A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem.
Bismillaahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.
Try to do this every morning. Check in with your boss if you can do prayers. I think in Texas they allow it. Alhamdulillah, a very good place. Always check in, “clock in,” as Mawlana shaykh Nazim (q) used to say. Where do we clock in, yaa Rabbee? In the masjid. When you go to work to clock in, why don’t you clock in at the masjid everyday? Say, “Yaa Rabbee. I’m here. I’m not working but I’m here.” Allah (swt) gives. Clock in especially at Fajr time. Fajr is important. Fajr is where all of the rizq comes down from `Arsh and is divided among creation. That is what our shuyookh have told us. If you are awake at Fajr, you will receive. If you are sleeping at Fajr, it will still come to you but it’s better to be awake and thank Allah (swt) for what He has given.
Inshaa-Allah, a few words and then adios. We will go back home inshaa-Allah. We have DC coming up the week after next and anybody can join. You just have to check with the hosts so we are not a burden on them. If they say, “Come,” we can go. If they say, “We don’t have space,” then you can watch online. Pray for me. I need your help and support.
Rasoolullah (s) is Sahibu l’-Maqamu ‘l-Mahmood. First we ask madad from Mawlana Shaykh (q).
Dastoor, yaa Sayyidee, Qutbu ‘l-Mutasarrif, madad yaa Sultan al-Awliya. Dastoor, yaa Sayyidee wa Mawlay. Madad, yaa RijaalAllah.
Rasoolullah (s) is Sahibu ‘l-Maqamu ‘l-Mahmood. He is the one with the waseela. He said, pray for me that I get the waseela. What do you say after every adhan? “Yaa Rabbee, give him.”
اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّ هٰذِهِ الدَّعْوَةِ التَّامَّةِ، وَالصَّلَاةِ الْقَائِمَةِ، آتِ سَيِّدَنَا مُحَمَّدًا الْوَسِيلَةَ وَالْفَضِيلَةَ، وَالدَّرَجَةَ الرَّفِيعَةَ، وَابْعَثْهُ مَقَامًا مَحْمُودًا الَّذِي وَعَدْتَهُ.
Allāhumma Rabba hādhihi ’d-daʿwati-t-tāmmah, wa ’ṣ-ṣalāti ’l-qāʾimah, ʾāti Sayyidinā Muḥammadan al-waseelata wa ’l-faḍīlah, wa ’d-darajata ’r-rafīʿah, wa-bʿath-hu maqāman maḥmūdan alladhī waʿadtah.
Give what? Give whom? Give Muhammad (s) al-waseela. Give him, yaa Rabbee. Awliyaullah have said that Allah (swt) is teaching humbleness. No matter how high you are, you still cannot have kibr that, “I don’t need anybody. I am the owner of this and that.” He is teaching the Muslims, mu`mins, Nabi, Wali and Khatmu ‘n-Nabiyyeen that with the du`a of your Ummah you have obtained the waseela. They pray for you. Look at the humility and humbleness that Allah (swt) teaches. Don’t say, “I am this or that.” Say, “Pray for me.” Pray for what, yaa Sayyidee? You are the biggest and grandest, the most perfect of creation. What do we pray for? “Pray that Allah (swt) gives me that Maqamu ‘l-Mahmood, that waseela.” That is the highest. It is only granted to one servant, not to many. That you can say is the one but the rest are many.
Awliyaullah have said that Allah (swt) will land Rasoolullah (s) in that Heavenly Station by the du`a of his Ummah. Look at the humbleness and humility that Allah (swt) is teaching. Don’t claim you are something. When I say, “Pray for me,” don’t say, “Astaghfirullah, shaykh, what do we pray for?” No, pray for me!
At the end of his life, Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q), in the last two or three years, asked people to pray for him out of his humbleness and humility. Some people took it as, “Oh, I pray for shaykh. I am a big one. Shaykh needed my prayer on his chest.” That is the following of Rasoolullah (s). Rasoolullah (s) asked his Ummah to pray for him to get Maqaamu ‘l-Mahmood, that he gets waseela wa ‘l-fadeelah wa b`ath-hu maqaaman Mahmooda. He gets all of this by the prayer of his weak Ummah.
We are dirty ones with our desires. We are full of bad stuff that we think of. Alhamdulillah, we don’t do it. That is why Shari`ah is important. Shari`ah is like a clamp on your ego. That’s why they don’t like it, “We want to be free.” Free from what? “No rules. We do as we like.” If you do as you like, you will destroy yourself. What happens to those who shoot up drugs? They ruin their heart valves because of the infections that they get. What happens to those who drink? They ruin their liver and brain. The people who drink too much become unbalanced forever. After years of drinking, they cannot balance themselves. You see them swaying.
Basically, when they say, “We want to do as we like, no rules,” they are destroying themselves. You say “pleasure” but basically you are poisoning yourself with all the pleasures, with the STDs. It is all harming them or killing them slowly.
When Shari`ah came and clamped on these desires, it was a protection. Allah (swt) is protecting you from you. People say, “It’s too much discipline. I cannot do this and that.” It’s a protection for you so you can continue with your life in a good way, so you can treat your body in a good way, so you can treat your family and community in a good way.
I heard about so many problems when I was doing my residency in New York. There were some Hispanic ladies, because New York is full of Hispanics and African Americans and some whites, Italians and Irish and full of everybody. I would have some patients crying and she was in the HIV unit. They have a floor for HIV and AIDS. I asked the patient, “Why are you crying?” She said, “I am a Catholic.” Catholics also have discipline. “I never played outside, never cheated.” Her husband went outside, caught a disease, came back to his family and gave it to her. He destroyed himself, his wife and his family. Is that good for us or what? You think.
When Shari`ah says, “Clamp on this, clamp on that, be good to your wife, be good to your husband, be good to your family, be good to your community,” what’s wrong with that? They say, “We don’t want that. We want freedom.” Take the freedom you want. You are destroying yourself by yourself.
When Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) used to say, “Pray for me,” he was following Rasoolullah’s (s) humbleness and humility. His du`a is accepted. The du`a of the one reading on him is not accepted. There are so many veils between the one who is reading for the shaykh and Allah (swt). How would your du`a reach from the veils on the heart? Waliyullah’s heart is open but the other person’s heart is closed. Rasoolullah (s) is teaching his Ummah humility and humbleness, “Pray for me that I get Maqamu ‘l-Mahmood. Ask Allah (swt) for me after adhan that I get the waseela. It’s also a lesson for those who claim to be big. Okay, you’re big but by the du`a of your Ummah. He is big to start with. I am not saying anything to lower him, astaghfirullah, no. I am just trying to express that humility and humbleness that Allah (swt) likes from His servants. Rasoolullah (s) is Muhammad from Azal. He is the Praised one from Azal. He is Mahmood from Azal, from Pre-Eternity, until Abad and after Abad, Post-Eternity.
That doesn’t change. Rasoolullah’s (s) position in the Divine Presence doesn’t change but he is teaching us humility and humbleness. Humble yourself. That’s why I say, pray for me. I am trying to follow my shaykh. That is what you learn from your shuyookh but you have to be smart. You have to catch it. If we don’t catch it, we are missing. They say, “Oh, look at the poor shaykh asking for du`a.” The poor shaykh is following the Sunnah that by the du`a of the companion or the fellow Muslim or the brother, Allah (swt) will accept. Why not? He can accept.
Pray for me that Allah (swt) accepts me. Pray for your fellow brothers and sisters that Allah (swt) forgives them and accepts them. Always pray that Rasoolullah (s) has his nazar on you. How do you get his nazar? By salawat, Darood Shareef.
There was a minister in the Abbasid period named `Ali ibn `Isa. He was a pious minister. You can research him. One of the Saliheen , good people at that time in Baghdad was in a very dire situation. He saw Rasoolullah (s) in a dream. Rasoolullah (s) appears in dreams. If he doesn’t appear to you, it’s your fault. He appears to the Saliheen . Try to be from the Saliheen . I did not see yet but inshaa-Allah, I can see his holy face one time.
He saw Rasoolullah (s) in a dream and he said, “Don’t be worried. Don’t be concerned. Don’t be sad. Go to that minister, `Ali ibn `Isa, and tell him, ‘By the sign that you recited 4,000 Darood Shareef at my grave, give this man a hundred gold coins.’” Rasoolullah (s) was telling this pious man in the dream that, “Don’t worry. I will take care of your affairs.”
Rasoolullah (s) has appeared in the dreams of so many people. When Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) was a disciple, he was told by his shaykh to leave Istanbul, “O my son, I got you up to a certain level. Now your shaykh is in Sham. Go.” He went. Every place he went there was an imam who had a dream that Rasoolullah (s) told him, “My grandson is coming. Welcome him.” My father has compiled these stories in the book, Classical Islam. I don’t know if you have it here. It’s the big green one. If you don’t have it, get it. It is written there, “My grandson is coming. Meet him, welcome him, take care of him.” The imam and mufti of the city would. He would show them the picture and they would know who he was. “He is coming at this time and date here,” and the mufti was running out of his home as it is narrated in the book.
When they would see him they would say, “Shaykh Nazim! Shaykh Nazim!”
He would ask, “How do you know me?”
“I have to take care of you. How long are you staying here?”
“Two days, three days.”
“I will take care of everything.”
Rasoolullah (s) appears to Saliheen in the dreams. He takes care of things. He said, “Go to that minister and tell him it’s an order by Rasoolullah (s) to give you a hundred gold coins and the sign of my truthfulness is that you did 4,000 Darood Shareef, Allahumma salli `alaa Muhammad wa `alaa aali Muhammadan wasalam, at my grave.”
The pious man wakes up, goes straight to the palace and wants to meet the minister of the king. He takes him aside and says, “Yaa Sayyidee. Rasoolullah (s) said by the sign that you did 4,000 Darood Shareef at his grave, you have to give me a hundred coins.”
That minister started to cry. He said, “SadaqAllahu wa Rasooluh. Allah (swt) and Rasoolullah (s) have told the truth and you have told the truth. I did 4,000 salawat at the Holy Grave and I never told anybody. I just sat there until I finished my 4,000 Darood Shareef and then I left.”
He did Dhikrullah, Dhikr of Allah (swt) and Rasool (s). When you say, “Allah (swt),” you are mentioning Allah (swt). Allahumma salli `alaa Muhammad. That Darood Shareef combines the Dhikr of both so it is one of the best you can do.
He started to cry and called his servant, “Bring me the chest. Here, a hundred gold coins as Rasoolullah (s) ordered and another hundred gold coins because of the glad tidings you brought me and another hundred gold coins as hadiya, gift.” The salih went out happily with three hundred gold coins.
After that, `Ali ibn `Isa left his ministry, he left the tyranny of the sultan, he left the tyranny of the cruel ones and went to Mecca. He stayed in Mecca until he passed away. By the barakah of Dhikr of Rasoolullah (s), by the barakah of Darood Shareef he has done, Allah (swt) saved him from the tyranny of power because when you go up there, there is no Shari`ah anymore, halal and haram are not there anymore. Do you think they look at halal and haram when they are in these positions? They don’t. Maybe in the beginning they are into that but the more you elevate in power, the more halal and haram disappears. I’ve seen it.
By the barakah of Darood Shareef at the holy qabr of Rasoolullah (s), Allah (swt) saved him from that tyranny and allowed him to come to Mecca to be close to Haram Sharif, to have the best ending of his life. That is the barakah of Darood Shareef, so be busy.
When you do salawat on Rasoolullah (s), he will appear to you or he will send you a message by somebody else. Either he gives you the good fortune to see him in the dream or he will send somebody else to say, “I was aware of what you were doing. I was seeing.” Be busy with that.
`Ali ibn `Isa, the wazir, after a while he left the kings and emperors of the Abbasids in Baghdad. He said, “Goodbye. I will go to Mecca. Rasoolullah (s) laid nazar on me. I will take that as a hint that I was accepted.”
May Allah (swt) forgive us. This is the virtue or glad tidings you get when you are busy with Darood Shareef. Rasoolullah (s) will look at you. He will know how much you are sending. Every time you send salat wa salam on him, there is an angel that goes and says, “Yaa Sayyidee. Such and such person has given salam to you.” It is a Hadith. The more you give, the more he hears about you and the more he looks at you. They say, “We want nazar.” How much Darood Shareef do you do a day? A hundred? Why only a hundred? How many messages do you send to your wife, “I love you”? A hundred or more. Or she sends to you or, “Where are you?” How many times does she ask, “Where are you?” Alhamdulillah, we have, “Find My Phone” app. You know where she is. She knows where you are. Clamp. Clamp down.
Be busy. Instead of doing a hundred salat wa salam on Rasoolullah (s), go up to two hundred. Instead of two hundred, go up to three hundred. Rather than watching Fox News and CNN and all the other stuff for hours and hours, repeat salawat on Rasoolullah (s). Close that TV. Be busy with durood. Let Rasoolullah (s) receive your salam, let Rasoolullah (s) send you salam back and look at you, “My Ummah has sent salat wa ’s-salam on me. Yaa Rabbee, send back salat wa ’s-salam on him.” The more it comes, the more he looks.
That was the story of that salih. He sees and he takes care of good ones. Of course he takes care of all of his Ummah, not only the good ones. May Allah (swt) allow us to be from the good ones. Be busy with Darood Shareef, not only a hundred but do more. I heard in khalwah Mawlana Shaykh Hisham (q) used to do 10,000 salat sharif on Rasoolullah (s).
Inshaa-Allah we can be from them. That’s about it. I think it’s enough advice. Everybody is tired. Inshaa-Allah, we can meet again. You are welcome to come to Michigan to spend a few days there. Three days. I say three days wherever I go. Musaffir, a traveler, is only three days. We don’t ask any questions if you come for three days. After three days, we ask, “What do you want?” Come Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday you can head back home. At least you can get that weekend. That’s when we do most of the activities anyway. Everybody is welcome any time. If I’m traveling, you might find Shaykh Taher and Shaykh Sahib there. If you cannot come, it’s also accepted. Follow us online. Thank you again for inviting me and bringing me here. I thank everybody who supported this center and everybody who is supporting me and the others. inshaa-Allah, we can see each other again. Keep this space going because you can see people from other than Texas are coming here. People are coming from Missouri, Kansas, Arizona and different states. This has become a magnet for lovers, Dhaakiraan, Dervishaan of the peeraan. May Allah (swt) reward you, give you more and more and give you support, inshaa-Allah. Ameen.
They give langar every Saturday. May Allah (swt) accept and reward you and whoever is helping with their time, their prayers, their money. May Allah (swt) reward you for keeping this masjid or musallah. It’s a musallah. People come and pray. You get the thawaab because you provided the space. You stuffed him with food so he can have some energy and he prayed, so you are getting all of that. Nothing is missing from the one doing the worship, rather from His Karam, Allah (swt) wants to spread that Rahmah so He gives. He even gives to the one who is curious about what a Sufi center is, doesn’t like it and goes out. He still got some. This is the one who just came to check what was happening but wasn’t there for the Dhikr or the Hadith. He will still get it.
Laa yashqaa jaleesahum. That means a bad ending does not befall them. They get the barakah of Dhikrullah. If they like it and continue on, you have opened a door for their family and their father and mother because the parents also get it because he is praying. Prayers go to the parents as well. You are helping generations. Inshaa-Allah, Allah (swt) keeps supporting you, Mawlana (q) keeps supporting you, Awliyaullah keep supporting you. Ameen.
Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq, bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.
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