How may we know what is our destination? How can we know our goal?
Your goal? The destination inshaAllah is Allah (AJ), Allah’s (AJ) satisfaction, rida and
satisfaction and that defined with the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. The goal is always the
same – is to make Allah (AJ) happy, to arrive in paradise. And ‘ashiqeen (lovers) come and
teach that to be in the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and to ask to be in service to
Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is the highest. So, instead of where we’re… ‘Destination,’
it’s ‘What is the purpose of our life.’ What is our role? In each individual person’s role
on if they to reach what would they have promised Allah (AJ) of their role. And that’s why they take
the hand of the tariqah (spiritual path) because that’s the first step in the completion with their
bayat (pledge of allegiance) in the heaven. When Allah (AJ), “Alastu bi Rabbikum? Wa qalo bala.”
‘Am I not your Lord?’ And we all said, ‘Yes’. And we came to earth and then we began to lie.
And Allah (AJ) said, ‘Did you promise that? ‘No, I never promised that?’ ‘Were you going to support
him if you saw him?’ ‘No, I never said I was going to support him.’ ‘Were you going to follow
like this?’ ‘No, I never said this.’ And so the dunya (material world) became the abode of lying.
When we follow the tariqahs, the first step in accomplishing that is that you found the shaykhs.
So as soon as you found the shaykhs, you took your bayat – you took your allegiance
so that to… what the words of the allegiance is that to complete your ahad and your
covenant with Allah (AJ). That’s why in the beginning of our journey is Surah Tawbah
and Surah Tawbah’s all about the covenant in which they promised Allah (AJ), they sold their dunya
and Allah (AJ) bought the… their dunya from them and gave them akhirah (hereafter) in exchange.
And that they came and they completed their bayat and their covenant with Allah (AJ).
How can you complete a covenant with Allah (AJ) if you don’t have the hand of Allah (AJ) with
you? Right? So that bayat is the words are exact. Allah’s (AJ) hand is on the hand of
Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. So then where is your hand in relation to the hand of Prophet ﷺ.
So the bayat is that enacting – is that I want my hand on the hand of the shaykhs, their hand
with the hand of Prophet ﷺ and Allah (AJ) sealing the covenant that His hand is upon all of them for
them to complete their covenant. So it’s the first step. If the people are not in tariqah, how could
they be completing their covenant with Allah (AJ) when their hand not even on the hand of Prophet ﷺ,
so that’s the first step. As soon as they follow the turuqs (spiritual paths) then all
of the teaching is meant to bring the person’s nafs (ego) down and make their connection with
the world of light. As the light begins to enter into the heart you’ll be given more and more of
these lights. With that light you’ll begin to understand what your role in this existence is
and what your purpose is. Your purpose is not the particle and it’s not the seed. It’s like
asking if a bunch of seeds got together and they asked the farmer, ‘What am I?’
All the seeds could speak. Big seed is an avocado, this small seed is rose bush, this seed is a… but
how can a farmer describe to seeds what they are? Because they look at each other and they say,
‘I don’t know what you’re talking about? We’re all just seeds.’ But Allah (AJ) has a miracle for them
that – if they plant themselves, negate themselves, dissolve themself
always something comes more beatific. Anytime you surrender yourself entirely to Allah (AJ),
Allah (AJ) raise you to be more beatific. And He says ‘Look all around you I’m doing that. Why I
would torture you? Every tree was once a seed and look now it’s such a beautiful tree with
thousands of fruits now benefiting everybody but the seed is of no benefit to anyone.’
So we see the signs all around us of what we’re talking about
but insan (mankind) is difficult to deal with because the egos say, ‘No, no not going to be
planted and not going to dissolve. I don’t believe that I’m going to be something more beatific,’
and that becomes the struggle, inshaAllah. As
salaamu alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum as salaam wa rahmatullah
What to do if one feels numbness and harshness of heart?
Numbness and harshness of heart? Making lots of salawats (praises upon Prophet Muhammad ﷺ). Again
the tafakkur – the contemplation because it can be a numbness or anger from the world, from people
and again all of these na’ats (prophetic praisings) and these recitations they’re deep
into that. That, we know from the Farsi poetry’s all about that. That, ‘I see the smiles of
people’s faces but I see a khanjar (knife) behind them. That I see they have a knife behind them.’
And this is their whole understanding of dunya that everybody has a kind word but they’ve got
some knives behind them with a different plan, but we understood that and we don’t much value
in people. Our love and ishq is for Allah (AJ) and our life and service if for Allah’s (AJ) rida and
satisfaction. Try not to serve and do things for people to be happy with you
and to get something back from people because they always disappoint you.
So the lesson in tariqah was always that – what we do, we do for Allah (AJ) then everybody to
their place. When we don’t live our life for the focus of people and then we become
disappointed when they don’t act and react the way we want then life becomes very sad
abode because you put all your chips on the wrong reality. But when you find out later in life that
people they’re not going to change, they are who they are but your love should be for Allah (AJ).
And Allah’s (AJ) love, to gain Allah’s (AJ) love is the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. And as a
result of that correct love, everything else is of a lesser importance and you love them but the love
supreme is for the Divine. Then your actions are for that reality, for Allah’s (AJ) satisfaction.
You think that a shaykh could become a shaykh if he’s asking approval from his family. ‘Oh I think
we’re going to do this. I think we’re going to move here. I think we’re going to build this.’
No, they don’t work with family and they don’t work with a board of directors.
They work for Allah (AJ). They don’t care the family likes it,
they don’t like it. They come, they come. They don’t come, they don’t come.
Because Allah (AJ) says, ‘That life is a fitna (confusion) for you.’
If you’re going to ask them everything, how are you going to achieve what Allah (AJ) wants?
That’s why when you follow the shaykhs, they follow what Allah (AJ) wants. If people want
to come behind and follow, alhamdulillah. If they don’t, they march alone, alhamdulillah. But if you
try to satisfy the lives of people then that’s… that’s a different game because they’re going
to weigh everybody down. They say, ‘No shaykh.’ Have you ever been to these board meetings. ‘We
want to do a Mawlid (celebration of the birthday of Prophet ﷺ).’ 99 percent of these masjids are
board of directors. ‘We want to do a Mawlid.’ ‘Oh well let us ask the board of directors.’
My goodness are they sitting up there with Allah (AJ)? Allah (AJ) ordering us to praise
upon Prophet ﷺ, your board is going to be what, secondary to that? So they meet
in heaven and ask Allah (AJ)? Tariqah’s not like that. What board of directors?
Either is a zalim (oppressor) person and he says, ‘No.’ Or he’s rightly guided and says,
‘Definitely we do the Mawlid.’ So means life can’t be based on asking the consensus of people,
so you didn’t much weight into that. So the tariqah’s about building your connection.
When your connection is there, the faiz (downpouring blessings) is there then,
“Sam’ina wa ata’na” that, ‘We heard the command and we are following it.’
Who follows, follows. Who doesn’t follow then alhamdulillah
whether friend or foe or family, doesn’t make a difference for them, inshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum ya Sayyidi Walaykum as salaam wa rahmatullah
How to be able to connect with the shaykh without creating a false imaginative bond?
Keeping the adab (manners), that you keep your adab. That this is not about love,
this is not about any sort of bizarre understanding. This is about an adab in which to
sit with all respect that, ‘Fill my heart with your light and that my bad character I want to
take a hisaab (account). These are the bad things that I’m doing.’ And don’t ask to see the face,
just feel that you’re in that presence and that ‘Please send your faiz and your light into my
heart, please fill your… my heart with light.’ So as you’re doing that, you’re keeping that adab
and then you keep the adab of the difference in the separation of the character.
So because the connection’s strong with the shaykh, I don’t joke around with the shaykh.
That spiritual connection was a spiritual connection. All my life was then to keep the adab
of the relationship with the shaykh and never to cross that boundary. So means all of this reality
is based on a… is based on etiquette. And what type of etiquette we keep so that shaitan (satan)
doesn’t play in our mind. And as a result, we keep practicing, practicing, and then see if we
have the good character. Are we controlling the anger? Then this faiz is real. Are we supporting
and the support. Somebody says, ‘Oh I don’t have money to donate, I don’t have money to donate.’
You have a finger. So this is not about that but if you’re making a lot of money then you owe a lot
of support. But the people who are not making it, everyone can support. You have a finger, take your
finger on the website, go to one of the articles, say ‘share’ and then share it onto Facebook.
Go and find where there’s a big group on Whatsapp and share into the Whatsapp group.
Go into Telegram and there’s groups with 30,000 people, join them… [someone sneezes] Haq (truth)…
and start sharing the shaykhs videos. They may ban you and throw you out [shaykh laughs].
Right? But everybody has a finger, there’s no way that some…
When Prophet ﷺ was preparing for battle, they were getting their horses and armory and they
were coming to Prophet ﷺ and say, ‘We don’t have, we don’t have money for armory and for a horse.’
Said ﷺ, ‘It doesn’t matter. Come with whatever you have.’ And then the companions who were wealthy,
they were jumping in and buying them all their armory. But there was no one have excuse say,
‘Sorry I can’t join you this week, I got no shoes.’ No. There was a responsibility
somebody else to buy the shoes and then they all moved and that was frightening for people
because they had such a love and ishq for Prophet ﷺ. So imagine now if you have a thousand… this
broadcast is at 350 people, immediately jumps up to 2000 once everybody starts waking up.
2000 people sharing the stream on 2000 different platforms means hundreds of thousands of people
will see that Muhammadan haqqaiq (reality), that zikr (Divine remembrance), that association.
So there’s so many ways, is just people have to have a want to get up, support, make their
faith to be real, to be active, to participate. That’s a sign of love, that was last night’s talk.
That when you say you love something but yet we don’t do anything for it – that’s
not much about love. Love is something that you… you live, die, blood and sweat for,
inshaAllah. As salaamu alaykum ya Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam wa rahmatullah Sayyidi we are in Pakistan. Sometime we watch the
broadcast in the evening. Is watching later the same as watching live for barakah (blessings)?
Sure, no problem. Their reality is timeless. That’s why you have ‘Timeless Reality’ [book].
If you read that, you understand that what they’re talking about
is not bound by time. We described… was it live or we talking ourselves?
That what was the voice that the companions heard of the voice of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. You
know why you can’t hear Prophet ﷺ? Because your soul doesn’t have the ability to contain that.
With what power, you’re talking about the one whom speaks Qur’an
from Allah’s (AJ) uncreated oceans, you don’t have the ability to even hear the voice of Prophet ﷺ.
Then imagine these awliya (saints) whom are immensely connected to that reality
that their entire light was transferred into that reality. Sultanul Awliya (King of Saints). So if
you listen to Shaykh Daghestani’s (Q) voice, what type of power does that have? You know that we
have on YouTube, we have Shaykh Daghestani’s (Q) voice talking and you just keep listening to it
and meditating, listening to it. Then there’s thousands of hours of Shaykh Nazim’s (Q) voice
whom immensely powerful, the secret of Allah’s (AJ) rahmah (mercy). You know the one whom in
seclusions and the face of Prophet ﷺ upon this dunya. And then you sit and meditate and hear
the sound. That sound its vibration into your soul can’t be two, can’t be understood, there’s nothing
like it. Just from the sound of it continuously emanating within your ears and within your soul.
Means they have no time. These are not a timed reality. When you watch and hear from these
teachings and the teachings of the shaykhs, they are timeless. They have an energy that
continuously moving. Whether you click now, you click ten years from now, you click ten minutes
from now that energy is there. And you want to always watch at a time in which you’re conscious,
everything’s okay. If it’s too late for you and it’s like two in the morning you’re passing out
but you’re not conscious of what’s being taught, you’re not conscious of what’s being said
then better rest and watch it when you’re nice, you have your coffee, you’re ready to go.
Put some nice headphones. We said you want to really experience the tariqah and the zikr,
get yourself a nice headphone and as a result of putting a headphone you don’t hear all the
screaming, the background, all the agitation in the house. Put your headphones on and you listen.
And you meditate that, ‘My heart is there right now in that association regardless of the time.’
Means you can listen to Shaykh Nazim (Q) he’s in… ‘Where does he look? Oh look he looks there. And
close my eyes and see myself right in the middle of that association looking at him
and meditating to his speech and that he’s talking to me,’ inevitably you’ll begin to see Shaykh
Nazim (Q) in front of you. Their power is immense. The power that Allah (AJ) gave to them is immense.
So the vibration of his sound is now moving into you, moving into you. You hear his mannerisms and
how he talks, his lehja – his accent and how he talks, you hear it. You understand
it. So when you’re listening to the suhbats (discourses) then in your dreams or in other
vision that may come to you, you begin to hear him speaking to you with his accent. Yeah, means now
they’re facilitating a connection into your soul and into your being to dress you and to bless you.
So imagine then what Sahabi (Holy Companions of Prophet ﷺ) were dressed with because they could
hear Prophet ﷺ. So means then Allah (AJ) left these as an immense barakah upon this earth.
To hear their speech, to follow these realities, to be dressed by their realities.
There are no two like it. Its dress is very unique, its reality is immensely unique and all to
draw us to the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa
salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi rabbil ‘aalameen. Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi
siri
Surat al-Fatiha.