(Mawlana Shaykh stands)
Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar la ilaha ill 'Llah Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar wa li' Llahi 'l-hamd
Subhan Sensin Ya Allah Subhan Sensin Ya Allah Whole praising, whole glory for You O our Lord. We are so happy ones that You created ourselves, even weak ones You are dressing on our physical beings a dress of honour. Shukran lillah. Whole honour and whole glory for You O our Lord and we are saying A`udhu billahi min ash-Shaytan i`r-rajeem. Bismi`lLahi `r-Rahmani `r-Raheem.
We are running away from Shaytan, that one who is trying to dress on Your servant the dressing of dishonour. O our Lord, protect us, shelter us and we are saying on Your most beloved and most honored one through Your Divine Presence, Sayyidina Muhammad (s), give him more and more and endlessly, honour and whole dominions You granting to him. Allah, Allah, Allah, alfu 's-salaat, alfu 's-salaam. Countless blessings and glory on Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Ya Rasulullah! Ya Rasulullah! We are asking for your intercession in spite of those no-mind people and jealous people, and Shaytan's followers. We are asking for your intercession!
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhanallah
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultanallah
(Mawlana Shaykh sits)
I may look, but some grandshaykhs are saying you must put eyeglasses on your eyes, because who is putting eyeglasses is going to be important one! (smiling) I am never finding anything to make me important one; only Shaykh Hisham giving me eyeglasses to make me important one! (Mawlana peers through eyeglasses) Yes, it is a donkey. I am using eyeglasses to see if it is cat or dog. Yes, I am using some eyeglasses, but it is not like this; this is artificial. I go like this (glancing through glasses), but I like to be granted from my Lord, for example, to see people which characteristic they have. Some people, their character is like wild cats and some people their character is seen just like dogs. Or showing some people that their real characteristic is a wild lion or some people, very tembel, some of them look like very much lazy. And some people, just I am looking and asking some characteristic of that man, and there is some heavenly shu`a, shiningness, showing that it looks like an ape, and some of them just going to look like a pig!
They are saying to me, "O shaykh, from where you are bringing such a things? You don't know anything else?" No, I don't know. What they are granting to me I must say. So many people are changing their real being that the Lord of Heavens created them with. Therefore, appearing through that one, characteristic like a pig or an ape. Ape is most strange creature, and pigs are dirtiest among the animal world. Therefore, O Holy Book-granted people, if anyone getting rebellion against Holy orders of heavens, the Lord of Heavens just punishing them, changing their out-looking or changing their inner characteristics. Millions of people look like apes. They taking the beauty that the Lord of Heavens granted them; that beauty and handsomeness just taken from them.
Look, O listeners, to someone that his value is nothing. O people, O listeners, Salaam `alaykum. I am giving to you heavenly salute for protection. Salaam, peace to you. Means in a translation through Old Testament, "peace be upon you", that means to be sheltered by a heavenly shelter. When you are saying this, the Lord of Heavens making that peace for that one, and for first one and second one. Therefore, the Lord of Heavens likes to be given the salute from the first one to the second one, to say "peace be upon you." And we are Muslims. We are using Qur'an’s holy words, saying Salaam `alaykum, peace be upon you! When you are giving that holy salaam, asking for peace on your brother, saying, Salaam `alaykum, coming on them, dressing that person in satisfaction, tuma`neena. Therefore I am saying, O our listeners, use always good words. That is your honor. It is not your honor to use bad words and bad meanings for anyone. We are saying, the Children of Israel they have been forbidden to make fishing on Saturday, but the Lord of Heavens is saying, “I am trying (testing) all My servants, to show if they are on true way or wrong way. I must try.” And the benefit of His trying is that the Lord is going to be happy with that servant, giving an honor, a higher position, higher station, higher level.
O people, hear and take care! I am saying in English, so beautiful, "O people, hear and take care!" To reach a higher level, hear and take care. Allah! If people listen to this I think they will be happy because it is a short sentence. But I am not taking from Shakespeare’s Hamlet book. O people, hear what just had been said to you, and take care what you are hearing. Take a care. Particularly through holy books—every sentence, every holy verse through holy books, calling you -- "O my believers that I am your Lord, from the Lord of heavens, hear what the Lord of heavens saying to you.” Saying for example, "O my servants, try to be clean ones." And you must say to your Lord, “Oh, our Lord, we are trying to be clean ones.”
Because the Lord of Heavens only just sending Holy Books for what, to make his servants to be perfect in their outward-looking also. And if a person taking care for the holy orders of the Lord of heavens, you should be dressed dress of honor. O people, don’t be heedless, that you’re going to markets and saying, “This market most famous for dressing for men. I am going to dress which one is best for me.” Not asking this. O believers, through holy books. Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms, Ten Commandments— make a summary Allah Almighty for whole nations through His beloved one, that he was naming, giving name to Sayyidina Ibrahim— "O my friend. O my servant that I dressed to you an honored dressing, and saying to you that you are my friend, Khaleelu 'r-Rahman."
O Wahhabi people, what are you saying?! O Salafi, what are you saying?! You are believing that Allah dressed Sayyidina Ibrahim in a dress of honor, dress of friendship, Khaleelullah? If Allah Almighty likes to make His servant happy and glorified here and Hereafter, He is dressing him! Every dress that you are running through markets, and you are saying, "It is most famous for dressing and I must go to buy something from them!” No, according to your economical level, you are running to Marks & Spencer (high-end department store in UK). Sometimes I am not seeing clearly (Mawlana puts on eyeglasses, jokingly.) They are going to take such clothes; they are so happy and they have such a characteristic to show people such a clothes.
(Mawlana Shaykh imitates)
"O my lady!"
"Look darling, dressing from a shirt I just paid for."
"How much you paid for it?"
"Two-hundred pounds!"
"Doesn't look like 200 pounds!"
"Yes, always you are objecting to me, that I am buying very cheap things!"
"No, I bought this because it is so expensive, just for a big gala tonight, that people may look and say, 'This person bought something from Marks & Spencer, who I saw him in a flea market!'"
"No sir, just I bought this from Marks & Spencer; it is very expensive."
O people! Everyone is asking to dress in a perfect dressing, a most beautiful dressing, to make herself so beautiful, or to be seen as such a handsome, elegant one. Whole (all) people are always asking this, a hobby for people to dress like best one and to be seen through the crowd of people, most handsome one or most beautiful one. Yes, you may do that, that is yours. But I am surprising, why Man not trying to dress heavenly dressing that the Lord of Heavens dressing you for every occasion? Why you are not taking care? That is making me angry and surprised also! But people now mostly left their beliefs; they are not believing in the Day of Resurrection, or that people coming in Divine Presence! And people looking to their dressings, good or bad, beautiful or ugly. Why you are not trying? And you are saying you are Christians, you are Jewish people, and we are also Muslim. If you are Muslim, why are you not following holy orders of heavens, to try to be dressed in honorable dressings, daily? Why are you not running for this, when you are running every occasion to Marks & Spencer (high-end department store in UK) and market centers, asking to be much more attractive, so more beautiful for dressing. How you are a believer But if you are not a believer, you are going to be dressed with the dirtiest dressing, and the dirtiest bad smelling going around from that person.
Or making zina (adultery). Those people are coming to the Day of Resurrection, and coming from front of them and back of them such dirtiest smelling and people running away from them. May Allah forgive us! Holy books only saying to you, live a clean life, don’t be dirty ones. O people, try to be handsome and beautiful ones in the Divine Presence through heavenly stations. Try to be in such a way. Holy books asking from Mankind, come to clean life, leave dirty life; that is all. Oh our Lord, forgive us, forgive us, and send us from Your heavenly servants and angels to make ourselves clean ones, and to take away Satanic clothes, fashionable clothes that you are saying, "We are fashionable people." You must always be looking for new fashions! Never giving any benefit, particularly to ladies. Leave fashions, seek heavenly fashions with such a beautiful dressings from the Lord of Heavens! O people, run to Him, ask from Him forgiveness! And ask from your Lord to make you good servants, understanding the meaning of Mankind’s origins, and for what they have been created, and for what birthday ceremony, and for what funeral ceremony. People are between their birth ceremony and funeral ceremony, nothing else. Think on it and you will be happy.
If not, you should fall down to a black hole that is only for you, and going down, down, down endlessly, going down, down, down, and down. O our Lord, please forgive us! We are weak servants! Send us from your good ones to show us the glory of heavens, and to make our wishes towards that honor levels, in honored dressings. One day more just passed from our lives. Tomorrow going to be two days or two months or two years, and you are running to the graveyard, or we are running to somewhere that is mentioned through holy books. O people, come and listen, and come and say:
(Mawlana sings)
Dome dome dome dome
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Allah Allah, Allah Allah
Allah Allah, Allah Allah
Allah Allah, Allah Allah
Allah Allah, Allah Allah
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Fatiha.
(40 minutes, Sayyidee)
Must be 40 minutes, 44 or 45,
Our lives running through minutes
and through seconds, through people,
come and say,
Dome dome dome dome
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As-salaamu `alayka Ya Sayyidee, Ya Rasulullah (s), Allahu akbar.
Fatiha.
(Mawlana Shaykh speaks with Hajjah Naziha and Shaykh Hisham on telephone.)
Shaykh Hisham: "Mawlana, Marks & Spencer is closed now. You closed them! I am here in Montreal with 200 people in the zawiya, all watching you on Sufilive!