The Secret of Success

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.

Our Holy Prophet ﷺ says, “When you do something do it well.” Do not leave it unfinished. If you leave it unfinished, you won’t get benefit from that thing and you won’t be rewarded. When you enter a way, any kind of way, look into it thoroughly beforehand and keep it up. Be steadfast. The secret of success is steadfastness.

A Syrian student who was studying in Cyprus came to Mawlana Shaykh Nazim once. He kept asking, “This man has become rich. That man has become rich. How should I do it?” He was not good at school as well. Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, may his station be high, said “Be steadfast. If you set your mind on something, be steadfast and keep it up. Eventually, it will turn out well for you.”

People nowadays run from one thing to another. They start a big business and leave it directly without keeping up. Nothing happens in a day. It requires patience and steadfastness to reach success. Everything nowadays has become simple for people. Everything has a remote control. Yet they hardly press on it. They want everything to happen by itself. There are so many tools to make it simple for you. Nevertheless, people [themselves] have to make everything work, in terms of religion and dunyā. Steadfastness is important. It is something people cannot understand. They immediately say, “I don’t like it. I will get rid of it and get another one”. They get married and say, “I don’t like her. I will leave her and find another one”. It is wrong. When you do so, the world gets messed up and it is hard to pull things together.

Allah ﷻ created both the good and the bad for people. People themselves should make an effort and be steadfast in order to have a good result. It is not good to leave things unfinished. As our Holy Prophet ﷺ said, “Whatever you do, do it well.” A person who is not steadfast does things incompletely and then asks, “Why didn’t I succeed? What is wrong with me?” You are jumping from one place to another. And then you say that it didn’t work out. Certainly, it won’t.

People in old times were more patient. Either Allah ﷻ gave them more patience, or people nowadays are spoiled. They want everything to happen instantly. They don’t have patience and steadfastness. May Allah ﷻ give us steadfastness on the way of Haqq insha’Allah. No one should be steadfast on the bad way. It is not good to be steadfast on the bad way. We should be steadfast on the way of Haqq and the true way. A person who is steadfast on the bad way has no benefit. The benefit is in being steadfast on the way of Haqq and the good way; and that is more difficult. The prior is easier. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 6 September 2021/29 Muharram 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah