As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah
How can we be more conscious of our breath according to the first Naqshbandi principle
especially when working, studying, driving and other daily activities?
How to be more conscious of our breath based on
the first principle – hosh dar dam (conscious of breathing),
on Mawlana Shah Naqshband’s (Q) 11 principles of the turuq (spiritual paths) and all
in the Naqshbandi way that Mawlana (Q) wrote, all the shaykhs described that
this tariqah (spiritual path) it’s built upon the breath and interesting that nobody teaches about
the breath which is again all about the tafakkur (contemplation) and what was talked about tonight.
That how to be conscious of our breath means how to… first level is – how to be conscious of even
the process of breathing, that it’s not just a… something that we do and it comes and goes.
Our life is based on this breath what we call ‘Nafas ur Rahmah’ and ‘The Breath of Mercy’ is
that our existence that Allah (AJ) has given to us is based on this breath. All the things you want
in life makes no difference for Allah (AJ) if we don’t base our life on thanking Him for what
He gave us – He gave us this existence. So, means to be conscious of our breath is that with every
breath ‘In’ and ‘Out’ in a state of consciousness and praise. That Ya Rabbi… and that’s why you
say… continuously saying, ‘Alhamdulillah Ya Rabbi shukranlilla, shukranlilla, –
thank You for everything.’ And some people may
say: ‘Why you keep saying shukranlilla?’ It’s between nobody but you and Allah (AJ).
It’s to be shukr (gratitude) and thankful for the existence that Allah (AJ) has given to us.
When we understood that then we understood even more the necessity to meditate and tafakkur,
because as soon as you meditate and contemplate, one – is to make your connection. Once you’ve
understood how to make your connection, next level is that you’re going to meditate on the breath
and that, ‘Ya Rabbi please dress me from the ocean of power – this ocean of reality that all around
me in every direction as I’m breathing in, I want to breathe in from Your qudra (power) and
Your light and power. And as that light comes in, every breath that comes out Ya Rabbi,
make all my falsehood to be out and all negativity to be taken from me.’
So, they breathe in the light and the Divinely power and they exhale all their negativity,
and that’s why Prophet ﷺ described that, ‘Don’t breathe into your drink.’
That take your [shaykh takes a sip from his glass]
and you’re supposed to move it [shaykh breathes out] exhale
and then again, because of the negative energy that coming out of our exhale.
So, when we’re meditating, we’re asking for this light to come and breathe with
this qudra and exhale all its negativity. And then we practice that more and it becomes more
and more powerful until Allah (AJ) want to begin to send the energy of that breath.
And when they begin to unlock the reality – that breath comes like a Divine fire into their soul.
When they breathe in that energy and the qudra – they have a… the secret of ‘Hu’ within every
nafas (breath). The reality of that oxygen that coming and Allah (AJ) send from paradise realities
their breath like a mask be put over the believer that they breathe from their paradise reality.
And as they’re breathing in is a qudra that dresses their soul and they begin to heat up,
and as they exhale out every badness and bad characteristic
and then they fill themselves with this Divine qudra and Divine lights and Divine energies.
With that energy then that is an immense reality of their breath, and when they
reach these understandings, every zikr (Divine remembrance) they’re doing
has a immense qudra and power because their breath has been activated. And as a result,
when they make their salawat (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) they feel the immense
energy and fire within them for every salawat, for every zikr of Allah (AJ), for listening to Qur’an,
to listening to salawat – everything will be powered for that servant, inshaAllah.
These oceans are immensely deep and it can’t be understood in just five minutes,
but it is described in the book – in the ‘Timeless Reality’ and all of these tafakkur questions and
like an encyclopedia – five hundred pages or so of all these realities of tafakkur which
you can’t find anywhere now - there’s nothing written anywhere on tafakkur and contemplation.
And if anyone following Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (Q) and Shaykh
Abdullah Faiz ad Daghestani (Q) – Sultanul Awliya (king of saints) then you have to read from
these readings. There are groups that are Naqshbandi Mujaddidi but they are not written
according to Shaykh Abdul Faiz ad Daghestani (Q). Their lataifs (subtle energy points) are
in something other than what we understood and what we were trained by there presence.
So, stick with your school and stick with your shaykhs on what they taught and what they revealed
as our understanding and belief is that they’re the Sultanul Awliyas.
If anyone understood something, it would be the king of kings of what was conveyed to their
heart and alhamdulillah Allah (AJ) gave that ni’mat (blessing) to be from that chain. So,
‘The Levels of The Heart’ book is based on Shaykh Abdullah Faiz ad Daghestani’s (Q) teachings – the
colours and the layout. So, you study from someone else and they’re putting posts on the internet,
‘The Sir (secret) is here, the Akhaf (most hidden) is there, khafa (hidden), khafa,’ they have
everything listed, they have something ‘Nafsi,’ ‘Ruhi’ – don’t know what that is nor have we seen
it nor has it been verified for us. But what we were conveyed and what we were taught and
what Mawlana Shaykh (Q) taught to us – is in these books and the qudra, the breathing, the energy and
what worked for them and achieved their stations - what was conveyed and taught to us, inshaAllah.
As Salaamu Alaykum wa rehmatullahi Ya Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah
Is there a reality behind the sunnah
of the kohl for the eyes? Is there a what?
Is there a reality behind the sunnah of the kohl for the eyes?
Of course there’s a reality of the sunnah (traditions of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ) of the
kohl, you think any… it’s Prophet ﷺ - has to be a deep reality of the sunnah of putting the
kohl on the eyes. Everything that Prophet ﷺ brought – they are the treasures of paradise.
So, alhamdulillah everything, everything. That’s why in our adab (manners) and their adab
is oceans apart. If somebody says something da'eef (weak) – we find these all to be very insulting.
If even the saliva of Prophet ﷺ is Wahy (Revelation),
so you can… the word and the kalaam (words) of what Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ brought never touches
the ground. If they can’t understand its teachings or they can’t understand what was been conveyed,
then the living heart can. So, they can take a teaching and understand through their living heart
that vibrating and connecting to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ on its understanding and
under its expansion of its reality. That Prophet ﷺ taught like footnotes that three, four points
that if you were to recite it with a living heart, he would expand its understanding. And that’s why
these hadith that Naqshbandiya use they are like oceans – you could write thousands of books from
one hadith of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, and if you lived by it. ‘Who knows himself – ‘Arafa nafsahu,
will know his Lord – ‘Arafa Rabbahu.’ That itself you can write a thousand books
and that’s your daleel (proof) for tariqah, that’s the daleel for muraqabah (spiritual connection),
that’s the daleel for every reality. That to take a path and to know your nafs (ego), to know your
soul, to know your reality, to know your desire, and that it would lead you to – ‘Arafa Rabbahu.
That ‘Rabb’ (lord) and ‘Hu,’ Rabb is that – who is governing you from your low desires
all the way up to the governance of yourself and then the governance of the heavenly kingdom
and into the presence of the reality of ‘Hu.’ So, these are oceans that are not understood
and have no limit in the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ - has no beginning and no end in its
infinite capacity inshaAllah. As Salaamu Alaykum wa
rehmatullahi barakatuhu Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullahi barakatuh
Is there a correlation of the soul and the aura and the colour of a person’s eyes?
What? Is there a relationship between the soul…?
And the aura… And their aura and the colour of their eyes?
Good question but I haven’t the understanding [Shaykh laughs].
As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah
What is the reality of the grave – the qabr? The reality of the grave, inshaAllah. ‘What’s
the reality of the grave?’ InshaAllah what Allah (AJ) write for us of good actions that
reality to be good and that the grave is the great equalizer on what going to annihilate everybody
like the soil that we describe – everybody’s a seed and Allah (AJ) wants them to enter into
the soil – enter into your grave so that Allah (AJ) can bring out your reality.
Your seed is not your reality but it’s a flower, it’s a plant that should have many
fruits on it. Allah (AJ) created everyone with an immense reality, if they were to reach to it.
But if people choose to remain a seed in life then the grave is the great equalizer in which is
going to be cast into that so that they can reach their reality. And that becomes the difficulty of
the grave to separate all of the things that insan (human being) takes into the grave with
them of their dunya (material world), where the dunya has no place in that reality, as a result,
the dunya has to be pulled from that reality and pulled apart and that becomes the difficulty of
the grave. Better to have our difficulty in our wakeful state, in our contemplation and
meditation because we don’t need to be pulled apart in the grave where it’s difficult.
On our physical life we sit and separate these understandings, separate the dunya from the heart,
do the spiritual practices so that the grave becomes something of a beatific
reality when the servant enters into it because the cleaning was done on top.
Then they go in as a reality as an entire fruit, as an entire plant, as
what Allah (AJ) wanted them to achieve they’re entering into the grave with that achievement
and Allah (AJ) then expands inshaAllah their grave to be a piece of paradise for them, inshaAllah.
As Salaamu Alaykum Ya Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah
Do we prepare for a time with no electricity? If yes, how do we do it?
‘Do we prepare now for a time of no electricity and how do we do it?’
If you have the ability you have to have a life of preparedness in which you have
food in your home and supplies within your home in the event of the power going out.
So, if people have the ability to stock food and to place items of food, use it and then replentish
it, alhamdulillah. Mawlana Shaykh’s (Q) teaching was to, ‘Have your home like a little market
in which you have the supplies and you keep refill – putting in supplies and using them.’
And what you can for power, for lanterns if there is no power, for whatever life’s necessities are
needed. But to be overly scared about the issue then is a… is a concern with faith.
That you are where Allah (AJ) wants you to be and you prepare and the rest is left for the
blessings of what Allah (AJ) will support for the servant, but to be scared and have lack of faith
and then shaitan (satan) now even plays on these issues of faith and begin to tell the servant,
‘Oh, how you’re going to live? How you’re going to live with this? How much gas do you need for
power? How much this you need for power? How much you need for the food? How much…’
That becomes its own source of fear and shaitan has now entered into those practices.
Everybody to their ability and to have a level of moderation of whatever they can afford, they put
food, batteries, lanterns and their preparedness, the rest is Allah’s (AJ) blessings to be upon that
servant. And we described even from the unseen kingdoms will come to support insan (mankind).
If Allah (AJ) wants to support them, Allah (AJ) will send support for these servants.
It’s not that they have to prepare everything and stockpile everything. That stockpiling
is also a sense of fear. When you watch these shows of these 'Preparers' or what they call…
these people who are preparing for Armageddon – it’s more like they’re preparing to live a
thousand years on this dunya. So, that’s its own dunya weird sort of reality that is appearing.
When you look at their life these ‘Preparers’ or what are they called,
they have ten-thousand cans of beans, ten-thousand this, ten-thousand this as if they’re going to
live now a thousand years on these beans. So, they took their dunya desire and shifted into
something weird for akhirah (hereafter), and that’s not necessary – they don’t need that.
They buy everything just to show their faith and that they believe difficulties are coming
and Allah (AJ) will expand the rest and provide for the servants whom He wants. Said many from
unseen will come to provide for these servants and teach them from their kingdom how to prepare food
when there is no food. Said that awliyaullah (saints) will activate at that time and this
unseen kingdom will come to show even how they can put energy over somebody and protect them from a
direct attack of a nuclear bomb. Awliya (saints) will release their energy over entire peoples
and that energy will shield them from all these difficulties are coming. These are not things
that even the mind can comprehend, other kingdom will come to show how they can bring food from the
ground according to different understandings from that kingdom. So, Allah (AJ) is the best of those
to prepare and Allah (AJ) is the best of those for the believer to put their faith and trust. So,
these are signs of faith with the believer… has nothing in their closet is like they got caught
with their pants down. Why you have nothing? You have to have a level of belief in which
you prepared. You can’t just say: ‘Oh, I didn’t know this was going to happen,’ no it’s going to
happen. Now do you buy the entire market and put it in your backyard? No. And start digging up all
your backyard to hide you know the meat that you want to eat and the crackers you want. So,
everything in moderation is that the understanding – you take 1 step and Allah (AJ) will come 99
steps towards His servant. But the 1 step is the most important that when they look to our house
these supplies are there. When they look to our practices, we are preparing for these days
of difficulty. And that’s why the meditation, the zikr, the salawats on Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
So, it’s not important if you find out where Yajuj and Majuj (Gog and Magog) are hiding because
you don’t want to go dig them out. You know you’re hoping they forget everyday not to say,
‘Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem’ so that their hole stays closed. You don’t find them and say: ‘Hey,
say Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.’ [Everybody laughs] They’re going to come out. Say that’s
not… the solution to understanding the last days was the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. That “Ya
musabbibal asbab” (O Originator of causes) – that Allah’s (AJ) causing this condition and He wants
you, “Mufattihul abwab” (Opener of doors). “You should be scared, are you scared?”
‘Yes.’ “Run to Prophet ﷺ.”
So, this conditions that Allah (AJ) puts us in there’s a door He wants us to run to
and that’s then ‘Run. When they’re oppressors to themself – Jaooka,’ that
they should be running into the presence of Sayyidna Muhammad ﷺ, 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.