Laylatul-Ragha’i̇b

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.

Tonight is a Holy Night, it’s one of the holy nights of the Three Sacred Months. It is The Night of Ragha’ib (desires) which is a Holy Night. The day is spent fasting. Fasting is done on Thursday; not tomorrow but today. The fast of the Night of Ragha’ib is done today and tonight is a Holy Night. You can spend it with making Dua, repenting and asking for forgiveness from Allah ﷻ. It is a night that Allah ﷻ has assigned to be holy. In this night, the doors of Dua are open and Allah ﷻ tells the angels, ‘Is there anyone asking me so I may give him? Is there anyone repenting so I may forgive him?’, and the angels go around looking for such people.

Of course, this is a virtue given as a gift to the Holy Prophet ﷺ and his Ummah (nation). Those who worship and pray to Allah ﷻ tonight are one of His lucky servants, but if they say: “No, we do not accept it”, then they are at loss. Even if the whole world was opposing Allah ﷻ, it has no use. And if they were opposing the Holy Prophet ﷺ, it has no use either. The Holy Prophet ﷺ was sent as a mercy to the worlds and for guidance, so they may become one of his Ummah (nation). Those who believe the Prophet ﷺ are his Ummah, but those who do not, they can fit themselves. Allah ﷻ has given them intellect but they’re not using their intellect, they’re not following their intellect but rather their Nafs (ego). The intellect certainly sees the Ḥaqīqa (truth). When the truth is seen every bad thing should be left aside and that truth should be followed. The Ḥaqīqa (truth) is the prophethood of the Holy Prophet ﷺ and the Unity and Oneness of Allah ﷻ; there is no other Ḥaqīqa and there is no other way.

Therefore, this night is a gift to this Ummah. Allah ﷻ is the Most Generous, He always opens His doors of Karam (generosity) and especially on this night; He does that on this night. So this is a Holy Night, may it be good for Muslims and Islam, may it be a victory for Islam. May it be a victory for Ḥaqīqa because shaytans are again not accepting but denying the truth. They’re showing evil as good. They’re showing the bad ones as good ones and the good ones as bad ones. The first person they’re showing as bad is our Holy Prophet ﷺ while they’re the bad and evil ones. Ḥaqīqa (reality) cannot be shut, you cannot shut the sun with a little thing. The Sun of Islam cannot be shut; they can try as much as they want. They’re trying so hard, day and night, nonstop and ceaselessly just to oppose Allah ﷻ; they’re doing as much as possible but it has no use. That is why we are His lucky servants. He has honored us with guidance and shown us the Ḥaqīqa (truth), and insha’Allah we are followers of that truth. May Allah ﷻ keep us steadfast on this path. May Allah ﷻ give intellect and common sense to those people. May He give them guidance and may He show people the right way insha’Allah.

Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.

Hazrat Shaykh Muhammad Mehmet ar-Rabbani 18 February 2021/6 Rajab 1442 Sabah Namaz, Akbaba Dargah