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<font size="+1"><b>How to Get the Attention of Prophet Muhammad (saw)</b></font> <br>Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani<br> <a href="http://www.sufilive.com/How_to_Get_the_Attention_of_Prophet_Muhammad_saw_-1612.html">http://www.sufilive.com/How_to_Get_the_Attention_of_Prophet_Muhammad_saw_-1612.html</a> <p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><em><o:p></o:p></em><p> <em>Ati` Allaha wa ati` ar-rasoola wa uli 'l-amri minkum<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Allah said and is still saying that we have to “obey Allah swt and obey Him and obey Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and obey those who are on authority.” Those who are<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>responsible; those who are taking care of us; those who are guiding us. Those who are inheritors from the Prophet (s).<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">And to follow them there are rules and regulations, like when you buy a computer, they say to you there are rules and regulations to make your computer. Like when you buy anything there are rules and regulations you cannot leave behind. If you don’t follow these rules that instrument doesn’t function. So to make our ... function is that we have some rules that we have to obey and follow. For sure, we are weak and we are helpless, but at least we have to try. If we don’t try then you be blamed, because Allah will ask you did you try. You cannot say I didn’t try. Try you didn’t succeed you didn’t succeed, but at least you tried.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Sahaba were trying to gain the love of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). they were competing who will give <em>salaam</em> first that the Prophet (s) will answer them a better <em>salaam</em>. So they were trying even in <em>salaam</em> to get the attention of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). and his attention, is so, Allah has mentioned it to us, in his Holy Qur'an, in many many places and one of the main places to draw the attention of the Prophet (s) that people today say “How are going to draw attention towards us.” They say, make <em>du`a</em> that we see the Prophet (s) in dream. Don’t they say that? Yes, many. To see him in the dream is everyone’s expectation; everyone wants that and everyone that. But first you have to show him you can handle it. You can be able to see him in the best way of a dream, to draw his attention. And his attention is so simple because the prophet is so humble, he accept anything and Allah said, Allah and his angles are praising prophet. O mu’mins, praise him. <em>Ya ayyuhalladheena amaanooo salloo `alayh</em>. If you mention the name of someone and parise him all the time that person will feel shy from you and give you what you want. So if we are not getting what we want we are not praising as we should be.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">So it is very simple, <em>inna Allah wa malaikatahu</em>… o believers, muslim praise Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and you will get his attention. The Prophet (s) said, “<em>Man salla alayya marra radaAllaha ruhi ilya hatta usalim `alayh - </em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Whoever praises me one time Allah send my soul back to my body and I respond.”<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">[<em>aaaaaah. Yaaa sayyideeeee!!!!</em>]<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">He gets attention from the Prophet (s).[<em>aaaah, aaaah!aaah!</em>] he didn’t begin yet.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Sajjalnaak, his mother is on the internet and his sisters. <em>Allahuma salli `ala Sayyidina Muhammad</em>. [<em>aaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!</em>]<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">When you smile, it means the <em>tajalli</em>s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>iscoming down that <em>tajalli</em>s he feels it quickliy, he is crying or smiling. He didn’t cry yet. [ <em>Ya saaaayideee, Ya rasululllaaaaaah, hhaaa, hhaaaa</em>]<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><em>Ashhadu an la ilaha ill-Allah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadun rasul.<o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">[short <em>dhikr</em>]<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><o:p> </o:p><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><em>Ila hadratin-nabi…<o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">So to bring the attention of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) is to keep always mentioning him and praising him. Because to show your relationship to someone is always either today you send him or her, an SMS or email, or you give a call every now and then, to keep that relationship fresh. When you separate for a long time you feel shy to call. If you call you say, “I broke the ice, I melted the ice.” So you need not to have ice between you and the Prophet (s). you need always that hot warm relationship between you and the Prophet (s) that anyone you call upon him he answers you. Although you might not hear it but he answers you.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">And the whole Islam is based on the relationship between you and the Prophet (s) and between you and Allah through the Prophet (s) and between you and your shaykh that he guided you to keep that relationship strong. Because whenever he sees that relationship is beginning to be cold he brings it back to be warm and to bring it back to be warm you have to have a good relationship with the guide, the Shaykh if you don’t have a good relationship you will not be able to bring you back to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). that is why<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the company of the Shaykh is important. Else you will have between him and you there is some kind of coldness that you are not seeing him, you are not listening to him physically you are not building up your relationship with him, if you are able to visit you visit and if not, at least you have to keep his guidance in you. Today nothing is guiding us except our egoes. People their ego guides them today. Whatever their ego or their desires ask they respond. Whatever inspiration comes from Allah and his prophet from the Prophet (s) or from the shaykh directly to the heart you struggle to fufill it, too many obstacles in front of you.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">So Allah swt wants you to build that relationship and not to be a friend only you can say “I am his friend” and now it is very famous, “friend, friend, friend” with Facebook. You are my friend I show you all my private pictures. From where he became your friend. You saw him one time on internet and he became your friend and you expose all your pictures to him. And whatever friends you have with you in the picture become available to him. And that is not relationship - that is nakedness. Not you are naked but you are exposing yourself to everyone on the internet, millions of people.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Friendship is something like “that person I like him, we sometimes go places together for dinner,” or <em>rafeeq</em>. <em>Sahib</em> is different. Who is your companion. [you.] No, not me; not yet.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Your companion is by definition by normal life, your spouse. Your wife or your husband is your companion. Is it not? Because you relate to each other everything. That means the companion is companionship going along in every moment of your life. If you divorce because today they divorce a lot or separate that is not a real companion. That means you chose a false companion. A companion is someone if you cut him into pieces that will not change his love to her or to him.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Sahaaba, the Prophet (s) build them up, that is why they are called Sahaaba. They are not call friends<em>, rufaqa’ih</em>. They are called ashaab, <em>ashaabee</em>, or <em>ashaabuh</em>. Ashaab an-Nabi that means if he wants to go anywhere they are with him. If they are not with him physically they are with him spiritually. They will never lose sight of his presence<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">When two people teenagers love each other you can define them as real companions. Huh? They cannot sleep. You are like that before you are still like that. You cannot they want to see each other daily. Look Romeo and Juliet. The story. How is it? He was playing the guitar or musical instrument under her window. You were playing for her also?<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">So Sahaaba, <em>ashaab an-Nabi</em> (s), Allah honored them, no one is like them. Because their companionship to the Prophet (s) cannot be described.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">So companionship is important. And that is why the word, as I explained before from ashaab an-Nabi. Ashaab came from <em>sahib</em>. Pakistani the say <em>sahib</em>, everyone is sahabi. Muhammad Ilyas <em>saheb</em>. What’s your name Selim <em>saheb</em>. Everyone is <em>saheb</em>. <em>Saheb</em> if you cut him into pieces he will not change his love to the one he loves. <em>Ashaab an-Nabi </em>(s) comes from <em>suhbat</em>. <em>Sahib</em> is the name and <em>suhbat</em> is… <em>sahib</em> is the noun and subhat is the description the adjective, that you are always with the, always making the companionship to be really described as real subhat.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">That is why Sayyidina Shah Naqshbandi imam of the <em>tariqah</em> and sultan of this <em>tariqah</em> always he defines his meetings with a title before he begins, “Our way - <em>tariqatuna</em> <em>as-suhbat wal-khayru fil-jami`yyah -</em> Our way is companionship [and the good is in the gathering].” If it is not companionship it means we are not in reality - no relationship. So he wants to make sure whenever he opens a <em>majlis</em>, he wants to say,<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">'"Our way is companionship," as Allah swt mentioned in Holy Qur'an, about the verse that mentioned in it <em>suhbat</em> and that person in particular that Allah mentioned as companion of the Prophet (s) who is mentioned in Holy Qur'an by name, Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (ra) <em>.<o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: right"><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black">إِلاَّ</span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black"> </span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black">تَنصُرُوهُ فَقَدْ نَصَرَهُ اللّهُ إِذْ أَخْرَجَهُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ ثَانِيَ</span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black"> </span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black">اثْنَيْنِ إِذْ هُمَا فِي الْغَارِ إِذْ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِهِ لاَ تَحْزَنْ إِنَّ</span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black"> </span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black">اللّهَ مَعَنَا فَأَنزَلَ اللّهُ سَكِينَتَهُ عَلَيْهِ وَأَيَّدَهُ بِجُنُودٍ لَّمْ</span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black"> </span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black">تَرَوْهَا وَجَعَلَ كَلِمَةَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ السُّفْلَى وَكَلِمَةُ اللّهِ</span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black"> </span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black">هِيَ الْعُلْيَا وَاللّهُ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ</span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black"> </span></span><span class="phonetics"><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><em>Illa tansuroohu faqad nasarahu Allahu idh akhrajahu alladheena kafaroo thaaniya ithnayni idh huma fi ’l-ghaari idh yaqoolu li-saahibihi laa tahzan inna Allaha ma`ana fa-anzala Allahu sakeenatahu `alayhi wa ayyadahu bi-junoodin lam tarawha wa ja`ala kalimata alladheena kafaroo as-sufla wa kalimatullahi hiya al-`ulya w’Allahu `azeezun hakeem<o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><em>If ye help not (your leader), (it is no matter): for Allah did indeed help him, when the Unbelievers drove him out: he had no more than one companion; they two were in the cave, and he said to his companion, "Have no fear, for Allah is with us": then Allah sent down His peace upon him, and strengthened him with forces which ye saw not, and humbled to the depths the word of the Unbelievers. But the word of Allah is exalted to the heights: for Allah is Exalted in might, Wise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></em>9:40<em><o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">So where that verse has been revealed? In the cave from where they were migrating from <st1:city w:st="on">Mecca</st1:city> to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Medina</st1:place></st1:city> they were passing through that cave an they were going there to rest and ..and Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (ra)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>was sad. We won’t mention here the reason and he was sad and Allah revealed that verse to the Prophet (s) in the cave. It means you want to have real companionship with Allah and his prophet and with the <em>mashaykh</em> you have to go to the cave. That <em>suhbat</em> cannot be anywhere. It cannot be in the park and it cannot be in the home. You must find it in the cave.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Who is that cave. Ashaab al-kahf, the Surah of <em>ashaab al-kahf</em>, the Companions of the Cave, Allah said to them:<p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: right"><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana">فَأْوُوا إِلَى الْكَهْفِ يَنشُرْ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّن رَّحمته ويُهَيِّئْ لَكُم</span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; font-family: Verdana"> </span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black; mso-ascii-font-family: Verdana; mso-hansi-font-family: Verdana">مِّنْ أَمْرِكُم مِّرْفَقًا</span></span><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></span><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><em>fawoo ila alkahfi yanshur lakum rabbukum min rahmatihi wa yuhayyi lakum min amrikum mirfaqa.<o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">"<em>betake yourselves to the Cave: Your Lord will shower His mercies on you and disposes of your affair towards comfort and ease." </em>18:16<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><em>And [for many a year] thou might have seen the sun, on its rising, incline away from their cave on the right, and, on its setting, turn aside from them on the left, while they lived on in that spacious chamber, [bearing witness to] this of God's messages: <o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">18<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana">:</span>17<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><em>He whom God guides, he alone has found the right way; whereas for him whom He lets go astray thou canst never find any protector who would point out the right way.<o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><em>And thou wouldst have thought that they were awake, whereas they lay asleep. And We caused them to turn over repeatedly, now to the right, now to the left; and their dog [lay] on the threshold, its forepaws outstretched. Had you come upon them [unprepared], thou wouldst surely have turned away from them in flight, and wouldst surely have been filled with awe of them. </em>18:18<em><o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><em>…some will say, "[They were] three, the fourth of them being their dog," while others will say, "Five, with their dog as the sixth of them" -idly guessing at something of which they can have no knowledge -and [so on, until] some will say, "[They were] seven, the eighth of them being their dog." Say: "My Sustainer knows best how many they were. None but a few have any [real] knowledge of them. Hence, do not argue about them otherwise than by way of an obvious argument, and do not ask any of those [story-tellers] to enlighten thee about them." </em>18:22<em><o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">O people of the cave, O the people who were running - either they were 3 or 5 or 7, and their dog is with them. No one knows their number except Allah swt. Allah is telling them run to the cave. That cave is al-Kahf al-Muhammadiyya. That means "run to the Prophet (s)!" He is the safety boat, the boat of safety that can carry everyone from these storms in the ocean and his boat will sail in that stormy ocean.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" dir="rtl" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: right"><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black">وَخَلَقْنَا</span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black"> </span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black">لَهُم مِّن مِّثْلِهِ مَا يَرْكَبُونَ</span></span><span class="phonetics"><span lang="AR-SA" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt; color: black"> </span></span><span class="phonetics"><span dir="ltr" style="font-size: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p> <p><em><span style="color: black">Wa khalaqna lahum min mithlihi ma yarqaboon</span></em><span style="color: black">. </span><p> <p><em>And We have created for them similar (vessels) on which they ride. </em><em><span style="font-style: normal">36:42</span><o:p></o:p></em><p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">[It means] "And from the exemplar of that we have created an imitational boat they can ride on it." Like today we went on a boat, that boat is an imitation of the real boat that takes you thru that ocean from shore of safety to other shore of safety. That means passing from one side of <em>dunya</em> to the other side of <em>dunya</em> no one can take you except Sayyidina Muhammad. When you run to that cave that is the Safinat al-Muhammadiyya or the Kahf al-Muhammadiyya. When you enter you cannot enter if you are not a companion. Because you have to enter and go all the way. When we entered the boat today, not everyone can go on the boat. Not anyone foreigner can come and enter, they will not let him in. so no one can jump on the Muhammadan boat except those who are accepted by Sayyidina Muhammad (s).<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">So how we can become companions of the Prophet (s)? Not companions like the Sahaaba of an-Nabi but you can inherit. You be the imitational one. In that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>cave the reality of <em>talqeen, talqeen</em> is putting on your tongue the secret of this order. Was established in that cave. It means you have been called ot presence of the Prophet (s)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>in that cave. And Grandshaykh<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>said that the Prophet (s)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>ordered Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (ra)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to bring all the souls of Naqshbandi<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Order all the souls were there. So all the souls of the Naqshbandi. Disciples were in the Ghaari Thawr, the Kahf al-Muhammadiyya, where Allah called Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Saahib. If the father is <em>saahib</em> what about the children. So the children will be <em>ashaab</em>. So when they called the souls of the Naqshbandi<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and they attended any <em>dhikr</em> he is for sure stamped as a Naqshbandi<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and he was present in that cave. And when you enter there in that cave are you not going to see everyone there.<p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Who was there? Waleed? Who was there. Sayyidina Muhammad (s). So anyone who saw the Prophet (s)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>can he go to hellfire? Saw the Prophet (s)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and believed in him and said<em> la ilaha ill-Allah Muhammad Rasulullah. </em>There everyone was called with Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (ra)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and the imam of <em>khatm</em> was called, Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani, to lead them in <em>khatm</em> and to see the Prophet (s) really and to.. that is why Sayyidina Shah Naqshband said in every <em>suhbat</em> “Our <em>tariqah</em> is <em>suhbat</em>.” That means our <em>tariqah</em> has already been with the Prophet (s)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>in the cave with Sayyidina Muhammad (s)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (ra), that means they have already acquire and inherited the secret of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (ra)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>that there in <em>suhbat</em> with the Prophet (s)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and that is enough to guide them all the way from <em>dunya</em> to <em>akhira</em> and they will not leave this <em>dunya</em> with out seeing the prophet. And that is meaning of <em>tariqatuna as</em>-<em>suhbat</em> that is the meaning of <em>as-suhbat.</em> May Allah keep us always with the <em>suhbat</em> of our <em>shuyukh</em> with <em>suhbat</em> of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (ra)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and with <em>suhbat</em> of all Sahaaba especially with Sayyidina `Umar (ra)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and Sayyidina `Uthman and with Sayyidina `Ali (ra)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and Sayyidina Al-Hasan and Sayyidina Al-Husayn and with all his sons-in-law and with all <em>awliya</em> who are descending from the Prophet (s)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>at every moment and with <em>suhbat</em> of our Shaykh Mawlana Shaykh And with <em>suhbat</em> of Grandshaykh . And before I say Fatihah, Mawlana said to tell them they are really in that <em>suhbat</em> and they will never be away from that <em>suhbat</em> of the Prophet (s) .<p>