As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum as salaam wa rahmahtullah
Can you explain heat and crushing?
Can I explain, ‘Eat’?
‘Heat.’
Heat and crushing.
I can explain ‘Eat and crushing,’ [Everyone laughs].
Heat and crushing.
When I say ‘Crushing’ or…?
Heat is an energy.
So, anytime we’re doing spiritual practices there’s going to be a heat.
There’s going to be energies that are coming into the body and energies that are being
pushed out of the body.
Our body is like a bus that picks up many unwanted inhabitants, if we understand the
energy world.
And that’s why the common Muslim is not understanding and not putting the beads together
to make the connection, because they’re taught very physical - it’s not making sense,
these teachings.
If they only would listen to these understandings from the world of light.
That, you have a physical body - is like a bus.
But throughout our existence there are unseen realities and unseen creations – those are
energies.
And insan (mankind) moves about life picking up these energies.
So, then that’s why Prophet ﷺ brought for us all these realities.
Why wudu (ablution)?
Why washing?
Allah (AJ) doesn’t need you to be shining anywhere.
But because the reality of water and the reality of water is a Divine fire and the reality
of water has angels of immense fire on it.
And as a result of throwing this immense Divine fire upon yourself, it burns away the fire
of shayateen (devils) because Allah’s (AJ) fire is more superior.
And Allah (AJ) said, ‘My throne is upon the mai (water).’
“Mai” is ‘Meem’ and ‘Alif.’
So, means that this secret again is always there and that’s why Prophet ﷺ brought
for us - to wash.
So, everything that was brought to us from Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ has immense realities
and these are for energies and protection.
And Prophet ﷺ brought for us ruqya (blessing).
Don’t ever read those hadith on ta’weez, talisman and amulet – it’s a lie in their
interpretation.
The words in Arabic for the amulet, and what’s the word they use?
‘Talismans’ were for a people that used bones and relics and bud parast (idol worshipper).
They used the idol worshipper images and items.
Those are what Prophet ﷺ described.
But never is Qur’an and the names of holy people in that hadith or in that teaching.
And Prophet ﷺ encouraged the use of ruqya.
That, use Qur’an to heal, write Qur’an to heal.
Even you can charge in the use of ruqya, that if you have been given the gift of healing,
it was permissible.
For the companions read Fatiha on somebody who had a scorpion bite and it was permissible
that somebody gave them money for their du’a (supplication) and for their healing.
That’s not the same as the hadith on amulets and bones and these other things that idol
worshippers were doing at that time.
This is the use of Qur’an and the names of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ as a protection.
Just like it’s written all over the Holy Ka’bah and you’re making tawwaf (circumambulation)
– it’s the same.
That’s a ta’weez (protection for prayer), has Qur’an on it, has Allah’s (AJ) Names
upon it – Ismullah on it.
And this is completely a protection for believers.
And shaitan (satan) is always manipulating things so people won’t protect themselves.
So, the heat and energy practices are very important.
When they understand from energy, the light and positive practices you do bring a Divine
energy and then the believers begin to heat up.
You want to become lit.
You want to become somebody whom has meditated, connected, connected your heart until enough
lights have been thrown that immediately you have the ability to heat up.
And they can heat up, heat themselves up and they can heat up and begin to heat the whole
audience up.
They can heat the audience and they can heat whoever is watching in the millions – it
doesn’t matter, in tens of thousands – it doesn’t matter.
Because the soul has no battery on it; the soul is not 9-volt, 12-volt.
The soul is something from Allah’s (AJ) Divinely powers.
So, once Allah (AJ) allows the use of the soul in the spiritual practices of a guide
- then has no limit and it’s no understanding and no capacity for people to understand its
potential, inshaAllah.
And ‘Cracking’ is the process of testing and imtihan.
That if you want the fruit of a nut you have to crack its shell.
So, Allah (AJ)… why Allah (AJ) gave us these beatific fruits and nuts and all these things?
For us to understand!
So, walnut is the interesting one because it looks exactly like a brain, but the only
way to get into that brain is you have to crack the hard shell.
So, our life is about cracking the shell to get to the fruit.
So, what Allah (AJ) has hidden inside.
We have made a very hard shell in our life, in our experiences and our conditioning, and
the inside reality is not very easy to reach for people.
That’s why then they become Muslim and submit.
Then they become mu’min (believer) and begin to go through testing and crushing and crushing,
and then asking Allah (AJ) to raise them to the levels of understanding of mukhles (sincere).
We cut again.
InshaAllah.
It’s working clearly Sayyidi.
No disruption here.
A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.
No disruption here.
Can you guys still hear me?
Yeah, no disruption at all.
Very good.
No disruption Sayyidi.
No disruption.
So, you can still hear me but I can’t hear you guys.
Yes.
Oh, that’s interesting what’s happening on this side then, inshaAllah.
Dear Shaykh, how important is it for a new Muslim convert to take on a new Muslim name?
‘How important is it for a… someone coming new to Islam to take a name - a new name in
the way of Allah (AJ).’
It’s important for everyone to take on a new name, it doesn’t mean that you’re
a convert.
We have 7 names into the Divine reality that Allah (AJ) has named us.
And if our parents were believing, semi-believing then maybe they were inspired to give the
name that Allah (AJ) wanted for us as the first name that recognized onto this earth.
But majority of parents especially nowadays - no way were they inspired to give a reality
name, a name to our reality.
So, it’s important to lose one identity and to move to a new identity.
So, ‘I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name.
You know that it’s good to get out of the rain.
In the desert there’s nobody to call you and to give you some shame.’
We taught about that many years ago from that song and the understanding of these realities
is that, people know you by your name, and you know and act a certain way by your name.
And when we’re coming into this reality, we’re asking Allah (AJ), ‘We’re taking
a path of death before death.
I’m asking mawt qablil mawt (death of desires before physical death) Ya Rabbi, I’m asking
to die before I die.’
Then the first thing that come to your heart is then – that name of yours has to die,
that identity of yours that they know you by, has to die.
You have to have a janaza (funeral prayer) for it.
So, you have to think within ourself that, ‘What I did with this name and who called
me with this name and what they identified me with this name – that has to have a burial.
Because that… that identity of mine I have to put it down.
I have to bury it.’
And I live a life in which that, that identity I’m trying my best to bury that one and
that not to let it be resurrected and come after me and come back with its character,
come back with its wants and its desires.
So, it has a very deep meaning for everyone on the path.
Now if they have an Islamic name they should live up to the name because they can’t bury
that name.
And that’s why in Muslim countries they don’t name their children, in especially
Turkish they wouldn’t name their children by certain holy names, they would make abbreviated
versions of it.
Because when you to reprimand a child, you have to be cautious when you try to reprimand
a child who’s named ‘Muhammad’ ﷺ.
We can’t yell at them.
So, they would call their children ‘Mehmet’ which was a shorten version but it was not
‘Muhammad’ ﷺ.
So, means that when we’re given these holy names we have to live up to those names.
And we have to let the character, the bad character, the bad desires to die and really
live up to the reality of the name and the holiness of that name.
And every name has a secret and every secret has a name to it.
So, when we’re trying to bury something and ask to move towards something new and
something Divinely inshaAllah.
And everybody’s on that path.
So, if we have a name that people recognize as not so positive its actions and we want
a more Divinely name in which to reach towards Allah’s (AJ) rida and satisfaction.
That name dresses us and bless us.
When your name is ‘Hussain’ (as) you take under the nazar (gaze) of Imam al Hussain
(as).
So, that because of that’s his name, that’s the happiness of what Allah (AJ) inspired,
because those were inspired souls.
Those were angels coming to Prophet ﷺ and saying, ‘Name these names.’
So, these are very inspired souls.
When we name our children with these beatific names, we’re asking for the nazar of these
holy souls that, ‘You are so blessed and so dressed.
Please keep your nazar upon this child’ - like an offering.
That, ‘May I name him with your blessed name and may your lights dress him, bless
him and guide him always in this life.’
And later in their life we teach them that, ‘Try to live to that name and to its reality.’
InshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum Shaykh Walaykum as salaam wa rahmahtullah
How do we be genuine – ikhlas?
Doing something for others to please Allah (AJ) to someone else who is taking your help
for granted and even abusing you in various ways.
Should we continue to help them or stop because we could be spoiling them and inflating their
ego – nafs – lower commanding self.
Question… what was that again?
‘How can we… how can do… how can we be of service and help people without the
person taking advantage of us and building their commanding self?’
Yes.
I think when we talk about being of service - it’s of service to the shaykh, of service
to Allah (AJ), to Prophet ﷺ and to the tariqah (spiritual path).
This is not finding everyone around us and serving them because that can be a difficulty
and you can become abused and oppressed by people because they don’t have sincerity,
they don’t have good character, and they don’t have any limits.
So, that not the understanding.
So, the understanding of being of service was for the Divine.
So, you find a masjid and go clean it.
Find something in the way of Prophet ﷺ and support it.
Find the turuqs (spiritual paths) and say, ‘I want to be of service and translate or
whatever service or computer ability I have’ – that’s different.
So, you don’t take this training and put it onto people.
Now having good character with people has a limit and you keep your distance and you
don’t… you shouldn’t have that situation where you’re giving of yourself to other
people and they’re abusing it and you have to worry about their station.
So, I believe if that’s the question then it has to be towards the Divinely Presence
inshaAllah, and not towards people.
Serving people is not, is not this understanding, inshaAllah.
Especially, if they’re not of a Divinely nature and they’re just using and abusing
that type of understanding.
As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum as salaam wa rahmahtullah
Is there any reality regarding people quarrelling especially during the full moon days?
Sure, we’ve talked about that many times.
‘Are there any realities about people quarrelling during the full moon,’ it’s an energy
and a tajalli (manifestation).
And anytime Divine tajallis come towards earth, it makes the devils to burn.
So, as these lights come stronger onto the earth, the devils become angry.
And as a result that’s where the word ‘Lunatic’ comes from.
Because the ‘Lune’ – is the ‘Moon.’
‘Lunatic’ is one who’s been insane by the power of the moon, because the overwhelming
negativity within that person becomes out of control – crazy.
So, that’s all the crime that rises, that’s all the emergency room sicknesses and crimes
and catastrophes that are happening.
And the moon affect upon humanity and its very real and its something that we teach.
So, we’re conscious of the phases of the moon and conscious of the energies that we’re
building and practicing, and where negativity is exposed, inshaAllah.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi
rabbil ‘aalameen.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.