Allah’s Shade on Earth

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 As’habi RasuLillah, Madad Ya Mashayikhina, Sheykh Abdullah Daghestani, Sheykh Nazim al-Haqqani. Dastur. Tariqatunas sohba, wal khayru fil jamiyya.

Our Holy Prophet ﷺ states:

“The sultan is God’s shade on the earth.” Meaning, he is Allah’s ﷻ light. Allah ﷻ doesn’t have a shadow but it’s an analogy. It means Allah’s ﷻ hand of power. We know the attributes and qualities of Allah ﷻ, He has no likeness, nothing is like Him. So the shadow of Allah ﷻ is the person who performs and carries out His work on earth. We need to obey that person. However he might be, we still need to obey him and not oppose his orders. If you like him that’s fine, but if you don’t, you just have to be patient because those who oppose him would be opposing the order of the Holy Prophet ﷺ and disobeying him, so their affairs wouldn’t go in order. However, the sultan could be sometimes a trial for people; sometimes it’s a favor for people and sometimes it’s a test. The test is when a sultan is Fāsiq, he sins openly, doesn’t obey the commands of Allah ﷻ and tyrannizes. But even if he’s a Fāsiq, we shouldn’t oppose him or come against him.

Therefore, the sultan who obeys Allah’s ﷻ commands is a favor of Allah ﷻ. We need to appreciate that sultan and we need to appreciate that favor. We need to be grateful to Allah ﷻ because he would have Barakah (blessing) and his works would be going in order. Sometimes they say: “This man is such a lucky one, everything he does comes back to benefit him”, that is because Allah ﷻ is helping him. On the other hand, whatever they do and the more they want to fix things, they would mess it up and the people would also be in trouble and in hardship. But when the leader is someone who follows the commands of Allah ﷻ and serves people, then that would be a Lutf (grace) and Ni’mah (bounty/blessing) of Allah ﷻ.

Why are we saying this? Because thank Allah ﷻ the person who is our leader is a good person who loves Allah ﷻ, His Prophet ﷺ and the Awliya (saints). He is walking on the right path. There are many Fitan (dissensions/ discords), lies and slanders against him.

Well yes, now there is a group of people who no matter what he does, they’ll never appreciate him. Other than that, there are those who claim to be Muslim yet they are also deceiving people to be against him. They’re mostly trying to work young people up because they don’t know better, they don’t know what happened and how it was in the past and they haven’t lived in other countries. There’s no need to live in other countries, you can see by reading about what’s going on in other neighboring countries, how their people are living and what they have to go through and be patient with.

So when this is the case, Allah ﷻ might give us such a test that we would be regretting it, but that regret would be of no use. Sultan Abdul Hamid Khan served the people so much and worked so hard. But with this Fitnah and Fujūr (immorality), they followed the nonbelievers and dethroned him. Within a few years, the whole country was disintegrated. They cried a lot and were regretful but it was of no use anymore. He, with his patience, became one of the big Awliya (saints) in the sight of Allah ﷻ and he reached the Holy Prophet ﷺ. Until now, all the countries around still suffer the consequences of what was done to him.

So this is an important matter, we need to appreciate and give value, we need to be grateful and thankful to the favors and blessings. If there’s hardship, yes hardship could be happening, but it doesn’t just happen here, it happens everywhere. In hardships there are enemies and there’s white and black, there’s nothing else. You’re either going to be with Islam or you’re going to be against it, there’s no third option. Therefore, we need to make Dua (supplicate) and pray that Allah ﷻ may give power to the one who’s leading us. May Allah ﷻ give power to Islam and send the Sahib (owner) as soon as possible, Islam needs help. Those who are with Allah ﷻ are victorious.

Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.

Hazrat Shaykh Muhammad Mehmet ar-Rabbani 17 February 2021/5 Rajab 1442 Sabah Namaz, Akbaba Dargah