The Rewards of Worshipping in Laylat al-Bara`ah
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
4 July 2012 Fenton Zawiya, Michigan
Suhbah before Maghrib
Kalimataan khafeefataan `ala ’l-lisaan thaqeelataan fi ‘l-meezaan, subhaanAllah wa bihamdihi subhaanAllahi ‘l-`Azheem astaghfirullah.
Alhamdulillah, that Allah (swt) gave us the honor to be meeting here on this blessed night, remembering Allah (swt) and his Prophet (s). And it is not a normal night but it is a night that Muslims around the world, since the time of the Prophet (s), are observing this night since it is in the month of the Prophet (s). And as the Prophet (s) said in the Holy Hadith:
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Rajabun shahrullah wa Sha`baanu shahree wa Ramadaanu shahra ummatee.
Rajab is Allah's month, Sha`baan is my month and Ramadan is the month of the Ummah.
(Abul-Fath ibn Abi Fawaris in his `Amalee from al-Hasan)
Rajab is Allah’s month: it means whatever you do, Allah will not allow His Angels to take any `amal to His Presence in this month, for He takes it directly. This is an honor for believers. This is month of the Prophet (s), Sha`baan, which means shu`ab al-imaan, “branches of faith,” so this month is the Secret of Islam because this is the month of the Prophet (s), and he came with the Message. He is the Seal of Prophets, so Sha`baan is the Seal of Secrets and awliyaullah observe this month to get more and more secrets.
Allah (swt) mentioned that in this month, feehaa yufraqu kullu amrin hakeem (there is a night in which every affair of wisdom is made distinct):
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Haa Meem wa’l-kitaabi’l-mubeen innaa anzalnaahu fee laylatin mubaarakatin innaa kunnaa mundhireen feehaa yufraqu kullu ‘amrin hakeem ‘amran min `indinaa innaa kunnaa mursileen.
Haa Meem, by the Book that makes things clear, We sent it down during a blessed night; for We (ever) wish to warn (against evil), in the (night) is made distinct every affair of wisdom, by Command, from Our Presence , for We (ever) send (revelations). (Surat ad-Dukhan, 44:1-5)
Sadaq-Allahu ‘l-`Azheem wa `alaa Rasooluhu ‘l-kareem wa nahnu `alaa dhaalika min ash-shaahideen wa ’sh-shaakireen bi qalbin saleem.
Allah (swt) said that in this month there is one night that in it every `amal and every order of Allah, what is written to happen to human beings in this year, yufraqu feeha kullu amrin hakeem, in that night every matter is decided and everyone is going to receive what is decided for him. If people are sitting in such an association, then Allah will look at them with the Eye of Mercy, the Eye of Rahmah, and if He looks and sees people honoring Allah and His Prophet, what He will honor them and reward them with is beyond understanding! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! So those who came from here or there, be happy because it is not a waste of time. You will wish you had given all your wealth for one minute in such an association on the Day of Judgment or on the day of death!
It is not easy to get such reward; you would not get it even if you worshipped from the beginning to the end! But with such meetings of remembering Allah (swt), where everyone forgets that Sahaabah (r) used to look for that night, because it is in the month of Prophet (s), and feehaa yufraqu kullu amrin hakeem, every matter is being observed, discussed, and for all their `ibaadullah Allah (swt) will dress them! Such associtations are dressed with that heavenly dress. And dhikrullah in that night, which we and awliyaullah are observing, if you add all the nights of dhikrullah you performed during this year, this will be ten times more! Multiply 52 weeks by ten; by this dhikr you have received 520 times the the reward, which is equal to ten years of `ibaadah, because it is the night of the 15 Sha`baan and we are welcoming that night!
In Grandshaykh's time, after `Asr the mureed was required to go take a shower for welcoming that night, but here it is difficult. That means we come clean and we go clean, and for the whole year we are clean! If you are clean in this night you are clean the whole year, and no dirtiness will affect you, and Allah prohibits the angels to see your dirtiness because:
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Inna Allahu jameel wa yuhibbu ‘l-jamaal,
Allah is Beautiful and loves beauty.
Allah oossesses the Absolute Beauty, the Absolute Perfume, the Absolute Nice Smell coming from heavens on the Prophet (s) and to the ummah, and you will be dressed with it, because on this night Allah has opened tajalli that were not opened before!
THE HEAVENLY STORM APPROACHES
Allah has opened in this night tajalli that was not opened before. It is a tajalli that when Allah wants to punish, as we said in a previous suhbat, He punishes and when He does, He takes good and bad at the same time. This night, good ones will stay and bad ones will go. As Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) informed today through spiritual means, we have to understand that a heavenly storm is coming: not a normal dunya storm. This week three states were damaged in one five-minute storm with lightning that Allah made to damage three million or more homes. Everything was shut down: electricity, telephone, Internet. He is showing to humanity, “O human beings! The most powerful country in the world! (Which country that is, everyone knows.) In five minutes, I changed everything and made a big disaster. Yes, they have some power, but Our Heavenly Power cannot be compared!”
THE HEAVENLY WHIP
When the heavenly storm comes, it is not like this simple storm of winds. When Allah (swt) wants to punish hafazhanallah, may Allah protect us, it is not easy and it is not simple! As we explained before (people can look at the previous session after they upload it, and you can hear it), Mahdi (a) does not need weapons. Those who think Mahdi (a) is waiting for weapons are mistaken. He comes with takbeer and everything is shut down. there will be no more Weather Channel, finished! No more this or that, finished, all stops. The satellites they sent up will come down, because nothing can be up except haqq! With a little bit of lightning or little shaking of the earth that changed its gravity, “bye-bye,” they will shut down. The internet will shut down and rockets will come down. The only thing that will move is a heavenly strike! Allah will send one small angel, Ra`ad:
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Wa yusabbihu ‘r-ra`du bi-hamdihi wa ‘l-malaaikatu min kheefatihi wa yursilu ‘s-sawaa`iqa fayuseebu bihaa man yashaau wa hum yujaadiloona fillaahi wa huwa shadeedu ‘l-mihaali.
And the thunder extols His limitless glory and praises Him, and (so do) the angels, in awe of Him; and He (it is Who) lets loose the thunderbolts and strikes with them whom He wills. Yet these (are the men) who (dare to) dispute about Allah, with the strength of His Power (Supreme)!
(Surat ar-Ra`ad, 13:13)
When those two positive and negative clouds hit each other, what happens? Lightning and thunder come; you hear the sound of thunder. Allah (swt) is saying, “Don't be mistaken! This is My Angel, Ra`ad!” who is as small as my thumb and can cover east to west and north to south, one angel! When he hits, simultaneously thunder and lightning appear, wherever Allah wants thunder and rain to go. When he hits a certain whip, those clouds crash into each other with the voice of that angel, Ra`ad. It is not the sound of positive and negative charges hitting each other, it is the sound of that angel who is afraid of his Lord, who says, “Yaa Rabbee! Where am I going to hit and whom am I going to punish?”
He is afraid of Allah’s Punishment! He is as big as the top part of my thumb, and we are this big. If you harnessed six-billion human beings on earth, he is stronger than all of them with his whip! In the time of Mahdi (a), he will have a heavenly whip. To every mu’min who says, “Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadan Rasoolullah,” Allah (swt) will give a heavenly whip with which they will whip their egos and clean their dirtiness. Allah gives that from His Mercy, and they clean themselves and Allah will clean them, and with that whip they clean people to become believers or they will go to akhirah, leave dunya and pass away.
Sayyidina al-Mahdi (a) is not going to bring peace by making demonstrations everywhere. Public demonstrations and protesting is only a way to make more problems, bringing the low-qaulity person to sit on the chair of presidency. What is parliament? You might be the worst person, an alcoholic or drug dealer, and with your illicit money you nominate yourself with the help of others, and become a Member of Parliament. Today you see around the world that many Members of Parliament are rich people. Often, they got their money from drug dealing. They have their cartels, and their ways and groups. The worst are becoming kings and the real kings are coming down. And now istafarat un-naas, the worst, lowest of people are winning. The majority is bad and the minority is good.
Mahdi (a) is coming to clean earth of these things! Allah doesn't need a sword. When He sent Sayyidina Adam (a), He didn’t send a sword with him. Like Sayyidina Ibraheem (a), say:
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Subboohun Quddoos Rabbunaa wa Rabbu ‘l-malaa’ikati wa ‘r-rooh.
The Glorified, The Holy, our Lord and Lord of the angels and the soul.
(Sahih Muslim, Abu Dawood)
Sayyidina Jibreel (a) came to test Sayyidina Ibraheem (a), and said, “You are filling this valley with sheep and cows, horses, camels. All those are yours and what about me? I have none.”
Sayyidina Ibraheem (a) said, “You like them? Take some! They don’t belong to me; I am only looking after them, but they belong to Allah (swt). Say, suboohun qudoos rabbu ‘l-malaa’ikati wa ‘r-rooh, ‘He is the Holy One, the Absolute One, the Greatest One, the Lord, the Creator! He owns the angels and all things! He is our Rabb; we are His Servants!’ ”
If Allah (swt) wants to take, be careful! If Allah wants to give, keep saying, “Alhamdulillah.”
Jibreel (a) said, “Suboohun qudoos rabbu ‘l-malaa’ikati wa ‘r-rooh,” and Ibraheem (a) gave him one-third for free, for one recitation of those valuable words! If Ibraheem (a) gave one-third of all that, what will Allah give if we say (say it now), “Suboohun qudoos rabbu ‘l-malaa’ikati wa ‘r-rooh.” Can what Allah (swt) gives compare to what Sayyidina Ibraheem (a) gives? There is no comparison! Be happy that now you might get the whole valley! Everyone will get a valley in Paradise, inshaa-Allah. Why not?
And then Jibreel (a) said, “Yaa Ibraheem! You still have more, so give me more!”
Sayyidina Ibraheem (a) said, “Okay, you didn’t ask; if you want more just ask. Take more, another third, by saying ‘suboohun qudoos rabbu ‘l-malaa’ikati wa ‘r-rooh.’ ” So he took them. Then Sayyidina Ibraheem (a) said, “Subhaan-Allah, you are a greedy one! Do you want the rest?”
Sayyidina Jibreel (a) said, “Yes, I want the rest.”
“Okay, then say ‘suboohun qudoos rabbuna wa rabbu ‘l-malaa’ikati wa ‘r-rooh.’ ”
That time Sayyidina Jibreel (a) said it in plural, “rabbuna.” Say this now, “Suboohun qudoos rabbuna wa rabbu ‘l-malaa’ikati wa ‘r-rooh.”
Then Sayyidina Ibraheem (a) said, “Alhamdulillah! I found someone to take this responsibility and you took it; Allah relieved me!”
Then Jibreel (a) said, “Yaa Ibraheem! Look, it’s me, Jibreel!”
Sayyidina Ibraheem (a) replied, “No, that’s it! Jibreel or not, I have sold them and now I have no responsibility, you carry the responsibility!”
Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, said jinn moved that valley out of this world until Mahdi (a) comes, then it will return with all its flocks to feed people in the time of Mahdi (a)! He said one bite of one animal from that flock suffices for forty days in Sayyidian Mahdi’s (a) time and Sayyidina `Isa’s (a) time, and that is coming.
RUN AWAY FROM BAD ENVIRONMENTS
There are great changes coming to the world and everything is going to change. Don't plan ahead for ten, twenty or thirty years what you want to do or make plans for infrastructure and urban development. No, run!
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Fafirroo ‘ilaa-Allahi innee lakum minhu nadheerun mubeen.