Tariqa is a Solid Way

As-Salāmu ‘Alaykum wa Raḥmatullāhi wa Barakātuh. A‘ūdhu Billāhi Minash-shayṭāni r-rajīm. Bismillāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Wa ṣ-Salātu wa s-Salāmu ‘alá Rasūlinā Muḥammadin Sayyidi l-Awwalīna wa l-Akhirīn. Madad yā RasūlAllāh, Madad yā Sādāti Aṣḥābi Rasūlillāh, Madad yā Mashāyikhinā, Dastūr Mawlana Shaykh Abdullāh al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistāni, Shaykh Muḥammad Nāẓim al- Ḥaqqānī. Madad. Ṭarīqatunā aṣ-Suḥbah wa l-Khayru fi l-Jam‘iyyah.

Shukr to Allah ﷻ, our way is coming as the way of truth from our Holy Prophet ﷺ. It comes clean without any bends, badness and misleading. The way is the way of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. Tariqa means the way; it comes from that. The shaytan and his followers have tried to destroy this way many times. However, it has been solid since the beginning. And this way is going on in the same manner, Shukr to Allah ﷻ.

Our Holy Prophet ﷺ tells the Sahabah, there is a Hadith, “You should do ten out of ten. If you don’t do one out of ten, you will be destroyed. And if the Ummah that comes at the end of times does one out of ten, they will be saved. Even if they don’t do nine out of ten, they will be saved”.

There are some Hadith where the Sahabah are told to do everything 100%, that if they skipped 1%, they would perish. There is such a Hadith. And as we said, they were told to do ten out of ten. Why? Because it had to be solid from the beginning. If it was not solid in the beginning, it would have not reached us. Therefore, this way is a solid way. It was handed as such from our Holy Prophet ﷺ to Sayyidina Abu Bakr.

Sayyidina Abu Bakr was a merciful and soft person, may Allah ﷻ be pleased with him. After our Holy Prophet ﷺ, Arabs had started leaving the religion. Their biggest reason was that they had to pay Zakah. They didn’t want to let go of their money. So they said, “We accept everything except giving Zakah. If you accept it, we will stay in the religion. But if you don’t accept it, we will leave the religion”. Sayyidina Abu Bakr was a merciful and soft one, may Allah ﷻ be pleased with him, he said, “If you give not a Dirham but a Kurush less, I will fight you”. Wars took place then, and he got those who went astray back. And then he moved on in the same manner without making concessions. Therefore, this way is the way of truth. It is the beautiful way, the solid way of our Holy Prophet ﷺ, Shukr to Allah ﷻ.

Those who don’t accept Tariqa... People may not join Tariqa. But those who don’t accept it and speak up against it, they will perish, because they will have gone astray. They will have gone out of the way of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. As we said, it is not necessary for everyone to be in Tariqa. It is necessary, actually. But it is voluntary, not Fard and not Wajib. It is a matter of the heart. When it is a matter of the heart, it is fine. But those who attack it and call them Mushrik, they will perish. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

Therefore, we have to be careful. Certainly, Tariqas which are true Tariqas cannot be criticized. Those who don’t follow this way are not Tariqas anyway. May Allah ﷻ protect us. May He ﷻ not separate us from the right way. It is the way that follows the way of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. May we keep going on it insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 12 February 2022/11 Rajab 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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