Hurry Up for Prayer and Repentance

Assalamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuh, Auzu Billahi Minashaytanir Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Wassalatu Wassalamu ala Rasulina Muhammadin Sayyidul Awwalin wal Akhirin, Madad Ya Rasulallah, Madad Ya Sadat As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Dastur Mawlana Sheikh Abdullah Faiz Daghestani, Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani. Madad. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.

Thank Allah ﷻ, after the month of Sha’ban - there is a week left before Ramadan starts on Monday insha’Allah. It is also the last of the three holy months. Days are passing by fast. We had said that the three months will come; two of them have already passed and only one is left, and that too will pass by fast. Life passes by fast, though people are unaware, they are heedless. They are heedless, thinking that they will remain as they are. The One who remains as He is, without changing is only Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla. Everyone else has a time. They change. When young, they become old, and then they disappear.

There is a beautiful hadith, “Hurry up to perform prayer before the time passes, and hurry up in repentance before death comes.” He says, “Hurry up!” Hurry up for prayer; neither delay it as Qadā (missed), nor leave it out totally. There is an appointed time for prayer, a certain hour, and its virtue is according to its time. Prayer performed on time is hundreds of times more virtuous than a postponed prayer. For those who never pray, it is a deprivation. The difference is great between the one who prays and the one who does not. They cannot even be compared. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

He says, “Hurry up!” Do not hurry for this world. Today, people hurry for this world. They think that they will remain here forever. Whereas, prayer is the first thing you need to hurry for, otherwise you will miss it. He says to also hurry in repentance. People commit all kinds of bad things, but if they repent, Allah ﷻ forgives them. If they do not repent, then their end is difficult and bad. Though it may seem as if he has been living a good life here, it has no value.

We did not come to this world to feed our bodies, we are here for the hereafter. We should think of this in every affair. People are heedless, they have no idea what they are doing. They have no mind or thoughtfulness. We say, “May Allah ﷻ guide them, and give them intellect.” There is nothing more to say.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 29 April 2019/24 Sha’ban 1440 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah