Bi madadikum wa nazarekum Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem,
ya Habibul ‘Azeem. Fa A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
“Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.” And always a reminder
for myself ana abdukal 'ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim, wa jahl, and but for the grace of Allah
(AJ) that we are still in existence. Alhamdulillah that Allah (AJ) granted us to enter into the
holy month of Muharram of Baab at Tawbah (Gate of repentance). That the first of the lunar calendar,
the new year and the gate of repentance. And that Allah (AJ) accept us in this gate of repentance
and in these 10 days up to the day of ‘Ashura in which Allah (AJ) grant a najat (salvation) and
saved every nation on ‘Ashura. And ask that Allah (AJ) to dress us and bless us and save us from
our bad character and that Allah’s (AJ) rida and satisfaction and the lights and love of Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ to dress us and bless us. With this gate of repentance and entering into the gate
of repentance through Surat Al-Tawbah with no “Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem” Allah (AJ) want
for us to sacrifice the bad character, put down the bad character and enter this ocean
of ma’rifah – this way of Gnosticism and to reach to Allah’s (AJ) Divine satisfaction and
pleasure and that’s the heart and the love and the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
That we pray that Allah (AJ) grant us from these lights and from this love and from
this ishq and that Allah (AJ) grant us good character to achieve that. The first lunar
month has the immense blessings of the light of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as) that in
this way of ma’rifah (Gnosticism), this light of ma’rifah and the way of the first lunar moon
means the shahr (month) is a isharat (sign). That we follow the way of the moon and the
lunar month not because it’s convenient but because we’re a nation that kept the way of
the sun and the moon and the immense secret of guidance of shamsi wal qamar (sun and the moon).
That the shahr and the moon tajalli (manifestation) is the reality of guidance
and that Allah (AJ) placed it upon our horizon as a reminder – that don’t think you’re on this Earth
by yourself, ‘I’ll show you the sign within yourself and upon the horizon.’
And as soon as we enter As salaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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are in need of this sun.’ This sun gives you eyesight, gives you breath through photosynthesis,
gives everything in our existence - a warmth - for if that sun was farther away or closer to us we
would either freeze or burn to death. Allah (AJ) placed the earth exactly in the place He wants
it so that we can receive the nourishment and the reality of the shams (sun). So that we understand
and Allah (AJ) wants us to understand through Divinely knowledges that – yes,
everything is Allah (AJ) but Allah (AJ) wants us to understand, ‘Do you see My creation? Why is
the sun where it is? Why is it not farther from you and why is it not closer to you?
It’s exactly placed to your benefit.’ We said before – farther away, you freeze to death,
you wouldn’t feel the warmth of the sun. Closer to you and you would burn to death.
It would be a barren desert burned by the heat of the sun and the energy of the sun. So means that
we are in need of that reality because we have to understand the horizon to understand the inside.
And that, that sun that we’re so in need of, Allah (AJ) making this Earth to circumambulate the sun.
Before they used to think that the sun is going around the Earth, never in Islam! Because Islam
came to take people out of darkness and into the light to teach them, ‘No.’ Because the deep
reality is that everything circumambulates the light. Everything else is perishable. The sun is
a immense source of eternity for us. So means that when we look at that reality, it’s a symbol of
eternity. When we want to know what’s eternal, what’s eternal in our life? Look at the sun! It
has been there, the same sun for Sayyidina Adam (as). And how many of the versions of Sayyidina
Adam (as) have witnessed that exact same sun! So means it is a reality of eternity for us.
So we’re not here by ourself, Allah (AJ) make us to look at these symbols that that’s a symbol of
eternity and that I, I breathe because of that sun. If that sun was not shining,
there would no oxygen on the plants. The plants have to take that sunlight and release an oxygen
for us. There would no vision that Allah (AJ) precisely made us to see a specific spectrum
of the light of that sun when it hits the atmosphere of this Earth and we have vision,
we have the whole comfort of our existence based on Allah (AJ) placing that shams.
And Allah (AJ) said, ‘Then look to the moon. That your existence is also based on that moon.’
For the light and the energy that the sun is sending if it was continuous, there’s no way
that you could exist. The amount of energy that would be coming upon the Earth and the inability
to find a refuge or a withdrawal of that energy, Allah (AJ) created the moon as a reflection.
And that, that moon is responsible for our growth and makes all the vegetation on this Earth,
grows by moonlight not sunlight. Sunlight sweetens everything; moonlight raises everything, nourishes
it, guides it. And Allah (AJ) said then... give to us as a nation, ‘Follow the sun and the moon.’ So,
we follow the lunar calendar and not the solar calendar. The solar calendar is a state
of arrogance in which they think that they don’t need any more guidance and they can deal directly
with the light. And a nation that remains to be humble and a nation that remains to understand the
reality of guidance that Allah (AJ) has “Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum”.
Means that the sun, the moon and the Earth is a secret of guidance
so that we are in need of what tajalli the sun is going to be sending upon the moon and
that the moon is always vigilant over our reality. So the qamar (moon) is a reality
for this nation and there are 12 moons, 12 hijabs (veils) that dress and bless the nation
and the first of which and the outer face of that moon are the 12 khalifas (representatives). The
first of which Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as). So the immensity of that blessing, the immensity
of the guidance, the guidance of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as) is on the opening of Muharram.
That the hijrah (migration). And that’s why Prophet ﷺ is the shams – Shamsul
‘Arifeen (Sun of Knowers) took with his holy soul for the opening of Muharram and the opening of
the hijrah took Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as) to the cave. Means he set out to open the reality
of the city of lights and moved and stopped within the cave to bring out the realities of the cave, a
short stay and then enter into Madinatul Munawwara (luminous city of Prophet ﷺ) – the city of lights.
Because now he’s going to bestow the reality of these lights upon this Earth, the lights of
guidance and the lights of Allah’s (AJ) immense rahmah and mercy. And as a result of the movement
between Prophet ﷺ and Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as) we described the night before then the other
moon is dressing the nation. That Prophet ﷺ gave to the side of the moon that we never see;
it’s a dark side and the secret side of the moon, there are 12 imams (religious leaders) of the
nation, the Ahlul Bayt (Holy Family of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) whom they represent the prophetic
secret in creation. One is the companion and Sahabi secret of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq
(as) that represents what Prophet ﷺ gave to his companions of his
realities and what he gave to his family of their realities. And the first month of Muharram
represents then the tajalli and the reality of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as) and Imam Ali
(as) dressing the nation. That Sayyidina Ali (as), Imam Ali (as) represents then the side of the moon
in which we don’t see, the secret side of the moon. And that’s why that secret side of the
moon laid within the bed to sacrifice himself for the beginning of the hijrah because the hijrah is
the symbol of the two sides. One side that you saw and you are acquainted with - that went to
the cave and went to Madina. And the other side that is not so much talked about is about the
reality of Imam Ali (as) that laid within the bed to sacrifice himself (as) as a child so that
the nation would move that the message would be delivered and that to show the loyalty and
the love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ that was so willing to sacrifice himself for that love and
for that reality. That’s the immense blessings of Muharram. That we pray that Allah (AJ) dress
us from this Siddiqiya (truthful) reality, dress us from the Ahlul Bayt reality and that perfect
our character to have the truthfulness, the love and the companionship and the friendship
that Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as) represents the immense love and companionship of Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ, the trust and the nobility of character and that we have the love and the
respect and the chivalry of Imam Ali (as) in the family inheritance. So make it to be a
perfected moon. So the nation’s hijrah starts with kamil – perfected guidance
that Prophet ﷺ made the door of this reality in complete perfection. Give you to the first of
the khalifas, the Siddiq al-Mutlaq (the absolute truthful) – the perfect, complete truthful servant
of Allah (AJ) – Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as) and the immensity of the family and encompassed
the reality of Imam Ali (as). This is the dress and the bless of Muharram and this is the
realities of tariqat al Naqshbandiya tul ‘Aliya (The Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Order). The
only tariqah (spiritual path) coming from this guidance of Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as)
and sweetened with the secret of Imam Ali (as) within the tariqah. We pray that Allah (AJ) grant
us from its lights, grant us from its blessings and make us to be worthy of the immense reality
of it and open our hearts to understand what that immense reality is. If we truly understood
the immense realities, we would not need to ask for anything in life. We would be happy
and content with everything in life knowing that Allah (AJ) has granted us the greatest
gift that He can grant which is the tariqat al Naqshbandiya tul ‘Aliya; the immensity of
the muhabbat and ishq (love) and the reality that it encompasses
of Haqqiqatul Muhammadiyah (the Muhammadan Reality). InshaAllah Allah (AJ) dress us and
bless us from its immensities and grant us in our hearts its immense love and admiration for
these realities, this gift of guidance and this holy month of Muharram, 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.