The Highest Rank

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’ūdhu bi-Llāhi mina sh-shayṭāni r-rajīm. Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm:

(Qur’ān 03:139). Allah ﷻ states in the Holy Quran: ‘So do not weaken and do not grieve, and you will be superior if you are [true] believers.’ Allah ﷻ says, “Do not ever be upset. You are on the highest stations”. If you are a believer, this rank is higher than the highest rank in this world. Don’t be upset. Don’t see yourself lower than others. Certainly, humbleness is good for Muslims in Islam. We have to thank Allah ﷻ for everything. Islam is glorious and miraculous. Islam is great. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ says in a Hadith, “Islam is always superior and can never be surpassed.” There is nothing higher than Islam. All these weird philosophic ideas and systems are useless things. Useless things cannot be good.

The good and everlasting, the great is Islam. Since the time of our Holy Prophet ﷺ until now, there have been a hundred thousand useless systems put forth. None of them has remained. Only Islam is lasting. Islam is eternal. They keep saying eternal but only Islam is eternal. The rest will be gone like everything else. Follow Islam, you will be in profit. If you don’t follow Islam, you will be swept away like garbage. Just like a hundred thousand useless thoughts and philosophic ideas have been swept away, just like they turned out useless, you will end up useless too if you do something outside Islam.

Therefore, there is nothing to compare with Islam. No need to look up to others who claim that they are so and so. If you want to look up to someone, there is our Holy Prophet ﷺ, there are the Saḥābah, Awliya’ and true Murshids. If you look up to them, you will have profit. You will earn the pleasure of Allah ﷻ and increase your rank. May Allah ﷻ let us be with them and may He increase their love. When there is love, we will be with them insha’Allah. Love good people so that you are with them in the end. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ says, “A man will be with whom he loves.” If you love

shaytan, may Allah ﷻ forbid and may Allah ﷻ protect us, if you love shaytan’s soldiers and enemies of Allah ﷻ, you will be together with them. If you love our Holy Prophet ﷺ, his Saḥābah and believers, you will be with them. May Allah ﷻ let us be with them.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 21 April 2021/9 Ramadan 1442 Morning Prayer, Akbaba Dergah