Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil ‘aalameen, was salaatu was salaam Ashraful Mursaleen, Sayyidina wa
Mawlana Muhammadul Mustafa ﷺ. Bi madadikum wa nazarekum Sayyidi ya Rasulul Kareem (The
Most Generous Messenger), Ya Habibul ‘Azim (The Beloved of the Magnificent).
Ana abdukal 'ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim, wa jahl, but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that
we are still in existence.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
“Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.”
Alhamdulillah that Allah (AJ) gave us a life inshaAllah to which to see the opening of
the holy month of Dhul Hajj inshaAllah coming in Sunday, Monday, depending upon when they
call for the hajj (pilgrimage) and inshaAllah Allah (AJ) dress us from its realities bless
us from its realities.
Ten of the holiest days of our year long journey into Divinely Presence and the reality of
completion and the journey of completion in which it's a journey towards the Divinely
Presence completing the one year of moving into that reality and dressing and asking
Allah (AJ) to dress us and bless us and each of the tajallis (manifestations) of each month
to dress us and bless us into the depth and the heart of Divine realities into the heart
of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
And alhamdulillah that Allah (AJ) dress the reality of the hajj, and that the heart is
the Ka’bah and that everything that we're asking to do on the outside Allah (AJ) reminding
us that the greater reality lies within the servant.
As an external reminder for all creation they look towards the outside goal and ask that
one day ‘Ya Rabi prepare us to be able to make our hajj, the physical hajj’ and a
result of having such a coordinates then the servant will busy themselves in the preparation
for the hajj.
That the reason the usool (principles) is there is to give somebody a point of reference
- that our religion our path requires that we try if Allah (AJ) gives us a mean to…
means in which to make the hajj.
So then our life is in preparation for that hajj that - I want to go to the holy house,
I want to go to the holy locations, I want to go through all of the rituals of hajj,
and it's supposed to motivate the servants to prepare themself, to purify themselves,
to prepare their inner condition, outer condition to the extent of their belief and understanding
and Allah’s (AJ) great ni’mat - great blessings, great gift is when He teaches the
servant and guides them towards the turuqs and spiritual path in which they open for
us an understanding that the greater hajj is inside.
The greatest hajj is within the Ka’bah that lies within the chest of mankind - the house
of Allah (AJ) in which Allah (AJ) built.
The external house in which men put together the bricks and stones and Allah (AJ) sanctified
that house with al-Hajar al Aswad (The Black Stone) - a heavenly stone from paradise and
its depth of its reality, but the house in which Allah (AJ) built and continues to build
every time a creation of Bani Adam (Children of Adam) is created and brought into existence
- Allah (AJ) built that house.
Allah (AJ) built the reality by His two Divinely Hands, His qudra and His power built the heart
of that servant and within that servant Allah (AJ) blew from His Divinely power and gave
that servant life.
The immensity of that hajj and the immensity of that Ka’bah is nowhere in comparison,
nowhere in comparison to the external form.
That which Allah (AJ) created from His two Hands and “Wa laqad karramna bani adam”
that Allah (AJ) from ayatul kareem (the generous verse of Holy Qur'an) describes that ‘We
have honoured your creation - the creation of Adam and Eve.’
And because of that honour is the understanding is that Allah (AJ) is fashioning the heart
of that servant, the entire being of that servant, Allah (AJ) breathes into from a Divine
breath to give that servant life - that is something that you can't even compare.
That this is one that Allah (AJ) made and breathed into it, gave it a Divine gift of
life and the immensity of what it's able to achieve, then the turuqs (spiritual paths)
come and teach - then perform your inner Ka’bah your inner hajj, and your whole life is and
that's why every year in Muharram is the beginning we step with our right foot asking ‘Ya Rabbi
this is my hijrah (migration) towards your Divine presence if I should have a life in
which to reach the last and the twelfth month - the month of hajj, alhamdulillah.
Even if I don't I’m making intention to reach to that reality.’
And then that becomes a whole inner path of preparing for the hajj.
The Muharram is that I want in that year Ya Rabbi to live a life of no haram (forbidden),
no badness, no things that to oppose You and come against what You are in favour of and
let my life to be clean so that I begin the preparation of my inner Ka’bah, my inner
reality and that your Divinely Presence to reside within my heart.
We said that with the outside Ka’bah what makes the Ka’bah holy are not the bricks
but that has to do with the reality of the soul of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ which is present
in that Ka’bah.
That the arwah and just the reality from the soul of Prophet ﷺ is located in the physical
Ka’bah and as a result nabiyeen (Prophets), all nabiyeen are coming with Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ, “…Siddiqeen, Shuhadayi was Saliheen,” all… all the souls whom Allah (AJ) gave
that rank and those titles they all want to be with Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
So the reality of the physical hajj is a hijrah, that all these souls are asking in the time
of Dhul Hajj that, ‘Ya Rabbi let our souls to be with our most beloved, let our souls
to be in the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ in the holy precincts, in the presence
of that reality.’
And as a result of the soul of Prophet ﷺ in Mecca and in the Ka’bah, in the reality
of the “Nabiyeen, Siddiqeen, Shuhadayi was Saliheen,” as a result of that holiness
that Allah (AJ) will bring every Dhul Hajj He ordered mankind to come to take the benefit
of that association, the benefit of that eternal reality that has happened from all of eternity.
It's not because they're coming, it's because the souls of those pious people are there
Allah (AJ) then ordered for all others, ‘Make your hajj’ for if one day you should be
able to enter into those precincts into that reality that you'll be dressed by the soul
of “Nabiyeen, Siddiqeen, Shuhadayi was Saliheen ,” and Allah (AJ) says ‘This is the best
of company and Allah (AJ) Divinely lights are with them.’
As a result of the barakah (blessing) of that center, Allah (AJ) asking for all of creation,
‘Come, come to that reality to be dressed by that, to be blessed by that.’
Allah (AJ) continues, that's why we started by saying that this is a ni’mat (blessing),
Allah (AJ) wants more than anything that we always seek out immense blessings, Allah (AJ)
doesn't want to hide these blessings, as a result of that reality Allah’s (AJ) inspiring
‘Go, go for the hajj, go for this this blessing that this souls you don't understand what
they're going to be dressed with, what I’m going to be blessing them with.’
As soon as hujjaj enter into these areas they're being dressed by the lights not by the activities
that they're doing, not you going seven times you made Allah (AJ) so miraculously happy
that you've gone seven circles better than anyone can go seven circles, it's like people
think they've got a big accomplishment now they go with the go-kart back and forth through
Safa and Marwah ‘Woo, woo, woo’ [go-cart moving sounds] back and forth [shaykh laughs].
This not our action, it's not the action that we're achieving something in hajj but what
Allah (AJ) is sending of realities there, Allah (AJ) is then teaching then ‘Go, go
seven times so that each time you go “Nabiyeen, Siddiqeen, Shuhadayi was Saliheen” - they
dress you from your reality and what those realities are of every layer of what they're
achieving, what's the reality of the Safa and Marwah and opening of the Divine fountains
of inspirations and realities within the heart.’
All the Jamarat (three stone pillars) all the things that we've talked about and we
have in the book ‘The Secrets of Hajj’ all of those because of the blessings and
the immense realities Allah (AJ) then gives us ‘Go and imitate.’
Turuqs come and teach us that - we are merely imitating that's why we start off by saying
‘Ana abdukal 'ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim, wa jahl.
That Ya Rabbi I’m nothing and just by my active imitation and because of the act of
love that I have for this reality dress me, dress me and bless me from this reality not
for anything I think I am or anything I think I’ve done or I’ve accomplished, I’ve
accomplished nothing Ya Rabbi, I’m asking only for my love for the love of Your Divinely
Presence, love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and I’m imitating my shaykhs and my teachers
who have taught me.’
And as a result of moving with that imitation Allah (AJ) dresses and blesses from this realities
and it's haqqaiqs, not from what we think we achieve with our frail and small physicality.
Then the inner reality imagine, if that's the haqqaiqs (realities) or understanding
- some
of the understandings of the realities of the external, imagine then what insan (mankind)
is capable of as a gift from Divinely Presence.
When they take up the tariqahs (spiritual path) and Allah (AJ) inspire them to take
your path serious, take your path with all its realities and every… everything that
you want to accomplish one day you may figure out after 20 years or 15 years of accompanying
these people of what this reality truly is, and did you take advantage of that 10 years,
15 years, some 25 years, some 30 years people have accompanied shaykhs.
Did you take advantage of these realities?
And then one day it comes to them the understandings of those realities, for insan to accomplish
what Allah (AJ) wants them to accomplish means their heart become filled with the reality
of the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
That's why we're saying now the heart is much more powerful than the external Ka'bah - the
heart in which Allah (AJ) built.
When awliyaullah (saints) begin to fill your heart with the love of nabiyeen, then they
fill your heart with the love of siddiqeen (truthful), and they fill your heart with
love of shuhada (witnesses), and Allah (AJ) allow them to make you from saliheen (righteous),
that Allah (AJ) raise the status of that servant because they have the immense love of Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ, they have the immense love of all the Siddiqs - all the truthful servants
whom are truthful with their deed and with their actions, and Allah (AJ) made their whole
life to be surrounded by shuhada - the people of mushahadah whom their hearts are open,
they can't sit and they can't stand anyone whose heart is not open that's why they don't
listen to other people, they don't watch other shows, they don't read other people's books,
if whatever that person is teaching and their heart didn't open well if it didn't work for
them what it’s going to work for me - just wasting my time.
So this ni’mat and blessing that Allah (AJ) gave, that eat from the table of those whom
their hearts are open because they have this category of the love of nabiyeen, love of
siddiqeen, love of shuhada, as a result of being with open-hearted people they're taught
ilm e Laduni wa hikmati bis Saliheen (Divinely Knowledge and Wisdom of the Righteous), and
as a result of the knowledge and the food they eat of wisdoms of haqqaiqs, no doubt
the knowledge enters into their soul - their small but sincere actions raise their status
to be saliheen and Allah (AJ) inshaAllah dress them to be saliheen and as a result their
hearts are being dressed by the reflection of that reality.
So then when we understood awliyaullah - they are the reflections of the Ka’bah and they
are the walking living Ka’bahs upon this earth, that their heart is filled with that
reality of the holy Ka’bah.
We say ‘What makes that Ka’bah holy on Dhul Hajj?’
Is the presence of nabiyeen and because of that all siddiqeen are coming, all shuhada
are going, all saliheen are present.
124,000 of each of those categories are present in the Ka’bah that's why Dhul Hajj becomes
holy because the immensity of the lights and these lights then “Mubashshiran” are dressing
anyone who's in that vicinity or even flew in for that intention or from a distance made
that intention, that's why they teach us - make your intention for Dhul Hajj regardless if
you're physically going to be there or not, that we're intending to make hajj this year
and everyone is intending, we made intention for 12 months to reach to this hajj we didn't
make the intention last week, we made the intention in Muharram, ‘Give us the twelve
months Ya Rabbi of a hijrah into your Divinely Presence,’ we've been walking through this
desert for 12 months into this haqqaiq so that to be dressed from that.
So awliyaullah are the living Ka’bah and that's why they are called ‘Ka’bahs’
and ‘Qibla.’
‘Qibla’ (direction of prayer) because you don't pray to them but when you accompany
them, follow them, listen to them, learn from them - they give you a sense of purpose and
direction in your religion, without it you have no idea where's Allah (AJ), where's Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ, you'll be spinning in a desert not understanding where you're headed to.
As a result they are a very firm direction, they are representation of Allah’s (AJ)
Divinely Presence and the love and presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
As a result of that love - nabiyeen are in their heart, siddqeen are in their heart,
shuhada in their heart giving faiz (downpouring blessings) and direction to them and saliheen
are all around them – the arwah (souls) of saliheen are continuously accompanying
them, as a result of that they are the realities of the Ka'bah, they are the walking and living
Ka’bahs upon this earth and which Allah (AJ) by means of their souls send blessings
and dressings and immense illuminations and lights upon this earth.
That's why they describe that Allah (AJ) through this reality keeps the deen (religion) alive
- through the reality of these awliyaullah it keeps Islam alive, keeps Islam fresh and
continuously rejuvenating the soul because tariqahs are the soul of Islam, Islam is merely
the body but the tariqah is the faith and the soul of Islam and the two together if
we follow the turuqs they open for us Maqamul Ihsan (Station of Moral Excellence) and the
stations of perfection.
We pray that Allah (AJ) to dress us from these holy nights and prepare us for the arrival
of Dhul Hajj, that we waited 12 months to get to its door and to its threshold.
May Allah (AJ) complete His ni’mat for this year upon our souls, upon our family and our
communities for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, for the sake of all Ahlul Bayt (holy
family of Prophet ﷺ), for the sake of all Ashab an Nabi ﷺ (holy companions of Prophet
ﷺ), for the sake of all awliyaullah fis samayi wa fil ard (in the heavens and on earth)
Ya Rabbi.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.