“A’udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil amre minkum.”
Ana abdukal 'ajeezu, dayeefu, miskin, wa zhalim, wa jahl and but for the grace of Allah (AJ)
that we are still in existence.
Alhamdulillah that we left off last night at the importance of the world of light and
that everything has a zikr (Divine remembrance), everything has a praise and Allah (AJ) has
a reality in everything.
And it’s the good character and muhabbat (love) and the good adab and good manners
that Allah (AJ) will open for us His heavenly kingdom.
And Allah’s (AJ) Might and Majesty and grace is in small things, it’s a treasure.
We said that many times we’re lost in the big items and big issues and we think that
all the prayers, the fastings, the hajj (pilgrimage) – all these things that are mandatory and
the secret of good character is not in the mandatory issues.
The mandatory is a given in which Allah (AJ) is expecting you to do that and when we think
that what somebody is expecting us, Allah (AJ) is expecting us that’s not where the
secret of this reality is hidden.
But when the servant does what they do from what Allah (AJ) expected and that goes beyond
and above and that’s the sign of good character and sincerity that it’s the small issues
in life, the small points that others may overlook but one whom is seeking Allah’s
(AH) nazar (gaze) that Allah’s (AJ) radiance and mercy to be shining upon us, that the
nazar and attention of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to be shining upon us and to save us through
difficulties and trials and tribulations that are opening very fast upon this earth, is
through the little actions or what we may deem to be little.
We said last night in just the story and the qissah of allowing a fly to drink from a water
well, from a ink well, and that was all just for the sake of the milad un-Nabi ﷺ (celebration
of the birthday of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ).
We don’t understand the immensity of the mawlid of Prophet ﷺ and that Imam al Ghazali
(Q) was given his amanat – his trust whatever he was striving for, for the opening of his
heart, all of the exterior actions, the known actions were not as dear to Allah (AJ) as
all those actions, all your salah (prayers), all your zakat (charity), all your hajj’s,
all that you’re doing if it doesn’t give you khushiya in your heart, doesn’t give
you kindness and softness and grace and rahmah (mercy) in your heart, what is it that you’re
doing and why are you doing it?
Means that it didn’t change the character so Allah (AJ) is giving for us example, Prophet
ﷺ is inspiring for us the example, all those actions should give you to be a soft heart
and be compassionate for others and for every creation of Allah (AJ).
Have the compassion for every creation of Allah (AJ) and try to live a life with that
type of character, with that type of softness.
Strive in our lives to have this softness, to have this good character so that Allah
(AJ) will begin to open His grace upon the heart and His emanations and blessings upon
the heart.
Now is a world of just exterior.
There are children who going around and coming against the ulama (scholars), coming against
shaykhs saying, ‘You’re this, you’re that.
You’re not a shaykh, you’re not this.’
There’s no one claiming to be anything; no one should be claiming to be a shaykh.
There is no shaykh, there is no anyone.
All that we are all striving for is just to be a good servant of Allah (AJ).
And the guidance that one gives is from their own path, their own character.
They should be sharing from what they went through in life not the book of someone else’s
journey.
But the guide whom is sharing is sharing from his own life, his own life’s experience,
what he was put through, what he went through, and if that’s of benefit to others then
alhamdulillah and that’s all that’s important.
The end result is that you should have an immense love for Allah (AJ), immense love
for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and that your character and the teachings of that person should have
been emphasizing your character and not your amal (deeds), not your degree.
No one ever claim that ‘We are the ulema of Azhar and that we came out with scholarships
and awards and plaques and…’
No, no we are just a nobody people that Allah (AJ) inspired within us to have an immense
love for His Divinely Presence.
There are people whom are seeking Allah (AJ) and there are people whom have been sought
by Allah (AJ) that they have been called into that presence, they have been brought into
that reality and their duty is to merely convey their experience to people and they speak
only to themselves and others are just the audience of that by-product.
Means that they’ve been taught to… when they talk, they’re talking to themselves
for the one who talks through their lips and hears through their ears and looks through
their eyes, they’re asking for that one to address himself.
That the one whom is occupying to dress me in what I am in need of, what I have to reminded
for in this world that becoming harder and harder and harder, and the character of people
becoming worse and worse and worse then the reminder always to the self that’s coming
is: be good, be gracious, be kind, be kind to all of Allah’s (AJ) creation so that
Allah (AJ) takes pleasure in you.
And that’s why Prophet ﷺ taught, ‘There are servants of Allah (AJ) that their perceived
amal (action) maybe weak and may not be up to certain people’s standards but their
akhlaq (character), their khuluq and their character is what is raising them in the Divinely
Presence.’
And we pray that Allah (AJ) make us from those, not the ones whom have been sent to schools
and to study and they studied the religion through a book and they became a copy and
photocopy of a book but they lived the deen (religion) and that Allah (AJ) inspired within
them, ‘First go attain your mercy, attain your good character, attain your understandings
and We will teach you.’
And that’s what Allah (AJ) wants for His servants and this is the path in which inshaAllah,
Naqshbandiyatil Aliyya is set upon this earth- bring people to good character, bring them
to the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, and the knowledges and realities Allah (AJ) will
open and pour into the hearts of servants, it’s not something difficult.
The difficult is the character, the difficult is to remind oneself to always be soft, to
always be polite in a world that becoming more and more impolite.
We said now that nobody even has social etiquettes.
The children and youth and even older people now because of computers, because of typing
they forgot how to interact with humans and how to have a dialogue and how to have a conversation
with people, how to have a conversation in which you’re very humble in your approach
and not aggressive, not obnoxious, not intrusive into somebody’s life and onto people’s
privacy.
This whole adab (manners) of how to even communicate becomes more and more lost and as a result
the adab becomes more and more like drifting away and without the adab people don’t know
how to interact, they don’t know how to say, ‘Thank You!’, they don’t know how
to even show the smallest sign of gratitude and appreciation.
And the tariqah (spiritual path) comes to remind us: look difficulty is coming, we are
a people that we must show gratification, we must show thankfulness and to thank one
another is the highest form of thanking Allah (AJ), to be kind to one another and to be
gracious to Allah’s (AJ) creation is the highest sign of showing Allah (AJ) our love
for the divinely presence.
And we pray that Allah (AJ) inspire us to goodness, to good character and to be exemplars
of our faith so that Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to be happy with us, to be looking and nazar
upon us, not through shame and embarrassment but through pleasure and satisfaction that,
‘I’m pleased with your character.’
And as a result, that faiz (downpouring blessings), that light and those emanations they come
like a breeze, like a gentle breeze out of nowhere a breeze may hit your heart and it
takes, it takes, it is a dress that can’t be explained.
It’s a emanation of love from Allah’s (AJ) divinely presence.
We pray that Allah (AJ) to dress us from those realities and to bless us with good character
inshaAllah.
Bi Hurmati Muhammad al Mustafa wa bi Siri Surat al-Fatiha.
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