The prayings that God asked for us, mandated for us is for us, the conditioning of our
bad ego and that to tame the wild beast.
But Allah (AJ) in Hadith al Qudsi (Holy Hadith) describes that, ‘Once they committed to
their obligatory worshipness and they begin to do the worshipness through love and affection
- the non-obligatory, I become the hearing in which they hear, the eyes in which they
see, the breath in which they breathe, the hand in which they touch, the feet in which
they move.’
Means that we do what's ordered by us as an expression of taming our wildness but that's
not where the secret lies.
People whom feel that they prayed and they accomplished a great accomplishment, that
was ordered.
As if we tell you that, ‘This building's on fire.
Run out!’
Means you saved yourself from coming against what the Divine has ordered.
So we do what God has ordered.
We pray but we don't put any significance and think that our prayers will be opening
all realities and opening every type of blessing, but what we do of our prayers we do but what
brings the immensity of blessings is these praisings, this expression of love for the
Divinely Presence like the birds that praise throughout the day and at night and God mentions
them in Qur’an like, ‘The birds that praise Me in the morning and praise Me at the night.’
Means even the zikr (Divine remembrance) of the birds God mentioned in Holy Qur’an because
of their station.
Allah (AJ) didn't mention the birds are praying and making their salah (daily prayer), but
a creature that actually praises got mentioned by Allah (AJ) in Holy Qur’an.
Immense station, immense reality.
So awliya (saints) come into our lives and teach that, ‘That which you've been ordered
to do, you did to save your own soul.
There's no trophy for that.’
So we negate ourself, negate our actions.
‘I pray because You ordered me to pray, and that's to discipline myself and take the
wildness of my beast’ but it's true beauty didn't come until we begin to praise and we
raise our vibration and express our love and thankfulness for the Divine in a world in
which everything tries to take away that thankfulness.
And the biggest struggle is to be thankful because the demonic force, the negative force
all around continuously whispering within us not to be thankful.
‘Your life is bad, your life is difficult, everything around is difficult, this is bad.’
And we live in a society that just complains, complain, complain, complain.
And we said before children can complain - that's not the way of manhood and maturity.
When we say ‘maturity’ or ‘manhood’ it's for both feminine, masculine, doesn't
matter.
The way of maturity towards the Divine is not to look to a wall and say, ‘I found
a crack.’
Or to live in a life in which the whole wall is cracked, but rijal (mature men) and maturity
is to look at a cracked wall and find its immense beauty.
If you can do that Allah’s (AJ) happy with you.
Although I walk on a broken path, my head is upright and straight.
Not that I just keep looking, ‘Everything's, everything's bad, everything's bad, everything
bad.’
That's all negativity wants is to have a society that just complains.
So means then awliya come into our life and express that the greatest gift is when you
praise upon the Divine thanking.
All of these nasheeds (songs of praise) if you read the English these are all thankfulness,
that we're thanking Allah (AJ) for one – sending us a messenger whom is guiding us and till
today is guiding us and this is an expression of appreciation, ‘We love you, we love all
the prophets (as), we love what they send for us and we are thankful Ya Rabbi.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.’
And let my life be something that no matter how cracked it may be I'll find the flower
in the crack.
Right?
Say that even in a concrete jungle there's got to be something that grows through that
concrete.
And that's our lives.
Everything sometimes may feel like concrete, it's just everything poured upon us but the
wise one is not that realizes everything is destroyed but to find a beauty in something,
focus on that beauty and turn that into an entire garden.
Then we look and say, ‘Oh I’m not as sick as other people, I’m not impoverished as
other people.
I have the ability to eat, others may not even have anything to eat.’
To find the goodness in what we have and Allah’s (AJ) promise, ‘Thank Me.
Be thankful and I give you much more.’
So then our life was not to complain but to find the goodness, praise the Divine and Allah
(AJ) send His bounty and His grace upon our souls and make everything to be beatific.
For the one whom praises finds everything in life to be beatific and we pray for that
quality and that dress.
Means these praisings and these sessions of praisings have such an immense energy and
vibration upon the soul, dressing the soul, changing the energy and the frequency of the
soul so that it vibrates at a higher resonance.
And at that higher resonance what happens to the lower resonance – it shatters it.
If our lives don't have praising, what happens?
We're just listening to music, we're listening to gossip on television that's all backbiting,
and then what happens?
Your resonance goes down.
When your resonance and vibration goes down then every negative creature is going in moving
into you resonating within your frequency and as a result people become down and lower
and lower and lower until every type of difficulty begins to overtake them.
And awliyaullah (saints) come and teach within our life that if you raise your frequency
not only by raising it you're shattering the lower frequency because it's such a powerful
energy that when you begin to praise, begin to make zikr of Allah (AJ), begin to read
Qur’an, begin to make salawats (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ) and all of these
praisings is a frequency and an energy that shatters everything negative because “Qul
jaa alhaqq”.
Allah (AJ) say, ‘When the truth comes, falsehood is perishing.’
The truth is what?
Is praising.
Anything positive, anything from the Divine is truth.
Not from the earth.
So anything we do from the Divine has a truth in it, has a reality in it, has a praise in
it.
That one Allah (AJ) described, ‘When the truth comes, falsehood perishes.’
And falsehood by its nature is “Zahoqan”, it’s dust, it's nothing to stand in the
presence of the Almighty.
So praising brings an energy that destroys every type of negativity and falsehood.
We pray that Allah (AJ) inspire us towards our praising.
Anytime anyone's down, depressed or sad, this app of ours has prayers, read the prayers.
The app has the books and the nasheeds of all these praisings and all in transliterations
in Arabic and English for everyone's language.
Just sit there and just recite them, you don't even have to sing them.
Just reciting them so that, that energy begins to change our energy, take away negativity,
take away depression, take away sadness, take away ungratefulness so that, that energy will
come and begin to destroy the negativity and bring the positivity.
If we can master that in life then we mastered everything.
We said, we described many times before in seclusion and in the training of seclusion,
the evilness and bad energy controls your mind but God gave you a power to take your
mind back.
If you allow it to control, it will control the narrative of your existence.
So they come into your mind pose something as negative and shows your whole life, because
these are analogies, your whole life is like a garbage dump and that's all negativity wants
to do.
Say, ‘It's all garbage.’
So then you begin to complain about everything.
But means - you lost your mind.
So in spiritual training - regain your mind, do your chanting, do your energy practices,
do your breathing and at least say that, ‘If it is a garbage dump, there's at least one
flower in that dump.
I see the flower in that dump, I see the goodness that God has given to me.’
And then they begin to focus on that flower, focus on that goodness that, ‘God gave me
breath, God gave me eyesight, God gave me many things.
These are the flowers of my existence.’
Don't think about everything bad but think about you're not blind coming here then how
difficult would it be to find this center and that you're not crippled and you have
no two legs to get to the center, that you don't have a tongue to eat and to swallow.
Means there's always a way to find a flower within it.
And if we can find that flower, focused on it and then turn that flower in an entire
garden and that becomes then the ability to change the narrative that's being sent to
you.
That's what we said that they are attacked, awliya are attacked in their seclusions by
energies and the energies come what we described before like rats.
They sit and meditate and God releases a negative energy of their character and the devils that
are in the seclusion with them to train them, the nefarious beings that are under God's
control, makes that negative energy like a rat and begin to attack them.
And through their training that they've been trained with their shaykhs, the shaykh comes
into their heart with the firmness that: ‘Control your mind!
Means, bring your faith back.
Allah’s (AJ) with you, God's with you.
Control your mind.
These are not rats, these are not rats.
They're angels.’
And begin to change your perception of what's coming to you as an energy, make it to be
positive.
Say that, ‘I’m feeling, I’m feeling even the things are like touching my skin.’
Because everything is going to be like an optical illusion in your seclusion and many
people have graphic dreams like that.
And they say, ‘Change the narrative that those feelings are the wings of angels playing
with you.’
And then your mind, your heart begins to push your mind to flip it in a different way.
Then that servant now has a strong heart of faith that can control what his mind is seeing,
control what's coming to his mind and whatever narrative shaitan (satan) is trying to put
upon them and change them.
Because we said shaitan is not coming into your heart, he doesn't have access to your
heart.
Evilness has access to your head because your head is like a television screen, anybody
can hijack it.
There's no lock on your head.
At night he just come tap your head and begin to send you all sorts of dreams.
Because they're energy beings, they just come tap you and you're dreaming all sorts of left
and right issues.
So means then they can control what you're thinking.
So our life is about – keep it positive, keep it loving, focus on the flower and say,
‘Ya Rabbi thank You, thank You, thank You for this beatific flower.’
And when you're thankful God opens your ability to see the whole thing is a garden and there's
maybe one piece of trash I'll take that and throw that out but my life is a garden and
it's beatific.
And that's what the world is missing now.
Everybody down, gossiping, backbiting and every type of negativity like an ocean, a
black wave of a cloud of ocean that take and wash everybody away in the immensity of negativities.
We pray that Allah (AJ) strengthen the heart and grant us to see the beauty of the garden
He's given to us and to turn our whole life into that beatific garden, inshaAllah.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.