Reckon with Yourself First

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.

Mankind, especially Muslims should think about their actions every day whether they did good or bad deeds. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ says,. Reckon with yourselves before you are reckoned with. It is good to measure if you are in profit or loss. At night, Muslims should ask themselves, “Did I treat someone wrong? Did I do something bad to anyone?” With things related to Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla, they can repent and ask forgiveness, that will be enough. And if you have to pay someone’s right, when you pay it back; that will be solved too. You will be relaxed, because everything is written.

People in old times used to keep a diary. Nowadays, they don’t keep it anymore. Back then, they would write what they did, where they went. It is a good thing when people write so. If they write down where they went, who is born, who died; it is good and not bad at all. But people nowadays don’t have time to do so because of the TV and smartphones, because of this and that. They say it is the time of speed now. People don’t have any time to sit and write. But people of old times wrote their memories down.

Even if people don’t write now, there is someone who writes for them. But they won’t see it in this world. They will see it on the Day of Judgment. ‘ ’, ‘Kirāmān Kātibīn’, ‘Honorable recorders’ (Qur’ān 82:11) There are angels to the right and to the left. They are honorable creatures, angels created by Allah ﷻ who are free from sin. They don’t write wrong. The one on the right writes down the rewards and the one on the left writes down the sins. The one on the left asks the one on the right, “Shall I write this?” And they wait for one hour, two hours and more. Finally, they write it when the man doesn’t repent. If he repents, it is not written.

Therefore, don’t think that we are living for nothing. Everyone has angels behind him who record his actions every second. We don’t need them. But it is in order to show the justice of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla on the Day of Judgment. If the man says, “I didn’t do so”, it will be shown to him. There is no need. Everyone will see anyway where they did right and where they did wrong. Therefore, before it is written, reckon with yourself first so that you go clean and don’t be embarrassed on the Day of Judgment. Allah ‘Azza waJalla gave these things to everyone. There isn’t anyone who is without an angel. There are millions and billions of them and Allah’s ﷻ possession is great. Allah ﷻ is not short of anything.

Therefore, we should pay attention to this. We shouldn’t take anyone’s right. This is the most important thing. The right of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla can be paid back with repentance. But for the others; Allah ﷻ gave everyone his right out of justice. And He gave everyone the authority over his own right. So he should forgive first, then Allah ﷻ will forgive. May Allah ﷻ protect everyone. May we go with clean books, empty from the left and full from the right insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 9 November 2021/4 Rabīʽ al-Thani 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah