From Mawlana Shaykh Nazim's Personal Notes
A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillaahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.
He is moving from ar-Rahman to ar-Raheem. As Awliyaullah have said, we are moving from Haqq to Hu. Some of them have said we are moving from Hu to Hayy. It’s from Allah (swt) to Allah. If a human being is bitter, down the line they might change: they might become sweeter and kinder.
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim continues, “You don’t know how they will end up or what ‘color’ they will be at the end. Therefore, it is forbidden to pass judgment on a human being. This is our Way. Whatever you say about a human being, “This is a bad one,” or, “This is a no good one,” it does not matter as what you say has no value. You have to wait to see how that human being will end. Nobody knows. Their color can change.
Allah (swt) passes judgment on His servant. Even if that person reaches their last breath, you cannot pass judgment because Allah (swt) is still The One to take them at the end of their lives when they have a few breaths left: He will be with His servant.
فَلَوْلَآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلْحُلْقُومَ
Then why don't you (intervene) when (the soul of the dying man) reaches the throat? [Surah al-Waqi`a, 56:83]
Fa law laa idhaa balaghati ‘l-hulqoom, when the soul of a dying person is being taken out, when it reaches the throat. That is why Rasoolullah (s) said repentance is accepted until you no longer have control over your body and your soul is being extracted.
وَأَنتُمْ حِينَئِذٍ تَنظُرُونَ
And while you (sit) looking on. [Surah al-Waqi`a, 56:84]
Wa antum heena’idhin tanzhuroon, “And you are looking.” People are around the bedside, looking.
وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنكُمْ وَلَـٰكِن لَّا تُبْصِرُونَ
Wa nahnu aqrabu ilayhi minkum wa laakin laa tubsiroon.
But We are nearer to him than you, yet you see not. [Surat al-Waqi`a, 56:85]
That means at the end of every person’s life, Allah (swt) is The One taking care of how His servant will pass at the end, and nobody else knows.
Look at the adab our teachers show us, how to keep good manners, etiquette, behavior, speech, conduct with everybody. Don’t say, “This one is from ahlu ‘n-naar, the People of Jahannam. He is a bad one.” Don’t pass any judgment. At the end, even Rasoolullah (s) will not interfere with the servant of Allah (swt). Itruk `abdee lee, “Leave My servant with me.” Allah (swt) is with the servant at the last breath.
“We are nearer to him than you,” means all of you, not only the common people around, but also the saints. Allah (swt) is closer to that one than the saints are, closer than the prophets are, closer than Rasoolullah (s) is. Allah (swt) takes care of His servant at the last breath.
“But you don’t see.”
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) is saying, you don’t know the color the servant will end up with, meaning ripe and sweet, or green and bitter. When you pass judgment, you are only wronging yourself, acting like a judge among servants of Allah (swt). Nobody, including prophets, can pass judgment about anybody who’s dying. No one even knows what the end of Iblees will be. He will pass everybody and fall in front of his Lord, and Allah (swt) will judge him. He can pass His Judgment by justice, “You did this, you deserve this,” or He can treat him with His Grace. Who can object? At the end, all servants will go back to Allah. Kullun ilayna raji`oon, “Everybody will return to Us.”
وَتَقَطَّعُوٓا۟ أَمْرَهُم بَيْنَهُمْ كُلٌّ إِلَيْنَا رَٰجِعُونَ
But (later generations) cut off their affair (of unity) one from another, (yet) will they all return to Us. [Surah al-Anbiya, 21:93]
If people can refrain from passing judgment on others and treat them with kindness (...) it is said that Sayyidina Zain al-`Abideen (r) was passing through a village and a man started swearing at him. Sayyidina Zain al-`Abideen did not say anything, but all the people around him jumped at the man.
Sayyidina Zain al-`Abideen said, “Wait. What he covered about us is more than what he said about us.”
Look at the humbleness of Sayyidina Zain al-`Abideen, the son of Sayyidina Husayn (r). He was Qutb, a big Waliyullah from Ahlu ‘l-Bayt. “What he did not say about us (kept hidden) is more than what he said (made public).”
Why don’t you be like this? Why don’t you think you have so many faults that Allah (swt) has covered them from others? That’s why nobody can read anybody’s mind because if they read our minds, we will be beaten and kicked out. Alhamdulillah, nobody can read my mind.
Allah (swt) is covering your faults. Sayyidina Zain al-`Abideen is teaching us humbleness. He’s not saying, “I am a big one, an imam, an `alim, a wali. I am the son of and grandson of….” He’s not saying any of that.
He came to the man with his good manners and said, “Do you have any need so we can help you?”
Look at the akhlaaq of Ahlu ‘l-Bayt, of Awliyaullah. That caused the man to become ashamed of what he had done.
Sayyidina Zain al-`Abideen covered the man with his jubba and gave him a small sack of silver coins as a gift.
The man looked at him and said, “I bear witness that you are from the sons of Rasoolullah (s).”
Why? Because they are the family of generosity and moral excellence, which he experienced firsthand.
What level is our conduct? Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) is saying, don’t pass judgment on anybody rather, treat them with your best conduct. They might turn red and sweet down the line, you never know. With Sayyidina Zain al-`Abideen, that man repented and became a humble one.
This is the barakah of our shuyookh. May Allah (swt) make us understand how Awliyaullah think, behave, and carry themselves: humbly, gently, kindly, and lightly on Earth.
وَعِبَادُ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلَّذِينَ يَمْشُونَ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ هَوْنًا وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ ٱلْجَـٰهِلُونَ قَالُوا۟ سَلَـٰمًا
And the servants of Allah Most Gracious are those who walk on the Earth in humility, and when the ignorant ones address them, they say, "Peace!" [Surah al-Furqan, 25:63]
The servants of ar-Rahman, The Most Merciful, tread lightly on Earth without anger, greed or bad thoughts in their hearts. They move along gently. When the ignorant ones address them, they say salaam.
Sayyidina Zain al-`Abideen did exactly what that holy verse advises, and Allah’s advice is best. If you need advice in your life, it is Allah’s kalaam, words, but we need somebody to help us understand, which Awliyaullah do though their conduct.
Some imposter's claim they can make you understand by their words, when they don’t know and then you don’t know! The first trouble they get in, they get mad and angry at everybody. In Umrah when you perform tawaaf, someone pushes you, another cuts in front of you, changing your direction to here or there. When that happened I stretched out my arm to block them, which is also wrong but it was to protect my family.
Awliyaullah teach you to not be like that. When the ignorant ones speak, say salama, the best, say what makes them happy and safe from you. When you say, “As-salamu `alaykum,” what does that mean? “You are safe from me. No harm will come from me to you.”
The munafiq, hypocrite, shakes hands and says, “As-salamu `alaykum,” but they are thinking, “All harm will come from me to you.” When you give salam, you show your hand which has no weapon, no sword. “There is nothing in my hand. It’s empty. No harm to you.”
Sayyidina Zain al-`Abideen applied that holy verse on this conduct. When a jaahil, ignorant one, addressed him with cursing and rudeness, he said, “No harm will come to you from me; rather, ikraam will come.”
Rasoolullah (s) said, “Counter the one who is bad to you with goodness,” ahsan ila man assa ilayk. He applied Qur'an al-Kareem and the Sunnah. This is Waliyullah, the `alim that knows his level is not above others. May Allah (swt) forgive us.
When somebody gives you something, we tell a person for example, “You have covered us with your generosity.” When somebody is generous to you, you say, “Thank you. You’ve outdone yourself. You have given us so much.”
What about Allah (swt)? Your saying such a thing should first be to Him. You have to say, “Yaa Rabbee! You have given me so much of Your Rahmah and Grace that I am totally ghamaratana, under it. Thank you.” May Allah (swt) make us from the people that thank Him all the time.
When you are on the way out from this life, Allah (swt) is with you. When somebody dies, three things remain with him: the purity of his heart, which is the heart of Zain al-`Abideen. Be like him. The second is your intimacy, happiness and tranquility with Dhikrullah. How much peace do you get in your heart when you mention your Lord? That stays with you on the way out. When you remember your Lord, you’re in total peace leaving this world. That is uns. The third is Mahabbatullah.
In Tariqah, we work on these three things. When we make Dhikrullah, we are in total peace, happy, and tranquil. If you have not reached that yet, force yourself to find that tranquility with Dhikrullah. Allah (swt) says, “If you mention Me, your heart will have tuma’neenah, tranquility.”
In Tariqah, we practice these three things: purity of the heart as Awliyaullah have practiced; feeling tranquil with dhikrullah; and we practice loving our Lord by remembering His favors upon us.
We are deep under His favors and grace. When you practice these three things, that's what you find on the way out. Inshaa-Allah, Allah (swt) will purify our hearts from anything other than Him.
I read a story the other day about an `alim from Bani Israel who gathered seventy trunks filled with books. Allah (swt) revealed to Sayyidina Musa (a), “Tell him that if he had seventy times more than what he has now, it will not benefit him if he has these three things in his heart:
1. Love of this world, hubbu ‘d-dunya. If an `alim loves this dunya, his `ilm has not benefited him because you have to gain the love of Allah (swt).
2. If he is a friend of Shaytan. If so, he immerses himself in the pleasures of this world.
3. If he hurts Muslims and/or others.
All of the `ilm he gathered in those trunks is of no benefit. How many people nowadays say they completed Sahih Bukhari? Why do you make khatm when, if you practice one Hadith it is enough for you to go to Jannah. Okay, you learn more, but it will not benefit you if you hurt somebody, or befriend Shaytan, or immerse yourself in the wealth, pleasure, prestige and fame of this world.
That won't benefit you, O `alim! What benefits is the intimacy you get when you remember Allah (swt), dhikrullah. Mahabbatullah will protect the purity of your heart from anything related to this world that is fleeting.
Try to be like that, O insaan, O Muslim. Try to be like Awliyaullah. Counter with goodness. Give to the one who has not given to you. Rasoolullah (s) also said, “Give to the one that deprived you.” Be good to the one that was bad to you and forgive the one that oppressed you. Look at the high morals of the teachings of the Prophet of Islam.
Now Muslims are not practicing the Sunnah. They look at other Muslims and say, “What bad people they are.” They do not practice the conduct of Awliyaullah who are in front them. If you know the story of Sayyidina Zain al-`Abideen (r), it is enough for you. Somebody attacked him with words and he did not respond with badness. Rather, he gave him what he had out of generosity and said, “No harm will come to you from me.”
How are Muslims behaving nowadays? May Allah (swt) forgive us and send us that imam who will teach us the way of the Prophet (s), the conduct of Ahlu ‘l-Bayt, of Sahaabah-i-Kiraam, of Awliyaullah, which is, the true conduct of Muslims.
Ameen, yaa Rabbi ‘l-`Alameen. Bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.
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