A Very Upsetting Time

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.

The time we are living in now is the time described by our Holy Prophet ﷺ. In this time, they are forbidding goodness and ordering evil. People of the present time are living in such a way as if ḥarām is very normal. They don’t know what is sin and what is ḥarām. It is so different now that Qiyāmah is very near. But people are thinking that if they take more from dunyā, they will live eternally. Whereas, they don’t know that they will be accounted for it. It is not easy to give account when you do ḥarām consciously. Many people don’t know which things are ḥarām. But when someone does ḥarām consciously, it is very bad, for they object Allah ﷻ directly and go against Allah’s ﷻ orders. It is not a good thing. In this world, no one will eat something he knows is bad for him or drink poison. But sins and ḥarām are worse than poison. They won’t give you any benefit. They will only give you harm, nothing else. We should know this. We should pay attention to this.

They say “It’s a sin and ḥarām” to unrelated things. And they don’t care about the real sins and the ḥarām things, saying they are ḥalāl. They do them. They run after these things only caring about having money. When you do ḥarām consciously, it will bring no benefit to you and your children. There will be no Barakah. There will be nothing. Little ḥalāl is much better than a lot of ḥarām.

The things we see every day are surprising to people. There are many ignorant people who show the European lifestyle as normal here. People say what they do very normally. What you do is a sin, a big sin. How are you doing this? Are you not Muslim? Are your parents not Muslim? Even in Europe and non-Muslim countries, they know that the things you do are forbidden and not good. They do everything wrong and then go to the priest and have their sins forgiven by giving money. We don’t have such a thing. You must not commit sin. But they know that it is a sin. They go to churches, to the priest to have their sins forgiven. And our people don’t understand that much. They don’t even know that what they do is ḥarām. They talk about it very freely.

Very strange things are happening. As our Holy Prophet ﷺ said, “It makes the forbearing one confused.” They leave people in astonishment. People are thinking “Is it ok? Did they study this?” Our people founded Imam-Hatip schools to bring up Muslims. And instead of bringing up good people, they are making their own Fatwā to use them. This is not useful to the country, and it is not useful to them. There will be benefit neither in dunyā nor in ākhirah. They need the training and education of the Mashāyikh so that they can be improved. There are thousands of Imam-Hatip schools. But people are more into sins. They have fallen in such a condition because there is no sincerity. A child who learns by himself comes clean. And with things taught there, he leaves with a confused mind. If he has ‘iman, he loses his ‘iman as well. And by teaching two words by heart, they want to get away with their salaries. If they get away with a salary, it is fine. But they lead people to commit sins instead of leading them to do goodness. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

May Allah ﷻ protect Muslims from this time. The things that are done and the time we are living in are very upsetting. We don’t approve of them. May Allah ﷻ forgive us. We can only speak this much. We cannot change them with our hands, so we try at least with the tongue. We don’t accept these sins and this injustice. We are away from that. May Allah ﷻ forgive us. May Allah ﷻ protect us from ḥarām.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 24 August 2021/16 Muharram 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah