Spreading Light, Love & Hope is Divinely Guidance
From the Realities of Mawlana (Q) as taught by Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi.
A’uzu 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
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 atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.”
﴾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)
And always a reminder for myself ana abdukal ‘ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim, wa jahl, and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that we are still in existence.
Prophet ﷺ is of a Magnificent Character
Alhamdulillah by the guidance of Holy Qur’an and the immense ni’mah (blessing) of the holy heart Of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. “Wa Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem” and Allah (AJ) describing, “Khuluqal ‘azheem,” that, ‘They may come to you and say you are a majnun (insane) but know by the Might of your Lord that you are of a magnificent character.’
﴾مَا أَنتَ بِنِعْمَةِ رَبِّكَ بِمَجْنُونٍ ﴿٢﴾ وَإِنَّ لَكَ لَأَجْرًا غَيْرَ مَمْنُونٍ ﴿٣﴾ وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلَىٰ خُلُقٍ عَظِيمٍ ﴿٤
68:2-4 – “Maa anta bini’mati Rabbika bimajnoon. (2) Wa inna laka la ajran ghaira mamnoon. (3) Wa innaka la’ala khuluqin ‘azheem. (4)” (Surat Al-Qalam)
“You are not, by the favor of your Lord, a mad possessed. (2) And indeed, for you is a reward uninterrupted. (3) Truly, You (O Muhammad!) are of a magnificent character. (4)” (The Pen, 64:2-4)
And the turuqs (spiritual paths) they must be operating from ayatul kareem (the generous verse of Holy Qur’an). “Addabani Rabbi fi ahsana fi ta’dib.”
قَال رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ: أَدَّبَنِي رَبِّي فَأَحْسَنَ تَأْدِيبِي
Qala Rasulullahi ﷺ : “Addabani Rabbi fa ahsana ta’dibi.”
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said, “My Lord taught me good manners and He taught me in the most excellent way”
The Immensity of Good Character
Why Awliyaullah (Saints) Emphasize So Much on It?
They [spiritual paths] are here to teach the adab (manners) and the character of people to raise their honor and status in the Presence of Allah (AJ). To give people hope, to give people good character in a world of difficulty. Because Allah (AJ) bestow upon awliyaullah ‘Ilm e Laduni wa hikmati bis Saliheen (Divinely Knowledge and Wisdom of the Righteous). One without the other makes no sense. Just saying something with no hikmah (wisdom) is useless and having hikmah and not saying something is oppressive. Because people needed the wisdom. Why Allah (AJ) gave it? And if somebody had been taught then Allah (AJ) expecting from awliya (saints) that they have a hikmah in using that wisdom and they use appropriately for every location and every people have a different wisdom.
Teaching People Adab can Help Them Achieving Magnificent Realities
From ayatul kareem where Allah (AJ) describing, “Khuluqal ‘azheem” – ‘You are of magnificent character’ it means keep the way of good character and teach people adab. As a result of teaching people adab they can achieve magnificent realities and that’s what Allah (AJ) wants from them. Not to make them shari’ah (Divine Law) students and qaris (reciters) and judges – that’s different firqah (group), different line. But when you teach to the masses, they can all achieve like a dog from Ashab ul Kahf (Companions of the Cave), good manners.
Humans are an Honored Creation of God
If the good manners saved a dog to go to paradise, what do you think about “Wa laqad karramna bani adam (as).”
﴾وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ ﴿٧٠
17:70 – “Wa laqad karramna bani adama…” (Surat Al-Isra)
“And We have certainly honored the children of Adam…” (The Night Journey, 17:70)
That ‘We honored the creation of Adam (as) and Eve (as).’ That, the honored creation of Allah (AJ) what type of status they can achieve! That’s why Ashab ul Kahf and the story from the Sleepers of Ashab ul Kahf was to give the criteria. That if Allah (AJ) finds a dog, that dirty, but because its loyalty and good character through continuous testing, continuous testing and bombardment. Not by people throwing flowers at them but continuously casting at them stones. These can be bad words, bad advice, bad gaze, bad thoughts; every stone comes in a different fashion. And Allah (AJ) gives to us, these are the surahs (chapters) that guide the people of tariqah (spiritual path) and the people of realities. That, if a najes (dirty) can reach to paradise just by good character.
Your Actual Family is Your Spiritual Family
The tariqahs emphasize good character; go out to the people, reach to them and teach them good character. How to be loving, how to put down arrogance and pride, how to keep the brotherhood and the family. Wherever Allah (AJ) describes family bonds, higher reality is your spiritual family than your physical family. Because many people in these lands their physical families’ obliterated. Mother one side, father in one side, children different side. We’re coming into the lands whom have been obliterated by shaitan (satan). There’re not Islamic lands with Islamic custom. Even now the Islamic countries they’re all in obliterated relationships.
So why then? Allah (AJ) is giving you the criteria of family, that hold family ties. Prophet ﷺ teaching the sunnah (traditions of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) – hold family ties. It’s relevant to your spiritual family. Hold your spiritual family, keep the brotherhood. Teach good manners and good character to give people hope; people whom struggling and striving to keep the tariqah alive, to keep the flag up. Then you come and make them happy, make them joyous, give them good words and good encouragement so they can continue. And this is “khuluqal ‘azheem” – to encourage people towards goodness and to love.
Allah (AJ) is Very Much Pleased with the One Giving Hope to His Creation
But not everybody is the same and not every training was the same. And those whom train from their shaykh, they understood to be of service to people. The greatest joy that Allah (AJ) has when you give His creation hope. We’re on the way of rahmah (mercy). We’re not pretending to be prophets (as) of Allah (AJ) and scare people away. We’re only on Siratal Rahmah – we’re on the way of mercy knowing that these are dark days, difficult days, confusing families, confusing relationships. Spread love, happiness, hope, encourage people that, ‘MashAllah what you’ve done, great!’ The people are good, people living the tariqah life to the best of their ability. These are what are expected.
Serve the Ones Who Spend Their Lives Serving God’s Creation
So alhamdulillah at least glad tidings from ourself to the people whom live this way day by day, who struggle and strive in the way of Allah (AJ) to keep the love and ishq and muhabbat of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ – wherever you are. When you’re in the zawiyah (spiritual school of Sufism), supporting the zawiyahs, when you’re in your living room and at home. Allah (AJ) bless you infinitely with eternal blessings. The love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is the immense gift from Allah (AJ). That, those who know and they’re trained that way, alhamdulillah they know it. Those whom not, inshaAllah Allah (AJ) guide them to a way in which to give people hope, to dispense the candies to people.
Mawlana Shaykh (Q) would go and give candies always to the children and teach that everybody’s a child, just some are a little bit hairier. They’re not rijal (people of maturity) in Allah’s (AJ) eyes, they didn’t reach sainthood. Some may be. But give to everyone candies to make them happy that they have a happy heart and if their hearts are happy, they can let the sun shine in. A flower in which becomes closed by rain and tribulation and difficulty and wind, Allah (AJ) shows guidance in nature. If you think you’re the sun, shine on people.
Awliyaullah Dispense Hope and Mercy to People in Difficulty
But if you think you’re the sun and you act like a tornado, you’re going to kill the garden. When the flowers come out to bloom, they’re expecting the sun to appear. And as a result, they try to open their hearts coming through their Western difficulties – trying to pay their rent, trying to get their groceries, trying to keep their kids from wearing dresses and when they’re not supposed to. Trying to keep their whole families together in an appropriate way that is pleasing to Allah (AJ); keep their kids off of drugs, keep their kids off of guns and gangs and hardship, to come for five minutes and mention Allah’s (AJ) Name hoping that that rahmah and mercy will save them.
There’s so much difficulty in people just trying to get to the zikr (Divine remembrance), sit at the zikr, turn on the TV. Just read the emails that are coming in. Somebody being beaten while trying to turn the zikr on because there’s violence and anger in the home. It’s not easy!
Judge No one! Everyone is God’s Flower
So means that this way is a way of rahmah and they’re all Allah’s (AJ) flowers. Don’t judge them. Allah (AJ) loves every single one of the creations He brought into existence. Some through the harshness of their conditions they see only but storms. A father that beats them, a mother that abuses them. What can you do for whatever was written? But awliya and guides, they’re not like that, not supposed to be like that. They’re to be reminded that you took the path of being a sun, dispense Allah’s (AJ) mercy and rahmah. It’s free; it costs you nothing.
Dispense Allah’s (AJ) Mercy, Be a Vessel for Love to Everyone
Be a vessel for ishq (love) and muhabbat. Shine, shine upon people. Even when you can’t, you say, ‘I don’t really feel I have anything good to say,’ you say it anyways because Allah (AJ) reminds, ‘I shine on you all the time. Be like Me. From My Divinely Presence I feed all My servants, I like them, I don’t like them, they believe in Me, they don’t believe in Me.’ Can you imagine if Allah (AJ) was like us where a person doesn’t believe, they can’t find food the next day, immediately become sick, deathly ill if worship was mandatory. But Allah (AJ) shows an immense mercy, ‘No, no I love all My creation. If they worship Me, alhamdulillah I dress them with infinite. And if they don’t worship Me I still dress them with infinite because I love them. I shine upon them regardless of their loving Me, worshiping Me.’
He sets a bar very high for “Khuluqal ‘azheem.” It means give love to people, give hope to people so even the worst one goes away feeling good. So they feel that tomorrow will be a better day, ‘Oh they said something good about me. Hahaha, they don’t know how bad I am but Ya Rabbi let me to be better.’ Maybe tomorrow will be like an amazingly different day and you never know when Allah (AJ) changes somebody. So always a reminder for our people whoever they are, wherever they are our teaching is different. Our teaching is based on this system of rahmah, of mercy and hope for people to go away feeling good.
Awliyaullah Feed Three Categories of People:
(i) Orphans, (ii) Poor, (iii) Captives
i) Yateem – The Orphans:
That what the shaykh gained from his struggles in life, from what we described the night before – they feed orphaned people because all their students are orphaned. You put that turban on your head, many relatives will leave you. You grow that beard, the other half of them will leave you. You start doing zikr, everyone won’t talk to you. They say, ‘Stop doing this stuff, it reminds us…’ So they’re all yateem (orphan).
﴾وَيُطْعِمُونَ الطَّعَامَ عَلَى حُبِّهِ مِسْكِينًا وَيَتِيمًا وَأَسِيرًا ﴿٨
76:8 – “Wa yu ta’imo nat Ta’ama ‘ala hubbihi miskeenan wa yateeman wa aseera.” (Surat Al-Insaan)
“And they feed, in spite of love for it, to the needy/indigent, the orphan, and the captive.” (The Human, 76:8)
(ii) Miskeen – The Poor:
Miskeen (poor), yeah, they realize how wealthy Allah (AJ) is. They came to zikr, they accepted the shaykh and their soul was thrown into an ocean of rahmah so immense. We said before everyone comes from dunya (material world) as a big fish in a very small pond, ‘I was a big guy in my community, I knew everybody, I have everything.’
Reality of Mawt Qablil Mawt (Death of Desires Before Physical Death)
But when you come to Allah’s (AJ) ocean of rahmah, you feel like you’re drowning ‘I don’t even know what my co-ordinance, I don’t know what I’m supposed to do, I don’t know where I’m going to end.’ This a rahmah that shows you that, ‘Yes! Allah’s (AJ) Rich. His infinite bounty’s beyond your imagination.’ Once He throws you into that ocean, all you can feel is drowning. An event the awliya will come to you and say, ‘Drown! There’s more power under the water than above the water. Mawt qablil mawt.’
Don’t be Scared of Death, Face Your Fate and Run into It!
How much people fighting to die? They don’t want to die. You watch their adventure movies, they’re running through the bushes, end of the world is coming. Running through the bushes, running through the bushes. What the heck are you running to? Where is it that you’re trying to go and hide and how many years you want to live on this Earth? Face your fate and run the other direction. They don’t want to show Muslim movies because they would run the other direction. Say, how do you fight a people who love to run towards bullets? You can’t. They’re not defeatable. They look for death as other people love life. But watch their movies, what do you see? Running in the bushes, running here, running there, trying to live a thousand years hiding in a bush somewhere.
iii) Asir – The Captives:
But Allah (AJ) give to the believers – no, we’re disconnected from the heavens. We have nothing in comparison to Allah’s (AJ) wealth, Allah’s (AJ) Might and Majesty and what Allah (AJ) can give to the servant of bounties and they become captive. Well, then these awliya are responsible. Not all of them are the same. But those who understand this reality and teaching you this reality, is a hint for you – they feed you from these knowledges not because you deserve it.
It is Allah’s (AJ) Blessing that You’re Sitting at the Table of Awliyaullah
You would have to spend a thousand lifetimes to take from these knowledges. Not because you earned it because you didn’t pay that much to get that. Don’t think your five dollar contribution got you access to realities! But it’s Allah (AJ) ni’mat (blessing) that He wrote for you – sit at this table and one of these servants will teach you, and it’s not written for everybody. Many have tried to pass by and they don’t sit at the table thinking they’re clever. But in reality, no! This table spread is not meant for you; you can continue your journey.
No Money can Buy You the Access to Muhammadan Realities
So that’s when they knew they’re asir (captive). Was there a money that you could pay to reach the Muhammadan haqqaiqs (realities)? Absolutely not! The only time you paid money to reach these realities was so that we tied your foot. Because when you’re really invested in it, you don’t bounce around to different places. Say, ‘I got to start it all over with those people? No, I’m so heavily invested in this.’ You know if you do a big investment and construction and you’re building and building and building, at the last minute say, ‘I’m leaving this construction. Thank you! I’m going to go now build over there.’ And spend all that money now somewhere else?
So no, the money doesn’t buy you access to realities; it ties your foot to the shaykh. So when they start shooting, you got nowhere to run. You’re going to live and die with that person even if he’s not present with you, you feel him and sense him in everything you do because you’re tied to that soul. That’s what asir is. That you’re captive, not by your brain, not by your money but by your heart and soul. That you’re locked with this immense chain of love that binds you from your heart to their reality. As a result they’re feeding you from these haqqaiqs, nourishing your soul from an immense reality.
Good Character and Understanding of God’s Kingdom
Don’t Use Your Little Knowledge to Judge Allah’s (AJ) Servants
Not everyone’s the same. You hear this reality then you go sit with 10 people thinking everybody’s the same. No, whatever their title is doesn’t mean anything. And then “Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem” – Surat Al-Kahf – that Sayyidina Musa (as) with his extremely high station, official station, kalimullah (the one who speaks to Allah (AJ)) one of the six big Prophets (as) of Allah (AJ). This is a reminder who’s on top. Don’t ever guess with what you think you know through your eyes and through your ears and what you want from your nafs (ego). Because Allah (AJ) gives to the servant of the path.
There’re 12,000 Angles for A Reality
Because there’s a reality at least 12,000 different angles. We’ve talked about the angle of being a student on how not to ask questions. We talked on the angle of Sayyidina Musa (as) trying to reach the Muhammadan haqqaiqs, so he has to go to a Muhammadan Shaykh. But when Allah (AJ) gives to us from another angle – look, this servant is one whom speaks to Allah (AJ), a Prophet (as) of Allah (AJ) but he’s in need to meet Sayyidina Khidr (as) for a much higher reality – and he speaks to Allah (AJ).
Above Every Knower There’s Another Knower
It means don’t ever think, whatever your closeness is to Allah (AJ) that there’s nobody closer. Because Nabi Musa (as) thought that. He’s sitting with his mureeds (devoted disciples) and he [the mureed] say: ‘Ya Musa (as), its astonishing. Is there anyone more knowledgeable than you?’ He said, ‘Wallahi, I don’t think so.’ Then he felt scared, he asked Allah (AJ), ‘Is there anyone smarter than me or more knowledgeable than me, closer to You than me?’ [Allah (AJ) replied] ‘Ya Musa (as) I’ll send you to just one of them. Of course there are!’ Above every knower there’s another knower. Above everyone who thinks they’re close to Allah (AJ), Allah (AJ) has another person even closer to Allah (AJ).
﴾نَرْفَعُ دَرَجَاتٍ مَّن نَّشَاءُ ۗ وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِي عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ ﴿٧٦
12:76 – “…Narfa’u darajatin man nashao, Wa fawqa kulli dhee ‘ilmin ‘aleem.” (Surat Yusuf)
“… We raise in degrees whom We will, and Above every knower there is a greater knower.” (Joseph, 12:76)
Titles aren’t What Teach You Who’s Who, the Knowledge Does!
But people are attracted to titles and they think that, ‘Okay, this label is more higher, expensive, I’ll wear this label, I’ll go after this label.’ But tariqah comes and teaches, ‘Oh, follow your heart. Listen to your heart.’ People are all different but you understand through the ‘uloom and the knowledges who’s who. Not by the outward title. ‘This is filan (so and so), filan, this is filan, filan.’ No! Because Allah’s (AJ) giving, this is the surah of tariqah, Allah’s (AJ) giving – no, this is a Prophet (as) of Allah (AJ) which official title there is nothing higher and of the six great Prophets (as) of Allah (AJ). But yet for a knowledge he needed to meet Sayyidina Khidr (as).
Good Character and Ascension of Believer
What You’ve is Going to Block You!
For some understanding that his heart needed and maybe the soul of Sayyidina Khidr (as) needed to sign something. There’s a spiritual reason that an association has to take place. But he gave him a warning that, ‘Its not going to be compatible.’ Because the knowledge we have is of a little understanding. That, ‘What you have is going to block that.’
﴾فَالَ إِنَّكَ لَن تَسْتَطِيعَ مَعِيَ صَبْرًا ﴿٦٧﴾ وَكَيْفَ تَصْبِرُ عَلَىٰ مَا لَمْ تُحِطْ بِهِ خُبْرًا ﴿٦٨
18:67-68 – “Qala innaka lan tastatee’a ma’iya sabra. (67) Wa kayfa tasbiru ‘ala ma lam tuhit bihi khubra. (68)” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“(The Other) said, Verily you will not be able to have patience with me! (67) And how can you have patience for what you do not encompass in knowledge? (68)” (The Cave, 18:67-68)
So means there’s going to be a confusion and a difficulty. The relationship transpired with Sayyidina Musa (as) coming to try to teach Sayyidina Khidr (as). That, ‘Why you did like that? You didn’t follow shari’ah?’ Huh? You’re coming to Sayyidina Khidr (as) and talking about shari’ah? ‘Yeah, why you broke the boat?’ It means there’s no understanding, no even observing, ‘Why did you do that to that child?’ So there’s no trying to absorb, it’s just now judging, ‘Why, why you didn’t build this fence and charge for it?’
﴾فَانطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰ إِذَا رَكِبَا فِي السَّفِينَةِ خَرَقَهَا ۖ قَالَ أَخَرَقْتَهَا لِتُغْرِقَ أَهْلَهَا لَقَدْ جِئْتَ شَيْئًا إِمْرًا ﴿٧١
18:71 – “Fantalaqa hatta idha rakiba fes safeenati kharaqaha, qala akharaqtaha litughriqa ahlaha laqad jita shay-an imra.” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“So they set out, until when they had embarked on the ship, Al-Khidr tore it open. [Moses] said, Have you torn it open to drown its people? You have certainly done a grave thing.” (The Cave, 18:71)
﴾فَانطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰ إِذَا لَقِيَا غُلَامًا فَقَتَلَهُ قَالَ أَقَتَلْتَ نَفْسًا زَكِيَّةً بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ لَّقَدْ جِئْتَ شَيْئًا نُّكْرًا ﴿٧٤
18:74 – “Fantalaqaa hattaa izaa laqiyaa ghulaaman faqatalahoo qaala aqatalta nafsan zakiy yatam bighairi nafs; laqad ji’ta shai’an nukraa” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“Then they proceeded: until, when they met a young man, he slew him. Moses said: ‘Hast thou slain an innocent person who had slain none? Truly a foul (unheard of) thing hast thou done!'”
﴾فَانطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰ إِذَا أَتَيَا أَهْلَ قَرْيَةٍ اسْتَطْعَمَا أَهْلَهَا فَأَبَوْا أَن يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا فَوَجَدَا فِيهَا جِدَارًا يُرِيدُ أَن يَنقَضَّ فَأَقَامَهُ ۖ قَالَ لَوْ شِئْتَ لَاتَّخَذْتَ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًا ﴿٧٧
18:77 – “Fantalaqa hatta idha ataya ahla qaryatin istat’ama ahlaha faabaw an yudayyifoo huma fawajada feeha jidaran yureedu an yanqadda faaqamahu, qala law sheta lat takhadhta ‘alayhi ajra.” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“So they set out, until when they came to the people of a town, they asked its people for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. And they found therein a wall about to collapse, so al Khidhr restored it. [Moses] said, If you wished, you could have taken for it a payment.” (The Cave, 18:77)
With Good Character You’re Able to Absorb Every Reality Coming to You
Again, means that Allah (AJ) throughout Qur’an gives us understanding that the servants of “Khuluqal ‘azheem” they don’t know if they’re supposed to be giving or receiving in an environment. So they come with good character. Any type of good character, when you have good character you’re able to absorb every reality coming to you. ‘Uh-huh, mashAllah, mashAllah. I know nothing. Ana faqir billahi ta’la. I’m nothing.’
This Way is Very Mysterious, Don’t Use Your Brain to Reach the Secret
But if you think you’re the one then the whole miracle is lost with hasad (jealousy). Everything you see is blocked by hasad and the miracle is lost, the secret is lost, the conveyance is lost and everything that was accomplished is lost. This is what Surat Kahf is describing for us. This way is very mysterious. Whom giving and receiving of a secret is not known except through Allah (AJ) and those hidden servants.
Outside audience think something is happening. What they thought when they saw Sayyidina Musa (as) with Sayyidina Khidr (as)? Because one is a official title, the other one’s a hidden servant of Allah (AJ). But with good manners what teaches you – be loving, be kind, come to absorb what does this area have for you, what is its understanding. But Sayyidina Musa (as) was too absorbed with teaching him that, ‘You did that wrong. You did that other test wrong. You did the other test wrong.’ And at the end Sayyidina Khidr (as) say, ‘Okay it’s for me and you, thank you, this is our parting.’
﴾قَالَ هَٰذَا فِرَاقُ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنِكَ ۚ سَأُنَبِّئُكَ بِتَأْوِيلِ مَا لَمْ تَسْتَطِع عَّلَيْهِ صَبْرًا ﴿٧٨
18:78 – “Qaala haazaa firaaqu bainee wa bainik; sa unabi ‘uka bitaaweeli maa lam tastati’ ‘alaihi sabraa” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“He answered: ‘This is the parting between me and thee: now will I tell thee the interpretation/significance of (those things) with which you could not have patience.'” (The Cave, 18:78)
This system not going to work.
Stay Loyal to Your Shaykh! Perceive from Heart Not Through Eyes
So Allah (AJ) has in Qur’an these realities. It’s not what people perceive through their eyes and what they perceive through whose station is what, but through their heart. So the online and in-person students, follow through your heart. When you’re following your shaykh you’re loyal to your shaykh that who is your shaykh. Follow through your heart, connect through your heart. The one whom you took your knowledges from, you owe your life to that. It’s a lock onto your heart. Right?
As soon as a coin comes into your wallet, you’re bound by a smart contract. Right? Somebody send you ten thousand bitcoins, can you say, ‘No, it’s mine now.’ No, government comes knocking on your door, ‘Actually we have the address that this came to your wallet.’ What that teaches you? Can you take a knowledge and say, ‘No Ya Rabbi I got it myself.’ Allah (AJ) says, ‘No, actually it’s on a smart contract. It came from his heart and it was locked into your heart and you’re accountable for what you took from his wallet.’
Dispense Hope for People, It’s Already Stormy Everywhere
What is this technology showing people on Earth? And why Imam Ali (as) said, ‘If you learn just two letters from a servant, you owe them your life.’ You don’t have to keep asking, ‘What’s your title? Who are you? Who’s this, who’s this? Are you Musa (as) or you’re Khidr (as)? You’re Musa (as), you’re Khidr (as)?’ You took the knowledges, now serve! Come to this way of being beatific and loving and having good character. Dispense for people hope. That it’s already stormy weather everywhere, give them hope, give them love, give them compassion. So that they feel that there’s a better day that’s coming.
Don’t be Heedless, Use Your Heart to Get the Remedy
This is the way that we were trained and this is the reason Allah (AJ) is infinitely generous with the knowledges that are flowing from this tap, ‘I want them to eat from your table.’ For how could I feed people if Allah (AJ) didn’t give me the sustenance and the food? If He says, ‘I don’t want you to feed anymore,’ that tap will close, finished. I look at you, you look at me and we, nothing. But if Allah (AJ) wants it, says, ‘No, they’re in need to be eating this reality, your service is to serve it.’ Those whom are with you make sure that it can be served nice and hot and fresh. Right? Pave the way.
That’s why our guys are in production, video, advertising and marketing. Why? So that a hot meal reaches you like DoorDash or SkipTheDishes. What’s that? People in their living room they only want like a hamburger coming right away. Allah (AJ) wants them, ‘No, give them the knowledges right away.’ Let them know the Muhammadan key is their salvation through this dajjal (man of deceit) that’s entering. Others are seemed to be heedless about it. They don’t seem to know what is going to be the remedy. Maybe they’re not on the Western front and they don’t understand that this is where the sun rises. People have to use their heart.
The Danger of Jealousy: It Blinds People from Seeing a Miracle
Allah (AJ) even described in Surat Al-Yusuf the ‘Most beautiful of stories,’ Allah (AJ) described.
﴾نَحْنُ نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ أَحْسَنَ الْقَصَصِ بِمَا أَوْحَيْنَا إِلَيْكَ هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنَ… ﴿٣
12:3 – “Nahnu naqussu ‘alayka ahsana alqasasi bima awhayna ilayka haaza alqurana…” (Surat Yusuf)
“We relate to you, the best of stories in what We have revealed to you of this Qur’an…” (Yusuf, 12:03)
Why? The 12 Brothers tried to kill Sayyidina Yusuf (as). We say they’re 12 prophets (as) of Bani Israel and others say, ‘They’re not 12 prophets (as).’ Well, they inherit the 12 imams (religious leaders). They take the placeholder – 12 tribes is not a random number. There are 12 tribes and imams for Bani Israel in which they inherit the reality, the placeholders of the twelve imams. These are the 12 fountains for the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Look what they were doing, the Bani Israel people? 11 of them trying to kill their 12th brother from hasad and jealousy. So again Allah (AJ) has throughout Qur’an that if somebody should become jealous and a bad character enter within their hearts, the miracle is bound, they’re blind to the miracle. They begin then to exhibit these different characteristics. We pray that Allah (AJ) protect us, that Allah (AJ) infinitely guide us, Allah (AJ) to enshroud us with the love and ishq of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, inshaAllah.
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: June 03, 2023
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