Sayyidi.
Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah.
InshaAllah how can we keep your company especially if we are at a distance?
How do we keep your company especially if we are at a distance… alhamdulillah, yeah
easier to keep our company at a distance because Allah (AJ) opening all these openings, Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ opening, awliyaullah (saints) are opening this line of communication, this
line of interaction so that it become virtual tariqah (spiritual path).
That by following online, by contributing and donating, being of service, involved with
the different websites, interacting with the websites, emailing – all of that is what
tariqah is.
Just sitting at our zawiyah (spiritual school of Sufism) there’s not but five or six people
who are helping and doing that anyways.
That the purpose of tariqah is to be active, to be involved, to be emailing, to be asking,
to be supporting, all of those we gave talks that’s the real tariqah.
When somebody says, ‘How do I have to take bayat (allegiance) and is my bayat accepted?’
We said that’s all ridiculous, the bayat is the one who knows that he’s supporting,
he’s supporting on every platform.
We see his name on every single platform.
He’s getting from the store, he’s going to the charity, he’s emailing to ‘Help’
[helpme@nurmuhammad.com], he’s translating articles.
That’s the one who has bayat.
If the purpose was just to take bayat and never be seen again then what was the value
of that bayat.
So, tariqah is to be real, to be active, to be involved and that Allah (AJ) open with
the whole system of why we have, there’s like five arms that are involved, you can
be active in the app, in the video productions, in the translations of videos, in the translation
of books, in the production of books, supporting the charities, supporting all of the different
projects.
All of that interaction is your way to show your closeness to the tariqah.
And I’m astonished every day because I’m going through all these complaints and, ‘I
didn’t get my tasbih (prayer beads) on time.
I didn’t get my ta’weez (prayer for protection) there.
I gave a donation I don’t see my receipt,’ and so we’re seeing all of the characteristic.
The most interesting are the ones when you ship out ta’weez and they’re shipping
it out economy and on the letter it says, ‘This is going to take about twenty days
to get to you,’ within one week they’re emailing: “Where is it?”
I said, ‘Did you see that it said twenty days?
So, this is only seven days.’
Then they email again three days later: “Where is it?”
So, then can you see that your character is lacking sabr (patience).
So, Allah’s (AJ)… it’s like a doctor’s office, you’re interacting however and by
whatever means, you don’t have to worry why is it a store.
If you would have been in Cyprus, they would have had you playing in the fields and picking
oranges and milking sheep’s.
You… what were you going to say: no, I don’t do that?
And through that interaction the shaykh will find out who you are.
Did you watch Yusuf Emre?
Is that the Yusuf Emre or Joseph Emre?
Yunus Yunus [shaykh laughs], I recommend everybody
to watch ‘Yunus Emre’ because then they’re gonna learn tariqah exact.. this is exactly
what the shaykh does.
A big judge comes to him and say, ‘I’m going to be now your mureed (devoted disciple),
give me some fatwas (Islamic ruling) to write for you.
I’ll start doing the fatwas here.’
He [the shaykh] said, “What?”
So… he doesn’t care he’s a big judge.
He says [the shaykh], “No actually your job is to get our dog and take him through
the village.”
And the judge was so upset about that, ‘Dog, dog is najes (dirty).
Take your dog and walk it in the village?’
Say, “Yeah of course.
You think we needed you to come and give fatwas for us?”
Means it’s an example of everybody coming with these characters, these people of who
they think they are.
They: ‘Give me an answer.
Oh, how come you’re de-voiding the answer, how come you’re running from giving an…’
They talk even very rudely when they’re interacting with you and this is a sense for
somebody to understand: look at your character, you’re talking to a shaykh like this.
Even you think he’s a garbage shaykh you don’t talk to somebody like that.
You don’t demand a reply.
Why, you gave millions of dollars you need to demand a reply?
You haven’t even given five dollars to the organization and who are you in a position
to demand anything?
Because it’s showing the characteristics that people are lacking, their inability to
communicate politely anymore, their inability to have sabr – to have patience.
So, subhanAllah I think that whatever they open through this tariqah and this way and
all of this interaction has so many ways of showing people their characters, and it is
virtual tariqah because as soon as they put their finger on one of our buttons you’re
in the game now, you’ll be rolling through the system and every type of characteristic
will begin to show.
And there are people who have very beatific characters, they say nothing, they complain
about nothing and occasionally they have to ask something of a question and then you can
see this characteristic is a very beatific nature.
And there are some who come like you know like a rooster, they just sit up there crowing
and they want all the attention in the world and tariqah comes to train them that, ‘No,
this is not a school for roosters.
This is a school in which the roosters get slaughtered and they become barbeque chicken
[everyone laughs].’
And if anyone can say it I can because I’ve been through it.
So, it’s been non-stop path of humiliation and humiliation, and degradation and insult,
and you keep going because you’re doing what you do for the love of Allah (AJ), for
the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
And we don’t care about the opinion of anyone.
All we care about is the opinion if Allah (AJ) is happy and Prophet ﷺ is happy.
So, this is our life and this was our life’s training and we are authorized with the ijazah
(authorization) to train, so… and many have come to try to take the ijazah away but unless
you hear from Shaykh Nazim (Q) coming out from his place of resting, don’t pay attention
to it.
It’s valid and signed and sealed by Prophet ﷺ.
So, this is our life, anyone can try to do anything they want but tariqah is not easy.
Tariqah is something that you know you have to really go through the grinding and you
have to be very conscious of every interaction with the shaykhs that you are being tested.
And you never know who’s replying to your email, it may be the shaykh directly.
Hey we were about to ask this question Sayyidi As Salaamu Alaykum wa rehmatullahi barakatuhu
Sayyidi.
My humble question is regarding adab – what one should say or do in the presence of Sayyidi
i.e., telegram, and adab of reading salawat (praising upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ)?
Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah.
What one should do about adab (manners)..
I hope people notice that you know I’m not looking at your phones and I’m not looking
at your.. where you’re writing comments.
So, all the comments that you have, you came to the zikr (Divine remembrance) tonight with
an intention and something in your heart that you wanted to ask.
The talks are covering all the questions before you talk, right.
So, you’re writing the questions, he’s reviewing which one’s he’s going to ask
but the talk already came out.
So, the talk already answered the questions because their majlis (association) is a collection
of people’s intentions, when they have something within their heart that they are sending of
a concern, that radiates to the shaykhs heart and the signal that’s coming down is addressing
the questions those that they require and feel it’s necessary to be addressed.
So, they should sort of take heed to that, when you’re asking something it’s already
going to be addressed in the question and that… that’s a significant difference
between other types of associations.
That the frequency and the shaykh is locked onto the frequency of people’s hearts and
whatever people are asking, in need of, what they’re studying, what they’re concerned
about when the channel above picks up that signal then that’s what’s being broadcasted
to all the people.
So, they shouldn’t think we’re looking at the questions and then giving talks and
then it’s by coincidence.
There’s no coincidence.
The questions are in the hearts of people and the talks are based on heart to heart
for everyone to receive the signal they need inshaAllah.
As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi.
Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah.
Is there any reason behind getting very emotional at times when watching the zikr?
Yeah, there’s many reasons for getting emotional while watching the zikr, listening to the
talks, because these are from the energies of the heart that are emanating out and we
said before that this connection to the heavens when the connection begins to take place there’s
an immense amount of joy – Divine joy, and where we’re falling short.
That on the day of promises we promised Allah (AJ) and as soon as we remember this heavenly
energy and it touches our soul, touches our inner core of reality, that promise is reminded
into the soul and begins to cry and ask for forgiveness from Allah (AJ).
That we promised many, many things to Allah (AJ), to Prophet ﷺ, to awliyaullah (saints)
and we said: ‘Yes’ to all those promises, we came on the earth and took care of ourselves
and forgot all the promises that we made.
So, every time there’s a Divine connection into the heart, the sohbat (lecture), something
is resonating, a zikr that’s resonating, it’s cracking in and opening, opening, opening
until the servant’s heart becomes “khashiya” like so soft and subtle it picks up these
frequencies and is continuously crying to Allah (AJ) for His forgiveness that to ask
forgiveness for where we came short, where we didn’t accomplish, where we didn’t
have the ability to accomplish and that Allah (AJ) send more, more himmah – more zeal,
more energy, more resources, whatever is necessary for us to accomplish what Allah (AJ) wants
us to accomplish.
So, it’s a connection to the Divinely Presence, to the presence and the heart of Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ inshaAllah.
As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi.
Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah.
You had mentioned about our zawj of soul, we had been fasting all these years alhamdulillah.
How do we strive in this month to be able to meet the mate of our soul?
How to meet the mate of our soul in this month, this is all through the oceans of tafakkur
(contemplation) that ‘Who knows himself will knows his Lord’ and to know oneself
is the whole purpose of the tariqah, and it’s astonishing that nobody teaches that.
So, there is no tariqah, there is no way without the servant taking the first hadith from Prophet
ﷺ, ‘Who is an ‘arif (knower) of himself will be ‘arif of the heavens, of the rabb
(Lord).’
He’ll know his nafs (ego) and he’ll know what is commanding himself.
Like how could anybody follow any type of spiritual path if the person is not looking
at themselves and asking, ‘What am I a servant of?’
If you think you’re serving Allah (AJ), it’s very off.
If you smoke, your lord is a cigarette not Allah (AJ).
You are putting intoxicants and every type of forbidden into your body how could you
be serving Allah (AJ)?
So, that’s a.. that’s a lord over you.
You smoke marijuana – worse.
You drink, that’s your lord, you lord is a alcohol.
You fornicate, that’s your lord, it’s fornication.
Every type of vice is like bud parast (idol worshipper) – is a lord on our heart stopping
us from Rabiul ‘Aala (Lord Most High).
So, that’s when we’re really humble with ourselves that you know don’t think you’re
worshipping Allah (AJ).
If you were worshipping Allah (AJ), you would understand all these talks and you would be
giving the talks because you’d be in that Divinely Presence dressed by these Divinely
lights.
But when we come to tariqah we have to be honest with ourselves that we’re trying
to find Rabiul ‘Aala, but I’m stuck with the lord that is a vice upon me.
If you’re angry your lord is ghadab (anger) and he’s all over you.
So, it means these characteristics, what Prophet ﷺ wanted for us was, ‘Look at yourself,
take a hisaab (account) and accounting continuously at yourself.’
And every night you sit down and think that, ‘What, what am I doing, what did I do?
How come I can’t stop that?
How come I can’t stop this?’
Because it’s a lord, so you have to now attack that.
You have to be willing to fight those demons that are trying to be lord over you and that’s
why Prophet ﷺ: ‘This is Jihad al-Akbar.’
The one whom comes and takes away one bad thing, Allah (AJ) Has immense love for that
servant and that’s why you can’t find it unless you sit down and make a hisaab,
make an accounting of yourself, ‘What am I doing wrong?
Oh my God all day long I was yelling at these people,’ then this has to be removed because
it’s a lord over you and Allah (AJ) – la sharik (no partner), Allah’s (AJ) Light
won’t enter into that reality if you’re going to have shaitan (satan) sitting there.
So, that’s why these vices they don’t co-exist, “Qul jaa alhaqq.”
The Haq (Truth) of Allah (AJ) it doesn’t sit with falsehood together two of them and
then they shift on who’s going to run you at that time.
So, that’s why then the first step is all tafakkur, ‘I have to sit by myself and I
have to come against my demons that are blocking me from everything and I have to first identify
them that, I don’t..
I shouldn’t do this, I shouldn’t do this, I shouldn’t do this, I shouldn’t be like
that.’
And that should be my whole focus and then crying every night, ‘Ya Rabbi I don’t
know how to stop this.’
Asking Prophet ﷺ, ‘I don’t know how to stop this.’
And then they say read the awrad (daily practices), make your salawats, do these practices, these
energies come to burn these characteristics.
And then the servant begins to see okay they stopped their smoking, they stopped their
drinking, they stopped the bad vices, they stopped eating the bad.
Then they began to control now their anger, their temperament, their characteristics,
their jealousy – all of these characteristics that they have and now when they destroy the
lower, now they can begin to move towards the reality of the shaykhs and from the love
of the shaykhs to the reality of Prophet ﷺ.
So, it’s a great battle, great battle.
They describe it as one against seven-hundred thousand.
So, that’s what’s funny when the tariqah people coming out and say that, ‘We don’t
know about tafakkur, I don’t know who’s doing tafakkur.’
What are they teaching then?
They’re sitting and doing what?
If you’re not teaching people to look at all their vices and all their demons what
exactly are they doing in the zikrs?
They’re just sitting with their demons doing zikr all day long.
They didn’t understand that they have a demon and you know that’s why they go out
and they become drug dealers on the side and sitting in the tariqah at night time.
They don’t see the demon that’s harming themselves and other people?
So, that’s all that tariqah is, the first step is shaykh says, ‘Sit down and begin
to meditate, and tell me about yourself.’
And then they look at themselves and they have to make an honest opinion of what their
character is like, and listen to the talks because the talks will reveal the character,
inshaAllah.
As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi.
Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah.
You’ve mentioned many times about the taking ginger and turmeric so can you please…
Yes Sir.
Can you please explain the right method of consuming ginger and turmeric?
Yeah, you can email us at helpme@nurmuhammad.com inshaAllah and you take the ginger and the
turmeric and you blend it and put it together and add a little of lemon, some black pepper
inshaAllah.
And take fresh, fresh juice everyday, ginger and turmeric.
But you email us and we’ll send you the formula for that 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.