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.