How to Have Inner Peace
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
1 May 2013 London, UK
Maghrib Suhbah at Hounslow Mosque
(Suhbah starts on video @ 11:00.)
The best is in when people honor their prophet. (Recites salawaat and du`a.) I have been asked to speak about “How to Navigate the Turbulence and to Have Inner Peace,” but I said, “What is that?” I didn’t understand the topic and it’s too heavy of a topic! How to have inner peace? How to navigate the turbulences? Today we have a GPS system to navigate through Europe or London, the “Tom-Tom.” If Tom-Tom can navigate you through Earth, cannot the Prophet (s) navigate the whole universe toward Heaven?
Once I was driving with someone and the Tom-Tom came out first in California; it was made in California and I know the engineer who invented the Tom-Tom, his name is Simon, he was non-Muslim, British, and he took shahaadah. He designed the first Tom-Tom, although he didn't tell me, and we were in the car and he had something by the window, and I heard a lady’s voice in the car saying, “Go right, go left.”
I said, “Simon, what is this? Do you have a lady in the trunk?”
He said, “No, this is a GPS navigation system I am developing and you are the first one to hear it!”
I said, “Can a lady navigate us on Earth?”
The Prophet (s) said:
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Inna lillaahi malaa’ikatu yatufoona fi’t-turuq yatalamasoona ahli’dh-dhikr ...Fa yahuffoonahum bi ajnihatihim ila ‘s-samaai ‘d-dunya...
Allah (swt) has angels roaming around the majaalis adh-dhikr, circles of dhikr. When they see a group of people sitting and remembering Allah (swt), they sit with them, then they spread their wings over them up to the lowest Heaven.
And according to Prophet (s), Allah (swt) said:
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Anaa jaleesu man dhakaranee.
I sit with him who remembers me. (Ahmad, Bayhaqi)
“I am with the one who mentioned Me.” How do we mention Allah (swt)? By mentioning Prophet (s). We say, “laa ilaaha illa-Llah” and it cannot be complete without also saying, “Muhammadun rasoolullah”.
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Afdalu 'dh-dhikri laa ilaaha illa-Llaah.
The best remembrance of Allah is to say,“There is no god but Allah.” (Tirmidhi)
The best of dhikr is “laa ilaaha illa-Llah,” so to navigate the turbulences, as people are sufferiing because of too much turbulence, like you go on a plane and the captain says, “Fasten your seat belt.” What is our seat belt? Go to end of dunya with technology and you cannot save yourself as there is only one seat belt to save the universe! Connect to that seat belt and you are in safety, but if you don't connect to that seat belt, bye-bye! That means go and look, search. If angels are searching for good people and Allah made them to search for good people, where are they? Doesn't Allah know where the good people are? Yes, but He wants His angels to join them and mention their names up to the Day of Judgment, and their dhikrullah is written for all of them!
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Qul in kuntum tuhibboona 'Llaaha fattabi`oonee yuhbibkumullaahu wa yaghfir lakum dhunoobakum w 'Allaahu Ghafooru 'r-Raheem.
Say (O Muhammad), "If you (really) love Allah, then follow me! Allah will love you and forgive your sins, and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Surat Aali-'Imraan, 3:31)
And ittib`a is not easy. I see it very difficult for me, as how can I talk about the Prophet (s) and my tongue is all the day brushed with sins? How can I speak about the Best of Creation (s)? Who am I? I don’t deserve except to be by the shoes there. The Prophet (s) is the One who went and who is still in Ascension and never his Ascension stops, and if they say it stops they are limiting Allah’s (swt) Greatness! The Prophet’s (s) Ascension is continuous, every moment he is in Ascension, in his life then and his life now. How do we know about his greatness? Many ayat and of course the whole Qur’an speaks about Prophet (s). He never asked anything from Jibreel (a) and he never said to anyone of his Sahaabah (r), “Laa!” Lam yaqul laa fee hayyatih, he never said, “No,” but he goes like a waterfall running into the ocean (without resistance), making the people polished with his magnificent waterfall of majestic power in which Allah dressed him!
He (s) is the Light of the Universe!
He (s) is the Light of Heavens and Earth!
He (s) is the Light of Lights!
He (s) is the Heavenly Light!
He (s) is the Heavenly Power that when Allah created his Light,
He put it in Bahr al-Qudra!
He put it in the Ocean of Power,
Al-Qadir! Al-Muqtadir put Muhammad (s) there.
And that Light was turning and turning.
Go and read ibn `Asakir’s (r) hadith about that Light of Muhammad (s)! In the Musannaf of `Abdur-Razzaq, it is explained in detail why that Light was turning. Why is it turning? Why is it indicated in the hadith that it is turning? Can I carry this (object)? Might be. If it weighs one ton, can I carry it? No. Why not? Because no power, but a crane can carry it. What made the crane able to carry one ton? The source of energy that is running the engine makes everything possible. A big crane can carry 10 tons, 100 tons, 1,000 tons; you have huge cranes. So are there no Heavenly cranes in the hands of awliyaullah that they use to carry?
Why was the Prophet (s) turning, turning in Bahr al-Qudra? From that Light of the Prophet (s) was turning in Bahr al-Qudra and producing energy as he turned, and turned and turned, from that Light Allah created Creation, turning and turning, producing energy, and Allah made the Big Bang. What is the Big Bang? It is when Allah (swt) said “Kun!” and it immediately it happened! What happened? All these gases came together and there was a big explosion. What happened? What happened!? A big explosion.
Now if you have an explosion outside, the glass shatters in every direction. If you bring an instrument inside, which is a vacuum with no air inside, nothing, it is empty, and you take a ball and push it, it will go forever, it does not stop because there is no irritation (friction). When there is no irritation it goes along smoothly until it hits some irritation. Study physics. It moves because there is no irritation. So what are the irritations that make us stop? They are the sins!
Allah (swt) said:
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Sakhkhara lakum maa fi ’s-samaawaati wa maa fi 'l-ardi jamee`an.
We subject to you whatever is in Heavens and in the Earth. (Surat al-Jaathiya, 45:13)
Allah has given to every one of us the power to control dunya and the universe, wa sakhkhara lakum maa fi ’s-samaawaati wa maa fi 'l-ardi jamee`an, He makes under your control what is in Samawaat (Heavens) and what is in Araadeen (earths), but we are sitting in our places as the irritation of our sins prevents us from moving! When the ball is irritated by the push with the energy, and energy doesn’t die, energy moving, so the energy that the Light of Prophet (s) was producing made the Big Bang explosion that shattered and all sorts of stars, the Earth, planets, everything came out of it. This is known in physics, but Who stopped them in their places? If I throw this it goes, but it stopped in the vacuum, in the universe, so kind of driving force in the opposite side stopped it? Who stopped the Earth in its place? Who made the Earth turn around the axle to create day and night? What kind of fuel makes the Earth keep turning? Did we think about that? What made the Moon to turn around Earth, to make the months, to know when is Mawlid an-Nabawi, to make Rajab, Sha`ban and Ramadan? Who made Earth and the Moon to turn around the Sun, giving us years? Who is behind that? Who is the one that Allah gave him the knowledge of that, the one to whom Jibreel (a) came and said, “Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem, yaa Muhammad! Allah is revealing for you Surat Maryam.”
Jibreel (s) said, “Kaaf,’” and Prophet (s) said, `alimtu, “I knew that.” Jibreel (s) said, “Haa,” qaala `alimtu. Jibreel (s) said, “Yaa,” qaala `alimtu. Jibreel (s) said, “`Ayn,” qaala `alimtu. Jibreel (s) said, “Saad,” qaala `alimtu.
Jibreel (a) said, “I am saying to Prophet (s) ‘Kaaf’ and he says, ‘`alimtu.’ He was so astonished, wondering, “How did he know it before me? Allah is revealing the Qur’an, saying, ‘Kaaf’ to me, and Prophet (s) says, ‘`alimtu.’”
`Alimtu what, `alimtu kaaf, only the letter? It means `alimtu, every knowledge of which the beginning letter is “kaaf.” “All knowledge in dunya and in Heavens that Allah has created that begins with Kaaf, and the Prophet (s) said, “I knew it.”
What begins with Kaaf, O Muslims? Kun begins with Kaaf. It means when Allah (swt) said, “Kaaf!” He wants to say, “Kun.”
Wa amroo bayna al-kaafi wa ‘n-noon.
All knowledge is between the Kaaf and the Noon.
When He said, “Kaaf,” Prophet (s) knew everything and not one thing was left unknown to him. Immediately he was dressed with that knowledge as when Allah (swt) gives knowledge, He gives and that one doesn’t need to study or to go to a university. He makes you ready; He made awliyaullah ready: they don’t need to study this or study that. He makes their heart speak on their tongues; they don’t speak from the mind to the tongue, they speak from the heart.
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Maa wasi`anee ardee wa laa samaa'ee wa laakin wasi`anee qalbi `abdee al-mu'min.
Neither My Heavens nor My Earth contain Me, but the heart of My believing servant contains Me.
(Hadith Qudsi, Al-Ihya of Imam al-Ghazali)
Allah (swt) explained that Light as:
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Allaahu nooru 's-samaawaati wa 'l-ardi mathala noorihi kamishkaatin feehaa misbaah.
Allah is the Light of the Heavens and Earth. The parable of His Light is as if there were a niche and within it a lamp. (Surat an-Noor, 24:35)
The example of His Light is Muhammad (s). Mathala noorihi kamishkaatin feehaa misbaah, it is like a bundle of many planets, many lamps, and in the middle there is one shining Lamp, and that is the example of His Light. Who is the example of His Light? Sayyidina Muhammad (s)!
O Muslims, we don’t know our Prophet (s) and we don't know the miracles that he brought! He said to us, “Do you want to purify yourself?” Do you? Yes, so make wudu! Can you pray without wudu? Why did he order us to make tahleel al-asabi`, to rub our hands when we make wudu? Do you rub your hands together or not? Because on one palm of our hand is “18” and on the other palm is “81” (in Arabic numbers). Look at your hands. On one side is 18, on the other side 81. So add it: 1 + 8 = 9 and 8 + 1 = 9 so it is 99, the 99 Names of Allah that you will be activating with your wudu! When you take wudu, you are activating the knowledge that Allah will throw in your heart of His Ninety-nine Beautiful Names and Attributes, but still we are stubborn and still running away from Allah’s Presence, although He says to us, “Come!”
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Qul yaa `ibadiyaa ’Lladheena asrafoo `alaa anfusihim laa taqnatoo min rahmatillaahi inna Allaaha yaghfiru ’dh-dhunooba jamee`an innahu huwa ’l-ghafooru ‘r-raheem.
Say, "O my Servants who have transgressed against their souls! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah, for Allah forgives all sins for He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” (Surat al-Zumar, 39:53)
Say to them, O Muhammad, “Qul!” another qul. “Say, yaa `ibadee! Where are you going? You are going to come back to Me,” Qul yaa `ibadiyaa ’Lladheena asrafoo `alaa anfusihim, “Those who run away from Me, all their lives they were running after their pleasures, but don’t lose hope. Come back to Me and I will forgive you!”
It is not me saying this, it is the ayah. So activate that by rubbing your hands in wudu in order to pray your prayers, because numbers are very important in Holy Qur'an. How many ayats are there in Holy Qur'an? 6,666 ayats and if add them up, you get 24 and 2 + 4 = 6. So what is in 6? Allah created Heavens and Earth in six days! It means Allah gave you the secret of Heavens and Earth in the Holy Qur’an.
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Alladhee khalaqa ‘s-samaawaati wa ‘l-arda wa maa baynahumaa fee sittati ayyaamin
He Who created the Heavens and Earth and all that is between in six days. (Suratu ‘l-Furqaan, 25:59)
How many surahs are in the Holy Qur'an? 114. Add them, 1 + 1 + 4 = 6. Subhaan-Allah, what kind of knowledge did the Prophet (s) bring? How can we understand if we don't even understand numbers? 99 = 18 + 81, so add 1 + 8 = 9 and 9 in numerology is zero: to submit to Allah’s Beautiful Names and Attributes, you become zero. If you are not zero, if you have ego in you, you are not yet perfect or completed:
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Innamaa bu`ithtu li utammimu makaarim al-akhlaaq.
The Prophet (s) said: I have been sent to perfect the best of conduct (your behavior and character). (Bazzaar)
“I have been sent to complete and perfect your manners,” which means when you are not submitting and becoming zero, you still have an-nafsu ammaaratan bi 's-soow.
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Inna ‘n-nafsa la-ammaaratun bi ‘s-soow.
The (human) soul is certainly prone to evil (Surat Yusuf, 12:53)
O Muslims! Jibreel (a) was surprised when he said the first letter, “Kaaf,” and the Prophet (s) said, “I knew it already so don’t continue, I knew everything.” But Jibreel (a) had to continue as that is Allah’s Order. And what is the first letter of the alphabet? Alif. And what is the last letter? Yaa. So what is Allah’s Beautiful Name, the Name that encompasses all Names, al-Ismu Jamee` was-Safaat? “Allah.” Alif is the beginning of “Allah,” standing. Allah khaliqu kullu shay, He is Creator of All Things. Alif is the first letter and Yaa is the last letter, and between the Alif and Yaa, all knowledge is there, all letters of Holy Qur’an are inside. Is there any other letter in the Holy Qur’an except what is between Alif and Yaa? So then all knowledge begins with Alif and ends with Yaa, correct?
Who is Alif, the first letter of His Name “Allah”, and Yaa is the first letter of whose name? Muhammad Yaseen! Between Alif and Yaa, all knowledge is inside.
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Yaseen wa‘l-qur’ani l-hakeem.
Yaseen. By the wise Qur'an. (Surah Yaseen, 36:1-2)
He `atafa Holy Qur’an over Yaseen, He put Holy Qur'an equal to Yaseen and put them together, waw harf `atif. Yaseen wa ‘l-qur’ani ‘l-hakeem. “Yaseen and the Holy Qur'an,” innaka lamin al-mursaleen, speaking to Yaseen. So what is the first letter of his name? Yaa. All knowledge is between Alif and Yaa, and ‘all knowledge’ means coming from Allah (swt) all the way to Prophet (s), because the knowledge is coming to the Yaa, to Muhammad (s), to Yaseen. So from Alif to Baa, Taa, Thaa...all knowledge of the alphabet