Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
16 June 2016 Fenton Zawiya, Michigan
Zhuhr Suhbah
A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillaahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.
Nawaytu 'l-arba`een, nawaytu 'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu 'l-khalwah, nawaytu 'l-`uzlah,
nawaytu 'r-riyaada, nawaytu 's-salook, lillahi ta'ala al-`Azheem fee hadha 'l-masjid.
As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuh. Baytun min buyooti ‘Llah, this place is a House from Allah's Houses on Earth.
وَأَنَّ الْمَسَاجِدَ لِلَّهِ فَلَا تَدْعُوا مَعَ اللَّهِ أَحَدًا
The mosques are for Allah, so do not pray to anyone other than Allah. (Surat al-Jinn, 72:18)
“Verily the mosques are for Allah so don't call on anyone besides Allah as a god.” If you put a masjid, don't think you did something great for Allah. No, Allah wants your heart to be a masjid first, then you build a masjid you will understand inna al-masaajida li ‘Llah, the masjids are for Allah.
Prophet (s) said:
لا يشقى بهم جليسهم
Those who sit with them will not be harmed. (Bukhari)
Anyone who comes and sits, even if he does not know anything about this majlis, they will not have an unhappy ending because they sat with them and the blessings Allah is sending on those people will descend on that person and clean him of any mistake. But for sure he has to be mu’min, Muslim, saying, “Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah,” and if he is not a Muslim still the noor in that masjid or any masjid around the world might guide him if Allah gives permission and that person will convert to Islam, which he originally did on the Day of Promises when Allah asked, “Am I not your Lord?” and we all said, “Balaa, yes, O my Lord! You are my Creator and I am Your servant.” But when they came to dunya they forgot that and became unbelievers.
Allah gave us something very important to carry as a message. Awliya have explained that in the heart of everyone there are five levels and Awliyaullah are all the time trying to raise up their followers in order to open these levels to them. These levels are in a trust, amaanah. As Prophet said:
إذا كنتم ثلاثة فأمروا أحدكم
If you are a group of three, appoint one as a leader. (Tabarani)
It means put someone who is responsible to carry your trust and give it to you. In the time of Prophet (s) and after the Sahaabah carried the trust, the Taabi`een continued to carry your trust and then the a'immah, Four Righteous Imams, who will keep your trust safe from Shaytan until you reach maturity. Many people will ask, what is that ‘maturity’? “We are mature: we are praying, fasting, giving Zakaat and doing Hajj. What else is there? Why have we not been given our trust and vision?” When they give you your trust, they take you to the second level of the heart, Maqaam as-Sirr, the Level of Secret. There you begin to hear what cannot be heard and see what cannot be seen, as mentioned in the Hadith:
عن أبي هريرة قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم إن الله قال من عادى لي وليا فقد آذنته بالحرب وما تقرب إلي عبدي بشيء أحب إلي مما افترضت عليه وما يزال عبدي يتقرب إلي بالنوافل حتى أحبه فإذا أحببته كنت سمعه الذي يسمع به وبصره الذي يبصر به ويده التي يبطش بها ورجله التي يمشي بها وإن سألني لأعطينه ولئن استعاذني لأعيذنه وما ترددت عن شيء أنا فاعله ترددي عن نفس المؤمن يكره الموت وأنا أكره مساءته
ولا يزال عبدي يتقرب إلي بالنوافل حتى أحبه، فإذا أحببته كنت سمعه الذي يسمع به وبصره
الذي يبصر به، ويده التي يبطش بها ورجله التي يمشي بها،
My servant does not cease to approach Me through voluntary worship until I will love him. When I love him, I will become the ears with which he hears, the eyes with which he sees, the hand with which he acts, and the legs with which he walks (and other versions include, “and the tongue with which he speaks.”). (Hadith Qudsi, Bukhari)
They will take you to that level because they want you to be mature in order that they open for you. Maturity is explained in this story about Awliyaullah inheriting from the Prophet (s) the secrets of their followers. Some Awliya have millions of mureeds, followers, around the world. I was in a conference and a big `aalim asked me to speak to an audience of about 10,000 people in a stadium outside London. I didn’t prepare anything, but went on the podium and said, “Yaa Rabbee, don't let me down.” No preparation in front of thousands of people and I spoke for 45 minutes about al-`Ilmu ‘l-Ladunniyy, when Sayyidina Musa (a) met with Sayyidina Khidr (a). He heard what I heard from my shuyookh, Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, Shaykh `AbdAllah al-Fa’iz ad-Daghestani and Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, Sultan al-Awliya (q). What we have heard and learned I spoke and it entered the heart of the `aalim as if you sent an arrow straight to his heart: when the arrow hits the center of the target you are a first class archer.
Awliya don't miss their targets. When they shoot their arrows, even if they shoot 100 arrows at the same time, each arrow will go to a certain target, not like us! When we shoot only one arrow it might hit or not hit the target. Awliyaullah are not like us, Allah (swt) gave them heavenly power, like He gave to Sayyidina Khidr (a). They shoot their smart arrows in the direction of, for example, 1,000, 100,000 or 200,000 mureeds at the same time in one bundle and each arrow will hit the heart of the right person. They don’t interfere with each other: every arrow goes in a different direction, hitting the center of the heart of a person.
What happens then? That person will suddenly open his eyes, but there is a veil and until the Wali takes the veil away with help of the student, as the student has to take some action on his behalf, when that happens then that arrow reaches the target as then the target is ready for whatever you assign of awraad, Holy Qur’an, Hadith, of good behavior or Maqaam al-Ihsaan. Whatever you speak they accept because you hit the target. That means you are a trustworthy person, and whatever trust you are holding for that mureed you are hoping to give to him at the appropriate moment.
Involuntarily I spoke, and that person, Shaykh Naqeeb ur-Rahman, was very happy. He said, “I want to invite you to Pakistan to attend our conference. I am a Naqshbandi shaykh in Pakistan, I have five million Naqshbandi students. I want you to come and address them.”
What happened? I don't know him, it was the first time I saw him and he asked me to give a speech. Allah had opened his heart to invite me to come and address his people, because he understands and knows that al-`Ilmu `Ilmaan, knowledge is of two types: `Ilm al-Awraaq wa `Ilm al-Adhwaaq, Knowledge of Papers and Knowledge of Taste. He can taste and we are tasting from Mawlana Shaykh (q). That taste has spread. When the people who are listening reach the age of maturity they can understand, then you need to say only one word and it is enough. Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah is enough to open Miftah al-Jannah for you, the Key of Paradise.
Why don't we see Paradise when we say, “Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah.” Prophet (s) said, “Laa ilaaha illa-Llah is Miftah al-Jannah.” If you go to a locksmith to make a copy of a key, sometimes it does not work, then you have to go back and adjust the tooth of the key. Every tooth has a purpose, so if one tooth is wrong the lock does not open. That depends on the level of the heart. There are five levels in the heart: Qalb, Sirr, Sirr as-Sirr, Akhfaa, Khafaa. Maturity will open these levels of your heart, so try to be mature. We are all not mature or else we would be on the other side seeing what Awliyaullah are seeing. Since we are not seeing, how can we claim something we don't own or see? If I tell you, “I give you this, take it,” you take it because you saw it, but if I tell you, “Take this,” and you see nothing, what is there to take?
You have to try to make yourself mature, like one of Sayyidina `Abdul-Khaliq Ghujdawani's (q) mureeds. Sayyidina `Abdul-Khaliq Ghujdawani was famous and had many mureeds, he was a big scholar and the Imam of Khatm al-Khawajagan. Allah revealed in the heart of Prophet (s) to reveal to Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (r) and Sayyidina `Ali (r) to reveal the Khatm al-Khawajagan to him. Sayyidina `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani had a mureed who thought he was mature, but that maturity went a different way instead of reaching the target.
The shaykh knew that and said to him, “Yaa `Abdur-Rahman, I want to give you a job to do every day, to take care of my flock.” The shaykh needs to have sheep, cows and goats to feed the people. He said, “I want you to take them to the fields near the mountain to eat grass and bring them back in the evening. If you love me, this is your awraad.”
A shepherd guiding his flock is Manhaj al-Anbiyaa, the Way of the Prophets, which means he was opening for him to taste from the realities of Prophet (s), if he is mature and going in the right direction. To be above 18 years of age is not real maturity, that is maturity for dunya. Maturity to reach Haqaa’iq al-`Uloom, the Reality of Knowledge, is different.
The mureed said, “Na`m yaa Sayyidee sami`na wa ata`na.” He took the big flock to the mountains. Ramadan came, thirty days and he did not tell his shaykh that every night in Ramadan he slaughtered one lamb and opened it to the daraawish, the majaadhib, dervishes, those whose hearts are for their Lord. They have `ishq to Allah. Inshaa-Allah, Allah makes us among the `Aashiqeen who have `ishq to their Lord! [Ameen.] He slaughtered thirty of them and when `Eid came he slaughtered ten more.
After a year he came to his shaykh, “O Sayyidi, do you have more?”
The shaykh said,“What more?”
He said, “Sheep, goats, cows.”
The shaykh asked, “What happened to the flock?”
The mureed answered, “I slaughtered them all in mahabbat Allah, mahabbat ar-Rasool.” He was happy!
Sayyidina `Abdul-Khaliq Ghujdawani shouted at him because he was under tarbiyyah, he was raising him up, perfecting him. “You are the worst person! You didn't keep the trust I gave you. I don’t want to see you Tomorrow you will change your job, to go to the forest, cut the wood and take it to the market and sell it. Bring some of it to the dargah but sell the rest and bring the money to me for buying vegetables. That is your job from now on.”
The mureed began to cut the wood. After he got tired he came to the shaykh and said, “Yaa Sayyidi, I cannot continue, my back is hurting. I am a soft person, not rough, please can I change what I have to do?”
The shaykh said, “Okay. You stay here tonight and tomorrow I will send you somewhere to get some knowledge, to become mature. I tried you with the sheep you were not successful. I sent you to the forest, you were not successful. You are not successful with anything, so I will send you to the cemetery now to dig there, to get `ilm.”
What kind of `ilm is there in the cemetery? [Death.] What do you do with death? [You stay there, you don’t come back.] You do khalwah in the grave. He sent the mureed to the cemetery, but the door was closed. He knocked on the door, but nobody opened it.
He saw someone sitting on the fence and said to him, “O my brother! Are you one of them (dead people)?”
The man said, “No, I am not one of them, but you are one of them. I am here visiting. What are you doing here?”
The mureed said, “My teacher sent me here to learn knowledge.”
“My teacher sent me to teach you.”
He jumped down from the fence, opened the door and the visitor entered the cemetery. There were deceased `ulama, scholars, and normal people buried there. The mureed, Abdur-Rahman, went to the first grave and started reading Fatihah for a very famous scholar. Speaking to the man that had opened the door, he said, “O my brother. I know that person, he was very dedicated in his `ilm and he taught his followers. How old was he when he died?”
The man said, “This one died as a baby, he did not live even two years. The second one was three, the other one four and another one was five years old. None of them reached maturity.”
The mureed said, “How? This one was 70, this one 80, this one 40, how do you make this one 1 year, 2 years, 3 years?”
He said, “Yaa waladee, here we count by `ibaadah, we don't count by years. Years come and go, but `ibaadah is there. They were not yet mature to get their amanaat from their shuyookh. They are dead, yes, 70 years of the physical body, but they did not raise their souls up to the level of maturity. If you don't raise your soul to maturity by being patient you will never taste the honey. You are like them, you will never reach maturity, but I have one thing that I am going to complain to Sayyidina `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani about you so he will not give you your trust, because I am jealous of you.” Then he disappeared.
The mureed thought, “What is happening? I was better off running the flocks in the mountain, better off cutting the wood than to come to this cemetery and see these scholars, hearing that this one was 3 years, this one 5 years! I am not reaching maturity yet, even though I was better off with the other things. I don't understand anything from this Tariqah!”
He went back to his shaykh, wondering who the majnoon sitting on fence was. As soon as he entered the majlis his shaykh said, “`Abdur Rahman, come!” and the man who had been sitting on fence was sitting beside `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (q). Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, said, “That was Sayyidina Khidr (a).” Shaykh Sayyidina `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani sent the mureed to the cemetery to teach him adab, to teach him that if all the `ibaadah they did in dunya is put together it doesn’t give you an age of 2, 3, 5, 6 or 7 years, or to reach maturity. No way. Your `ibaadah must be mukhlisan lillah, devoted to Allah!
Sayyidina Khidr (a) said, “I am jealous of this mureed. When I told him about these `ulama, saying this one is 3 years, 4 years, he wasn’t listening to me. I detected that his heart was with you, as if he is deaf from hearing anything other than you. He only wants to hear your voice. I tried to put him down to let him taste the bitterness, but he didn’t care.”
`Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani looked at the mureed and said, “You are the worst one, you know nothing! I sent you to the graves and you did not learn anything. You are useless in my jama`ah.” The man was so upset, but he was looking at his shaykh as if he didn’t even hear what his shaykh was saying. His heart was connected and he was focusing on the love of his shaykh completely, not listening or hearing anything else.
In that moment, Sayyidina `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (q) was ordered by Awliyaullah to give him his Trust and brought him to the Stage of Maturity through his Shahadah finger. How through the Shahadah finger? He ordered him to sit on his knees and the shaykh was on his knees looking at his heart and with his Shahadah finger moving the engine, al-muharrik huwa Allah. You have the engine, but you need the petrol as well. When `inaayatullah comes on the engine, it runs. When `inaayatullah comes, the heart will run.
He was looking at the shaykh moving his finger (in a circle) and through the finger sending him Haqiqat al-Jazba, Haqiqat al-f, Haqiqat at-Tayy, Haqiqat al-Irshaad, the Six Powers from within his heart. These are in the Level of Secrets, in the third level of the heart. He opened it to him and sent him to teach in the East and West, and his heart was full of enlightenment. He was one of the khulafaa of Sayyidina `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani that spread the Tariqah and the Khatm al-Khawajagan throughout Central Asia.
When his shaykh was pointing to his heart with the Shahaadah finger, in reality he was circumambulating the Ka`bah, taking power from there, dressing him with the Reality of the Ka`bah and Madinat al-Munawwarah. That mureed was sent everywhere and he was successful in his work, for the benefit of Tariqat an-Naqshbandiyya al-`Aliya. At that time it was called Khawajaganiyya, Ghujdawaniyya. In the time of Sayyidina Abu Bakr (r) it was called Siddiqiyya, in the time of Sayyidina `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani it was Gujdawaniyya and in the time of Shah Naqshband it was Naqshbandiyya. He spread the teachings of the Tariqah in order for people to reach maturity.
Even if you work eight hours a day it is `ibaadah, because Allah divided the day into three parts: eight hours work, eight hours sleep and eight hours `ibaadah. If you do your `ibaadah, your work and then sleep eight hours, all of it will be considered `ibaadah. We forget and lose that in our life.
Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, said for all of us, there are six realities in everyone's heart: `Ilm al-Yaqeen, `Ayn al-Yaqeen, Haqq al-Yaqeen. When you reach Haqq al-Yaqeen you will see these realities. Now it is `Ilm al-Yaqeen, someone is telling you about these realities: Haqiqat al-Jazba, to attract people; Haqiqat al-Fayd, caring of Allah (swt); Haqiqat at-Tawassul, Intercession; Haqiqat at-Tawajjuh, to focus on someone and grab him; Haqiqat at-Tayy, with ‘bismillah’ you move East and West; Haqiqat al-Irshaad, you have the Power of Guidance.
May Allah bless us with the Power of Guidance and bring us to maturity, then you will be assigned to guide people. All of Awliyaullah, the target of the shaykhs, is to bring them to maturity. We go back to the beginning. That shaykh has five million mureeds, imagine how big that power is, to attract five million is something unbelievable. Alhamdulillah Mawlana Shaykh, may Allah bless his soul, attracted East and West, his name is well known. Even when you mention his name it is with their barakah, because when mentioning the names of pious people rahmah comes.
عِنْدَ ذِكْرِ الصَّالِحِينَ تَنْزِلُ الرَّحْمَةُ
When the names of the pious are mentioned Allah’s Mercy descends.
All over the world, people are mentioning the work of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) and his sainthood. That rahmah, mercy will come when his name is mentioned. The best and highest level of mercy comes when we make salawaat on Prophet (s), then the doors of Heavens are opening. May Allah open the doors of Heaven on our hearts by the blessings of our shuyookh, blessings of Prophet (s) and blessings of Allah (swt).
Bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.
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