“Fa A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.”
And always a reminder for myself ana abdukal ‘ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim wa jahl
and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that we are still in existence.
Alhamdulillah we took a path to be nothing and Allah (AJ) is the One who determines who
is something, not people.
People can pick and choose titles and whatever things they want to choose but honor comes
from Allah (AJ), support comes from Allah (AJ) to the holy presence of Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ and flowing through Ulil Amr (saints).
So alhamdulillah this way is based on their madad and their support.
Those whom receive that madad and support they are supported.
Those whom don't receive that can claim whatever they want and that's from their own imagination.
So alhamdulillah this month of Dhul Qi’dah is a reminder that this power, this energy,
these blessings, these healings, everybody is in for some understanding.
I want to reach to Divine power, I want to reach to knowledges, I want to reach to healing
to heal myself, heal others, whatever it is that we're searching for it comes from Allah
(AJ).
And awliyaullah (saints) came into our lives to teach us that if you want to receive that
from Allah (AJ) then you have to love Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ more than we love ourselves.
So this month of Dhul Qi’dah is the Divine mirror preparing us for the holy month of
Dhul Hajj and the completion of 12 months of journey.
And our life is to efface ourself, means to remind ourself, ‘I’m nothing.’
If Allah (AJ) wants to raise a status that's between Allah (AJ) what He wants to do.
My responsibility is to remind myself and others that, ‘I’m nothing, nothing and
I took a path to be nothing,’ and that Allah’s (AJ) grace and rahmah (mercy) to dress upon
us.
Every time this world tries to make us to be something then it's our obligation to again
to efface and to bring ourself to be nothing, to remind ourself that in my nothingness I
can achieve a nearness to Allah (AJ) and that nearness is the love and the ishq of Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ and the beauty of that path.
And along the way Allah (AJ) may send others to insult, intimidate, whatever characteristics
they want to exhibit and that again is a part of the path.
In that ocean of nothingness just bringing oneself down that, ‘I’m nothing, I’m
nothing, reminder for myself that I’m nothing,’ and as much as we can achieve that nothingness
then the reflection of that beatific light and love and ishq Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to
reflect.
We pray that Allah (AJ) dress us from these lights, bless us from these lights and that
keep our life a life of always polishing and cleansing and bringing ourselves to be nothing,
reminding ourselves of our nothingness and that inshaAllah Allah (AJ) reflect that ishq
and that love.
That's love and that ishq no one can stop it.
Means when Allah (AJ) begins to reflect that immense love and ishq of Prophet ﷺ and what
people feel then people on earth they can't stop that.
Just because they feel jealous or want to stop something it's not in their hands to
stop that.
Means the sun shines and the sun always shines and that love always conquers.
Means that the sun doesn't leave you without completely shining upon.
Whomever faces the sun will be shined upon.
Have you ever gone out on a sunny day and the sun says it doesn't like you and just
puts a cloud in front of your face and everybody else is getting the sun?
Because it's not like dunya (material world), it's not like the nafs (ego) of people where
they like someone, they talk against them, they don't like somebody, they talk against
them.
This is the nafs and egos of people and humans and humanity but that which we are achieving
and asking people to move towards is a Divine love that knows no injustice and shines upon
everyone.
All it takes is that we face that love and that's why the analogy – the sun is… is
the only thing that we understand of eternity.
That what Allah (AJ) gave to us as an example because everything for humans they need an
example.
So what's faith?
Faith is love.
You feel it but you can't touch it.
You know it when you... when you're in it and the reality of light and Divinity is something
eternal and the only symbol that we have and the greatest symbol that we have is sunshine,
the sun.
And if you prepare yourself to gaze upon it, direct yourself to the sunlight, it dresses
you completely with no discrimination.
There's no injustice in this ishq and this love.
There's no egotism and favouritism and liking this one after this one, but whomever faces
that Divine love will be dressed by that Divine love.
And whom follows the steps of humility and bringing down their badness, practicing in
charity and alms and giving and all these practices that the tariqahs (spiritual paths)
come to encourage and remind humanity then alhamdulillah they're additionally like they're
scrubbing.
Already the sun is dressing anyone whom gazes upon it.
As the person is washing and reflecting and polishing with their zikr (Divine Remembrance),
their practices and the different things that they do that Allah (AJ) has ordered upon them
then as if they're polishing their mirror.
Not only they're just absorbing the light to be purified, to be cleaned, to be washed
for all badness to be taken away but… because so that that establishes one – whomever
faces the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, teaches and propagates that love, must have
been extremely dressed by it.
So there's no ‘ashiqeen (lovers) that is not being dressed by the ishq and the love
of Prophet ﷺ for the love of and the light of Prophet ﷺ is more just and more beatific
than that sun.
That sun is not even a drop in the comparison of the light and the soul and the reality
of Prophet ﷺ.
That Allah (AJ) describes is a rahmah (mercy), “Wa maa arsalnaka Rahmatal lil'alameen – We
would not have sent this light except that it’s a mercy for all of mankind, all of
creation.”
As a result means then any, any ‘ashiqeen that has this love and continuously attempting
and trying to build that love with Prophet ﷺ no doubt is being dressed by that love
and is a ‘ashiq (lover), is a muhib – is a lover of that reality.
And if they're practicing their zikrs, their...
their the usool (principles) and the.. their prayers and all that Allah (AJ) has asked
of them, If they're practicing all those then they're actually becoming polished.
So not only they're absorbing and cleaning but those whom become polished because they
also accomplish what Allah (AJ) wants from them, at a continuous basis doing what Allah
(AJ) has asked of them, they become like polished mirrors.
So what happens then?
And a polished mirror is facing the sun it begins to reflect that sunlight and nobody
can stop that.
There's no, no, no, no person on this earth or above this earth that can come in front
of that mirror and stop that reflection.
And that's Allah’s (AJ) gift, so that's the reality.
It's not in the hands of people.
That when Allah (AJ) has somebody a muhibbin (lovers of the way) and ‘ashiqeen and they're
doing what Allah (AJ) has asked of them means they’re very polished souls.
You like them, you don't like them, you're jealous of them, not jealous of them, it doesn't
matter for them.
It's not in your hands to touch or take or do anything.
So the humility is to know that when Allah (AJ) is sending that light if that one is
also a mirror they're reflecting that light.
And why people are drawn to them is because of that reflection.
Why people are tuning in to them and trying to follow them is to catch that reflection
and that's what's important.
He says that reflection is teaching everyone, ‘Come into that light.’
It loves you with all justice.
No injustice in that light.
Whether you're big, you're small, you're wide, you're tall, whatever it is that you are,
you’re light, you’re dark, that love dresses everyone.
And if you do what Allah (AJ) asked and do all the practices that Allah (AJ) is asking
from us then not only you're absorbing but you become polished mirror in which you begin
to reflect that love out and people are drawn to you because of that love.
And we've talked before that we live in these... in these worlds and these make-believe cities
in which they try to beautify themself and they beautify the external because inside
is empty.
True beauty doesn't come from external.
External is like a corpse and most of their corpse are like rotting corpse, they're dying
and they don't know they're dying and they think that the different things that they
put upon their dying flesh will hide it from people and trying to keep their youth and
keep every type of whatever imagination they have.
But this love and this mirror is so powerful that true beauty reflects through it and that's
what makes people to be beatific.
Means that when they begin to gaze within the light of Prophet ﷺ, move within that
ishq, move within that love, live a life of service in which they're struggling to balance
their families, their life, their time, their worship, Allah (AJ) is reflecting through
their souls this love.
And this love when it comes through your face and comes through the pores of your body and
through your heart, it's a beatific heavenly love, it's a beatific heavenly lights that
attracts all of humanity.
There's no one person who can come and say something and stop it.
It's not in their hands.
It's a reflection from Allah’s (AJ) love that when Allah (AJ) cast His love and begins
to send this flow of love, there's no one that can stop it, not shaitan (satan) can
even stop it and that's why shaitan doesn't want people to reach to this love.
He knows that when these people connect to that satellite, connect to that ishq (love),
they achieve the nazar and the holy gaze of Allah (AJ) and the gaze of Prophet ﷺ then
this light begins to reflect from them.
And that light guides humanity, that light cures humanity, that light blesses humanity,
that light gives hope to humanity and that is everything that shaitan is angry with.
And that's why he doesn't want anyone to achieve that for at that stage when they achieve that
what shaitan…
shaitan can do in the presence of a reflecting satellite?
He can only stop the person from trying to become a satellite and that not even he can
do because if Allah (AJ) has destined a person, no there's nothing that anyone can do if Allah
(AJ) has written for the destiny of that person to achieve.
But imagine when that light is shining and glaring from that reality what’s shaitan
going to do with that.
Even if he moves into the presence of that light, the light of Prophet ﷺ "Qul jaa alhaqq”.
What Allah (AJ) gave from Holy Qur’an’s daleel (proof) that, ‘Say, when the truth
comes falsehood is perishing.’
How the falsehood of shayateen (devils) and every badness and every deceit on humanity
or every bad ego can stand in the presence of those lights when they're reflecting - no.
So alhamdulillah glad tidings for those whom moving towards the love of Prophet ﷺ and
achieving the love of Prophet ﷺ.
And those ‘ashiqeen they always talk good.
They think that all the lovers are ‘ashiqeen and all the lovers are like roses in an immense
rose garden.
They don't spread rumours, they don't talk bad, they don't backbite, they don't try to
take the light of somebody down hoping that their light will be more beatific and reflecting
out.
That this light of Prophet ﷺ is enough for everyone to go around.
You don't have to be the only light on earth, you just have to be one of the lights on earth.
Means you have to have this love for Prophet ﷺ - is enough.
For one person to have that ishq and that love and it can reflect to all of humanity
and if everyone came to that love there would be enough love of Prophet ﷺ for everyone.
It's not like a cake on earth that you take one slice and then you're going to take the
whole thing so there won't be left for anyone else.
It's from Allah (AJ)...
Allah’s (AJ) oceans of abundance.
As much as you take as much as Allah (AJ) sends and as much as, as if nothing was taken
from Allah (AJ) because Allah’s (AJ) ocean can never be diminished.
It's in Allah’s (AJ) ‘Azimat (Magnificence).
As much as you take from that ocean as if nothing was taken because Allah’s (AJ) ocean
never diminishes by any, any creation.
So alhamdulillah glad tidings for those whom have that love, moving to achieve that love.
And all the forces on earth trying to stop the person from achieving that love.
And success to those whom continuously strive, have istiqam, have firmness on their path
and not a waswas (whispering) from the right or waswas from the left stops them.
And they continue moving to that love, 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.