Audhu billah min ash-shaytan 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
Obey Allah, obey the Prophet (s) and obey those in authority. [
Every time, with Allah’s swt blessings, people meet for a purpose, you don’t see 2 people meeting without a purpose, without something that concern them or benefit them.
That is why people meet.
Especially for those meeting for the sake of Allah swt. Means they want the best of what they can achieve in Allah’s way.
That is a microphone [taps mic] that can detect the sound and the voice of someone who is speaking. There are microphones that can detect wave, any kind of magnetic wave that is moving. But this microphone cannot detect it. There are others machines and instruments that can detect any movement that happens in earth at any level down until they reach a place they cannot detect anything. It means different instruments different functions.
And Allah swt has created different angels with different functions that they can detect anything on earth and in this universe. So there is no way to hide ourselves from Allah swt.
وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ
wa nahnu aqrabu ilaykum min hablil wareed. We are more nearer to you than your Jugular vein. [Qaf, 50:16]
And not only that, Allah swt is not only nearer, He is, His power, His angels are in you. In everyone of us angels are within our system. They are functioning in a way that keeps your life moving. The are responsible for the movement of every cell in your body. Don’t think these cells in your body are functioning by themselves. There is an angelic power that makes them to move. In medicine they say the strongest muscle is the heart. That is always moving. It is moving continuously in every moment, non-stopping.
You cannot move anything in dunya without using energy. You cannot. Even you want to move this rihlah, a stand, you cannot except you have to exercise energy to hold it and move it. It cannot move by itself.
Anything you do today, you cannot move without using energy. That energy are you the producer of it or there is someone producing it? If you are the one producing that energy and you can move everything around, as they move rockets or planes or carrying a stone or carrying groceries, or whatever you do, you are moving, you are showing a movements. Because without movement there's no life. Life expresses itself through movement. If there is no movement there is no life. That's why body always in movement. Every cell in the body is moving. We have 3 trillion cells in the body.
Today they say $700 billon that need to be bailout. We have to bail out 3 trillion cells in front of Allah. Who is going to bail it out for us? There must be someone has to bail us out. It is Prophet (s). He has to bail us out.
Here for dunya matter they want to bail us out for a dunya matter, you see the whole world is standing up and going down! what do you think in akhira when you need to be bailed out.
Everyone responsible for 3 trillion cells what they function and what is done. So everything is based on movement,
If you say "No! I am doing that movement by myself." If you say “no”, then you are Firaun [or Namrud].
أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِي حَآجَّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ فِي رِبِّهِ أَنْ آتَاهُ اللّهُ الْمُلْكَ إِذْ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ رَبِّيَ الَّذِي يُحْيِـي وَيُمِيتُ قَالَ أَنَا أُحْيِـي وَأُمِيتُ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ فَإِنَّ اللّهَ يَأْتِي بِالشَّمْسِ مِنَ الْمَشْرِقِ فَأْتِ بِهَا مِنَ الْمَغْرِبِ فَبُهِتَ الَّذِي كَفَرَ وَاللّهُ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ
Alam tara ila alladhee hajja ibraheema fee rabbihi an atahu Allahu almulka ith qala ibraheemu rabbiya allathee yuhyee wa yumeetu qaala ana uhee wa umeet. qaala ibraheemu fa inna Allaha yatee b’ish-shamsi mina al-mashriqi fati biha mina al-maghribi fa-buhita alladhee kafara wa’Allahu la yahdee alqawma adh-dhalimeena
Hast thou not Turned thy vision to one who disputed with Abraham About his Lord, because Allah had granted him power? Abraham said: "My Lord is He Who Giveth life and death." He said: "I give life and death". Said Abraham: "But it is Allah that causeth the sun to rise from the east: Do thou then cause him to rise from the West." Thus was he confounded who (in arrogance) rejected faith. Nor doth Allah Give guidance to a people unjust. Al-Baqara [2:258]
Ok you say, as Fira`un, you are our Lord. You are saying about yourself, istaghfirullah, hasha, that you are a god. A god. Miserable, calling himself “god”. You say like that. Ok, our Lord, Allah swt, our Lord is bringing the sun from the east; make it rise it from west! If you say you can move things, then move it. Ok, that is Sayyidina Musa .
Ok, then for our level, for us at a lower level, this earth is turning on its axle, counter clockwise. Turn it clockwise if you have power. If you say you can do everything, because everything needs energy.
That is why angels are the one behind that energy. It is not you that you can turn everything. Allah swt is turning everything in you according to your behavior and according to your intention.
إنما الأعمال بالنيّات ، وإنما لكل امريء مانوى
Innama’l-`aamaalu bi’n-niyyaat wa innama li kulli ‘imreeyin ma nawa.
The Prophet (s) said, “Verily all actions are by intentions and to every person is what he intended.” [Bukhari and Muslim]
How is your intention it moves; angels moves. Your intention is “I want to be famous” ok then move in that direction. Someone says, I don’t want anything I wan to sit in my corner, the will turn him this way. Then you make that intention.
They inspire you according to your intention.
Scholars say we are responsible for our actions. Although we cannot do the action itself, Allah swt creates action as soon as we intend.
That is why they used to debate between irada, free will or not. Do you have a will or everything is predestined? We don’t want to enter into this subject but you have, Allah swt gave you free will, a partial free will. As soon as intend to do something Allah swt creates the action. So it is Allah’s action created by Him, but it is your intention that wants to do it. That's why you are responsible according to your intention. That's why Prophet (s) said innama al-`aamaalu b’n- niyyaat.
As soon as you decide and intend to do it, the action comes. There is One behind every action, it is not you, you have the intention. If you say you have the action, then go turn the earth clockwise. It is turning anti-clockwise.
SubhanAllah, how is the earth turning? Nonstop. For thousands of years. What kind of energy does it have. It never complains, it never gets tired, saying, "Ya Rabbee!” Earth is submitting. Allah swt wants to give you calculation of day and night. If there was no turning, the side facing the sun could be in continuous light and the side facing away would be in continuous darkness.
Keep turning for one hour and what happens to you. Why doesn't earth get dizzy? It is strange. You have to ask this question. Why the earth doesn’t get dizzy? Because when you are rejoicing in love of Allah swt you never get dizzy. The earth is dancing love of Allah.
تُسَبِّحُ لَهُ السَّمَاوَاتُ السَّبْعُ وَالأَرْضُ وَمَن فِيهِنَّ وَإِن مِّن شَيْءٍ إِلاَّ يُسَبِّحُ بِحَمْدَهِ وَلَـكِن لاَّ تَفْقَهُونَ تَسْبِيحَهُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ حَلِيمًا غَفُورًا
Tusabbihu lahu as-samawatu as-sab`u wa’l-ardu w aman feehinna wa in min shayin illa yusabbihu bi-hamdihi wa lakin la tafqahoona tasbeehahum innahu kana haleeman ghafooran.
The seven heavens and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory: there is not a thing but celebrates His praise; And yet ye understand not how they declare His glory! Verily He is Oft-Forbearing, Most Forgiving. Al-Isra [
Everything is praising its Lord. Its life is through its praising. Its turning is through its praising, as long as earth praising earth turning. As long as Allah takes away that praising from the earth then it will stop. That is why Allah said”
يَوْمَ تُبَدَّلُ الأَرْضُ غَيْرَ الأَرْضِ وَالسَّمَاوَاتُ وَبَرَزُواْ للّهِ الْوَاحِدِ الْقَهَّارِ
Yawma tubaddalu alardu ghayra alardi waalssamawatu wabarazoo lillahi alwahidi alqahhari
ne day the earth will be changed to a different earth, and so will be the heavens, and (men) will be marshalled forth, before Allah, the One, the Irresistible; Ibrahim [
When We change earth to a different earth and We change the Universe to a different universe. And we are all standing in Allah’s Grandeur.
Where are we going with all our tyranny? Tyrants are filling the earth for what? For a little bit of money. We don't need kings; we don’t need tyrants; we don’t need anyone. There's one king: that is the King of kings. And one representative: Sayyidina Muhammad (s).
وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلاَئِكَةِ إِنِّي جَاعِلٌ فِي الأَرْضِ خَلِيفَةً
Wa idh qaala rabbuka lil-malaikati innee innee ja`ilun fil ardi khalipha. [Al-Baqara,
Allah sent Adam carrying the light of Prophet for him to be representative. His reality was carried from Sayyidina Adam all the way to his father. From Sayyidina Ibrahim to Sayyidina Isma`il ...
People are abnormal. We have to say the truth. When people go back to normal. We are abnormal. If we are normal we would see Prophet (s).
وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ فِيكُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ
Wa `alamoo anna feekum RasulAllah. You have to know the Prophet (s) is among you, in you. Al-Hujurat [49:7]
So Allah swt made earth to turn to carry humanity to carry the human race, to carry the beloved ones, to carry the honored ones.
وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ
Wa laqad karramna bani adam. We have honored the sons of Adam; Al-Isra [17:70]
Earth is happy.
Why Mars and Pluto and Jupiter and Venus and all these stars there is no life on them? There was? But they were crying for human being to live on earth. They were crying, crying, crying until they nashara, dried up.
$Other planets crying until dried up. Out of their yearning heart, when yearning for something and cannot get it, it became dry. These planets where full of happiness. When Allah swt chose and decide that it will be on earth they,
When you cry what happens to your eyes? They become dry, and they become big and red. Swollen. These planets become dry out of their love because they wanted receive those whom Allah swt honored. They wanted them [human beings] on their planet. Allah gave them to earth and made the earth to turn around its axle, rejoicing, happy turning and praising Allah swt.
Allah wants to continue the time, the calculation. Allah created the moon to turn around the earth. Allah swt wanted to create month so moon turn around earth. Why the moon doesn’t turn like the earth around it axle? Allah wanted to create the month.
And why Allah put the earth and moon together to turn around the sun? Allah wants to create the year. Every planet is praising the Lord, that is its life. When Allah wants he pulls that secret out and everything changes.
So movement is important in our lives. If our heart does not move towards to be attracted and to move towards love of the Prophet (s) then it is a dead heart. Because to be a living heart it has to living in the sense of real life, that is to observe everything.
But we cannot observe anything, what do we observe except these four walls?
As he said this story. As if no one saw him. The only one saw him was this one. That one was one of those awliya. Who came covering, veiling. Camouflage. Mawlana wants one person. Enough.
So Awliya can see what other people cannot see. Because they are in constant movement towards the Prophet (s). Because they are in one direction. Only one.
Our hearts how may directions we have in it? When we pray Salat an-Najaat and then
When we go into sajda. What is it we observe? Is anything happen to your eyes? Do you see light flashing in the eyes when you are in sajda. [yes] who said “yes”? Check yourself when you go to sajda. If you are making closing your eyes, making sajda, Its like camera flashes comes to the eyes. You are not paying attention. If you pay attention you can see it. When you close your eyes and you are in sajda, not during the prayer, and it takes a longer time, because you are doing sajda like 10 minutes, you begin to notice flashes like a camera flash, it comes and goes, comes and goes. That is one of the first levels that takes you towards the presence of the Prophet (s). They flash to you the light that if you follow you reach there. And that must happen if you really focus on it. Try it.
This is one of the secrets, Mawlana said, "give it out.” So if you keep focusing on that you can see the flashes growing up; they are coming and going, coming and going. Might be two or three flashes come. Or it might be continuous flashes. That is blinking like a minaret. That light is blinking to show you the direction you have to follow. At that time you mist know that your shaykh is taking you to by your hand to Prophet (s). if you focus well it will keep coming and then suddenly a huge flash comes and you are there.
We are asking Allah to show us that and to keep these blinking continuous and to open to us in order that we are able to see what's necessary in order to guide us. We don't want to be arrogant with all our sins and say we are there. No we are not. We want them to take us.
So everything depends on movement and these flashes are movements. The movement of light; it is moving at a speed of 300 km. per second.
قَدْ جَاءكُم مِّنَ اللّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ
Qad ja’akum min Allahi Nurun wa kitabin mubeen. There hath come to you from Allah a (new) light and a perspicuous Book [Al-Ma'idah,
The light is Sayyidina Muhammad (s).
The `ulama of Islam expressed that light, nur, as Sayyidina Muhammad (s). In physics everything has a variable speed except light. Everything in this universe is variable, it changes. And Allah swt said light is Muhammad. It is constant; it doesn’t change. Only there will be change when light is coming with a speed of 300 km. per second, based on the criteria of earth and the atmosphere it might get less a little bit, it might change. That is where awliyaullah receive. The Prophet (s) gives them. Awliyaullah, Allah gives them from that secret and depending on where they are there might be a little variation in their light; there may be some friction. It depends on where it is moving, in the atmosphere or in space.
It can go from 300 km to 280 km per second. They reach their students in that speed, just as the light comes from earth to moon in one second.
That's why what Prophet (s) gives awliya is different, sometimes it depends on your environment. They are reaching you in that speed. Imagine how shuyukh are so quick to reach their students. By that light, the Nurul-Muhammadi, the Muhammadan Light. That's why his grandchildren are carrying that light until Judgment Day.
تركت فيكم ما إن تمسكتم به لن تضلوا كتاب الله وسنتي
That's why Prophet (s) said, “I have left among you two matters by holding fast to which, you shall never be misguided: Allah’s Book and the Sunnah of His Prophet.” [al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan al-kubra, al-Hakim and Malik in his Muwatta]
قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إني قد تركت فيكم ما إن أخذتم به لن تضلوا بعدي الثقلين أحدهما أكبر من الآخر كتاب الله حبل ممدود من السماء إلى الأرض وعترتي أهل بيتي ألا وإنهما لن يفترقا حتى يردا علي الحوض
And the Prophet (s) said:
"I am leaving among you that which if you hold to it, you shall never go astray, one of them greater than the other: Allah's Book?a rope extended down from the heaven to the earth?and my mantle (`itra), the People of my House. These two shall never part ways until they come to me at the Pond. Look well to how you act with them after me." [al-Tirmidhi (hasan ghareeb) and al-Hakim]
Take care of my family, don’t give them - what do you say? A bad look. Respect my light in them at least if nothing but that.
We leave that here and we say, Ya Rabbee, this is last day of Ramadan. And tomorrow is Eid. We like to have Eid, but Eid to be in Your Presence and the Presence of Your Prophet (s) and presence of your Awliya. And to have real Eid. Real Eid is when we stop committing sins. Through Your Grace, Your Generosity, Your Mercy, for we are weak people, and for You to support us from not committing sins and to make us to be with the Prophet (s) in dunya and akhira. And to respect his family and to respect everyone else, and to give us a cure from every ailment: kullin dain wa dawwa'in. Ajarna min adhab an-nar wa min fitnat al-masih ad-dajjal. W'adkhalna al-jannata ma` al-abraar. Allahuma taqabal minna siyaam Ramadan wa atina Haqiqat siyam. W’albisna min haqiqat anwar ramadan. Albasni min khilat min anwarika.
La yanfa`u dhul jaddi minka al-jadd.
O Allah change from imitational fasting to real fasting and dress us with robes of light from Your Prophet (s) and dress us from Your Beautiful Names and Attributes.
Bi hurmatil habbi, bi hurmatil-Fatiha.
This is, whatever we say is in limits and limits according to our levels. And to awliya it is higher. Common people have limits and awliyaullah have higher level limits and they have their limits. then there are higher level awliya and they have their limits that is why Allah said in Holy Qur'an above every knower there is a Bigge