Suhbat
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
`Ali (r) Reza come sit here. To reflect from Ahl al-Bayt.
Allahuma salli `ala Sayyidina Muhammad (s)
Audhu billah min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem
Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid
People in general, that means all of us, everyone, get sometime, not sometime, but all the time, he gets or he sees something that he doesn’t like and makes him angry, Is it not?
And this is the procedure that Allah swt has put on His servants. That you look and you try to fix, you cannot fix, you get angry. Or even you don’t need to fix, some people might get angry from anything. But in reality you are getting angry from each other. But in reality we must get angry from the one that put all these struggles and obstacles and try to make us to feel bad. And that one has 4 supporters with him that they work for him. If we know them, we can eliminate him from our life. If we don’t know his weapons, always he is shooting us.
And to know them, we might know them by name, but we might not know them by person. Because their power is so huge that they are like explosives, yo0u cannot control them. They blow you up of anger. They do all, whatever possible to make you angry they try to do it. They conspiracies against human being. Allah swt sent His messenger Sayyidina Muhammad (s), the seal of messengers, and I am always amazed by what Mawlana Shaykh and Grandshaykh Abdullah al-Fa’iz Daghestani used to explain or describe the situation that these Ottomans were in. What Allah has given them to their hearts regardless, of what they were doing or people say about them many bad things, but what concerns us is what they do for one person - so much respect that we never saw any kind of richness in what they have left more than them. No one left behind them what they left behind of respect to Sayyidina Muhammad (s).
They turned everything that relate to the Prophet Sayyidina Muhammad (s) into very high wealth of decorations, showing respect and not only that, but Grandshaykh used to say and he is still saying that “Whenever the name of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) is mentioned in their presence they stand up. Whatever meeting they have whenever the name of the Prophet Sayyidina Muhammad (s) is mentioned they stand up.” [Mawlana stands up; Doctor Jamal stands up, everyone follows] Even the Prophet’s (s) name is mentioned 100 times in a meeting they stand up. [Mawlana stands; everyone stands]
I am thinking how much the name is valuable. By mentioning the name, it moves. The name moves. Ottoman emperors, that they have conquered under them from east to west, they reached
Allah swt honored us to be from his (s) Ummah. That is a big honor. Previous nations were not honored like that.
So Allah honored us to be with the Prophet (s) [Dr. Jamal stands up], from his Ummah and to be with him on the Day of Resurrection, to be from his Ummah because he is going to intercede for his Ummah. But we are worried, “why we are taking our enemies with us to his presence?”
These four enemies, that we were just mentioning that they are tools they are weapons in someone’s hands to destroy us.
And that is Iblees.
Allah cursed him so that is why he wants to use the best that he has of weapons to make human beings to be cursed.
كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآئِقَةُ الْمَوْتِ
Kullu nafsan dha’iqat almawta – every soul shall taste of death.” Al-Imran [3:185]
Allah said in Holy Qur'an. From Adam all the way to the last human being.
And whom Allah, all jinn, all devils, mu’min jinn and devils and Allah knows in his knowledge who will be left from what we know, from seerah of Prophet that there will be no one left. The last one left is Sayyidina Israfil .
Sayyidina Azra`eel – the archangel of death - says that “If I were to feel the difficulty that the person experiences when I am taking the soul of people I would be soft with them.” But Allah covered that from him. Allah ordered him, “go get the soul!” He said, "If Allah would allow me to see what the difficulty is for the soul to be taken, I would have been soft with them.”
We must be happy, because for mu’mins, Sayyidina Azra`eel cannot take the soul without the presence of the Prophet. There is no way. Prophet was to be there, because he is the defender and the intercessor for the Ummah, of that one who believes in him and respect him and love him. We have shortcomings, we know that, our shortcomings. But we ask that Allah swt will give more and more love ot him, His Prophet and to awliyaullah in our hearts.
So these four weapons that Iblees has we have to face. Many times we bring this subject up, and people might say why we speak always on this issue why we don’t speak on Allah’s mercy. We speak on Allah’s mercy and we speak on His love and the intercession of Prophet for human being
But Allah said
وَذَكِّرْ فَإِنَّ الذِّكْرَى تَنفَعُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Wa dhakkir fa-inna adh-dhikra tanfa`u al-mumineena
But teach (thy Message) for teaching benefits the Believers. Az-Zariyat [51:55]
We remind and we bring this subject more and more. We are in a hospital. Sometimes people come and complain and the say, "O my father or my husband or my spouse or my friend .. is taking too much antibiotics.” Doctor. Don’t they come to you like that. O they are taking too much steroids.” Where is steroid doctor there? Rahimudeen left? People complain, “they are taking so much steroids.” What to do? Whenever you go to hospital, you are going to take back antibiotics, you are going to take back steroids, as the problem is still there. They want you to be cleaned of the problem or this sickness so they have to give you more injections.
So that subject comes back, because we are in that sickness, we are still having that. So by mentioning that they take it out of you - what you have developed from one week to another or one month to another or one hour to another.
Don’t say, “We cannot take it any more,” but be happy they are taking out the poison that you have accumulated in that time, that hour or day or week. They are taking and making you clean. With that wisdom Grandshaykh accepted irshad. With that wisdom Mawlana Shaykh accepted the inheritance from Grandshaykh to give irshad. They are like a
We are carrying the trail of problem behind of us for the problem we have accumulated behind. Like doctors today they have to have “tail coverage” insurance. They don’t want anyone to come from their tail and bite them. We are carrying a huge tail and we cannot see it. That tail is full of poison so that prevent you from reaching the presence of Prophet. When you have tail what that means? [pull you back] when you have tail it means what? Animal. You are animal. How is that animal. With all that animals were getting the Prophet and salaam. They were speaking with Prophet. Mountain were speaking with Prophet. Animals don’t have sin on them.
I heard from Grandshaykh that even animals are going to be judged on Judgment Day. Even a worm. They are going to be judged and asked why they were wild against each other in dunya. The tiger will be judged why you ate the buffalo. Or this one why you harmed the other one. This one is going to be judged.
But after that judgment Allah turns them into as if they never been there. They become completely earth. Except one or two. One of them is the dog of Ashab al-kahf. He will enter paradise with them. They will not leave him behind. They will take him.
The bird, the Hoodhood that brought the news of Bilqis to Sayyidina Sulayman and there are some others.
There was one wali that was saying, "O Allah treat me as an animal. Judge me and finish me and then I will not be worried about going to hellfire. There is one higher than that there is the one who said, "O Allah, I am not worshipping out fear of hell or out of desire for paradise but I am worshipping you for your love." That was the level of Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami and Sayyida Rabi`a.
It is simple if we were every day like we are just here now, if every moment of our lives was like it is now, sitting on the knees in discipline or sitting relaxed a little bit, if sitting like this and in itikaaf for sure the veils will have been opened. This is what Allah likes. If we continued on this way we will be able to cut that tail and we will be saved. As we cut that tail we will approach the nearness of presence of Prophet (s) and presence of Allah.
These enemies are self, dunya, hawa , bad desires and shaytaan, Iblees, the devil. They are under the hand of Iblees. To let them down from the hand of Iblees is to let dunya down from your hand. Drop dunya from your hand then you are able to let Iblees let them from his hand; then you are able to control them. But it is difficult decision for submission to Allah swt and to His Prophet and to His awliya.
What Hasan al-Basri said? One of the biggest saints of the early times. Eh said, "humiliate the dunya, the worldly life as much as you can humiliate it. W’Allahi la tuteeb ill ‘ba’`d ihanatiha. By god it will not be good unless you humiliate it. When you humiliate it, that means as throw that from you heart, then It will become your slave. When you are not running after it it will not run after you. When you run after someone that person will run away from you when you leave him that person comes back to you.
That is the problem we are living and this modernization and they call it civilization, is the evil. Of death. That is the modernity of poison, take as much as you like. Take poison, as much as possible it will not hurt you. That is poison.. .When is it good? That is when you drop it. When you drop it from your eyes. It means be generous in anything you are doing. Generous to Allah and His Prophet (s). Obey what Allah is saying and what the Prophet (s) is saying then you are dropping from your eyes dunya. And how to drop it and release these four weapons and destroy them? Allah sent you the Holy Qur'an.
Anyone is trying to understand the Holy Qur'an and memorize and read up to his level, keep busy with Holy Qur'an and do accordingly then you are entering in the home of Allah. That is entering Ka`batullah. Because Qur'an was revealed where? In Ka`bah in
They say no one knows these codes in the opening of chapters of Qur’an no one knows them. That code is secret and Allah gives to the awliyaullah to know. ‘Alif’ ‘lam’ ‘mim’ as soon as you say it you are in.
الم ذَلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لاَ رَيْبَ فِيهِ هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ
dhaalika al-kitabu laa rayba feeh. This is the Scripture whereof there is no doubt, a guidance unto those who ward off (evil). [2:1-2]
“There is no doubt in This Book.” “There is no doubt,” means “there is no doubt that it will open for you.”
If you have any problem go open the Holy Qur'an and read and Allah will make that problem easy. “No doubt in it, it is guidance for humanity.” It is guidance for those who yuqeemoon as-salaat, establish the prayers, and who give from what Allah provided them. From what We have provided them they give. Everywhere you read in the Holy Qur'an, you read “give, give,” Allah is saying “give!” Because it is the most difficult thing, for us to give. But people masha-Allah they have good hearts, they give. Sincerity makes people to give. So if you want to see how sincere you are see how much you give. Then you are under that khitaab:
الم ذَلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لاَ رَيْبَ فِيهِ هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ وَيُقِيمُونَ الصَّلاةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ يُنفِقُونَ والَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِمَا أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ وَمَا أُنزِلَ مِن قَبْلِكَ وَبِالآخِرَةِ هُمْ يُوقِنُونَ
You will be under that address, what Allah has said in Holy Qur'an and this is His Words. It is not created words. You have to be very careful in understanding this soft subtle subject here. There are things that are created and there are things uncreated. Holy Qur'an is uncreated - it is Allah’s Kalamullah al-qadeem - It is Allah’s Ancient Words. So he is saying, it and imagine, no don’t imagine but think, when you are reading the Holy Qur'an, you are reading Allah’s Words. How Allah wants to punish someone who read His Words?
There was one story but not story but real story. There was one who was a big troublemaker in his village in Rashadiyya in the place Grandshaykh used to live. That person was a burglar. His wife was pregnant when he died. And when he died they buried him and they used to hear moaning, sobbing, coming from his grave. They hear that coming from the grave. And the whole village can hear that voice. And in winter there is snow there. And on his grave the snow used to melt. There it is a hafar min hufur an-niraan. You cannot put your hand on his grave, it will burn you.
After seven years that stopped. Why it stopped? Because after he died, his wife who had been pregnant delivered a boy and when that boy became seven she sent him to study Holy Qur'an. First of all the imam didn’t want to take him because it is well known the father was burglar and killer. And then he said, "what that has to do with his father? He is innocent.” So he began to teach the boy, “Repeat after me ‘Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem,’ repeat after me ‘Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.’”
That moaning from the grave stopped and snow began to accumulate on that grave and the imam saw a dream, where he heard a voice saying, “O My servant. How can I punish someone whose son is mentioning My Name?”
So the Holy Qur'an, reading it has power, it is not like when we read a book. It only has negative energy. People are reading books they are called dramas and fiction, and novels, that is all garbage. They throw in you the badness that is in the writer. Whenever you read, as whenever you take a medicine, there is a side effect. I never saw a medicine that has no side effect. Doctor, did you ever see a medicine that is written “no side effect”? Every book is like medicine with its side effect. It pollutes. Only the Qur'an doesn’t have side effect. It cleans you.
Don’t say I am not hafez. Yes, you are hafez. They [those who memorized the Qur’an] are hafez and you are hafez. Everyone is hafez if he completed the Holy Qur'an from beginning to end, any person that read the Holy Qur'an from beginning to end. There is a tape recorder in your heart that will tape the Holy Qur'an from beginning to end and you become that way hafez.
So they say we don’t know how to read. If you read one page per day, you will finish it in 500 days. Read one page. I saw Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, may Allah bless him. One was coming to him and saying I don’t know how to read Qur’an. He said, " no problem I will teach you how ot read Qur’an. Open first page
Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi-hurmatil Fatiha .
What I have said in the lecture is not directed to anyone in particular. So Grandshaykh used that method by repeating and repeating they try to take away that sickness that is within us. I have that problem myself, but not everyone listening might have that problem.
We must be very happy with the person who can carry the shaykh’s blame on him. That is why he used to say, “I am happy when I can shout at my mureed and he doesn’t run away. I shout at that one in order for the others to listen and hear. Sometimes the good ones bring issues to speak about them in order to hear what these others are in need of.”
So Grandshaykh used to say, “I have only two mureeds. I can shout at them day and night and still they will not leave.” He said, "My shouting at you is mercy from Allah and His Prophet.”
And that is why Allah said in Holy Qur'an:
وَمَا نُرْسِلُ بِالآيَاتِ إِلاَّ تَخْوِيفًا
Wa ma nursilu bil-ayati illa takhweefa
We only send the Signs by way of terror (and warning from evil).
Means: “We don’t send the verses of Qur'an except to scare people.”
All of us are deviating from the track. I am no exempting myself, but all of us, and I am the worst. I am asking Allah to forgive me and forgive you and for the Holy Prophet (s) to intercede for us and ask forgiveness for us and for our shaykh to intercede for us and seek forgiveness for us.
Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi hurmatil Fatiha.
[one lady faints. people surround her and slowly, slowly she comes too.]
And Mawlana says:
Look hearts of women are so soft. But men their hearts are so hard.
That is from reaching presence of Prophet. If they will continue like that all the time for sure that will be unveiled to them.
That is how it starts. That is how people go to be awliyaullah.
If the wali is very strong then he will control them.
But some even he will control but still they get out and this happens. That is ok, still he is keeping them.
One person in Grandshaykh time was in that state, that trance, and everyday he sued to go up to the minaret and you know there was no speaker then, they go up to call adhan, five times he goes. Then he begin to increase, he starts calling 10 times then every hour, 24 hours, 24 adhans. The whole village began what is this. They came to him to complain. Then he said, don’t come and complain to me. If you complain I will throw myself from minaret. Then every half hour. Then he put his couch , every time one adhan behind it. Then they want to bring him down. And he said, "I am going to jump." He jumped saying “ya sayyidee ya Rasulullah I am coming to you!” and he jumped off. And he came down to earth landing slowly on his feet. That is when they go into that trance.