A pious person was telling me about an incident that he had with Prophet ﷺ,
that crying and begging to Prophet’s ﷺ presence, ‘Open for me your presence,
open for me your hudur. What is it that I have to go through? What kind of difficulties put upon me?
Whatever is it you want? Let me to burn, let me to go through this, let me to go through that.’
And the reply that Prophet ﷺ said is that, ‘You're a loving person and your teaching is loving, could
you imagine that you ask your child to stand on the stairs and fall down the stairs to come to me?
What kind of father would ask that? That you must fall down the stairs and then come to me.
Means if you approached me with all that love and all that respect and all that admiration,
I’m going to bring your way on ease. You're going to fly on a magic carpet to my presence.’
Means our way is powerful, our way is blessed that should leave no man behind, no man, no woman,
no child. No one should ever feel that they have done something so wrong that they can't come back.
Means, once Mawlana Shaykh (Q) is teaching us that test, just keep that door open,
keep that understanding that don't fall to the hands of shayateen (devils) and
throw someone towards him. Closing the door of maghfirah - closing the door of
repentance, the door of repentance is open and we're all made to be humble. That's,
that's his job and that's our duty on earth. If Allah (AJ) wanted us angels he would have kept us
angels and we would have been in heaven making zikr (Divine remembrance), but He wanted us to
come to dunya (material world) to be tested, to be tried, to be humiliated and to humiliate others.
And see that do you have the quality, do you have that stamina to continue and do you believe
in asking forgiveness? And as soon as you ask forgiveness you feel that Allah (AJ) lifting you,
Allah (AJ) saying, ‘You're such a loved creation,
was there ever a time, ever a time that you were not something carried? Means that in the womb
of your mother I carried your seed, not like animal kingdom but Wa laqad karramna bani adam,
from the womb of that mother of yours you were nourished and nurtured in that womb.
Held in an ocean of love, brought into this dunya and immediately in this dunya
you are carried into the hands of people. Allah’s (AJ) saying, ‘Those are My two Hands,
how do you not bow down to what I created with My two Hands? Allah (AJ) shows you, with those two
Hands how much I love your creation, I have carried you always and I will carry to you,
I will carry you to your last breath and I will deliver you back home to Jannah (paradise) where
you belong. As you were born and carried by your mother and your father and all who loved you,
means your feet never had to touch the ground like a sultan (king), you
were carried.’ Many other animal kingdom the mother throws the baby out and goes,
if the baby raises and walks - it survives. If not, coyote comes, eats. Allah (AJ) says,
‘It's not your creation, your creation I gave you a power like awliyaullah (saints) that that
infant opens its mouth and other parents come running, other people come running, ‘What is it,
what is it, the baby's yelling!’ Has such a power to move the heart and it's not even a spoken word,
it's not even saying, ‘Pick me up’ but it is speaking with the power to move everyone
in the room. That's why a child who screams makes everybody nervous because our heart is
automatically tuned like a wali (saint) is saying, ‘Move! Get up and do something for that child.’
Allah (AJ) showing you, ‘I have loved you always. You are carried, you are My honoured creation.
And when you are old enough to provide for yourself a sustenance, even your sustenance,
I created animals to carry you - a donkey, a mule, an ox - everything carry you like sultan.
Never you had to walk for your sustenance hard and long places, always I provided for you such
a rahmah and a mercy that even they plough the fields for you. You ride your donkey, your horse
and go to your village that's long distance. Means always providing for such an amazing mercy for us,
carrying us. And when technology got great and the distance became further Allah (AJ) said,
‘I even created for you ships that traverse the ocean to carry you from one destination to another
and do you not see the birds in the sky, it's not but a miracle of Rahman (Most Compassionate) that
they're sustained.’ Means the bird - the plane. Anything you're seeing in the sky is sustained
by Al-Rahman, it's sustained in the water by Al-Rahman (The Most Compassionate). Mawlana Shaykh
(Q) many times, ‘Look at how 10 tons or 100 tons of steel you put on an ocean and it doesn't sink,
but if you put one penny flat it goes down.’ The technology, the understanding
is all about a mercy from all those Allah (AJ). Allah’s (AJ) mercy is all because
of His love or Creator's love for us. That love exampled through Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ.
He’s “Rahmatal lil'alameen,” saying, ‘ I’ve carried you through everything
and everything, in your life we're holding you to deliver you to your final destination.’
And then the biggest miracle of all at around a year or a year and a few months
of age - that your two feet stand on this earth and you walk. You walk two-feet even.
From something that was crawling and not even imaginable, what is that power that allows you
to walk? It's the earth, the earth's agreement by Allah (AJ) is that, ‘We will carry your
creation’ and the earth's electromagnetic field grabs your feet and is holding you and moving.
Means those two feet - the qadam (foot), the holiness of those two feet Allah (AJ) said,
‘Those two feet when the order comes immediately hold’ and then the heavenly
tajalli (manifestation) that comes through the head and through the spine,
the earth's tajalli that is the electromagnetic field, then these two are keeping you to be erect
like a 90 degree angle. Means Allah (AJ) said that, ‘Have you seen how We even make you to
walk is miraculous. The earth is carrying you - means Allah (AJ) carrying you and loving you’
and all of this miracles we deny and we lose hope. Means never think that Allah (AJ) is throwing us
or Allah (AJ) angered with us. Keep our hearts open with repentance,
it's just a simple word “Astaghfirullahal ‘Azim, wa atubu ilayh Ya Rabbil ‘Arshil ‘Azim.”
We beg your forgiveness for anything we've done to Your servants, to ourselves, to our loved ones,
and forgive us all those things that we've done to people. We do what we do of badness
from the garbage that we bring with us to our association, for what people did to us and
inflicted upon us.’ Not everybody is the same and not everybody's condition is the same. We have no
idea what people have been through in their lives, what type of abuse they faced from their mothers
and their fathers, their uncles, their aunts, everybody comes with a whole host of difficulties
and no two difficulties the same - each uniquely different.