27 Ramadan 1427/19 October 2006
(Second Suhba)
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
A`udhu billahi min ash-shaytaan ir-rajeem
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o Sayyidina Ubaydullah al-Ahrar ?, what did he say as mentioned in the previous session? Listen and take heed, if you take heed you get benefit.
Asma`oo wa awoo, fa idha awaytum fantafi`u – listen and take heed, if you take heed you benefit.
What is necessary for you, you take and what is not necessary for you leave. What concerns you take and what doesn't concern you leave. And don't try to analyze if 2 people for example are disputing, difference in opinion, even up to they go to argue and fight with each other, what is your duty to do? Your duty is to keep away. Because you might not be able to analyze correctly, so don't blame this one or that one when you hear something, as you don't know who is on truth and who it not.
That is why the hadith of the Prophet e, “al-qaatil wal maqtool fi-naari abadan - The one who kills and the one killed are in hellfire forever.” They said, “We don't understand why the one killed is in hellfire.” Prophet e said that, “The one who was killed, if he had been faster he would have killed the first one.” So his intention was to kill.
So you don't know what is going on. So adab is, as many people see things in the news and being to give their opinion. You don't know the situation on the ground there so when you give it, it might be false.
So most of these talk shows are wrong in their analysis. You are building your structure on false information so everything will fall down. So you will be as in Qur’an:
أَفَمَنْ أَسَّسَ بُنْيَانَهُ عَلَى تَقْوَى مِنَ اللّهِ وَرِضْوَانٍ خَيْرٌ أَم مَّنْ أَسَّسَ بُنْيَانَهُ عَلَىَ شَفَا جُرُفٍ هَارٍ فَانْهَارَ بِهِ فِي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَ وَاللّهُ لاَ يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِمِينَ
Afaman assasa bunyanahu `ala taqwa mina Allahi wa ridwanin khayrun am man assasa bunyanahu `ala shafaa jurufin haarin fa-anhara bihi fee naari jahannama w’Allahu laa yahdi’l-qawma aldh-dhalimeena.
Which then is best? - he that layeth his foundation on piety to Allah I and His good pleasure? - or he that layeth his foundation on an undermined sand-cliff ready to crumble to pieces? And it doth crumble to pieces with him, into the fire of Hell. And Allah I guideth not people that do wrong. [9:109]
He said that, “Who is better the one who has build his building on a good foundation of sincerity and piety or that one who build his foundation on a cliff that it has no good foundation, he built his building on that cliff and one time that building is going to fall and what he did is going to be continuously falling into hellfire?”
So you cannot build your building on backbiting or on something that is not true.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن جَاءكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَأٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَن تُصِيبُوا قَوْمًا بِجَهَالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلَى مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَادِمِينَ
Yaa ayyuha alladheena amanoo in jaakum fasiqun bi-naba’in fatabayyanoo an tuseeboo qawman bi-jahalatin fatusbihoo `ala ma fa`altum naadimeen.
O ye who believe! If a wicked person comes to you with any news, ascertain the truth, lest ye harm people unwittingly, and afterwards become full of repentance for what ye have done. [49:6]
“O believers if someone comes to you with a false news, corrupted one, check it out before you make your decisions.” It is better not to listen, because when you make decision based on false information from someone who is corrupted you might bad decision but if you don't listen you will avoid the problem. But if you are so curious and nosy and you want to put your nose everywhere in every hole and smell the stinky smell then you are going to fall down. It is better what to do, I am not going to listen, go and say to someone else. That is adab, that is respect, that way you save yourself. But if you are nosy, you are curious, then you want to dig.
Grandshaykh gave an example of digging. When you go to the desert and you want to make wudu, what do you do? You do it somewhere behind a bush and then cover it with sand. Safe, if someone comes who is nosy, he takes a stick and turns it upside down and what happens. It release the smell. Look at the adab, with cats. Cats cover what they do. Learn from animals what they do, adab. Dogs don't have adab. Dogs no adab, he confirmed it, like donkeys no adab. [everyone laughs].
What are you laughing for? This is teaching. This is not ok, looking at bad movies is ok? Which is better to look at bad movies or to learn? Which is better. [to learn] that is better. On TV they show you haraam things and everyone of us is looking very carefully. And this one is laughing. Why are you nosy. Yes, he put his nose everywhere. So cats they have adab and dogs have no adab. But dogs have loyalty. So to each animal, Allah I gave different character. If you have cat with you on the street you don't have to carry a leash. But with dogs you see them carrying they are carrying the dogs and carrying on the other hand 100 lb. Leash, to clean after them, else you get a ticket, 100 dollars.
So it means you have to clean after yourself, else there is heavenly ticket you don't know how much that heavenly ticket is.
So you don't want to contaminate everyone with that smells so Allah I in one verse, if anyone comes to you with a false story check it, else you fall into accusing someone wrongly, of something he didn't do. Because the picture was given to you wrong. Then you are going to regret. After what? After that person has been killed. How many people sitting in prisons for accuse of something they didn't do.
So Grandshaykh is teaching us adab, listen and take heed and then when you heed you get benefit. When you are not listening but you are, on the advice of the shaykh when he is giving irshaad. This is for those who have right to give irshaad. Not for normal meeting. That is not for those speaking on Qur’an and hadith but they have not been in tariqah given the right to do irshaad. For them it is ok if there is slight lapse of attention. But when listening to irshad you must be very careful and you must not even move in their presence. You cannot move your left hand. You cannot scratch your head and you cannot scratch your beard or play with your beard.
Sayyidina Shaykh Sharafuddin ?, Grandshaykh said, used to say that, “In my association anyone who scratches his cheek or his hand or his forehead it will bring the level of my speech seven levels down.”
It means you have to be sitting with full meditation, full rabitah with the shaykhs heart, no movement. Connecting there. Any movement will drop this association seven levels down. The secret is gone. As if you have disturbed the whole secret that the shaykh is giving. Even if someone is doing tasbeeh on his bead then quickly it cuts the level of the suhbat down.
He said, “I must cut down level of the suhbat else there will be a short circuit, as when you plug something and there are sparks. My suhbat is going so strong, and that person is moving, not paying attention, that hurts my heart and as if that suhbat is not able to go thru the different hearts and I am connection all the hearts thru that circuit going from the right all around to the left, so if anyone has short outcome that circuit cannot go thru very fine wires. The wire will burn. So I have immediately for this not to happen, to bring the association seven levels down else that person will be completely burned.”
See how much the words of awliya are full, what kind of light they are carrying, what kind of light they are carrying. That speech is moving energy thru the hearts of people like a circuit and moving back in the full circuit. That is why they don't like anyone in their association who is not interested. That is why they don't like children to be around because with their noise they bring heart of the shaykh down, there is a short circuit and the shaykh cannot carry.
Anyone who is looking and seeing a dispute between two people. I might disagree with you and say it is like this and no it is not. You broke it and I have to put wires. No, you did it... the people are entering in a fight. You argue with your wife all the time. People argue with each other. And it ends up with dispute. He said, be careful don't interfere. The one who kills and the one being killed are both in hellfire. That bad energy that comes from 2 people who are killing each other will dress you and you become similar, no difference.
You bring a magnet and a nail, all of you know that. You put the magnet over the nail and it attracts it. You put many nails and it attracts them, as much as it is powerful. It sucks them, as much as it is powerful. Now take that nail that was attracted to the magnet, it will now attract a small nail. It took some of that, physics, it is magnetized already. So the bad energy of two people who are arguing already, will cause you to get bad energy and they might repent but you will not repent as you don't realize you are doing something wrong. You become stinky with that energy. You never realize you did something wrong and you never repent and that is the meaning of tifl an-nafs al- madhmoumah. The bad ego, the self that is always madhmoum. Madhmoum is something that is always disgusted, that is vile, that self and the ego that I considered bad, very bad. This is madhmoum, very bad, don't talk about it. So human begins when they are children and they are exposed to the arguments of their parents and that bad energy is being dressed on your children with husband and wife or with brothers and sisters. So when this happens run away. That will come on you and dress you and you come out and you don't repent. You are bankrupted from moral excellence to be resurrected with pious people and prophets. You will be on the first level.
That person is falling into killing also, he is part of that because he was looking at them and he never repented and so on Judgment Day he will be with them. That teaching here is not put your finer or your nose into something that is not your concern.
Who cares [Allah I]. Confirmed. We have to keep him here to confirm all the time. That is what happened to us from being a child. That is why we are increasing bad manners in us without feeling. When you are increasing your bad manners leaving good manners allowing your self to take the bad manners, this way you never accept anyone's opinion. Where to listen to the shaykh.
Try to eliminate this from you then you will be able to listen to the Shaykh. Because when you … you are doubting. You must know that this bad energy is coming from… that is why there are ascetics. These awliyaullah went far from everyone that is why it is recommended to be in a jungle to be very far, see nothing but goats and sheep and geese and birds and chickens. You don't want to see tigers and hyenas and lions. They all run after dead stinky flesh, the corpse. You go in the desert you see them running after this dead flesh, and it is very... but domestic animals are very… why because they eat grass, very nice.
What is grass in Arabic. It is hasheesh, it has a different meaning. So grass in Arabic is hashish, so they eat this grass and they have no stress. Then they understand according to the verse of Qur’an:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اجْتَنِبُوا كَثِيرًا مِّنَ الظَّنِّ إِنَّ بَعْضَ الظَّنِّ إِثْمٌ وَلَا تَجَسَّسُوا وَلَا يَغْتَب بَّعْضُكُم بَعْضًا أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَن يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتًا فَكَرِهْتُمُوهُ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ إِنَّ اللَّهَ تَوَّابٌ رَّحِيمٌ
Ya ayyuha alladheena amanoo ijtaniboo katheeran mina aldhdhanni inna ba`ada aldh-dhanni ithmun wa laa tajassasoo wa laa yaghtab ba`dukum ba`dan ayuhibbu ahadukum an yaakula lahma akheehi maytan fakarihtumoohu wattaqoo Allaha inna Allaha tawwaabun raheemun.
Ye who believe! Avoid suspicion as much (as possible): for suspicion in some cases is a sin: And spy not on each other behind their backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, ye would abhor it...But fear Allah I. For Allah I is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful. [49:12]
O ye who believe stay far from suspicion… It means everything has doubts in it. When he says katheeran min adh-dhan, we are contaminated with a lot of doubts. So try to avoid a lot of doubts. Some doubts let you fall into a sin and don't spy on each other, don't spy on what your brother is doing. Do you like to eat his stinky flesh. You want to kill him and eat him. When you doubt him you are killing him and eating him. You are reporting wrong information.
So once two Sahaba came to the Prophet e and said we have stomachache. Prophet e said, “You ate meat.” They both said, “No, we did not eat meat in a long time.” He said, “No, you ate meat. Go and vomit it.”
They went to vomit it out. So … of your brother, and act a wild animal. Act like domestic. … when you die…. Waiting for you. We are believes, either we believe or we don't. Do we believe in Islam? Yes! Do we believe in Prophet Muhammad e as seal of messengers? Yes! Do we believe in last day, yes, do we believe in death? Yes! Do we believe in resurrection day? Yes! Do we believe in eternal life? Yes!
So if this life is short compared to the external life why do we have to make this life filled with pleasure. Reserve the pleasure for akhira that is the most pleasure for a human being. For akhira you have eternal life. For dunya you have limited life. We are preferring limited life to eternal life. All of us, we are not saying any particular person. So we say ask for our shuyukh to give us more love to akhira than to this life. Even though in Qur’an Allah I said,
وِمِنْهُم مَّن يَقُولُ رَبَّنَا آتِنَا فِي الدُّنْيَا حَسَنَةً وَفِي الآخِرَةِ حَسَنَةً وَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ
Wa minhum man yaqoolu rabbana atina fee alddunya hasanatan wa fil-aakhirati hasanatan wa qinaa `adhaaba an-naari.
And there are men who say: “Our Lord! Give us good in this world and good in the Hereafter, and defend us from the torment of the Fire!” [2:201]
But Sayyidina `Ali y how did he explain that. He said, “`amal lidunyaaka ka-annaka tamootu ghadan wa `amal li-akhirati ka annaka tamoot ghadan `ala qadr baqaa’ika feeh.”
Not in the way of Shaytan.
Bihurmatil fatiha.
These association are of such kinds. Laylatal-Qadr was a powerful association that took place. Allah I opened for Sayyidina Mahdi u a big opening. A big opening came for Sayyidina Mahdi u who is waiting for a sign. And thru my shaykh and Grandshaykh from Mawlana shaykh Nazim ? information that before last night in a vision where Grandshaykh he mentioned something that Grandshaykh said to me something that made my heart happy and understanding from that the very soon there is going to be a big event happening and Sayyidina Mahdi u has been dressed with a heavenly dress coming with black clothes, complete black turban and black clothes. This is what came to us with some detail which we cannot explain now, and insha-Allah it will have impact for humanity to live happily in justice, in full justice in earth.
Wa min Allah at-tawfiq, bihurmatil fatiha.