Jumu`ah Khutbah
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. Alhamdulillah (...) Qul Huwa ‘Llahu Ahad, Allah Hu ‘s-Samad. Huwa ‘l-Mutlaqul Ahadu ‘l-fard as-Samad. Alladhee bi ‘l-manee wa ‘l-`ataa watafarada bi ‘l-qidamee wa ‘l-baqaa, wa ja`ala dhikrahu min ashraf ‘d-da`a, wa afdali ‘l-`ibaadaat, wa ja`alahu sababan li wusooli ila janaabeehi ‘l-aqdas wa tarakee ila `aalal maqamaat, wa ja`ala dhakiraahu muttabi rasooli jamee`al wa khasaoo bi dhalika mim bayna saa`iril makhlooqaat. Wa ‘s-salaat wa ‘s-salaam `ala Sayyideena Muhamaddin arsalahu ta`ala ramatan lil `aalameen...
This world is turning around its axis; who is giving it fuel? And if we say there is fuel, what kind of fuel? Is it Heavenly fuel or Earthly fuel? What kind of petrol or diesel or gas that this dunya is turning with? It is whirling like Sayyidina Jalaluddin Rumi was whirling? Dunya is whirling and he took the secret of whirling from the Earth. It is turning around its axle and in the same time it is turning around the Sun. So it has two movements: like we are circumambulating around the Ka`bah, we are turning in the opposite direction, anti-clockwise, dunya is circumambulating also around its axle/axis, but who is the one that made that possible and what kind of fuel? We don't know, we only know that Allah (swt), the Creator, ordered the Earth to turn.
That fuel that is turning in our system, they say the blood (system) is turning and if Allah (swt) shut down blood, what will happen? Everything stops. It is said:
إِنَّ الْقُلُوبَ بَيْنَ إِصْبَعَيْنِ مِنْ أَصَابِعِ الرَّحْمَنِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ يُقَلِّبُهَا
Hearts are between two of the fingers of The Most Merciful and He controls them.
The heart of a human being is between the fingers of Allah (swt); yuqalibuhu kayfa ya shaa, He turns it over, up and down, and if that stops everything stops and the whole body shuts down. So the main concern in the body of a human being.
In the core of the sun the temperature is 50 million degrees, and every moment on the sun it is like millions of thermonuclear explosions constantly exploding. Here, if you put your finger on a hot pot that is not more than 70 or 80 degrees, you burn your hand. The heat of the core of the Sun is 50 million degrees and still the Sun is in its place, it doesn’t explode. What kind of elements did Allah make the Sun with and it is in one spot and it is exploding, not exploding outside itself, but within itself. Who did that? And that is why, if we want to look at these matters and say one day Allah is going to take our life away, we have to correct ourselves. Don’t say, “I am not corrected, no one is perfect." Only Prophet (s) is infallible, not anyone else. All of us are sinners, but Allah (swt) gave us a way to ask forgiveness; Allah will forgive, but ask forgiveness!
'One day' means our hearts are going to stop, the Earth is going to stop, the Sun is going to stop and everything is going to shut down and Allah is going to call us for the Day of Judgment. What are we going to answer? I don’t know, we cannot answer! We cannot say, “We are clean, yaa Rabbee.” That is why there is intercession of Prophet (s), because we know that the secret of that ayat will come at that time:
وَقَدِمْنَا إِلَى مَا عَمِلُوا مِنْ عَمَلٍ فَجَعَلْنَاهُ هَبَاء مَّنثُورًا
Wa qadimna ilaa maa `amiloo min `amalin faja`alnaahu habaa’am manthoora.
And We shall turn to whatever deeds they did (in this life), and We shall make such deeds as floating dust scattered about. (Surat al-Furqaan, 25:23)
[Allah (swt) is saying to us,] “We come to what they did of their `amal and We throw it in their faces. Don’t come to Me with your `amal, don’t think I am accepting your `amal! I am accepting the intercession of My Prophet for you, not more than that." He (s) will intercede, because Allah said in Holy Qur’an:
وَلَوْ أَنَّهُمْ إِذ ظَّلَمُواْ أَنفُسَهُمْ جَآؤُوكَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُواْ اللّهَ وَاسْتَغْفَرَ لَهُمُ الرَّسُولُ لَوَجَدُواْ اللّهَ تَوَّابًا رَّحِيمًا
Wa law annahum idh zhalamoo anfusahum jaa’ooka f ’astaghfaroollaaha w ’astaghfara lahumu ‘r-rasoolu la-wajadoo ’Llaaha tawwaaba ‘r-raheema.
If they had only, when they were unjust to themselves, come to you and asked Allah's forgiveness, and the Messenger had asked forgiveness for them, they would have found Allah indeed Oft-returning, Most Merciful. (Surat an-Nisa, 4:64)
“They come to you, yaa Muhammad.” Allah is ordering to go to Muhammad (s) and in his presence to ask forgiveness from Allah, and on behalf of us Prophet (s) will ask forgiveness, then Allah will forgive us! So Prophet (s) wants to prepare us. What he said in his famous hadith?
الا وان في الجسد مضغة اذا صلحت صلح الجسد كله، واذا فسدت فسد الجسد كله، الا وهي القلب.
Alaa inna fi’l-jasadi mudghatun idhaa saluhat saluh al-jasad kullihi wa idhaa fasada fasad al-jasada kullih. Alaa wa hiya al-qalb.
In the body there is a small piece of flesh; if that piece of flesh is rectified then the whole body will be rectified and if it becomes corrupt then the whole body will become corrupt, and truly that is the heart. (Bukhari and Muslim)
Prophet (s) said, “For sure, in the body Allah made a place for the heart, for a clot, a piece of meat, or organ, very small compared to the body, this big [indicates with fingers], running the whole body, the whole system, which they are using today to find medicine or to find illnesses in the patient's hundreds of instruments: that heart, this small, can control the whole body.
That kidney that is so small can control the whole body and can clean the whole system from every kind of sickness and poison in the blood; it will find it and clean it. Do you know how many holes there are in the kidney that absorb the blood and clean it? They absorb the fluid and clean it. One million holes in one kidney! And do you know what it does? It is more intelligent than the computer: it takes the fluid and cleans it and keeps what is necessary of minerals and vitamins for the body and throws out what are poisonous for the body. It knows every medicine, every tablet and what is necessary to keep inside the body and throws out what is not good for the body. Today they use a [dialysis] machine that works for four or five hours to clean the blood, but that machine is not intelligent and cannot know what is good for the body or what is bad; it throws everything out and then the doctors have to give medicine to replace what [good] goes out. Allah doesn’t do that; Allah made the kidney to know and to understand!
O Muslims! Prophet (s) said, “In the body there is an organ. If that organ is healthy and strong the whole body will be strong; if that is going to be weak, the whole body is going to be weak.”
"Strong” here also means to be strong in your `ibaadah, to be strong to face Maalik al-Mawt, the Angel of Death (a) when he comes; is he coming with rahmah or `adhaab? Yaa Rubber, tawbah! You don’t know how he is coming. Ankar wa Nakeer, the two angels in the grave, when they ask what you have done, “Who is your Creator? What is your religion? Who is your prophet? What is your Holy Book?” when they ask, can we answer or no? If we don’t know how to answer we are stuck!
To answer, we have to have a good weapon, a good heart, and a good weapon is a strong heart, not a heart of nameemah and gheebah and lies, not a heart of fitna and false rumors and false stories, no. But with everything good, we have to say everything that makes people happy. Prophet (s) wants to make people happy, O Shaykh! Shaykh Hisham, Shaykh Nasir, Shaykh Salih, Shaykh Osmaan, Shaykh Muhammad, Shaykh Baha, every shaykh, every human being has to be following the way of the guide, our guide, Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Al-Haqqani (q), to follow him, to follow his khalifah, to follow those who are very near to the shaykh, they learned from him: to accept Shaykh Muhammad, to accept Shaykh Baha, to accept Shaykh Adnan, to accept people who are totally involved with the teaching of the shaykh! We, as Muslims, have to follow the way of Prophet (s). So our guide is guiding us to Prophet (s) and his khalifah has to guide us to Prophet (s).
May Allah give Mawlana long life. May Allah give his family long life. May Allah give all his followers long life. May Allah give us support.
O Muslims! If the heart is strong we can answer, if the heart is not strong they will throw our heart in our face and we will be lost. May Allah (swt) give us support!
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