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00:00A'udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem, Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
00:03Aatiullah, Aatiya Rasul wa Ulul Amri Minkum, and that always a reminder from myself to
00:14be nothing.
00:15Wa'ana abdukal ajeezu, da'eefu, miskinu, zalim, jahal.
00:21And by the grace of Allah that He forgives us and continuously showers His rahmah upon
00:29us.
00:30And the rahmah of Allah to know that you are loved by Allah is when He
00:36puts the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ deep into the heart and onto the tongue, onto the
00:43face, the head, the entire being of the servant has a ishq and a love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
00:52And that is the love of Allah , that is the sign of the love of Allah .
00:58When Allah wants you to love what He loves, when someone wants you to love what they love
01:07that's their love for you.
01:10People don't understand because the nafs of people each want to love their own thing.
01:16But if we had no nafs we would understand.
01:21When Allah want to grant His love, His divinely love, His divinely mercy, His divinely grace,
01:30He grants you from what He loves, Allah .
01:34His love is for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, Habibullah.
01:38The beloved of Allah , that beloved love is what we are in search of.
01:47So they reminded us last night and this is the month of the cave, this is the month of
01:52running to the cave, reminding always to run from shaitan, run from bad characteristics,
01:59run from all that is a distraction from Allah .
02:04That which is distracting us from this world, run, run to the cave.
02:10And the reality is of A'uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem, awliyaullah come back and remind
02:16us that where, where are you going to seek refuge in Allah , but we have to
02:21find the refuge where Allah has already granted refuge.
02:26It's not imaginary place to run here, run there, how are you going to find protection
02:32and safety from shaitan and that is what Allah want from us, then enter into that cave.
02:40If you're truly seeking refuge and you truly don't want to play with shaitan and you don't
02:47want shaitan to have his share in your action, in your amals, run to the cave.
02:55And awliyaullah come and teach us that the cave in which Allah inspired Prophet ﷺ
03:02, the cave between Mecca and Medina.
03:11Why Allah inspired Prophet ﷺ as a physical reminder that this is not just a spiritual
03:16teaching, is that Prophet ﷺ ran to the cave before entering the city of lights and took
03:23with himself his beloved, his beloved friend Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq ﷺ and he said
03:30oh shaykh why you say alayhi salam , wa s-salamun hiya hatta mitla al-fajr.
03:36Allah saying salamun hiya hatta mitla al-fajr .
03:40If you pray fajr Allah granting you salams.
03:44You don't think the sahabi kiram have salams?
03:48You think it's maybe Allah be pleased with them?
03:51If Allah may be upon the sahabi we are dead for sure.
03:57Allah's salam , salamat, Allah's infinite rahma upon sahabi kiram, the unored
04:04companions, those who witnessed the beatific face of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and gave their
04:09life and struggling in that reality, no doubt they are of the highest maqam.
04:13And Allah's infinite blessing be upon them that Prophet ﷺ described that any one of
04:20them you follow they are stars on a dark night.
04:23And our whole reality is to reach towards that najmah , to be a star to leave all the
04:29bad characteristics.
04:31Means that they are the ashikin and the reality in which we are trying to seek and enter into
04:36that cave, to enter into that cave to be in the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and
04:43that remind us that in this cave of muhabbat and ishq there are flowers that are growing.
04:54Because when you enter into the cave the whole understanding is like a khalwah.
04:59That you go and you plant yourself into that soil and into that reality, into the soil of
05:05Divinely love.
05:07That's the correct direction of a'uzu, where to run to?
05:12Run to the heart of Prophet ﷺ.
05:14How to run to the heart of Prophet ﷺ, awliyaullah come into our life with durood
05:19al-sharif, lots of durood al-sharif, lots of salawats upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
05:25You see yourself reading salawats, naats, duroods, all these praisings upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
05:34It begin to draw your soul into that presence.
05:38It brings the nazar of Prophet ﷺ upon your presence and that becomes a relationship of
05:45love.
05:46As soon as your soul is moving with that reality to the presence of Prophet ﷺ, you're actually
05:53now running, your soul is now pulling your physicality that we're running now into this
05:58cave.
05:59Because anytime you praise upon Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, you feel yourself drawing closer to
06:06Prophet ﷺ.
06:08That is the only protection from shaitan.
06:12That is the only guidance away from shaitan.
06:15Because there's no way to reach guidance if you're not in the presence of Prophet ﷺ.
06:21Because then shaitan is continuously playing with the servant, distracting the servant,
06:25making them to fall.
06:27So by running into that reality, running into that cave, they begin to teach, this cave and
06:34to go deep into that cave is going to be based on the best of character.
06:39What Allah wants in that cave, the best of character means lose all the badness.
06:47Lose all of the bad characteristics and lose what you thought and what you wanted for yourself
06:55like a seed that you don't know your reality and you think yet you're something.
07:02But those who come to be nothing can understand that reality.
07:07If they already come thinking there's something and they want to put something on top of it
07:12like a crown then it's just a fancy seed.
07:17Some people they paint the seeds or paint the eggs for like holidays.
07:20Yeah, you take a big avocado seed, you paint it and put a crown on top of it, you're still
07:24a seed, you didn't become what Allah wanted you to become.
07:30And any seed we plant in the soil of love, the soil of muhabbat, in the sweetness of love
07:39of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ that soil comes and annihilates the seed.
07:45When it begins to annihilate the seed these are the imtihan in our life.
07:49We've said this in many different ways, say, Shaykh I think I've heard this before about
07:54the soil and the seed but let's do it again in case somebody didn't get it this time.
08:01Because as soon as they have a test they text and call, oh I have a test, I have a test,
08:07somebody bothering me.
08:12When we complain what's happening?
08:16Is that the seed complaining that it doesn't want to be a flower, right?
08:22It's not the flower complaining because the flower reached its reality.
08:27The seed complains, so every time we open, complain, you complain to your spouse, you
08:33complain to your job.
08:35If you're under the usool of tawheed because there are some ahal fiqr they think they know
08:40something about fiqh .
08:43If you're under the usool, the first usool of tawheed then you know everything is on
08:47Allah's hands.
08:49If someone bothers you, Allah sent them to bother you.
08:55Yeah, if you're doing bad that's something else you should be really scared because then
09:00shaitan is also coming after you .
09:03But when you're with Allah , shaitan has no way to reach you because you're with Allah
09:09.
09:10He only allows shaitan to come and play with you and distract you.
09:15But real tawheed that, Ya Rabbi I put my whole life in your hands, nothing comes to me, goes
09:21from me without Allah's permission.
09:24And then if I'm being taught by my shaykhs that everything is under imtihan and I'm to
09:30be a seed thrown into this dirt of muhabbat of Prophet ﷺ.
09:36Because Prophet ﷺ love al-mahi, mimha mimdaal , malik al-hayyat, malik al-dunya, but
09:45the mimha al-mahi.
09:47That Prophet ﷺ's reality is to destroy everything and bring it as a dust into the presence of
09:56Allah .
10:00Then Allah gave the daleel when Nabi Musa said, Ya Rabbi I want to see you, see me?
10:08I send you first to my Rasul, see if you can see him then we talk.
10:14As soon as the light of Prophet ﷺ appeared, Allah said, I sent my glory.
10:21I sent my glory, means Allah describes Prophet ﷺ throughout the Qur'an in beatific words.
10:27I sent that which is beautiful to me, see if you can even see that light.
10:33As soon as the ruhaniyat of Prophet ﷺ appeared, Qashiyah Nabi Musa ﷺ was dead, out, like dust.
10:41But he witnessed through his soul, his physicality couldn't take.
10:45He witnessed as he came back an awwal al-Muslimi, he took his shahadah.
10:50He witnessed what he wanted to witness.
10:52He witnessed the reality and the haqqaiq of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and at that time he
10:57gave his shahadah and came into Islam.
11:00So an awwal al-Muslimi.
11:03But I saw, I saw the reality of Prophet ﷺ and I'm the first of those whom submit myself.
11:09Sayyidina Ibrahim also said the same thing and all the Prophets they wanted to witness
11:17that reality.
11:18Nabi Musa ﷺ witnessed the reality, saw the greatness of that light, comes in to believe
11:26and begin to teach us.
11:30That the highest and the most perfected of love is to witness that reality, that seed.
11:38That it's coming into that ocean to be nothing, it's coming into that soil to be nothing.
11:44All the Prophets when Allah gave their title and gave their condition, they understood that
11:52title is nothing in the presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
11:57So Allah gives to you so that you can take it off and give it back.
12:01Then this is tasleem, this is submission and they submitted to witness the reality of Prophet
12:08ﷺ.
12:09So Ummatul Muhammad ﷺ has even easier when Allah made us from under that flag and all they
12:15ask is then take your seed to be nothing.
12:18So every time we complain it's the seed complaining, oh I'm not really happy with this soil, I'm
12:25not happy with these conditions, I feel like I'm falling apart, I'm being torn to pieces
12:30by the soil and that's the only way that this seed could reach its reality.
12:38If the tests don't come and you pop out of the soil too fast you will always be a seed
12:44and you didn't reach your eternal reality, you die as someone not being eternal.
12:50And awliyaullah come and describe it's like this candle, everyone has a candle in which
12:55Allah gave a light but you have to make and our duty in life is to make this light eternal,
13:03to reach towards our eternity.
13:05If we don't reach to our eternity we had an existence, we burned out and left this world
13:12as if nothing.
13:14Allah's giving an opportunity to reach and become da'een, reach your eternal reality.
13:21Don't think our purpose was to be a seed but was to become a flower.
13:26Riyatul Jannah the association of awliyaullah are gardens of paradise.
13:32Why Allah used the word gardens?
13:34Why awliyaullah used the word gardens?
13:36That Prophet ﷺ taught about gardens because of the soil.
13:41That when you plant yourself in that reality that which you are, Allah will make its beatific
13:48reality to appear.
13:50So look at all the seeds that you buy but look at all of the beautiful flowers that
13:54Allah produces from them.
13:57And what fragrance they give when the sunshine begins to shine upon them, means their sweetness
14:03comes out, if that reality begins to appear and these awliyaullah they appear as roses.
14:11That's why it's called the rumi's rose garden, not because we sell flowers.
14:17Because many people come and say, you guys sell flowers here, why it's called the rose garden?
14:22No, because the best of flowers, the sultan of flowers, they've got Gawla Muhammadiy, it's
14:29called the sultan, the sultan of all flowers, Gawla Muhammadiy is the rose.
14:34Our life is to be that rose and we traverse this stem with all its thorns, whomever can
14:43walk this path of thorns reaches to the reality of their flower of what Allah created them,
14:51to be that flower.
14:53To have that sweetness and that beatific reality and because your soil and where Allah deposit
15:00you in this ocean of love and sweetness is Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, the fragrance you
15:06emit attracts all of creation.
15:11So when pious people have mushkilat and they were trained not to fight, not to argue, not
15:18to say anything but take their case to Allah to cry, to do their zikr, to do their awrad.
15:27Not to put something back onto the earth but to contain the difficulty, Allah teaches them
15:34that you're a beatific flower every time I put a little bit of difficulty on you, you release
15:40an immense fragrance and that mushkilat attracts insan to them.
15:50The more, the more people are attracted to that fragrance.
15:54They could be attracted in the millions because they're smelling a fragrance, not that you smell
16:00their atar but it's through their soul you smell, the angels smell.
16:04The angels don't take the kalam of insan, the angels don't listen for your words.
16:10You know the accepted du'a is not by your tongue, Allah says in Qur'an, I seal your
16:15tongue as soon as you arrive in the heavens, he doesn't want to hear anybody's tongue.
16:21But the du'a through the heart, no matter how eloquent the tongue, if the heart is dirty
16:28there's no angel taking the du'a.
16:31So what's the accepted du'a is just the fragrance within their heart.
16:36Their kalam doesn't even have to be correct, it can be khafi more powerful.
16:41Immediately that reality of that insan their heart is like an ishq, it is like a liquid
16:48perfumed state.
16:50As soon as they have difficulty in life their heart is like the charcoal of the bukhur, their
16:58oil hits their heart and begins to release a fragrance.
17:03As soon as they make du'a same because their hearts are the base of ishq and love.
17:10As soon as they make a du'a a fragrance hits the du'a, the malaika are attracted to fragrance.
17:16That's what they call aromatherapy, that's the angelic realm of fragrance.
17:21All the mu'min jinn are attracted to their fragrance, all the malaika are attracted to
17:26their fragrance, all awliyaullah in the area are attracted to that fragrance.
17:32They don't care an inch for somebody's tongue because they know the tongue is the abode
17:38of lies.
17:40They don't look for the tongue, they look for the heart of insan.
17:44But people they're distracted by the tongues of people because if you talk a certain way
17:50you can attract people or what Allah want from us is the heart.
17:54That heart doesn't reach unless it reach to its flower.
17:59When it's a flower, when it's a rose it emits a fragrance and they come into our life and
18:05inspire us.
18:06Imam Hussain we left Muharram and begin to inspire.
18:10That what a rose he was of reality and how Allah crushed that flower.
18:21Crushed the flower of Imam Hussain until today he's reminding to us that,
18:27look what a beatific fragrance Allah released from me.
18:33Because of the mushkilat I had in dunya the fragrance that emits from the reality of Imam
18:39Hussain , 14 million people are on ziyarat right now, 14 million people Allah inspire
18:51to go and witness that fragrance, smell that fragrance.
18:56What is it calling?
18:58What could be calling people to that reality?
19:01What makes the whole world to remember that reality?
19:04And all the companions all suffered but the extent of that type of suffering each one
19:10will come to show, oh how much their rose was crushed.
19:15That by the crushing of my rose it emitted a fragrance that all this universe can smell
19:22and all of insan will smell from today to the day of judgment.
19:25They'll be attracted to my story and to my reality.
19:30Because of the great character, the exemplar of faith and that to be patient, ayatul sabr,
19:37they were patient with what Allah had destined for them and they kept the best of character.
19:43And they remind us if we love them keep the good character, keep the sweetness of character.
19:49As soon as you have a little bit of difficulty with good character an immense sweetness begins
19:56to emit and that sweetness is what attracts all of us, attracts the angels and attracts
20:03the mu'min jinn, attracts all of the Divinely Presence, all awliyaullah.
20:07We pray that Allah give us the best of character, a reminder for ourselves to enter that state
20:13of that sweetness of muhabbat and ishq and that Prophet ﷺ be happy with us inshaAllah.
20:19Subhana rabbika rabbil izzati amma yasihun, wa salaamun al mursaleen, walhamdulillahi rabbil
20:25alameen, bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
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