The Stars of Guidance

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.

Our Holy Prophet ﷺ says,

“Aṣhābī kā n-nujūm bi ayyihim uqtadaytum ahtadaytum”. The Sahabah of our Holy Prophet ﷺ are like the stars. Whomever you follow from them, you reach guidance. No word can be said above these words of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. Therefore, showing respect and honoring the Sahabah is honoring our Holy Prophet ﷺ. Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla had chosen them to be friends and companions to our Holy Prophet ﷺ. Their ranks are high. The stars are very high.

To talk about their actions after so much time without knowing... People forget what they did yesterday and tell it in a different way. And it is not in your authority to judge matters of hundreds of years, more than a thousand years ago. Whoever starts judging is a person with bad intentions. Whoever shows the good as bad and the bad as good is shaytan, a person who follows shaytan. Therefore, what we should do, what should bother us is our own ego.

The saying of our Holy Prophet ﷺ is an order for us. We don’t interfere in other things. It is not Fard, it is not Sunnah. You cannot change anything. Those are past events. And it is unclear what had happened and what they did. Most of the time, the things we know as bad are in fact explained wrongly. Bad scholars and oppressors have shown good ones as bad and bad ones as good.

Therefore, they are not our duty. It is not our duty to analyze them. We follow what our Holy Prophet ﷺ says. Wherever there are Sahabah, we visit them if we are nearby and show respect to them. And if we are far away, we ask for their Barakah and when we say Ihda’/dedication every time we recite, Shukr to Allah ﷻ. As we said yesterday, our Tariqah is showing pure and clean Islam to everyone., “Wa ‘ala Sahabati Rasuli-Llahi ajma’in” – We show respect to all the Sahabah and send them peace and blessings.

Therefore, it is not good to be involved in Fitnah. It doesn’t bring any goodness to people. It brings badness, darkness and no Barakah. It weakens Iman. There are all kinds of evil in it. You should look superficially. Don’t analyze by wondering what it is that our Holy Prophet ﷺ said. You can analyze the conditions of the oppressors and misled people. In order to destroy the religion, Kharijites and Batinis came out. There are various types of them. You can look at them in order not to fall in danger.

Otherwise, if there is, “Su’i Zann”, evil presumptions regarding the Sahabah, don’t look at it at all. Don’t bother at all. Sickness may enter your heart. When sickness enters the heart, may Allah ﷻ protect us, people cannot be saved. May Allah ﷻ let us attain the Himmah and Barakah of Ahlu l-Bayt of our Holy Prophet ﷺ and his Sahabah insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 13 February 2022/12 Rajab 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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