Look at Your Ego First

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.

A person must look at his ego, he must train his ego. It is not good to look at others and mention their faults while our ego is showing. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ says in a Hadith Sharif: “Whoever sees another’s fault and says to him, “What kind of a person are you!”, Allah Azza wa Jalla will cause that fault to occur in him.” If a person looks at his ego - our faults, mistakes and sins are already enough for us, there is no chance left to look at others.

A person must first fix his ego. The purpose is to be Insānu l-Kāmil, a perfect human being. It cannot be done by looking at the faults of others and mentioning them. This is how people spend most of their time. However, their own ego is always full of mistakes and sins. Of course not at once, but we need to fix our egos gradually. When you see a fault in someone else, check first, do you have it too? Then, we have to make Dua that Allah ﷻ protect us and that Allah ﷻ not put us in such situations, because everything is in the power of Allah ﷻ. Most of the time, you look and think, “What’s going on? What are they doing?” about people you never expected them to do so.

That’s why we have to train our own ego and keep it under control insha’Allah. May Allah ﷻ help us. It seems easy but it is hard work. You have to do it constantly, and you need Allah’s ﷻ help. If you beg Allah ﷻ, Allah ﷻ will help you. Therefore, may Allah ﷻ help us. May Allah ﷻ protect us from the evil of our egos. The evil of the ego is worse than the evil of shaytan. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 30 January 2020/5 Jumada al-Thani 1441 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah