Allah ﷻ Only Orders Goodness

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 Sheikh Abdullāh al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistāni, Sheikh Muḥammad Nāẓim al-Ḥaqqānī. Madad. Ṭarīqatunā aṣ-Suḥbah wa l-Khayru fi l-Jam‘iyyah.

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm,

(Qur’ān 04:59). ‘Aṭiū’ Llāha wa aṭiū’ r-Rasūla wa Ūli l-‘Amri minkum’, ‘Obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you.’ Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla says, you must first obey Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla, the Prophet salla Llahu aa’layhi wa sallam and those ruling you. You must first obey Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla. Your I’badah/worshipping, this is the first thing. To be a good human being, you must do this – obey Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla. What He ﷻ orders you is of benefit for you and for all human beings. Because Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla is not ordering bad things, Allah ﷻ only orders the best thing for human beings.

To be a human being you must obey Allah ﷻ. If you are not obeying Him ﷻ, you will be a human being in shape, but actually you’re not; you are another thing. Of course, Prophet salla Llahu aa’layhi wa sallam says the same. He ﷺ is the messenger and he ﷺ is the highest among people. He ﷺ also says the same; nothing different. He ﷺ says what Allah ﷻ orders us, because there must be a means in between. Not everybody can take this from Allah ﷻ, or else it will be a mess. Allah ﷻ put this rule and the Prophet salla Llahu aa’layhi wa sallam made it to be [spread] around this world.

You cannot make His ﷻ rules according to your idea or to your opinion; you must follow them. In Dunya, where you are living, you must obey the ruler of the country you are living in. You cannot do something that they don’t accept. If you do, you will become against Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla’s order. This is an order. Of course, it must not be against the rule of Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla. For worshipping, for I’badah, nobody can interfere with that. But for other things, for your daily life,

what they order, you can do. People must understand this. When they are ordering something against the order of Allah ﷻ, we are not doing this. This is our right, the Muslim right.

First obey Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla because He ﷻ is the Best Ruler. He ﷻ is ordering goodness, not ordering badness. Who wants to do bad things, you cannot prevent him. But who is Muslim and is following Prophet salla Llahu aa’layhi wa sallam, he must first follow him and after that the ruler. Of course, we obey and do not come against [them]. They can say anything, we are not against it. But when they say, “Do this wrong thing. Take drugs. You must drink alcohol. You must eat pork”, we don’t accept this. These are examples, but there are many things. We are not accepting, and they are also not forcing. This must be known. They are trying to do many things, but we don’t do this, because this is against our rights, Muslim rights. There are some things we cannot do, and some things we can do. What Allah ﷻ orders, we can do. What He ﷻ orders us not to do is not good for us and not good for human beings.

We are Muslim, we are Sufi, we are not fighting and not doing anything, but we will not obey what is bad for us and bad for human beings, destroying human beings. If they order badness, this is destroying human beings. For this, for the benefit of human beings, we are not doing bad things insha’Allah. Because Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla never orders bad things. May Allah ﷻ make us to understand this and for people to understand this. Because when they are not understanding, they are causing badness for all human beings. May Allah ﷻ keep us safe from shaytan and his followers who want to do bad things all the time.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 21 March 2022/ 18 Sha’ban 1443 Fajr Prayer, Sheikh Nazim Dergah – London