No Third Option

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 18:103-104). Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla says: ‘Say (O Muhammad SAW): “Shall We tell you the greatest losers in respect of (their) deeds? {103} [They are] those whose effort is lost in worldly life, while they think that they are doing well in work.” {104}.’ “Let Me inform you of those who do the most harm by wasting their lives”, says Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla. People who think that they are doing good deeds, while their deeds are useless and not good, they are the people who will have the biggest disappointment. Because they don’t believe in Allah ﷻ. They don’t believe in the ‘Ayat of Allah ﷻ. Therefore, everything they do has no benefit for them. How can it have benefit for others?

Most people nowadays are like this. They don’t have ‘iman. They don’t have belief in Allah ﷻ. They want to do the things that their egos want. When you do what your ego wants, your ego will turn you into its toy and it will destroy you eventually. You will have wasted your life without earning anything. Your life will be gone. They make death announcements which say that someone lost his life. Indeed, some people lose their lives. It is regarding faithless ones. And they sometimes write without thinking about someone with ‘iman that he lost his life. He didn’t lose his life, he gained it. Those who lose their lives are people who don’t have ‘iman, those who don’t believe in Allah ﷻ.

Everyone has a belief. But when a person doesn’t believe in Allah ﷻ, his belief is useless. A person who believes in his ego has no benefit, only harm. There is no third option in it. Either there is ‘iman, or there is not. Otherwise, there is nothing in between. But everyone has a belief, as we said. Some believe in Allah ﷻ and some believe in shaytan. Ego is also shaytan. A person who believes in his ego and does what his ego wants lives in vain and loses his life eventually.

May Allah ﷻ make us from those who gain their lives, not from those who lose their lives. Every minute is a treasure and a profit for us. We should not lose them. Everyone is looking for treasure, whereas they are wasting their lives in vain. The most valuable thing is our life because our breaths and days are numbered. Therefore, we shouldn’t lose them. May Allah ﷻ help us all. May Allah ﷻ give us a good life here and hereafter so that we don’t live in vain insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 7 September 2021/30 Muharram 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah