Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘aalameen, was salaatu was salaam Ashraful Mursaleen, Sayyidina wa
Mawlana Muhammadul Mustafa ﷺ. Bi madadikum wa nazarekum ya Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem,
Madad Ya Sayiddi Ya Sultanul Awliya Mawlana Shaykh Abdullahil Fai zad Daghestani (Q),
Sultanul Awliya Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al Haqqani, Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani,
Shaykh Adnan Kabbani, Shaykh Muhammad Adil, Abdul Khaliq Ghujdawani, Sahib Zaman Sayyidina
Muhammad al-Mahdi (as), Ruhullah Sayyidina Isa (as), Sayfullah Sayyidina Ali (as), Thumma
Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (as), Sayyidina Umar (as), Sayyidina Uthman (as), Imam al-Hassan
(as), Imam al-Hussain (as), wa Sayyidatina Fatima tul-zahra (as), wa Imam Jafar as Sadiq
(as) bi madadikum wa nazarekum, wa sayiri wa sadatina wa Siddiqin.
Al Fatiha.
Ameen.
InshaAllah.
A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
Atiullah wa atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.”
And always a reminder for myself ana abdukal 'ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zalim, wa jahl
and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that we are still in existence.
And Alhamdulillah that Allah (AJ) in the blessed month of Shawwal the month in which Allah
(AJ) brings the souls into the Divinely oceans and Divinely kingdom, and the soul at a state
of nothingness that been washed and dressed with all its blessings and the nafs (ego)
brought down by the power of Ramadan and the vastness of this ocean of rahmah and mercy.
We pray that Allah (AJ) dress us with all its bounty and all its blessings and that
the more we become nothing the more we can be present in the presence of The One.
And we mentioned before those whom are very present in the dunya (material world) they
look to the Divine and they see nothing and they say ‘There is no Divine, there is nothing
to work for, everything is about here and all there exists is here’ because too much
of ‘That one’ and it became an ‘I’ and what they call ‘ananiya - the I-ness
and the sickness of I-ness is the sickness of Fir’aun and when somebody has that sickness
you can hear it.
This is like a med school, more powerful than med school because this is the soul school,
that they hear it, they hear when somebody is talking it's all, ‘I, I did this, I am
that, I as this, I, I, I, I, I.’
Because their oneness of themself became so strong there ‘One’ became an ‘I’ and
all they see of this world is themselves and they're into themselves and Allah (AJ) describes
in holy Qur’an ‘Have you seen those who make their desires their lord?’
It became a Rabb (lord) for them, it became their own desire and want and need became
a lord for them, their nafs became their God for them and they bow down to it.
And this immensity of Ramadan to annihilate the nafs and exonerate the soul and lift and
honour the soul and free it from the oppression of the nafs and then the immensity of the
month of Shawwal its blessings and the vastness that Allah (AJ) throws the soul into that
ocean of vastness in which it no longer understands any coordinates - it doesn't know what's in
front of it, what's behind it, what's to the right of it, what's to the left of it, and
a danger of feeling hopeless and lonely.
Where one has to cherish their solitude and not focus on loneliness.
They're not understanding the reality that Allah (AJ) opening for them.
In this ocean of vastness the training is to the… solace in your being by yourself,
being content with yourself, being and having the energy and the reality of yourself, how
to meditate how to contemplate, how to pass the time, how to be in a state of ease and
pleasure with yourself that you're not in need of others to verify you, to validate
you, to give you entertainment.
Everything in this dunya is about somebody else validating ourselves and if we don't
have that we don't have something, and this solitude that Allah (AJ) encourages through
these practices of tafakkur (contemplation).
We said that this was eight months of building up, this is not a you tune in now and this
is it, these are from the people who have been tuning in for the eight months, nine
months now tenth month is that we're on a journey and this journey with tafakkur, with
contemplation, with meditation, all the self-realization of myself, how to connect, how to bring my
bad character down, how to bring the madad and the support of the heaven, how to be in
the company of those whom are supported by the heavens so that I can reach to this understanding
and I trained on how to be with myself, how to listen to the salawats (praises upon Prophet
Muhammad ﷺ ), how to make my zikr (Divine remembrance), make my connection and then
I realized I’m really not with myself, I’m in a far greater companionship and association
with all of this madad, all the support, all these lights and all these blessings.
Then we begin to understand and at some level then Shawwal understands and opens its immense
understanding that not to feel that ‘Oh everything went the energies of Ramadan went
now I didn't feel anything’ and people to be very down and lethargic during the month
of Shawwal but the immensity of this ocean that Allah (AJ) has opened.
That this peace and solitude that Allah (AJ) has given is the time of reflection, the time
of energy, the time of meditation, the time of contemplation and to find oneself in the
presence of their lord and how to achieve that energy and achieve that state of peace
and purpose on what is it and what is our purpose in this existence, and the busyness
of other people and things all around can sometimes distract us from that understanding
that - what is it that Allah (AJ) wants from me, what is it that Prophet ﷺ wants from
me and that how am I to achieve that and how am I to do all the things that are necessary
for that existence.
Is the work that I have and the actions that I’m doing does it support my understanding,
“Fid dunyaa hasanat wa aakhira hasanat wa qinaa azaaban Naar” is that I was supposed
to have the goodness of this life that was an opportunity to build my hereafter not they’re
separate entities that I’ll do good in this life and pray Allah (AJ) give me something
good in the hereafter but I was going to use this life to build my palace in akhirah (hereafter),
that Ya Rabbi the sustenance You give to me to build my palace in akhirah, the ability,
my breath, my life, my movement, everything should be in a means in which to build the
reality of my akhirah.
And then they come and describe the reality of that akhirah is the closeness, proximity
and the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ . For any servant to achieve that, then has been
greatest… been given the greatest gift of Allah (AJ) - is the love of Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ and the proximity to that reality by the good deeds and good actions inshaAllah.
We pray that Allah (AJ) dress us and bless us with these realities and to love the holy
family and by an act of love and putting it within our heart just an intention then we
have to know that our soul sits in their association in the heavenly malakut (heavenly realm) and
the world of light.
That when we hear that it's the Urs Mubarak of Imam Jafar as Sadiq (as) these are immense
souls (as), immense blessing that Ya Rabbi let me to sit in their presence, let me to
be dressed by their reality.
That not me myself was any good not my actions were any good but I’m just through the intention
of love and that You reward love without any any any type of judgment.
If you're coming and saying ‘I want to be in their presence because I pray a lot’
that Allah (AJ) “Ohh let's hold that off.”
‘I want to come in the presence because I fast a lot’ uh again “let's judge then
your fasting and your action.”
So all these actions that people think would maybe deem them to be in their presence awliyaullah
(saints) come and teach - don't use that, because that actually will stop you from entering
into that reality, the only thing you have to ask Ya Rabbi is ‘Negate every action
I have no action that You're going to be pleased with I know all my hidden nifaaq and hypocrisy
within myself.
I’m only coming to this door through your Divine love, love for your Divine presence,
love for the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, love for his holy companions, love for his
holy family, only through that love please grant me a seat in their presence.’
And that's an intention that cannot be judged, Allah (AJ) will not judge love, Allah (AJ)
grants the Divinely oceans of muhabbat and love, for the sake of love ‘Go sit, go sit
and put your soul in their presence and let them to dress you from that bounty of what
Allah (AJ) has given to them.’
So this way is not a way of thinking where somebody will write something from fiqh (Islamic
Jurisprudence) and say, ‘This, this, this, this is this, and this is this,’ their brain
already made them lose everything, they lost every opportunity and they trusted in a piece
of meat that locked in a closet and hasn't even seen daylight versus they didn't trust
in their heart “Wa Qalb al mu'min baytullah.”
And Allah (AJ) Said ‘I’m not in heaven not on earth but I’m on your heart, I’m
not in your head shaitan (satan) is in your head, your nafs is in your head and none of
them have seen the daylight.’
So it means this is the way of the qalb (heart), the way of muhabbat (love), immense blessings
they can't even be described other people think you'll be crazy if you tell them that
just with an act of love an intention of love that I’m coming for this love Ya Rabbi let
my soul to sit with Imam Jafar as Sadiq (as) in this holy weekend and to be dressed by
it, to be blessed by it.
That whatever difficulty and wrong with his holy nazar (gaze) clean it and wash it.
Like a blessed grandchildren that come to visit, imagine your grandchildren come to
visit you and have everything on earth that you can give to them there's not one thing
you would withhold from them because you're a person of love and you are from the souls
of love, these are the big souls of muhabbat and they don't look to creation to judge it,
they don't look to creation to qualify it, they know that what they received was unprecedented
rewards from the Divinely Presence not from any action but because Allah (AJ) wrote it
as a kismet (destiny).
So these are the grandfathers of the tariqah (spiritual path), these are the grandfathers
of our reality, these are the… we are the inheritors of this turuq (spiritual path)
and this way that they have inspired to us - come sit in our family tree.
If you're listening to this broadcast have listened to this broadcast, will listen to
this broadcast, you are in the Naqshbandiya tul 'Aliya (The Most Distinguished Naqshbandi
Order) family, you’re under the intercession of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (as), you’re
under the intercession of Imam Jafar as Sadiq (as), you’re under the intercession of all
mashayikh (guides) of the shajarah (spiritual lineage) and Golden Chain of Naqshbandiya
tul 'Aliya, most high Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ all the way to Sultanul Awliya (King of Saints)
Mawlana Shaykh Abdullah al Faiz ad Dagestani (Q), Sultanul Awliya Shaykh Muhammad Nazim
al Haqqani (Q), Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Adil (Q), Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani (Q), Shaykh
Adnan Kabbani (Q), and all the blessed shajarah and chain and shaykhs of Naqshbandiya tul
'Aliya.
Mawlana Sayyidina Abbas Khidr (as), imagine all these blessed souls and you don't have
to pray a lot to be with them you don't have to fast a lot to be with them, you just have
to have a heart that is filled with love and say ‘Ya Rabbi only by the intention of love
and muhabbat please let my soul to be with them on these holy nights.
When the shaykh tells me that these are holy nights coming up Ya Rabbi let my soul to be
with them, that let… just give a good deed that I’ll do just to sit with them and they
dress me with their blessing.’
Imagine now your soul goes and sit in a… in the presence of a soul that more powerful
than our sun in our solar system.
So then you can google the sun and the greatness and the vastness of the sun and look at the
immensity of the sun within our solar system and the earth is less than a dot, and the
earth with seven billion inhabitants is less than a speck, less than a speck in the presence
of that sun.
Do you think that you're anything in the presence of that reality?
We're a spec on the earth in the presence of that sun because Allah (AJ) Say ‘I show
you My signs within yourself and on the horizon.’
Awliyaullah come into our life and point out - look if Allah (AJ) makes the souls eternal
and these holy souls are more powerful than these suns and this is the smallest sun - the
one in our galaxy, look at the immensity of the power of that sun and we are just these
little tiny inhabitants on earth that are complete epsilons - means they're non-existent.
Do you think your sins have any presence in their presence, that your bad actions have
any presence in their presence or just enough for Allah (AJ) to grant your reality to be
sitting with them, to be dressed with them, to be blessed with them.
That we came through the door of love and muhabbat is my only intention, dress me and
bless me, perfect me, that what you see wrong in me correct me and pray for me and send
me back to the presence of Allah (AJ) pure and purified, washed and dressed with all
of your gifts so that Allah (AJ) will look to my soul look to my reality and be pleased
that you cared for the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
So many intense and immense realities and the immensity of these souls that something
can't even be understood.
There are souls one billion times greater in size and power than the sun and the sun
of this galaxy, means there are suns and bigger suns and bigger suns and these were all for
us to understand that your souls are not all the same, what Allah (AJ) give to some souls
their souls for entire universes and galaxies.
So immensity of light and immensity of the reality of light and we pray that Allah (AJ)
always keep us with the holy ones the blessed ones the purified ones and that they are eager
to surround themself with those whom have gone astray and whom have angered Allah (AJ),
they want to be of service they're not only the ones who want to be with pure ones because
they're pure themselves, they want to be of service to the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ and they seek out and ask ‘Ya Rabbi those whom you’ve angered Ya Rabbi let us
to dress them and bless them, those who went astray and lost their way Ya Rabbi let us
to dress them and bless them so that all of them return back onto the lights and back
into your heavenly kingdom with their honour, with their light and with their beauty so
that Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to be happy and that Allah (AJ) Most High to be happy.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi
rabbil ‘aalameen.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.