The Walking Cane: A Symbol of Sunnah and Love for all of God’s Prophets
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)
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.
Opening of the Holy Month of Rajab
Alhamdulillah that inshaAllah tomorrow night, Monday night then the opening of the holy month of Rajab darul ‘ajab and that’s Allah’s (AJ) month. A holy month in which Allah (AJ) describes, ‘Rajab is for Me and that My reward for the servant that no one knows what that reward; will be free of cause and effect’.
رَجَبٌ شَهْرُ اللَّهِ، وَشَعْبَانُ شَهْرِي، وَرَمَضَانُ شَهْرُ أُمَّتِي
Rajabu shahr ullahi, wa Sha’banu shahryi, wa ramadanu shahru Ummati
Rajab is the month of Allah, Sha’ban is my month, and Ramadan is the month of my followers.
We pray that Allah (AJ) dress us from the immensities of those lights and blessings. That, inshaAllah open up the app – the Muhammadan Way app or go to Nurmuhammad.com and get the awrad (daily practices), the wazifa (spiritual practice), the etiquette for the holy month of Rajab [Muhammadan Way app: Months>Rajab]. That, shower welcoming the month. That, making intention for shower that, ‘I’m asking to wash away all the bad sins and bad character Ya Rabbi, asking to welcome Your holy month’. And if you start early; people are worried, ‘What if it’s early?’ Better to be earlier than late!
We Start the Month When Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ Starts It
So you start from tomorrow night and inshaAllah always look to when is Madina calling the month. They will say, ‘We want to know Shaykh based on what you…’ It’s not me, I’m nothing. We’re all waiting for when Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ starts every holy month. It means that whatever happens in Madina is by authority of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, that’s his holy physical presence is there. So whenever they’re doing then we start with our Sultan (King). When Madina starts we’re welcoming it from wherever we are. So we shower at that time, getting ready for the holy month of Rajab and you read the awrad and what to recite and all of that’s necessary for welcoming that holy month, it’s recitations.
The Practices and Du’as (Supplications) of Rajab
Then the daily wazifa, that anybody wishing to recite the daily etiquette on the du’as of istighfar (seeking forgiveness) – the Highway Bandit of Rajab, the Saint of Rajab. They describe somebody who had lots of badness, lots of bad character but for the sake of Rajab and love for Allah (AJ) stopped everything for the month of Rajab to recite a du’a and achieved sainthood as a result of respecting the holy month of Rajab and by reciting that du’a and asking istighfar. That du’a is also on the app called the ‘Saint of Rajab,’ the du’a of the saint of Rajab [Muhammadan Way app: Months>Rajab>Saint of Rajab’s Du’a].
Don’t Cut Yourself from Blessings by Unsubscribing from E-mail List
So all of the etiquettes are there. They should have been sent in the emails so please don’t unsubscribe from email that comes out to teach and to keep one connected to the Shaykh. It’s like cutting your string and then emailing back that, ‘When events are happening?’ Why did you unsubscribe and make yourself not know and not aware of the events that are happening? So everything is based on good manners, good character and we pray that Allah (AJ) dress us from the immensities of these lights and these blessings.
Rajab is the Month to Do Good Deeds
“Subhana man huwal Khaliq anNur” that this is a month of light.
سُبْحَانَ مَنْ هُوَ الْخَالِقَ النُّورْ
Subhana man huwal Khaliq anNur
(Glory to Him who is the Creator, the Light)
This is a month in which Allah (AJ) grants sainthood, grants lights, grants realities. So alhamdulillah this is the month in which to do good, to do more, to feed, to do all of these good khidmat and services. If you can’t feed then support us to feed. So either way people are being fed and being fed in Pakistan, India, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Chicago. So mashAllah wherever we can; in Kenya if Taufeeq’s back. We try to do as much as we can to the places that our students are at. So alhamdulillah everybody participates in these activities.
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- Give water in this month,
- Feed the orphans,
- Pediatric programs that we have to help them and help their conditions.
- There’s some programs with US doctors trying to help our Pakistani crew and the Pakistani doctors.
InshaAllah things can begin to work out for them and work out with the group. There’s big differences because you’re dealing with societies that don’t have. So it’s a big difference from, you know, US doctors and what they’re used to. InshaAllah Allah (AJ) give more and more to our groups in Pakistan and more khidmat (service) and more power. So that they can do more and we can help more.
We’re Asking for the Holy Nazar (Gaze) of Prophet ﷺ
So alhamdulillah it’s an immense month of blessings, immense month of service. We pray that Allah (AJ) dress us and bless us and in the end we’re asking for the nazar of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to watch over us. That he find any good in our actions and in our deeds and that he intercedes for us in the presence of Allah (AJ). So that to be dressed and blessed for ourselves, our family and our communities.
You are An Ambassador for Your Family and Your Descendants
If we think that we have achieved anything then alhamdulillah you are an ambassador for your children and your loved ones and your descendants and grandchildren. Children that you don’t even know have come yet that, ‘Ya Rabbi grant them to be blessed and a good life and that they live a life of faith. That, they live a life and die with the ocean of faith, to be with the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and to be under the nazar and guidance of awliyaullah (saints) fis samayi wa fil ard (in the heavens and on earth).’
Rajab is the Month of 63 – Surat Al-Munafiqun
So alhamdulillah so much opportunity for us, so many blessings for us and this is the holy month of 63. The life of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is 63 years on this earth and the Holy Qur’an, Surat of Qur’an that’s dressing us and blessing us – Surah Munafiq [Surah Al-Munafiqun] which is the polar opposite of love.
Truthfulness to Love – Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (as)
That we talked about in the last few months and entering a month of love and entering the realities from Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (as) that gave to us in the holy month before Rajab opens. That to be siddiq (truthful), to take the way of a truthful servant. Alhamdulillah that he gave for us the secret of truthfulness. He’s not the one whom is truthful with their hands, their mouth and with their prayers but the one whom achieved a unique truthfulness within their muhabbat (love).
They’re true to their love – ‘Sadiq al Ishq’ that they’re true in their love for Allah (AJ) and that they’re true in their love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That, that love governs them and overwhelms them. As a result of that love, they sacrifice. As a result of that love they endure, they take whatever difficulties physically put upon them, spiritually put upon them; it’s all for love. It means to be truthful and to stand to that love, to stand by that love that whatever Allah (AJ) wants for us, ‘InshaAllah You find me to be patient.’
Truthfulness to Love – Sayyidina Isma’il (as)
Our great grandfather Sayyidina Isma’il (as) as he told his father Sayyidina Ibrahim (as) that, ‘Don’t worry father inshaAllah Allah (AJ) made me to be patient with whatever test’.
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)
Even in the sight of a knife that coming to cut his throat, his du’a that, ‘Allah (AJ) find me to be patient through this difficulty.’ Not that, ‘Don’t make the knife to work, don’t make me to be tested like this.’ But, ‘Grant me patience Ya Rabbi. For whatever You have written for me, grant me patience to endure that type of difficulty’. That they stood by that as a ishq and a love. That’s the love we’re talking about! That when the servant understands that’s the goal, the supreme goal – is to keep that love for Allah (AJ) and for the sake of Allah (AJ). Don’t break your covenant!
Express Your Love for Allah (AJ) by Loving Prophet ﷺ and His Way
So means that, that then transfers. Because Allah (AJ) explains that, ‘If you want My love then you follow whom I love and keep that loyalty to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ’.
قُلْ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تُحِبُّوْنَ اللَّـهَ فَاتَّبِعُوْنِيْ يُحْبِبْكُمُ اللَّـهُ … (٣١)
3:31 – “Qul in kuntum tuhibbon Allaha fattabi’uni, yuhbibkumullahu…” (Surat Ali-Imran)
“Say, [O Muhammad], “If you should love Allah, then follow me, [so] Allah will love you …” (Family of Imran, 3:31)
As a result, their heart and that love then was directed to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. It means then to have the love of Prophet ﷺ, have the love of nasheeds (songs of praise), have the love of the holy sunnah (traditions of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ), have the love of everything related to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. The love of good character that was dear to Prophet ﷺ, the love of the holy sunnah that you pray the fard (obligatory) because of your love for Allah (AJ) and you pray the sunnah for your love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ because it’s what he left. That, ‘I did this because Allah (AJ) ordered and I did this sunnah as an expression of my love.’
So then the lovers, they follow what Allah (AJ) ordered and they follow the sunnah and the example of what Prophet ﷺ – that’s love. When somebody says, ‘I don’t have to pray sunnah because I pray the mandatory,’ but that’s an expression! That’s not an expression of love to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ because he comes to you and says, ‘I prayed the two extra to show my love for Allah (AJ). If you love me pray that too!’ So means in every act that we are doing, there is a way to express our love for Allah (AJ) at the same time expressing our love for Prophet ﷺ.
Enact Sunnah to Express Your Love for Prophet ﷺ
So when people come back and say, ‘Well, you know, sunnah we don’t have to do that. We don’t have to wear that, we don’t have to look like that, we don’t have to even pray that.’ You know, you don’t. But if you love whom Allah (AJ) loves, you did what Allah (AJ) asked of you. And now you do with all your sincerity and love to the best that you have the ability is to express our love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So when we do and enact the sunnah, it’s an expression of immense love. ‘Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem (The Most Generous Messenger) that you laid for us this way. This is your way and to uphold your way, that gaze upon me, that keep your nazar upon me, and dress me from your immense blessings.’ So they find every sunnah that they possibly can and they revive it for the sake of that love so that to gain the nazar and the presence and the reality and the dress and ishq (love) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Every Sunnah has a Reality and Support of the Holy Companions
Then what the Holy Companions teach of us is that, ‘If you have that type of love, you’ve attracted now our love.’ Because every sunnah has a secret of the Holy Companions that they come to accompany the sunnah because that’s the expression of the love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So it means this bond of ishq, this bond of compassion, this bond of good character is so immensely loaded beyond the people of external knowledge. Because they debate, ‘Well, it’s a sunnah brother but you don’t have to do it.’ But if you understood the reality that this is an expression of love and you’re trying to express and gain the nearness to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, how could you not do it if you’re ‘ashiqeen (lovers)? So your whole life is, ‘How can I do these? How can I gain your nazar? How can I keep your nazar?’ And then the Holy Companions are coming and teaching us, ‘If you do those things and do have that love, we’re dispatched to watch over you,’ for every sunnah has its reality.
Holy Sunnah of Cane
That you carry the cane out of the love and the revival of Sayyidina Muhammad’s ﷺ sunnah to show the ‘Azimat (Might) of Allah (AJ) that the Muhammadan kingdom is well and alive and they keep the way. Many times you walk and people say, ‘What’s that?’ You say, ‘It’s the sunnah. This is the prophetic way, of the way of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ’. Now the Holy Companions giving to us that, ‘We’re that sunnah. That the one whom carries that reality, carries our support and our madad. That we accompany that way to support them, to dress them, to bless them.’ Because that’s an act of love they want, because they’re the kings of ‘ashiqeen. They gained their… Companions – the holy Sahabi and companions there’s no one like them because nobody can keep the companionship of Prophet ﷺ. You can’t redo it. It came once in history.
You can only be ‘ashiqeen now but the ones whom achieved companionship, lived and died for companionship, Allah’s (AJ) teaching, ‘That’s a title that came once.’ Because of the physicality, they achieved it, they lived and died by it so that was an immense expression. So imagine then they say, ‘Of course, we lived and died for that love. You think how happy it makes us when somebody’s trying to keep his way and keep his way alive to the Day of Judgment! So, of course, our madad and our support is with you’. So then means, then there is a gift in every sunnah of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Don’t Come with Actions, Come with Love!
We pray that Allah (AJ) enlighten us, dress us and bless us and create this ishq and love and muhabbat that endures all difficulties and supersedes all shortcomings. For the one who comes with his own actions thinking his actions or her actions have a weight and a strength and a power, it’s nothing in comparison to the one who comes negating say, ‘Ya Rabbi I don’t have anything. That I want You to be looking at except my love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. I’m doing everything that You ordered of me and I’m trying my best to keep the expression of my ishq and love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. And by means of that love save me, save my family, save my community and all those whom are dear to me’.
That gains the nearness and the ishq and the muhabbat of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That the sun and the light of all creation, that Allah (AJ) gives that power of that light to the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ – is that nazar. That, ‘Shine your light upon me.’ For if my Lord shines his light upon me, I’m everything and if He should keep his light from me I’ve been cast into darkness for eternity. Our life is to be under that light and under that nazar. We pray that Allah (AJ) dress us from the immensity of that beauty and the immensity of these lights that are opening up in the next night and so, 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: January 21, 2023
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