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00:00A'udhu bin l-lahi bin el-shaytanir-razeem. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
00:19Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
00:22Wa salati wa salam ashraf wa mursaleen.
00:25Sayyidina wa maulana Muhammad al-Mustafa sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
00:28Madhya sidi ya Rasulul Kareem.
00:30Ya Habibul Azimu.
00:31Zulhalana wa ishfarana wa abiduna wa madadakum wa nazarikum.
00:35Madhya sidi ya Sultanul Awliya Ma'ashiyah Abdal-Faizid Aghistani.
00:39Madhya sidi ya Sultanul Awliya Ma'ashiyah Muhammad al-Azimah adil Hakkani.
00:43Madadil Hakk ya Hujjatullah ya Mufres.
00:45Zulhalana wa ishfarana wa abiduna wa madadakum wa nazarikum.
00:49Adil Majlis ya Rabbil Al-Azimah.
00:52A'udhu billahi minil shaitanir rajeem.
00:54Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
00:59Atiya Allah, Atiya Rasul wa awli al-amri minkum.
01:04Alhamdulillah.
01:06La anna Allah guided us to this path and to be under the flag of Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu
01:13alaihi wa sallam, under the nazar of awliya Allah and under Allah's infalli
01:19rahmah.
01:20And first to admit to myself, Ya Rabbi anna abdukul ajeez, wa daeef, wa miskin, wa zhalim,
01:26wa jahal and but for the grace of Allah that I am still in existence.
01:33And that Allah's Allah's rahmah to guide us and to dress us and to take a path in which
01:42we try so hard to be nothing.
01:46And how shaitan continuously confuses us of our path.
01:55A'udhu billahi minil shaitanir rajeem.
01:57Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
01:58Ya ayyuhal ladheena amanu.
01:59Aamin.
02:00Aman.
02:01Because all you who believe ﷺ establishes that we're talking to people who believe.
02:13Believe.
02:14And again reminder because you never know that somebody may remember after the hundredth time
02:22of saying something, something triggers.
02:28Hey!
02:29Is that what you meant?
02:32Or as you struggle more, you go deeper, it opens itself.
02:38Allah's Divinely words, not my words, I'm nothing.
02:41Allah's Holy Qur'an and the words of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and the inspirations of awliya Allah,
02:47they're like a little flower bud that as soon as you water it with good action, good amal,
02:54through struggle and strive, like a seed it breaks.
02:58The seed has such a tremendous difficulty in the dirt but by its watering, by its struggling,
03:05its striving, it eventually can break and once the seed breaks the spout or the little seedling
03:15comes out and now a fruit, a tree, a plant, a flower is going to grow.
03:21Our life is about that struggle so that we can blossom and Allah is giving that all you
03:28who believe that there are infinite ranks of belief and the schools of tazkiyah, the
03:35schools of purification that we find ourselves enrolled in them.
03:40They're all within the oceans of taslim and Islam.
03:45And from the darajats of Islam that Allah wants to complete His favours upon us.
03:51That your Islam and taslim is an action, is a verb, that your life is about submitting.
03:59So I dress you and send you into the schools that teach real submission.
04:06And reminded of Shaykh Dagestani, Mawlana Sharafuddin Dagestani,
04:11that in the time of the Kazakhs, the Russian armies that were coming against in Dagestan,
04:19they were slaughtering all of the Muslims.
04:22And in that region, they had big difficulties with Shaykh Dagestani's tribes,
04:29that they were trying to keep themselves alive and they were coming,
04:32people from place to place and slaughtering.
04:35And they came to Shaykh Dagestani and said that these people are approaching,
04:41they're in that village at a distance, they're coming towards our village.
04:45Yeah, Shaykh Dagestani, tell us what to do.
04:47He said plant your flowers, it's planting season.
04:53We say it but we're hoping that we are the people of contemplation.
04:59Shaykh Dagestani was telling his people that plant your seeds.
05:05He's aware of what's coming, he's aware of the difficulties that are coming.
05:10And the people are frightened by their nature and difficulty within their faith and their iman.
05:19And they're asking the Shaykh, what should we do?
05:22And his reply, plant your seeds.
05:25At that time plant the seeds, something going to happen, there's going to be a sifting.
05:31Because this path is not an easy path and the darajat that Allah wants to grant is not for everyone.
05:40There's going to be a sifting and the tariqah is all about sifting.
05:45That you throw out the rocks to keep the stones, from semi-precious stones to precious stones.
05:53They don't want rock collection, so you have to keep sifting, keep testing, keep testing.
06:00So then a great test, plant your seeds, don't worry.
06:05Okay, two-thirds of the jama' in that region of Dagestan, they said the Shaykh is crazy.
06:12So now in the middle of this test, they begin to exhibit their true nature and their character.
06:19And this is what Allah wants.
06:23That those people with you, they pretend to be with you but if you squeeze a little bit,
06:30they begin to exhibit their true nature.
06:33Do they see that nature?
06:36And that's the whole purpose of testing.
06:39It wasn't about the end goal because you don't even know the end goal.
06:45It wasn't about the planting.
06:48But because they have little faith and little understanding, they begin to find a reason
06:55in which they're fighting about the planting.
06:58Why is he asking us to plant?
07:00What kind of coordinates is this?
07:02We're surely going to be slaughtered.
07:04We're going to be slaughtered.
07:06These people are coming from village to village slaughtering and he's telling us to plant.
07:12Oh, he just wants the money from the crops, he wants the food, he wants this.
07:16Or maybe he lost his coordinates and he lost his mind.
07:19It means then in every test in our life is they give that example so that you can visualize
07:29that what Allah wants from us is the struggle.
07:34We don't know the end coordinates.
07:36It's not important that you think you even know the end coordinates.
07:40That you think it's about the planting but it's about something much deeper from Allah.
07:46That as soon as Allah gives a coordinates, he wants to see your level of faith, your level
07:54of struggle, your level of taslim and istiqam.
07:58To be firm in your feet, firm in your belief.
08:02Otherwise, if you're crazy now, imagine what you're going to be when difficulty comes.
08:08They're not interested in crazy people.
08:11People will be sifted and thrown out.
08:15What they're interested in is the people who want to taslim and submit.
08:20Submit their craziness, submit their doubt, submit all of their bad characteristics and
08:27taslim and say, for surely I know nothing.
08:30I don't know my name in Allah's presence and I have seven names.
08:35I don't know myself and I'm with this donkey all the time and I don't know it.
08:41How am I going to know that shaykh?
08:44How am I going to know Prophet ﷺ?
08:46Most of all greatest, how am I going to know Allah .
08:51So, I don't know.
08:52So, what Sayyidina Yunus .
08:57Subhanika ini kumtum yuna al-dhalimiyin .
09:02Subhanika Allahumma ya Rabbi.
09:04Glory be to you for I'm truly an oppressor to myself.
09:08If that's not the zikr of our path, it's from Qur'an we say a hundred times but I don't
09:14think people really take heed of it.
09:16They think oh shaykh is talking about somebody else but he's talking about himself.
09:19This was our path, this is my path.
09:22This is my coordinates with my shaykh.
09:25Is that I am an oppressor to myself.
09:28Ya Rabbi if you leave me to myself.
09:31Which myself is now the one whispering this shaykh doesn't know what he's doing.
09:35Who's saying that?
09:37Is you getting inspiration from Allah to say that shaykh doesn't know that shaykh
09:42is a representative of the light of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
09:45You're coming against Allah .
09:47Ati Allah, Ati Rasul wa Ulul Amr.
09:51Anytime in your life that you're going to speak bad about the Ulul Amr, you're speaking
09:57bad about Prophet ﷺ.
09:59You're speaking bad about Allah .
10:01And every time you talk with doubt and talk with shaykh and talk with all these bad characteristics,
10:08the people around you are listening to what you're saying and they're building their faith
10:13on that.
10:14So I know many people, they were coming and they talk so bad at their table about the shaykhs.
10:19He doesn't know, he's like that, like that, like that, the children are listening.
10:24The family is listening.
10:26And when comes time to believe, what believe?
10:29You're just telling us all these crazy things.
10:31We don't believe in any shaykhs.
10:33You made them now from Hizb al-Shaytan.
10:36Because in their heart they pulled away from that understanding.
10:41They pulled away from these people.
10:43Instead of having ihtiram and love, the shaykh is busy trying to build the love of Prophet ﷺ.
10:50The love of that example, an insan who becomes partnered with shaytan is continuously trying
10:58to destroy that image, destroy its name, destroy its value.
11:02Nur al-Anwar wa sirat al-Asrar.
11:05They carry the lights of Prophet ﷺ.
11:08When you defame and deface and devalue them, you are taking away from Prophet ﷺ.
11:16Who are you coming against?
11:18And if you come against Prophet ﷺ, you are coming against Allah .
11:23See, means you feed the people around you garbage and then you'll be surprised.
11:29Why is everything so garbage?
11:31But you feed it good.
11:33You feed it with love.
11:35We only talked great about Mawlana Shaykh.
11:38If there was any confusion in my heart, it was my confusion.
11:43And Mawlana is great.
11:45His light immense.
11:47He represents Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
11:50Anytime in your life you believe, this was my belief.
11:54Being taught to people who are listening, that should be your belief.
11:59But if you want to feed doubt and suspicion and effacing and defacing and defaming, there
12:08would be nothing of Iman.
12:11There would be nothing of Iman.
12:13And then from that group of people, two-thirds of them looked at the Shaykh and said,
12:17You don't know what you're talking about.
12:20These co-ordinates you're giving to us make no sense at this time and they ran.
12:36They ran and they were slaughtered in the woods.
12:40What do you think was waiting for them?
12:42This shaitan is waiting for you.
12:44You think you walk away.
12:45That's why Allah and that's why so many times they give the ayat of the bayah.
12:49And the ahad, the ahad, the covenant of Allah .
12:54Those who gave a covenant and they fulfilled their covenant with Allah , they are truly
13:00successful.
13:01And those who broke their covenant, broke it to the demise of their own soul.
13:06I mean what Allah from us?
13:09Don't separate.
13:10Don't lift your hand.
13:12Lift your hand means don't even lose your faith.
13:16What's coming is unimaginable.
13:18And so then the turuqs, everything about their operation is to test.
13:25The one making sandwiches downstairs, we're not a sandwich.
13:30We didn't come into this life and left this life and he didn't sit in this life and leave
13:36this life to go back to Allah that he makes a good panini with garlic.
13:41You gotta be crazy if that's all you saw of it.
13:46But it goes back to Allah in complete taslim.
13:50Because if you change the recipe, if we change the recipe ten times, he'll change it ten times.
13:56If you say, you did everything wrong, he'll say, you're correct, we did everything wrong.
14:02And in the old days they'd have a bagh and a farm and they say, go out and plant.
14:07And they say, no, no, you planted it wrong.
14:09Even to the extent if they didn't have that, they had a pile of bricks.
14:14And there's hundred bricks on this side, they say, move these bricks to this side.
14:19Then you move the bricks to this side, say, I don't want it there.
14:23No, no, I want you to move the bricks to that side.
14:26Then you move the bricks to that side.
14:28It wasn't about the shaykh doesn't know where he wants these bricks.
14:33Allah , it was about Allah seeing your struggle.
14:38Because as soon as you struggle, your true character comes out.
14:43When you sit in leisure and it's everything great and somebody giving you samosas and
14:48you having your tea, you talk very sweet.
14:52As soon as they make you to go through a grind and begin to test you in your grind.
14:59And they grind you, all your craziness comes out.
15:04All your bad talk comes out.
15:06All your doubts and everything is coming out of you.
15:09That's what they want you to see.
15:12The taruq is not about the end result because you don't know the end result.
15:17You sit with the shaykh and say, I'm trying to get a job.
15:20He tell you to apply for every ridiculous position.
15:23We said this before.
15:24The shaykh doesn't know what he's talking about.
15:27It wasn't about you even finding a job.
15:29Maybe Allah doesn't want you to have a job.
15:33Yeah, because then the grind become more difficult.
15:37Can you man struggling with no job?
15:40Then you're sweating and angry becomes more.
15:43Then they want to see and then look into the heart.
15:46Allah looking into the heart.
15:48That he's got a lot of complaints when he's being grinded.
15:52Or if he's perfected, he has very little complaints.
15:55He says, Alhamdulillah Allah providing for me.
15:58I'm eating.
15:59I'm not starving.
16:00I have a roof over my head.
16:02It's just being postponed, postponed, postponed to grind, to grind, to grind, to see where the characteristic is.
16:12So it means the taruq is not about the end result.
16:16Don't think you're clever and you figured it out, your head has no understanding.
16:21This was from the example of Nabi Musa .
16:24He didn't understand the coordinates.
16:26Everything he's talking about with Sayyidina Khidr , he's thinking he understands.
16:31He's going to teach Sayyidina Khidr about Sharia.
16:34So this wasn't about that.
16:36This was about you following, being patient and being tested.
16:40And in the testing, you want to see your character, not me.
16:44There are 40 above that are watching you.
16:47And they watch you when you go home.
16:49And they watch you when you're talking.
16:51And they watch you when you're talking to your family.
16:54And they watch every aspect of what you're doing to see if that quality is there.
17:00And that that station is being achieved.
17:03Because only through the grinding Allah can see the goodness of character.
17:08Because everybody is sweet when everything is sweet.
17:11But when you're sad and you lose faith, are you still sweet?
17:15You give up in your belief in Allah , your love for Sayyidina Muhammad .
17:21Doubt in awliyaullah and pious people who opened everything for you.
17:26You look left and right for you, how everything opened.
17:29How that barakah is dressing everything.
17:32And that you find yourself sitting in circles of paradise.
17:36Eating from circles of paradise.
17:39Dress from circles of paradise.
17:41You could be in nightclubs right now.
17:43It is the glue that binds your entire family.
17:47For if you doubt and you leave, look at all the families that have no glue.
17:52And everybody is in a divorce.
17:54Everything is in a separation.
17:55And the children can't stand the sight of their own parents.
17:59It is the glue that binds.
18:01Because Allah , Holy Qur'an, don't separate.
18:05Hold tight to the rope of Allah , and don't separate.
18:10These are the Ahlul Hub, the people of love.
18:16Hablillah, the people of the rope.
18:19And Hub, it's the same letters.
18:21It means if you keep the company of the people of love, that immense love is a glue that binds all our families.
18:30All our relationships.
18:31Why?
18:32Because Allah , you can't make anyone love you.
18:34But when you love Allah , He makes all of creation love you.
18:38Everything in creation loves you.
18:42From Malaika , Salamu Qawlami Rabbil Raheem .
18:45If Allah , I love that one.
18:48Everything in its being will love you.
18:52So then people stay together.
18:54Even they fight, they still have an immense love.
18:57The children are attracted to you.
18:59When you come home, they want to see you.
19:02Why?
19:03Because they're Muslim and pure, and Allah put that love immensely in their heart.
19:07Like a sponge that you want to be with that love.
19:10If Allah pull that love, and say, you go to Hezb-Shaitan, you take the hand of Shaitan,
19:16is there any love?
19:17Your children will hate you.
19:19Your spouse will hate you.
19:20And this dunya will hate you.
19:22That's why Allah says then, you damage to your own self.
19:29Means what I'm dressing you of muhabba, of realities, is so immense.
19:35And taking us into the Divinely Presence.
19:38But we always have to remember, this game is about the struggle, and not the end result.
19:46And when you forget about the struggle, and think you'll make a shortcut to the end result,
19:51that's not what this game is about.
19:54They want to see the struggle.
19:56They want to see the characteristics within that struggle.
20:00Means they walked away from Grand Shaykh Sharaf al-Din, except one third.
20:05They said, Grand Shaykh, we're putting our seeds.
20:08They put their seeds.
20:10As soon as they finished their planting, they said, come here.
20:14Everybody gathered and took water.
20:17I'm going to recite from Surat al-Yaseen upon this water as a protection for you.
20:23Drink from this water and follow me.
20:26We're walking through now.
20:27They walked from Dagestan all the way to Turkey.
20:32And not one person was shot.
20:34Not one person was killed.
20:36And he said that everything in the forest was shot.
20:40If a bird moved, they were shooting at it.
20:43They were slaughtering from village to village.
20:45They didn't take a single weapon.
20:47There was no fighting.
20:49He said, just you read on this water I'm going to read.
20:52You drink from this water, follow me.
20:55And we're going into Turkey.
20:57And they walked the whole way to Turkey, all of them safe.
21:01Why the first test?
21:04Because they have to have Iman.
21:06If they are not believing in you, you tell me to drink that water.
21:10And they start shooting in the bushes.
21:12I'm screaming and everybody going to be slaughtered.
21:15Means our life is about testing.
21:18When Allah wants something, Allah knows what's coming.
21:22Allah knows the difficulty that's coming.
21:25If the level of belief is not there on this garbage,
21:29imagine the level of belief when real difficulty opens.
21:33We pray that Allah guide us, bless us and grant us the lights of faith.
21:38Alhamdulillah, Saturday night, Israhi wa Al-Miraj inshaAllah Allah dress us from those lights.
21:43Prophet ﷺ dress us and bless us from those lights.
21:46And awliya Allah dress us and bless us and keep us under their nazar inshaAllah with those lights.
21:51We pray to Yahweh Raha say it.
22:14Siddhanan Nabi Siddhani