As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam
Regarding the wells, Someone is asking is that considered a form of zakat to support
a well?
Of course, everything is a zakat (charity), zakat is a contribution that has to be taken
from our funds.
So the well is a zakat and a sadaqah jariyah (ongoing rewards charity) as long as it's
pumping and putting out water they are receiving these blessings.
Anything that you do that is left behind for people is sadaqah jariyah, so if you build
a masjid, a place of worship, put out knowledges, books, raise children, and knowledges, every
act that is being in perpetuity to your existence or even not your existence here and it's still
pumping water it's a huge blessing.
So zakat is applicable, sadaqah jariyah is applicable for it and everything that we do.
The ‘Sufi Markaz’ is a masjid so don't ever think that these are not Masjids.
Say, ‘No I want to support a masjid’ we are more a masjid than a masjid because when
Allah (AJ) and the hadith of Prophet ﷺ is ‘Build a masjid in which the name of Allah
(AJ) can be glorified.’
Well today masjids they don't even allow you to mention the name of Allah (AJ), so it's
actually the real masjid of Allah (AJ) are the Sufi khaneqahs (house of a Sufi master).
That all day long they're reciting the Names of Allah (AJ), zikr (Divine remembrance) of
Allah (AJ), glorifying Allah (AJ), glorifying His beloved Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
So the magnitude of the zawiyahs (spiritual school of Sufism) is something that can't
be understood.
If the masjid is you know whatever they are of realities, take that by 10 million for
on top of that the masjids that are actually zawiyah's because these are the houses of
awliya (saints) and these are the houses of the presence of the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ, so it's reality can't be understood.
That when we're trying to go into Los Angeles because Los Angeles is headquarters for shaitan
(satan), headquarters for the propagation of his media and his whole world culture of
whatever he's trying to propagate, so we want the Muhammadan flag there too.
So he's going to propagate, we're going to propagate the Muhammadan haqqaiq (realities)
and the culture of heavens which is love and harmony and peace.
So why leave shaitan to himself operating in… with a free ticket.
So the importance of planting the Muhammadan flag, they were so happy to try to plant the
flag on the moon but they never went, so imagine that [shaykh laughs].
So put this Muhammadan flag in Los Angeles and it's of a, is a tremendous nature.
And that to bring the heavenly culture, if they want to propagate their dunya (material
world) culture then alhamdulillah we propagate the heavenly culture, the culture that make
Allah (AJ) to be happy inshaAllah.
As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah
It is about the ‘asaa or the staff how, does one walk onto campus college without
being seen as a threat?
Is it better to stick with the ring and the hat in this case?
Yes definitely [shaykh laughs].
Yeah this sunnah (traditions of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) and taking up the sunnah is not that
you walk around all day long… because there's an adab (manners) in everything, so if you
walk with the sunnah you don't take it into the bathroom.
So you have to be with somebody that you can place it or you can place your ‘asaa somewhere,
so it means everything has a place and time.
The understanding of these the realities is that when you're praying you keep your ‘asaa
with you, if you have your own office and your work is something you know you pretend
like you have a little bit of back pain you just keep it there as a support for you.
Some places you're going you can't take it with you, to auditorium and going to a sports
game or things that you may be doing it's not meant that you have to go every everywhere
with it so try to think of yourself as ‘Okay I’m going to go to school do I have a place
to keep it without losing it without somebody stealing it?’
If not then you know keep it at home and use it for when you're making your salah (prayer)
next to you when you're praying and asking Allah (AJ) to dress it and bless it and that
to make it to be from the sunnah of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, to revive that reality within
me and whatever secret it carries of which I don't know.
InshaAllah.
Sayyidi can you talk about electric beings attacking through the phones, light bulbs
and laptop videos trying to paralyze and make someone lie down?
‘Electric beings’ that's a good one [shaykh laughs].
Alhamdulillah we have the talk on the unseen world and how to be conscious of their world
and the rest we can email [helpme@nurmuhammad.com] and we can tell you about the ta’weez (prayer
of protection) and different things.
We don't want to create a sense of paranoia where now everybody is scared to touch everything
and then it can also be you know the imaginal world where you have a psychosis of something
and then you begin to think ‘Oh my god everything was blamed on my phone I touched my phone
today and something went bad and I did this…’ that's not what the teaching is about, it's
about the haqqaiqs of why these devices are coming into our realm and how the jinn (unseen
beings) world is trying to overtake the human world at many different levels and the signs
that they're using [shaykh shows triangle over eye sign] and you know when we talked
all day today about the upper sign, they keep putting an upper sign with an eye and this
is a world of deceit so he's lying he has nothing to do with here [shaykh refers to
upward triangle], he has to show this one [shaykh shows downward triangle] but they
don't walk around like this [downward triangle covering eye] they don't walk around like
[shaykh laughs].
Because remember he's a man of deceit he's not going to tell you the truth so the biggest
deceit is that he tells people – ‘I represent the heavens above and my eye sees everything
[upward triangle] like I’m the one who has all-encompassing knowledge.’
Say “No no you're the liar so you're actually this one [downward triangle] who's down.”
So they're overtaking, dajjal (man of deceit) is coming and those are all his jinn.
So understanding their kingdom and what they're trying to implement on earth, but the believer
put their trust in Allah (AJ).
So make your salawats (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ), wear your ta’weez, and use
your devices for good.
Take the videos from our site and post them, share them, take from the link from the store
share it, take a link from the charity share it.
Say, ‘Oh my family doesn't like your teaching’ well then send them links from the store,
here's some sunnah rings.
Go to the charity say ‘Here's some links.’
Anybody can do something, just to do nothing then it's not the best sleep at night, but
when we try to do our best and partake into the game say ‘I’m on their team I want
to be active’ and at night you say ‘Alhamdulillah Ya Rabbi I did the best I can if it's my time
to go then take my soul,’ if not then you wake up the next morning and you do it again.
As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah
Forgive me if I’m wrong just like a phone Okay [shaykh laughs].
Just like a phone we have a reset option to remove all data and clean phone, is there
anything to clean our heart?
Please guide me.
Yes that would be nice wouldn't it we could do every mistake and every badness and press
reset by the next day say ‘Ya Rabbi tawbah (repentance)’ [shaykh laughs].
Yeah, no.
The reset for us to the best of our understanding, not to encourage, remember when you ask me
something there are thousands of people who will be seeing so the answer has to be not
‘The exception’ but ‘The rule.’
So when you're getting things and anybody who heard ‘No you said like this but then
next time you said like this.’
Yeah we talk based on the rule not the exception, the rule in the mass of people and a general
understanding so people don't take the wrong understanding and go the… a different way.
For us to understand ‘Tawbah’ is asking Allah (AJ) for forgiveness, ask for forgiveness
and Allah (AJ) forgives.
So then we make our istighfar (seek forgiveness) all day long.
We said that the zikr in these difficult days is all day up till noon make istighfar, ‘Astaghfirullah
(seek forgiveness from Allah (AJ), astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah al-Azim (I seek forgiveness
of Allah the Magnificent), astaghfirullah al-Azim.’
Bi sifat al-‘Azim (By the Attribute of The Magnificent) to dress me and take away my
sins my problems whatever I’ve done wrong Ya Rabbi and then at the end of the afternoon
we start to make our salawats on Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ because istighfar was like a
shower, we washed away bad bad bad and Ya Rabbi dress us now with salawat an Nabi ﷺ,
inshaAllah.
As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah
Is it good to share a deceased person online especially when one of the family members
is saying it's not good for their soul?
‘Share a deceased person’ when you take them and you… you're sharing them on our
profile or how are you doing that?
Social media, their picture.
Oh say ‘This one first passed away, passed away, passed away.’
Family member.
Yeah I don't know… if they're not of a nature that it could benefit people then why are
you pushing their face out for anyone?
Anyone who can't benefit people and have a level of protection and that's their purpose
to propagate then best pictures not to be used.
We have a whole talk of putting out the picture, worst is to put out your children's pictures,
never put out your children's pictures on the internet, it's…
I can't believe people actually do that.
People watch us and they do that.
That you know they're like a sponge and for… there's a I think a saying from Imam Ali (as),
‘Don't ever talk to the bald man about hair, don't ever talk to the sick man about health
and don't ever talk to the one who has no child about children.’
Why?
Because there's a hikmah (wisdom) of hasad (jealousy), that you know one who's sick you
don't want to hear about how healthy you're running around and everything is good for
you.
The one who has no child or a sick child – ‘Why I want to see your healthy pictures of your
children enjoying the life that they don't enjoy?’
So because people have a hasad, even known and unknown to them.
Islam comes to teach us don't do that and don't put out these things and that's just
the good, now imagine nefarious and wicked people whom they have desires for these types
of things and they look at everything and they look with their you know with a horrific
energy, maybe they have trained ability to come and enter into a space, many different
things.
So these are things that you know to be very cautious about that there's no good in it
and a lot of harm that you just don't understand so best not to put ever pictures of your women,
children, daughters, sons, nothing.
And if the person was of a saintly nature and passed away then alhamdulillah everyone
is benefiting now because as they passed away they're more powerful.
So Shaykh Nazim (Q) used to say ‘Take my picture everywhere, I will bring them to Islam,’
as soon as they look into his face that his light will come to them and with the power
that Allah (AJ) has given will begin to dress that servant inshaAllah.
Ya Shaykh Aziz, a question, I am jahil.
Assuming we are able to assess a certain knowledge in this world will we still experience the
barzakh after death?
‘If you achieve a certain level,’ everyone goes to the barzakh (purgatory), now it's
a matter of you achieved a level in which your barzakh will be pleasant.
If you achieve nothing the barzakh very tight because your level of knowledge was very small,
and if the difficulties then all the difficulties within the grave and the reality of that.
So the expansion of the grave is actually the expansion of your knowledge, as vast as
you make your knowledge as vast as the grave and its reality will be, right.
Because if you go there expanding, purifying, cleansing, all these things and you have this
vast understanding of the Muhammadan Haqqaiq then your barzakh is you're going all into
these realities all day long.
There's no day and night but your immensity of the oceans that you're swimming in until
the day of judgment, but the person whom their knowledge is limited their brain is limited
like the people who make the very negative comments on the video, they're what Mawlana
(Q) would call like very square minded they don't think beyond…
I don't know what it is that blocking them.
They… you can see that their life is like a closet they don't even watch the video they
just look at a picture and begin to say every type of negative insulting thing, that person
is like a closet imagine when they die what happens they're just in this closet, dark,
they believed in nothing they accepted nothing, there was no mercy of anything and now just
the difficulty of all the people they insulted, all the bad things that they said Allah (AJ)
will hold them to account.
So it's to our benefit to expand the knowledge, the reality and all of its understanding and
especially the Muhammadan Haqqaiqs because then that soul is traveling in those oceans
deep into those realities inshaAllah.
As Salaamu Alaykum beloved Shaykh Nurjan, can you please explain..
Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah.
Can you please explain the enneagram and how it works in the Naqshbandi path?
Yeah alhamdulillah that requires a whole month to do that [shaykh laughs].
InshaAllah we have all that information on the website [nurmuhammad.com] and it goes
into the reality of the lataif (subtle energy points) of the Qalb (heart) and there's the
heart book, the reality of the heart or what's the heart book called ‘The lataif of the
heart?’
‘Lataif of the Qalb?’
Our heart book is called what?
‘Levels of the heart.’
‘Levels of the heart,’ levels of the heart - that's the whole enneagram.
So how to understand the levels of the heart, opening the levels of the heart and the things
that the enneagram came out and it became self-help.
We can tell you what the enneagram is not, it became a concept because these one through
nine are Sultanul Awliyas (Sultans of saints) and that you have to enter their realm and
that these nine will begin to perfect the insan (human being) once they’ve been accepted
into the turuqs (spiritual paths) and accepted into that level of training.
They took out the awliya and just wrote nine and said these are nine characteristics of
humans, that was I don't know where that came from and who modified the whole system, and
that they tried to know their different personality levels and self-help and there's no self-help
because the self is the one that's causing the problems.
So it's calling it ‘Nafs (ego) help’ where your nafs will help you to reach your nine
levels of reality.
It's the nafs that’s the one who's fooling everyone.
So we have no self-help in tariqah (spiritual path) and we know that self is the most deadliest
weapon, the nafs is the most dangerous creature and he's not at any time interested in helping
you and nor for you to achieve anything.
And the real help is the one who give you help whether you like it or not and they give
you the medicine that make you sick or make you happy they don't care it's the medicine
that has to come.
But when you try to help yourself you're always very nice and comfortable.
So imagine like cutting yourself for surgery, nobody's going to cut themselves they're just
going to say ‘No I think I’m healed it’s okay I can go back now’ [shaykh laughs].
Nobody’s going to do the hard work, so when you come to tariqah the importance of the
shaykh is - no no the shaykh is going to give it to you and teach you and train you and
put you in the place that you're supposed to be so that you can reach the reality that
you have to reach regardless of you know you wanting to give up not give up or do it a
different way inshaAllah.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi
rabbil ‘aalameen.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa.