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Monday, September 25, 2006

Sohbet from 17.09.06

Sohbet from 17.09.06

...and I am asking the Pope and the Cardinals...

Audhu bi-llahi mina schaitani rajim
Audhu bi-llahi mina schaitani rajim
Audhu bi-llahi mina schaitani rajim,
Bismillahir Rahmanir-Rahim
Bismillahir Rahmanir-Rahim
Bismillahir Rahmanir-Rahim

As-salamu alaikum, servants of the Lord of Heavens! Welcome for a visiting for a new understanding about Islam.

Islam always is new, never (it is) getting to be old. Always it is new, but? Meded ya Sultan ul Awliya? our (under-)standing? we are not trying to bring a new understanding; yet we are using (the) understanding of past time people!

(The) Holy Quran is always new; (always it is) coming new for the benefit of mankind, but people are never trying to understand or (to) renew their understandings.

People are thinking now about (the) Holy Quran that: ?It is an old book?, and someone, someones from mankind also their understanding (is) upside down?(these) people, their minds (are) just blocked, never moving; their heads (are) yet like rocks, getting much more hard, and they are not trying to make their understanding a little bit to move.

Therefore - I heard that the Chief of (the) Western Church - that he is so keen for dressing a different dress? - their heads like rock, they are thinking that: ?With our dressing we are changing; if we are putting something on our heads or over our shoulders?, they are thinking that ?we are getting (to become) someone else.?
They are thinking that titles - that it is their invented titles, that titles that they are using, Catholics or Orthodox or Christian World, they are thinking that these titles that they are using for somones through themselves (are) giving them something else from other people.

I am asking - because the Chief of Catholic Church he was speaking something beyond our mentality, beyond our mind, that means, (something that) our mentalities (are) never accepting or (something that) can?t be accepted by minds. And he is claiming that their ways (are) just suitable for (the) minds and (the) understanding of people - it is 100 % wrong, wrong!
What they can say, which thing they may say that they are using this, that principle for Christianity? I hear that he is blaming Islamic principles and he is saying that Islamic principles (are) forcing (the) minds of people; that means, (that) Islamic principles (are) making the minds of people to be hard and more? different. He means to say that Christianity (is) walking, its principles (are) walking nearby of minds and mentality, but Islam (is) not walking with minds and mentality. How he can say this!

Which principle from Christianity mind or mentality (is) accepting?

Which mind or mentality (is) accepting the Lord of Heavens to be killed on (a) cross? This our minds (are) accepting? 21st centuries minds and mentality (are) saying: ?Yes, God may be crossed?? What is that! How he can say that Christianity with mind (is) walking, Islam not? Who is giving (him) that authority to speak that?

Maybe (he is)..., they are saying? [Someone is saying: ?Crazy??] No, not crazy, because so old one... seeing wrong (as) true and true (as) wrong? There are some eyes seeing red (as) green and looking green, seeing red?. How it can be: (the) Lord of Heavens to be crossed through His creatures? Which mentality (is) accepting this? And he is finding a way to speak on it! And they are making (the) cross everywhere and (they are) making (the) cross sacred!
O people, if a persons head (is) cut with an axe, you are always taking that axe and kissing (it), saying: ?You cut our Lords head??? That is their mentality! Which mentality accepting this? Must be? that Pope must be taken away, because he lost his mentality and his words (are) never accepted by mind or mentality!

And they are saying: ?Jesus is Lord, Lord of Creation? that he was? where he was? Through the womb of Mary or not? He was in the womb of Maryam, Mary, Virgin Mary? Yes. And he was among so many things inside? if it is opening, going to be sewage channels there? How? He was through these sewage channels sitting till he is going to be born? That is their mentality to make their Lord among sewage channels 9 months? That is their mentality, Christians are claiming it is so suitable for our minds!

Then another point: From where he was coming out? As a child coming, or from another side coming out? From background or from front coming out? Background (is) worst!? From where? From mouth? Which thing (of) such a thinking Christianity (is) going to be accepted by mentality or minds?

He was coming as a perfect man or he was a child? Maryam, Virgin Mary was carrying him through her chest and bringing to people, he was a little baby! Yes?

The Lord of Heavens - how he was a little baby like other children?
He was coming with (a) beard, coming out and saying: ?O Mary, I am your Lord, make Sajdah, bow to me?? He said this?

O Pope, you are claming that Christianity (is) going with mind and Islam no! I am saying another one? I am full up to here with such an ignorance!

Then: he was growing and his mother (was) feeding her Lord through her breast - that is mentality? Very good! (That) new Pope (is) saying this. And I am asking to him. I am nothing in Islam, I am weakest one, but I can destroy whole 'batil', false!
What (he is) saying? She was feeding her Lord through her chest, her breast and he is claiming: ?Oh, Christianity with mind and mentality going together!? Leave that!

O Pope! That baby Jesus - his mother was changing downstairs or not? She was cleaning her Lord from front, from behind? Yes? How you are claiming that Jesus is the Lord of Heavens coming from Mariam. What is that rizalet?that nonsense?

Then: if he was Lord, his characteristic, Lord?s first characteristic is to be powerful, not to be weak! God can?t be weak in front of His creatures! Yes or not? Why Jesus Christ (was) running away if he was Lord and he has that power of God? How he was escaping from his servants? Lord means he is Creator! How he was escaping from his creation, from his creatures? He was fearing for them to touch him and to give him trouble! That is their mentality?

Yet (in the) 21st century they are claiming this: that they are walking with mentality and mind. What is that! Perhaps (the) Pope (is) getting more older and making up and down everything.. .

Yes, and another one: Ohhh?. when he was growing, he was eating and drinking? Yes or not? He was not (an) angel. Angels, if he was Lord, he was creating them. If Jesus is (the) Lord of Heavens, all heavenly beings he was creating and angels (are) never in need to eat or drink! From where he was giving such a power to Angels and he is deprived? If he has not something, how (he is) giving (it) to people? Angels millions of billions of years they are living, they are not in need to eat or to drink and (they are) so powerful! If he is Lord of Heavens, how he is creating Angels and he is so weak?
That is (the) mentality of Christianity that (the) Pope (is) claiming: ?It is just Christianity going with mind and mentality?? He must blame, he must ashame, when he was claming such a thing!

Then I am asking that Pope: ?Your Lord was going to toilet? Toilet going, Lord of Heavens? Not going??
You are Italians... where are Germans??Germans also no mind people, taking Pope for Germans... Italians lost, very sad with new Pope... they were thinking that after (that) Polish Pope (there) must come an Italian, and coming from Protestant people new Pope!? His Pope title, do you think that (it was) granted from Heavens or Cardinals giving? He had been granted that highest rank from Heavens or from Cardinals? And some Cardinals (are) saying: ?He is not good one?, some others saying: ?He is good.? ?

And I am saying to Cardinals also: ?Your Lord (was) not eating and drinking?? They should say: ?Yes, because he was not (an) Angel.? ?If anyone (is) eating and drinking, everything (is) going to be inside, or asking to come out also? Do you think that he was going to toilet?? They can?t say no. Blame to you, making the Lord of Heavens to enter toilet!
This is their mentality through (the) 21st century and they are claiming that Islam (is) never going with mentality and mind, but Christianity (is) much more running with mind and mentality!

What we shall say! What we shall say? That means they lost their understanding, they lost their mentality, they lost their minds, they lost their knowledge ?I don?t know how I am going to describe them!

And now this word that they are using about the Seal of Prophet? the Seal of Prophets never he was saying: ?I am your Lord.? He was saying: ?I am (the) servant of our Lord.? Christians (are) saying: ?Jesus, the Lord of Heavens?, Islam (is) saying, Islam?s Prophet (is) saying: ?I am (the) servant of the Lord of Heavens.? Which one is closer to (the) understanding and mind and mentality? They are not ashaming to say such a things and making (the) Islamic world to get up and to attack on them? For what!

Islam (is) just right way! Yes, Islam just used (the) sword, we have been ordered to use (the) sword for shaytan and satanic groups, who are against truth. (The) followers of satan?s ways they are dragons! For dragons we use sword, not to kill everyone, no!

It is okay; if they are blaming us that we are using, we used (the) sword, (that) our Prophet used (the) sword, and Islam (was) just spread by sword - I am asking to them: If Jesus Christ was never carrying even one knife - I am carrying, because I am Muslim, I can carry, (but) Jesus (was) never carrying any sword or knife - how Christians (are) using (the) sword (since) 2000 years? If in Christianity to use (the) sword (is) forbidden, why Christian nations (since) 2000 years (are) using swords, killing each other? Why? If they are real followers of Jesus Christ, it was true for them not to carry even (a) small knife!

But they are doing every kind of weapons to destroy humanity on earth as you are looking now?

Why (the Pope is) not blaming those nations, whom they are killing and burning and destroying everything and he is coming to say (that) Islam by sword just spread? He is not speaking truth!

Yes, we used (the sword) to take away tyrants, to take away shaytanic groups, to prevent shaytans to harm people, we used it, just we are using.

Why they are not blaming Moses, that he was always using sword? Why they are not blaming David - alayhi salam - and he was King and Prophet? Why their Pope (is) not blaming King Suleiman that he was King and Prophet?
Why they are attacking on Islam? Islam (is) perfect! Perfect religion - raghman ?ala anfihim - in spite of those people that they have been born to be enemies (of) and to refuse Islam!

Allah should be .. He gave power the Seal of Prophets! He was growing... his father just passed away and he was in the womb of his mother and his mother just passed away when he was 4 years (old). He was an orphan; no armies, no power, no money, no treasures (for him) and everyone (was) attacking on him and asking to harm him, asking to defeat him, asking to kill him.

But the Lord of Heavens saying: ?O My most beloved one in My Divinely Presence, don?t worry, don?t fear, I am with you! And your religion (is) going to cover (the) whole world. Even may be from the life of Dunya (only) one day, I am making the whole world to be Islam - to surrender to Me and to declare your prophecy!?

May Allah forgive us and give us good understanding! Ya Allah, Ant Allah, Ant Allah!

And I am sorry to say that Muslims (have) just (been) cheated by Christians and they are following (the) Christian world, (they are) not coming to use Islam?s principles. Everyone is running to be ?westernised Muslims?. (There are) no ?westernised Muslims?, no! Muslims (are) just Muslims and we have principles and we are Muslims following the principles of Islam!

And (those) who are making, keeping (the) principles of Islam, they have been granted also honour through this life through their physical being, (and) they are granted also with spiritual powers. We have spiritual power also!...
When Jesus Christ (is) coming, he is going to be declare this power? and blaming them!...

May Allah forgive us and bless you! For the honour of the most honoured one in His divinely Presence, Fatiha? Oh ya Rabbi, Sen bilirsen (You know)?

Di-post oleh Verdino

Sunday, September 24, 2006

MSH : Suhbat 09/24 & 09/25

Suhbat
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

Ramadan 2, 1427
September 24, 2006


A`udhu billahi min ash-shaytaan ir-rajeem
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba` een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-Rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

In the previous session we were discussing the marriage of Sayyidina `Ali (r) and Sayyida Fatima (r) az-Zahra. And we were saying that Allah created the whole universe for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). law laka, law laka ma khalaqta al-aflaak.

“If not for you, [O Muhammad (s)], I would not have created the heavenly bodies.”

Whatever the Prophet (s) wants, will happen. Allah will never to Prophet (s) no. he never spoke except it was revelation, ma yantiqa `an il-hawa in huwa illa wahyun yuha. He does not speak from his own desires, that [which he conveys to you] is but [a divine] inspiration with which he is being inspired. 53:3-4.

With all that he asked, when he was asking his daughter if she will marry `Umar (r), if she will marry Sayyidina `Ali (r), he asked her if she will accept him, although he has the right to ask her, because his words are revelation, but still he asked her whether she likes or not. Grandshaykh said that today there are people who force their daughters who force their daughters to marry for a handful of money and if they don’t marry the one they like they beat them.

He is mukaarim al-akhlaq, he doesn’t have to ask, best of manners, although he could tell his daughter you have to marry, but he asked her “Do you like to marry Sayyidina `Ali (r).” And she said, “no” and we explained that in the previous session. But Grandshaykh put here between two brackets a small story. When she said, “no” the Prophet (s) got red, because she said, “no” and that is because he (s) thought, and this is a very important point, in order to teach us and make sure you understand that point. He got red [embarrassed] . He thought that there is a… that she doesn’t want to marry Sayyidina `Ali (r) because Sayyidina `Ali (r) Allah gave him these eyebrows, long ones and they are like connecting, like the forehead here is coming out like a visor, so when he is, as he is well known that he is very strong and when fighting his enemy he was sweating a lot and in order to keep seeing, the eyebrows would collect the sweat, like something that collects the rain, and carries it to the side, he was like that and the Prophet (s) thought that because he is like that and that she likes Sayyidina `Umar (r) as Sayyidina `Umar (r) is more beautiful than Sayyidina `Ali (r).

This is the point and it is not for Prophet (s), because the Prophet (s) knows. We say the Prophet (s) knows everything and some say awliyaullah know everything. Don’t say “the shaykh knows everything.” He is giving an example that if Allah wants His Prophet (s) to know everything then His Prophet (s) knows everything and for sure Allah gave him the `uloom al-awwaleen wal-akhireen. Still he is teaching us that the Prophet (s) got red before the Sahaba because he thought she thought that Sayyidina `Umar (r) more beautiful than Sayyidina `Ali (r).

If Allah wants a wali to know then he inherits from Prophet (s) but if he doesn’t want him to know then he blocks him. So awliyaullah may be under a test also. So many people today think they reached a high level of spirituality. Whatever high level of spirituality you reached if Allah doesn’t want you to know, that blockage will be there, Allah will block you. That is an important point. Because all of us, we think when we get inspiration, something in our ears, it might not be the truth.

I was discussing that point with someone, that you know there is today, thousands of emails coming and thousands of phone calls coming, they go thru a server to be filtered to see which one is correct and which one has a meaning and which one has not meaning. Which one is a problem and which one is not a problem. There are big servers that filter these emails.

Also our ears are like this, thousands and thousands of signals come. We have to filter them. If we cannot filter them then we mix apples and oranges and it becomes like a soup.

Sayyidina Adam (as) was a Prophet (s) and what happened?


فَوَسْوَسَ لَهُمَا الشَّيْطَانُ لِيُبْدِيَ لَهُمَا مَا وُورِيَ عَنْهُمَا مِن سَوْءَاتِهِمَا وَقَالَ مَا نَهَاكُمَا رَبُّكُمَا عَنْ هَـذِهِ الشَّجَرَةِ إِلاَّ أَن تَكُونَا مَلَكَيْنِ أَوْ تَكُونَا مِنَ الْخَالِدِينَ


Fawaswasa lahuma ash-shaytanu liyubdiya lahuma ma wooriya `anhuma min sawaatihima wa qaala maa nahakuma rabbukuma `an hadthihi ash-shajarati illa an takoona malakayni aw takoona mina alkhalideena

Then began Satan to whisper suggestions to them, bringing openly before their minds all their shame that was hidden from them (before): he said: "Your Lord only forbade you this tree, lest ye should become angels or such beings as live for ever." 7:20

Shaytan came and whispered in their ears to show them they were wrong and to humiliate them. As soon as they listened what happened? All their private parts appeared. So what did they do? They began to take leaves and cover themselves.

So don’t expose yourself.. you think what is coming to you is correct, that Allah told them not to eat from the tree, because Allah doesn’t want you to become two angels who will live forever. So they mixed the apples and oranges; they mixed the real inspirations of heavens and the ones from Iblees and they didn’t filter it, and what happened? They fell down. So always when something comes don’t say “That is the truth.” Try to filter it. Try to make it clear and in order that we will not do a mistake we try to check what we are getting.

So Grandshaykh said that sometimes people don’t have enough knowledge and will be confused. So what do they have to do? They must put in mizan, Shariah wise and asked is this acceptable Shariah wise or not. Grandshaykh said if you think it is not acceptable leave it, that is not an inspiration, that is a whisper.

So we have to be very careful in what comes to our ears.

Look like one wali, he said, and I will jump forward [in the notes] in order to explain [this subtle point]:

Grandshaykh, may Allah bless him, said that one wali said, “Ya Rabbee, I am not happy with your angels.”

Awliyaullah are like that. They are in a hal, a trance. He said, “I am not happy with Your angels. I am not accepting them; all of them.”

Allah said, “If you don’t accept them, they are My angels.”

It means “you will go to hellfire.” He said, “I will go to hellfire, but I don’t accept them.” The inspiration coming to his heart, how you go to hellfire. He said, “I prefer to go to hellfire than to accept them.”

Then Allah said “why”. Awliyaullah they have hatif, we say heavenly telephone, heavenly direct line they can hear. Not they can hear directly but they hear the Divine Presence thru angels. But he is not accepting that, even though he is hearing through them (angels).

He said “send me to hellfire, I will be happier there than sitting with them.”

Allah asked, “Why?” That wali said, “Because ya Rabbee when you asked them something they criticized and complained.”

He asked, “What did they complain?”

Ya Rabbee you said:


وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلاَئِكَةِ إِنِّي جَاعِلٌ فِي الأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً قَالُواْ أَتَجْعَلُ فِيهَا مَن يُفْسِدُ فِيهَا وَيَسْفِكُ الدِّمَاء وَنَحْنُ نُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدِكَ وَنُقَدِّسُ لَكَ قَالَ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ مَا لاَ تَعْلَمُونَ


Wa idh qaala Rabbuka lil-malaikati innee ja`ilun fee al-ardi khaleefatan qaloo ataj`alu feeha man yufsidu feeha wa yasfiku ad-dimaa wanahnu nusabbihu bihamdika wa nuqaddisu laka qala innee a`lamu ma la ta`lamoona

Behold, thy Lord said to the angels: "I will create a vicegerent on earth." They said: "Wilt Thou place therein one who will make mischief therein and shed blood?- whilst we do celebrate Thy praises and glorify Thy holy (name)?" He said: "I know what ye know not." 2:30

The wali is saying on tongue of Grandshaykh. Look awliayaullah how far their knowledge goes. “You said ya Rabbee, ‘I am going to make a calipha on earth.’ They said, ‘O what is this? You are going to make a human race that is going to shed blood on earth. We are enough, we are praising you.’”

It means they have objected on what Allah said. They have to say “yes, sami`na wa ata`na.”

Allah said, “I know more than you.” Because they did that, what did Allah do? He taught Adam (as) the whole Names.


وَعَلَّمَ آدَمَ الأَسْمَاء كُلَّهَا ثُمَّ عَرَضَهُمْ عَلَى الْمَلاَئِكَةِ فَقَالَ أَنبِئُونِي بِأَسْمَاء هَـؤُلاء إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ

قَالُواْ سُبْحَانَكَ لاَ عِلْمَ لَنَا إِلاَّ مَا عَلَّمْتَنَا إِنَّكَ أَنتَ الْعَلِيمُ الْحَكِيمُ


Wa `allama adama al-asmaa kullaha thumma `aradahum `ala al-malaikati faqaala anbioonee biasmai haulai in kuntum saadiqeen

Qaaloo subhanaka la `ilma lana illa ma `allamtana innaka anta al-`aleemu al-hakeem

And He imparted unto Adam the names of all things; then He brought them within the ken of the angels and said: "Declare unto Me the names of these [things], if what you say is true."

They replied: "Limitless art Thou in Thy glory! No knowledge have we save that which Thou hast imparted unto us. Verily, Thou alone art all-knowing, truly wise." 2:31-32

Because they said that Allah wants to show them that Adam (as) is honored more than them. So he taught him the names. What names? Mine and your names?

For the sake of the light of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Allah teaching him the names, it means he is giving to Adam (as) to reach the light of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) in the forehead of Sayyidina Adam (as) and he taught the names of every creation that Allah is creating in every moment.

He told them “tell me their names? and they said “we don’t know.” And then Allah said to Adam (as) to show them the Names.


قَالَ يَا آدَمُ أَنبِئْهُم بِأَسْمَآئِهِمْ فَلَمَّا أَنبَأَهُمْ بِأَسْمَآئِهِمْ قَالَ أَلَمْ أَقُل لَّكُمْ إِنِّي أَعْلَمُ غَيْبَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضِ وَأَعْلَمُ مَا تُبْدُونَ وَمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْتُمُونَ


Qaala ya adamu anbihum biasmaihim falamma anbaahum biasmaihim qaala alam aqul lakum innee a`lamu ghayba as-samawati wal-ardi wa a`lamu ma tubdoona wa maa kuntum taktumoon

2:33 Said He: "O Adam, convey unto them the names of these [things]." And as soon as [Adam] had conveyed unto them their names, [God] said: "Did I not say unto you, `Verily, I alone know the hidden reality of the heavens and the earth, and know all that you bring into the open and all. that you would conceal'?"

Then the wali said, “that is why I don’t like them, they didn’t listen and obey you.”

So these awliya are so beloved to Allah. Awliyaee tahta qibaabee laa y`alahum ghayree.

“My saints are under My domes, no one knows them except Me.”

I am saying to everyone, except to Nurjan, only to everyone else, but mainly to someone that he knows was speaking to everyone. So these inspirations have to be filtered. You cannot take everything and begin to say it.

When we were young me and Shaykh Adnan, whatever Grandshaykh says we completely accept blindly, which is correct. So out of love wherever inspiration or whispering come to our ears so it was like orange and apples, like a soup. So out of love we were saying things and praising Grandshaykh and saying things that you cannot say sometimes that goes beyond the limits. Or there was discussion of issues, and then we say out what the inspirations comes to us.

So when we did this, due to something we printed, the court called Grandshaykh. We printed in Arabic and they didn’t understand it. We were young. Out of love, sometimes Grandshaykh says something in private to people and you cannot spread these things as people will not understand the spiritual dimension of what you say. So they want an explanation of what he said. They called him to the court. And we have to take Grandshaykh to court and stand before a judge. So you have to be very careful.

Sometimes spiritual issues have been given to you and you have to weigh it. You cannot post it on the internet and create a problem for nothing.

So we go back to [the story of ] Sayyida Fatima (r) az-Zahra `alayha as-salaam that on Judgment Day before everything, she will say “ya Rabbee give me my dowry.” That dowry is the whole Ummah. “Else my marriage with Sayyidina `Ali (r) is not completed.?” So Allah swt will give the whole Ummah for Sayyida Fatima (r).

Look for one lady. Look how Allah honored Ahlul-Bayt. And honored women because they are women, women, and men are men.

Look that woman, even before going on sirat. Grandshaykh said that Allah will make His judgment. The people of hell to hell and the people of paradise to paradise. And she will ask to have her dowry. That is before the intercession of the Prophet (s). One lady will pull them out.

Now what do you expect Prophet (s) to intercede? His intercession is to dress the whole Ummah, with the manifestations of mercy that are coming on Judgment Day. Thus by intercession of Sayyida Fatima (r) they will be taken to Paradise and with intercession of Prophet (s) will be raised in level to the level of:

الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمَ اللّهُ عَلَيْهِم مِّنَ النَّبِيِّينَ وَالصِّدِّيقِينَ وَالشُّهَدَاء وَالصَّالِحِينَ وَحَسُنَ أُولَـئِكَ رَفِيقًا

alladheena an`ama Allahu `alayhim mina an-nabiyyeena was-siddeeqeena wash-shuhadai was-saaliheena wa hasuna ula’ika rafeeqa

those on whom is the Grace of Allah,- of the prophets (who teach), the sincere (lovers of Truth), the witnesses (who testify), and the Righteous (who do good): Ah! what a beautiful fellowship! 4:69

Wa min Allah at-tawfiq bi hurmatil Fatiha.


Suhbat
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani


Ramadan 3, 1427
September 25, 2006

A`udhu billahi min ash-shaytaan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Nawaytu'l-arba` een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaadah, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid

Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-Rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum

Ever day there is a different tajalli, manifestation. Allah swt said kullu yawmin Huwa fee shaan. Every day, Allah swt His manifestations come more and more thru His universes and thru His creation and no one knows what will be the manifestation for the second or even for the third moment. “Every day” means “every moment.” Because every moment in heavenly time is a huge time. A moment might be the whole life of the world to Allah’s swt time.

One time Sayyidina Bilal (r) wanted to call for the prayer, Dhuhr or `Asr, I don’t remember, and this is a story from Grandshaykh. And the Prophet (s) said “wait”. Then one moment later he said, “Call it now”. The Sahaaba were surprised. Between “wait” and then “call it”, was not even one second. And the Prophet (s) said “from the moment I said to him ‘wait’ and the time I said to him ‘call,’ 500,000 heavenly years the universe moved to come to the exact moment of the prayer.”

Today we call the prayer according to the turning of the earth around its axle, and as it turns around its axle the time zone changes. But in heavenly adhaan, is based on how much the universe is moving and the time is changing and the call of the adhaan is stretching forward, like you are stretching a straight line from the beginning of creation, Allah ordered Sayyidina Adam (as) to pray, from that time forward every prayer is according to the movement of this universe in this vacuum. How much is it moving in this vacuum? They say it is moving at the speed of light. To where? No one knows. That is the heavenly timing, not the turning of earth around the axle and the turning around the sun which is one year. And all the timing of the prayers according to that timing in heaven. Imagine how much we are moving in space and we don’t know it.

That is why kullu yawmin Huwa fee shaan. Every moment He tends to a different matter. It means a different manifestation and what Allah creates no one understands except Sayyidina Muhammad (s). That is why awliyaullah are standing helpless. Allah made them awliya but if Allah doesn’t want nothing will happen.

Sayyidina Muhammad (s) was telling the Sahaaba about the anti-messiah, the massihi ’d-Dajjal. The Sahaaba were looking behind the trees, they were feeling it so near that he is behind the date palm trees, so near is his coming. The Prophet (s) said there is going to be a big struggle in Umuq valley. Umuq valley is in Turkey, by Adana, these areas, and that bloodshed is going to be too much in the ends o the last days, and then Mahdi comes. Sahaaba were looking for that. Awliyaullah are saying day and night, “tomorrow, today, tomorrow today.” Every moment they are expecting that is going to happen.

Grandshaykh said “since I was seven years of age and the ulama, from the great fitna, ulama were saying it is going to happen this year.” My Grandshaykh’s teacher Shaykh Sharafuddin used to say “today or tomorrow.” Mawlana Shaykh Nazim is saying “today or tomorrow.” Most important is not to weigh what awliyaullah say. You cannot understand them. When they say something they are raising you up to that level. Waiting for Mahdi they are raising you to that level of worship. So don’t weigh what they say.

Muhammad (s) al-Busayri is the one who composed the poem al-Burda and the poem al-Mudarriyya. He said, Inna lana min al-inaayat ruknun ghayra munhadimi

We have been given glad tidings of a pillar of something we can lean on.

It means when you lean on something you are standing and you don’t fall. Although there are a lot of cracks around you but by leaning on something that will save you from falling because you are holding it. That is good tidings for us, Ummat an-Nabi, Allah gave us not something to lean on, but a very strong power to lean. He gave us Sayyidina Muhammad (s). The perfect one to lean on.

To lean on for what? We have a lot of cracks in our lives of our sins. But having that love of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) in our heart will make you to be always successful. So he said, "don’t be afraid Ya ummata Muhammad (s)."

As Sayyidina Ali saw, that poetry is because Imam al-Busayri knew about Sayyidina Ali (r), when Prophet (s) called him and told him “look at me from the belly and up” and he didn’t see the Prophet’s head, as it was going so high near the Throne and he was not able to see his head. Then he said “look at me from the belly and down” and he saw the Prophet so huge, that his knees were reaching down to seven earths and he was only able to see to his knees and no farther. Then he said, “Look at me all” and he saw the Prophet’s appearance filling this universe.

Al-Busayri understood that there is no one to be asked, except Sayyidina Muhammad (s) on behalf of the Ummah. When Prophet (s) is asked and then he answers what is there to be asked after that?

The Prophet (s) is to be asked for all of us. Sayyida Fatima put us all in her dowry. And the Prophet’s shafa`a is going to raise to higher stations in Paradise.

Don’t think that sins can prevent you from entering Paradise. The Prophet (s) was given shafa`a to erase the sins. But we most not do the sins. We must repent. Whenever we do something we need to repent. Because imaan is different levels. You cannot say you don’t have imaan, for no, you believe in Allah and His Prophet (s). But one time the level of imaan drops and you act wrongly and do a sin. Immediately you have to repent to bring back the status of your level as it was before. Instead of letting imaan to go lower try to make it go higher.

How many verse of holy Qur’an are there about those who make their imaan more stronger, more stronger. Ya ayyuhalladheena aamanoo aaminoo. O ye who believe! You already believe, so now go higher in belief. Go to `ayn al-yaqeen, ilm al-yaqeen, haqq al-yaqeen. Certainty of knowledge, haqq al-yaqeen. The reality of certainty. That imaan going up higher and higher.

That is why we say that every day is a different manifestation. This Ramadan is different from last Ramadan. It is a different manifestation. This Ramadan coming and this year is carrying a lot of heavy load. There is too much going to happen in this year. I don’t understand - as soon as time comes like 4 pm in the afternoon I begin to have no power. Completely; my power goes completely away. What awliyaullah are working on we don’t look, they don’t let you to know. But by Maghrib time I cannot raise my head. I cannot stand. It is impossible. That happened Saturday, first. And it happened Sunday. Saturday I managed, Friday was difficult, but yesterday completely. No more power that you can stand. That is a sign of heavy load in this year.

Awliyaullah Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, used to say when Shaykh Sharafuddin needs power he used to take power from him. So when Grandshaykh needed more power he said, "I take from Shaykh Nazim’s power." We are not that level but we feel that something is going on. That this year from Ramadan to Ramadan is going to be full of events that might narrow the way for Sayyidina Mahdi to come that he doesn’t need weapons. Sayyidina Mahdi doesn’t need dunya power to appear. Allah gives him heavenly power. When people look at him they believe. He doesn’t come with sword or machine gun; he comes with love. He doesn’t fight. He stops the war, he makes peace. He prepares for Sayyidina Isa to come.

If we want to be in that time or we want to be written from those who are going to be in that time our duty is to obey what the Prophet (s) brought. Obedience to Prophet (s) is obedience to Allah man ata` ar-Rasool faqad ata` Allah. Whoever is obeying Prophet (s) is obeying Allah.

15th of Sha`ban this year, Prophet (s) ordered all awliya to be in his presence to give them responsibilities for the coming three years. These responsibilities that are like a plan, three year plan, what they are going to face and how they are going to solve. Many awliyaullah were asking Prophet (s) out of love to humanity, because Mahdi comes between difficulties to delay these difficulties, in order that people will be happy in these 3 years. But when order comes it comes. The cannot stop anything. Awliyaullah are already been informed that they have to be ready to take care of the human race in order that when times comes they are going to be all of them knowing what they have to pray and to recite thru the inspiration to their hearts.

Awliyaullah like Sayyidina Mahdi inheriting from him, they don’t come with power or force. He comes with love. They inspire their followers what to recite and what to do. So when inspiration comes to you to pray 2 rakaats do it quickly. When it comes to you to do istighfaar do it quickly don’t delay. When it comes to pray on Prophet (s), do it. Making du`a always asking Allah swt protection from what difficulties that are coming. These are inspirations coming to heart from awliya. To prevent you from traps of shaytan. So whatever comes do it immediately, don’t delay. If it comes to heart to open the Qur’an and read, do it. Because (normally) ego will not let you do it. It will make all kinds of excuses not to say prayers or reading Qur’an and tahlil, takbir, tahmid. Especially in these 3 years that are coming.

That is why I am feeling that losing this power means there is something. It did not happen last year. It happened this year. We ask Allah to give us power to fast his month and to bring happiness to people on earth.

Obeying Prophet (s) is to do as much as we can; what we do is not like what awliyaullah do. They do by ilm al-yaqeen…haqq al-yaqeen. We don’t by not knowing anything or seeing anything, by imitation. Tashabbuh. Imitation. Try to make as they are making. Like what they are making. In order that we will be accepted in their presence and they will take us to presence of the Prophet (s).

Allah gave us three trees. Three huge trees and on every tree a lot of leaves and a lot of branches. And Allah gave that in dunya, for people to be saved under these trees. If we keep these trees, keep watering them, the leaves will not fall and will be always green. They will be always like spring. Because you are watering them. Don’t change the climate on them if you change the climate on them they become dry leaves and yellow and fall. Then no shadow on you. You need the shadow, the leaves and branches covering each other. And they have to be together they cannot be far apart, making shade under them. That shade will save you from burning sun.

The first tree is Ati` Allah, the second is wa ati` ar-Rasula and the third tree is wa uli’l amri minkum. The first tree is “obey Allah” and “obey the Prophet (s) is 2nd tree” and “obey those in authority is 3rd tree.”

We explain that next session Insha-Allah. Bi hurmatil Fatiha.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

When a wife smiles...

How is a wife to receive her husband? Our Grandshaykh gives us Divine Knowledge on this subject:

"If a woman is smiling at her husband, Allah orders all Paradise to open for her to enter. For her, He especially prepares such a palace as was never before prepared. He will bestow blessings that have never before been bestowed! Why does Allah Almighty bestow such blessings? It is because when a wife smiles at her husband, she takes the whole day's troubles from his shoulders. It gives love between them, from her heart to his."

"Love is the reason to continue family life. If there is no love, the family separates. Therefore, Allah likes smiling faces. It is a simple thing, but very important. Allah never likes hatred between husband and wife, between mu'min."

"The Prophet (peace be upon him) said that a smile is a sadaka (charity) for everyone. Rasulullah (peace be upon him) came to increase the love between people; therefore, we must do likewise. Don't behave differently with different people. Don't show a good face to one man, and a bad face to another. You must remember that we are all servants of Allah Almighty, and we have been ordered to do only goodness to each other. This is a unique attribute of man, it is not given to animals to smile or cry."

"In Paradise there are private sections for each person. When one does a good action, it appears in one of these sections as a bounty, or blessing, Paradise is filled with such bounties so much that there isn't an empty place to put a finger! Mu'min (the believer) will enjoy that abundance every moment, endlessly."

"However," continues our Grandshaykh, "If a woman receives her husband with an angry face, Allah will order his angels to shut Paradise, and will order Hell to burn hotter for her. Because of her anger, all the abundance of this life and the next are made haram for her. She must quickly turn and make repentance, before it is written in Allah's book!"

"Angry looks cause her husband's heart to feel hatred for her. Even if she herself has troubles and is feeling miserable, she must receive her husband with a smile. For this, Allah will reward her by removing all her troubles. This is the secret that keeps the family strong."

"If the family is strong, the community is strong. Life can then proceed happily, with no troubles. Therefore, in Islam it is sunnah for wives to smile so that love can grow. A simple thing, but it carries great consequence."

The Teaching of Grandshaykh Abdullah Faiz ad-Daghestani
by Maulana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Photographs from Mawlana Shaykh Hisyam visit in Indonesia ( Sept 5 - 11, 2006 )

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Friday, September 08, 2006

The Night of Bara`ah

The Night of Bara`ah (nisf Sha`ban)

Another significant feature of the month of Sha`ban is that it consists of a night which is termed in Shari`ah as "Laylatul-bara` ah" (The night of freedom from Fire). This is the night occurring between 14th and 15th day of Sha`ban. Traditions of Prophet Muhammad (s), prove that it is a meritorious night in which the people of the earth are attended by special Divine Mercy. We will be posting much more about this blessed night shortly.

What should be done in this night?

On the Holy Night of 15th Shaban, after Maghrib or Isha prayer it is traditional practice to read Surah Yasin three times, and after each time, read a special du`a with the following intentions:

1st reading the niyyat (intention) for should be for Long Life.
2nd reading the niyyat (intention) should be for Protection from Calamities.
3rd Reading the niyyat (intention) should be for not being needy to anyone except Allah.

What to recite (PDF) [excerpted from Guidebook by Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani]:

Reading of Surah Yaseen three times; first with the intention of long life in Islam and faith (imaan), second with the intention to ward off affliction from one's self and from the nation of Muhammad (s); and the third time with the intention of receiving one's sustenance without reliance on mankind.

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem
Allahumma yaa Dhal-Manni la yamannu alayhi ahad,
ya Dhal-Jalali wal-Ikram ya Dhali wal-Anam.
La ilaha illa Anta.
Daharal-laji- een wa Jarul-mustajireen
wa Amaanul-kha' ifeen. Allahumma in kunta katabtanee
`indaka fee ummul-Kitabi shaqeeyan aw mahruman aw
matrudan aw muqataran `alayya fi'r-rizq famhu-llahumma
bi-fadlika shaqawatee wa hurmaanee wa turdee
wa iqtaara rizqee wa thabitnee `indaka fee ummil-kitabi
sa`eedan wa marzuqan lil-khayrati
fa-innaka qulta wa qawlukul-haqq fee kitabik al-munzal `ala lisani
nabeeyyika l-mursal:
yamhullahu ma yasha'u wa yuthbitu wa `indahu Ummul-Kitab.
Ilahi bi't-tajalli al-`azhami fee lalayti an-nisfi min shahri
Sha`abani al-mu`azami al-mukarrami allatee yufraqu fiha kullu amrin
hakeemin wa yubram, an takshifa `anna mina 'l-balaa'i ma
na`lamu wa maa laa na`lamu wa maa Anta bihi a`alamu
innaka Anta al-A`azzu 'l-Akram. Wa salla-Allahu `ala
Sayyidina Muhammadin wa` ala aalihi wa saahbihi wa sallam.

It is very necessary that just as others observe this night, you observe it. To make an invitation to feed people on that night, to remember Allah (swt) and to remember His Prophet (s), and to fast its day and pray its night, will be rewarded for that night and for whoever observes it.

In order to observe the Night of Bara`ah, one should remain awake on this night as much as possible. If someone has the opportunity, he or she should spend the whole night in worship and prayer. However, if one cannot do so for one reason or another, he can select a considerable portion of the night, preferably of the second half of it for this purpose, and should perform the following acts of worship: praying Salat ul-Khair, which consists of 100 raka`ts, in each raka`t reciting Sura al-Fatiha and 10 Surat al-Ikhlas. To complete the prayer one recites 1000 Sura al-Ikhlas.

The Night of Bara`ah is a night in which special blessings are directed towards the Muslims. Therefore, this night should be spent in total submission to Allah Almighty, and one should refrain from all those activities which may displease Allah.

Fast of the 15th Sha`ban

On the day immediately following the Night of Bara`ah, i.e. the 15th of Sha`ban, it is mustahabb (advisable) to keep fast. Prophet Muhammad (s) is reported to have recommended this fast emphatically. A large number of the predecessors (salaf) of the Ummah have been observing the fast of the 15th of Sha`ban.

Therefore, it is advisable to fast the 15th of Sha`ban as an optional (nafl) fast. One can also keep a fast of qada (make-up) on this day and it is hoped that he can also benefit from the merits of this fast.