Yaa RijaalAllah. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Dastoor, yaa Sayyidee.
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, `Azeez Allah.
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhaan Allah.
Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultaan Allah.
Alfu alfu salaat, alfu alfu salaam `alayka yaa Sayyidi 'l-awwaleen wa’l-aakhireen. Allahumma zidhu `izzan wa sharafan wa nooran wa surooran wa ridwaanan wa sultaana. Habeebak! Habeebana, habeebi Rabbi 'l-`alameen, yaa Sayyidi 'l-Awwaleen wa’l-Akhireen, yaa Shafi`ee al-Mudhnibeen, yaa Habeebana wa Habeeb Allah. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.)
Yes, there must be one; there cannot be a king and a crown prince. You that are claiming, "We are `ulamas.” O Salafiu 's-Saalih, you inherit from their knowledge, yes? Good. Can you (truly) say you are representatives of the Salafu 's-Saalih, who follow the Seal of Prophets (s) step-by-step? Can you tell me, who is Wali al-`Ahad, that Crown Prince or Sir (Knight) of Heaven? He (Allah) is ubiquitous - from pre-Eternal to Eternal, He is that One! But for His creatures, He has that one to represents His majesty, and has granted to him things that He did not grant anyone else, such majestic glory!
O `Ulamas! Say what was written on the Divine Throne, `Arshullah? Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah! (Allah Almighty is says,) "No one can reach the level of servanthood that I gave to My chosen and selected one."
O Salafi `ulamas! Tell me if you know. You are not only earthly creatures, but your creation is one hundred per cent different from others' creation, from the first prophet up to the second-to-last prophet. You are al-`anaasir al-arba`ah. You may say your bodies are of four elements: water, earth, fire, and air. But prophets' creation is not from the ordinary elements that Adam's (a) descendants are created from, no. They are special ones! You must learn.
(Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Don't say,"Muhammad (s) is like us." You are ignorant ones! He is not like us! Kallaa, never! (Mawlana Shaykh recites this verse from Imam Busayri's world-renowned poem, Burdah ash-Shareef, "The Mantle of Prophet (s)":
Muhammadun basharun
wa laysa ka 'l-bashri
huwa yaqootatun '
wa naasu ka 'l-hajari,
Muhammad is a man,
but not like other men;
Muhammad is a gem
and human beings are stones."
Allah Almighty says this about the Prophet's appearance, Qul innama `ana basharun mithlukum yooha ilayya. "Say (O Prophet), 'I am but a mortal man like all of you.'" (18:110) (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) So many ignorant ones say of Sayyidina Rasoolullah (s), "He is like us." Kaalla! The Seal of Prophets (s) could never be like you! You are on the level of animals, but no one knows his level except the One Who granted existence to animals. Never will he accept, because he is like Him Who granted him the honor for his name to be written after His Holiest Majestic Name. (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Muhammadun Rasoolullah! Say! Why are you saying he is like you? Say! Is your name written after laa ilaaha illa-Llah? O jaahil, stupid and ignorant ones!! Ptuuh (spit) on your beliefs!! (Mawlana Shaykh sits.)
Laa ilaaha illa-Llah Sayyidina Muhammadun Rasoolullah. (Mawlana Shaykh stands and sits.) Tawbah istaghfirullah, Tawbah yaa Rabbee.
Yes. Because the Day of Resurrection, Yawm ul-Qiyaamah is approaching, and there are some new understandings about Allah Almighty's divine deputy coming. He was with his Lord Who was asking to be known, and Who gave a dharra, an atom's worth of the treasures of His Divine Being. The whole Creation cannot carry more than that atom granted to the Seal of Prophets (s), (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Once again, stand up! You are granted so many honors, every time you stand up and sit down. (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) Allah, Allah.
O People! We are saying, bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. Yes, you must try to understand something according to your capacity to understand, وَلِكُلٍّ دَرَجَاتٌ wa li kullin darajaat, "To each there are levels." (6:132) You are granted from the Lord of Heavens, wa li kullin darajaat, never-ending in the existence of Creation, kulla yuhaat, that whole existence whose limits you cannot reach. Allah Almighty is granting everything to everything, wa li kul, kul, that exists in `Alam al-Insaan (Knowledge of Creation, of human beings and what comes with them), and in `Alam al-Malakoot (Knowledge of the Heavenly Kingdom); `Alam al-Jabaroot (the Powerful, Strong Knowledge), `Alam al-Lahoot (the Lordly Knowledge, above ma`arifatullah).
What do you know? Nothing. The whole Creation is saying in my ear, "You speak only truth," and that truth is according to the lowest level for Creation. (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar! Yaa Jabbar! Yaa Ghaffaar! Yaa Sattaar! Yaa `Azheemu 'l-Uzhamaa! Yaa Rabbana, rabb 'ighfir w'arham wa Anta khayru 'r-raahimeen! (Mawlana Shaykh sits.) But always Shaytan puts ideas in front of those ignorant ones to lead them the wrong way, to give them the wrong beliefs and wrong imagining about the Lord of Heavens. Because they are saying that the Seal of Prophets (s) is on our level. No, no, that can't be. If he were on your level, or your level were the same as his level, then you must be like him, taking heavenly inspirations, and you too must bring heavenly books from the heavens. Think on it, O `ulamas Azhari shareef, O doctors!
How many times does Allah Almighty say in the Holy Qur'an, لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ l`allahum yatafakkaroon, "perchance they may reflect" (7:176) Thinking is a key for real realities. If you can look through that ayah, you may come and open your thinking. What are you thinking when you are reciting? فَهَلْ مِن مُّدَّكِرٍ Hal min muddakir, "Is there any that will receive admonition?" (54:15, 54:40) Not saying mudhdhakkir, but muddakir, deep thinking; where are the deep thinkers, those who may swim through Oceans of Holy Qur'an? Where are they? The Lord of Heavens is asking where you are. They are saying, "We are doctor fulaan." I am saying, "O Doctor of Tractors, all people of all nations from every belief, from every religion, think on it! Use the key of your thinking to gain knowledge.
As I look from here, they make me to look at the skies, and I am surprised and wonder why its color is light blue? Why, and we are sitting in an ocean of darkness, and the whole universe is in that dark ocean. From where is this color coming? And when Maghrib comes, the darkness, the black color covers everything. How is this coming in daytime? Say! Who is giving that color? The sun? Then who is taking this color and bringing this blackness to the planet? Are you thinking about this? Hal min muddakirin? Don't forget, when they are making this nothing one to speak, don't say, "That one is speaking." No, it is something from heavens, and if heavenly ones, lowest ones, were not speaking and addressing you, you would never understand. But they are using a very, very simple one, someone at your level, to address you. Whether you accept or not, attend or not, it doesn't matter for those who are not hearing and paying attention to those words that we are making ourselves run on. You are like people on a Boeing flight, looking only at what is inside, because you are inside. If you could lift it up, take it off, you should see, oohhh, oohhh! This is such an association; it is more than an association, it is a teaching that belongs to the heavens and Man must try to understand something!
O `ulamas Azhar, `ulamas hijaaz! You must know that when people rise from their graves on the Day of Resurrection, first of all they will be asked the question, "What did you learn?" Yes, you know this? What did you learn?
You may say, "We learned, we were seated, looking at which host or hostess was more handsome or more beautiful, what they brought us on trays. We were watching that and sometimes we were watching the TV, for scenarios."
"You learned this in dunya? Such things and nothing else?"
"No, we were occupied with so many things on this planet."
What will your answer be about what you learned?
"O Man, O humankind, what did you learn?"
"We learned about our safeenah, our vessel around us, we looked at this, tasted that, we were doing this, we were occupied with ourselves. Beyond that, we were not interested in anything because so many things occupied our interest, particularly beautiful ladies were our interest."
Ayyuhal an`aam, O cattle! Given their levels, a heavenly khitaab came to angels:
أُوْلَـئِكَ كَالأَنْعَامِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ أُوْلَـئِكَ هُمُ الْغَافِلُونَ
ulaa'ika ka 'l-an`aami bal hum adalloo ulaa'ika humu 'l-ghaafiloon.
Leave them! They are like cattle; no, even more astray (as) they are heedless. (7:179)
They never understood anything, so leave them and send them to their stables. Send them to enjoy themselves with animals!
O `ulamas! Are you like this? No one is interested in asking beyond that. Therefore, I was very sad, whether people were attending or not attending, I was sad. Now the heavenly directors are saying, “Leave those not attending as they like to be on the level of animals. Those who like to listen to someone are enough for you as their levels are above the levels of animals.” And I am asking forgiveness. O our Lord, don't leave us at the levels of animals, like those who follow their egos! O our Lord, forgive us! Don't leave me to be on the level of animals. I am not distinguishing myself, but I am asking, O our Lord send us someone who can teach us beyond our animal level, upward endlessly, bringing us to higher levels.
O Our Listeners! May Allah grant that you reach diamonds that you can’t find in this life. Those who reach such diamonds and keep them will be the most precious ones, and they should be under the holy flag of Sayyidina Muhammad (s)! (Mawlana Shaykh stands.) Zid habeebika `izzan wa sharafan wa surooran, yaa Rabb. Give Your beloved one more honor, ranks and pleasure, O our Lord! (Mawlana Shaykh sits.)
Fatihah.
Astaghfirullah. Allah, Allah.
(Mawlana Shaykh sings.)
Dome, dome, dome, dome
Dome, dome, dome, dome
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Fatihah.
Alhamdulillah. Hisham Effendi? (Mawlana Shaykh speaks to Shaykh Hisham Effendi on the phone, very happy.)
Allah, Allah. Subhaan Allah.