No matter the wealth of the person, that when they leave this world they take nothing with
them.
Their wealth can't buy any door or any access, their relatives can't do anything, their property
can't do anything, only the relationship and the faith that you established upon this earth
towards the hereafter.
Means the strongest relationship and the strongest love for anything in creation has to be the
love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
That the one to accompany you into the grave and into the abodes of difficulty, through
the holy hadith of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, ‘You’ll be with whom you love.’
That in the depth of that hadees and all of its knowledges and realities and in one of
its realities is that who will be your companion in the grave?
Not the wealth that you brought, not the family that you have, not the possessions, the degrees,
not the colleagues and the friends - none of them can help you when that day comes and
you have to enter into that box, into the dirt and they throw the dirt upon you, and
all that difficulty in the process of entering to that dirt.
That who can intercede for you, who can be the companion through your difficulties and
your trial and your tribulation?
That Allah (AJ) gives to us that gift, ‘I would not have sent, I would not have sent…’
- it starts by a negation that Allah (AJ) say, ‘I would not have sent this reality
but it's a mercy to mankind.
That the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ is an immense rahmah - an immense mercy and
awliyaullah (saints) come into our life and the fortunate gift that they have given, that
when you attend funerals and you attend moments of difficulty in people's lives you understand
what Allah (AJ) has given as a gift.
To the left of you, to the right of you they don't have that gift, they weren't given that
gift, they don't understand the importance of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
And if Allah (AJ) gives to you that gift to understand it, He's given you an immense relief,
immense relief.
Means that neither fear nor grieve for the station of awliyaullah, those whom they are
Allah (AJ) loves them and the secret of why Allah (AJ) loves them - because they love
Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
We never met one of them that didn't have that immense love, Allah (AJ) doesn't love
them because He loves them, Allah’s (AJ) love for them is because they have an immense
love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
And as a result their character is sweet, their akhlaaq and their… the goodness of
their character, and that Prophet ﷺ perfumes and fragrances them with what Allah (AJ) is
pleased with, because ‘You’ll be with whom you love.’
When you love the one whom Allah (AJ) loves, He dresses you, He blesses you, He teaches
you the good and pushes in your heart ‘Abstain from the bad!’
And beautifies you by just that perfection and that reality.
As a result they have a sakinah and a tranquillity within the heart.
They see the sadness of people and the difficulty of death and there's no relief for that one,
nothing, nothing can help them except this love.
This love if you don't feel it when you're alive you won't even understand it when you're
dead unless, unless Allah (AJ) gives you to the hand of awliyaullah who will come into
the grave and sit with you, their soul.
But if we didn't reach that level then what Allah (AJ) want from us is - then accompany
them and learn.
When you learn and take their teaching with your heart and sincerity and that I want that
love, I want that ishq, and that every time I’m reciting these nasheeds (songs of praise),
I’m sitting at the grave and the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, say ‘Ya Rasulul
Kareem (The Most Generous Messenger), Ya Habibul ‘Azim (The Beloved of the Magnificent),
in my time of need and difficulty don't leave me to myself, don't leave me to be in difficulty.
I spent my days and nights to make you happy.’
With that tranquillity in the heart and sincerity, they feel that love, they feel that presence
and the immensity of that gift.
Then we understand the one whom is faced with that difficulty, who's going to be with them
when they're in their dying state of life?
You enter into a dying state and sickness and difficulty coming, it's all your training,
what you trained all your life for.
You can scream, ‘Allah (AJ)’ as much as you want, nothing going to happen.
Scream out as much as you want, ‘Allah (AJ)’ because Allah (AJ) is going to ask, ‘How
come I don't hear you screaming out about Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.’
That will be its own test.
For the servant to understand those whom were trained and understood say, ‘Ya Rabbi there's
no way to Your door except through the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
That all my life and my living days were in that love.’
Imagine in your last breath when you're sick on a bed and in difficulty all you can think
of is the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Say, ‘Ya Rasulul Kareem, unzur halana wa ishfa'lana (gaze upon my condition and intercede
for me), ishfa'lana (intercede for me).
Take away a difficulty.’
And the sweetness of that presence, the fragrance of that presence and the intercession, because
once you call upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ what Allah (AJ) says?
‘I'm with nabiyeen (prophets).’
But when you don't have the adab (manners) to call upon the way Allah (AJ) wants you
to call Allah (AJ) say, ‘Why are you calling upon Me alone?
Didn't you learn in your living life you have to be with nabiyeen, siddiqeen (truthful),
shuhadayi (witnesses) was-saliheen (and the righteous).
Be with them and they should be around you.’
Because you can see at the grave and the station of death that who that person was, are they
surrounded by saliheen?
Remember, it's like a Ka'bah.
You can tell the state of death when you see the person do they have the presence of nabiyeen?
Because if they were ‘ashiqeen (lovers) they're continuously calling upon Prophet
ﷺ through their difficulty.
That ‘Ease this pain of death, this tribulation, bring sakinah (tranquillity) and peace into
the hearts of those whom are around me,’ because the suffering of those around you
causing a suffering for the one who is dying.
That when they’re ‘ashiqeen they’re in continuous love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ
- nabiyeen.
If they were guided then all their shaykhs are connected to siddiqeen, their connection
is with Imam Ali (as), Sayyidina Abu Bakr as Siddiq (as) because they’re all Ahlul
Turuq (People of Spiritual Path), Ahlul Haqqaiq (People of Realities).
So means then those siddiqeens are around that person because of the love of Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ, they come to support and to help.
All the shuhada of that one in their life will be around them in their grave also making
it to be easy the difficulty and the pains of death.
And saliheen - means those whom they kept and ate and drank and prayed with, they should
be from amongst the righteous people and their death then surrounded by righteous people.
But now you see people just dunya (material world) and then more dunya people and more
dunya people and they don't care how they're going to treat the body, they're not connected
to any nabiyeen, they have no idea who are saliheen or siddiqeen or shuhada - and that
is a great calamity.
And the great gift of faith and the great gift of love and ishq that Allah (AJ) gives
of guidance it won't be understood until you die, it won't be understood fully until you're
about to die.
And you can die alone somewhere in the woods it doesn't matter for Allah (AJ), you still
be with nabiyeen, all the ruhani (spiritual) will be with there if you are ‘ashiqeen.
Nabiyeen will be there, siddiqeen will be there, shuhada will be there and all saliheen
from unseen will be surrounding that servant - that's the immensity of this love and the
great gift of this Divinely love.
But people are heedless with the attraction to dunya and they don't hold a value for it.
So alhamdulillah if we find ourselves listening to these types of associations, participating
in these types of associations - it's an immense gift, an eternal gift, to have that love and
to depart this world with that love and with that ishq.
We pray that Allah (AJ) grant us that love, surround us with the love of Allah (AJ), surround
us with the love of nabiyeen, siddiqeen , shuhadayi was saliheen - whom Allah (AJ) says, ‘That's
the best of company.’
If your company is like that you're like a Ka’bah and Allah (AJ) is with you.
We pray that Allah (AJ) dress us and bless us and that to continue to guide us towards
this immense love and this immense ishq of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and that love actually
is the reflection of the love to Allah (AJ) because it's the perfection and the mirror.
The one whom we love is an immense reality and reflection, when we perfect our love with
that reality Allah’s (AJ) Divinely love, “yuhbibkumullah” will begin to dress us
with a Divine love in which all of Allah’s (AJ) created creation will move towards that
servant, inshaAllah.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.