From Mawlana Shaykh Nazim's Personal Notes
A`oodhu billahi ‘s Sami` al-`Aleem min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem.
Bismillaahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.
Laa hawla wa laa quwatta illa billahi 'l-`Aliyyu 'l-`Azheem.
Dastoor, yaa Sayyidi, yaa Sultan al-Awliya. Dastoor yaa Sayyidi wa Mawlay. Madad, yaa RijaalAllah.
As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullaahi ta`ala wa barakaatuh.
Welcome, mu`mins. Welcome, the ones who are striving hard in Allah (swt)’s way. May Allah (swt) make us from those who try their best for Him. You are only asked about what you can do or what you can bear. Allah (swt) is not asking you for more than you can carry. Allah (swt) is Merciful and Compassionate. He asks you to do as much as you can carry. Don’t do what you cannot carry.
May Allah (swt) make us always do our best. Shahru Ramadan. Alhamdulillah, everybody is fasting and it is difficult. People know that this month is difficult. It is said that Allah (swt) sent Sayyidina Jibreel (a) to Jannah. He said, “O Jibreel! Go check Paradise. See what I have prepared for my Servants.” Jibreel (a) went to Jannah and came back. Allah (swt) asked him, “What did you see?” He said, “Yaa Rabbee! I saw things in there that if anybody heard about them they would want to enter. Nobody hears about what You have prepared for them in Paradise and they refuse to get in. Everybody will want to get in.”
As Rasoolullah (s) has said, it was surrounded by hardships, difficulties and dislikes. Rasoolullah (s) has said Jannah is encircled by all the difficulties you can imagine, by all the hardships you can imagine and by all the dislikes you can imagine.
He told Jibreel (a), “Go again and see.” He went and he came back. He said, “Yaa Rabbee! I’m afraid that nobody will enter it. It is beautiful on the inside. It has everything in it.” But Allah (swt) has surrounded it with everything that is difficult for you, O human being. Allah (swt)’s orders are against your ego’s orders. What Allah (swt) wants, your ego doesn’t want. You have to understand that.
Awliyaullah have said, Amrullah mukhaalif li ‘n-nafs, “The Order of Allah (swt) is opposite to the ego.” Is it true or not? Everything Allah (swt) ordered comes against your ego’s wishes and desires. Everything He forbids suits your desires. He surrounded Jannah by everything your ego doesn’t like, everything your ego finds difficult doing, everything your ego finds hard to accomplish. You have to pierce through these veils of hardship, difficulties and dislikes of your ego.
Jibreel (a) said, “Yaa Rabbee, I’m afraid nobody is going to be able to go that way to reach it. Nobody is even going to approach it because of all the difficulties around it.” He said, “Okay, now go see Jahannam.” He went, came back and said, “Yaa Rabbee, if anybody knew what You have created in Jahannam, nobody would want to approach it.” As Rasoolullah (s) has said, it was encircled with desires and pleasures. Jannah is encircled with dislikes of the ego and Jahannam is encircled with the likes of the ego. He said, “Now go see.” He went and said, “Yaa Rabbee, I’m afraid that nobody is going to remain except they are in Jahannam. Nobody is going to remain outside, they are going to go to Jahannam.”
Fasting in Ramadan is the perfect example of how you have to endure hardships, difficulties and what your ego does not like in order to reach Jannah. If you’re able to go through this month, if you’re able to endure the hardships that you suffer in this month, you are going to enter that Jannah, piercing through the veils of difficulties. If you say, “No, I like my desires. I like things to be easy for me. I like my comfort. I don’t want to fast. I cannot fast,” or whatever excuse that Muslims are giving nowadays, then you are going through that way of desires straight into Jahannam.
May Allah (swt) forgive us. May Allah (swt) forgive all Muslims and all mu`mins. That’s why we said you do what you can. Some people cannot, whether it’s due to age, travel or sickness. Allah (swt) has given that permission, rukhsa. It’s allowed if you are traveling, sick or this and that, but the healthy ones who say, “We cannot do it. It’s too hard,” you are not getting the point of fasting in this month, which is to show Allah (swt) that you really want to endure every difficulty you face for His Pleasure, ridaa Allah. That’s why Allah (swt) says, “If you fast, your reward is Me. I am your reward.” You cannot imagine what Allah (swt) will reward.
May Allah (swt) accept all your fasts. This is for the Muslims and mu’mins who are enduring the hardships of this month. How about the non-Muslims? Look at the wisdom of Awliyaullah. I’m going to read from Mawlana Shaykh Nazim’s book for this one. Allah (swt) is going to reward the Muslims and mu`mins endlessly for enduring the hardships.
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) said there was a man in Baghdad. Back then that part of the world was mostly Zorostrians, fire worshippers. They set up temples you can still find all the way up to Azerbaijan. That entire stretch is full of temples of fire that the Zorostrians used to worship. One Zorostrian saw his little child eating in the month of Ramadan. He reprimanded him. He was very mad at him and said, “What are you doing? Don’t you know that this is the month of fasting for the Muslims? You should not do that. Aren’t you ashamed and shy to eat during the day of Ramadan and the Muslims are fasting?”
He just reprimanded his son for eating in front of fasting Muslims. After this Zorostrian passed away, he was seen in Jannah. He was asked, “How did you enter Jannah and you are a Zorostrian, fire worshiper?” He said, “My Lord has honored me with iman, faith. How? Because I prevented my son from eating on a day of Ramadan and I reprimanded him and punished him because I was showing my respect to Muslims.”
A non-Muslim showed his respect to the month of Islam, a non-Muslim showed his respect to the Muslims by telling his family, “Don’t eat in front of these fasting people. Respect what they’re doing. Respect their culture,” and Allah (swt) put him in Jannah.
You Muslims have to endure through the hardships and difficulties. That non-Muslim respected your deen, your way, what you’re doing by worshiping your Lord was honored at the last breath with iman and he entered Jannah. Muslims and non-Muslims both benefit from this month. The non-Muslims by respecting those who are practicing their religion in this month and inshaa-Allah, Allah (swt) will open the door of faith and belief to them. You never know when He can allow that. It can enter their heart at any moment. We have seen it a lot. So many non-Muslims are respecting this month and that is a great favor from Allah (swt). They are understanding the beauty of this month and they are respecting the Muslims who are practicing in this month. I believe these ones will go to Heaven. If they respect sincerely, Allah (swt) will always make a way for their hearts to accept true belief in the Creator.
And Allah (swt) will reward the Muslims. May Allah (swt) make us from the ones who enter into Jannah. Don’t be discouraged. Don’t despair, “Oh, Maghrib is not coming. What is this? Today the sun is so slow. Other days when I’m having fun it’s so fast.” Captain, you don’t know night from day. Your sun comes from the east sometimes and from the west sometimes. You’re on autopilot. You don’t know if the sun came or went. Sometimes it’s dark forever, sometimes there’s sun forever. May Allah (swt) reward you according to what you’re doing.
Allah (swt) will reward the Muslims, inshaa-Allah (swt), with the best to see His Beautiful Face. You will see His Face as Awliyaullah have said, bi noori Jalalihi tukram bi ru’yati Jamalihi, “By the Light of His Majesty, by the Light of His Jalal.” When he crushes your ego, there is no more ego. By the Light of His Majesty you will be honored by seeing His Beauty, His Jamal. By the Noor of His Jalal, you will See His Jamal. Inshaa-Allah, Allah (swt) make us from them. That is, “I am the reward.” Wa ana arzibi. “I will be their reward.”
By His Noor you will see His Beauty. Inshaa-Allah, we can be from them. It is the best any Muslim or any mu`min can shoot for. It is said that, “Eyes don’t accept partners.” They don’t want to see anything but Allah (swt). The eyes of Waliyullah, the eyes of Nabiyullah don’t want to see anything because they don’t accept partners for the eyes. La shareek in seeing. La shareek for the heart in dhikr. The heart does not want to mention anybody except Allah (swt). They don’t want any partners. The eyes don’t want to see anybody except Allah (swt). They don’t want anything else. Your heart doesn’t want anything else and your tongue doesn’t want anything else. Your tongue makes Tawheed. It does not say anything else. Your heart only mentions Allah (swt) and remembers Allah (swt). It does not remember anybody else. Your eyes only want to see Allah (swt) and don’t want to see anything else. That is the true Tawheed by the tongue, the heart and the eyes.
Be from them. Only ask to see the Beauty of Allah (swt) by His Noor, His Light. Inshaa-Allah, we can be from them.
Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq, bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, wa bi hurmati ‘l-Fatihah.
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