TRY TO FIX YOURSELF IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE EASINESS IN YOUR LIFE

29 Ramadan 1427/21 October 2006

After Salaat al-Fajr and Tahajjud

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

Grandshaykh said, “If a priest or monk comes to you don’t try to make on him da`wah machine, as if you know more than he knows. Listen to what he says, there is a lot of wisdom in what he says.” He said, “Take his shirk and throw it away but it might be through his experience there is something you can learn and understand.”

Mawlana is speaking forty years ago. He is making interfaith in his talk. That is what they are doing today. They are sitting together from different religions and they listen to each other. Some of them in these meetings they fight and debate and in others they don’t. So he is saying “Don’t fight, but listen and accept what they say as long as it is not shirk.”

Because Allah I said, “Believe in the destiny, the good and what is not good.” So when you believe in destiny, with what is good and not good, you always have to tassaraf bi’l-adab, behave with respect with every human being, the young and the old one.

When you believe in Destiny you believe in Allah’s I Will that His Plan is what is going to work. Not what you plan. What you plan is no benefit. They say we have three-year plan, the five-year plan, the twenty-year plan. Look they planned fifty years ago with a strategy to poison this whole world with that radical ideology. That is what they are clever in. They are not clever in planning in what is good.

Awliya for years and years they planned to bring people to respect others to treat others well. Those others with their strategy in fifty years with their radical ideology have come to change what saints and awliya have done and they have been able to change whole cities. They need nothing but the sweetness of their tongue. Their tongue is sweet, like a fountain. So whatever they say everyone accept. Like the bees, they go to flowers and give honey. But radical people don’t give you honey, they give you sour. As soon as you eat, you become sour like them. Radicals with radicals and good people with good people.

He said, “How many times do all of us leave adab?” He said, “I am speaking `ala aqibat al-amr. I am speaking to you on what is going to be in the hereafter, what is going to happen to you in dunya and akhira, how you need to behave in order to win the akhira and how you need to behave in order to win dunya.”

“When you sit with a priest or a monk and listen, you build friendship. If you want to argue you build enmity and if you listen you build friendship. When you sit with yourself and build a relationship, then you build friendship to Allah I and His Prophet e and when you listen to Shaytaan you build enmity to Allah I and His Prophet e.”

“Whatever I open my mouth and speak to you, you have happiness and peacefulness will come to your heart.”

He said, “Clean your brain before you come then you will benefit. I am telling things that you must not be upset and angry. I am going to speak regardless to bring out all that dirtiness in order that you see that monster inside you. So whatever you defend yourself and make excuses, I don’t care if you are angry or not, I only care for your akhira.”

“I don’t like you to play with dirtiness, I don’t like you to be dirty and I don’t like you to be in a hall of dirtiness. I like you to be in a hall of a very beautiful smell. When you go to the attaar, the perfumist who sells perfume, at least you smell perfume when you go out. No way that you don’t smell perfume. Even you don’t put it on your hand or touch it, as soon as you enter that place that smell goes on you. So when you go out you smell nice.”

“When you go to a sewer, even if you don’t touch the sewer, as soon as you go in that place and when you come out you smell like the sewer.”

He said, “That his why I am going to shout at you. Any time, any moment. Don’t get upset. I will shout whether you get upset or not. Both ways I will shout. I want you to lose that selfishness, the tifl an-nafs al-madhmoumah - the bad manners of a child raised on bad behavior.”

He said, “Always you are coming around my bed when I am laying down.” He is speaking to me and Shaykh Adnan ?, “and you play around my bed. You don’t feel that you are, every time, that I am watching and feeling you and I know what you are doing, sitting there. But when you are sitting there I am throwing in your heart that beautiful smell in order that you will smell good when you come out of that presence.”

He said that, “Allah I destroys some people with stones and some with flies and some he destroyed with fire. He said that “Allah’s I War, when He decides to punish people His Revenge is huge. He will send all His war against those people who are not obeying Him. Allah’s I war is strong. When that war comes be careful. You will be taken with the rest.”

He said that, “One time Sayyidina Musa u came and said, ‘Ya Rabbee, you destroy the unbelievers. Why do you take the believers? If you are unhappy with unbelievers, why take the believers?’”

“Allah I said, ‘Ya Musa u! That is My justice, My justice when it comes it take the good and the bad. I mix them.’”

“Sayyidina Musa u said, ‘Ya Rabbee, the bad we understand but the good why?’ He said, ‘O Musa u go to that forest and wait there until I tell you.’ So Sayyidina Musa u obeyed that order of Allah I and went to the forest and was sitting on a broken piece of a tree, connecting his heart with the Divine Presence and focusing on his Lord. Slowly, slowly a nest of ants began to move up his leg. When ants move thousands of them move. Allah I ordered the ants not to bite him, until they filled his legs to his knees. Then He ordered one ant to bite him.”

“He bit Sayyidina Musa u. He didn’t say, ‘This is a Prophet.’ When Allah’s I Order comes, prophet or no prophet, they obey. To Allah I that is accepted, to us it is not. So when that ant bit him, he moved his hand quickly down. So when the ant bit him he put his hand down and crushed all the ants on his leg.”

“Allah I said, ‘Ya Musa u! What did you do? One ant bit you and you destroyed all of them. I didn’t destroy as much as you did. I removed all the unbelievers and a few of the believers. I take the believers with them to blend them with the unbelievers. When I take them and blend them I scent them with the believers. I clean them with the believers because I want them to come clean after. When I send war on them I am sending My cleaning machine on them.’”

When Allah I in the Holy Qur'an speaks in verses against Shaytaan and his `amal He is speaking against our bad manners in order to clean us, not speaking to us in order to kill us. He is named ar-Rahman ar-Raheem, not The Killer; He is The Merciful.

So he said that, “When Allah’s I war comes it comes to take everyone and to clean people, but those who are already trying to clean themselves they will be nice smelling and always be in the presence of my beloved servant Sayyidina Muhammad e. And they will never see any difficulty in their lives. If you see difficulty then it means there is something wrong. Try to fix yourself in order to achieve easiness in your life.”

He said that “Ummat an-Nabi e is not an Ummah that is left behind. It is Ummatan marhooma, Allah I forgave them before they were born.” For the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad e, Allah I gave him an Ummah that was forgiven before they were given life. No one can say “Why?” for Allah’s I Decree. Ummatan marhooma, ummatan maghfoura. Allah I has forgiven them and sent His Mercy on them.

He said that, “There are angels that Allah I created them ready to encompass those who are reciting a surah in the Holy Qur'an, especially at that time frame.”

He said, “Before Maghrib by one hour if someone sits and take ablution, prays `Asr and sits before Maghrib by one hour and recites Surah Yasin, Allah I will increase, yuwasi` `alayhi asbaab ad-dunya - Allah I will expand for him the means of the dunya. All these difficulties Allah I will take away to the one who sits and recites Surah Yasin before Maghrib by one hour and He will send a special kind of mercy by means of special kind of angels and that mercy will be coming on us and that will be sent wahban, nothing done in order to receive that mercy, only to sit and recite Surah Yasin.”

He said, “From the age of eight years I never cut reciting Surah Yasin at Fajr time and at Maghrib time. Even if I have a lot of things to do, I stop and recite it. Surah Yasin will stretch a person’s life and will not make his life short it will make it longer.”

“And if he recites Surah Yasin, it will be as if he spent his whole life in worship, non-stop, not one moment of 24 hours being left, in full worship, as if praying, whoever recites in Fajr and at Maghrib time, beginning the day and beginning the night and he will be resurrected with that worship as if he worshipped all his life.

He said, “From a young age I never left it, as Yasin is the Heart of the Qur'an.” When you have the heart you have everything. When you lose the heart you lose everything.

Allah I said,

يس

Yasin. e Sall-allahu…

وَالْقُرْآنِ الْحَكِيمِ

Wal-Qur'anil-hakeem. By the wise Qur'an. Yasin [36:1-2]

Allah I is giving oath by Yasin, the Prophet e and then an oath by the Holy Qur'an. Then He says:

إِنَّكَ لَمِنَ الْمُرْسَلِينَ عَلَى صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ

Innaka la-minal-murasaleen - “Ya Muhammad e verily you are the Messenger of Allah I. Ala siratan mustaqeem. On the right track, the right path.” [36:3-4]

That is why when you recite Surah Yasin, you are on the right track. Even though you shift during the day, but still you are on the right track. When you do something that is not on the right track, the angel on the left will not write it, “As he is reciting Yasin, don’t write anything.” When you recite in the evening, the same. How can Shaytaan come and play with you when you are reciting Yasin, when it is the heart of Qur'an, it is the Prophet e?

He said, “If a group of people meet together before Maghrib and sit in a circle and recite Surah Yasin, Allah I will protect them in this life and in the hereafter and Allah I will guide them until they leave this dunya and take them and deliver them to the presence of the Prophet e (angels) for those who are reciting Surah Yasin at Fajr and Maghrib time.”

He said that, “A human being, if he will wake up before Fajr by half an hour or one hour or ten minutes or even five minutes, make ablution and pray two rak`ats then Allah I will reward him more than He rewards him for all the prayers during the day.”

“Why? Because he is waking and the people are niaam. He is praying for His Lord and not anyone seeing him. No one is seeing you. Allah I loves that. Not worshipping Allah I because some people are going. What can we do? We are sinners. Our bad character we pray when there are people, when no people, “y’Allah I, who cares?” That is something that is between you and Allah I. That is what Allah I likes. He likes something you are doing and no one is knowing.

He said, “I am not going to leave you from my bombardment until you straighten up. If you leave your bad manners or you do not. I keep bombarding you even if you are better to prevent Shaytaan to come after you.”

May Allah I keep us with our shaykh, Mawlana Shaykh Nazim ?. There is no representative. Anyone who considers himself a representative is not a representative. No one can represent Mawlana Shaykh in this country except one. That one that Grandshaykh assigned in his will and that Mawlana Shaykh has given that authority and that authority is coming through that chain from Grandshaykh. Grandshaykh gave authority to two and Mawlana Shaykh Nazim ? gave to two. And Mawlana Shaykh through his wisdom has many people around the world that conduct dhikr and associations to a certain level and a certain extent. And with respect to everyone, we are [happy to be at] the threshold of everyone, we don’t mind, but in order for people to know, we say this sometimes. May Allah I protect us from anaaniyya - selfishness, but this is only for understanding that Grandshaykh wanted this to happen and that is why he wrote it in his will.

May Allah I keep us safe and protect us. Bi-hurmatil habib bi hurmatil Fatiha.