Don’t Get Into Arguments

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 that when someone argues with you, don’t respond to him. Someone was saying very bad words to Sayyidina Abu Bakr raḍiya Llāhu ‘anhu, Sayyidina Abu Bakr was not saying anything back. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ was smiling there and didn’t say anything. The man pressed against him more and more that Sayyidina Abu Bakr couldn’t tolerate it anymore and responded to him. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ stopped smiling and left the place. Sayyidina Abu Bakr understood the attitude of our Holy Prophet ﷺ, so he went immediately after him. “Did I do something that made you upset? You were smiling when the man was telling me bad things. And when I replied to him, your smile disappeared and you left”. He ﷺ said, “No matter how much bad words he was saying, there was an angel in front of him who was responding to him. That’s why I was smiling. And when you started replying, the angel ran away and shaytan came instead. I don’t like it and I don’t stay where there is shaytan. That’s why I left”.

This is a teaching for us about the situation of this world. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ is the greatest teacher. When there is an argument, no need to get into it. The shaytan will certainly join it. You can be the right one as much as you want, or defend yourself as much as you want, there is no benefit. There is nothing but harm.

Therefore, don’t get into an argument. If something happens, keep quiet without responding and leave. Or if you stay, don’t respond. The more you reply, the worse it gets because there is no angel there. There are only shaytans who make a party in rejoice and say, “Look, we made Fitnah and they are fighting now”. This is what shaytan likes, to raise hell between people. Therefore, when everyone shouts that he is right in order to defend his right, there is no right anymore. There is nothing but harm.

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim used to also say not to get into an argument. No matter who you are and how right you are, don’t try to prove your right in an argument, because the one in front of you doesn’t understand. Allah ﷻ knows, that is enough. May Allah ﷻ protect us from the conditions and the evil of the end of times.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 14 February 2022/13 Rajab 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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