“Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.”
“Wa Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.”
And always a reminder for myself ana abdukal 'ajeezu, dayeefu, miskinu, zhalim, wa jahl,
and but for the grace of Allah (AJ) that we are still in existence.
Alhamdulillah that Allah (AJ) grant us a life in which to see these holy nights and the
blessings of holy months, we pray that Allah (AJ) grant us to be in the lights of the holy
month of Sha’ban opening inshaAllah tomorrow night, tonight, whenever it's going to open
in Madinatul Munawwara (luminous city of Prophet ﷺ) in the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ.
And alhamdulillah that, that is the month for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and if Sha’ban
is the birth of a light “Subhana man huwal Khaliq anNur” and the Rajab is the birth
of that light and Allah (AJ) wanting to be known then what will be known is the reality
of the month of Sha’ban, this is the manifestation of the Nurul Muhammadi ﷺ (Light of Prophet
Muhammad ﷺ).
And alhamdulillah the midnight, the midpoint of the month – Nisf e Sha’ban (Mid Shaban),
the immensity of what Allah (AJ) writes upon that soul that contains all souls and whatever
is destined and what's written upon that soul is what we call the Night of Bara’ah - the
Night of Forgiveness, the Night of Blessings because of what Allah (AJ) going to decree
on that ocean of creation known as Muhammadun Rasulallah ﷺ.
That soul - the universal soul in which Allah (AJ) will decree and write, write what's coming
to the servant, who comes, who goes from this creation, what comes into this existence,
what leaves this existence - the Night of Decree in which everything is written, night
of immense blessings that Allah (AJ) dressing and blessing from the realities of Holy Qur’an
upon the soul.
And Laylatul Mahdi (as) that also has to do with the birth and the secret of Sayyidina
Mahdi (as) and a special meeting always in Shab e Bara'ah (the Night of Salvation) with
Sayyidina Mahdi (as) and inspiring the souls that have that ishq and the love for his presence
to receive a guidance, isharat (sign) and lights and blessings upon their soul for the
coming year.
In this year that seems to have started off with a bang, that looked like the opening
of Armageddon and the opening of extreme difficulties of what is happening with Bani Asfar and the
prophecies of that nation and the difficulties that are opening as a result of these conflicts
that are difficult to put down once they've opened that door and open that issue it's
difficult to resolve and bring back to normal.
So alhamdulillah part of faith is to believe that inshaAllah these are the signs that Sayyidina
Muhammad ﷺ had given for us to watch for and to live our lives to be prepared for.
We pray that Allah (AJ) grant us that preparedness with our faith and with our homes and with
our families and with our communities and to live a life of preparedness.
For people to have supplies within their homes, provisions within their homes, that to have
given their charity, given their service, doing everything in perfection for the meeting
with their Lord.
That Allah (AJ) to be pleased with them and that the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ to
be pleased with them and when the believer has that level of satisfaction within their
heart that, ‘I've tried my best Ya Rabbi to complete my deen (religion), to fulfill
my promise.
There… that inspire me where I’m coming short’ and in the end to sleep in a state
of peace that whatever Allah (AJ) is decreed then Allah (AJ) has decreed.
But the nights in the next few nights drawing up to this Nisf e Sha’ban is the nights
of our good character, good deeds, that ‘Ya Rabbi fulfill for me anything that I have
done wrong let me to fulfill and to make a ransom for it,’ these are the nights of
qurban (sacrifice) and the immensity of the qurban that Allah (AJ) take the burden from
insan (mankind) and put upon that burden and that difficulty upon that qurban.
And the reality of what a qurban carries of the difficulties from the one whom is giving
that nazr and giving that offering and Allah (AJ) then takes the satisfaction in the distribution
of the meat to the poor and to the needy.
Means these are all the opportunities that Allah (AJ) gives to us to recompense for our
character, to make sure everything is to be clean, everything is to be perfected and then
these are the immense blessings that Allah (AJ) wants the nation of Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ to succeed.
And on the third, fourth and fifth is the sort of superpower wiladat and birthdays of
Imam al…
I believe it's Imam Zain ul ‘Abideen (as), Imam Abbas (as) and Imam al-Hussain (as),
their births and the celebration of their birth and the immensity of the reality of
Imam al-Hussain (as), Sayyidina Abbas (as) that served in the battles of Karbala and
Sayyidina Imam Zain ul ‘Abideen (as) – As-Sajjad that survived the calamities of Karbala to
carry the light of Ahlul Bayt (Holy Family of Prophet ﷺ) and the wilayat (sainthood)
and the secret that the Ahlul Bayt carry and he carried that secret within his heart and
survived those hardships.
We pray that Allah (AJ) dress us from these third, fourth and fifth of Sha’ban which
I think will be coming so we would probably celebrate them on the fifth for our zikr (Divine
remembrance) and that would be the Thursday, Friday on that weekend the next weekend inshaAllah
we’ll celebrate the wiladat and the birth of Imam al-Hussain (as), Imam Zain ul ‘Abideen
(as) - Imam as-Sajjad (as) inshaAllah.
And Allah (AJ) dress us from these blessed, blessed nights and blessings and by means
of these blessings to save us and write good for us Ya Rabbi, write that Your rida and
satisfaction to be upon us, our families and all our loved ones and community 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.