As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam wa rahmahtullah
Is there any specific remembrance to connect with the holy soul of Imam al-Hussain (as)
or would that be inappropriate?
Yeah, like we did last night, inshaAllah.
Is that you make your madad (support), the foundation of everything is the madad and
the connection with the shaykh.
Because you don't want to go outside of that realm because then now you're off your GPS
coordinates and you don't know what's trying to appear before you.
The foundation of all the practices [shaykh shows book], so get a copy please, ‘A Timeless
Reality’ because it's all, all there in this encyclopedia.
The foundation of all of this teaching is to make your connection, if you're not able
to make your connection then you don't know who you're connecting with and what you're
trying to connect with.
So everything's by the connection with the shaykhs, making the connection strong with
the shaykhs and then asking by listening to the nasheeds (songs of praise).
And we have on soundtrack a playlist for Muharram and you listen to the Muharram playlist and
ask that your shaykh to be present with you and that you want to be at the holy maqam
(statipn) of Imam al-Hussain (as) in Karbala.
That you want to be there present at that asking to be dressed by its light, blessed
by its light, inshaAllah.
And that he be present and to dress you, making durood sharif (praising on Prophet Muhammad
ﷺ) and salawats (praises on Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) on Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, inshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam wa rahmahtullah
Why and what is the meaning when we say, ‘“Nawaytul arbaeen (I intend the forty (days of seclusion),
nawaytul itikaf (I intend seclusion in the mosque), nuwaytul khalwah ( I intend seclusion),
nuwaytul uzla’ (I intend isolation) etc.
That was from Shaykh Abdullah al-Faiz ad-Dagestani’s (Q) giving for us that for those whom wish
to make an intention for seclusion, for isolation.
And it takes from the 40 days that every insan (human being) is supposed to be making seclusion
but if they don't reach the reality of being ordered into seclusion.
You can't choose for yourself, ‘I’m going to seclusion,’ it has to be an order from
Prophet ﷺ and everyone has to complete 40 days and that's why we have in our tradition
40 days in the grave.
So when somebody dies, for 40 days everyone's reading Qur’an and praying for that person
because they're going through their chilta - they're going through their 40-day seclusion.
If they did it in dunya (material world) then that should be like a paradise for them - 40
days of paradise dressed upon their reality.
And Shaykh Abdullah al-Faiz ad-Dagestani (Q) Sultanul Awliya (king of saints) said that
these words were given to him that, ‘Make intention for that reality of seclusion, the
reality of isolation,’ the reality of sort of disconnecting.
And every time you recite that in your ‘ibadah and worship, from the time you recite it to
the time you end your worshipness that time will be deducted from the 40 days that you're
supposed to be in seclusion.
So after 20 years of reciting that you've well gone over 40 years of seclusion.
So that was a gift from these awliyaullah (saints) because they make munajaat - they
make du’a (supplication) to Allah (AJ) and du’a that Prophet ﷺ intercede.
And alhamdulillah Prophet ﷺ gives to them these realities that, ‘If your students
make this intention then you'll connect with them, dress them, bless them during that intention
and that'll count as their time into the 40-day seclusions’ inshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam wa rahmahtullah
Can you talk about the rules, benefits of recitation salawats in the original language
versus English?
In the awrad (daily practices) for example I’m reading the longer passages in English,
is this okay?
Making the salawats in English?
Yeah Arabic versus English.
We have the roman… romanization where it’s romanized English.
It has to be in the sound of Arabic, so when if I recite something in English it doesn't
have the sound vibration and the reality of those words because the English language can't
contain the Arabic reality.
So one word could have 2000 meanings.
In English language, it's just two meanings, one meaning, that's it - doesn't hold the
weight of that reality.
So it's best to read the romanized if you can't read Arabic, which is not a problem
‘Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem’ [shaykh imitates person reading].
It has the power and all the knowledges and reality of every letter, every sound, every
vibration has a secret and those vibrations are what elevate the reality of the insan.
So the sound they make and the lights that come from it, the vibrations that come from
it - those are the secrets.
Those secrets are not in the English language, so we try to do our best . You can go back
and read the English for what you said to get an understanding but it's nowhere anything
near the reality that Allah (AJ) gave from this language - is a language from paradise,
an ancient language.
Forget about it being for Arabs, this is a language that Allah (AJ) gave in paradise
and as a result that was brought into this earth and through the conveyance of this has
its secrets.
So if you knew of an ancient language everybody would try to recite from that language to
take its secrets - that's Arabic, has an ancient reality attached to it, inshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam wa rahmahtullah
What is the importance of fajr (dawn) prayer and why do I keep missing it?
Well that shows you its importance.
If shaitan (satan) didn't care for it you'd be the first one praying it.
But because it has so much importance…
And we just released now a YouTube on the secrets of Du’a e Qunoot.
And it's a faraj - it's a salvation, it's the prayer of salvation which is through the
canal of birth, every day has a birth, that is the birth canal.
So that through two shades of darkness from maghrib (evening) to Salatul ‘Isha (night-time
prayer) as if the child in the womb.
And at fajr time is a birth, so every fajr we're all being born into a new reality on
this earth, those whom pray it will be dressed by its realities and its immensities and the
many blessings of Maqamul Mahmood and drawing closer to Divinely Presence in which their
du’as are most heard at that time.
But many many realities as far as the salvation of the soul, to catch the energy of that day.
The protection of that day has to be recited that day and the reason it’s so powerful
is why shaitan is blocking it.
So when somebody is making an intention to improve themself and to catch these blessings,
shaitan is like a boxing game - he knocks the opponent out and doesn't allow them to
achieve that reality.
For that sake alone we have to then increase our fight against the devil so that we say,
‘No he's not going to sort of do that to me and I’ll have to get a decent sleep,
I have to drink a lot of water as I’m sleeping so that every hour, two hours I have to go
and wash and make wudu (ablution).’
And then again you make your two rak’atul (cycles of prayer) Salatul Wudu (Prayer of
Ablution) and learn how to sleep light so it's not so deep, so so intense that like
a dead - that nobody can even wake the person.
So you're training on how to sleep light, we've talked about that before that Prophet
ﷺ would sleep on a rough bamboo and that would have the marks of bamboo.
They said that, ‘Why ya Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem (The Most Generous Messenger) that
you sleep like this?’
It breaks their hearts.
Said [ﷺ] that, ‘So that I can be vigilant for my fajr prayers.’
So teaching for us the hawas - hawa and the desire will only increase if we make everything
extraordinarily comforting.
So hardship - sleep on the floor, drink water, sleep on a hard surface - you really can't
sleep very good until you get up, you pray, do all your prayers and then sleep in the
bed.
So I mean, it's a struggle.
Anyone who wants to struggle they'll do it, but if you just don't care and at the end
say, ‘I missed it again,’ then you're not really trying to struggle.
As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam wa rahmahtullah
How do we make our last chapter to be good?
That's what we talked about the nights before.
The last chapter of our lives is how we're going to end this life of ours.
Means that we're going to do the good deeds, we're going to have our way and live by example,
live by the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
To do and sponsor and support and propagate the Mawlid (celebration of the birthday of
Prophet ﷺ) and all the teachings - those are all the things that we have a control
over.
That we want to participate, we want to be of service, we want to do all the extra things
that we can do.
And then we even talked about you do it not only when you feel content and say, ‘Oh
mashaAllah I’ve done a lot for myself,’ but no, you should be thinking about your
children and do the good deeds that you can do for those whom you love, they may need
what you put into your account.
Because every parent tries to build their accounts to give an inheritance to their children
but they need the money less than they need the good deeds of the parents.
When the parents accounts are heavy and good deeds - they have something that they can
ask Allah (AJ) either on this dunya or on the next side they'll ask Allah (AJ), ‘Please
Ya Rabbi in my account we had a lot of inshaAllah things that You accept of this love, dress
them from it, bless them from it.’
We said even in your muraqabah (spiritual connection) and your contemplation when you
begin to practice it, then you start the zikr (Divine remembrance) and you're meditating,
contemplating, connecting with the shaykhs, ask that ‘I want my children to be with
me.’
Visualize them at their age of innocence and youth and that they're holding your hands
in this zikr and Allah (AJ) will bring their souls to be present with you under the nazar
(gaze) of the shaykh, under the nazar of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
This is how awliyaullah reach everyone, they don't need to call you, they don't need to
talk to you – nothing.
If they want to reach you they'll grab your soul on that side, take you to the Presence
of Allah (AJ) or to the presence of Prophet ﷺ or to the presence of their shaykhs.
So this is a training in the world of malakut (heavenly realm) that all these things we
are capable of and since their good deeds - Allah (AJ) inshaAllah open those easily
for parents and loved ones to bring their loved ones to be present with them.
Allah (AJ) loves this type of character - that you care for others.
So that's not something that you know asking big, that's asking Allah (AJ), ‘Ya Rabbi
please these whom I love bring them to be present with me in these zikrs and meditations
and khatms, and dress their soul from that reality inshaAllah.
InshaAllah.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi
rabbil ‘aalameen.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
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