Sufism and Tasawwuf - Naqshbandi Sufi Way

Every Human Being was Granted the Light of Prophet (s)!

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

31 August 2012 Nairobi, Kenya

Suhbah before `Isha at Private Residence (2)

Parts Translated from Arabic

I will speak briefly in Arabic two or three words:

Bismillahi ‘r-Rahmani ‘r-Raheem, alhamdulillah rabbi ’l-`alameen wa ’s-salaat wa ’s-salaam `ala ashrafi ’l-mursaleen. We praise Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and his Family (r) and all his Companions (r). First of all, we Praise Him for His Favors, the outward ones and the inner ones. We testify there is no God except Allah, Who is One without partner, and there are none to compare to Him in His Greatness and His Dominion! We hope He will bring us to be with Sayyidina Muhammad (s) in this very moment in dunya and in the grave and in the Hereafter!

This is a gathering for praising Sayyidina Muhammad (s), and those who praise him will receive rewards that cannot be counted or described in any way!

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Man salla `alayya marratan sall’Llahu `alayhi bihaa `asharah.

Whoever exalts me one time, Allah will exalt him ten times.

What is the understanding of “ten times”? It means that with one praise on the Prophet (s) we expect the Mercy of Allah and we seek from Allah to bless us with that one salaat and to put that in our Scale on Judgment Day. And it is not possible for anyone to measure or weigh that one salaat of Allah (swt) or to understand its value except Him!

Therefore, Allah wants to inform the Prophet (s) of the strength of His love to him, although our salawaat, which is filled with all kinds of dunya thoughts and inattention, is incomparable to the praises Allah returns upon us. That’s why whoever praises Prophet (s) once, Allah (swt) returns it ten times but with Divine salawaat, leaving you with no sin. So good tidings to those who make salawaat upon Prophet (s)!

Don't be surprised at what one of the awliya said, and some of you are translating what is being said in your language, so let me conclude with praises upon Prophet (s). The Companions (r) saw Prophet (s) (with their eyes) and accurately related several things about him.

The reason for our rationalization … it took time to compile all these Prophetic sayings until the time of Sayyidina Isma`eel al-Bukhari (r), when he compiled four thousand ahadith, but this does not mean there weren't more than that number, due to the short lifespan. Nevertheless, he only recorded each narration after seeing Prophet (s) in his dream. So they (pious narrators) took from Prophet (s) directly, as did the Companions (r).

Allah (swt) said:

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Alaa inna awliyaaullaahi laa khawfun `alayhim wa laa hum yahzanoon.

Behold! Verily on the friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve.

(Surah Yunus, 10:62)

Awliya have no fear or sadness because they are continuously connected to Prophet (s). Prophet told one wali after he completed reading Dala’il al Khayrat 100,000 times, “O Muhammad al-Talmaysani! If you read this Salaat al-Faatih, it is as if you read Dala’il al Khayrat 800,000 times!” That salawat is:

Salat al-Fatih, Salutation of the Victor

(Read at least 1 time daily or 10 times after `Isha)

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Allahumma salli `ala Sayyidina MuhammadMuhammadini 'l-fatihi lima ughliq wa 'l-khatimi lima sabaq, nasiri 'l-haqqi bi 'l-haqq wa 'l-hadi ila siratika 'l-mustaqim wa `ala alihi haqqa qadrihi wa miqdarihi ’l-`azhim.

O Allah! Bless our Master MuhammadMuhammad who opened what was closed and who sealed what had gone before; he makes the truth victorious by the truth and he is the guide to Your Straight Path, and bless his Household as it befits his immense stature and splendor.

(Speaks English.)

There is no comparison between your salawaat and that of Allah (swt)! “O Muhammad! Continue to beseech Allah for your nation and I will grant them ten times the reward for each time they make salawaat upon you!”

Put yourself here in respect to your salawaat and Allah’s salawaat; is there a comparison? No way, there is no comparison between your salawaat and Allah’s salawaat on Prophet (s)! Allah (swt) gave it to Prophet (s) as a reward, saying, “Yaa Rasoolullah! You are afraid for your ummah! You always ask Me ‘ummatee, ummatee!’ I’m going to give your ummah something that they are going to be happy with: whoever makes one salawaat on you, I’m going to give him ten salawaat in return!”

Do you think when Allah (swt) sends back the salawaat that it will not clean us completely? If you say one time “astaghfirullah,” Allah (swt) will forgive you from sins you have done during that day. What do you think about when Prophet (s) said, “If you say ‘laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah’ you will enter Paradise.” So how about the weight of Allah’s salawaat upon you? There is no scale that can carry Allah’s salawaat! Even a letter of Holy Qur’an cannot be carried by a scale! Holy Qur’an is Allah’s Divine Words! Is the Holy Qur’an created or not created? It’s ghayra ‘l-makhlooq, not created. Since Holy Qur’an is not created, it means the Qur’an is Allah’s Holy Words that He revealed to Prophet (s).

His Words, how He read them and how He spoke them we don’t know, only Allah knows! But we know they are Divine Words. If you say “Bismillah” or “ba,” it’s a Divine Word. Allah rewarded the Arab ummah and the Muslims in general by using the Arabic alphabet, as the Holy Qur’an is being recited from the Arabic alphabet. So anyone who recited even one letter from Holy Qur’an, there is no scale that can carry that letter, so what you think about a word? If you say “alhamdu,” is there any scale for that? Allah is saying “Alhamduli’ee,” which means, “Alhamdulillah to Me.” He is glorifying Himself by Himself!

If He says “alhamdulillah” and we repeat “alhamdulillah,” do you think Allah is not forgiving us from all kinds of mistakes and sins? If we say “Rabbi ‘l-`alameen,” we are saying from us, confirming (...video cut...) that phone is ringing...if we need a system for communication, Allah gave Prophet (s) a heavenly communication for everyone. At least respect your Prophet (s) to have the power of a telephone! But they don’t respect or appreciate.

All of you have emails that go to a server. If Google or Yahoo can give millions and billions of emails and it is a dunya invention by some engineers, what do you think about Allah? He didn’t give his Prophet (s) a server? When he said, “I observe the `amal of my ummah,” it means “I’m seeing your emails and I have a connection to you directly from my heart to your heart. If I see they are good, I say, ‘Yaa Rabbee, Subhaanak! Yaa Rabbee, alhamdulillah.’ If I see something bad from them, I ask forgiveness for them.”

So he has a contact with us or not? He doesn’t need a server as Allah gave him that power. If he gave it to Google, Allah didn’t give to Prophet (s) a bigger, heavenly power for the one who went to Qaaba Qawsayni aw Adnaa? What is there? No distance. What does ‘no distance’ mean? If we say more than that, they will say it is shirk. That’s why Allah (swt) in Holy Qur’an made it to have a distance, saying, “Muhammad is My Servant and I am his Lord.” So there is a distance. But he said in Holy Qur’an, Qaaba Qawsayni aw Adnaa. No distance but there is a distance.... but a small distance, like epsilon.

If you are happy with your friend, you trust him and you might tell him your secret. If you have a son you love so much and he is very pious, you tell him only your secrets or everything? Everything. You can tell your secrets but not all, you can keep some. What do you think about the one Allah created before all creation from His Light, Siffat an-Noor. He created the Noor of Muhammad. What He gave him?

(Speaks Arabic.)

So what do you think about Prophet (s), who is created from Allah's Light in Bahr ul-Qudrah, where He taught him from `Uloom al-Awwaleen wa ‘l-Aakhireen, the Esoteric Knowledges of First and Lasts that cannot be known to anyone? We did not read in the Qur’an any verse that Prophet (s) ever asked Allah (swt) to allow him to see Him, or asked him any question, not even to absolve his wife `Ayesha (from scandal)! He is a human being, but not like any other human being because The One Teaching Him is not a human being!

(Speaks English.)

Excuse me for speaking in Arabic; they turned my tongue. We were making Mawlid and for sure the holy presence of Prophet (s) was there, because you can feel something different. That is barakah of the majlis, and that barakah does not come every time, but the presence of his Holy Hair will bring Prophet’s attention!

Everyone is taking from Prophet (s), and this is a property that is very special to him (His Holy Hair) and everyone can take from him, Muslim or non-Muslim. All Prophets (a), all awliya and every human being takes from Prophet (s), because the human being is created on fitrah, purity, which means everyone has Islam in their heart, Muslims and non-Muslims, but Muslims acted on it ( heard the order and obeyed), while non-Muslims are repelled from it.

That is why the Prophet (s) said:

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Yoolidu al-insaanu `ala ‘l-fitra fa imma abawaahu yuhawwidaanihi aw yunasaraanihi aw yumajjisaanih.

Human beings are born on fitrah, innocence; either his parents make him Jewish or Christian or Zoroastrian. (Muslim)

But he didn't mention parents will make him Muslim, because he is Muslim in nature, because of the fitra.

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Inna ad-deena `inda Allaahi al-islaam.

The religion in Allah’s view is Islam (submission to His Will). (Surat Aali-`Imraan, 3:19)

Islam is the fitra what Allah (swt) gave every human being, so that Light is there. That is why when you tell them you are a convert, they say, “You are a REvert,” which means you came back to your origin, to Allah (swt) and His Prophet (s). They reconnect to that Light.

May Allah (swt) guide us and connect us to the Light!

Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq, bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.

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