthar (The Fountain of Abundance), the families of the Kawthar, the Holy Companions (as) of the Kawthar was – all of their lives were that. They lived a life in which they sacrificed. They sacrificed their bad character, they sacrificed their desires, they sacrificed their money. They sacrificed their time, they sacrificed everything and they prayed.

So, prayer without sacrifice – that’s why we ask people faith in action. All day long you’re praying but you make a sacrifice for anything, for your time, your effort, your money, anything? But you’re praying. So, means the formula for perfection was both. Go out and live a life of khidmat, service. Put your faith in action then when you’re praying you’re from the Kawthari people.

So, this is an important reminder in our lives for people who don’t want to even stop for a second and to give from themselves. This is a great calamity that should never be forgotten. Till the day of judgment Allah (AJ) will put in the hearts of sincere people the life and the reality of Imam Hussain (as). Just a teardrop from your eyes, enough to extinguish the fires of jahannam (hellfire). Because ‘Remember me, I remember you in a better association’ that Imam Hussain (as) and his intercession. That, ‘You cried for me, you gave water for me, you made a well for me, you gave food for me. I’m here for you in your grave. As a result of your difficulty and you’re crying, I’m here to intercede for you.’

This is the greatness of the character of these holy souls. They’re not like these human beings on earth, they don’t remember you. But these are souls that remember the smallest action of love. That’s why what we encourage people is love them. They’re the most important souls to love. That they’ll intercede for you. That when you’re crying out in your grave because of some difficulty that won’t go away, they will remember what you did. That’s the time you need them. Maybe on earth you don’t understand, you don’t really appreciate it. But you enter the grave, you’re going to appreciate every good thing you did. Every good soul that you loved and every water that you gave and every action and food that you gave in their names. They all, inshaAllah, lined up to intercede and to make your difficulties to be down and to go away, inshaAllah.

Question 4: Sayyidi can hell ever be a blessing? I’ve seen myself in hell multiple related scenes. Forgive my bad adab and how to renew and rebuild the connection when broken?

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: I don’t know what we mean by hell being a blessing. But difficulty is not a blessing. So blessings are Allah’s (AJ) rahmah and mercy. Fire burns. But the blessing is when Allah (AJ) shows you fire is headed your way. So to see ourselves in difficulty and to understand that ‘I have to be relieved of this difficulty.’ So, ‘Itqun minan naar (freedom from fire) in Ramadan they can meditate and ask, ‘Ya Rabbi let me to see the true condition of my grave.’

عَنْ سَلْمَانِ اَلْفَارِسِيْ رَضِيْ اللهُ عَنْهُ، أَنْ رَسُوْلُ اللَّهِ ﷺ قال: ” شَهْرُ رَمَضَانَ أَوَّلُهُ رَحْمَةٌ، وَأَوْسَطُهُ مَغْفِرَةٌ، وَآخِرُهُ عِتْقٌ مِنَ النَّارِ.”  
[ الإمَامْ اَلْألْبَانِي، مِشْكَاةْ اَلْمَصَابِيح ، كتاب ٧، حديث ٩] 

‘An Salman al Farsi (ra), an Rasulullahi ﷺ  qala: “Shahru Ramadana awwalahu rahmatun, wa awsatuhu maghfiratun, wa akhiruhu ‘itqun minan naar.” [Al Imam al Albani, Meshkat al Masabih, Kitab 7, Hadith 9] 

Narrated by Salman al Farsi (ra), that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said, “The first (ten days) of the month of Ramadan is mercy, the middle (ten days) is forgiveness, and the last (ten days) is salvation/freedom from the fire.”  [Al Imam al Albani, Meshkat al Masabih, Book 7, Hadith 9] 

That if it is going to be a fiery difficult grave and they would meditate. They would see the fire, they would see the difficulties. As a result they understand that you can’t get yourself out of difficulty, there is no communicating with Allah (AJ) that, ‘Please take it away.’ But how you can get yourself out of difficulty is by the humiliation or humility of saying, ‘I need help.’ Because that’s not a character shaitan has.

So, when you don’t exhibit the satanic character, what happens? There is a rahmah. Shaitan will never let anybody intercede because he didn’t want the intercession of Sayyidina Adam (as). So, the heavenly character you’ll be taught and inspired, ‘No! Ask for Prophet ﷺ to intercede, make your Durood (praising on Prophet Muhammad ﷺ), make your salawats (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ).’ That, ‘Ask that, please intercede for me in my difficulty.’ Then Qur’an opens for us that, ‘Never will I punish them while they’re asking for forgiveness and that you’re present with them.’ 

وَمَا كَانَ اللَّـهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَأَنتَ فِيهِمْ ۚ وَمَا كَانَ اللَّـهُ مُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَهُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ ﴿٣٣﴾

8:33 – “Wa maa kaanal laahu liyu’az zibahum wa anta feehim; wa maa kaanal laahu mu’az zibahum wa hum yastaghfiroon” (Surat Al-Anfal)

“And Allah would not punish them and (while)  you  (Muhammad ﷺ ) are amongst them, and Allah (AJ) would not punish them (while) they seek forgiveness.” (The Spoils of War, 8:33)

So, Qur’an tells us and opens its secret, then make istighfar (seeking forgiveness) all day long and make salawat upon Prophet ﷺ. As soon as you make Durood Sharif and salawats upon Prophet ﷺ what happens? Nurul Muhammad ﷺ (light of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) is all around you and then Allah’s (AJ) promise, ‘I won’t punish you.’ So, anyone who wants to avoid Allah’s (AJ) punishment, make istighfar, ask for forgiveness. It is like a washing. After that begin to make salawat upon Prophet ﷺ. This is a Qur’anic formula, this is not, ‘Oh this he just makes up things.’ We’re not making anything up, it is all in the Qur’an. InshaAllah. 

Question 5: Is there any prophetic medication, recommendation for mental health especially during all of these attacks and dangerous times?

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Yeah, your Durood, your salawat, the love and the mentioning of Ahlul Bayt (as). The Nadi e Ali and the recitation of the names of the Ahlul Bayt (as) and all the salawats and good character. The ta’weez (prayer for protection) and all of the preparations. Be conscious of the foods that you eat, the what you drink, the energy within them, praying upon the different foods that we eat.

So, everything has an energy and every energy has an effect upon us. So, these are all important to be conscious of all of these things. If there is a chemical deficiency then to take the medicines that will help that deficiency if there is something available. So, these are you know all of the energy trainings. Like any other sickness, if you have a heart sickness it is not just you can pray for it to go away. Because maybe 40 years you put a condition upon yourself that made that heart to be weakened.

So, yes there is salawats to do, energy to do. But then your exercise to do and the medicines if available. Then you put the whole combination to regain yourself to some level of health. But people put themselves in difficulties for years and then as a result a condition begins to arise. Or they’re born in a condition where there is immense negative energies around them and become generational attacks. So, we have that and we’ve discussed that in other attacks in other talks.

We told the night before there is shayateen (devils), jinn (unseen being) that makes people bipolar. There is one happy jinn in them and one sad jinn in them. One make them happy one minute, the other one make them sad the next minute. There is schizophrenic people that have many jinn in them; each one talking and using the guy’s mouth and ears. Every five seconds it change into a different voice and different sound. Then there is narcissistic jinn which are very powerful egotistic, they don’t want to listen to anyone. You can see that inside the person and the characters they exhibit.

So, we’re just a very fragile creation that responds to every type of energy. Female, the worst. They have two energy points because of the secret in their womb. Men have one energy point; women have two energy points because there is a secret in their womb. As a result, what happens they are most sensitive to energy, shaitan will affect them the most. So, when the dajjal (man of deceit) begins to move upon the earth Prophet ﷺ described: lock up your women. Why? Because they’re going to go running around? No, lock them up because they’re sensitive to energy. They’re not understanding, they’re starting to hear waswases (whisperings), they start to follow these energies. They say, ‘No, this is a holy person.’ No, it is not a holy person.

So, because they’re relying on everything based on energy because that’s the way Allah (AJ) created them, they are most dangerous. They are going to be most susceptible to these dangers that are coming upon this earth. That’s why more than ever you’re seeing women all tattooed. This was a thing for men and sailors, this was not something for women. But because we’re reaching the dajjalic time, they’re picking up the wrong frequencies. Frequencies of these lizards and reptilian and these different creatures that we know exist within the jinn world. They make themselves look like it. From a distance you see all their skin looks like green scales.

So, these are the signs for people who have eyes. That already everyone is being affected by their energies. If they are too emotional, too yelly, too screaming, too all over the place means the energies are affecting them too, too much. But men are created something different because they have one energy point. So they are more balanced in their energy. They are not an emotional creature, they’re logical creature. Everything has to make logical sense to them, not emotional sense.

That’s why men and women in the last days, they separate because one is illogical and emotional, but the other one is logical. Because that’s the energy point. He has one energy point and he is using his brain and trying to think and guide. Because he is the imam (religious leader), so he has to keep a constant course on his ship. But if your passenger is illogical and emotional, keeps running around the ship, changing the direction of the sail. Trying to jump off the boat, then you can see why in the last days things are difficult. Because the person has two energy points. They’re not protecting those energy points and now allowing every type of frequency to affect them.

So we described that in the bird box, when the frequencies get bad, the people become crazy. So what’s the protection for all of this? Wudu (ablution), energy, muraqabah (spiritual connection), ta’weez. So do you have ta’weez on everything? Do you have the ta’weez upon yourself? Do you have all of what you have? You have the clothing? So this is the barakah (blessing) that also supports our center and our programs. But you have a shirt with the ta’weez. We even have the sleeping, the ta’weez. We have everything in our life is now a spiritual armor so that your hoodie has the ta’weez, your shirt has the ta’weez, everything upon you is walking ta’weez. Why? Because there is an immense, immense energy attack.

So anyone who just look at the people say, ‘Why they don’t look human anymore?’ They say: ‘This is fashionable.’ Now scientists coming out, say: no, this is actually mental illness. Anyone who mark themself up, they’re showing signs of mental illness. Something is wrong. This is not something normally done. This is something when you’re wrong in your energy. Your self-perception of yourself is incorrect, and you find that which is not right to be beautiful. That’s when Allah (AJ) says that shaitan makes them to think things are very good for them.

(٦٣) …فَزَيَّنَ لَهُمُ الشَّيْطَانُ أَعْمَالَهُمْ…  ‎ 

16:63 – “…Fazayyana lahumush Shaitaanu a’maalahum…” (Surat An-Nahl) 

“…But Satan made, (to the wicked), their own acts seem alluring…” (The Bee, 16:63) 

He makes them to destroy themselves and they think, ‘Oh, this is wonderful.’ It is not wonderful. To most people, you look like a lizard. So this is the deception, but this is the isharat and the sign of what we’re living. These are the frequencies that dajjal is putting out in every single device. Every technology that’s given, and everything in the home, everything is putting frequencies to destroy insan (mankind). InshaAllah.

Question 6: Sayyidi, it is said that we lose our wudu when we fall asleep. Are we meant to stay unprotected while sleeping?

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmaid: You’re meant to train yourself to the best of your ability to keep your wudu. So if you eat too much and you start losing your wudu all night long, well eat less. As soon as you feel that you’ve left your wudu, then get up and wash. Sleep lighter, not such a deep sleep. So continuous – they have to monitor themselves.

You have to monitor your body to the best of your ability. So this is a training, depending upon how much you’re being attacked. If you’re being attacked and you immediately know you got attacked, it is not easy to sleep through an attack. It means go wash right away. Come out, make your two rak’ahs (cycles of prayer) salatul wudu (prayer of ablution), and you make your connection. But if you’re not subtle and you don’t feel the energy, yeah, maybe all night long things are attacking you and just making things worse.

But the more you train, the more subtle you become, and you know that immediately you’re having a pain or a difficulty, you have to make wudu. You have a cramping, you have to get up and make wudu because they’re coming, they’re energy. So, like they have energy devices, it is called the TNS unit, T-N-S, where it is electrical pulse. They put it on the muscle and they make the muscle move. Oh, so once you become familiar with that, you know that as soon as energy comes around you, it makes all of the muscles move. Because it is not your energy field, it is an outside energy field.

So when these things get too close and come close to your feet and your legs, it is cramping. Scientists say: oh, you have like a leg this, you have leg cramping at night. All of these are these energies coming too close. So these are, you know, the trainings and then the diet and everything. So that to protect your body from energy attack and outside energy forces that are continuously coming around people, inshaAllah.

Question 7: Sayyidi, what could be the reason that we are disciplined to do our deen (religion) and tariqah (spiritual path) practices but paralyzed to act regarding dunya matters? Could it be that we are using faith as a crutch to escape pressures of dunya because we are so discouraged by past experiences? What could we be doing wrong? How can we strengthen ourselves to feel stronger to balance basic dunya pursuits like livelihood and not descend into monastic isolation? Please forgive me. 

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Yeah, I think you described it all correctly. So that becomes a struggle to keep yourself in balance. It wasn’t to go one direction or the other direction in which you just get welfare and sit on your couch and do zikr (Divine remembrance) and say, ‘This what Allah (AJ) wants.’ Said, no, Allah (AJ) wants you to be strong and wants you to go out and to conquer what you need to conquer. But every night, sitting and doing your zikr and your practices so that not to be reliant upon a government cheque but to be relying upon Allah (AJ).

So to be strong, to be a merchant, to work, to do business, to do things, this is a part of the struggle. So this is the balance. So if somebody emails and says, ‘Oh, I have so much dunya desire, I could never sit down to do zikr,’ it is the same. That’s not good. You have to keep your balance in life. If you say, ‘No, I’m going to just take my welfare cheque and do zikr, and I don’t want to leave my house,’ that’s not good either. So everything is based on the balance. That’s why it is such a big struggle is how to keep the balance.

So you follow the tariqah way, you follow the muraqabah, you follow all of the teachings of the shaykh. You go out and try to do your best and to work your best to bring your rizq and your sustenance. You give in the way of Allah (AJ) and ask Allah (AJ), ‘Please Ya Rabbi send me more so that I can do more support.’ So that becomes then a system of continuously planting our realities. We’re taking, planting, taking, planting, so that you build a beatific garden of realities.

So this is a great struggle, and shaitan wants to push either way. The person to sit down, pretend like they’re doing zikr, not conquering anything, and the person is conquering everything and doesn’t want to sit down and do zikr. That becomes then the struggle for both of them to reach towards the middle way. In which they have for dunya and for akhirah (hereafter), and that Allah (AJ) is happy with them, blessed with them, and give them blessings, 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: July 26, 2024

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• Hear and Obey: Stay Anchored to Divine Light in an Age of Deception Q&A
• Power of Istighfar and Salawats in Days of Difficulty
• Weak Mental State of Modern Men & Satan’s Confusion in Role Playing of the Household Q&A
• Are You Medically Cleared For Spiritual Practices?
• Guidance is Found in the Cave of Rahmah
• Build Your Protection Through Good Deeds, Truth & Love of Divine Q&A
• Supernatural Protection – Spiritually Understanding the Taweez Based on Lessons from Quran Q&A
• Your Good and Bad Deeds Will Manifest in Your Grave
• Life Decisions: Choosing Career, Raising Family, Getting Job or Starting Business – What to do? Q&A
• Shed a Tear for Imam Hussain (as) – a Huge Sacrifice
• From Earthly Trials to Divine Light: Embracing the Reality of Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ Q&A

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