Stubborn Disbeliever

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 says:

These are words of safety and salvation. Those who say these words have been saved and have reached felicity. Saying these words is not hard for a Mu’min (believer), it’s easy and beautiful. We could do it tens of times, a 100 times as Dhikr or even more every day; it’s easy, there’s no hardship or harm in it and it has benefit, a huge benefit. However, when people are in Kufr (unbelief), then there is nothing harder than this. We tell them: “Well, say these few words and save yourself”, “No I can’t do it”, they say. They don’t say I can’t do it, they oppose and admonish/scold you instead. “It has no harm. You say everything, at least say this too so you may be saved” you say, but they don’t accept this. They’re stubborn. It’s the stubbornness of nonbelief, it’s the stubbornness of shaytan, not to accept the Haqq (truth). People who are against the truth have this stubbornness in them. ‘ ’, ‘Obstinate disbeliever’, says Allah ﷻ in the Holy Quran (50:24). They’re both nonbelievers and stubborn. A Mu’min (believer) cannot be stubborn. Stubbornness is not in Mu’mins, it’s in infidels and in shaytans. Even though they know that they’re going to be saved if they say it, they don’t accept it and they don’t do it.

Thank Allah ﷻ, these beautiful words that say: ‘ ’, [Lā ʾilāha ʾillā llāh] ‘There’s no God but Allah’, are beautiful words; are there any more beautiful words than these! Our biggest thing is to accept that Allah ﷻ has no other partner than Him. There are some who think of themselves as Muslims and even though they say these words, they tell others: “You are Mushriks (polytheists). You are associating partners with Allah ﷻ.” But in reality, it is they who don’t know the reality and the meaning of these words. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ says: “Do not call anyone who says these words a Mushrik.” If the Holy Prophet ﷺ hadn’t said so, it is they who are falling into that wrong because they do not know the reality and the meaning of these words. They’re telling people who say these words that they’re Mushriks (polytheists) and so they’re falling into a huge wrong.

But with Allah’s ﷻ mercy, they will also be saved because they say these words. However, their virtues will be very low because they’re calling those who say ‘ ’, [Lā ʾilāha ʾillā llāh] Mushriks (polytheists); it reduces their virtues. The aim is met but their station will be of the lowest stations. Therefore, ‘ ’, [Lā ʾilāha ʾillā llāh muḥammadun rasūlu llāh], our gratitude and thankfulness is endless. May Allah ﷻ not deviate us from this insha’Allah. May He strengthen our faith.

Wa Minallah at-Tawfeeq. Al-Fatiha.

Hazrat Shaykh Muhammad Mehmet ar-Rabbani 23 February 2021/11 Rajab 1442 Sabah Namaz, Akbaba Dargah