00:00I'm asking you to take advantage of the atmosphere here in Montreal.
00:10We're happy here, saying it's a spiritual power center.
00:22There is, Sheikh Hashem used to say there's Aulia who are stationed here always.
00:30A certain number, I forgot if he said five or seven, I don't know.
00:37When one goes, one has to come to take his place until he goes and the other one comes, until he comes back and the other one resumes his place.
00:46And they carry out Allah's commands looking after this huge continent.
00:54Allahumma sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, so wide is Allah's birth.
01:05So wide.
01:07We're used to looking at a map and seeing east and west.
01:12People are now graving.
01:12There's also north and south, so many thousands of miles to the north, into uncharted waters.
01:24I met somebody today, she's a nurse.
01:34She got a new job in a place I couldn't pronounce it.
01:39You have to take two planes north of Montreal to get there.
01:44You go north two hours and take another flight and you go another.
01:48They were far, far, far up to the north, north of Hudson Bay, out towards the open ocean.
01:58Among Inuit, Eskimo, Native American tribes.
02:03They never drove them out from their territory because no one can live up there.
02:10So in this vast territory.
02:13There's no road to go there.
02:16Only you have to fly in a small plane to get there.
02:21Allahumma sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
02:22Otherwise, so wide is Allah's earth.
02:25Sheikh Nazim used to say,
02:27If you measure, if you're able to measure the earth with a tape measure,
02:32you'll finish, it's such and such.
02:34Go back and measure it again, you'll find it got bigger.
02:38You'll find it got bigger.
02:41Earth is expanding and expanding.
02:44Allahumma sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
02:45Muhammad.
02:47Say it awalina wa al-akhir.
02:49And everything in it.
02:53Allah.
02:55We're nothing.
02:58We're nothing.
02:58Between Allah.
03:02We're nothing.
03:04But through our egos, everyone feels like there's something.
03:09We want to be something.
03:11We want to do something.
03:13Everyone wants to leave his or her mark on this world.
03:19In the end, we're nothing.
03:21I met someone from, before we left for, I'm sure all the day before we left, one lady took shahada.
03:33She was from Santa Cruz.
03:36Dr. Muneer's home.
03:38Near the Pacific Ocean.
03:40By San Francisco.
03:43By Oakland.
03:45Near the giant redwoods.
03:47And then there's the beach and the ocean, the Pacific Ocean.
03:52We went there years ago with Sheikh Nazim.
03:56We passed through the forest of the giant redwoods.
03:59This tree is 10 feet, 15 feet across.
04:02We passed through the forest and went to the beach.
04:09Sheikh Nazim put his foot into the Pacific Ocean.
04:12We wanted to come back.
04:14And he pointed me to the giant redwood trees.
04:19He said, you like it?
04:21He said, no.
04:21He said, yes, he can take it.
04:24What am I going to do with it?
04:25What if really he was the owner of those redwood trees he'd take to us?
04:30What am I going to do with it?
04:33We went to, in Chicago, it was the second or the tallest building, let's say, Sears Tower.
04:43At that time it was Sears, now it's something else.
04:46Kowali Tower, I forget what it's called now.
04:48We went up in the Sears Tower, looking out at everything.
04:54He said, do you like this?
04:55I said, yeah, mashallah.
04:56I said, take it.
04:57What are you going to do with it?
04:59Let's say someone gave you the Sears Tower.
05:01What are you going to do with it?
05:06I met a person.
05:09He recited Hizbubahar 360 times in three days.
05:16He's wearing a haram, fasting, no meat, no milk, no dairy, fasting, reciting 360 times Hizbubahar in three days.
05:29Safar or whatever it was.
05:32He had a sheikh from India.
05:35He called that sheikh afterwards and said,
05:40Sadie, I completed my assignment.
05:43I recited Hizbubahar 360 times in three days.
05:46Wearing only a gram and fasting.
05:49He said, good.
05:50Now you've assembled a huge army of khudam, spirit helpers.
05:59What are you going to do with them?
06:02What?
06:04What we're going to do?
06:07Asking our Lord's pleasure.
06:09Asking our Lord's pleasure.
06:17This tarikat is for the purpose of reaching to Allah's pleasure.
06:22To make him happy with us, the prophet happy with us.
06:26And how are you happy with us?
06:27That we can pass safely from this life to akhira, into Allah's divine presence, to be happy forever.
06:37This is a temporary life.
06:40Very temporary life.
06:42It's not going to last.
06:45Allah said, famous hadith, this world is not worth more than the wing of a mosquito.
06:52And we're fighting over it.
06:55Fighting and posturing and threatening and raising huge armies and asking to blow up everything.
07:02To control this, something not worth the wing of a mosquito.
07:07Or what?
07:08Or what?
07:10No one asking the real target of this life.
07:14We're asking our Lord's pleasure.
07:16And to makshul, b'reda'achim wa t'mon.
07:19You're what we're after.
07:20Your pleasure is what we're after.
07:22Prophet was teaching us like that.
07:25And we're intending to follow him.
07:28Well, the Sheikh Hashem used to say,
07:30Say,
07:31Obey Allah and obey prophets.
07:36Obey those in authority.
07:39It means awliya.
07:41To make you sure.
07:44Awliya, those who know.
07:47If you recite it even one time in a day,
07:49he did it.
07:50It's a huge power through the Holy Quran.
07:54No one knows.
07:57Sheikh Mohideen ibn al-Arabi,
07:59he said,
08:00every group of words in Quran
08:03has a meaning.
08:06It's like a complete ayat in itself.
08:10A meaning Allah intended.
08:12So many endless meanings.
08:13Grand Sheikh said 120,000,
08:1512,000 meanings on every letter.
08:17Who can imagine that?
08:21You can imagine one meaning,
08:24or two meanings,
08:25or three.
08:26And then you finish.
08:2712,000 on every letter.
08:29And then,
08:31you go back and read it again,
08:3212,000 no meanings.
08:34You become
08:35baffled.
08:37What's those 12,000 meanings?
08:44Everything so wide.
08:45Allah's territory is so wide.
08:48His knowledge is so wide and so great.
08:51And we're so small.
08:53So small.
08:55Come to your original size,
08:57Sheikh Hashem said to me.
08:59Come to your original size.
09:02What we're going to do.
09:03We're talking about
09:04the qadr,
09:06the qadr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
09:08destiny and will
09:09of Allah.
09:11Sheikh Mohammed said,
09:11don't talk or you'll harm yourself only.
09:13What can say about it?
09:15He knows.
09:17Sheikh Mohammed was asking
09:18the secret of Allah's will.
09:20He couldn't find it.
09:22Sheikh Mohammed tried to show him something.
09:24He said,
09:25this is something
09:25for Allah's will.
09:27You have to meditate on it
09:29to get the answer.
09:30Sheikh Mohammed said,
09:33human beings
09:34have been granted
09:36mind
09:37to think deeply.
09:41I was here in Montreal
09:43one time with Sheikh Omar.
09:45He had to go get something
09:46at the grocery.
09:48We parked.
09:48He said,
09:49you wait here.
09:50I'll go get something.
09:51Come back out.
09:52Here.
09:53While I'm going,
09:54you listen to this cassette tape.
09:55You put it in the car.
09:56Cassette.
09:57But
09:57Sheikh Mohammed said,
09:59human beings
10:01have been granted
10:02an extraordinary capacity
10:04to think deeply.
10:06To think deeply
10:07about Allah's signs.
10:11There's hadith.
10:12Don't think about Allah.
10:13You can't.
10:14Think about
10:15his names,
10:16his attributes,
10:17and his signs.
10:19Deeply,
10:20deeply,
10:20deeply.
10:21Then you come to understand
10:23something.
10:24Allah puts something
10:25in your heart
10:26for his oneness,
10:27for his greatness.
10:30Even a rock
10:30is enough for us.
10:33A rock from an ocean.
10:35A rock from an endless ocean.
10:38You take a pin
10:39or a needle
10:40dipped in the ocean.
10:42What comes out
10:43from the water
10:43compared to the water
10:45in the ocean,
10:45that's what you get.
10:47That's what you can carry.
10:50You're nothing.
10:50You never did
10:55a true idea
10:56about Allah.
10:59Subhanahu wa ta'ala.
11:02This is the time
11:04to
11:05remember our Lord.
11:07This is
11:08Yom
11:08Leila to Jum'ah.
11:10The blessed night,
11:11the night of Friday.
11:13A night
11:14that will
11:15give some time
11:16to be with him.
11:17What happens
11:20when we recite
11:21our Mounted Book?
11:22They say,
11:23wouldn't it be good
11:24if you could see
11:25his servant standing
11:26and serving him
11:28and say,
11:28oh,
11:29our Lord,
11:30grant us something.
11:31Oh,
11:31our Lord,
11:31grant us your favor.
11:33Grant us your love.
11:35Sheikh Nazem
11:35used to say,
11:36even to sit up
11:36in your bed
11:37for one minute
11:38after midnight
11:40and say,
11:41oh,
11:41my Lord,
11:42I love you.
11:42And grant us
11:43something.
11:46He gives something.
11:48He gives something.
11:50We're asking
11:51that blessings.
11:53Give some time.
11:55Give some time
11:56for him
11:56before this short
11:59life ends.
12:01Before this short
12:02life ends.
12:02Give some time
12:03for him.
12:04Ask Allah,
12:05fill your heart
12:05with his lights,
12:07with his mercy,
12:09with his love.
12:10Leave the light
12:11on there.
12:12Leave the light
12:13on there.
12:13Amen.
12:17His love.
12:22At night,
12:22you can see it
12:23better if the lights
12:24in.
12:25His love
12:26and the love
12:27of prophets
12:27and the love
12:29of Aulia
12:29to put to our hearts
12:31something.
12:33To put to our hearts
12:34something.
12:34One in all the
12:35taufiq.
12:36That would be
12:37a tremendous
12:37factor of you.
12:40To put to your heart
