Man putting money in box labelled akhirah

Take From Them of Their Wealth, Take Alms (Holy Qur’an, 9:103)

March 7, 2026 March 31, 2026

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

أَعُوذُ بِاللَّهِ مِنَ الشَّيْطَانِ ٱلْرَّجِيمِ
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem

I seek refuge in Allah (AJ) from the accursed Satan
In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

Alhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘aalameen, was salaatu was salaamu ‘alaa Ashrafil Mursaleen, Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammadul Mustafa ﷺ. Madad ya Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem, Ya Habibul ‘Azeem, unzur halana wa ishfa’lana, ‘abidona bi madadikum wa nazarekum. Madad (support) Ya Sayyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya (King of saints) Mawlana Shaykh Abdullahil Faiz ad Daghestani (Q), Sultanul Awliya Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil Haqqani (Q) wa Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani (Q), Shaykh Adnan Kabbani (Q), Shaykh Muhammad Adil (Q), wa Abdul Khaliq al Gujdawani (Q), Sahib Zaman Sayyidina Muhammad al Mahdi (as), RuhAllah Sayyidina Isa (as), Sayfullah Sayyidina Ali (as) thumma Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as), Sayyidina Umar (as), Sayyidina Uthman (as), Imam al Hassan (as), Imam al Hussain (as), Sayyidatina Fatimatul Zahra (as), wa sayiri wa sadatina wa Siddiqin. Al Fatiha. Ameen Ya Rabbil ‘aalameen.

Atiullah wa atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum. Always a reminder for myself, ana abdukal ‘ajeez, wa dayeef, wa miskin, wa zhalim, wa jahl, and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that we’re still in existence.

أَطِيعُوا اللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُوا الرَّسُولَ وَأُولِي الْأَمْرِ مِنكُم… ﴿٥٩﴾‏ …

4:59 – “…Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil amre minkum…” (Surat an-Nisa)

“…Obey Allah, obey the Messenger, and those in authority among you…” (The Women, 4:59)

This Life is Based on Subtleties and Good Manners

Nobody can claim to be anything in the presence of Allah (AJ), in the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That to admit our faults and our bad character and our weakness and weaknesses so that Allah (AJ), our Lord Almighty to bless us, to forgive us, to dress us and always to uplift us.

InshaAllah, from their teachings and reminder always for myself that this life is but a subtle dance; not dancing, all the Wahabis going to now say something; like a ballet and it’s, ‘Oh, oh ballet, it’s not either,’ whatever you want to say. It’s a subtle existence. This means we walk on a very fine thread. As we draw closer, inshaAllah, towards realities, that thread becomes ever so thin. Our life is based on its subtleties, based on good manners and adab.

Awliyaullah Are Like a Walking Paradise

They teach us the dangers of the self so that we can reach towards our reality. They come into our lives and they enrich us with everything of what Allah (AJ) has bestowed upon them. They are like a walking paradise. They take all of what was bad and all of what was forbidden, all of what was najes and dirty within our existence.

They take all of that and in exchange, they purify everything and they make our life upon this Earth like a paradise. They purify our rizq and our sustenance. They take that which we earned in a not acceptable way with Allah (AJ) and deliver us, purify us and provide for us a way in which Allah (AJ) sends through halal (permissible) means, through purified means, through perfected means. They take us from an existence in which we were not obedient towards the Divine, not obedient towards Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, definitely not obedient towards ulul amr and the people of authority whom Allah (AJ) described in holy Qur’an, “Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula 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)

We Are Responsible For What We Learn

They bring us into that compliance. They bring us into the compliance of ulul amr. They bring us into the compliance of obedience to Prophet ﷺ by following the shari’ah and the sunnah of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. With that obedience, Allah’s (AJ) obedience upon that, that they bring us into the obedience of holy Qur’an, inshaAllah. Our life, if we reflect and we’re true with ourselves depending upon the length and the time, some are almost immediate and some over time can recognize that from where they were and when Allah (AJ) introduced them to one of these Ibadur Rahman (servants of The Most Compassionate), whom Allah (AJ) gave a light and they are Ahbab an-Nabi.

They are the lovers. They have a tremendous hub and love for Prophet ﷺ and they are the doors to that reality; we’re not talking about the ulema who know something but they don’t apply it upon themselves. There are many who are hafiz of Qur’an and they don’t apply maybe more than two ayahs (verses) of Qur’an from themself. You are responsible for what you learn. What you memorize, Allah (AJ) holds you account to. Are you living and practising by whatever you’ve recited? You are accountable for every hadith that you learn, that you implemented it in your life? Or are you just a trained parrot in which you learned it and spoke it and it had no benefit upon yourself?

Everything We Have, We Owe to Our Shaykhs

This means these real ulul amr, they are walking from the light of holy hadith, walking from the light of holy Qur’an. If we are true to ourself and true in our reflection, we see that how all our life has prospered from our knowledge, from our faith, from our love of Prophet ﷺ, love of holy Qur’an, the yaqeen and certainty of faith in which we were maybe going after many directions. They brought us to focus on one direction, that like Sirat al-Mustaqim (The Straight Path). Many people though, they were coming, they were going to many different places, searching, you know, where is their baba (father), ‘Where is my baba? Where is my baba?’ With their yaqeen (certainty) and with the light in which Allah (AJ) put of the light of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, my life completely changed. Everything that I had from the material way, we gave in that way to Mawlana Shaykh (Q). He took all of that and blessed everything and made everywhere that we walked like a paradise; not for me, I’m nothing.

But this center, its light, its energy, its knowledges, the Mui Mubarak, whatever you can find good in it is from this tajalli (manifestation). Whatever you find bad from it is from me. But if you truly look, there’s no bad other than the bad characters and we’re all trying to get rid of those. That is my reflection and everybody has to do their own reflection.

“Don’t Leave Me to My Ego For the Blink of an Eye”

That at every moment, if not by the grace of Allah (AJ), the grace of Prophet ﷺ and what Allah (AJ) bestowed of opening my heart to follow these ulul amr, they taught us to continuously make a hisab (accounting). Because in an instant, Prophet ﷺ warned that, ‘Don’t let me for an instant follow my nafs (ego) because in a second, my nafs will trick me and change.’

اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَكِلْنِي إِلَى نَفْسِي طَرْفَةَ عَيْنٍ وَلَا أَقَلَّ مِنْ ذَلِكَ

“Allahumma laa takilnee ila nafsee tarfat `aynin wa laa aqala min dhalika.”

“O Allah! Don’t leave me to my ego for the blink of an eye or less.” Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)

Because this is very eloquent life. You know najm balaf, that they say is from the star and of the eloquence of the stars of the Sahabi, of the Companions, of the Ahlul Bayt an-Nabi ﷺ. Our life is about that, the eloquence and the lateef and the subtlety of that. That if I attribute everything to what Allah (AJ) has given. It’s all from Allah (AJ), no doubt.

Your Gift of Sustenance is in Allah (AJ) Sending You Guidance

It’s by the rahmah and the mercy of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, but I know very certain like I know the back of my hand that it’s from my shaykh. That the knowledge that he poured into my heart is the fruits in which we are all taking from. The light he put into our heart, into my heart is the light in which I see through darkness. The rizq and the sustenance and the homes and everything that been bestowed upon me is from his tajallis (manifestations). For myself, if left to myself, I would have been in utter destruction.

If we don’t keep that system in life where you owe everything to whom Allah (AJ) sent you for guidance, from real guidance. We’re not talking about people whose hearts are not lit. Even those you owe an appreciation, even somebody taught you one letter- alif – you owe your life. But if Allah (AJ) truly guided us to those who have the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and they act upon their knowledge and their heart emanates a light and an energy and we feel it and we taste it, then they teach. With that, you have to constantly reflect that everything from them.

Shaitan Encourages Us to Leave the Way of Awliya

But then shaitan keeps coming and playing that, ‘Look, you did so much. Leave it.’ In an instant, he puts a khatar in your ear, a thought within your ear, ‘You gave so much’. All he wants is that – leave! Then, ‘Yeah, you’re right. I did give. I did serve. I did be of service’ because to give can be money, can be time, can be from whatever Allah (AJ) gave to us. I was supposed to give to Lillahi Rabb al-‘Alamin.

﴾قُلْ إِنَّ صَلَاتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي لِلَّـهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ ﴿١٦٢

6:162 – “Qul inna salati wa nusuki wa mahyaya wa mamati lillahi Rabbil ‘Aalamin.” (Surat Al-An’am)

‘Say, “Indeed, my prayer, my services of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the worlds.”‘ (The Cattle, 6:162)

So, shaitan come and take all those good actions and want to break the relationship, and want to attribute everything to myself where I’m not to attribute anything to myself or to my cleverness. But it’s all from my guide. It’s all from my Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, my Rasul (alaihis salaatus salaam) and all from Allah (AJ), Most High. But Allah’s (AJ) cause and effect; it has to reach to us. If I attribute to myself, now here comes the fir’aun with a need, ‘Oh, you, you gave, you gave.’

‘Oh yeah you’re right, I did. I gave a lot!’

Beware of Attributing Good Actions to Yourself

This means now I’ve applied what was given to me and I put myself within that amal (action). Soon now a sickness will develop within that amal that will distance me from my shaykh and cause within me a cancer that develops that thinking, ‘I’m somebody and I’ve done something’ when in fact I should realize I’ve absolutely done nothing but he’s given me everything. I’ve merely given him a small share of what Allah (AJ) has bestowed upon me, from his duas (supplications), from his nazar (gaze), from his love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and the recipient of that barakah (blessing).

Allah (AJ) sent for me a plate of food. It was my faith and my entire understanding that, no doubt, if a plate of food comes to me, I have to give it back to my beloved shaykh. I have to give a portion of that back. How could I eat and he’s not eating? Because it’s by analogy. How could I have something and I don’t share it? It all came from him.

Shaitan Conditions Us to Be Like Fir’aun

That if it come from me, no, I don’t have to share anything. That’s what shaitan wants you to hear, ‘You don’t have to share. You did so much, my goodness, you’re like a peacock, you’re great!’ Because everything they’re teaching for us: this is the hijrah (migration). This is the hajj (pilgrimage). We’re reaching towards the final, the goal.

Every year that goal resets, it’s a new hijrah. Allah (AJ) want to give us bounty but teaching us shaitan is a fierce opponent coming right behind you. At every moment, he’s eating your feet and your hands to drop what you’re doing, attribute to what you do to yourself so that you can become like a fir’aun, ‘Ana rabbukumu al ‘Aala, I am the lord most high.’

﴾فَقَالَ أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلَى ﴿٢٤

79:24 – “Faqala ana rabbukumu al ‘Aala.” (Surat An-Nazi’at)

“And Fir’aun (Pharoah) said, I am your Lord All-Highest!” (Those Who Drag Forth, 79:24)

Because this was Fir’aun’s difficulty with Nabi Musa (as). He attributed everything to himself, ‘Your lord has what? I have what? You have life and death. I have life and death,’ and he brought people in front of him and says, ‘You die, you live,’ say, ‘I can do all that what you say and what you attribute to Allah (AJ). I have that ability too.’

Our Shaykhs Will Present Us to Prophet ﷺ

The character of shaitan is to come and constantly eat within our ear, that attribute what you’re doing to yourself. Be proud of what you’ve done and begin to give the credit to yourself. Then you begin to feel boastful where the subtlety is that I did not do anything. What he bestowed upon me and what my support is not even a drop of what he has given to me. He gave me of all his knowledges and he bestowed that upon my heart. He gave me from his time and cleansed me and washed me.

He didn’t do that for money. He didn’t do that for anything. He did it for his love. He took a child, dirty, and he made it to grow into a man. He made that man to be presented to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. We’re all being presented to Prophet ﷺ. I’m not singling myself as anything. I’m hoping that they accept me to be a donkey in their way.

Beware of Praising Yourself and Others

That is a fierce fight between me and shaitan. You’re not going to fool me and try to attribute anything to me. Everything around you will say it’s from you, ‘You’re a good one. You’re the best one. You’ve done so much, mashaAllah.’ Three other shaitans will come and whisper in the form of human beings to you to attribute that to you. Shaitan has many agents.

Worse more, then three more people and they all of a sudden come up to you saying, ‘Yeah, you’re great one, you’re great one.’ Prophet ﷺ said, ‘The one who praises you in front of you has cursed you.’ Because this is a fierce battle. Don’t praise somebody in front of them. They’re already in difficulty with sicknesses and they’re constantly trying to struggle against this sickness.

We Must Give Alms From Our Wealth

Every night, they should be making a contemplation and tafakkur that everything from them, from their praise, ‘Ya Rabbi, don’t let me for a moment to forget it because then I begin to become boastful and separate from that reality’. These are their teachings. Now we ask what Allah (AJ) has to say. I have Shaykh Maher [Holy Qur’an, 9:103 played twice]

﴾خُذْ مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ صَدَقَةً تُطَهِّرُهُمْ وَتُزَكِّيهِم بِهَا وَصَلِّ عَلَيْهِمْ ۖ إِنَّ صَلَاتَكَ سَكَنٌ لَّهُمْ ۗ وَاللَّـهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ ﴿١٠٣

9:103 – “Khudh min amwalihim sadaqatan tutahhiruhum wa tuzakkeehim biha wa salli ‘alayhim, inna salawataka sakanun lahum, wallahu samee’un ‘aleem. (Surat At-Tawbah)

“Take, [O, Muhammad (pbuh)], from their wealth a charity by which you purify them and Sanctify them, and Pray on their behalf. Indeed, your Prayers are a source of Peace/security/reassurance for them. And Allah is Hearing and Knowing.” (The Repentance, 9:103)

SadaqAllahul aliyyul ‘Azim.

Allah (AJ) describes in Surat al Tawbah and for those who are following in this year of understanding of Shams al ‘Arifeen, that they are moving in the 12 hijabs in the reality of Prophet ﷺ. The first hijab in Muharram has to do with the power of nine and they enter into the ninth surah, which is Surat al Tawbah. Through Surat al Tawbah, verse 103, Allah (AJ) is describing, ‘Of their wealth, take their alms.’

Awliyaullah are True Lovers of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ

Alms are provision which means from every provision they’ve been given, take from them. This is a description and an ayah (verse) of holy Qur’an in which Allah (AJ) is talking to Prophet ﷺ. But doesn’t mean when Prophet ﷺ is not here that the ayah finished and became extinct or expired. It means that there must be representatives of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. They are ‘feekum.’ Allah (AJ) says, ‘He’s amongst you, the love and the ashiqeen (lovers) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. They carry the light of Prophet ﷺ.’

﴾كَمَا أَرْ‌سَلْنَا فِيكُمْ رَ‌سُولًا مِّنكُمْ يَتْلُو عَلَيْكُمْ آيَاتِنَا وَيُزَكِّيكُمْ وَيُعَلِّمُكُمُ الْكِتَابَ وَالْحِكْمَةَ وَيُعَلِّمُكُم مَّا لَمْ تَكُونُوا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴿١٥١

2:151 – “Kama arsalna feekum Rasulan minkum yatlo ‘Alaykum ayatina wa yuzakkeekum wa yu’Allimukumul kitaba walhikmata wa yu’Allimukum ma lam takono ta’Alamon.” (Surat Al-Baqarah)

“Just as We have sent among (within) you a messenger of your own, reciting to you Our Signs, and purifying you, and teaching you the Book/Scripture (Quran) and Wisdom, and teaching you New Knowledge, that which you did not know.” (The Cow, 2:151)

Do Not Be From Those Who Don’t Give of Their Time or Wealth

Allah (AJ) describing a reality of holy Qur’an that, ‘Take from their wealth, that you may purify them, that you may sanctify them and pray for them. Verily your prayers are a source of assurance and tranquility for them. For Allah is the One who Hears and Knows.’ (Holy Qur’an, 9:103)

Allah (AJ), so then who are these people that keep saying that, ‘I have only a direct relationship with Allah (AJ) and nobody has any benefit for me other than Allah (AJ)’? Allah’s (AJ) describing in holy Qur’an that, ‘Go to them and take from their wealth. Take from everything they have.’ Why take from them? Because they’re not going to give it. They’re not going to give their time. They’re not going to give from their wealth because their wealth is dear and lovely to them. They’re not going to give from their services.

You Will Be Purified From What You Give

So, then the shaykh is teaching and inspiring them that keep pushing. Keep pushing because there’s a tremendous benefit and everything we do is like a fitna (confusion). Every service, every money, every time, every ability that we have, we’re giving in the way of Allah (AJ). Allah (AJ) is describing, ‘Take from them that sadaqah, tahirun.‘ It means you’re going to make from them the tahira and zakah, that you’re going to purify their form. That, ‘Take from them their wealth so that you may purify them.’ It’s the word ‘tahir‘ and, ‘sanctify them’ is ‘zakah‘. Why? Because you’re going to ‘tahirun‘ means you’re going to purify their form.

This means by what you give to these awliyaullah (saints), it’s going to cause your form to be purified. The zakah (charity) is going to cause the soul to be purified because they teach us that everything that we do, when we don’t purify it in the way of Allah (AJ), it become like a sickness. It become like a festering infection from within that begins to show its blisters upon the form. So, Allah (AJ) then describing that when you come to them and they take from you, they going to make you from the mutahirun.

9:103 – “Khudh min amwalihim sadaqatan tutahhiruhum wa tuzakkeehim biha wa salli ‘alayhim, inna salawataka sakanun lahum, wallahu samee’un ‘aleem. (Surat At-Tawbah)

They’re going to purify and cleanse your form. If they begin to work and clean the form, means they take all that which is najas (dirty) away from you, off of you, and begin to purify and perfect the form.

Sayyidina Ibrahim (as) Understood Everything He Had Was From Allah (AJ)

Then Allah (AJ), the zakah, zaki means you’re going to be purified within your soul. Now we’re entering into the month of hajj (pilgrimage) which is the great understanding of zakah (charity). The zakah in which you give from your property which Sayyidina Ibrahim (as), the ultimate zakah (charity) Allah (AJ) says, ‘I want the son. You gave all your wealth, you gave every property you have.’ Sayyidina Ibrahim (as) was very famous for being tested. Angels would come to him and ask, ‘Can we have your property?’ and long hadith and said, ‘Take whatever you want. From Allah (AJ), whatever He gave to me – take it.’

Sayyidina Ibrahim (as) Faced the Ultimate Test

So a great test came that, ‘This son that you’ve been waiting 90 years for, We want him. Sacrifice Sayyidina Ismail (as) for us.’ It means the ultimate Allah (AJ) describing of zakah. ‘We’re going to purify his soul. I asked from him what he thought I would never ask.’

﴾وَفَدَيْنَاهُ بِذِبْحٍ عَظِيمٍ ﴿١٠٧

37:107 – “Wa fadainaahu bizibhin ‘azeem” (Surat As-Saffat)

“And We ransomed him with a momentous sacrifice” (Those Who Set the Ranks, 37:107)

The story everyone knows and he reluctantly gave his son to be sacrificed. But Sayyidina Ismail represents Sayyidina Muhammad’s ﷺ ultimate purity. That the perfected insan, Maqamul Ihsan, the highest level of perfection is Sayyidina Ismail (as) coming and saying, ‘I was sacrificing myself. You were sacrificing me, your property. I was willing to sacrifice myself for Allah (AJ), for Prophet ﷺ.’

﴾فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ مَعَهُ السَّعْيَ قَالَ يَا بُنَيَّ إِنِّي أَرَىٰ فِي الْمَنَامِ أَنِّي أَذْبَحُكَ فَانظُرْ مَاذَا تَرَىٰ ۚ قَالَ يَا أَبَتِ افْعَلْ مَا تُؤْمَرُ ۖ سَتَجِدُنِي إِن شَاءَ اللَّـهُ مِنَ الصَّابِرِينَ ﴿١٠٢

37:102 – “Falamma balagha ma’ahus sa’ya qala ya bunayya inni ara fee almanami annee adhbahuka fanzhur ma dha tara, Qala ya abati if’al ma tu maru, satajidunee inshaAllahu minas Sabireen.” (Surat As-Saffat)

“And when he reached with him [the age of] exertion, he said, “O my son, indeed I have seen in a dream that I [must] sacrifice you, so see what you think. He said, ‘O my father, do as you are commanded. You will find me, if Allah wills, one of the Patient/steadfast.’” (Those Who Set the Ranks, 37:102)

Awliya Teach Us to Give Up Our Desires

So, they’re teaching that the levels of zakah means in dealing with them and with awliyaullah, they teach us by means of our service, by means of our support, by means of our attendance. Allah (AJ) describing, ‘Your form is going to be purified. You’re going to be from mutahirun. They’re going to take away all that’s najes from your form.’ That’s what we saw in our life. They’re going to perfect your soul in which you not only sacrifice your property, you sacrifice your time called, “Inna salati wa nusuki wa mahyaya wa mamati lillahi rabbil alameen.” [….] You sacrificed everything for yourself.

﴾قُلْ إِنَّ صَلَاتِي وَنُسُكِي وَمَحْيَايَ وَمَمَاتِي لِلَّـهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ ﴿١٦٢

6:162 – “Qul inna salati wa nusuki wa mahyaya wa mamati lillahi Rabbil ‘Aalamin.” (Surat Al-An’am)

‘Say, “Indeed, my prayer, my services of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah, Lord of the worlds.”‘ (The Cattle, 6:162)

Follow the People of Light to Achieve Tranquility in Your Heart

You enter into the states of mawt qablil mawt (death of desires before physical death). You have no more desires for yourself. You only want to reach Allah (AJ)’s satisfaction and the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Allah (AJ) saying, ‘How you’re going to get to that? Not by doing yourself anything but to give to them, to be with them, accompany them. Verily praise for them, purify them, sanctify them,’ Allah (AJ) said, ‘pray for them.’

9:103 – “Khudh min amwalihim sadaqatan tutahhiruhum wa tuzakkeehim biha wa salli ‘alayhim, inna salawataka sakanun lahum, wallahu samee’un ‘aleem.” (Surat At-Tawbah)

So, they come and say that nobody can pray for anybody else. Say, ‘Then you must be reading a different Qur’an because this Qur’an says pray for them.’ So, it means other people can pray for them. Allah (AJ) describing that your prayer is going to perfect their form, perfect their soul, is going to perfect their characters and, ‘Verily, your prayers are a source of assurance, sakinah, and tranquility.’ Sakinah means there’s going to be a tranquility within your heart, within your entire being when you enter into their presence. You serve within their presence. You follow within their presence. Allah (AJ) says that presence is a guided presence, is describing. It’s not just an empty hand that you’re going to serve, but these people of light in which Allah (AJ) describing, ‘These are the ‘ashiqeen and the lovers of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.’

Whatever You Do in the Way of Rijalullah Counts as Service of Allah (AJ)

Anything we do in their way, it perfects the character, the form. Anything we do in their way is perfecting the soul and reaching towards its ultimate satisfaction. Every du’a that they’re making because one grain of rice, they are such a high calibre rijal, that if you give them one grain of rice, they owe you something; today and on the Day of Judgement.

They’re not like the crooks of the world where they take and they give you nothing. Allah (AJ) described these are the rijalullah, that whatever you give to them is perfectly within a hisab. Whatever you do with them and do for them in the service of Allah (AJ), it is counted and they are praying for it because they are accountable to Allah (AJ).

Do You Pray for Rijalullah?

Allah (AJ) going to ask them, ‘Didn’t you just get something from them? Didn’t they just serve you? Didn’t they just do something? How is it that you didn’t pray for them?’ It’s impossible. So, they pray for them and Allah (AJ) says, ‘Then pray for them because your prayer is going to be a surety for them, a source of sakinah, a tranquility within their heart’ in a turbulent and upside down world where we find no safety. We don’t understand what’s happening left and right. Allah (AJ) says, ‘Yes, from these people, from the Baab of Tawbah, if you can be and meet one of them.’ Allah (AJ) describing, ‘And We are Same’un ‘aleem, that We hear what they say. We hear what they’re praying for. We know what their interaction with you is.’

9:103 – “Khudh min amwalihim sadaqatan tutahhiruhum wa tuzakkeehim biha wa salli ‘alayhim, inna salawataka sakanun lahum, wallahu samee’un ‘aleem. (Surat At-Tawbah)

Our Guides are Close to Prophet ﷺ Because They Completed Their Covenant

That’s why it’s such a close relationship with Prophet ﷺ because they fulfilled their covenant. Verse 111 in Surat al Tawbah describes that they completed their covenant, their ahad and that their bayah was complete.

﴾إِنَّ اللَّهَ اشْتَرَىٰ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُم بِأَنَّ لَهُمُ الْجَنَّةَ… وَعْدًا عَلَيْهِ حَقًّا فِي التَّوْرَاةِ وَالْإِنجِيلِ وَالْقُرْآنِ وَمَنْ أَوْفَىٰ بِعَهْدِهِ مِنَ اللَّهِ فَاسْتَبْشِرُوا بِبَيْعِكُمُ الَّذِي بَايَعْتُم بِهِ وَذَٰلِكَ هُوَ الْفَوْزُ الْعَظِيمُ ﴿١١١

9:111 – “Inna Allaha Ashtara Minal Mu’umineena ‘Anfusahum Wa ‘Amwalahum Bi anna Lahum AlJannata, …Wa’dan ‘Alayhi Haqqan fit Tawrati wal Injeeli wal Qur’ani, Wa Man Awfa Bi ‘ahdihi Mina Allahi, Fastabshiro Bi bay’ikum Al Ladhi Baaya’tum Bihi, Wa Dhalika Huwal Fawzul ‘azeem.” (Surat At-Tawbah)

“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise…[It is] a true promise [binding] upon Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. And who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? Then rejoice in your Bayat which you have contracted. And it is that which is the great achievement. (The Repentance, 9:111)

Allah’s (AJ) Hand is Over Their Hands (Holy Qur’an, 48:10)

It means they took the hand of Prophet ﷺ and the hand of Prophet ﷺ, Allah (AJ) upon that. The relationship is very intimate and very close with Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. When you deal with their hand, it is the hand of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ upon their hand. If the hand of Prophet ﷺ is upon their hand, the hand of Allah (AJ), Qudra and Might, Most High, is upon them.

﴾إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُبَايِعُونَكَ إِنَّمَا يُبَايِعُونَ اللَّـهَ يَدُ اللَّـهِ فَوْقَ أَيْدِيهِمْ ۚ ﴿١٠

48:10 – “Innal ladheena yubayi’oonaka innama yubayi’on Allaha yadullahi fawqa aydeehim, …” (Surat Al-Fath)

“Indeed, those who give Bayah (pledge allegiance) to you, [O Muhammad] – they are actually giving Bayah (pledge allegiance) to Allah. The hand of Allah is over their hands…” (The Victory, 48:10)

That’s why Allah (AJ) then describing, ‘I hear and I know everything that you are doing with them.’ (Holy Qur’an, 9:103) The others, we may don’t care for them, maybe they’re not that level. Maybe they haven’t reached that understanding. But if those who reached that understanding and earned the company of these awliyaullah, then Allah (AJ) has given us a tremendous gift and a tremendous bounty. Hence, the beginning of the talk was: don’t attribute anything to yourself. Don’t let pride enter into your actions that make you to cut it and make you to distance yourself and say, ‘Ah, I’ve done so much.’ I’ve done nothing of what they have bestowed upon me and brought me into the oceans of love, I have yet done anything.

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.

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