Mawlana Is Always With Us*
Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani -07 May 2025/ 09 Dhu l-Qa’dah 1446 -Lefka, Cyprus
As-Salāmu ‘Alaykum wa RaḥmatuLlāhi wa Barakātuh.
A‘ūdhu BiLlāhi Minash-shayṭāni r-rajīm. BismiLlāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Wa ṣ-Salātu wa s-Salāmu ‘alá Rasūlinā Muḥammadin Sayyidi l-Awwalīna wa l-Akhirīn. Madad yā RasūlAllāh, Madad yā Sādāti Aṣḥābi RasūliLlāh, Madad yā Mashāyikhinā, Dastūr Mawlana Sheikh Abdullāh al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistāni, Sheikh Muḥammad Nāẓim al-Ḥaqqānī. Madad.
Ṭarīqatunā aṣ-Suḥbah wa l-Khayru fi l-Jam‘iyyah.
Shukr to Allāh جل جلاله, we gathered here again for the sake of Allāh جل جلاله. We gathered here to continue on that way with the beloved servants of Allāh جل جلاله. We always gather, but our gathering today is for the anniversary of the passing of the awliyā’uLlah Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim. He passed away, but shukr to Allāh جل جلاله, he didn’t leave us. He even didn’t leave us outwardly. He gives his madad to all his murīds. He gives them strength, spiritual power.
Sometimes many murīds ask how to make Rābita, how to hear a voice in Rābita. Rābita is your love for our Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and to mashāyikh. To love them is our Rābita. Rābita isn’t “Should I do this? Should I not do that?” That’s fine too, but there’s no need to give instructions for Rābita, “My son/my daughter, do this, do that.” Whoever wants such things doesn’t know the principles and ethics. When you enter ṭarīqah, you surrender. You surrender to your murshid. If you’ve found a real murshid, you should thank Allāh جل جلاله not a thousand times, but a million times. When you surrender, you have reached salvation. But may Allāh جل جلاله protect us, if you get stuck with those who claim they’re murshid for another purposes , may Allāh جل جلاله help you. Because they follow their ego. And since the way is for their ego, it is of no benefit. But if you go on the way of the murshid, shukr to Allāh جل جلاله. Life is passing by anyway. Then, it won’t be wasted in vain. It will be filled with thawāb, barakh and beauty.
If you’re going to wander around striving in vain, “What should we do today? Where should we have fun today? How should we make money? How can we get intoxicated? How can we impress others to like us?” This is empty work. There’s a nice saying of the Turks, “empty work.” That’s empty work. Living for dunyā, for your own interests, for your ego is empty work. If your life is going to be full, you must go on the way of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, the way of mashāyikh, and surrender.
Don’t think that it is empty. It is filled with Allāh’s جل جلاله permission. May Allāh جل جلاله protect us. As we said, what’s empty is those who think, “How much will I earn from dunyā?” Their life passes in vain and meaninglessly. May Allāh جل جلاله protect us, apart from it being in vain, it is full of evil, full of sins. May Allāh جل جلاله protect us.
Therefore, asking himmah and help from the mashāyikh is beneficial. Being on that way with them is a protection for you. It gives value to your life. Your life becomes beneficial. “This guy lives like grass. He goes from his house to his job, and from his job to his house. He doesn’t borrow money. He doesn’t complain about the government. He doesn’t get angry at this or that.” He doesn’t live like grass. Those living like grass, living like a poisonous grass are the others. Those who think they are something and get angry at everyone. Those who expect benefit from everyone. Those who do all kinds of filth and all kinds of ḥarām to satisfy their own egos are the ones who live in vain. We must be like grass. Grass is good. There is harmful grass, and harmless grass. Everyone knows the meaning of grass. Ours is, in shā’a Llāh, of light and īmān. May we be of the servants whom Allāh جل جلاله loves. May we not be like the grass they consume, but be as the beneficial grass, in shā’a Llāh. May Allāh جل جلاله protect us.
Shayṭān has already taken over the world with his hand. He doesn’t want to leave anyone. Those who are saved cling to the rope of this way. Those who cling to Allāh جل جلاله are the ones who are saved. Others think they are saved or have won but there is no such thing. Therefore, being with mashāyikh, following them is the greatest gain for a person. Not to be on their way is a great danger. May Allāh جل جلاله protect us. Every second, every moment shayṭān may slip your feet and you will have fallen into his trap. May Allah جل جلاله protect you.
May our Shaykh’s himmah be with us. Shukr to Allāh جل جلاله, as we said, it has been eleven years since our Shaykh has passed away. But every minute we are under his gaze, we are under his himmah. Those who ask for his himmah, he will definitely come to his aid. He doesn’t leave him. There are people who don’t believe and those group who don’t believe in awliyā’, karamāt and miracles. And they claim they are Muslim. But the condition of being a Muslim is believing in the miracles of our Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم, believing in the karamāt of the awliyā’, that is also one of the fundamental conditions of the creed of Muslims.
Therefore, shukr to Allāh جل جلاله, you are here. To those who came, may Allāh جل جلاله be pleased with you. There are many who haven’t come. Their hearts are together with us. Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim reaches them all with the permission of Allāh جل جلاله. May Allāh جل جلاله be pleased with you. May Allāh جل جلاله change the state of this world, and send the Sāhib. As Mawlānā Shaykh Nāẓim said that Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam will appear, in shā’a Llāh.
Wherever you look, dunyā is in the hand of shayṭān. One hundred percent in the hand of shayṭān. To get rid of shayṭān is only through Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam. It can’t be any other way; no matter what they say.
Wa min Allāhi t-Tawfīq. Al-Fātiḥa.
“Allah created ego [nefs] and asked him to come to His presence; but ego went back. When Allah asked him to go back, he came nearer. Whatever Allah ordered, ego did the opposite. Allah asked him, ‘Who am I and who are you?’, ordering him to declare that he is servant to Him. But ego said ‘I am myself, you are yourself!’ Allah ordered to put ego into the prison of Hell’s fires for 1000 years. After 1000 years, He called him back and asked the same question. Ego gave the same reply. Thereupon, Allah ordered to put ego into the prison [of cold hells] for 1000 years. After 1000 years, He called ego again and asked the same question; ego again gave the same reply; ‘I am myself, you are yourself’, and not said ‘I am your servant’. Then Allah sentenced ego to hunger for 1000 years. When it was complete, Allah called him again and asked ‘who am I and who are you?’ Trembling, ego said, ‘I am your big servant; you are my Lord’ [meaning, ‘though being a servant to You, I am at least still superior to all Your other servants’]”
~ Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani
(8 March 1992 — the Peckham Mosque).
“Our donkey is our ego.” – Mawlana Shaykh Nazim
The Prophet (s), Habeebullah, what was he saying?
Allahumma laa takilnee ila nafsee tarfata `aynin
O Allah, don’t leave me to my ego for the blink of an eye.
Therefore, we are asking for heavenly support against our egos. Our ego is attacking us and asking to take the reins to make us its donkey, to do as it likes. I am using “it” because to say “that” would give it an honor. “It” is for animals and you may use “it” for that which doesn’t have any soul or living things on it. Always put Shaytan down. Put it down. Don’t give Shaytan any honor. Don’t use any honorable word for Shaytan. That is important!
I am saying A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani‘r-rajeem. O our Lord! We are asking humbly for protection against Shaytan and its followers. That is important. Dastoor yaa Sayyidee, yaa Sultaanu ‘l-Awliyaa. We are saying, O our Master, O Qutbu ‘z-Zamaan, O Qutbu ‘l-Mutassarif who has been granted from heavenly stations to look after this world and everything that is happening on it. Don’t think that this world is just left as it likes to be through space. Everything is under control very carefully, daqeeq, control must be on everything. Nothing can be in existence without its Creator knowing about it. How can it be? He creates and He knows a dharrah, an atom can’t know about itself.
You mankind, do you know about yourself? Are you able to know about yourself? Who knows? People are trying to know something around themselves but not themselves! Our eyes may look around us only but cannot look into our inner beings. If I ask you, “Where is your liver?” Many people don’t know. If we ask, “Where is your heart?” “I do not know.” Man is ignorant, fully ignorant about himself.
We are saying A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani‘r-rajeem because Shaytan is always trying to confuse people and not letting you know. It has been said that a person has 360 organs, small and big, and yet you do not know about yourself! How come you are asking to know around yourself? Don’t say that it is knowledge to look into space saying, “That is polestar, that is the sun, that is the moon, that is seven sisters, that is alpha systems.” It is nothing, it gives you nothing.
It is not real knowledge around you that you are looking at. How many of you understand yourself? How are your organs working? You are eating and enjoying it. You are drinking and enjoying but where is it going inside? What is its significance? You don’t know. You are only drinking and eating. And you man have been granted such an honor and your honor is to know! No other creature on this planet knows about themselves because they don’t have a mind or they can’t think. And their levels are animals’ levels but your level is over the level of angels!
«We ask to be no-one and nothing,
For, as long as we are someone,
we are not complete.»
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