As salamu Alaykum Seyyidi. Any reason why a person might feel disconnected from the shaykh
and the teachings ? They feel disconnected?
It could be many many reasons to feel disconnected but generally there's a state of
euphoria. You feel a connection you feel everything’s great you feel so much energy
and then life and Allah (AJ) then begins the testing. The testing comes and begins the grinding
and everything that happens in life and if the practices are not strong and consistent
then the student can begin to feel that they're not feeling anything.
They stop doing their practices as strong as they were doing, they’re not feeling the energies. But
this was not about feeling this was about love and a relationship of love with Allah (AJ) and
his beloved Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and love has to be real and not for something. The by-product is
the feelings of goodness but if Allah (AJ) doesn't want to give it to us our love shouldn't be based
on that and they'll actually begin to train, ‘Are you doing this for a feeling or you're doing this
for love?’ and you say, ‘Ya Rabbi I’m doing it for love if I don't have to feel it's not my
business to feel I'm just doing this to get the nazar (gaze) of Prophet ﷺ. I want to do
this good deed that Prophet ﷺ be happy with me. I wanna do this action and this amal (deed) and
this whatever I'm going to do I'm going to think every day how can I have the nazar of Prophet ﷺ
on me and anytime I follow shaitan (satan) I have to know that Sayyiat (Sin) and that
sin it cuts the line of the feeling of that connection.’ One, it doesn't really cut the
connection but what happens is you have a bubble and a shield of protection, as soon as we do sins
the shield opens the shaitans come in and they begin to interfere with the connection
and make everything to be feeling distant and difficult. So that why? So that we’ll cut off and
vanish. But you're like an astronaut on the outside of a ship if you feel that you're
going to cut your line you're not cutting the shaykh you’re cutting yourself from the ship.
Means you float into the abyss of nothingness and that’s why shaitan is doing that to people to make
them feel, ‘You're nothing you're nothing you're no one you’re no one cut your line cut your line.’
The shaykh is not cutting, you cutting the line and trying to go into the abyss of nothingness.
That’s why then the tariqah (spiritual path) comes and teaches,
no no keep consistent do your practices don't worry about feeling not feeling just try to
build the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. For any time Prophet ﷺ feels there’s a sincerity
and there's a need the faiz (downpouring blessings) will come the energies will come
the realities will come. Just keep ourselves to be consistent and good inshaAllah.
If we’re continuously sinning where people are emailing and we give an example
and we’re thankful for everybody who emails, we’re not mocking or ridiculing or anything. I’m
one whom myself sinned all my life and went through all of these types of difficulties
but when somebody is emailing and saying, ‘I'm continuously sinning I’m continuously sinning,
give me an awrad (daily practices) to recite.’ We’ve described before it’s not only the awrad
to recite, you have to give! Your sins are like puss you know like a body that's filled with
bacteria. Have you seen somebody who is sick and all of a sudden there’s a huge blister. There was
on one of these medical shows you can’t even stand watching it because you get so scared of life
because in any one second something can change in your life, but the person had accumulated so much
bacteria and blistering, do you think that just the medicine was going to fix it?
You’re beyond the state of the pill taking right so the abscess has to be cleaned.
They have to vacate that, they have to cut that for all the bacteria to come out once it comes
out then with medicine everything works. So it’s a whole formula that Allah (AJ) want.
If you’re still sinning and things are not changing you got to give and what you're
collecting of your life and your rizq and your sustenance and what you eat and what you do
it is compounding upon negativity within insan (mankind). So when insan gives and insan prays and
when insan does zikr (Divine Remembrance) does the whole formula that Allah (AJ), it's like a perfect
patient. They're doing all of the aspects. They cut the abscess they took their medicines they eat
a good diet and the healing begins. For any time somebody keeps saying, ‘I'm having all these sins
I'm having all these sins.’ Okay yeah because your rizq not being cleaned. What you eat and
what you bring into your existence is filled with badness filled with bad characteristics
filled and literally filled with all sorts of germs and badness. And then you begin your
zikrs your practices your muraqabah (spiritual connection) and all your practices inshaAllah.
Seyyidi is there any difference between online connection with
the shaykh and direct connection ? Online connection is a direct connection.
Where, I think we’ve talked before where people think, ‘Oh I have to come and sit with you for
two weeks and get all your secrets.’ It’s not gonna happen. You're not gonna sit with
me for two years and get all my secrets because that’s not the system that you're gonna sit and
I'm going to download into your heart every reality you want. This is not about that it's
about taking a life of, ‘I'm going to follow this tariqah.’ Wherever you are you will be tested,
the shaykh doesn't have to be near you at all because Allah (AJ) is everywhere
He’s closer to you than your jugular vein. Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is right there with your
heart, the two is enough. Allah (AJ) says, ‘This is my servant, he’s merely accepted you he showed
a sign of humility he wants this path, he passed the test.’ Because they send the feeling into the
heart, ‘Seek out guidance.’ Wow, were you supposed to seek out Allah (AJ)? That you were going to
call a number, no. tariqah comes and Allah (AJ) sends a sign into your heart, ‘Seek out guidance,’
the first sign of humility is that, ‘I found you on YouTube. I'm humble. I know that I know nothing
and you must have something to tell me of a greater reality.’
That step in itself is the one that Allah (AJ) says, ‘Take one step I'm coming 99 towards you.’
As soon as you took that step you said, ‘I’m accepting to be tested.
I'm accepting to be a lover of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. I’m respecting and honouring these teachings,’
Allah (AJ) will test you from wherever you are. Then you listen to the teachings at a distance
because they say nobody in Mecca makes hajj (pilgrimage) so you're actually more in danger to
come too close. You come too close to the shaykh you feel familiar with him, ‘Oh, he’s like one of
us, I don’t have to listen anymore.’ You’re actually in danger of not
making hajj anymore. The more distant you are,
the farther you are away, those people have a lot more himmah (strength). They have a lot more
feeling of, ‘I got to do it I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do all this I'm going to listen to this,’
and as soon as you listen to the teaching you'll be tested in life and you understand, ‘Oh Shaykh
just talked about that. Must be patient, have sabr, don't argue, don't do all these things.’
So distance and time and space is irrelevant. It’s a matter of how much you’re going to put the whole
system. Take your notes and know that Allah’s (AJ) going to test you and in those tests are you
going to fail or are you going to pass? The good character is the pass, doesn't matter what the
excuse; why you're yelling why you're screaming why you're getting angry why you wanna do all
of the things you want to do, Allah (AJ) wants the good character. So if you’re tested 10,000
miles away or two miles away, still a test. If you have good character Allah (AJ) raises the servant
and then they are also safe from feeling that, ‘Oh I'm there all the time, I don't have to.’
And the farther away you are the more support you give because you feel that, ‘I'm distant
from them so I want to buy something from them I want to give something to them.’ The one who is
here all the time says, ‘Ah, I eat their food all the time what’s the big deal of barakah.’
So there’s a danger of that reality. So no, you’re good to be wherever you are
and now with the world everything is frozen. So better to be online from wherever you and
enjoy the zikr (Divine remembrance) and participate. Watch the YouTube channels and
watch the sohbets (lectures). Take notes because most likely that talk is coming
for everyone’s heart for myself first and for everyone else.
What's important for us today’s talk about that journey towards the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ,
the importance of the huroof (Arabic Alphabets) and why Allah (AJ) is encoding.
For us to learn that to write that to know that, these codes will be a safety for us from
what's opening up on this earth inshaAllah. Seyyidi is it possible to have your connection
and shield cut through doing things that are not haram for example video games?
To cut your shield and connection? No. No, what’s happening is you have to understand
what shaitan (satan) is trying to do. Everyone is going for the heart.
Shaitan is trying to take the heart of the servant and Allah (AJ) wants the heart of the servant.
So what you see through your eyes and what you do with your time is affecting your heart.
So one whom sit and meditate and contemplate and tries to control their eyes when you begin to
learn how to control your eye what you're actually controlling is the cleanliness of your heart
because the eyes, they take in they’re like they're eating
through your eyes. They say, ‘Eye-candy [shaykh points to eye], right? Why,
because you're eating through your eye you're absorbing this, ‘I'm seeing this clothes, I'm
seeing this shoes I'm seeing this I'm seeing this I’m seeing..’ When you’re seeing all these
things that shaitan wants and these kids are playing these games for hours and hours where
is the image of this eye going? It says, into the hard drive which is the heart. So the hard drive
overloaded now with images. How could the heart filled with all these images sit and meditate?
It can't, because as soon as it sits and meditates it’s shooting it's moving the thing the gun is
moving the cars moving all the actual video game images are being played in your heart
because they were all stored in here [shaykh points to heart]. What you took from your eyes
stored in your heart so if you don't take anything from your eyes your heart is clean or you'll be
trained on how to clean your eyes. So everyday in the shower soon as you go into the shower in
the morning you see yourself under the water and you ask that Allah (AJ) through the water
to wash away every type of badness that came upon my eye and trying to attach itself to me and they
see themselves making like a sama’ - a whirling in the water. That’ll wash away every type of
badness that came upon my eyes of every image until they can clean their hard
drive and when they feel their heart is clean then they stop and they can exit their shower.
So there is a way to clean but if you're not cleaning and you're trying to meditate imagine
all the images you took from your eyes they are on your hard drive and as soon as your meditating
you're trying to clean all these images and your meditation becomes, ‘Oh my God what was that,
oh my God what was this.’ And then your meditation becomes all about what you're seeing in your heart
and then people say, ‘Oh that was disgusting I’m not going to do that anymore,’
and then they don’t want to meditate. So shaitan is trying to fill the heart
with inappropriate and non-significant images and then you waste your time because you start
to pray right before asar and start to play your game right before asar and you miss your asar.
Then you keep playing the games say, ‘I missed my asar so I’ll go all the way to maghrib,’
and before you know it you even make and miss the ability to make it up and that's all shaitan wants
is then to make the person depressed that they're not doing this they're not doing that and you find
that you're cutting yourself from that reality, but you haven't been cut from the shaykhs.
As Salamu Alaykum Seyyidi, please forgive this faqir.
One is not getting a response from the email, is it part of the tarbiyah?
Yeah I think we started with that whole thing Mr.Faqir. That you can email all you want
it's not what you want to hear but what you need to hear. Now what you want as a
reply, but what is it that you're in need of inshaAllah will come to you. If you’re
asking something from your nafs (ego) and you're hoping to get your nafs verified
it's not gonna come. If you’re asking something inappropriate,
not gonna come. If you’re asking something that it will cause a difficulty between you
and the relationship with the shaykh it’s not gonna come. So have sabr (patience). If it was
important and Allah (AJ) wanted it to be answered and Allah (AJ) wanted you to receive an answer
you can believe it would come and the answer would come. If it's not appropriate or not necessary
then be sabr be patient and have sabr inshaAllah. And that's the whole test of the tariqah so that's
why they said, they serve dinner at the end when we were allowed to have people in life
and that people would come angry, ‘Why is it like this, 10:30 and then there's no food here
there’s no food here.’ Saying, exactly that's why there's no food because we wanted to show you this
not food-kitchen, it’s not a soup-kitchen. Eat at home and come to zikr with a happy stomach.
But it just wants to show how much people’s characters are bad; impatient, angry they want
to control things they want to investigate things they want to.. ‘Oh I have so many questions.’
Ask not a question to question a person on a knowledge but to have a higher understanding
of something. So some people think it's a question but it's more like a debate that would be asking.
So many many different aspects of what people are asking. That they’re sometimes not even really
asking they're trying to debate with the shaykh or glorify themselves and say, ‘I saw this I saw this
what is this mean,’ it doesn’t mean anything. Seyyidi
what is the wisdom behind many pious people passing away this year?
Yeah it was a heavy year. Yeah, and Prophet ﷺ described that the Qur’an would be lifted from
the earth and sahabi (Holy companions of Prophet ﷺ) were astonished that the knowledges would be
lifted from the earth in the last days. And say, ‘How would knowledge be lifted from the earth?’
Says, because the pious whom were custodians of that reality they would die and in their place are
none and that uloom (knowledge) begins to end onto this earth and oppression overtakes the earth.
So these are all the signs of the last days and the difficulties that are all around us and
everything that's happening. Again, through the meditation through all the spiritual practices
and all the signs; all this certificate of vaccinations and identifications and everything
that they want and inshaAllah Allah (AJ) give us a protection and an understanding inshaAllah.
That people connect their hearts and more important than ever to connect your heart and
to get your connection into the heavenly transmission and heavenly radio station
that emanating from the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. And that we be connected to that
broadcast and that we get the information that's necessary for our existence on this earth.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
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