Our way is a way of service, our way is a way of defeating our bad character, bad desires
to reach to the threshold of this month, to reach to the threshold of the reality of Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ - is the cave of the Divinely Presence, the cave of all realities, the Qalb
and the heart that beats for the entire universe.
And awliyaullah (saints) teach us this way is a way of adab and manners, and that this
life of ours of khidmat (service) is that we're not a people who think that we're anything
and that people should call us to invite us to be of service.
If after 20 years or 30 years of your understanding and you think people should call you to be
of service to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ you didn't learn anything, you didn't learn tariqah (spiritual
path), you just followed your own desire and may have appeared to you as if it was tariqah.
Tariqah is to give our life in that way, give our life in that understanding, it's never
too much, it's never a burden, it's a ni’mat (blessing) and grant from Allah (AJ).
That Allah (AJ) will change you with a different person if any time you think you've given
too much, you did too much, you served too much – this’s shaitan (satan) playing
in your heart.
That Allah (AJ) says, ‘No problem there are thousands of souls waiting right behind
you that want to take that position.’
And it's a gift from Allah (AJ) when He grants the servant to be a servant of service, a
servant whom trying to reach to realities, a servant who understands this path is based
on manners.
And in the ending of Safar entering into Rabi’ul Awwal, all of the Safar teachings - you're
going to be tested, you're going to be pushed and squeezed and if all that comes from you
is a dog and a dog of bad manners, then how can Allah (AJ) be of use to bad character
that just bites and eats its owner?
So means that the ghadab - the anger, the bad characteristics when tested is what Allah
(AJ) is looking for.
When you exhibit them you failed, you failed miserably.
That to be angered, to stay in a state of anger means shaitan is all encompassing around
you at that time to denounce your service, denounce your shaykh, denounce your understanding.
Shaitan has overtaken you at that time and that's why the tariqah comes to teach this
is about manners, ‘My life is to be of service, my life is to run for that service, that let
me to do it, let me to be of service, not that anyone called me.’
No, no shaykh ever called me, ‘Do you want to make videos for the tariqah?
Did you want to put your own money towards these websites until one day people would
give donations?’
Why nobody ever did these things?
Because there's nobody who wants to step up and say, ‘No I’ll cover the websites until
Allah (AJ) sends.
I'll cover this, I’ll cover…’
Everyone think, ‘Oh I did…
I did too much,’ but this is a life in which Sahabi (Holy companions of Prophet ﷺ) were
giving their lives to be of service to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, they died in the way and they
were looking for death on their way.
Here, ‘Oh you made me tired for five minutes what you're doing bothering me so much.
I did this for so many years why I got to do it now?’
Why you got to do it now?
Because the beginning of your life nobody cared, the middle of your life absolutely
nobody cared, I did years of service, only thing you and I should care for is your last
chapter in life - is the only thing Allah (AJ) is reading.
Your first chapter - how you came, how you did all these great things, okay who cares!
The most important chapter is the last chapter of life, the flavour in which you left this
earth.
Not that you became tired of everything, you stopped your ‘amal (good deed), your actions.
Today you stop your supporting of Milad (celebration of the birthday of Prophet ﷺ) and to do
anything in the way of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, all day long you run for your work and
business and tire yourself like a creature running through the jungle, and you could
be tired in the way of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ?
It's the greatest gift that Allah (AJ) can give to us.
Look at seven billion people are not doing it and a couple of handfuls of people, 124,000
people on earth are real ‘ashiqeen (lovers), 124,000 and the students of those 124,000
- handful compared to seven billion or eight billion people we have on earth.
This is a gift from Allah (AJ), if the person doesn't recognize that's the gift … And
this is the gift that Allah (AJ) enrolled us to live a life of service and don't let
shaitan to block your eyes and block your heart and make you to be angered and have
bad characteristic, because then you begin to lose the vision of its miracle, the immensity
of its blessings and its grace.
What type of blessings Allah (AJ) is opening now from tonight all the way until the second
to third night after Milad un Nabi ﷺ (celebration of the birthday of Prophet ﷺ) how Allah
(AJ) has ornamented all of paradises, all of stations and realities that can't be even
understood.
Mawlana Shaykh (Q) talked about, Shaykh Adnan (Q) in the video we posted, ten-thousand paradises
Allah (AJ) had opened on just one Milad for the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and
that, ‘Distribute these amounts your Miladi’s, the ones who love you, Madani people whom
love you.
That these paradises I gave to you, you give to your ‘ashiqeen.’
What must be in those paradises and in those realities that even awliya said, ‘Thank
you very much for all those, all we want is to be in the presence of his holy face ya
Rasulul Kareem (The Most Generous Messenger), ya Habibul ‘Azim (The Beloved of the Magnificent).’
That, ‘Unzur halana wa ishfa'lana (gaze upon my condition and intercede for me), grant
your nazar (gaze) and your light upon my reality,’ and that's the greatest.
And that, ‘Keep my forehead at your feet - under your holy qadam, under your holy support.
Don't let shaitan to take me here and take me there.’
And that nobody invited me and nobody called me to this way, my life was struggling on
how to be of service, think of ways from myself on how to serve, how to do.
If you're waiting for a phone call from somebody to tell you to rise up and be of service,
you must have thought of you're at work.
This is not work, this is ishq and love!
When you're at work you get a call from your boss that, ‘Please do this,’ because you're
getting paid, but we don't wait for phone calls, we come out of our way to say, ‘How
can I be of service, what can I do?
And many people have been emailing, ‘What type of khidmat, what kind of service can
we do?’
Come to your heart and do whatever you want.
If you work you give, if you have abilities you give, if you can write you write - anything
that we can do because that khidmat that service grants the nazar of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
and it gives a flavour to our life.
And that's just a brief reminder before we start these holy nights and these holy realities
and we pray that Allah (AJ) to open the immensity, immensity of the lights.
As the dunya (material world) is dying and it's on its last breath, what type of gifts
Allah (AJ) giving to these ‘ashiqeen?
What type of realities will be emanating from their heart and from their soul as a means
of Divinely grace, Divinely protection and Divinely rewards.
That in the height of the badness of dunya there are people whom have this ishq and this
love for Divinely Presence, for the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ - it's immense!
But it's key is good manners.
The one who loses their manners, they lost everything.
Allah (AJ) cares nothing for an ‘amal if it has no manners in it.
Allah’s (AJ) what… excited about somebody's salah (daily prayer)?
And that all your life you did all these things but in the end you have bad manners?
Well that goes to teach something different about you.
If all your life you say you did something and at this point you have bad manners it
means that all you did was worthless!
It didn't change you.
You know we tell all the time, this is our life.
You go to … persons, ‘Oh I've been praying all my life you don't have to teach me anything.’
[Says Person] ‘But why are you such an angry person?’
[Shaykh replies] Your salah never changed you?
Your zakah (charity) didn't clean you from this character that you have?
So you must not have been praying correctly,’ we for Allah (AJ) accepts your action, accepts
your ‘amal, He grants you ikhlas and sincerity.
When Allah (AJ) accepts your service, accepts you cry at night, saying, ‘Ya Rabbi I’m
a hypocrite.
That I’m trying to make myself pious and I have these characteristics…’
Nobody's perfect, nobody's saying, ‘This is a path of perfection,’ but when we do
wrong we immediately recognize the wrong, we reach out to reconcile and come against
ourself with bad character.
Step on myself because myself is not important, the pride of myself is definitely not important,
I step upon myself and ask for Allah’s (AJ) maghfirah (forgiveness) and tawbah (repentance,
and Allah (AJ) is very happy with that.
For if people did not sin on this earth He would have made a new earth filled with sinners
for they could sin and Allah (AJ) would forgive them.
Allah (AJ) didn't want angels from us, He would have made us angels.
So the system is that Allah (AJ) wants us to ask for forgiveness, when we ask for forgiveness
then we should be growing.
If all these years praying, doing and all these things, there must have been deficit
in it… or fasting, everybody has these ‘amals but how come it doesn't help them from their
anger, their rage, their ability to control their mouth?
Everybody has a right to be upset but then you make your tawbah and you come down immediately
and you control the bad characteristics - and that's tariqah!
And if not, then the servant has to look to themself that, ‘How come I’m not changing?
Is my ‘amal not being accepted and my actions are not being accepted?’
For if Allah (AJ) accepts them He makes the servant to be sincere, sincerity means the
Qalb e … khushiya and their heart has a khushiya, they have a fear of Allah (AJ),
they know when they did something wrong and they cry and they feel the immense remorse
and as a result Allah (AJ) loves them and makes all of their sensitivity and their humility.
And people have witnessed whom, who've seen their shaykh, how the shaykh is humbled in
front of other shaykhs and they sit on the floor - somebody doesn't offer them a chair
when they go to visit them and sat him on the floor, he’s like, ‘No problem.’
They bring themself to be nothing, that's not a problem, but when pride and arrogance
enters into someone and they feel that they should be respected - this is a sickness that
enters within people.
Why should you be respected, who are you?
You came to be nothing on this path.
But we said at the level of the ego - is the ego begins to think you are something, you
see something, you feel something, you therefore should be respected - and that's a big drop.
Only respect for Allah (AJ) is the servant whom is humble and nothing and doesn't expect
anything, doesn't look for anything.
And not respect from people, they look for a respect from Allah (AJ) and Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ and that respect is Allah (AJ) granting sincerity.
Their hearts open, they begin to draw close into the reality.
And that's all that they wanted – is that the world crush and say what they want because
I’m not in charge of that, but if Allah (AJ) happy with the crushing and Prophet ﷺ
happy with the crushing, that's all that matters, is to draw close to the Divinely Presence.
We pray that Allah (AJ) grant us these lights of Rabi’ul Awwal and begin to dress us from
these lights and give for us an ajer (reward), a writing in our hisaab (account) for the
best of actions - to be of service, and live a life of service in the way of this reality,
the way of the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. InshaAllah dress us bless us and forgive
those whom do wrong and have bad character and that they recalibrate and regain themselves
of who they're dealing with.
If the one that you deal with is so humble that you don't know who he is and you open
your mouth in a bad way, you are going to be burned, you're be burned here and in the
hereafter - that's not something easy.
It's their grace and their forgiveness that they forgive people who do bad against them
because Allah (AJ) taught them to be humble, they're like carpets - you step on them they
don't say anything to you, but Allah (AJ) doesn't forget, He’s the best of those to
keep hisaab.
And it's the shaykh’s teaching that they cry and when you see them crying it's because
they've seen visions of difficulty upon their students.
They've seen difficulty and visions of all sorts of difficulties that are coming upon
the earth and when they see that difficulty they cry to Allah (AJ) that, ‘How are we
going to get through this type of difficulty?’
But this is a school of immense manners because of their proximity to the love and to the
reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
And we don't know what ‘amal if it angers Allah (AJ) they shut the door on that and
it became distant from your heart forever and you think you became clever and say, ‘I’m
not going to do this, I’m not going to do that, I’m not going to do this,’ and you
think you cut them, you cut the group, you cut the shaykh, you cut yourself.
The shaykh you can never reach, you don't have a scissor strong enough to cut a shaykh.
His connection with Prophet ﷺ is secure.
When you distance yourself from awliya and the awliya around you and dealing with you
and reaching to you, shaitan make you feel that you, ‘Cut yourself, go!’
Like you're the one balloon going up and he's going down.
You know, like your car kind of like rolling because you took your foot off the brake,
you think the other car is moving.
No you're rolling and that's shaitan's doing, and that the shaykh is like a rocket shooting
but you're going the reverse direction.
That's why then the tariqah comes to teach the manners, regain yourself.
That who do you think you're dealing with?
That keep yourself connected, keep yourself with good manners and step upon your own bad
characteristic, not stepping upon the shaykh.
We pray that Allah (AJ) give us this understanding as we go deep into the reality of Rabi’ul
Awwal, its lights and its blessings.
And the tariqah is based on the best of manners, keeping good character, good manners.
And we pray that Allah (AJ) grant us these manners, grant us that sincerity for the sake
of the love and the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, inshaAllah.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.