Protect Your Ears to Protect Your Heart
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)
Safar Carries the 18th Ismullah: Al-Fattah, The Opener, Ismur Rasul: Rasul ur Rahmah
Alhamdulillah, from the blessings of the month of Safar and that Allah’s (AJ) 18th name in the 201 and 99 names in Dalail ul Khairat (book of praising on Prophet ﷺ). 99 names of Asma ul Husna (Names of Allah (AJ)) and the 201 names of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ from Dalail ul Khairat. That 18 has to do with ‘Al-Fattah’ and ‘The Opening’. So, there’s an immense opening. “Subhana man huwa ’Alimul Hakim”.
سُبْحَانَ الْعَلِيْمُ الْحَكِيمْ
“Subhanal ’Alimul Hakim”
“Glory be to the All-Knowing, the Wise”
‘Glory be to the One Whom is the Knower and the All Wise.’ That there’s an opening of knowledge and wisdom. ‘Alim (The All-Knowing) and Hakim (The Wise) are essential elements of an opening because knowledge without wisdom could be dangerous. It would be the inappropriate use of knowledge without the wisdom on how to use it and understand. That Allah (AJ) opening in this holy month and the 18th name of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is Rasul ur Rahmah (The Messenger of Mercy).
Betake Yourself to the Cave (Holy Qur’an, 18:16)
That this rahmah (mercy) that Allah (AJ) is describing, that leave their dunya (material world), leave the oppression of shaitan (satan) and take yourself to the cave.
﴾وَإِذِ اعْتَزَلْتُمُوهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا اللَّـهَ فَأْوُوا إِلَى الْكَهْفِ يَنشُرْ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّن رَّحْمَتِهِ وَيُهَيِّئْ لَكُم مِّنْ أَمْرِكُم مِّرْفَقًا ﴿١٦
18:16 – “Wa idhi’ tazaltumo hum wa ma ya’budoona illAllaha fawoo ilal kahfi yanshur lakum rabbukum mir rahmatihi wa yuhayyi lakum min amrikum mirfaqa.” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“When ye turn away from them and the things they worship other than Allah, betake yourselves to the Cave: Your Lord will shower His mercies on you and disposes of your affair towards comfort and ease.” (The Cave, 18:16)
That perchance, Allah (AJ) dress us from rahmah and mercy. Alhamdulillah, that Allah (AJ) granted us to live a life in which to see the holy month of Safar; another opportunity in which Allah (AJ) to dress us from the immensity of the lights of haybah (majestic power) and guidance. The majestic light of haybah in which comes to the soul and heats the soul towards Allah’s (AJ) immense oceans of mercy and grace. That the lights of wisdom and hikmah and knowledges that to dress the soul and illuminate the soul through all darknesses and difficulties.
Ashab ul Kahf Were Given Mercy and Protection (Holy Qur’an, 18:10-12)
InshaAllah, Hajji Shahid will recite from Surat Al-Kahf, verse 10 and 11, inshaAllah.
Reciter: “A’uzu Billahi Minash shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. Idha aw al fityatu ilal kahfi faqalo Rabbana atina min ladunka Rahmah, min ladunka rahmatan wa hayyi lana min amrina rashada. Fadarabnaa ‘alaa aazanihim fil Kahfi seneena ‘adadaa. Thumma ba’athnahum lina’alama ayyual hizbayni ahsa lima labithoo amada.” SadaqAllahul Aliyyil ‘azheem.
أ إِذْ أَوَى الْفِتْيَةُ إِلَى الْكَهْفِ فَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا آتِنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ رَحْمَةً وَهَيِّئْ لَنَا مِنْ أَمْرِنَا رَشَدًا ﴿١٠﴾ فَضَرَبْنَا عَلَىٰ آذَانِهِمْ فِي الْكَهْفِ سِنِينَ عَدَدًا ﴿١١﴾ ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاهُمْ لِنَعْلَمَ أَيُّ الْحِزْبَيْنِ أَحْصَىٰ لِمَا لَبِثُوا أَمَدًا ﴿١٢﴾
18:10-12 – “Idha aw al fityatu ilal kahfi faqalo Rabbana atina min ladunka Rahmatan wa hayyi lana min amrina rashada. Fadarabnaa ‘alaa aazanihim fil Kahfi seneena ‘adadaa. Thumma ba’athnahum lina’alama ayyual hizbayni ahsa lima labithoo amada. (Surat Al-Kahf)
“When the young men fled for refuge to the Cave and said: Our Lord! Give us mercy from Thy presence, and shape for us right conduct in our plight. Then We draw (a veil) over their ears, for a number of years, in the Cave, (so that they heard not). Then We awakened them that We might show which of the two factions was most precise in calculating what [extent] they had remained in time. (The Cave, 18:10-12)
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: SadaqAllahul ‘azheem wa barakah (blessings) Rasulul Kareem (The Most Generous Messenger).
Slavery Continues Today, Just in a Different Form
That when the youth retreated to the cave and their du’a (supplication) was that, ‘Ya Rabbi, grant us from Your Presence, a rahmah (mercy) and prepare for us our affairs to be rightly guided.’ “Rabbana atina min ladunka rahmah wa hayyi lana min amrina rashada”. It means that why Allah (AJ) giving for people to go to a cave? Because there must be a message for us at every moment. That these are not the stories of old where we read them as a story, but what Allah (AJ) want for us is that to meditate and contemplate and that everybody has a cave and their cave is their heart and their chest.
That retreat from the busyness of dunya (material world), the oppression of dunya and the enforced enslavement of dunya. That don’t think that there’s no slavery. Everybody is enslaved. They’re just clever. When outright slavery was banned, they decided to create a new type of slavery; an involuntary servitude in which the person is enslaved by finance, enslaved by money, by loans, by credit cards.
Shaitan Makes Us Feel Like We are Free
These are the unseen chains that bind people that they feel and they think themself free because this is the role of shaitan is – to make them feel that they are free and prosperous but in reality they are bound by chains that they cannot see. They are beholden to those whom hold those chains. So, it means then the slavery of dunya (material world) and enslavement of dunya is very real, very powerful, very difficult to escape.
Allah (AJ) is giving for us an understanding that: run to the cave because Allah’s (AJ) attributes within the cave is a rahmah (mercy) and then to become rushd (growth) that the amr (command). We want to be from Ulul Amr (saints), the people whom they follow the command of Allah (AJ). That only in this cave, Allah (AJ) is describing that, ‘You have to leave their oppression. Leave what shaitan is asking and run to the cave and in the cave asking that, ‘Ya Rabbi, that guide me. Send light and guidance upon me. Keep me under Your amr and Your command to reach to the oceans of realities, the oceans of Hay (The Ever-Living), the realities of nur and light and knowledges.’ All of these happening within the cave.
Allah (AJ) is in the Heart of the Believer
So, that every moment, we have a cave that Allah (AJ) has given to us. It’s the heart of the insan (mankind) in which we described before is the holy Ka’bah. That Allah (AJ) has a Ka’bah in Mecca, but Allah (AJ) has a potential Ka’bah in everyone’s heart. If they clean their heart, wash and purify their heart and everything within their chest, they wash and purify and circumambulate their inner reality. Allah (AJ) describes, ‘I’m not on heaven, not on Earth but I’m on 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]
Surah Al-Kahf Represents Muraqabah and Muhasabah
That, that cave is the cave that Allah (AJ) is asking for us to run to. It means these are the understandings. Why tariqah (spiritual path) uses Surat Al-Kahf as immense importance? Because this is a sign of muraqabah (spiritual connection) and muhasabah (accounting). That, otherwise, if you read it as a story of old, ‘Oh, this is just a tale. Somebody’s telling us a tale and we go on with our life.’ Or that the Qur’an is guiding at every moment and Allah (AJ), as soon as we hit into this hijab (veil), this tajalli (manifestation), this emanation of this holy month, Allah (AJ) is reiterating in this month especially: take a life in which you enter into the cave.
Do you first agree that there’s an immense oppression that I’m being enslaved in every direction? There’s no way out of it because everybody has to, to live within the system. As soon as you identify the system, then it’s not enslaving you and you’re enslaving it. So, you…are you using it for your benefits or are you enslaved by it?
Ashab ul Kahf Were Ripened Towards Perfection By Allah (AJ)
Then Allah (AJ) is reminding for us and Prophet ﷺ inspiring within us is have a life in which you enter into your cave and that every rushd, every amr, every command, every maturity, every…rashadan. We described last night to become rushd is to be ripened. That when the fruit is growing by moonlight, but it’s sweetened by sunlight. It means that no matter what we’re trying to become mature, Allah (AJ) only within the cave can make somebody to become rushd, to become sweetened and ready.
That they have been sweetened by Allah (AJ), that they are of a state of perfection by Allah (AJ), Ashab ul Kahf (companions of the cave). So, can there somebody be rushd whom never entered into a cave and when you talk to them about meditation they said, ‘No there is no meditation. There’s no cave in Islam. There’s…there’s no command from Allah (AJ) that we’re…we’re all youths and Allah (AJ) is not commanding us to enter into a cave. Leave what they worship and run into the cave’?
Surah Al-Kahf is About Manners and Etiquettes of Entering Into the Cave and Dealing With a Guide
So, Allah (AJ) is giving. All of Surat Al-Kahf is a major daleel (proof) for tariqahs (spiritual paths). The other devious groups, they actually don’t like to talk about Surat Al-Kahf. They have a very warped understanding of Surat Al-Kahf. ‘Oh yeah, that’s the surah (chapter) that gives us a daleel to argue with people.’ So, that’s not what you should have understood. Surat Al-Kahf is all about manners and etiquettes of how to enter into the cave and then when we get into the subject of Sayyidina Musa (as) is the manners of dealing with those whom are from the cave.
When maybe Nabi Musa (as) wanted to meet one of them then Allah (AJ) begins to teach from Qur’anic manners how to accompany somebody who has been taught by Allah (AJ). So, it means the entry of the cave, Allah (AJ) is giving us: there is a physical location for every servant that you must enter. You must seek refuge in Allah (AJ) from the busyness of your world and enter into your cave.
Create a Cave in Your Home to Run From Oppression
In your home, you should make a cave. In their home, there should be a space set aside for meditation, for your salah (daily prayer). At the ending of every salah, sitting in tafakkur (contemplation) and contemplating; even just a few minutes after each prayer to communicate, to connect one’s heart and communicate with the Divinely Presence. That we make a cave like Ashab ul Kahf in our home and then we train ourself to be now from the people of the cave in which we are continuously running from oppression.
When we understood that Allah (AJ) is giving the understanding of muraqabah (meditation) by saying a cave because Allah (AJ) could just give a different example in any way. But the fact that Allah (AJ) is giving a symbol of a location that seek in this location, your ability to shelter yourself from all of the badness of the world. Everybody has a location that they should set up within their home which is their sanctuary, which they have their busy schedule, their busy lives. They have an area in which they change their clothing from their busy world.
You Cannot Attain the Presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ Without Tafakkur
They shouldn’t be praying in the same clothing. They should try to wash when they get home. Change their clothing to signify leaving the material world and now entering into the spiritual realm. That, that sanctuary of theirs is where they pray, they meditate, they do all of their connections. That, ‘Ya Rabbi, even if my cave is only but for an hour, half hour, a few minutes every day, that this is where I’m asking, ya Rabbi. That You dress me, bless me. That grant me from Your amr. Grant me from this maturity. Grant me from these knowledges. Let me to attain a rahmah.’
How can you attain a rahmah? It means how can you achieve a presence with the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ without tafakkur (contemplation), without being and entering into that cave of rahmah and mercy? Then Allah (AJ) gives us now an understanding for the people who want to be from the people of the cave. ‘And so we cast a cover of sleep over their ears within the cave for a number of years.’
﴾فَضَرَبْنَا عَلَىٰ آذَانِهِمْ فِي الْكَهْفِ سِنِينَ عَدَدًا ﴿١١
18:11 – “Fadarabnaa ‘alaa aazanihim fil Kahfi seneena ‘adadaa” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“Then We draw (a veil) over their ears, for a number of years, in the Cave, (so that they heard not)” (The Cave, 18:11)
Your Hearing is the Door to Your Soul and is Immensely Important
I think, last year, we talked also that why Allah (AJ) is describing now from the characteristics of Ashab ul Kahf that Allah (AJ) casted a cover, like a pardeh or hijab upon their ears. Doesn’t it seem like for somebody called Sleepers of the Cave that Allah (AJ) would cast something over your eyes? How do you signify sleeping and hearing? So, it means there must be a reality within that reality.
That Allah (AJ) is drawing to our attention, the importance of hearing and the importance that your eyes are a window to your soul. But more important than the window to your soul is the door to your soul. It means that’s why we described in tafakkur, in contemplation and meditation, that Allah (AJ) has given permission to the shaykhs. That when we meditate and to do zikr (Divine remembrance), they have an authority from Allah (AJ) to begin to pull the energy of somebody’s soul from their ears and can summon them to be in the presence of that zikr and that reality because there’s an immense importance in your Sami’, the one whom hears.
Shaitan Can Contaminate and Destroy Our Soul Through Our Hearing
Your ears are the door to your soul. Allah (AJ) is directing our attention because again, remember the logical would say that, ‘We covered their eyes and they became sleepers.’ But why would these immensely important example of Sleepers of the Cave? Allah (AJ) is giving you a hint that, ‘We cast a cover over their ears and then they slept’ because our life is about the importance of these ears.
﴾فَضَرَبْنَا عَلَىٰ آذَانِهِمْ فِي الْكَهْفِ سِنِينَ عَدَدًا ﴿١١
18:11 – “Fadarabnaa ‘alaa aazanihim fil Kahfi seneena ‘adadaa” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“Then We draw (a veil) over their ears, for a number of years, in the Cave, (so that they heard not)” (The Cave, 18:11)
If these ears are not submitting and this understanding of these ears are not understood and not under contemplation, we don’t understand the effect of what’s happening with our ears and our soul. But shaitan knows it. That’s why every bad sound and every bad badness now is based on here [ears]. The shaitan can contaminate and destroy the soul by its hearing.
Prophet ﷺ Asks His Nation to Hear and Obey (Holy Qur’an, 2:285)
It means that what the servant hears, that becomes now the talk of energy, vibration and now manifestation. If shaitan wants to destroy the vibration of someone’s soul and if you destroy the vibration, you destroy the manifestation of its light. Beatific light vibrates very beautifully high. If you take the vibration down and low and filled with bad words, the illumination of the soul is crushed and then darkened.
As a result, the destruction of the soul is more powerfully destroyed by the ears than by the eyes. So, shaitan’s first attack is going to be by ear. When we understood that what Prophet ﷺ asked of his nation, ‘Be from sam’ina wa ata’na. Be from the people whom they hear the call and they hear the command and ‘Labbaik, (Here I am, at your service). We heard and we are the first to hear the command of Allah (AJ) and we are present’ because he’s drawing our attention to the immense importance of your soul’s door and your ability to hear.
﴾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)
Don’t Ask Prophet ﷺ to Listen to You, But Listen to Him (Holy Qur’an, 2:104)
Safeguard the hearing. That these sounds and musics, they’re not random. These sounds and lyrics, they are not random. They are on the attack. This is the battle from dajjal (man of deceit) against the destruction of humanity and those whom are trying to safeguard their humanity and safeguard their presence for the arrival of Sayyidina Mahdi (as). Then they must be aware that the battle level is on the ears. That was shaitan. If he has access to somebody’s ear, he has access to their entire soul, their vibration and then into their heart.
That’s why the waswas (whispering). That’s why the listening. That’s why they…they listen to everything. Then they follow anything that anyone is saying. Then they find this one, that one, this one is an authority. They listen and what shaitan is doing is by entering into their ears, he has their attention. That’s why Allah (AJ) described for us, for Prophet ﷺ because he’s the exemplar beyond imagination. That, ‘Don’t say to Prophet ﷺ to ‘Listen to me’’. Why? Because the ears and hearing is only for Allah (AJ).
﴾يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَقُولُوا رَاعِنَا وَقُولُوا انظُرْنَا وَاسْمَعُوا …﴿١٠٤
2:104 – “Yaa ayyuhal ladheena aamano, laa taqolo ra’yina wa qolu unzurna wasma’o…” (Surat Al-Baqarah)
“O you who believe! Do not say (to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)) ra’yena, listen to us, and say Unzurna (gaze upon us) and you listen (to him (pbuh)…” (The Cow, 2:104)
Submit Your Ears to Allah (AJ) to Follow Prophet ﷺ and Ulul Amr
Again, stressing the ears have to submit to Allah (AJ). When they’re for Allah (AJ), then they listen to Prophet ﷺ. When they listen to Prophet ﷺ, then they follow the Ulul Amr and that’s it. They don’t listen to anyone else. The advice of anyone else is not something that they are going to bring into their ears, into their heart and then begin to affect their entire understanding and being.
So, there’s an immense stress on the importance of hearing. That shaitan is battling for the hearing of insan (mankind) so that to waswas, to whisper, to guide, to create doubt and to create every form of difficulty. That Allah (AJ) is directing for those whom wish to be from Ashab ul Kahf that you must have trained your hearing.
Do Not Meditate in Complete Silence
That’s why when we say that our form of meditation, the tariqah form of meditation, is never in silence. Your biggest protection for your hearing is to put on salawats (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ). So when you meditate, you put on the nasheeds (songs of praise), the na’at (prophetic praising) and salawats and this is your greatest protection. Never silent. So, when somebody is asking questions of over analyzing, maybe they’re meditating in silence, but there is no silence. There is absolutely no silence.
Any void of salawats will be filled by shaitan. As soon as you think you reach a place where you can be silent, you’re really not silent. You’re sitting alone with shaitan. As a result, shaitan will begin to whisper in your ear every problem of your life. Every issue will begin to come. That’s when you know you’re sitting with shaitan. So, there is no silence.
Play Salawats to Keep Shaitan’s Whisperings Away
If the ears can hear reality, they would hear the immense praisings of the angels upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Everything from malakut (heavenly realm) is all salawat on Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That is the greatest energy and the greatest protection. So, then the people whom want to be from the cave, they have to understand those tools. That never put yourself in a place where it’s going to be silent because shaitan is the one who’s going to be with you in that silence; keep whispering into you, keep giving you to have doubt, keep having you to over analyze something.
There is nothing like that. So, it means people whom train, they know that anytime they want to make their connection, immediately, they play the salawats. Why? Because it’s an immense protection that the shaitans are not going to sit there and whisper while you’re listening to salawats because the salawat is burning them.
Make Your Connection Through Your Practices and Praisings
So, when the salawats are playing, they have to leave. But as a result of the salawats, you’re now bringing all of the angelic manifestations around the servant. As a result of the salawats, the angelic reality begins to praise upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Why? Because they can’t sit and listen to Prophet’s ﷺ praisings without praising even more beatific. So, it brings a tremendous energy. As a result of that energy, they begin to meditate.
They see themselves in Madina. They see themselves at Rauza e Sharif (holy burial chamber) with their shaykh and asking then to connect, make the energy to happen, make the connection to happen, make their heart to be connected. Do their awrad (daily practices), do their zikrs. That’s what is meant by entering the cave and covering the hearing because as soon as you cover and understood the importance of the hearing, you understand the ability of shaitan to break the condition of the servant.
To Protect Your Ears is to Protect Your Heart
If Allah (AJ) had not controlled the hearing, that at any moment when they entered into a trance, shaitan would have arised and awakened them through the faculty of their hearing. So, anyone whom wants to reach a state of perfection and a state of annihilation, they have to begin to train on the importance of hearing. That my ears for Allah (AJ), for the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and for the teaching of Ulul Amr, the awliya (saints).
That my ears and my understanding and knowledge, only from those sources that are encrypted and beatific energies to enter into my guidance and enter into affect my heart. Every time I sit to do of anything of a spiritual nature, it’s in the praisings and salawat of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Then they begin to make their connection. They make all their understanding and every light and every dress and every blessing to come upon them. When the servant understands the importance of that, they understand. With that same praisings and they meditate and contemplate, that energy can begin to pull their soul out of their body.
Ulul Amr Meditate As If Their Soul Leaves Their Body
The one whom wants to leave their body will be leaving it by the power of the salawats. Once they begin to train themselves because if they don’t know the armory, imagine then the amount of danger somebody could run into. That they sit and then in the silence, shaitan is playing with them, is talking to them, is whispering to them.
How would Allah (AJ) open an energy for that person to leave their body, to enter into a state of death? Everything has to be exactly the way the heavenly security has lined the situation to be. They train with that energy. They train with the salawats. When these beatific and angelic realities come, their soul departs from the body, like Mawlana (Q) would describe, like a hair in ghee (clarified butter).
Nothing Opens for You When You Place Yourself in Dangerous Energies
The state of death, for pious people, because their meditation is a state of death as if to take a hair out of a liquid butter, just flows right out. Because of the love of their salawats, the love of Prophet ﷺ, immediately, they feel themself always leaving their body because that’s a safe environment because all the angelic reality and all the beatific energies. If the student is not understanding that, how could then anything open where they would open themself into a dangerous environment and dangerous energies?
That, that yeah, that has immense importance. The people who want to lend themself to hypnosis and all these other…other magical things. They went to the children’s school and they said, ‘Oh, they brought a hypnosis person for graduation.’ Alhamdulillah, I talked to the kids before about that and I said that, ‘Don’t ever do those things because the only reason that works is a break of your a’uzu (protection).’ He said, ‘Yeah, I asked the guy who was doing that.’ He said, ‘Do you think your hypnosis works if I don’t let you?’ He said, ‘No.’ You have to be willing to allow them to hypnotize you.
Beware of Breaking Your Contract With A’uzu
It means you broke your contract with the a’uzu, but it gave a much deeper understanding that if you let somebody to take control of your ears, they can can take control of your entire being. That’s the danger of those people whom are trained in that. That, ‘I want you to be hypnotized.’ You say, ‘Okay.’ ‘Now I want you to listen to my voice.’ It means you’ve already broken the a’uzu. You’ve given this person the ability to enter into your soul’s controls. They have the ability to begin to suggest and plant suggestions and do all sorts of mischievous activities; not saying that they all are, but it’s against the principles of these protections and these practices.
Because we understood the importance of ears, you don’t give your ears to anyone and definitely not to play with and say, ‘Do you mind if I practice on you to do these things?’ Say, ‘No, of course, I’m not allowing you to do such a thing nor am I ever accepting that.’ That way, their type of practices could never affect the person whom does not allow it.
Teach Your Children to Not Be Malleable
It means in your life and this has a tremendous importance of what’s happening now. You’re not to be a malleable person. I don’t know if that’s the correct English, but you’re not somebody who’s supposed to be a play dough in which anyone can mold you into what they want you to be because you allow yourself to listen to everything and everyone. The danger that children and youth are having and like, we’ve given a talk about the blind leading the blind.
Everybody now because of social media is taking advice from everyone. The kids go to school and they take advice from everyone and they’re giving their ear to everyone. ‘This friend said that. My friend said this, this friend’ and they grow up with the same concept that 20 people are telling them what to do and what to be and how to be in this world and in this life.
Influencers are Encouraging Us to Move Towards Shaitan
That’s now the danger of humanity. That’s the danger of what’s happening that it’s affecting the soul. It’s affecting their guidance system. It affects in their entire co-ordinance and the most difficult aspect of growing up in today’s day and age is that, ‘I don’t want to listen to anyone,’ but you are bombarded by every type of social media, every type of what we called before ‘influencers’. They’re meant to influence people.
99% of them to influence towards satan because they’re not working for Allah (AJ). They’re influencing towards satanic understandings and satanic energies. When we understood that, then we understand why there’s a war over the ears. There’s a war on Earth right now for the ears of humanity. Once you gain the ears of humanity, the next contamination will be the eyes. But first they want to break down the door.
The Current Battle is for the Ears of Humanity
So, the door for the soul because they’re not interested in your physical body. They’re interested in the soul – that which is precious to Allah (AJ). So, the war and the battle is for the ears of humanity. When they gain the ears of humanity, then they’ll go after the eyes. So, then the safeguard we see it by satanic influence that should encourage the believers that this is very real. Look how much shaitan pays his influencers. How many people go 200,000 people to a concert, 100,000 people to a concert because these are very high priests.
They have the ability to destroy and break down the doors of many souls. Don’t think there’s something small. Shaitan is paying them hundreds of millions of dollars to the damage that they do. So, imagine then what type of difficulty Allah (AJ) going to put upon these people for the destruction of what they’ve done to humanity. But because you can see the negative by the law of opposite, we should understand the positive. There is an immense battle. Look, the shaykh is saying, look at how they’re battling for the ears of humanity.
As a result, the guided and safe one is the one whom understood and begins to safeguard their ears, clean their ears, perfect their ears and that they listen to their salawats. As soon as they listen to their salawats, they’re now trying to make a connection with the shaykhs, with the energy and to connect to hearing their soul and their inner guidance and their inner co-ordinance.
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: September 3, 2022
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