Sleepers of the Cave: 7 Essences, 7 Openings of the Holy Face

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

A’udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the rejected one
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is the Ship of Safety

Beatific oceans and understandings, that, alhamdulillah, in the holy month of Safar, where Hijab al Haybah (Veil of Eminence) and all that Mawlana Shaykh (Q) inspires within our hearts of the understandings from Prophet ﷺ, Atiullaha wa atiur Rasul wa ulil amri minkum.

﴾أَطِيعُواللَّه وَأَطِيعُوٱلرَّسُولَ وَأُوْلِي الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ… ﴿٥…

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)

That to be dressed from these lights that, that is our way of life. Atiullah, that what Allah (AJ) wants for us, its depth will be in Holy Qur’an. That our way is based on what Allah (AJ) wants from us, we find Holy Qur’an is Allah’s (AJ) words for us. That what we, atiur Rasul, what we want from Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, what we want to follow in obedience is then to understand that we are within the ship of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. He’s Safinat al Najat, the ship of safety.

Everything Swims in the Ocean of La Ilaha IlAllah Muhammadun RasulAllah ﷺ

That every surah of Holy Qur’an, it must have a reality towards the understanding of Prophet ﷺ and that becomes the Muhammadan Way. That what is that reality that we want from it, wa ulil amri minkum. They come to guide us and teach us about ourself. That, who knows himself will know his Lord.

مَنْ عَرَفَ نَفْسَهْ فَقَدْ عَرَفَ رَبَّهُ

“Man ‘arafa nafsahu faqad ‘arafa Rabbahu”

“Who knows himself, knows his Lord.” Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

This means will know what governs him, one of his bad characteristics or her bad characteristics, until they can be brought down, and then brought towards the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. And begin to understand the Muhammadan reality. From the Muhammadan reality into the oceans of La ilaha ilallah. It means everything is swimming in the ocean of La ilaha ilallah 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.”

Surat al-Kahf is the Second Gate in the Way of Ma’rifah

And the 18^th surah, they are moving in their way of ma’rifah (gnosticism) through baab at-Tawbah (door of repentance). Surat at-Tawbah being the first gate, Surat al-Kahf being the second gate, the second month in the reality of nines because the big nines, the sultans of creation where Allah (AJ) described that the angels are around. And there are 8 that hold the throne of their Lord above them.

﴾وَالْمَلَكُ عَلَىٰ أَرْجَائِهَا ۚ وَيَحْمِلُ عَرْشَ رَبِّكَ فَوْقَهُمْ يَوْمَئِذٍ ثَمَانِيَةٌ ﴿١٧

69:17 – “Wal Malaku ‘ala arjayeha, wa yahmilu ‘Arsha Rabbika fawqahum yawmaidhin thamaniyatun.” (Surat Haqqah)

“And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.” (The Reality, 69:17)

Sultans of Creation Are Supporters of the Divinely Kingdom

You can’t hold the throne of Allah (AJ). It’s incredibly ridiculous to think that way. But Allah (AJ), their Lord above them. It means they are the supporters of the Kingdom. His Majesty’s service – here they call it ‘secret service.’ These are the realities of the saliheen (righteous), siddiqeen (truthful), shuhada (witnesses). They are the supporters of nabiyeen (prophets).

﴾وَمَن يُطِعِ اللّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ فَأُوْلَـئِكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللّهُ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاء وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَـئِكَ رَفِيقًا ﴿٦٩

4:69 – “Wa man yuti’ Allaha war Rasola faolayeka ma’al ladheena an’ama Allahu ‘alayhim minan Nabiyeena, was Siddiqeena, wash Shuhadai, was Saliheena wa hasuna olayeka rafeeqan.” (Surat An-Nisa)

“And whoever obeys Allah and the Messenger (pbuh) are in the company of those on whom Allah has bestowed His Favours/Blessings – of the prophets, the sincere Truthful, the witnesses (who testify), and the Righteous, and excellent are those as companions.” (The Women, 4:69)

Allah (AJ) Stamped Us With 8 and 1

All of that – Allah’s (AJ) hand is above all of that. So, it means that 8 and the 1 begins to understand that the 9 are the 8 who support the power and the authority of Allah (AJ). And that 1 is the sultan, is Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. He’s the sultan of creation and we are created to support Prophet ﷺ, to be of service to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That is the highest of our reality if we can be dressed by that honor. It doesn’t mean people have to accept that. But Allah (AJ) stamped us, stamped us with 9. We have an 8 and a 1; 1 and an 8 on the right hand, and an 8 and a 1 on the left hand.

This means Allah (AJ) branded us so that if in the day you come to Earth and you forget, you are stamped. Your right hand in which you, in dunya (material world), you eat with that right hand. You pray holding the left hand. It has many different secrets and Allah (AJ), ulul amr (saints), come to teach us the body first about ourselves. That you’re stamped, don’t forget. You are stamped to follow Allah (AJ) and follow Allah’s (AJ) orders, which are to follow Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So, they begin to teach us that when you enter in through that 18, Surat al-Kahf, and you begin to understand Ashab ul Kahf (Companions of the Cave), the first of that example, that that is the cave of realities, where Allah (AJ) saying then, ‘Take your self into that cave of realities, to be dressed from that reality.’

Prophet ﷺ Brings the Best of Characters

And the whole of that surah begins to describe adab and manners. That all that Allah (AJ) wants, and the greatness of what Prophet ﷺ came, Adabana Rabi Ahsanu fe tahteeb means, ‘I came to bring the best of characters and morals and the perfection of characteristics,’ is what Prophet ﷺ is proud of.

أَدَّبَنِي رَبِّي فَأَحْسَنَ تَأْدِيبِي

“Addabanee Rabbi fa ahsana ta’deebee.”

“My Lord taught me good manners and He taught me in the most excellent way” Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

That I came to perfect your characteristics.

إِنَّمَا بُعِثْتُ لِأُ تَمِّمَ مَكَارِمَ الْأَخْلاقِ‎‎

“Innama bu’istu le Utammima makarimal Akhlaq.”

“I was sent to perfect your manners.” Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

And Allah (AJ) describes “Khuluq al ‘Azheem,” his khuluq, his character is from My Azimat.

﴾وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ ﴿٤

68:4 – “Wa innaka la’ala khuluqin ‘azheem.” (Surat Al-Qalam)

“Truly, You (O Muhammad!) are of a magnificent character.” (The Pen, 68:4)

7 Eternal Souls Are Dressed From Allah’s (AJ) Eternal Essences

I’m astonished Allah (AJ) giving sifat al-Azim (attribute of the Magnificent), which nothing can contain sifat al-Azim. Allah (AJ) describes, ‘You’re of a tremendous nature. What I have poured into your realities of a tremendous nature.’ (Qur’an, 68:4) That is the reality that we’re asking to support and move into that reality.

And all of that surah (chapter) then begins to describe the adab (manners) and the characteristic. And they begin to teach us that the Ashab ul Kahf (Companions of the Cave), they are running from oppression and seeking a cave. They’re the imitated Ashab ul Kahf because not yet the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ came to Earth. One is the imitated Ashab ul Kahf – the real Ashab ul Kahf is from the time Prophet ﷺ sets his foot onto Earth, alayhis salatu salaam. There must be 7 eternal souls dressed from Allah’s (AJ) eternal essences. Those 7 souls carry those 7 eternal essences.

The ‘Emerald Throne’ is the Green Dome of Madina

And even they can find it in their Bible. The Book of Revelation where they tell people, ‘Don’t read.’ Their disciple, John, came to the Emerald Throne. Emerald Throne, the Green Dome of Madina.

He said, ‘I saw upon a throne, a King, and it was not God.’ Because this is creation. These are the greatnesses of creation. We don’t make the distinction and we don’t make the mistake of calling the Creator and creation the same. Allah’s (AJ) Greatness is the Creator beyond our understanding. Allah (AJ) say, ‘You’re the supporters of the Kingdom and this Kingdom has a King.’

﴾قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ مَالِكَ الْمُلْكِ تُؤْتِيِّ الْمُلْكَ مَنْ تَشَاءُ وَتَنْزِعُ الْمُلْكَ مِمَّنْ تَشَاءُ٬ وَتُعِزُّ مَنْ تَشَاءُ وَتُذِلَّ مَنْ تَشَاءُ بِيَدِكَ الْخَيْرُ. اِنَّكَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْئٍ قَدِيْرٌ سُوْرَةْ آَلِ عِمْرَان ﴿٢٦

3:26 – “Qulillahumma Malikul mulki, tu’til mulka man tashaau wa tanzi’ul mulka mimman tasha’u, wa tu’izzu man tasha’u, wa tudhillu man tasha’u, bi yadikal khayr, innaka ‘ala kulli shay’in qadir.” (Surat Ali-Imran)

“Say: O Allah, Master of the Kingdom, You give the Kingdom to whom You will, and You Take away the Kingdom from whom You will, You honor whom You will and You humble whom You will; in Your hand is [all] the good, Indeed, You are over all things Powerful.” (Family of Imran, 3:26)

And the Christians know it in their Book. And they know it in their Book of Revelation. And it’s the Green and the Emerald Throne. ‘And I saw a King seated upon a throne, and I saw 7 eternal flames dressing the King.’

Run From Shaitan to the Heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ

This means those flames are the realities of the soul. Allah (AJ) described for Muslims to understand in Holy Qur’an, Ashab ul Kahf (Companions of the Cave). They represented that reality that they left, and they run. And they’re always running from shaitan (satan). And they seek refuge in where Allah (AJ) already dressed the refuge, which is in the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That is the reality of A’udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.

أَعـوذُ بِاللهِ مِنَ الشَّيْـطانِ الرَّجيـم بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ

A’udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the rejected one
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

That you run from shaitan to where? To Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ because Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ will fight shaitan. It means that, ‘Ya Rabbi, with that reality, we’re asking is that we’re seeking refuge in the presence of Prophet ﷺ from the shaitan and all the shaitanic (satanic) desires and entering into that reality of the cave.’ And then they begin to teach, yes, one understanding about the sleepers of the cave. These are 7 eternal essences – souls that are eternally dressed with this reality. That reality must always be dressing this Earth. And there are inheritors on this Earth of these 7 realities.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ “عُلَمَاءِ وَرِثَةُ الْأَنْبِيَاء”

Qala Rasulullahi (saws) “’Ulama e warithatul anbiya.” 

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said, “My scholars are the inheritors of the prophets.” (Ibn Majah and Tirmidhi)

Sayyidina Mahdi (as) Represents the 7 Wazirs

Of why we are waiting for the sahib, and the honour of that reality is Sayyidina Mahdi (as). Because the 7 and the 1 is important. The 7 who are dressed from this reality and the 1 who represents them all. And that’s why Sayyidina Mahdi (as) is the one who is coming to represent the 7 Wazirs (ministers) that are all around Sayyidina Mahdi (as). And each of these wazirs are dressed from the essence of Allah (AJ), the 7 Divinely Essences. And that is the secret of the 7007 Naqshbandi Awliya. This means those 7 essences, that for a certain darajah (level) of awliyaullah (saints), they reach a level of reality in which Allah (AJ) going to dress their face. And those 7 essences are the 7 holy openings of the face. And the oneness is the perfection of the face. It means when they are given a permission to dress, they begin to dress.

7 Divinely Essences Dress the 7 Holy Openings of the Face

They begin to dress the two ears, 1, 2 (Shaykh points to ears). First the ears, samina wa atana.

﴾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)

Then begin to teach, ‘Close your eyes.’ And they begin to dress. 3, 4, your eyes (Shaykh points to eyes). Then begin to teach you, ‘Breathe from our qudra (power), breathe from Allah’s (AJ) Nafas ur Rahmah (Breath of Mercy).’ And begin to teach you how to breathe. That you’re breathing from Allah’s (AJ) Divinely Qudra. 1,2,3,4,5,6 (Shaykh points to points on face). And then when Allah (AJ) grants, Lisan al Siddiq. This means then your tongue going to inherit from the tongue of the truth, Lisan al Haqq Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Lisan as Siddiqin ‘Aliya, Ali (as), in Surah Maryam. And they translate it, ‘Is going to give you a lofty honor.’ Allah (AJ) said it’s the Siddiqin ‘Aliya.

﴾وَوَهَبْنَا لَهُم مِّن رَّحْمَتِنَا وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُمْ لِسَانَ صِدْقٍ عَلِيًّا ﴿٥٠

19:50 – ” Wa wahabna lahum min rahmatina wa ja’alna lahum lisana Sidqin ‘Aliya.” (Surat Maryam)

“And We bestowed of Our Mercy on them, and We granted them lofty honour from/on the tongue of truth.”

Voluntary Worship Leads to Inheriting Divinely Senses

It means that you’re going to inherit from that tongue. And that becomes the reality of 7 Divinely Essences dressing the face. That face becomes from Allah’s (AJ) Sultanate. It means it directly representing that reality. They hear with Allah’s (AJ) hearing. That’s the hadith where Allah (AJ) describe, ‘Come with voluntarily love to me.’

[ وَلَا يَزَالُ عَبْدِي يَتَقَرَّبُ إلَيَّ بِالنَّوَافِلِ حَتَّى أُحِبَّهُ، فَإِذَا أَحْبَبْتُهُ كُنْت سَمْعَهُ الَّذِي يَسْمَعُ بِهِ، وَبَصَرَهُ الَّذِي يُبْصِرُ بِهِ، وَيَدَهُ الَّتِي يَبْطِشُ بِهَا، وَرِجْلَهُ الَّتِي يَمْشِي بِهَا، وَلَئِنْ سَأَلَنِي لَأُعْطِيَنَّهُ،.” [ رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ…

“…wa la yazaalu ‘Abdi yataqarrabu ilayya bin nawafile hatta ahebahu, fa idha ahbabtuhu kunta Sam’ahul ladhi yasma’u behi, wa Basarahul ladhi yubsiru behi, wa Yadahul lati yabTeshu beha, wa Rejlahul lati yamshi be ha, wa la in sa alani la a’Teyannahu…”

“…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…” Hadith Qudsi (Sahih al-Bukhari, 81:38:2)

The 7 Sleepers Move Only By Allah’s (AJ) Will

Because everything is based on love. The mandatory, you have to. Praying, you have to. Zakat (charity), you have to. Your fasting, you have to. Your shahadah (testimony of faith), most definitely. Your hajj (pilgrimage), you have to. But you may not be doing it with love. You may be doing it by force. You may be doing it by culture. And that’s when they begin to open the manners. What they want us to understand is what is in that cave, is Divinely Essences. These souls, Allah (AJ) describes them, their movement of left and right, is completely in Allah’s (AJ) Will.

﴾وَتَرَى الشَّمْسَ إِذَا طَلَعَت تَّزَاوَرُ عَن كَهْفِهِمْ ذَاتَ الْيَمِينِ وَإِذَا غَرَبَت تَّقْرِضُهُمْ ذَاتَ الشِّمَالِ وَهُمْ فِي فَجْوَةٍ مِّنْهُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ آيَاتِ اللَّـهِ ۗ مَن يَهْدِ اللَّـهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِ ۖ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُ وَلِيًّا مُّرْشِدًا ﴿١٧

18:17 – “Wa tarash shamsa idha tala’at tazawaru an kahfihim dhata al yameeni wa idha gharabat taqriduhum dhataash shimali wa hum fee faj watin minhu, Dhalika min ayati Allahi, man yahdillahu fahuwal Muhtadi, wa man yudlil falan tajida lahu waliyyan murshida.” (Surat Al-Kahf)

“And You would have seen the sun, when it rose, declining to the right from their Cave, and when it set, turning away from them to the left, while they lay in the open space in the midst of the Cave. That was from the Signs of Allah: He whom Allah, guides is rightly guided; but he whom Allah leaves to stray, for him you will never find Saintly Guide to the Right Way.” (The Cave, 18:17)

When you’re reading that they were sleeping, but not sleeping. You would deem them to be asleep. It means you come across these souls, and you don’t see a much excitement in their life. You think maybe this not much about them. And Allah (AJ) begins to teach, ‘No, no, it look like sleeping to you, but even when the reality of the sun is shining upon them, they move right, and they move left” by Allah’s (AJ) Izzat (Might). It mean they have lost even their will.

Divine Walis Follow Allah’s (AJ) Amr

Because this is the darajah and the level that’s unimaginable. They follow Allah’s (AJ) Amr (command) – exact! Whether it’s popular or not, whether people like it or not. People will be offended by it or not. They don’t care. They ran from all the shaitans (devils) into the cave. These are our masters. These are the ones that, alhamdulillah, Sultanul Awliya Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Haqqani (Q), and from what we know we can speak of, what we know, we can’t throw out things left and right – and Mawlana Shaykh (Q). That from those 7 is that reality – not just any wali (pious person). It’s from those 7 that inheriting from those realities. That his face is a dress of the Divinely lights, of the Muhammadan lights, and the reality lights that all ulul amr (saints) are taking from that face to be dressed and to be blessed, and to begin to send out these Divinely Essences upon dunya (material world). That’s what is in the cave.

So, when you say, ‘Why do I want to go to the cave? I don’t really care about cave. Is it time for dinner yet?’ Most people say, ‘I prefer the dinner. Forget about the cave stuff.’ But this is the reality of the cave. This is what they want to dress us with, bless us with. Then Allah (AJ) gives us a chance and a hope, that you want that reality? Be a like a dog! A dog that we know Islamically is najes, it’s dirty. It says that at least the dog has chance to reach that reality because not everybody can say, ‘I’m going to be from the Ashab ul Kahf (Companions of the Cave).’ It’s…you got to be crazy. But Allah (AJ) gives us a chance, says, ‘Be like the dog.’

Surah Al-Kahf Describes the Importance of Adab

In that surah (chapter), it all about manners and adab. That if you don’t have adab, the shariah (Divine Law) is no value to you. Because you’re a hypocrite and you’re mean and you’re abusive. That if you study the fiqr and you don’t have adab, you pray and you’re violent, and you’re rude. You think zabiha is zabiha. You think zakat (charity) is zakat and it’s all followed by bad characteristics. And then there are ahadith for that – where Allah (AJ) comes to the one who thought he prayed a lot, grabs him on his face and throws him.

So, what was your prayer with all that bad characteristic that you had? I don’t need your prayer. What was your zakat? For all your bad characteristics, bad manners, bad adab. Throw your zakat, who needs it? What was your fasting with all your backbiting? People in Ramadan – they backbite and send backbiting all over the place in Ramadan. Allah (AJ) ask, ‘What’s your fasting for?’ It’s munafiq (hypocritical). It’s not for Allah (AJ) and it definitely has nothing to do with reality. But they think they’re fooling people and they fool no one. It means that if you think that the fiqr going to help you without manners, they teach, ‘No, no, you’re wrong.’ Because in the surah (chapter), Allah (AJ) describes the heavenly servants and one of my heavenly servants that Nabi Musa (as) was sent to go meet to perfect character. He attained the rahmah (mercy). He got a rahmah, and then We taught him “Ilmalladuni.”

﴾فَوَجَدَا عَبْدًا مِّنْ عِبَادِنَا آتَيْنَاهُ رَ‌حْمَةً مِّنْ عِندِنَا وَعَلَّمْنَاهُ مِن لَّدُنَّا عِلْمًا ﴿٦٥

18:65 – “Fawajada ‘abdan min ‘ibadinaa ataynahu rahmatan min ‘indina wa ‘allamnahu mil ladunna ‘ilma.” (Surat Al-Kahf)

“So they found one of Our servant from among Our servants, on whom We had bestowed Mercy from Ourselves and whom We had taught [unseen/heavenly] knowledge from Our own Presence…” (The Cave, 18:65)

Prophet ﷺ is the All-Encompassing Rahmah of Allah (AJ)

This means the rahmah (mercy) is the nearness to Prophet ﷺ, he is Rahmatan lil ‘aalameen.

﴾وَمَا أَرْ‌سَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَ‌حْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ ﴿١٠٧

21:107 – “Wa maa arsalnaka illa Rahmatal lil’alameen.” (Surat Al-Anbiya)

“And We have not sent you, [O Muhammad (pbuh)], except as a mercy to the worlds/creation.” (The Prophets, 21:107)

He is the all encompassing rahmah of Allah (AJ) throughout creation. When Allah (AJ) wants to give you rahmah and mercy and a merciful characteristic, He brings you to be close to the prophets. That when you be dressed and brought near to the prophets, they begin to teach, ‘These are the Khuluq al ‘Azheem.’

﴾وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ ﴿٤

68:4 – “Wa innaka la’ala khuluqin ‘azheem.” (Surat Al-Qalam)

“Truly, You (O Muhammad!) are of a magnificent character.” (The Pen, 68:4)

These are the ones whom Allah (AJ) loves, Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, loved all the Prophets, loved their mannerisms – each one in their degree of mannerism until the apex and the crown of manners, the arrival of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. And Allah (AJ) says, ‘As you draw near to Prophet ﷺ, he begins to perfect your characteristics.’

Enter the Cave of Tariqah and Learn Good Manners

So, the schools of tarbiyah (discipline) open for us to enter into those caves. Because if you’re taught manners, you’re taught love, you’re taught respect, you’re taught all the good characteristics. And someone asked, that what – is it something you’re born with or something that you have to be trained with? Lucky for those who have been born with some manners and the majority of which will be retrained according to the tariqah (spiritual path) realities in which Prophet ﷺ wants. But if you have no manners, there is no door that will open. You’re wasting your time. Everything is based on the manners. Love and respect, and they begin to teach when you have love and respect, the first thing they teach you, ‘When someone’s talking, don’t talk. When they’re giving a bayan and a teaching, sit and absorb.’

You begin to have a mannerisms in which you don’t talk back, you don’t ask questions. You sit and perfect your understanding. That which you don’t understand, stay silent and the understanding comes. That which you constantly have to debate is against all manners. Because it’s not your heart that debating, it’s your head. That your head is spitting out all sorts of horrible emotions. So, they begin to teach, stay quiet. Have good manners. Have respect and love. When you begin to show all those characteristics, the shari’ah (Divine Law) will explain itself. Why? Because “Ittaqullah wa alimukumullah.”

﴾وَاتَّقُوا اللَّـهَ ۖ وَيُعَلِّمُكُمُ اللَّـهُ ۗ وَاللَّـهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ ﴿٢٨٢…

2:282 – “…Wat taqollaha, wa yu’allimukumullahu, wallahu bi kulli shayin ‘Aleem.” (Surat Al-Baqarah)

“…And Be conscious of/Fear Allah, And Allah teaches you. And Allah is the All-Knower of everything.” (The Cow, 2:282)

Be Like Qitmir Who Doesn’t Bite When Tested

When you have manners, it means you have taqwa (consciousness). When you have love and respect, when they say the syed comes into the rooms, stand up. Not because he needs it, because you have to show Allah (AJ) that you have ihtiram (respect). It’s not for the person. If you’re doing anything for the person, you’re already wrong. You’re doing it to show Allah (AJ). To what? Get into the cave. Said, you want to be like the dog? The dog, they threw rocks at the dog.

Why? Because they want to make sure that while we’re in the cave, is this dog going to eat us? Because if it has bad manners, it’s going to look back and say, ‘I can’t find any food right now. Maybe I eat the guys who are sleeping.’ So, then why did they throw rocks? To test the dog. Throw rocks, test the dog, test the dog, test the dog. This dog not ever going to bite us. Because the dog, Allah (AJ) gave a dog a tongue. And immediately the dog stood up, and said, ‘No matter how much you throw rocks at me, I will not leave. I’m not here to harm. I will guard the cave while you do what Allah (AJ) wants from you.’ And Allah (AJ) dressed a najes (dirty) creature with haybah, with majestic lights. And that’s why the dress is in this month is the dress of haybah. Allah (AJ) say, ‘I dressed it on a dog. And there are no dogs in paradise except for the Qitmir.’

Exhibit Characteristics of Loyalty and Humility in the Way of Allah (AJ)

Because there is a reality and a secret to that understanding. But I will dress you from my oceans of haybah, My oceans of majesty. But what I want from you is loyalty. So, they say even a dog, no matter how much you beat the dog, he keeps wagging his tail to come back to you. They say, if you lock up your dog and lock up your spouse…you told us the joke. Somebody bothering you, you lock up the dog. It’s barking too much, lock up the dog. As soon as you open the dog, it comes back, they didn’t even think that you were doing that to him because of loyalty and love.

They say if you lock up your spouse, they come out and beat you up. Not lock up like a prisoner, but just say, ‘I’m shutting the door. I don’t want to talk to you right now.’ As soon as you open the door, they come and ‘pow’ and hit you in the head. So, the character is what? The character is of loyalty, of humbleness and humility. To have a good sense of, ‘I’m nothing. I’m nothing. I’m doing it all for you, Ya Rabbi. To be of service to you, Ya Rabbi. To be nothing. You are rich, and I am poor. You’re everything and I am nothing.’

Beware of Your Amal Working Against You

When we have that characteristic, the consciousness opens and begins to teach you the shari’ah (Divine Law). You don’t have to know any shari’ah. You walk – we say we gave example, if you’re taught adab (manners) – you walk into a Jum’ah (Friday prayer), you’re late. You say, what should I do? What’s the shari’ah of this Jum’ah? Your adab will teach you. Oh, my shaykh taught me. Enter in unnoticed. Put your shoes quietly and enter in. If the khutbah started, don’t interrupt the one talking. So, immediately sit down. Later, they teach you that the khutbah is two rakahs (cycles of prayer). And if you moved during the two rakah, you lost even the two rakah of the Jum’ah. So, your adab would’ve taught you, that come in.

And then you see the opposite, the people who come in to Jum’ah, and they’re praying 20 rakahs as you’re giving khutbah. No manners, tariqal adab (manners of spiritual path). That their amal (actions) now begins to work against them. No shari’ah (Divine Law) means your shahadah (testimony of faith) will work against you if no manners. If no manners, your prayers are just rude offenses to everybody. They come and they move two people aside, stand in the middle and begin to pray. This means now your action is working against you. Your zakat (charity) was to be known and to create hardship and difficulty will work against you. It means everything they begin to teach us is the manners. The good manners open everything. The good manners of serving and good characteristic open the whole understanding of shari’ah. Then Allah (AJ) Rida and happy with us, begins to dress us from those realities.

Our Manners Will Open Allah’s (AJ) Rahmah

And that’s what Nabi Musa (as) wanted because in the same surah (chapter), Nabi Musa (as), ‘I want to go where the two rivers meet.’

﴾وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِفَتَاهُ لَا أَبْرَ‌حُ حَتَّىٰ أَبْلُغَ مَجْمَعَ الْبَحْرَ‌يْنِ أَوْ أَمْضِيَ حُقُبًا ﴿٦٠

18:60 – “Wa idh qala Mosa lefatahu laa abrahu hatta ablugha majma’a albahrayni aw amdiya huquba.” (Surat Al-Kahf)

“Behold, Moses said to his attendant, I will not give up until I reach the junction of the two seas or (until) I spend years and years in travel.” (The Cave, 18:60)

‘I want to meet that one who’s from the secrets of Al-Hayat. I want to meet the one who has been attained a rahmah (mercy) and taught your Heavenly knowledges.’ And they begin to teach that is the reality of the cave. And Ashab ul Kahf (Companions of the Cave) is to go into the cave and understand that these are the schools of manners, that these manners will open Allah’s (AJ) Rahmah (mercy). Allah’s (AJ) Rahmah will be the dress of haybah. And that haybah begins to dress us and bless us. You’ll be invited to the fountain of youth which are the oceans of Al-Hayat. Because the association of that cave, these are the people of Al-Hayat. They have the ha and the ba, Hub, Hub e Rasul. The Hub e Rasul conference. They have to be from Ahlul Hayat (people of ever-living). You can have hafiz (memorizer) of Qur’an but has no love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. We met many of them. They talk even in a bad and disrespectful way for Prophet ﷺ. You can have the people who memorized ahadith and they have no love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.

Ahle Hubb Drink From the Fountains of Kawthar

But the Ahle Hubb means they carry the reality of Hayat. They have been dressed from the oceans of Hayat. And Allah (AJ) has given them to drink from the fountains of Kawthar (Fountain of Abundance). And they take from the fountains of Kawthar what Prophet ﷺ gives to them. And they’re the inheritors of that ba where are all of Qur’an in Fatiha. All of Fatiha in Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, all of Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem in the ba. And Allah (AJ) say you’re from the lovers of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. What I’m going to give you as an inheritance, “Alamal Qur’an Khalaqal insan.”

﴾عَلَّمَ الْقُرْ‌آنَ ﴿٢﴾ خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ ﴿٣

55:2-3 – “Allamal Qur’an (2). Khalaqal Insaan (3).” (Surat Ar Rahman)

”It is He Who has taught the Qur’an. (2) He has created Mankind. (3)” (The Beneficent, 55: 2-3)

Ibadur Rahman Have Holy Qur’an Dressed Upon Their Soul

You’re from the Ibadur Rahman, that I have given to you the ba, I’ve given to you My Holy Qur’an.

﴾وَعِبَادُ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى الْأَرْضِ هَوْنًا وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ الْجَاهِلُونَ قَالُوا سَلَامًا ﴿٦٣

25:63 – “Wa ‘ibaadur Rahmaanil lazeena yamshoona ‘alal ardi hawnanw wa izaa khaata bahumul jaahiloona qaaloo salaamaa.” (Surat Al-Furqan)

“And the true servants of Rahman (The Most Gracious) are those who walk on the earth with humility.” (The Criterion, 25:63)

I have dressed My Holy Qur’an upon your soul. In your darajats (levels) of perfection, as you begin to perfect yourself, you go into that reality of your soul. And from your soul you begin to pull out Allah’s (AJ) teachings of Holy Qur’an, Allah’s (AJ) realities and secrets of Holy Qur’an, that are in the hands in the custodian of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That all of that is the cave, all of that is the light. And all of that is the reality all by good manners.

The Secret of 7007 Awliya – Inheritors of Divinely Realities

And those sleepers of the cave, they come to perfect the holy face. So, then all the school of manners going to be based on the face because they want to dress your face from those characteristics. That’s the secret of 7007 Naqshbandi awliya (saints). That out of 124,000 awliyaullah (saints), 7007 are inheritors of that reality.

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ “عُلَمَاءِ وَرِثَةُ الْأَنْبِيَاء”

Qala Rasulullahi (saws) “’Ulama e warithatul anbiya.”    

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said, “My scholars are the inheritors of the prophets.” (Ibn Majah and Tirmidhi)

They take from the 7 and the 7 Divinely attributes that are dressing the face. That’s the 7, that closest to the Divine, the 0 means nothing, it’s a dot. Nuqt, nuqt to the 7. Why? Because those 7 souls are dressing your 7 openings of your face – you are from the 7007. The two dots represent the dunya (material world) and paradise mean nothing for you. You have been trained that dunya means nothing for you. If all of it came, it doesn’t affect you. And all of it went, it doesn’t affect you. They’re already ready to die. They’ve given their contract to die. And heavens, they’re not looking for a paradise. And they’re not fearful of any jahannam (hellfire). All they want is the face of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. And they inherit from 7007. Their whole duty then is to dress your 7 points.

You Have Ears, But Do You Really Hear?

So, then how you can dress and how are you going to dress somebody’s ears when they don’t listen to you? They have ears, but they don’t really hear.

﴾وَلَقَدْ ذَرَأْنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ الْجِنِّ وَالْإِنسِ ۖ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لَّا يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لَّا يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ آذَانٌ لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا ۚ أُولَـٰئِكَ كَالْأَنْعَامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ ۚ أُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ الْغَافِلُونَ ﴿١٧٩

7:179 – “Wa laqad zara’naa li jahannama kaseeram minal jinni wal insi lahum quloobul laa yafqahoona bihaa wa lahum a’yunul laa yubsiroona bihaa wa lahum aazaanul laa yasma’oona bihaa; ulaaa’ika kal an’aami bal hum adall; ulaaa’ika humul ghaafiloon” (Surat Al-Ar’af)

“Many are the Jinn’s and men we have made for Hell: They have hearts wherewith they understand not, eyes wherewith they see not, and ears wherewith they hear not. They are like cattle, nay more misguided: for they are heedless (of warning).” (The Heights, 7:179)

We Must Be From ‘We Hear and We Obey’

Then this is – when we don’t write and don’t understand, we don’t understand what the tariqah is doing. What are these shaykhs doing to me in the cave? They’re in the cave. You’re a dog trying to understand what the reality is. But they will dress the face. But you don’t have ears to listen. You don’t listen to any one. How you’re going to be dressed by ears? So, then you have to throw that one out. That’s not going to happen. They’re not going to be dressed from that reality. You have to be from, ‘you hear and you obey.’ You heard, you obeyed.

﴾إِنَّمَا كَانَ قَوْلَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ إِذَا دُعُوا إِلَى اللَّـهِ وَرَسُولِهِ لِيَحْكُمَ بَيْنَهُمْ أَن يَقُولُوا سَمِعْنَا وَأَطَعْنَا ۚ وَأُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ ﴿٥١

24:51 – “Innama kana qawlal mumineena idha du’ao ilAllahi wa Rasulihi liyahkuma baynahum an yaqolo samina wa atana, wa olaika humul muflihoon.” (Surat An-Nur)

“The only statement of the [true] believers when they are called to Allah and His Messenger to judge between them is that they say, “We hear and we obey.” And those are the successful.” (The Light, 24:51)

Pious Ones Don’t Need Your Opinion

They don’t need your comment. They don’t need your opinion. Your opinion doesn’t work for your life, why they need it for their life? So, when they give a time, it’s your du’as (supplications). Our du’as didn’t ask for you. If our du’a, we would’ve asked for a completely different – a crowd of doctors and lawyers because they would’ve made everything very easy for us.

This is not our du’a. This is your du’a that brought you here. Your du’a was to Allah (AJ), ‘Ya Rabbi, open your presence for me. Open to love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ for me.’ Eh! And all of a sudden you find yourself in the schools of tarbiyah (discipline). Then they give you an interaction and a time because you’re…in your du’as, you’re making your du’as at home, ‘That let me to draw near to Prophet ﷺ. Let me to draw near Prophet ﷺ.’

Awliyaullah Are Heavenly Towers Sending Out Prophet’s ﷺ Signal

Were you expecting to be levitated to Madina? Or Prophet ﷺ says, I send you to one of my faces. They’re like my mobile phones. I have them all over this country. I have them all over this world. Mobile phones, smart phones, LTE. Is it LTD or LTE? 3G, 4G. Latest technology from Prophet ﷺ. Any one of my devices – I see you. I hear you. If I want, I can speak to you. I can even send you video. It means you begin to meditate, and you begin to see images of Prophet ﷺ. How? Because the device. They’re sending the signals through that one. That one is like a cell tower.

All of the people are being built up. They have like the latest gadgets, updated software. Yeah, but without a connection to the wire, you have nothing. And you can’t directly connect to Bell (cell service provider). Bell sends a signal to the tower. The tower takes it and sends it to the mobile devices in its area. They can triangulate where you are on your phone. What reality is that showing? When they want us to know that the reality of Prophet ﷺ is the signal that moving on Earth. These awliyaullah (saints) through their face, they witnessed that reality. Their face is the cellular towers that cover this Earth. What they receive, they send out. And what they send out, everybody else picks up the signal.

Are You From the People of Samina wa Atana?

If you sign a contract with them and come near to them, you find out that, oh my gosh, your device is actually working now. Many people have a lot of fancy devices, but they have no cellular contract. And they’re losing their faith. They say, ‘I don’t feel anything. I definitely don’t see anything. I’m not tasting anything.’ You say ‘Yeah, because you have a nice phone, but you have not signed a surface contract.’ And you think you’re going to connect directly to Bell? It means, ‘No.’ You’re going to connect with the tower closest to you from that reality.

So, they begin to dress us and bless us. When we understand what they want to dress us with, they’re first going after your ears. Say, why is it that anything we tell you, you cannot listen? And you’re going to debate and fight and struggle, and show all your horrible characteristics. You’re not from samina wa atana (Qur’an, 24:51). You’re not from the people who hear and obey. Then they give you a time to interact with them. And in your interaction, all you want to do is put your opinion. Again, you’re not samina wa atana (we hear and obey).

Submit, Without Opinion, So Your Ears Open

So, they begin to teach that you don’t need an opinion. You need only to hear and do. As you hear and do, the reality is opening within the ears. You hear and do. Your opinion doesn’t work for you. How would it work for the shaykh? Yeah. Very easy. So, my ears – they have to open. The only way they’re going to open is by the time that you spent with that guide. And that guide begin to give you private time and even regular time, that just listen. Do like this, do like that. As much as you can submit, as much as your ears are opening, Allah (AJ) opening. That this is now coming through voluntary worship. Begin to open the hearing, ‘I will become the hearing in which My servant hears.’

وَلَا يَزَالُ عَبْدِي يَتَقَرَّبُ إلَيَّ بِالنَّوَافِلِ حَتَّى أُحِبَّهُ، فَإِذَا أَحْبَبْتُهُ كُنْت سَمْعَهُ الَّذِي يَسْمَعُ بِهِ، وَبَصَرَهُ الَّذِي يُبْصِرُ بِهِ،.”رَوَاهُ الْبُخَارِيُّ

“…wa la yazaalu ‘Abdi yataqarrabu ilayya bin nawafile hatta ahebahu, fa idha ahbabtuhu kunta Sam’ahul ladhi yasma’u behi, wa Basarahul ladhi yubsiru behi…”

“…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…” Hadith Qudsi (Sahih al-Bukhari, 81:38:2)

Jinn Play With Those Whose Ears Can’t Submit to a Guide

Then they begin to teach, close your eyes. Lose your attachment to dunya (material world), close your eyes and meditate, and contemplate often. And then, the spiritual vision will begin to open. But if your ears are not opening and your eyes are opening, it’s corrupt. The jinn (unseen beings) are playing with you. I’ll say it again – if your ears are not listening, and your eyes are seeing, you’re possessed by jinn. Because they’re letting you see crazy things because they got your ears.

But if your ears can’t submit to a guide, to a teacher, to a living, physical teacher, there’s a sickness. So, then the ears listen and obey, listen and obey, listen and obey. Then, they begin to teach, meditate and contemplate. As soon as you meditate and contemplate, they give permission from Prophet ﷺ, from Mawlana Shaykh (Q), that that light begin to move into the heart and into the soul. And they begin to see what people don’t see.

Allah (AJ) Dresses Us From Divinely Senses

Then they begin to teach them to breathe from Bahrul Qudra (Ocean of Power), that every breath they take in is like a fire of Divinely power. Their entire being is on fire. They sweat, their whole body sweats. Like a Divine power, they dressing the reality of their soul. They can breathe the energy that all around them. And if we say anymore, people will be very confused about the power of the breath and that how we’re all just an ocean of light. And they can breathe in and out that light. And purify it and send it back out.

With all that, then Allah (AJ) says, ‘You’re dressed. I am dressing you from My hearing. I’m dressing you from My seeing. I’m dressing you from My breathing. I’m dressing you with My hands.’ “Yadullah”, that “subhanal ladhee biyadihi Mulk,” where Allah (AJ) gives His Subhan, that ‘Glory be to the hand that has all the mulk.’

﴾فَسُبْحَانَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ مَلَكُوتُ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ ﴿٨٣

36:83 – “Fasubhanal ladhee biyadihi Malakotu kulli shay in wa ilayhi turja’oon.” (Surat YaSeen)

“Therefore Glory be to Him in Whose hand is the dominion/ kingdom over everything in heavens, and to Him you will be returned.” (YaSeen, 36:83)

That My Hand will be upon your hand, the hand of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ be upon your hand. Allah’s (AJ) Hand upon all of them which means Allah’s (AJ) Qudra (Power) is dressing your hand. And you be the feet in which you move. I’ll be the feet in which you move means you become the Qadam as-Siddiq. That where you move is where Prophet ﷺ wants you to move. And all of that you trained that you don’t listen to people. You don’t care about anyone’s opinion. That’s why when you go to other places, they say, ‘Shaykh, we have a majlis (gathering). Let’s all make a vote.’ We didn’t get where we got by anybody voting. We got where we got by listening to the best that we can, each one now.

Pious People Guide From Their Heart

When they become your hearing, and your hearing from what they want, how you could possibly listen to the opinions of people? Allah (AJ) say, ‘If you listen to the people,’ what he described, Prophet ﷺ, ‘If you listen to the people, most likely they would have taken you over a cliff.’ So, then they begin to describe pious people, that they guide from their heart.

They guide from their shaykh. They take the guidance of the shaykh, and they perfected their hearing, their feet, are moving in the direction that the shaykh wants done. And our whole life is based on how to balance that reality – not second guess it, not use our head that it can’t be done. This is done. No, no, this is a miraculous way. We’re on a miraculous path and Allah (AJ) has many miraculous lights and blessings he wants to dress our reality from. That is the secret of the 18^th month and Safar, the dress of haybah (eminence). Subhanal ‘Alim al-Hakim, Subhanal man Huwal ‘Alim al-Hakim (Glory be to my Lord, the All-Knowing, the Wise). That Allah (AJ) wants to give these knowledges and these wisdoms to us but it all requires its root, is good manners.

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

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

Original Date of Suhbah: December 19, 2014

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