Purify Your Heart to Enter the Heavenly Kingdom 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)
Service Brings Mercy and Helps You to Get Noticed by Prophet ﷺ and the Shaykh
InshaAllah, what do we have from our SMC family all over the world? MashAllah lots of posts, lots of comments. Alhamdulillah Allah (AJ) dress everyone, bless everyone and grant immense himmah (zeal). That if we all have the zeal in which to do things to get noticed, we need a social… what do they call it for dunya (material world) where they’re going to keep a social scale of what you do? The dunya people will keep to see socially what are you, who are you, what are your comments, what are your beliefs. But the spiritual one is more important. That we’re continuously doing and trying to achieve things so that Prophet’s ﷺ nazar (gaze) be upon us, awliyaullah’s (saints) nazar be upon us. Anyone in difficulty do more khidmat (service) because the khidmat brings a nazar and rahmah (mercy). So these are the hikmah and the wisdoms of the life that we lead. So inshaAllah Allah (AJ) inspire people to increase the temperature of their love with their actions and with their deeds, inshaAllah.
Question 1: I was writing down a salawat (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) which when read erases 100,000 sins [Muhammadan Way App: Practices ⇒ Salawats ⇒ Erases 100,000 Grand Sins]. While writing I felt very agitated so I stopped writing it midway. Was this because my shaitans (devils) were burning?
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Everything, it could be a thousand different things but definitely shaitan (satan) was not happy with the energy. Burning your hand, biting you, trying to attack you. Copy paste it, it is faster. Sometimes when you hold your phone and you make Durood Sharif (praising on Prophet Muhammad ﷺ), of course, your hand is going to burn. Because the shaitans that are managing that device they’re not happy with that energy. So this is you know these are from the proofs that the battle of energy is very true and very real.
So the Durood and the salawat upon Prophet ﷺ is immensely powerful, immensely powerful. In our lives accompany those whom their Durood and their majlis (association) is based on ‘ishq and muhabbat (love). Not career oriented. This is not a career. This is a way of life, this is a way of love. If somebody come to you, say: ‘I love you. Give me $10, I kiss you.’ What do you call that person? That’s not somebody who loves you. They want $10 from you. So this love has to have very pure intention. That when you love and you love and you love, don’t matter they shower $10,000 upon you, alhamdulillah. But you don’t do it for the sake of money. We do what we do for the sake of love; love of the Divine, love of the presence of Prophet ﷺ. So accompany those whom have that love. Because they’ll teach you how to love with all sincerity and purity, inshaAllah
Question 2: According to the understanding that the inside must be changed first so that the outside can change. Does salawat change the inside?
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Yeah, that’s the fire that cooks the turkey from the inside. That’s why it is more important to fix the inside, fix the character, fix all the inner struggles than being an outward Sufi. Outward Sufi is worthless. They put beads on their neck, they wear their hair long, they look like hippies, they talk cool and they call them hipsters. It is complete waste of time. Inside could be very rotten because it is not the way.
The way is based on purity inside. That you fought and struggled inside with your akhlaaq, your character, your kindness, your love for Prophet ﷺ. As a result of an inner love, an inner correctness, an inner connection. A strong connection with your guide and your shaykh, begin to appear like the one you love. The one you love appears like the one he loves, and the one he loves appears like the one he loves. Before you know it you’re in the image of Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ, you just haven’t seen it yet.
But the one you love, if he is really ‘ashiqeen (lovers), he look looks like the one he loves. The one he loves looks like the one he loves and you find that they look like Prophet ﷺ. So this is the karamat – this is the miracle. This is the reality of love that you begin to look like who you love. You copy whom you love, you keep the character and the mannerism of who you love. Then when they see you, people should know who you love. If someone sees you and doesn’t know who you love, you’ve done something wrong. Right?
We look at a shaykh, if you look at the shaykh, you say: ‘Don’t know who is this guy. He is a motorcycle biker, he is a lumberjack or maybe he is a farmer, may be he is this or that.’ No, the shaykh has to look like he has a love for Prophet ﷺ. Not every day this is there something different. Why? Because as he looks to the mirror of that reality, this is the dress of that reality that looks back upon him. That becomes the key of that relationship and that reality.
So they carry the reflection of whom they look to, they carry the light of whom they love and look to. As a result, that’s the image that you’re seeing. Then when you take that image and you begin to copy it, that is reflecting. So others they don’t look like they’re the image of Prophet ﷺ. They don’t even wear the things that Prophet ﷺ even spoke of. So then why to follow something like that? That becomes all of the ways of haqqaiq (realities), inshaAllah.
Question 3: Sayyidi in your talk previously you told us not to listen to complaints. What if those complaints are about us and our behavior?
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: If you need to listen to other people complaining about you then you need to do your own inventory and write your own character down. You shouldn’t have to be told who you are only by other people. ‘Oh I didn’t know that.’ But one whom reflects and meditates, they should know they’re lazy, they’re angry, they have all of these different characteristics. We don’t need other people to tell us. Or if you do, then we’re not meditating, we’re not contemplating.
So the muhasabah (accounting) is an essential part of the muraqabah (spiritual connection). It is taking an account of oneself so that we should be honest and true with ourselves. We know we’re tricky, we know we’re sneaky, we know we have anger, we know all of these different characteristics. We should have wrote them down first. So when you hear from other people, you say: ‘Oh…’ and make astaghfirullah (I seek forgiveness from Allah (AJ)). That, ‘Ya Rabbi other people are noticing all my bad characteristics. Help me to take them away.’ So this is essential part of the tariqah (spiritual path) – is to take our muhasabah and accounting for ourself, inshaAllah.
Question 4: May Allah (AJ) bless you. Sayyidi motivation is difficult but discipline is reliable. What’s the secret to discipline when time is diluting?
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Motivation is difficult and discipline is good, easy because discipline is usually the hard. Somebody who is disciplined has a lot of motivation because they have the ability to be disciplined. They wake up a specific time, they do specific things. They have specific regiment and the discipline is the most difficult part.
We were talking today and you know when you want to lay concrete, you have to put a mold. So you put the four sides and then you pour the concrete, you wait 3 days, you take the mold out, it is a wall. This is a life of discipline. You want to make a strong wall, build a strong mold of what you have to do every day, every hour, every minute. Then you live by that. You discipline of what you do for your prayers, what you do for your awrads (daily practices). What you do for your eating, what do you do for everything. If you can live by that discipline, you should find lots of motivation. Because you’re motivated enough to keep that discipline.
But most people have no discipline now. So they think they’re concrete, they pour it with no mold and it seems to go all over the place and just become like a rock. But it is not a wall. A problem with a rock is it just kind of gets in the way. You can’t do anything with a rock, right. But the shaykh can build an entire castle with a wall. If everybody became a wall, that goes back to the talk of the ants, imagine where we would be! Go back now and I’m surprised nobody asks questions about the talks. They kind of come like on a freeway and go 100 miles an hour and then they pass.
Allah (AJ) ask from us Surat Al-Kahf, ‘Be better than a dog, be more loyal than the dog.’ In the tariqah if you get angry at somebody, don’t bite them. Then you’re not even better than a dog. Then in Surat An-Naml Allah (AJ) asks us, ‘Oh at least be better than an ant.’ How come nobody ask any questions about the power of ants? That how this ant that has no head; have you seen the ant Hajji Shahid? [Shaykh asks audience]. The front and the back look the same, you can’t tell he is going forward or the ant is going backwards. But how that ant… imagine the bodybuilders that look like ants. In this dunya with the big head they’re like buffalo. They try to make themself to be all physically buff and strong.
Allah (AJ) say, ‘You want to see strength? See this ant. He has a big belly and little tiny legs.’ Look at the figure of an ant. He has got little tiny legs and he has a big belly. He lifts 300 times his weight. On the power of his legs? It can’t be. With what power Allah (AJ) gave this creature because it looks like his legs would collapse if you lift 300 times your weight. So means lifting 600 pounds, my legs and knees would collapse. So what is the mo’jizah – what’s the miracle of that creature? That he has the ability to call out to his community with no phone but immense power in his heart. That they live as a community. If they come across water, they jump on each other, make a raft and float across the water. If you injure one and he releases a chemical, they come from everywhere to retrieve his body. That’s why if you kill an ant in your home, 5,000 ants will come into your home. You’re not supposed to. They release a pheromone which is an emergency call and they all come. Why? To take their dead and to honor their dead. What kind of power is that? What kind of community is that?
Allah (AJ) says, ‘You’re My chosen nation and you’re My chosen creation and you can’t match even the quality of an ant?’ So no, we have a lot to develop, we have a lot of realities to achieve. We have to achieve our spiritual connection, we have to achieve our spiritual energies and our realities. That they lift with an energy. The bird flies with immense love, not even thinking it is going to die. How the bird and the bird has no brain. They say the bird’s head is very tiny but the chest is a big heart. Because his ‘ishq and love for Allah (AJ), he flies and never thinks he is going to fall. If you had faith like a bird and spiritual power like an ant and loyalty like a dog, imagine what we would be!
But instead we’re proud to be human. We actually act inhuman to everything and especially to nature whom Allah (AJ) say it is like you’re killing saints. You harm a bird, you’ve harmed a great saint. Sahabi Kiram (Honourable Companions of Prophet ﷺ) they would take food for birds. In the winter Sayyidina Umar (as) would take the seeds and feed them knowing that their sustenance is going to become short. He took care of the nation of Prophet ﷺ. Because they’re the nation, they are the lovers of Allah (AJ).
So it means the love for creatures but to have a discipline in which to look at what Allah (AJ) has given to them of power and say, ‘Ya Rabbi at least let me to be better than these creatures. Because You’ve chosen us to be the honored nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ’. Then the first step is at least to acknowledge their power and that these are realities that we should strive for. If we had a heart like the bird, we would fly, our soul souls would be flying everywhere. If your soul flies, you can see beyond the physical body because you operate with your soul, inshaAllah.
Question 5: What is the reality behind having more difficulty as a result of helping a person solve a problem?
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: There is a story of a man wearing a sarong. Islamic sunnah (traditions of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) outfit is one piece of fabric that they wrap around and they roll up – is a sarong. He is wearing his sarong, he is out in the jungle and he has grabbed a lion and he has got a lion by two ears. He is wearing a a sarong and he see somebody walking on a path coming down. Say, ‘Oh oh oh akhi (brother), akhi come, come.’ The man looks at him, he has got a lion by the ears and his sarong is on. He says, ‘Please come, come one second. You hold the lion so I can adjust my sarong so it doesn’t fall and I become exposed.’ The man came, he helped, he grabbed the lion’s ears. The man with the sarong ran.
So means your problems are enough in life. If you want to go out and grab the lion of other people and the difficulties of other people, you’re going to be stuck with that creature. It means focus on yourself, focus on your own life, your own children, your loved ones. Why you want to go out and deal with things that you don’t need to deal with?
We described in other talks when your life becomes good, you’re in the tariqah, you’re doing your zikrs (Divine remembrance). You have good manners it is like a little lifeboat for you and your loved ones, your children and significant others. As soon as your life is good, everyone wants to jump in your boat. Because their lives are upside down. So that’s the time to be cautious – is tell people, ‘Look here is the video, go watch the Shaykh, fix your own boat. But can you jump in mine? No. You’re going to pop my boat and my whole family we’re going to go down.’ So this is real, the energy of people are real, the sicknesses of people are real, the difficulties of people are real. Send them videos. But when you want to play shaykh and you personally get involved, you grabbed a lion that you may not be able to control, inshaAllah.
Question 6: Is the bringing the throne within a blink of an eye example of teaching of speed of thought? Also what did Queen Sheba realize when she realized the floor was crystal glass?
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: We have talks on the importance of the Sulaiman (as) power. The Sulaimaniya (as), Sayyidina Sulaiman (as) and the reality of that heavenly kingdom and the immensity of the power of the heavenly kingdom upon earth. When we understand and study that reality, these are the signs of the heavenly kingdom on this earth and the entry back into the heavenly kingdoms in the world of light.
The shaitans that don’t have the heavenly kingdom. They try to imitate and fool their students that they have power from the heavenly kingdom. So those are important understandings to understand why we teach what we teach. So, the issue of bringing the throne that Sayyidina Sulaiman (as) wanted to show his power and the Might of Allah (AJ). Because they say she has a powerful throne. The kingdom of Sheba, the queen is Bilqis. She was half jinn (unseen being) and her father was a king who married a jinn queen from their kingdom. The issue and the story we’ve told before of the father had issues with his wife. Because her jinn reality he couldn’t understand or comprehend their world. He went off into the woods in search of her as she left and ran away back into the jinn world. He left the kingdom to Bilqis. So she is half jinn in nature. As a result, they built for her a tremendous palace and kingdom and a throne room.
Sayyidina Sulaiman (as) was told that her throne is magnificent. So to show Allah’s (AJ) ‘Azimat (Magnificence) said, ‘We’ll bring it here so that she’ll bow down to us and understand our authority when you take that throne and bring it there.’ The story, this is just a summary, that the ifrit (powerful demon), the shaitans that were under his (as) command said, ‘We will bring it but it takes time.’ But Allah (AJ) didn’t want him to use the ifrit. So then these are the two powers that are in dunya now. The ifrit said, ‘We’ll bring it, it takes time.’ But they were going to steal it and a Prophet (as) of Allah (AJ) can’t steal the property of anyone. But the one, Asif, the learned one of the book of the Torah he bring it in a, ‘I’ll bring it in a blink of an eye.’ He brought an exact replica of that throne into the palace of Sayyidina Sulaiman (as).
قَالَ عِفْرِيتٌ مِّنَ الْجِنِّ أَنَا آتِيكَ بِهِ قَبْلَ أَن تَقُومَ مِن مَّقَامِكَ ۖ وَإِنِّي عَلَيْهِ لَقَوِيٌّ أَمِينٌ ﴿٣٩﴾
27:39 – “Qala ‘ifreetun mina aljinni ana ateeka bihi qabla an taqooma min maqamika wa inni ‘alayhi laqawiyyun ameen.” (Surat An-Naml)
“Said An ‘Ifrit, of the Jinns, I will bring it to you before you rise from your place/council, and indeed, I am for this (purpose/task) strong and trustworthy.” (The Ant, 27:38)
قَالَ الَّذِي عِندَهُ عِلْمٌ مِّنَ الْكِتَابِ أَنَا آتِيكَ بِهِ قَبْلَ أَن يَرْتَدَّ إِلَيْكَ طَرْفُكَ ۚ فَلَمَّا رَآهُ مُسْتَقِرًّا عِندَهُ قَالَ هَـٰذَا مِن فَضْلِ رَبِّي ۖ…﴿٤٠﴾
27:40 – “Qala alladhee ‘indahu ‘ilmun minal kitabi ana ateeka bihi qabla an yartadda ilayka Tarfuka, falamma raahu mustaqirran ‘indahu qala hadha min fadli rabbi…” (Surat An-Naml)
“Said one who had knowledge of the book: “I will bring it to you within the twinkling of an eye!” Then when (Solomon) saw it placed firmly before him, he said: “This is by the Grace of my Lord!…” (The Ant, 27:40)
So means the reality is that Sayyidina Sulaiman (as) was about to use two powers. One; if he had set the precedent of using ifrit then everybody would have been using shayateen (devils) and ifrit to do things. But Allah (AJ) set the precedent for religious reasons and religious ideology is, ‘Don’t go to their power. Don’t use their power but use your kitab (book).’ If the Torah had that power and the Torah’s reality exists within the reality of Holy Qur’an. Because Holy Qur’an is the power of all powers.
So means anyone whom has knowledge of the book, knowledge of kitabullah (book of Allah (AJ)) then they can move and bring things by the speed of thought. This is why Allah (AJ) gives Hadith al Qudsi (Holy Hadith) that you do your fard (obligatory), you come with voluntary worship, what happens? ‘I become your hearing you hear, with seeing, the breath you breathe, the tongue in which you speak. The hands in which you touch, the feet in which you move.’ Then what? ‘You become Rabbaniyoon (Lordly Soul) and you have power of Kun faya koon.’
عَنْ أَبِيِ هُرَيْرَةِ رَضِّيَّ اللهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ : إِنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَىٰ قَالَ:” …وَمَا تَقَرُّبِ إِلَيَّ عَبْدِيِ بِشَيْءٍ أَحُبَّ إِلَيَّ مِمَّا اِفْتَرَضْتُ عَلَيْهِ. وَلَا يَزَالُ عَبْدِي يَتَقَرَّبُ إلَيَّ بِالنَّوَافِلِ حَتَّى أُحِبَّهُ، فَإِذَا أَحْبَبْتُهُ كُنْتَ سَمْعَهُ الَّذِي يَسْمَعُ بِهِ، وَبَصَرَهُ الَّذِي يُبْصِرُ بِهِ، وَيَدَهُ الَّتِي يَبْطِشُ بِهَا، وَرِجْلَهُ الَّتِي يَمْشِي بِهَا. وَلَئِنْ سَأَلَنِي لَأُعْطِيَنَّهُ، … “ [حَدِيثْ اَلْقُدْسِي – اَلمَصْدَرْ: صَحِيحْ الْبُخَارِي – رقم:٦٥٠٢]
‘An Abi Hurairah (ra) qala, Qala Rasulullahi ﷺ : InnAllaha ta’ala qala: “ Wa maa taqarrubi ilayya ‘abdi be shayin ahubba ilayya memma iftaradhtu ‘alayhi. Wa la yazaalu ‘abdi yataqarrabu ilayya binnawafile hatta uhebbahu, fa iza ahbabtuhu kunta Sam’ahul lazi yasma’u behi, wa Basarahul lazi yubsiru behi, wa Yadahul lati yabteshu beha, wa Rejlahul lati yamshi beha. Wa la in sa alani la a’teyannahu, …” [Hadith al Qudsi, Sahih al Bukhari, Raqam: 6502)
Narrated by Abu Hurairah (ra) that: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said that: Allah the Almighty said: “… My servant does not draw near to Me with anything more loved by Me than the religious duties I have obligated upon him. My servant continues to draw near to Me with voluntary acts of worship so that I shall love him. When I love him, I am his hearing with which he hears, his seeing with which he sees, his hand with which he strikes, and his foot with which he walks. Were he to ask (something) of Me, I would surely give it to him, …” [Holy Hadith, Authentic by al-Bukhari, # 6502]
So means Rabbaniyoon they have been given by Allah (AJ) power of “Kun faya koon” and this is Hadith al Qudsi. This is not somebody making up you know whimsical stories. Allah (AJ) says, ‘For there are servants that have the power of kun faya koon.’ So He is giving this example of the Muhammadan Kingdom that the Prophets (as) of Bani Israel (Children of Israel) look at the power they had. But the Muhammadan kingdom something is unimaginable. The authority and the power they had.
Because all of the power of Sayyidina Sulaiman (as) was from a ring. Prophet ﷺ gave to all his nation that, ‘Carry my ring and my sunnah.’ When he wants he can make that ring to have more power than the ring of Sayyidina Sulaiman (as). Because we’re under the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ; Malikul Mulk – the one whom is all encompassing in authority from Allah (AJ). “Sakhkhara lakum ma fis Samawati wa ma fil Ard.”
وَسَخَّرَ لَكُم مَّا فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعاً مِّنْهُ إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لَّقَوْمٍ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ ﴿١٣﴾
45:13 – “Wa sakhkhara lakum ma fis Samawati wa ma fil Ardi jamee’an minhu, inna fee dhalika la ayatin liqawmin yatafakkaron.” (Surat Al-Jathiya)
“And He has subjected/gave the authority to you [Sayyidina Mahmood (pbuh)], as from Him, all that is in the heavens and on earth: Behold, in that are Signs indeed for those who reflect/Contemplate [Meditate].” (The Crouching, 45:13)
Allah (AJ) says, ‘We have given everything to you from the earth all the way into the malakut (heavenly realm) and anything between them.’ So means this shows the immensity of the Muhammadan Kingdom by these examples, inshaAllah.
Question 7: In relation of the Muhammadan reality to the reality of the black hole, is entering the Divinely fire same as approaching the fire of the event horizon?
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Yeah, we said that entering into the fire and the zero point energy. Because they’re mixing I think a talk with something else or trying to link it. There is a time in our life to reach the event horizon, to reach zero point energy. That you produce more energy than you input into it. Right now you have to put a lot of energy to get some energy.
That fire that we talk about and the fire of this Divinely Presence is to get the heart to be lit. Because Nabi Musa (as) went into the presence of the fire to take back some fire. So means these ‘ashiqeen with their Durood and with their love when they enter to that presence. They have character that clean and persistently good and living a life of service. That allows them to sit in that halaqah (circle) and the anjuman and the gatherings of ‘ishq and love, Allah (AJ) lights their heart.
When the heart becomes lit. The event horizon is that they made such an istighfar (seek forgiveness) in their life that every cell of their being has asked Allah (AJ) for forgiveness like the state of death. Because as you leave you don’t leave without a tawbah (repentance). Why the pain of death or joyful experience of death? Well, because every cell, as the soul is leaving, every cell of the body has to make a tawbah for what it did on this earth. So either that can be extremely excruciating as you’re pulling the soul so the cell for cell because the soul’s energy is now leaving each cell. Cell for cell has to make a repentance and a forgiveness by Allah (AJ), what he did on this earth. If they busy their life with istighfar, busy their life with completely asking. Busy their life with their salawat, their zikr, all their ‘ibadah, all their worshipness, all their maghfirah (forgiveness) and fasting, everything. Then most of this has already been repented. So then their souls become like a hair in ghee (clarified butter). That Prophet ﷺ described as if Allah (AJ) takes it like a hair coming out of butter. There is nothing that it had to repent for. All its life it has been repenting.
So mean this has an immense reality upon individuals. This is the event horizon. That when we’ve made our istighfar, entered into that fire, continuously making istighfar. Then this soul is coming free from the body. If it becomes free from the body they hear through the power of their soul. They see through the power of their soul. The energy that coming on to them is immensely powerful from Divinely Presence. They don’t have any input put into that energy. Allah (AJ) sends the energy for them.
Then Prophet ﷺ described this reality the first one was Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as). If you want to see somebody who mawt al qablil mawt (death of desires before physical death) is Hazrat Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as), Siddiq al-Mutlaq (as) (The Absolute Truthful). The immensity of Sayyidina Abu Bakr’s (as) maqam (station) was what? That he had mawt al qablil mawt. It means the event horizon came, Allah (AJ) accepted and as a result he was operating from his soul’s reality. Not the body reality and the limitations of the physical body.
So that fire is a fire that has to enter and the tawbah on everything. That’s why we enter this fire as Surah Tawbah, right? This is the way into that flame. 12 months in Shamsul ‘Arifeen (Sun of Knowers), shams (sun) – in the fire of the ‘arifeen (knowers). We entered in Baab at Tawbah (door of repentance). There is also in Madina Baab at Tawbah and also Makkah Baab at Tawbah. Why? Because you come in asking for forgiveness and that everything of you to be halal (permissible). That you lay your life for this path, for this way. That, ‘Ya Rabbi don’t let me to leave until I have purified myself.’ That’s why no, ‘Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, forgive me.’ Then ‘Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.’ But, “Bismillah Allahu Akbar.” That, ‘I came to become zabiha (sacrifice), to become halal for You.’ Then Allah (AJ) gives it back in Surat An-Naml. “Inna Hu min Sulaymana, Wa inna Hu Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.”
إِنَّهُ مِن سُلَيْمَانَ وَإِنَّهُ بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ ﴿٣٠﴾
27:30 – “Inna Hu min Sulaymana, Wa inna Hu Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.” (Surat An-Naml)
“Indeed, it is from Solomon, and indeed, He/it is (as follows): ‘In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. (The Ant, 27:30)
This now is Allah’s (AJ) gift that you entered into this way of tawbah, into the way of this fire. This reality of Divinely Presence and begin to dress with the key of “Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem,” inshaAllah.
Question 8: Sayyidi how do we tell the difference between being of service and taking on other people’s burdens unnecessarily?
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: Being of service is related to the shaykh not to your friends. How is there any confusion? It is to be of service to what the shaykh is doing. It is that we came to a shaykh and we want to live a life of khidmat. I got a funny email that, ‘We tried to donate, we raised some money. We tried to donate, we tried to donate. Oh we couldn’t, it didn’t work. We gave it to this guy.’ What does that mean? That I don’t know what you’re doing or what you even try to do.
The tariqah comes to teach we want the attention of the shaykh, his shaykh all the way up to Prophet ﷺ? So then they say, ‘Come and live a life of khidmat.’ What khidmat? Contact us that, ‘Oh I want for Fatima Zahra, your organization I want to give food out. I want to support your charity, I want to support your wells. I want to support the Mawlids (celebration of the birthday of prophet ﷺ) that you did in Pakistan in India and in Vancouver and we want to be contributors and supporters.’ That’s a life of service. Say, ‘In my area I want to give out some food and hamburgers,’ no problem. Put the Fatima Zahra shirt, give out some food, take some photos so we can say, ‘Look we have this in Singapore, we have this mashAllah in maybe 20 different countries.
People going out and trying to live a life of khidmat in the way of the shaykh, to be under the nazar of the shaykh. This is the beauty of the projects. Translating articles, sending out links. Even the khidmat is take a link, an article and post it, post it, post it so that you spread the teachings. But if somebody comes that, ‘Do this favor for me,’ that’s not the khidmat that we’re talking about. Because yes, people can become abusive and you’re doing in service and things for people that is not related and they can be you know just nonsensical. So there was a long time ago where somebody was come and cook for the zawiyah (spiritual school of Sufism), cook for the zawiyah. One time happened we went somewhere and they were cooking in the person’s house, I said, ‘What are you doing cooking in the person’s house?’ ‘Oh they asked me to come and to serve.’ I said, ‘What? Why would they do that?’ That’s not a service. That’s like you know abusing somebody. The person who was trying to cook for the zawiyah events is that’s a khidmat. But somebody else tell you, ‘Come and now you have to cook at my house just for the sake of you have to cook at my house,’ that’s abusive. So that’s not the way.
That’s why it is very specific to what the shaykhs programs are, ‘I want to be of service so that I feel it is a part of my community.’ We said before we have 4, 500 people sending links out every day. Imagine now how many videos are being posted. We put some AI software that you can take a one minute video and it breaks it into 500 three or one minute videos. You get the AI application, load the video you want, it will produce all these posts for you. It will put that all over social media and get 10,000 views per video. That’s propagation of knowledges.
That is a weapon against shaitan. Because these truths when they go out, they bombard the satanic kingdom that wants only to put the nation within darkness. What the nation needs is the illumination of the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ within the hearts of people. So these are noble deeds to propagate and spread knowledges. So, so many ways to do a khidmat. That no need to deal with friends and do things. That’s not the khidmat we’re talking about when you just try to help a friend, but help the tariqah and your path. Don’t waste your time on other things, inshaAllah.
Question 9: Please forgive me and my ignorance. Sayyidi did all the Prophet ﷺ on Sayyidina Muhammad’s ﷺ night journey reach their seven heaven reality Maqamul Ihsan (Station of Moral Excellence)?
Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi: I can’t speak to the Prophets (as) of Allah (AJ). But I can tell you they completed their deen (religion). Because the Isra (Night Journey) and the importance we say of Isra is that in Qur’an Allah (AJ) gives a disclaimer to all who will represent Him of nubuwwat (prophecy) and risalat (prophecy) that, ‘If at any time Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ comes in your time, you agree to follow.’ [The Prophets said:] ‘Wa qalo bala.’ Because this is the supreme representation of Allah (AJ).
So then Allah (AJ) granted Isra because that was predestined. Why? So when Prophet ﷺ appeared at Al-Aqsa, 124,000 Prophets (as) and messengers of Allah (AJ) appeared and prayed with Prophet ﷺ. Behind their imam (religious leader). So he is the imam of all the Prophets (as) and they prayed the Muhammadan prayer. In attahiyat (sitting on knees during prayer) they had to say, ‘Ashhadu an la ilaha illallahu wa ashhadu anna Muhammadun Rasulallah.’
التَّحِيَّاتُ لِلَّهِ وَالصَّلَوَاتُ وَالطَّيِّبَاتُ. السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكَ أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ وَرَحْمَةُ اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ، السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْنَا وَعَلَى عِبَادِ اللَّهِ الصَّالِحِينَ، أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَرَسُولُهُ.
“Attahiyatu Lillahi wa salawatu wat tayyibatu. Assalamu ‘alayka ayyuhan Nabiyu ﷺ, wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. Assalamu ‘alayna wa ‘alaa ‘Ibadulllahis saliheen. Ashhadu an la ilaha illallahu wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan ‘abduhu wa Rasuluhu.”
“All the best compliments and the prayers/praising and the pure/good things are for Allah. Peace and Blessings be upon you, O’ Prophet ﷺ! Peace be on us and on the righteous servants of Allah. I testify that there is no deity but Allah (AJ), and I testify that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is the servant and Messenger of Allah (AJ).”
Prophet ﷺ accepted their shahadah (testimony of faith) and granted them Islam. As a result, all nations are under the flag of “La ilaha illAllah Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ.”
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.”
There can’t be any anything other than that. Because if they say, ‘No, no we follow Sayyidina Isa (as),’ well Sayyidina Isa (as) was there and he took his shahadah and he prayed with Prophet ﷺ. So when the Prophets (as) entered, all their nations automatically are dressed by that. As a result Allah (AJ) says, ‘The only deen of Allah (AJ) is Islam.’
إِنَّ الدِّيْنَ عِنْدَ اللهِ الإِسْلاَمُ…﴿١٩﴾
3:19 – “Innad deena ‘indAllahil Islam.” (Surat Ali-Imran)
“The religion with God is Islam [Submission]…” (Family of Imran, 3:19)
That’s why in the last days we’re seeing what we see. There is no deen left on this earth except Islam. The other one says he is waiting for a human being to be god – is a mushrik (polytheist), is outside of religion now. The other cousin he is waiting also for a messiah that will call himself god – that’s a mushrik. Great battles have opened upon the earth and its purpose is to take Al-Aqsa. The only reason anything is happening right now on the news is because their messiah is here. The messiah has to declare and build the temple. Al-Aqsa has to be taken for them.
So these are immensely important days that are opening all of which are the signs of qiyamah (resurrection). So we said before the messiah has arrived. The messiah, before he can proclaim who he is must have control of the temple mount. So that they can build their temple. The events that are taking place in the news today are calculated events for the purpose of that goal only. So we’re living in astonishing times. Day by day you’ll open, something new will be happening upon the earth. Only thing important is keep your heart connected with the love and ‘ishq of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
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 7, 2023
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