Laylatul Jum’ah that the Jum’ah (Friday prayer) in the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ and that all in rows and rows the souls are moving to be in the presence and under
the nazar (gaze) of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
And alhamdulillah for Allah’s (AJ) blessings with the turuqs (spiritual paths) and the
tariqahs are in these front rows and asking to be dressed and blessed by the immensity
and the ishq and the love and the nazar of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
So immense blessings that when Prophet ﷺ gave to us, ‘You’ll be with whom you love.’
Be careful who you love because if you love the wrong soul and you look to them and say,
‘I don't want to be with you in this world of light’.
So means whom you attach your heart to is a tremendous reality of where your soul is
facing.
When Allah (AJ) describes, “Ittaqollaha wa kono ma’as sadiqeen”.
“Fa A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.”
‘Have consciousness’ and a deep consciousness.
“Ittaqollah” we described that, that it's a state in which all your senses are open
and they have a reverence for Allah (AJ).
‘And keep the company of sadiqeen whom their truthfulness in their deed and in their actions’
not their claiming but in their deeds and in their actions.
And as a result Prophet ﷺ comes to give us its sweetness by teaching, ‘You'll be
with whom you love.’
Means if you obeyed Allah (AJ) and understood a consciousness that you used your ears, your
eyes, your heart, your sense, your breath - all the senses in which Allah (AJ) gave
to us to seek Allah’s (AJ) pleasure and Allah’s (AJ) satisfaction and then we would
have been guided to the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Then Prophet ﷺ gives to us that, ‘You’ll be with whom you love.’
As a result, in this world of souls our soul is attached to the one whom we love.
So when we love Prophet ﷺ, it's moving into that reality.
And that's why Allah (AJ), is like a loop, “Ittaqollah wa kono ma’as sadiqeen”
because your soul is going to move higher into that presence.
Find those whom are ‘ashiqeen (lovers) and when you find those real lovers of Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ and your soul bonds with them, you have a sincere love in their presence,
you'll be with them, you'll be with whom you love not in this world.
Allah (AJ) doesn't care for the world.
We can be here and we can be thousands of miles apart or you can be in the grave and
they'll reach you.
You'll be with whom you love and Alam al-Arwah – in the world of light is only importance
for Allah (AJ).
That nobody cares in the heavens for this earth.
This is not a reference to this Earth that, ‘Oh we're going to be with each other.’
But that if you give your heart and give this ishq (love) to Allah (AJ) and you seek out
those whom are truthful in their actions and their deeds, their truthfulness is a sign
of their love and ishq for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
For if they don't have that they have no truthfulness otherwise Allah (AJ) would have given it to
them.
And that's why, ‘In deeds and actions.’
‘Sadiq’ (truthful) is not one whom claims themself sadiq but the ones whom deeds were
pleasing to Allah (AJ).
“La hadan Allah” – there is no guidance except through Allah’s (AJ) guidance.
Means had He found sincerity, He would guide you to the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
When He finds sincerity, He guides His servant.
He guides him or her to the hadi – to the guide of Allah (AJ) and as a result, your
love draws you into that presence.
So then in our lives the secret was attach your soul to these ‘ashiqeen.
Keep their company because distance makes no difference, whether you're watching them
from five thousand miles away and you connect your heart, your heart is with their heart
because this is the Hadith of Prophet ﷺ, ‘You will be with whom you love.’
So you're sitting 10,000 miles away or you're sitting on the moon 300,000 miles away and
you build a love, it's not from your flesh but that your soul loves them for the sake
of Allah (AJ) and his Rasul (Messenger) ﷺ.
As a result you will be with them and they are with whom they love in the presence of
Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Yawmatul Jum’ah (The Day of Friday prayer) then immense.
Just by loving them wherever they are when you love them your soul is with them and on
the day of Jum’ah they are in the nearest proximity.
They see the throne of Allah (AJ).
They see upon that throne is the soul of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
And they wait for the lights of Jum’ah to be dressed and the intercession of the holy
Jum’ah.
That the reason for Jum’ah is for the lights and intercession of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
to dress the souls, to bless the souls, to activate all these realities that Allah (AJ)
want and gave to the nation that every seven days or six days, every time to Jum’ah to
Jum’ah, ‘I’m washing and purifying your nation and you're dressing them with your
nazar (gaze).
You dress them with your beauty and your grace,’ and as a result the nation is pure and purified
and presented to Allah’s (AJ) Divinely Presence as a purified and clean beatific nation in
the light of their souls and the reality of their souls.
We pray that Allah (AJ) dress us and bless us with this ishq and understand the importance
of fellowship, understand the importance of who you love.
Imagine loving the wrong set of people.
Say, ‘I really love this person but they talk all over the place, their actions are
all over the place.’
You look to yourself, ‘Well I’m going to be with this person on judgment day and
I’m going to be in the association of those people on judgment day,’ that's why we don't
watch just anyone, that's why we don't give our heart to just anyone because the Hadith
of Prophet ﷺ, ‘You'll be with whom you love.’
Show me your friends I show you who you are.
But when all your friends are ‘ashiqeen and all that you associate and your circles
are ‘ashiqeen which are the lovers of that reality and Ahle Zikr (people of Divinely
Remembrance) that they love Allah (AJ) and their life and the entertainment of their
life is seeking Allah’s (AJ) satisfaction, rida and satisfaction by entering His circles
of paradise and praising upon His Divinely Presence.
What do you think your station will be in hereafter if you're dunya (material world)
is that but people think their dunya can be every type of garbage and hope their akhirah
(hereafter) will be good.
That’s like children who don't want to study and think they're going to come out with a
good career.
You didn't put anything into it, you're most definitely not going to get anything out of
it.
Faith, much more difficult.
You put your blood, sweat and tears into it so that you can get the reward out of it from
Allah (AJ).
Means we pray that Allah (AJ) grant us this love, keep this love, keep us in the circles
of His praise, keep us under the umbrella of this love and ishq for Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ, holy companions and Ahlul Bayt (Holy Family of Prophet ﷺ) and to be dressed by
its lights, blessed by its lights and as a means of that light and that love that we're
drawing near.
That's why all these na’ats (prophetic praisings) are teaching not my actions but this ishq
that draw me near and brought me close and granted me from all these lights and all these
blessings was just from the sake of love and muhabbat.
Not any action, not any physical thing that I could have done and could have given.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi
rabbil ‘aalameen.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
Shafa’at (intercession) ya Rasulul Kareem (The Most Generous Messenger).
That was just appetizer [Shaykh laughs] inshaAllah.
Next talk coming later.
Let's continue, inshaAllah.