17 Ramadan 1427/9 October 2006
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-riyaadah, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid
Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-Rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum
S
o in the previous session we said that Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani ? and that plague coming to the city and because of that plague 100,000 people going to die. Awliyaullah Allah I gave them specialty that thru their du`as Allah I life’s bala, afflictions, from whole cities because of the presence of these saints.
There are 124,000 saints that Allah I has put around the world and you don’t know them unless you search for them. You might find one, you might find two, you might find ten.
But these saints know each other if they don’t know physically they know spiritually. There is an assembly, diwaan al-awliya, that meets at the time of shortly before the time of Salaat an-Najaat. They meet in the presence of the Prophet e and in that meeting they look after the needs of the human race; and not only the human race, but after all things living and nonliving, oceans, plants, trees, animals.
There are five big saints, five pillars, five qutbs that look after the needs of humanity and order the other saints to work it out.
Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani ? is one of the great saints of the Naqshbandi order and he was living in Merv and that is about one hour from Bukhara in Uzbekistan. He has a big school to teach Sufi students, free and he was rich. He looked and saw that a great plague coming and 100,000 going to die, the whole village is going to die.
He was looking between his mureeds and he didn’t find except to that are going to do something that will accept his order. Because many mureeds when you tell them to do something, they feel something, there is still sickness, why me, why not the other one. The awliya know the hearts of their students who can take the order and who cannot. And Grandshaykh said I have two I can order them anything and they will do it even if they have to sacrifice themselves. And by Allah’s I grace he mentioned the name of my brother and myself, it is not up to us but up to them.
So he mentioned these two mureeds to bring their oxes and slaughter them and skin them and then write some verses of holy Qur’an on them and then the plague will first come on them, as when thunder comes, there is a bar, lightning bolt? Lightning rod. So that shows immediately and the lightning goes there and disappears, goes to the ground. If that is not there it might hit and then the whole village burn, burns one house and then burns whole village. Like when you are flying an airplane what do they tell you if there is a storm? [To go around the storm or the plane will be destroyed] so you go around the storm. So he needs something like that lightning rod, and that skin of the oxen will be like that to take the plague completely and then they will be saved. So they had to sacrifice these two oxen and to do what they were told.
So this is Shaykh Adnan ?, and he put that on his name, and on my name, so Grandshaykh said, that Shaykh Adnan ? said, “O my Shaykh, my ox is fatter and heavier so begin with it.” And Grandshaykh said that word was not respectful to awliyaullah. Because he said “my” [ox].
There is no “my” in tariqah. There is nothing that is yours. You have to say “ours.” You cannot say “my” tape recorder. Even to that extent. Not my beads, not “my” tape. Nothing belongs to you. Everything belongs to Allah I, Allah’s I favor he gave to you. So you cannot say it is mine. He can take it anytime. Allah I gave you that. That is not my restaurant. That is everyone’s restaurant. So give them free food. You cannot say it is “my” concert, “my” program. Allah I gave him that ability to do that concert. So if people come and don’t have money let them in, don’t block them. They want to listen, they are poor, don’t tell them go away. Someone knock at your door, you have to offer them something not like what you did before.
One day we went and I was with Hajjah and Umar and Nazim. He went and we were waiting like beggars. And he came and having coke and French fries, eating drinking. What is this Ahmed Fouad? He said, “These are my French fries. My coke.”
No, there is nothing like that. If there is someone comes and he is hungry give him what you have even you don’t have more. When someone came to the door of the Prophet e asking for something to eat, they didn’t have anything. The wife of the Prophet e looked and they didn’t have anything except these 2-3 dates. So what she has to do, she gave. Then Prophet e came and there was noting to eat. And the Prophet e was happy with her.
There was lady after time of Prophet e. That lady bakes 3 breads every day. She eats one in morning and one in evening and a beggar comes to her door and knock and she gives as sadaqa. This was her life. One day, she became very old. She backed three breads. She was going to eat one in morning and one person came and knocked asking sadaqa. And she gave him one bread. And then waiting the usual on that comes every day asking sadaqa and left one for him. Then she said, there will be one for me, and cut in half and said one for morning and one for the evening. As soon that happened—she cut it in half—another person came and was asking sadaqa. So she gave him that third loaf and saved the two cut pieces for the usual one and that day she didn’t eat.
Don’t say, “I don’t have cash money,” pull your credit card. Don’t say, “I don’t have,” then give the credit card. Give, some how. Then that night the angel of death came to take her soul. There are three places where the angel of death comes to take soul. Either from the mouth, the belly or the toes. As soon as he came to the mouth to take her soul a bread came and covered her mouth. He went to belly to take her soul, and another loaf came and blocked him. Finally went to toe… a voice same, that servant of mine because she gave sadaqa, I am increasing her life, leave her alone.
So the Prophet e said, “Sadaqa relives affliction and gives long life.” Don’t say mine, mine, Grandshaykh said, “Say it is ours.” Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq ? said to that mureed, “Don’t say it is mine. Or else I will throw you out of tariqah.”
Even today you drink coffee; you say, “That is my coffee.” What is your coffee? Still that “I” is there. It might not be your coffee. Someone comes you give to him. So you cannot say that is “my” coffee. Everything must be for Allah I. You don’t know when someone comes knocking, and asking, you don’t know if that is a wali coming in the form of a beggar and wants to take difficulty in form of donation. That is why many people go into troubles and difficulties because that one came and asked sadaqa and you kicked him out. He is coming to take that difficulty away. Especially here in stoplights. They stand and write homeless. Don’t look they use in way of Allah I or not, or they are drinking or not. Just give it for Allah I. So keep small change. Keep giving morning to evening it never ends. In Indonesia, they come knocking at the window. Is it correct Holland? [Correct]
So Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani ? wrote verses of Qur’an and put them in places that can be seen from the village. Grandshaykh is saying that is mata` ad-dunya qaleel. The joys of this world are little.
And when you carry something from mat`a ad-dunya heavens will not be open for you. That is why Grandshaykh is giving an example of this to teach us to give.
He said that Sayyidina `Isa u was raised to heaven. He was supposed to be raised to Sidrat al-muntaha, the highest level. But when he reached the first level, Allah I ordered the angels to check him, security. Everyone has security in his territory. That is Sayyidina `Isa u why are you checking him. He is teaching us, I cannot accept anyone in Paradise bringing wealth of dunya and it cannot accept any sin.
So as soon as he reached the first heaven the security said “checkup.” They don’t need these machines; as soon as he came they sent the angelic detectors. They said, “Ya Rabbee, his dress made of 70 patches and he is clean.” Allah I said, “Search him another time.” They used their power and searched another time. “O Ya Rabbee, we found something. We found a needle and thread.” Allah I said, “Keep him then in the first Paradise,” because Paradise cannot accept dunya property.
So imagine how we are going to be asked. How much we are carrying with us. We are carrying like 100 camel loads when we are going to akhira. When angels coming and checking what are you carrying. That is why Allah I gave us istighfaar 300 times. That is why in the morning we say istaghfirullah al-`adheem wa atooboo ilayh. I am repenting of what I did, that is enough to clean you of sins of 24 hours. That is the way to clean yourself. So you come on Judgment Day clean.
So Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq ? said to take the two oxes and write the verses of holy Qur’an and that took that affliction and the whole city was saved.
That suhbat was a sign to us to send to Rizal to slaughter two oxes on that site, the mud site and distribute the meat to the poor people there and let the write after they clean the skin, let them with ink, not normal ink, but zafraan ink, saffron ink, they mix with water and they write there, seven verses of Surah Yasin from beginning and seven verses from the end and ten verses from Surat al-Kahf and 10 verses from end of Surat al-Kahf. And an imam can write. And then the 4 Quls, Surat al-Kaafiroon, Surat al-Ikhlaas Surat al-Falaq Surat an-Naas. And at the end al-Fatiha.
Let them take Zamhori there to recite the Du`a al-Mathoor of Sultan al-Awliya, Grandshaykh du`a, all of it from the awraad book and Insha-Allah with baraka of Sayyidina Abdullah Khaliq ? and baraka of Grandshaykh and baraka of all awliya and baraka of Prophet e that mud will stop. That is coming today on the 18th of Ramadan.
Saffron when you dissolve in water it becomes yellow. Take that and write on inside of skin. Even if it doesn’t show, it doesn’t matter. But important that the water stays there. Then leave under the sun and the skin will absorb the ayahs. Leave that skin there on a high place on that site and the mud will become less and less. Zamhori can write it.
So Grandshaykh said, that these 70,000 to 100,000 people who were going to die in the time of Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq ?, Allah I saved them by the way that Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq ? did. And he said that because he did that now he is responsible on them and to carry them and he will be asked on their behalf as he took the authority from Allah I to take that bala so they are not dying and so he is now responsible for them and for these descendants up to Judgment Day. Who is coming from them, Sayyidina Abdul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani ? he is responsible for them. He will ask, “Ya Rasulullah e, these are my students, I am asking you to intercede for them.”
May Allah I always keep us under the authority of our shaykh and Grandshaykh in order we will be protected in dunya and akhira. Bi hurmatil-habib bi hurmatil-Fatiha.