Surah Fil Tafsir
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.
“Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil amre minkum”
ياأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَطِيعُواللَّه وَأَطِيعُوٱلرَّسُولَ وَأُوْلِي الْأَمْرِ مِنْكُمْ…
4:59 – “Ya ayyu hal latheena amanoo Atiu Allaha wa atiur Rasola wa Ulil amre minkum…” (Surat an-Nisa)
“O You who have believed, Obey Allah, obey the Messenger, and those in authority among you.” (The Women, 4:59)
Our Majlis is Beatific Like the Birds of Praise
Alhamdulillah, a reminder for myself ana abdukal ‘ajeez, wa dayeef, wa miskin, wa zhalim, wa jahl and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that we’re still in existence. Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, that Allah (AJ) gave us this beatific life that is deep in the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That when the recitations are melodious and the soul uses that energy to move.
These associations, like we said before, the gul e-bulbul, these are the beatific souls, are beatific birds of praise. Their praise – most beatific; more beatific than the praise of angels because they have a will. They have a will to choose not to and when that will is in submission, Allah (AJ) makes everything that soul does beatific, immensely beatific.
Continuously Praise Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ for Lights of Holy Qur’an
These majlis (gathering), they circle around Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and as they’re reciting, all these beatific lights from the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ dressing these majlises. These are the majlis of love and muhabbat. We pray that Allah (AJ) always keep our tongue, our heart, our soul, our body in those associations. That, that love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ when it begin to hit upon our soul, it begins to draw us into the Divinely Presence.
The lights that emanating from the soul of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ are the lights of Holy Qur’an. If you want Holy Qur’an and you want the lights of Holy Qur’an, then make salawat (praising Prophet ﷺ) on Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. “Allahumma salli ‘ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ‘ala aali Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.”
اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ، وَعَلَى آلِ سَيِّدِنَا مُحَمَّدٍ وَ سَلِّمْ.
“Allahumma salli ‘ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ‘ala aali Sayyidina Muhammadin wa Sallim.”
“O Allah! Send Peace and blessings upon Muhammad and upon the Family of Muhammad” (Peace be Upon him)
Safar is About Running Towards the Cave of Rahmah (Mercy)
In this holy month of the cave where Allah (AJ) reminding for us, ‘Run, run from all that they worship and run towards the cave of rahmah (mercy). That perchance, I will shower My rahmah and mercy upon you if you went into the right cave, the cave of rahmah.’
﴾وَإِذِ اعْتَزَلْتُمُوهُمْ وَمَا يَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا اللَّـهَ فَأْوُوا إِلَى الْكَهْفِ يَنشُرْ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّن رَّحْمَتِهِ وَيُهَيِّئْ لَكُم مِّنْ أَمْرِكُم مِّرْفَقًا ﴿١٦
18:16 – “Wa idhi’ tazaltumo hum wa ma ya’budoona illAllaha fawoo ilal kahfi yanshur lakum rabbukum mir rahmatihi wa yuhayyi lakum min amrikum mirfaqa.” (Surat Al-Kahf)
“When ye turn away from them and the things they worship other than Allah, betake yourselves to the Cave: Your Lord will shower His mercies on you and disposes of your affair towards comfort and ease.” (The Cave, 18:16)
The cave of Allah’s (AJ) love that is existing within that cave because Allah (AJ) says, ‘I’m not in heaven. I’m not on Earth. I’m on the heart of my believer.’ No small believers. Let’s go to the top believer, Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
“. عَنْ وَهَبِ بِنْ مُنَبِّهْ، قَال رَسُولَ اللَّه ﷺ، قَالْ اللَّه عَزَ وَجَلْ: ” مَا وَسِعَنِيْ لَا سَمَائِيْ وَلَا اَرْضِيْ وَلَكِنْ وَسِعَنِيْ قَلْبِ عَبْدِيْ اَلْمُؤْمِنْ [حَدِيثْ اَلْقُدْسِي – اَلْغَزَالِي فِي اَلْإحْيَاء، وَ اِبنِ عَرَبِي فِي اَلْتَرَاجِمْ، صفحه ٢٢٤]
‘An Wahab ibn Munabbeh, Qala Rasulallahi ﷺ, Qala Allah (AJ): “Maa wasi’anee laa samayee, wa la ardee, laakin wasi’anee qalbi ‘Abdi al Mu’min.” [Hadith al Qudsi, Al Ghazali fi al Ihyaa, wa Ibn ‘Arabi fi al Tarajim, Safha 224]
Narrated by Wahab the son of Munabbeh that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said, that Allah (AJ) said: “Neither My Heavens nor My Earth can contain Me, but the heart of my Believing Servant.” [Holy Hadith, by Imam al-Ghazali in Al Ihya, and by Ibn ‘Arabi in al Tarajib, Page 224]
Accompany Those Who Reside in the Heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
Allah (AJ), this Holy Hadith (traditions) from Prophet ﷺ is giving us our isharats (signs). Then Prophet ﷺ describe, ‘Qalb al mu’min baytullah.’
قَال رَسُولَ اللَّه ﷺ، قَالْ اللَّه عَزَ وَجَلْ: ” قَلْبَ الْمُؤْمِنْ بَيْتُ الرَّب.” [حَدِيثْ اَلْقُدْسِي]
Qala Rasulallahi ﷺ, Qala Allah (AJ): “ “Qalb al mu’min baytur rabb.” [Hadith al Qudsi]
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said, that Allah (AJ) said:“The heart of the believer is the House of the Lord.” (Holy Hadith)
So, then Allah (AJ) is teaching us that, ‘That’s My house. The holy heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is My house. Who’s in My house?’ Nabiyeen (prophets), siddiqeen (truthful), shuhadah (witnesses) wa saliheen (righteous) and Allah (AJ), ‘I’m with them. These are the best of company in your life.’
وَمَن يُطِعِ اللّهَ وَالرَّسُولَ فَأُوْلَـئِكَ مَعَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللّهُ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاء وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَـئِكَ رَفِيقًا
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, then those are with the ones on whom Allah bestowed his softness amongst the prophets, the highly Righteous [Truthful], the Witnesses to the truth, and the Righteous. And excellent are those as companions.” (The Women 4:69)
Keep the love of nabiyeen. Follow siddiqeen. They make you to be shuhadah and everything around you to be saliheen. It means Allah (AJ) teaching us: that’s the cave. If you find yourself in a cave filled with not that character of people, you’re not in the right cave. That cave must be nabiyeen so there must be immense amount of talk about the greatness of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. They must be immensely talking about their love, the ishq (love) and everywhere they look, they see their Lord.
Signs of Isra wal Mi’raj Show Allah’s (AJ) Honour for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
For you cannot see Allah (AJ), but you see the signs of Allah (AJ) and the greatest sign of Allah (AJ) is the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. What are you going to see? Allah (AJ)? Astaghfirullah, it’s not something you can even imagine. But everywhere, they’ll see the signs and the reality that Allah (AJ) want to give them of the Haqqiqatul Muhammadiyah (the Muhammadan Reality) which is the nabiyeen (prophets). They understood everything is beatific on this Earth, why? Because Prophet ﷺ was coming. This is called tashrif (honour).
When you have a guest that’s coming that’s important to you, you don’t greet him in shorts. Right? Because you say, ‘Akhi, I don’t care who’s coming through the door.’ What Allah (AJ) taught us, ‘No, when I wanted an audience with Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, I sent my malaika (angels) with a special jubba (robe) and water from paradise.’ He sent the best, not small angels. He sent the archangels that, ‘Go to my beloved servant. This is the best of what I have. You go and deliver this message.’ They came with a jubba from paradise, water from paradise. ‘Allah (AJ) requesting your presence’ – asking, not demanding – ‘Allah’s (AJ) requesting your presence. Come wash with paradise and wear this special dress that Allah (AJ) sent’ and He sent the best of limousines. Because now you like somebody, you send a limousine; important speaker comes, you send a nice car for them. To show what? Tashrif, that I’m respecting you because to respect creation is to respect Allah (AJ). One whom has no respect has no respect with Allah (AJ) and Allah (AJ) sent His buraq (noble mystical horse). Say, ‘I sent you the best ride. He’s going to come take you, dress you, and deliver you.’
Have Immense Love for All Prophets & Companions
Allah (AJ) showing the immense love of nabiyeen (prophets), the immense reality of Prophet ﷺ, the immense beauty of that reality that everything adorned on this Earth because Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ was coming.
Siddiqeen (truthful) means the holy companions. In our cave…is the teaching of our cave based on the companions? That’s what we call the turuqs (spiritual paths). 41 tariqas from the teachings of Imam Ali (as) in Siddiqiya reality and one tariqa from Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (as), Naqshbandiya from the Siddiqiya realities. These are Siddiqiyun.
Ahlul Basirah Witness With Open Hearts
Shuhadah (witnesses), that amongst them, their shaykhs must be Ahlul Basirah (people of divine vision). That they martyred themself and Allah (AJ) says, ‘They’re not dead but they’re very much alive. You don’t see it.’
﴾وَلَا تَقُولُوا لِمَن يُقْتَلُ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّـهِ أَمْوَاتٌ ۚ بَلْ أَحْيَاءٌ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا تَشْعُرُونَ ﴿١٥٤
2:154 – “Wa la taqolo liman yuqtalu fee sabilillahi amwatun, bal ahyaon wa lakin la tash’uroon.” (Surat Al-Baqarah)
“And do not say about those who are killed in the way of Allah, “They are dead.” Rather, they are alive, but you perceive [it] not.” (The Cow, 2:154)
These Ahlul Basirah, their hearts are open and they witness what Allah (AJ) want them to witness. They’re not blind on Earth because then Allah (AJ) said, ‘They’re blind in heavens if they’re blind on Earth.’
﴾وَمَن كَانَ فِي هَـٰذِهِ أَعْمَىٰ فَهُوَ فِي الْآخِرَةِ أَعْمَىٰ وَأَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا ﴿٧٢
17:72 – “Wa man kana fee hadhihi a’ma fahuwa fee al akhirati a’ma wa adallu sabeela.” (Surat Al-Isra)
“But those who were blind in this world, will be blind in the hereafter, and most astray from the Path.” (The Night Journey, 17:72)
Don’t Be Distracted in Finding the Heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
It means they don’t see here. You think they’re going to see there (Shaykh points upwards)? That’s not the guide and the shaykh that Allah (AJ) describing. That’s not the cave of that reality. Because of the uloom and the knowledges and the power that flowing, they all become saliheen (righteous). They pick up their battle against shayateen (devils).
This cave of rahmah, this cave of mercy is the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and that’s why when we’re running to it, Allah’s (AJ) presence is in that reality. That don’t go anywhere else. Don’t be distracted by anything in this world. Find the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Holy Qur’an Emanates From the Soul of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
Some say they love Qur’an and they don’t want Hadith; they are liars, kadhab. For if they love the Qur’an, they would be running to Manzil ul Qur’an (where the Holy Qur’an emanates). Where did the Qur’an and where is the Qur’an emanating? It’s emanating from the soul of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, it hasn’t stopped. Anyone think that the mushaf (written copy) is the Qur’an. No, no it’s not. This is a manifestation.
Holy Qur’an is alive, not created, not manifested and ever-flowing ocean of reality. So, where is that flowing from? From the same heart that brought it on Earth. So, ever-emanating from the reality of that soul, that holy soul of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So, if they love Qur’an, they would be running towards Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to be dressed and blessed by its reality. What they read is furqan, book of right and wrong.
Are You Reading Holy Qur’an or Furqan?
The Qur’an requires the light and the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to begin to melt into your heart. Those two rivers begin to dress you and illuminate the power of that Qur’an. Qaf, its qudra and its power has to be released from the heart of Prophet ﷺ.
So that you can receive the nur (light) of the noon at the end of Qur’an. If that nur doesn’t come to you, you are reading furqan and everyone on Earth now is reading furqan because the ones who like it and don’t like it, they want to read what these crazy people believe. So, they’re not getting the light of it. They are reading it. It’s reality and its power is with the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ because then it unlocks like an ATM card.
We said when my kids, when they didn’t know what these little cards were. They would go to Starbucks and grab them say, ‘Daddy, I got all the Starbucks cards.’ I say, ‘You didn’t put money on them. These are just for your entertainment purposes.’ An adult knows that card is just a means, you got to charge it up first. Then it has a power and you can go around and buy everything you need. Otherwise, it’s just a piece of plastic. So, it means there has to be an authorization. That authorization comes from the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Ask to Move Towards Realities When Stepping With Your Right Foot in Muharram
Then they’re teaching that on this month of running to the cave that this is a hijrah (migration). Muharram starts that, ‘Ya Rabbi, I’ve stepped with my right foot. This is the beginning of this year, 12 months of my journey. I step with no haram (forbidden acts) asking to move towards your realities.’
By the month of Safar, the cave is opening and appearing before them. The guides whom are guiding and they’re not blind, they’re guiding into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. As they’re entering into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, everyone whom loves them is attached to their soul by this muhabbat.
Our Guides are Locked on Course Towards Sayydina Muhammad ﷺ
They don’t try to round up everybody’s body and to bring them because only way you can reach this reality is with love and muhabbat. You love them, you’ll be with them. Holy Hadith is, ‘You’ll be with whom you love.’
عَنْ أَنَسٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ: … فَقَالَ (رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ): ” أَنْتَ مَعَ مَنْ أَحْبَبْتَ.” ]اَلْمَصْدَرْ: مُسْلِمْ:. ٧٥٢٠ ]
‘An Anasin (ra): … Faqala (Rasulullahi) ﷺ: “Anta ma’a man ahbabta.”
Narrated Anas ibn Malik (ra) that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: “You will be with whom you love.” [Source: Muslim 7520]
Their love is so immense and that’s the reality of their magnetism. Their magnetic attraction because Allah (AJ) granted them that love. The love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is their polarity. As a result, their wujud (existence) is locked on course. That’s what we describe from Surat al-Fath. “Innaa fatahna laka Fatham Mubeena.” What is a clear victory? When Allah (AJ) grant your soul to be locked onto the coordinates of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That your path is moving on Siratal mustaqeem (straight path) and that all your life Allah (AJ), “YansurakAllahu nasran ‘aziza.”
﴾إِنَّا فَتَحْنَا لَكَ فَتْحًا مُّبِينًا ﴿١﴾ لِّيَغْفِرَ لَكَ اللَّـهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِن ذَنبِكَ وَمَا تَأَخَّرَ وَيُتِمَّ نِعْمَتَهُ عَلَيْكَ وَيَهْدِيَكَ صِرَاطًا مُّسْتَقِيمًا ﴿٢
﴾وَيَنصُرَكَ اللَّـهُ نَصْرًا عَزِيزًا ﴿٣
48:1-3 – “Innaa fatahna laka Fatham Mubeena. (1) liyaghfira lakaallaahu maa taqaddama min dhanbika wa maa taakhkhara wa yutimma ni’matahu ‘alayka wa yahdiyaka siraathan mustaqima (2) Wa yansurakAllahu nasran ‘aziza (3)” (Surat Al-Fath)”
“Indeed, We granted you, [O Muhammad], a manifest Victory. (1) That Allah may forgive you your faults of the past and those to follow; and fulfil His favor upon you and guide you to a straight path. (2) And [that] Allah may help you with a mighty victory (3)” (The Victory, 48:1-3)
Recite Surah al-Fil Seven Times Daily in Safar
That Allah’s (AJ) Might and Majesty is behind you, defending you from every type of difficulty. I’m going to take away all the sins of your future. I’m going to wash away all the sins of your past because why? You’re on a course into the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. You will be washed and cleansed and brought into that reality. So, then in this month of protection, what Mawlana Shaykh Adnan (Q) brought for us as an awrad (daily practice)? Wa Surat al-Fil. Surat al-Fil. Hajji Shahid, you have that one you do all the time, surat al-Fil, inshaAllah. Surah 105 of Holy Qur’an, Mawlana Shaykh Adnan gave as a wazifa (recitation) that everyday from what you recite also recite seven times surat al-Fil.
﴾أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ فَعَلَ رَبُّكَ بِأَصْحَابِ الْفِيل﴿١﴾ أَلَمْ يَجْعَلْ كَيْدَهُمْ فِي تَضْلِيلٍ﴿٢﴾ِ وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ ﴿٣﴾ تَرْمِيهِم بِحِجَارَةٍ مِّن سِجِّيل﴿٤ٍ﴾ فَجَعَلَهُمْ كَعَصْفٍ مَّأْكُولٍ ﴿٥
105:1-5 – “Alam tara kaifa fa’ala rabbuka bi ashaabil feel (1) Alam yaj’al kaidahum fee tadleel (2) Wa arsala ‘alaihim tairan abaabeel (3) Tarmeehim bihijaaratim min sijjeel (4) Faja ‘alahum ka’asfim m’akool (5)” (Surat al Fil)
“Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant? (1) Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray? (2) And He sent against them Flights of Birds, (3) Striking them with stones of baked clay. (4) Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up. (5)” (The Elephant, 105:1-5)
So, ‘Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. In the name of Allah (AJ), Most Compassionate and Most Merciful. ‘Seest thou not or have you not learned zalim (oppressor)? Have you not learned about how your Rab and how your Lord dealt with Ashab al-Fil, companions of the elephant? Did He not make their treacherous plans to go astray? And He had sent against them flights of Ababeel, the birds that would attack.’
Surah al-Fil Shows Allah’s (AJ) Obliteration of Shaitan’s Plan
This was a king, Abraha, who wanted to overtake Makkah before the birth of Prophet ﷺ in the year of the birth but this was in Muharram when he decided to attack and take over Hijaz, take over the Ka’bah and make his place to be the center of worship. It’s shaitan (satan). Go back into…finish this. ‘Striking them with stones of baked clay. Then did make them like an empty field of stalks and straw.’
It means Allah (AJ) is, ‘I obliterated them. Like dust, I threw them all over the floor. There was nothing left of them.’ From birds that were carrying pieces of clay that Mawlana Shaykh (Q) describe like lava. That how they were able to carry it, nobody understood. But it was lava and awliyaullah (saints) say from the tafsir (interpretation), Sayyidina Ibn Abbas (ra), that there was a name on each stone. Whomever made intention to come against the reality of Allah (AJ), a stone appeared in the bird’s hand three and each had a name and a lava and when the bird released it, it was a guided missile straight into the target and the head of that individual. Each had a name and each had a destined target. Allah (AJ) was showing advanced weaponry at that time. Allah’s (AJ) weaponry is superior. It had a GPS and a guidance system. They didn’t miss a single target. It wasn’t random where the birds were, ‘Ohoohoo, where we gonna throw? Where we gonna throw this?’ Just ‘whoo’ right there your name had it. The target was there and the bullseye hit.
Your Heart Becomes a Ka’bah When You Love Who Allah (AJ) Loves
What then Allah (AJ) want for us in dunya (material world) now? That Allah (AJ) want from us, Prophet ﷺ inspiring, awliyaullah teaching that your heart is that cave. When you run to the cave and when you love this reality of Allah (AJ), love the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, your heart becomes filled with that reality. As a result of being filled with that reality, your heart becomes like a Ka’bah because Allah (AJ) is describing then, ‘I’m not on heaven, I’m not on Earth but if you’re following what they’re guiding you, you’ll find My light and My love to begin to emanate within your heart. Do you see the signs of My love in your heart yet? Do you have the love of Nabiyeen? Do you have the love of Siddiqeen? Do you have the love of Shuhadah and are you in the company of Saliheen?’ Then Allah (AJ) saying, ‘You’re on your path. Your heart is now moving to be a Ka’bah because My love is in your heart.’
Do Your Companionships Reflect the Love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ?
If you understand this month of Safar and we talked last night, don’t run to anyone else to relieve your problems, to bring you closer to something. You struggle, you strive, you run towards Allah (AJ) and the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Look in your life and see who’s your companionship. I know a bunch of criminals but I hope I’m going to be in paradise. I show you your friends, I show you who you are. Show me your friends and I show you who you are. We have that expression? Yeah, all your friends are motorcycle bikers and you say now I’m going to paradise? Show me your friends, I show you who you are. That’s for us to understand the heart. These are not philosophies. These are everyday courses to bring this to be real in our life right now.
With Love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, Allah (AJ) is Our Only Defender
When the shaykhs are giving an awrad of, ‘Recite this 7 times a day’ and you’re reading Holy Qur’an and the Qur’an is talking about the protection of the Ka’bah, Allah’s (AJ) saying, ‘I protected the house of My belief. I protect the house of My belief. Why should I protect you? Is you in your heart or Allah (AJ) is in the heart?’
If you’re living a life in which they’re teaching, ‘I’m trying my best, ya Rabbi, to taslim (submit). I’m trying my best to struggle in your way. Ya Rabbi, I’m trying my best through every type of difficulty. You are my defender, ya Rabbi.’ Then Allah (AJ) remind, ‘Don’t worry. If I saved the house of bricks and stones, your heart is more precious to me. I built with My hands and I blew from My spirit into your reality.’
﴾فَإِذَا سَوَّيْتُهُ وَنَفَخْتُ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِى فَقَعُواْ لَهُ سَـجِدِينَ ﴿٢٩
15:29 – “Fa idha sawwaytuhu wa nafakhtu feehi min Rohee faqa’o lahu sajideen.” (Surat Al-Hijr)
“So when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My [created] soul/spirit, then fall down to him in prostration.” (The Rocky Tract, 15:29)
“Hasbunallahu wa ni’mal wakeel.” ‘If you have surrendered your affair to me, correctly with the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, you should find in your Muhammadan heart, I’m there. Don’t worry now. I’m going to send my Ababeel against who’s coming after you.’
حَسْبُنَا اللَّـهُ وَنِعْمَ الْوَكِيلُ
3:173 – “HasbunAllahu wa ni’mal Wakil” (Surat Aali ‘Imran)
“Sufficient for us is Allah, and [He is] the best Disposer of affairs.” (The Family of ‘Imran 3:173)
Allah (AJ) Will Defend You If Your Heart Contains Him
That’s why Allah (AJ), when shaitan was saying, ‘I’m gonna come after all your creation.’ Say Allah (AJ) said, ‘Come after who you want, ya Abrar.’ Who is Abrar? It was shaitan. He manifests in his friends. When he say, ‘I’m gonna come after all your creation.’ Allah (AJ) said, ‘Come after whoever you want. Go after their false houses but not my mukhlis (sincere), not my mukhlis.’ Why? Because Allah (AJ) is there. Qalbil momin baitullah, this is now the house of Allah (AJ) and they keep asking, ‘Ya Rabbi, if this your house and you’re happy with this house, defend me.’
قَال رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ، قَالْ اللَّه عَزَ وَجَلْ: “ قَلْبَ اَلْمُؤْمِنْ بَيْتُ الرَّب”. [حَدِيثْ اَلْقُدْسِي]
Qala Rasulallahi ﷺ, Qala Allah (AJ): “Qalb al mu’min baytur rabb.” [Hadith al Qudsi]
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said, that Allah (AJ) said:“The heart of the believer is the House of the Lord.” (Holy Hadith)
Allah (AJ) say, ‘I defend you, yansurakAllahu nasran ‘aziza.’ (Holy Qur’an, 48:3) No need for birds. I’ll send angels with fire and lightning within their hands and anyone who came against you, their head has a target on it and I will obliterate all your opponents. Nothing will come towards you.’ What is it that you have to fear from if Allah (AJ) is with you? How can anything come? But when we fear because we know maybe my heart maybe not a Ka’bah. Maybe there’s some idols around, other things that I’m focusing on, other things that is blocking my heart. We know our own doubt. We know what we do and what we don’t do correctly.
Love Whom Allah (AJ) Loves So Your Heart Becomes Like a Cave
Surat al-Kahf is teaching us, ‘This is the month. Run from everything. Run into a cave!’ Then they clearly define what cave: the cave of the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. In that cave, there must be immense love. They have to have the love of the companions. They have to have the love of Ahlul Bayt. They have to have the love of whom Allah (AJ) loves and we gave the categories. There must be Ahlul Basirah in their associations whom hearts are opening. They must have the characteristics of saliheen.
Then Allah (AJ) says, ‘That’s that house now. That cave is the right cave. If you’re in that cave by virtue of being in the cave, your heart will become like that cave and your heart will become a house of mine and I will be your defender.’ Every time shaitan comes to oppose and to destroy your belief, destroy your path, make everything to be difficult, Allah (AJ) is reminding, ‘I will defend you. My angels will come to destroy everything and everything behind will be scattered.’
Surah Kawthar Describes Your Enemies Will Be Cut Off From You
That’s why in Kawthar, in Surat al-Kawthar, is the same description. “Inna ‘atayna kal kawthar. Fasali li rabbika wanhar. Wa Inna shani-aka huwal abtar.”
﴾إِنَّا أَعْطَيْنَاكَ الْكَوْثَرَ ﴿١﴾ فَصَلِّ لِرَبِّكَ وَانْحَرْ ﴿٢﴾ إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ الْأَبْتَرُ ﴿٣
108:1-3 – “Inna ‘atayna kal kawthar. (1) Fasali li rabbika wanhar. (2) Inna shani-aka huwal abtar. (3)” (Surat Al-Kawthar)
“To thee (O Muhammad) we have granted the Fount (of Abundance). (1) So pray to your Lord and Sacrifice. (2) Indeed, your enemy is the one cut off. (3)” (The Abundance, 108:1-3)
Abtar is not you have no children; this is a retarded understanding. Abtar means you’re cut, everything from behind is cut. Nothing will reach to you, nothing will reach to you. All your opponents and enemies, they – no matter how much they want to come, they can never reach to you because Allah (AJ) is the defender. Allah (AJ) says, ‘I am the awliya of My lovers. I’m the one who defends their case.’
عَنْ أَبِيِ هُرَيْرَةِ رَضِّيَّ اللهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ :” إِنَّ اللهَ تَعَالَىٰ قَالَ: ” مَنْ عَادَى لِي وَلِيًّا فَقْد آذَنْتهُ بِالْحَرْبِ” [اَلمَصْدَرْ: صَحِيحْ الْبُخَارِيُّ – رقم:٦٥٠٢]
‘An Abi Hurairah (ra) Qala, qala Rasulullahi ﷺ: InAllaha Ta’ala qala: “Man ‘ada li waliyan faqda adhantahu bil harbi,…” (Hadith Qudsi, Sahih al Bukhari, Raqam: 6502)
Narrated by Abu Hurairah (ra) that: the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said that: Allah the Almighty said: “I will declare war against him who shows hostility to a Wali (saint) of Mine…” [Holy Hadith – Authentic by al Bukhari 6502]
If awliya were the defenders of mu’min (believers) and mukhlis, when Allah (AJ) raise their reality Allah (AJ) says, ‘I’m your Wali (saint). I will defend your case and all My kingdom will be at your support.’ “YansurakAllahu nasran ‘aziza.”
﴾وَيَنصُرَكَ اللَّـهُ نَصْرًا عَزِيزًا ﴿٣
48:3 – “Wa yansurakAllahu nasran ‘aziza.” (Surat Al-Fath)
“And [that] Allah may help you with a mighty victory.” (The Victory, 48:3)
Seek the Divinely Face of Allah (AJ) Which Does Not Perish
So, 7 times for 7 realities and 7 names. Every name in one of our paradises and that the Ka’bah and the heart has to do with the face. For what is the reality of the Divine essence? The 7 holy openings of the face. When we’re reciting on 7 times Surat al-Fil, Allah (AJ) is dispatching upon the reality of these 7 openings because we don’t know what we’re asking for. Awliya (saints) know what we’re asking for. That, ya Rabbi, we want, we said in the na’at (prophetic praising) last night, ‘I don’t want anything that perishes. I’m not asking for paradise. I’m asking that You defend me and make my heart to be Your place of worship, Your divinely presence.’
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But the Ka’bah perishes, Baitul Mamur perishes. What doesn’t perish? Wajah’Allah. The Divinely Face of Allah (AJ).
﴾كُلُّ شَيْءٍ هَالِكٌ إِلَّا وَجْهَهُ ۚ ﴿٨٨“
28:88 – …kullu shayin halikun illa wajha” (Surat Al-Qasas)
“…Everything (that exists) will perish except His holy Face…” (The Stories, 28:88)
You Cannot Open Your 7 Divinely Openings When You Misuse Them
So, it means they’re asking, ‘Yes, make my heart the Ka’bah. Yes, make my heart your Divinely Presence but in reality, ya Rabbi, please open the Divine Face within my existence. So, all that I want is to be staring at that Divinely Face.’ These are the 7 openings. There’s 1 (right ear), 2 (left ear), 3 (right eye), 4 (left eye), 5, 6 (nostrils) 7 (tongue). That Surat al-Fil to defend all of these realities.
For how can Allah (AJ) open here (Shaykh points to his ears) if you’ve given this to shaitan? How He’s going to dress you from As-Sami, Al-Basir when your Sami and Basir is for shaitan? Your Alim (Shaykh points to his tongue) and your Qadir, you want from Sifat Al-Alim and Qadir. You want to speak from Allah’s (AJ) ancient knowledges but your mouth is for something else. You want the breath of Al-Qadir and qudra (power) but yet you bring into your breath and to your lungs everything that forbidden. Hay, Al-Nur – you want the ocean of hayat (life) to dress your eyes but your Hay is for a different reality of dunya and the Nur that you want from your eyes being extinguished by every satanic thing that you’re looking at.
Follow the Path, Perform the Practices to Slowly Learn and Understand
So, then they’re teaching that, ‘Ya Rabbi, this Surat al-Fil is that shaitan is all over all of my reality. How am I going to reach to this reality?’ So, then things are happening more behind the scenes than in front. But they’re sharing that reality for us to understand there’s a lot happening when they give you an awrad. Nothing that you have to know because it’s nothing that you can do. You merely follow the path, recite the recitings and slowly begin to learn and understand.
There’s an immense reality of Holy Qur’an. Every time we’re reciting Holy Qur’an, Allah (AJ) is activating a reality because it’s not only just the furqan that you’re reading but this is Qur’an from the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ because of ashiqeen (lovers). It’s from the knowledges of what Prophet ﷺ is activating into our reality, not from what we understood. That that Holy Qur’an to dress us and take away all of these bad characteristics and that Allah (AJ) defend the house, defend the heart on Earth that has its Divinely love and the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
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: September 25, 2020
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