Someone was asking: how can I feel Prophet Muhammad’s ﷺ presence when meditating
and contemplating?
How can I feel Prophet’s ﷺ presence when meditating, contemplating…
Asked and answered inshaAllah so they got the full twenty-minute answer on that one.
Ya Sayyidi, forgive me.
How can we remove victim consciousness from our life through spirituality?
How can we remove victim consciousness?
If we’ve been victimised in life?
Yeah, that again that has to do with those talks that we have of the past and the future.
That these two ropes that bind us or grind us and hold us from shaitan (satan) has to
do ‘What happened in our past’ and our ‘Fear of what’s coming in the future.’
And shaitan’s all about emphasizing the past – what was done to us, how this happened,
why it happened, why my family did this, why my relative did this, why my spouse did this,
why my boss did this – everything about the past.
Tariqah (spiritual path) comes and teaches Islam - to submit, and the greatest part of
submission is to believe in destiny.
And that whatever we are Allah (AJ) has destined that, Allah (AJ) Wrote whatever He Wrote and
nothing could have happened to us that Allah (AJ) has not writtened.
Means that nothing happened by accident and Allah (AJ) didn’t know.
So, a part of our submission because it’s a whole package, the submission is: ‘Ya
Rabbi whatever you wrote for me I’m trying my best to submit to it.
Why it happened to me only You know its hikmah – its wisdom, its cleansing, its reality.’
It’s not for me to ask Allah (AJ) ‘Why’ because I’m not at that level of belief
but it’s for me just to taslim – to submit.
That, ‘Ya Rabbi that your Will is supreme and I try my best in life to submit – alhamdulillah
wa shukranlillah , alhamdulillah wa shukranlillah.’
And then we spend a lifetime in practicing how not to think about why it happened.
You think about all the issues of it happening, happening, happening and you wash your heart
from why it happened.
Why it happened is exactly what Allah (AJ) wanted, later in life if we gain through our
meditation and our practices a sense of hikmah (wisdom), when Allah (AJ) Says He grants ilm
e Laduni wa hikmati bis Saliheen (Divinely Knowledge and Wisdom of the Righteous) and
whom He Granted wisdoms and knowledges is the greatest gift of all because through that
ocean of hikmah they can reflect and understand a wisdom of why Allah (AJ) Puts us through
what He Puts us through.
Every difficulty has a wisdom.
Every experience had a wisdom, one - so that we understood it.
Many whom faced abuse if they regain themselves, fix themselves, overcome these difficulties
they are a use to people whom have been abused because never is a warner sent to someone
whom has no experience from that reality.
So, Allah (AJ) put us through many realities in dunya (material world) so that we could
face the people of dunya.
He doesn’t send somebody who has no experience with Eskimos, has no understanding of ice
and then send them, ‘Go do dawah (religious propagation) to Eskimos.’
You have nothing to do with them, you say, ‘How you build this.. even this house from
ice, and I don’t like fish’ [everyone laughs].
So, means from… everyone He (AJ) brings somebody from them.
So, everyone whose been abused one day one day if you gain yourself and strengthen yourself
and fix yourself out of these difficulties with Allah’s (AJ) Guidance then you can
be of an immense benefit to all those who are under continuous abuse, under continuous
difficulty, under continuous different vices that are gripping and are holding their lives.
That’s why so many of these programs for drug addicts and drinking addicts and alcoholism
are successful from the ones whom fix themselves from those difficulties.
So, when they go to those 12-step meetings they’re talking to people whom have fixed
themselves from that difficulty, as a result they keep a companionship with them and then
they’re guided through how not to do those things.
So, you keep the fellowship of people who are trying to improve themselves.
Same with abuse groups, they sit with people and they talk that, ‘Okay you’re not the
only one who was abused, all of them been abused,’ and they talk about how they’re
coping and how they came over and got over that difficulty.
So, many, many wisdoms in why Allah (AJ) has whatever written in our lives and why it was
written that why but the most important is how to overcome it, to become strengthened
by it and then on one day to be of service with it.
Then imagine all the hasanat (goodness) and blessings that come to a servant that can
go out now and reach to people in difficulty and take them out of that difficulty inshaAllah.
And that’s the concept of the shaykhs that they..
Allah (AJ) Guide them, lifted them, took them through all their experiences in life and
now ask them that, ‘Do you want to die?’
You know in their khalwah (seclusion) they have an ability to die, that they reach to
a such level in which they can ask, ‘Ya Rabbi I’m ready to go.
I think I achieved everything and I’m content at where I reached.’
And Allah (AJ) Offers to them that, “Go but this isn’t really the way.
If you want to go now then you did all of this for what?
But the greatest, the greatest way of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is live a life of service.
Why you don’t go back and now serve with what we’ve bestowed upon you was not to
be wasted and go to the grave.
Go back now and serve the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.”
So, alhamdulillah, inshaAllah Allah (AJ) give strength to people to be uplifted from their
difficulties, sadness’s, oppressions and to improve themselves to one day to be of
service to the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ inshaAllah.
As Salaamu Alaykum dear shaykh.
Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah Can jinn attach themselves to stones, example
- ‘Rings’?
‘Can jinn (unseen beings) attach themselves to stones, example - rings...’
A jinn can go into anything, they are of a subtle nature.
They can go into stones, that’s why a lot of these people who put crystals and heebie-jeebies
stuffs – yes.
They can accompany those items and occupy the space of that item, they can be in trees,
they can be on a sheet, they can be in anything.
You can get a fabric from somebody and the fabric has something on it.
So, yes that’s why we don’t buy from new age people crystals that have readings on
them or this has a blessing on it.
No there everything has to be through our Islamic sources and du’as (supplications)
from those whom we trust in their actions and in their deeds inshaAllah.
Oh, honourable shaykh how can one tell which voices from beyond are beneficial and which
are harmful?
Walaykum As Salaam.
How can we tell which voices from beyond are beneficial or harmful…
I think we talked about that the week before – don’t listen to any voices from beyond.
You’re not to interact with anything that you can not see and don’t interact with
even the people you see [everyone laughs].
Remember going to a mosque, you know think of this world as you go to a mosque and do
you think that like if ten people in a masjid come up to you that because you’re in a
mosque everything is gonna be good?
Or no, that’s a place of immense fitna (confusion), a lot of crazy people enter into the masjid
and they come to bother you and they’ll bother and disrupt your whole life.
So, doesn’t mean any location or anything is of any safety, shaitan entered into paradise
to make Sayyidina Adam (as) fall.
So, especially in dealing with unseen the quality of unseen mu’min (believer) being
they are forbidden to interact with any human except the shaykhs.
So, for you to understand a mu’min whom is a part of tariqah and has given their allegiance
to Prophet ﷺ and they reached their covenant, they are completely forbidden to interact
with human beings.
This is their covenant with Allah (AJ).
So any being that somebody is interacting with it’s not of that nature, so then it’s
like a strange person in the mosque if they’re Muslim, and since you can’t see them you
won’t even know if they’re Muslim and it could be a shaitan, it could be a nefarious
being.
So, there is no interaction with them.
When we talk about jinn and the du’as and all.. this is from the level of shaykhs that
this du’a is for this, this interaction is for this, this ta’weez (prayer for protection)
has these blessings but it’s not meant for a common person to try to interact with that
world.
There is no permission at all and anything of a higher nature has no permission to interact
with humans at all.
That’s their covenant with Allah (AJ).
As Salaamu Alaykum wa rehmatullahi barakatuhu Sayyidi
Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah Thank you for all the life saving guidance.
May Allah subhana wa ta’ala bless you.
Thank you for your guidance.
Could you please give us women advice on how to be great spouses?
Advice on how to be a great spouse.
InshaAllah its… doesn’t matter whether it’s for women or for men but to live a
life of sacrifice, live a life of compromise and in which it’s give and take.
So that becomes the hardest struggle in life and that the path is of a similar nature,
at least makes it easier.
If everyone is trying to reach to Allah’s (AJ) Satisfaction and especially if they’re
in tariqah that they’re trying to also reach the realities of the tariqah makes everything
to be easier.
If that’s not the situation then it’s going to be a life of continuous you know
compromising and trying to make somebody to be satisfied.
So, it’s a… like a great struggle on how to struggle against oneself, how to put oneself
down and how to realize who is spiritually more advanced.
Whoever is spiritually more advanced has to take the role of a fireman in which he’s
trained or she’s trained to continuously try to put out the fire of the nafs (ego),
the fire of anger, the fire of everything that shaitan is trying to do and that requires
then a tremendous amount of training.
That’s why then the one that who’s in tariqah then should be doing their muraqabah
(spiritual connection), doing their zikrs, doing their salawats (praises upon Prophet
Muhammad ﷺ), because you know the buttons are going to be pressed and the buttons through
family are the most difficult.
To be tested by somebody at work it’s okay little bit hard, by tested by the postman
absolutely not hard, but by tested at home everybody has a launch button.
This one talks and then the rockets are launched, this one talks the rockets are launched, this
one…, so it’s a complete bombardment in the home and everything is a trigger so it
becomes… this is the great struggle when Prophet ﷺ was describing that, ‘The fight
outside is one thing but now we’re going to the great jihad and the great jihad was
the fight inside.’
This is a part of that system, that the fight inside is not just me battling whether I’m
going to eat French fries or not tonight but how I’m going to put down fire and anger
and aggression from everything around me, how I keep my wudu (ablution) when the other
person is yelling and screaming.
When somebody’s angry and yelling and you say: ‘Wa ufawwidu amreee ilal laah; innallaaha
baseerum bil'ibaad – Ya Rabbi verily You see my condition.
Look, look at what I’m going through.’
So, all of these are the tools in which the believer has to use through that battle on
how to stay quiet, how to keep wudu, how to make their zikrs, how to make their salawats.
And it becomes more and more difficult in last days because of the immensity of negative
energies.
The immensity of shayateen (devils) now that are just in the air and not only in the air
but because of these sicknesses now are inside of people.
They’ve taken and nested inside of people and now these people become more and more
walking shayateen with so much aggression, so much anger, so much rage.
So, Allah (AJ) save us and give us strength inshaAllah.
As Salaamu Alaykum dear sayyidi.
How you keep people out of your heart?
How do you keep people out of your heart?
Means that… to building the relationship when they teach like that it’s that you
should be building the relationship of love with Allah (AJ) and love for Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ, but people are too busy trying to build the love with one another.
That they forgot about the love of Allah (AJ) and they forgot the love of Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ.
So, tariqah comes to pull that cord out and re-apply it in the right direction, that your
love should be for Allah (AJ) and that He’s your Protector, He’s the Guide, He’s the
One that we have to please in life is Allah (AJ), not the spouse only but we have to please
Allah (AJ).
Then the love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ that: ‘My love and my allegiance is to Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ.’
At that time then everybody should know their position, that you don’t come before Allah
(AJ) and you don’t come before Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
That has its own struggle, when people know who you are and know that you’re love is
for Allah (AJ), love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ then every other relationship has its
place and the correct understanding.
But when somebody’s not trained in… like that, they want to find the love of Allah
(AJ) in other people and then as soon as they meet people they want to change them so that
they can mold them and change them into a different... and the shaykhs know that you
cannot change anyone.
If the shaykhs can’t change people, you definitely can’t.
So, people don’t change.
Only thing gonna change is your interacting with them and your understanding of somebody,
and you’ll modify your approach on how you deal with them but people don’t change and
rarely Allah (AJ) will make somebody to change.
So, it’s not that we come across people make them change and then, ‘This is the
way I want to have this love and you’re like going to be a God for me,’ astaghfirullah
(seek forgiveness from Allah (AJ).
So, once we have the supreme love with Allah (AJ) everybody else then takes their position
and they love to the extent that they can love and you love them to the extent that
you can love them.
But the supreme love is with Allah (AJ) and Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, inshaAllah.
As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah
When doing meditation with the rose quartz which hand do you hold it in please?
InshaAllah, that is on the study of the hands.
You can hold it on either hand right now to spark your light for your energy and when
you’re feeling that energy then later on you can read the articles on the hand and
the importance of the hand.
That your left hand – “Shafi” (Healer) is fire, your right hand – “Kafi” (Sufficient)
is a coolness and like a rahmah (mercy).
So, you have to burn with left and rain with the right like a rahmah.
So, you burn away a badness with your left hand and with the coolness you rejuvenate
something with your right hand.
So, if you feel there is some sort of a negativity or you want to you know crack through and
it’s not cracking through, you can hold with the left hand and bring that energy and
like a fire will begin to come from your left hand – a very heated fire.
And with that hand then you can push away and clean whatever is of a negative nature.
Once the energy start to come from the right hand it’s of a cool light in which it can
bring the rahmah and like a rain, so you have to burn something away and then you rain upon
it from a mercy to bring it back to its goodness.
So, fiery is left and coolness is right, inshaAllah.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi
rabbil ‘aalameen.
Ila sharifin Nabi (SallAllahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam) wa aalihi wa asahbihil kiram, Wa ila
mashayikhina fit tariqatin Naqshbandiyatil ‘aaliyah.
Wa sayiri sadatina wa Siddiqin.
Al Fatiha.