Fenton Zawiya, Fenton, Michigan USA
Kalaamul-Awliya, like Kalaamullah, have no limits. Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani (q) used to speak and he said, "I could speak for one week." Saints are present in every time and they are in thousands over the earth. But no one is seeking them any more. People are seeking how to achieve more in dunya, not the knowledge that saints have.
What knowledge do saints have?
The same story I mentioned before popped up when I opened to see what to read today, asking for Mawlana Shaykh's guidance.
The knowledge saints have is such that if all human beings applied it, their life in this world and the Hereafter would be Paradise.
So one Waliuallah, Jalaluddin ar-Rumi (q), a grand saint, was walking with his students and from the other direction came a religious person from another faith, not Islam, perhaps Judaisn, Christianity, Hinduism, etc., whatever people followed in those days, and when that religious person came in front of Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi he greeted him and bowed out of respect.
Mawlana Rumi bowed to him, and the mureeds and the people around Sayyidina Rumi said, "This is a non-Muslim. How can you show him respect and bow to him?"
Sayyidina Rumi replied, "I need to ask you a question: Huwa ma` man? He is with whom?"
Mawlana Rumi is asking his disciples. The disciples who have come to a saint to learn this knowledge. He is with His Creator. The Creator is with His Creation. Nothing exists on its own. If you can exist on your own, then don't die. No one exists on their own. Even if they live one million years they will eventually die.
So the Creator keeps everyone in existence and some He takes into Baatin (Hidden, Unseen) and some He takes into Zaahir (Visible, Seen).
Look at the people a hundred years ago who were in downtown Fenton: where are they now? As for you and I at that time, we were Baatin, hidden in His Power Oceans. Now I am seen and have moved from batin to zahir and those people have moved from the seen to unseen.
The only way to exist in both worlds is by their Creator.
So Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi (q) is teaching his followers, "Notice the One who is with this qisees, a priest, [so it appears he was from the Christian faith]. That priest is the servant of whom? Whom does he represents and with Whom is he walking?
اليس سر ربي معه؟
alaysa sirra Rabbee ma`hu? “Is not the secret of His Lord with him?”
My respect is with the secret that is with him.
O people of the 21st century do you notice that? Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi is not saying, "He is not from my faith, I don't care." No, he is teaching that every creation is with the Lord. Every human being you see has a secret with its Lord.
فَإِذَا سَوَّيْتُهُۥ وَنَفَخْتُ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِى فَقَعُوا۟ لَهُۥ سَـٰجِدِينَ
and when I have formed him fully and breathed into him of My spirit, fall down before him in prostration! (Surat al-Hijr, 15:29)
You are human beings, no matter what race, faith, color, you are like him: he has two legs and so do you; he has two arms, and so do you; he has two eyes and so do you, etc.
The secret is within you from His Lord. Allah the Creator has created you with His own two Hands and has blown into you from His spirit. I am looking at that human being and seeing as-Sani`, the Fashioner.
See how saints teach you to hear, see and understand the Creator in everything you hear and see.
Move on from the veil of creation to the light of the Creator. So why don't you, O human beings, come to the majaalis, associations of saints.
Do you see what they do? They sit around the big square table and they are talking among themselves about what to do. When you are sitting among criminals they teach you how to cheat. They will not teach you how to respect other human beings. they will not teach you to respect someone of another faith.
Sayyidina Rumi was teaching "I respect the secret in that human beings and whatever He blew in the human being, from His Spirit, that is the precious stone, al-jawhar. If you drop a jewel in a dirty pond you don't leave it there but you reach in with your hand and pull it out.
So saints are reaching to pull you out of hands of shaytan, so you can be the shining jewel and respect and love all that the Creator has created.
When you are with criminals you will only do criminal stuff. But when you leave these friends and come with Allah's Friends you begin to understand how to respect the jewel that God has place within you. So Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi is such a teacher.
They asked some of the mureeds, "Why do you respect your shaykh more than you respect your father?"
He replied, "My father put me down from heavens to earth and my shaykh took me from earth to heavens." It means that your father had a little fun and your father brought you down from heavenly levels to the earth.
They say, "Why do you follow the shaykh, it is a cult?" That is not the case. Rather we like to go back to the heavenly station we were in. We came down and we hope to go back up, and that is what the mu’addab teaches. The mu’addab is the one who teaches good manners. Awliyaullah teach good manners to humanity, and the biggest lesson to do is to teach human beings to respect the Creator.
I like these clips on the internet. There was one macho man giving his daughter ice cream. Then some bullies, thugs, came and began bothering the kid until she began to cry. So the macho father did not say anything but smiled at them. Then he took his daughter to the car and said, "Stay here." So what do you think he did? He waits for right moment and then he will take care of the harmful ones.
وَٱللَّهُ يَعْصِمُكَ مِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ
Allah will protect thee from mankind. (Surat Al-Ma'idah, 5:67)
It means, "I will personally protect you from all the people." Allah will take care of the ones who harm you. There are still ways to know. These guys were novices. Tonight grandshaykhs and Mawlana Rumi are teaching us to respect all creation because of the One whom they are with. One Bani Adam, human being, is worth more than this whole universe. And they know best.
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