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Spiritual Qibla (Direction of Prayer) – Reality of the Three Qiblas

July 7, 2020 March 17, 2021

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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

“Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil amre minkum” and always a reminder for myself that I’m a weak servant, Ya Rabbi ana abdukal ‘ajeez, wa dayeef, wa miskin, wa zhalim, wa jahl and but for the Grace of Allah (AJ), we are still in existence, that Allah’s (AJ) rahmah (mercy) and mercy, inshaAllah, to be upon us all and to forgive us our wrongdoings.

Everything is Insignificant in Pursuit of the Nuqt

﴾أَطِيعُواللَّه وَأَطِيعُوٱلرَّسُولَ وَأُوْلِي الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ… ﴿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)

Alhamdulillah, from the teaching of awliyaullah (saints) from “Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil amre minkum,” that the reality of our qibla (direction of prayer) and the reality of our salah (prayer), the reality of our ma’rifah (Gnosticism) because we were talking earlier about dunya (material world), zahiri people. That’s why when you listen to these naat kalam (words of praises) and the one that we posted on the nuqt (dot) and Dr. Iqbal, Allama Iqbal and then Bulleh Shah (Q), these awliyaullah, when they talked about the nuqt, the pursuit of the nuqt and everything else was so insignificant talking about these haqqaiqs (realities) are so amazing and immense. This world of light that people whom are focusing on this mulk (earthly realm) and the world of form as is if they’re practicing some other religion and they’re lost in a very external understanding, external pursuit and trivial; it seems almost kindergarten-ish compared to the majestic Might of Allah (AJ). What He has in store for His servants requires a humility, requires all of the adab (manners) and training which tariqah (spiritual path) adab is lost.

Tariqah Adab: Humble Yourself in Front of Shaykh’s Humility

Tariqah adab is not understood anymore, it’s a lost art. All this teaching is for us to learn and apply it on our own lives. When everything we’re teaching about la ilaha illAllah Muhammadun RasulAllah ﷺ (there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger) teaches you the akhlaaq and character that the humility of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is to come and teach about la ilaha illAllah and bring the significance of la ilaha illAllah and not teach about Muhammadun RasulAllah ﷺ. If you don’t get that, you’re missing the whole tariqah.

So, when they would go to Shaykh Nazim (Q) and ask Shaykh Nazim (Q), ‘Who’s your shaykh? Who’s the Shaykh of the tariqah?’ He says: ‘Of course, Shaykh Abdullah Faiz ad-Daghestani (Q).’ So, inheriting same. Because if you go to Muhammadun RasulAllah ﷺ, he doesn’t talk about Muhammadun RasulAllah ﷺ. He talks about la ilaha illAllah.

Don’t Underestimate the Station of a Shaykh

So, don’t underestimate the station of the Shaykh who’s teaching you and the ability within two seconds to lift you into Divine Presence. Because they come and talk humble to you, then you lost your mind thinking, ‘Oh! This one this, this one, I’ll go to this, I’ll go here, I’ll go there.’ Then you become like these other mazhab people, Wahabis. They think that they’re going to go to Allah (AJ) and Allah (AJ) going to dress them and give them all these maqams (stations). When they’re teaching them, ‘What are you talking about?’ Allah (AJ) is going to direct you to Muhammadun RasulAllah ﷺ. If He didn’t want to go give you that reality, He wouldn’t have brought it and then you would have been Ahl e la ilaha illAllah. So, this whole teaching was to teach the student this reality.

Shaykh Competing in Humility Receives the Most Faiz

So, when they ask and they hear and they hear the humble way in which these shaykhs talk because it’s not from your culture that way. It means you sit in your cultured events, the Allama so and so Hajji so and so, Mufti so and so, the highest knowers of this and this, so and so. What are all these titles? They teach them in school that when you’re in a group of these shaykhs and they want to talk about the next ‘aalim (scholar) next to him. They call him the highest names, biggest names. The next one turns around and says to him, ‘You are the highest one. You’re the biggest one.’

And we sat with the Sultan (King) of saints and he never mentioned anyone. He never praised anyone in their presence and he said he’s just a servant of Allah (AJ) and a servant of the nation. And for a moment, you thought, ‘He was no one,’ you lost the tariqah (spiritual path). If you’re looking for people who call themselves someone, you’ll end up in the wrong hands. So, tariqah comes and teaches find the one whom is competing in their humility. That they are continuously effacing themselves and telling people, they’re nothing and that they’re weak, they’re poor, they’re faqir in Allah’s (AJ) way because they’re not talking to you. But they’re talking to the shaykhs that are facing them, giving them a faiz (downpouring blessings). That in their association they are absolutely nothing that looking to them they say, ‘We are nothing, we’re nothing, we’re nothing, that you shine your light reflect through me and that reflection to go out to people.’

The Shaykh is an Authorized Wasila Who Opens Eternal Realities for You

But unfortunately, the audience is hearing, ‘Oh! He said he’s nothing so let me put pictures of the other one, this is my shaykh.’ You lost the whole point. If not for this one teaching you, lifting you, raising you and presenting you to the presence of those shaykhs, you can’t even get to the outside door of that reality. But through them and their wasila (a means) they take you to the inner chamber of what they have achieved and that inner chamber into the inner chamber – what they call a loob, the fruit and the essence of the fruit of like a nut. You get the maghz (brain) inside this, where the oil, where the reality of it is. Not the outer shell you’re stuck on.

Awliya Can Change Your Destiny By Virtue of Their Knowledge

So, with the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, where you get to? The realities and haqqaiqs of la ilaha illAllah. So, same realities, same teaching is reflecting. When he’s saying his shaykhs are great that he can take you into that heart and into that presence, dress you from its reality, bless you from it and that their knowledge is a sign not the book reading. The knowledge that their heart is like a book, flowing for you, like a kawthar (fountain of abundance). Every knowledge that they’re giving, these are the qalam (pen) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. By virtue of their knowledge, they change your destiny. That’s how much power Allah (AJ) gave to their soul.

Your destiny was coming to work at Burger King and you knew nothing more than a hamburger and a fries. As soon as you sat with them, they taught you two kalam and that changed the destiny of your soul. And imagine that their soul grabs you and takes you every night into whose presence, that’s why you don’t have to keep asking them every 5 minutes, ‘Make a du’a (supplication) for me, make a du’a for me.’ This from your nafs and your ego. Their soul knows exactly what to do with you. It’s not waiting for you to ask them what to do. Their soul grabs and moves exactly the way that Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ wants it to move. So, many things are happening behind the scenes and they don’t have to talk about it, they don’t have to show it, they don’t have to show anything of themselves. They have to compete in this filthy world in the ocean of nothingness.

Sultan al Awliya: Most Powerful Nuqt Amongst the 124,000 Awliya

The one whom achieves the most nothingness is being given a nuqt. He goes -1, -2, -3, -4; he’s becoming more powerful in Allah’s (AJ) Presence. So, Mawlana Shaykh (Q) said, ‘Out of 124,000 awliya (saints), I am the negative 000000 124,000 wali (saint).’ Means what? ‘The minute Allah (AJ) turns me on, I have the power of 124,000 awliya.’ Not 1. I competed and I trained in my nothingness but when Allah (AJ) flipped the switch, He takes this nuqt and flips it on that side.

So, it means dunya – you compete to be in the negative column, ‘I’m nothing, I’m nothing, I’m nothing.’ Allah (AJ) helps you by being nothing by sending people to insult you, betray you, disgrace you. So, then you’re going backward. The nuqt is coming, nuqt is coming, nuqt is coming. But Mawlana Shaykh (Q) was teaching that, ‘But when Allah (AJ) flips the switch, this nuqt flips on this side and all 124,000 awliyaullah, he carries all their power.’ And one wali (saint), if given permission, can flip the whole dunya upside down. It’s not something big for them. If they see their soul, they see their soul holding this ard (earth), holding this earth. But this dunya (material world) is the abode of ‘be nothing.’ But that’s why they’re teaching these realities.

Ahadith are Transmitted Live From the Heart of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Don’t think for a second that because Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ didn’t say it, where is the hadith (saying of Prophet ﷺ) that Prophet ﷺ said this? Where is the hadith that Prophet ﷺ said this? It wasn’t about that. And it is hidden within his holy ahadith. Those whom only translate ahadith, they take from Urdu, speak Arabic and say it or from Arabic to Arabic and say it. But they yet don’t know a single word of what that hadith is describing because it has to come live from the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. The ahadith are like a footnote. As soon as they recite those few words of the hadith, it’s like an index that comes from the holy heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and begin to transmit the live talk, the talk that’s relevant to right now on what Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ wants for the nation in that region, in that area for that wali (saint). And for whom has been partitioned to him on the day of promises.

Kawthari Shaykh is Your Wakeel in the Divinely Presence

When Allah (AJ) partition the souls and said, ‘This soul, this soul, this soul, this soul, this will be your wakeel (representative) and this one will be responsible for you in Our Divinely Presence.’ And the soul said, ‘Bala, yes we agree, Ya Rabbi’ and our life was to find them.

﴾وَإِذْ أَخَذَ رَ‌بُّكَ مِن بَنِي آدَمَ مِن ظُهُورِ‌هِمْ ذُرِّ‌يَّتَهُمْ وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ أَلَسْتُ بِرَ‌بِّكُمْ ۖ قَالُوا بَلَىٰ ۛ شَهِدْنَا ۛ أَن تَقُولُوا يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ إِنَّا كُنَّا عَنْ هَـٰذَا غَافِلِينَ ﴿١٧٢

7:172 – “Wa idh akhadha rabbuka min banee adama min Zhuhorihim dhurriyyatahum wa ashhadahum ‘ala anfusihim alastu biRabbikum qalo bala shahidna an taqolo yawmal qiyamati inna kunna ‘an hadha ghafileen.” (Surat Al-A’raf)

“And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam from their atoms/loins – their descendants and made them testify concerning themselves, [saying to them], “Am I not your Lord?” They said, “Yes, we do testify!” [This] – lest you should say on the day of Resurrection, ‘Indeed, we were of this unaware.” (The Heights, 7:172)

And as a result of finding them, they hold our file. They have the file for our reality, our destination and what is required of our spiritual pursuit; none of which will be shown and all of it is by the heart. If you should leave, you lose that reality. And your nafs (ego) will make you in many directions until the beating of dunya (material world) is good enough and you may come back. And when you come back, then it’s even harder to struggle into that reality.

Absorb the Teachings of the Shaykh for Your Spiritual Growth

So, it means this whole teaching is very reflective. Whatever they’re teaching, if you’re clever, observe, absorb it and understand how you’re going to use it for your spiritual connection and your relationship with the shaykh. The knowledges that are flowing from them should give you a symbol of their reality. That these Muhammadan haqqaiqs are like a fountain coming directly from the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. They are not abundant upon the earth. Don’t think they’re streams flowing everywhere because that would be cheapening that reality. They’re few and far between. And those are Kawthari streams that flow.

One drop of its reality, if you were to drink from its reality. The drinking in this reality is to hear because your soul drinks it, not your mouth. When they talk about drinking from a reality, it’s your soul takes a knowledge and drinks it, asks Allah (AJ) to go into it and then begins to bathe within the ocean of that haqqaiq (reality) and doesn’t stop until the next talk and it’s going. And that has still nothing to do with how the shaykh is taking the soul and presenting them. And associations with the souls that are never, never over. The body may stop and say, ‘Goodnight.’ There’s not time for the soul. The association of the soul is just beginning. They’re continuously under a dars (lesson) and a teaching, continuously a teaching and a raising. So, many things happening behind the scenes.

Reality of the Three Qiblas

1. Maqamul Islam: External Submission to the Best of Your Ability

But for tonight, we wanted to talk about the reality of these three qiblas (directions of prayer). That people they’re fixated on the body and the body qibla is the holy Ka’bah. So, you direct the body to the direction of the Ka’bah. And to the best of your ability, it’s not something that you’re firing at where you think it’s two degrees this way, three degrees that way because that would be nice. Then at the end of the salah, you can say, ‘Sorry everybody, we have to repeat it.’ Say, ‘Why?’ ‘Because we missed.’ Right? When you go to for namaz (prayer), they move your carpet, ‘Shaykh, your qibla is this way, two degrees this way.’ And then at the end, we can say, ‘Oh! Sorry we missed because we were shooting for our Lord and it fired the wrong way.’ So, that in itself is becoming crazy now but to put into perspective what’s happening is you make the direction of your salah to the holy Ka’bah. That body qibla is the direction in which you face your body. That’s your Islam. That’s the tarbiya (discipline) of your Islam. This is the washing of your Islam.

Don’t Fixate on the Body, it is the Animalistic Form

When you wash, you’re not washing your heart. You’re washing your body. Your body is a donkey. Your body is going back into the grave. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. Those whom fixate on their body is for them they’re looking, Allah’s (AJ) looking, the Divinely Presence looking. Say, ‘Look this guy, how much he likes his donkey.’ Washing it, washing it, cleaning it. Yeah, I see this on internet. They’re taking the animal, they scrub between their dirty feet and scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing and scrubbing. So, excuse me, this is an animal.

How much were you planning on cleaning the feet of this donkey and were you planning on eating off of it? It’s an animal. The body’s no different. The body is the animalistic form. It’s the car, the vehicle in which Allah (AJ) sent you into this dunya (material world). Wash it. Sahabi (Companions) used, who want to be the salaf which is ridiculous statement that they think they’re even close to being salaf. They used wudu (ablution) with a cup less than this glass.

How much can you wash your hands, face, and feet with a cup of water less this? Was it about the water then? No. It was symbolic and they were in a desert filled with dust. They would have – you could have become OCD because you would have so much dust on you – and say that, ‘This cup is not gonna work. I’m going to fill it ten times.’ So, they’re giving all these isharats (signs) to us. Go wash. It was symbolic and this was the level of our Islam. So, don’t come over filthy to your salah. Wash this vehicle, wash this physicality to the best of your ability.

2. Maqamul Iman & Qiblatul Iman: Love Prophet ﷺ More Than You Love Yourself

But Prophet ﷺ brought them the qiblatul iman, from atiur Rasul ﷺ (obey the Messenger). This is the “Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil amre minkum (Holy Qur’an, 4:59).” Ulul amr (saints), from this maqam and this understanding, is the maqam of Islam. From atiullah, that when their belief is raised into obedience to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. What then Prophet ﷺ describes? ‘Your faith is to love me more than you love yourself.’

لاَ يُؤْمِنُ أَحَدُكُمْ حَتَّى أَكُونَ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ وَالِدِهِ وَوَلَدِهِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ

“La yuminu ahadukum hatta akona ahabba ilayhi min walidihi wa waladihi wan Nasi ajma’yeen.”

“None of you will have faith till he loves me more than his father, his children and all mankind.” Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

The Secret of the Qibla Opens by Focusing the Heart on Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ

Because yourself was the Islam, your body. Thinking you’re going to perfect all your body, you’re going to wash the body, you’re going to discipline the body. Later, you realize the body should be clean, put in its perspective. Don’t emphasize what the body desires and the body wants and body relationships and obsess over these things. People are obsessing over their money, their car, their homes, their possessions. These are all body.

The belief was to love Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ more than we love ourselves. This became now the heart. So, now I understood my body has to be basic clean, be disciplined, not obsess over my body. The real obsession really begins now is in the qalb (heart), in which the Baitullah (House of Allah (AJ)). Allah (AJ) is now giving us the secret, ‘I’m not on heaven, not on earth.’ Meaning what? The qibla of reality Allah’s (AJ) now describing for us, ‘I’m not on heaven, I’m not on earth.’ He’s giving the secret of the qibla. You disciplined your body, it’s locked. You cleaned the body, it’s locked now; it’s under tarbiya (discipline) like a trained horse, like a stallion now. And then Allah’s (AJ) giving isharat (sign), ‘But I’m not on heaven and I’m not on earth. I’m on the heart of my believer.’

مَا وَسِعَنِيْ لَا سَمَائِيْ ولا اَرْضِيْ وَلَكِنْ وَسِعَنِيْ قَلْبِ عَبْدِيْ اَلْمُؤْمِنْ

“Maa wasi`anee laa Samayee, wa la ardee, laakin wasi’anee qalbi ‘Abdee al Mu’min.”

”Neither My Heavens nor My Earth can contain Me, but the heart of my Believing Servant.” (Hadith Qudsi conveyed by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh))

The one whom was humble and told you about la ilaha illAllah. But others came to tell you it’s actually the reality is reflecting to Muhammadun RasulAllah ﷺ. That is the believer for Allah (AJ) and then Prophet ﷺ came to Sahabi (Companions) and began to teach, ‘Your faith is to love me more than you love yourself.’ It means now their heart became the house of Allah (AJ) in which it manifests the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.

لاَ يُؤْمِنُ أَحَدُكُمْ حَتَّى أَكُونَ أَحَبَّ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ وَالِدِهِ وَوَلَدِهِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ

“La yuminu ahadukum hatta akona ahabba ilayhi min walidihi wa waladihi wan Nasi ajma’yeen.”

“None of you will have faith till he loves me more than his father, his children and all mankind.” Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

Qalb of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is the Real Ka’bah for Ahbab

So, when they stand for salah, they enter into the real Ka’bah. The real Ka’bah is their qalb and their qalb is filled with the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Many of these awliyaullah have seen where Allah (AJ) did a transplant on them and changed their heart and their heart is written RasulAllah ﷺ. As Sayyidina Jibreel (as) appeared to Prophet ﷺ opened the heart and washed the heart. They’ve also been given a washing in which their heart open and written onto their heart Muhammadun RasulAllah ﷺ and these are ahbab (lovers) in which their entire being is the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, they enter into that Ka’bah. So, as soon as their namaz (prayer) begins they enter into the qibla of their faith. They want to be in the holy Hadith, ‘You will be with whom you love.’

قَالَ رَسُول اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه و سلم: الْمَرْءُ مَعَ مَنْ أَحَب

Qala Rasulullah (saws): “Almar o, ma’a man ahab.”

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: “One is with those whom he loves.”

Ahbab Fill Their Hearts with the Light of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ

They established that their love and their most superior exalted love is the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So, immediately their soul is in the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. And they pray with their soul in their heart. So, they’re doing all the moves that you’re doing, but in a reality, they’re inside their heart. And the qibla of their heart is filled with the reality and the light of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. And they are accompanying Prophet ﷺ where Prophet ﷺ is always the imam (spiritual leader) and that salah is coming so much more real.

And that’s why in the words of your salah, you say, “Assalamu alaika” (peace be upon you) but yet you see nothing. But in this maqamul iman (station of faith), when they enter into their heart, they are praying with Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. And when they say, “Salamu alaika ayuhan Nabi” (peace be upon you, O’ Prophet), Prophet ﷺ is in front and they are giving their salaams (greetings) to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ “Wa ibadillahis Saliheen” which are Ashab an-Nabi ﷺ (Companions of Prophet ﷺ), Ahlul Bayt an-Nabi ﷺ (Family of Prophet ﷺ) and all these awliyaullah fis samawati wa fil ard are in front of them. This is their qibla.

التَّحِيَّاتُ لِلّٰهِ وَالصَّلَوَاتُ وَالطَّيِّبَاتُ، اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكَ أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ، اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْنَا وَ عَلٰى عِبَادِ اللهِ الصَّالِحِيْنَ، أَشْهَدُ أَنْ لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا اللهُ، وَأَشْهَدُ أَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا عَبْدُهُ وَ رَسُوْلُهُ‎

“At-tahiyyatu lillahi, was-salawatu wat-tayyibatu, as-salamu ‘alayka, ayyuhan-nabiyyu wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, as-salamu ‘alayna wa ‘ala ‘ibadil-lahis-saliheen. Ashhadu an la ilaha illallahu wa ashhadu anna Muhammadan ‘abduhu wa Rasuluh.”

“Salutations to God and prayers and good deeds. Peace be upon you, O Prophet, and the mercy of God and his blessings. Peace be on us and on the righteous servants of God. I bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His servant and His messenger.”

3. Maqamul Ihsan: Doing Ibadah as if You See Allah (AJ)

Then Prophet ﷺ taught, ‘Oh! We’re going higher.’ We want to go to maqamul ihsan (station of moral excellence) in which all your ibadah (worship) is if you see Allah (AJ). And Allah (AJ) is describing that, ‘I’m not on heaven and I’m not on earth but if you’re looking for me, I’m in the heart of my believer.’ So, when the qiblatul iman becomes so strong, the love becomes so strong that their light is re-entering back into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Not just their light is emanating all around Prophet’s ﷺ soul. Their light is entering back into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Manzil ul Qur’an (where the Holy Qur’an emanates) in which that location of the qalb (heart), the real location of the qalb where the qul to the ba and from that ba, “Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem” (In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful). All knowledges of Holy Qur’an are emanating like a fountain. They pray there with their soul praying at that fountain.

Visualize your dunya like a fountain that always flowing upon their soul. They’re praying at the foot of Niagara Falls. So, if you imagine one crazy person sitting at Niagara Falls where that fountain at Niagara Falls will obliterate you. That water, the pressure is so heavy, this it enlightens them. Shower, shower, showering all these lights and realities upon their soul and that’s the secret of that ba. That’s the secret of that qalb. That right there, in that heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ called the qalb.

So, Allah’s (AJ) qul, “Qaf, wal Quranil Majeed” coming to the lisan (tongue).

﴾ق ۚ وَالْقُرْ‌آنِ الْمَجِيدِ ﴿١

50:1 – “Qaf, wal Quranil Majeed.” (Surat Qaf)

“Qaf. By the honored Qur’an.” (The Letter Qaf, 50:1)

The Tongue of Realities is the Heart (Qalb)

This is a lisan through His qalb. The tongue is actually here (Shaykh points to his heart), not here (pointing to his head). No, physical anymore. The tongue of realities is what the heart speaks. So, it means that they’re in this place of the qul where Allah’s (AJ) Izzah and Might that nobody can contain and it comes peaceful. “Qulna ya Naaru, kuni Bardan wa Salaman.” “Qul ya naar. Qul. Qul,” this naar (Divinely Fire) of Allah (AJ), the fire of Allah (AJ) is entering into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. And Prophet ﷺ makes it to be cool and peaceful.

﴾قُلْنَا يَا نَارُ كُونِي بَرْدًا وَسَلَامًا عَلَىٰ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ﴿٦٩

21:69 – “Qulna ya Naaru, kuni Bardan wa Salaman ‘ala Ibrahim.” (Surat Al-Anbiya)

“We said, O fire, be cool and Peaceful upon Abraham.” (The Prophets, 21:69)

Ba is The Doorway to All Realities of Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

And now all creation will begin to manifest. That ba becomes the doorway to all realities of “Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem” and every manifestation is coming because the fire and the heat of Allah’s (AJ) Izzah and Might hits the coolness of the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. And as a result becomes peaceful, becomes a creation, becomes the flowing lights of all realities. At that, Allah (AJ) is teaching, ‘Pray as if you see Me.’

قَالَ: فَأَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ الْإِحْسَانِ، قَالَ: أَنْ تَعْبُدَ اللَّهَ كَأَنَّك تَرَاهُ، فَإِنْ لَمْ تَكُنْ تَرَاهُ فَإِنَّهُ يَرَاك

Qala Fa akhberni ‘an al Ihsan.

Qala: An Ta’bud Allaha, Ka annaka tarahu, fa in lam takun tarahu fa innahu yarak.

Now, tell me about spiritual excellence (ihsan).

The Prophet (PBUH) replied, “It is to serve/worship Allah as though you behold/see Him; and if you don’t behold/see Him, (know that) He surely sees you.” Prophet Muhammad (saws)

Awliya are Dressed with Wahdatul Shuhood

It means Allah (AJ) then takes the soul into an ascension into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ where they’re entering into that reality. From that reality, their salah in which they witness what Allah (AJ) wants them to witness – like providing a mirror, a window and a glass to a reality in which they never become one with it but they become to visualize of it. They don’t have Wahdatul Wujud (Oneness in Existence) where they become one with Allah (AJ), astaghfirullah (seek forgiveness from Allah (AJ)). But they granted shuhood, Wahdatul Shuhood (Oneness in Witnessing).

That from the holy heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, their soul is witnessing and to each awliya, whatever Allah (AJ) want to grant of its darajat (levels). So, means then they have qibla of these haqqaiqs of maqamul ihsan and yet people are still coming and moving the carpet like this (Shaykh explains by using a book and changing a few degrees) and like this and like this and like this and then arguing about the moon and forgetting about the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Then we know why difficulty comes upon the earth.

Don’t Be Distracted by the Pursuit of the Material World

Difficulty comes to bring people back to their reality. That you got distracted by the pursuit of your money, your fortune and your fame. The pursuit of everything that dunya was trying to pursue us and we became zahiri. We became that we want to build a masjid (mosque) for Allah (AJ) because shaitan (satan) fools you with noble deeds, not bad deeds. Not for a believer, he didn’t tell them, ‘Come and let’s open up something bad.’ They say, ‘Why don’t you do this noble deed and you become so external in its pursuit, so preoccupied with its authority and its power?’ And then you forgot this station of faith and iman (faith). That we were supposed to love Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ more than we loved ourselves.

Graduate to Maqamul Iman and Strive to Reach Maqamul Ihsan

And we were supposed to understand this world of light and enter into this world of light to be dressed by this world of light. And that our imam, our Sultan, our King is waiting for us in Madinatul Munawwara. And that everything is happening by his command, by Allah’s (AJ) Command to his holy soul and every isharat (sign) is been given to the nation and this nation not left unattended. We pray that Allah (AJ) open more and more understanding from this ocean of malakut (heavenly realm) and that we operate more from the world of light and understand: leave the external and graduate to the maqamul iman. InshaAllah, from maqamul iman to maqamul ihsan. InshaAllah, with the nazar (gaze) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and the barakah (blessings) of awliyaullah flowing through this earth to uplift us from difficulty.

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

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

Original Date of Suhbah: May 23, 2020

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