The Sultan of Months

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.

The beauty of the holy month of Ramadan comes from the abundance of worship in it. Therefore, compared to other months, it is different. It is more beautiful for people and believers. Of course, there are other months, and all of them are blessed. But Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla made this month of Ramadan special to the Ummah of our Holy Prophet ﷺ.

Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla says, “Rajab is My month”. Sha’ban is the month of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. And this month is the month of the Ummah. Therefore, we were ordered to perform more worship. It is a present for us. The more orders people carry out, the more presents will believers attain. This beauty given by Allah ﷻ comes from that.

They call it the Sultan of the eleven months. Indeed, the month of Ramadan is so. There is fasting and there is Sahur. Sahur is considered a Nafl worship. Fasting without Sahur is possible, but our Holy Prophet ﷺ tells us to have Sahur. Even to get up to drink water is also considered Sahur. Who eats from the night before and does not get up from his bed misses Sahur. He deprives himself from this Barakah and Thawab, and it is more difficult. Everything that Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla and our Holy Prophet ﷺ show us are of benefit for us both spiritually and physically. That is why Sahur is important. To have it is good.

After that, there is fasting. And then there is Tarawih prayer after ‘Isha. It is Sunnah of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. Of course, during the time of our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, in order not to make it Fard, he used to pray it once or twice in Jama’ah and complete it at home. They started praying it in Jama’ah later during the time of Sayyidina Omar radiya Llahu ‘anhu. It is Sunnah of our Holy Prophet ﷺ and Sunnah of Khulafāʾi Rāshideen; they are the same.

Tarawih is prayed as twenty Rakaʿāt. They have made up new things now like “We can skip it, or pray it less.” It had been prayed as twenty Rakaʿāt for centuries. Only lately in the end of times, with the Fitnah of shaytan, they started saying, “We should pray eight Rakaʿāt. Arabs pray so”. How do Arabs pray it? If you want to do like Arabs do, they pray twenty Rakaʿāt in Ka’bah. They pray twenty Rakaʿāt in Madina Munawwarah. And they make it with Khatm. Do it like them then. They say, “No. Eight Rakaʿāt are enough”.

Shaytan is doing everything he can so that people attain less virtue. There are many people who don’t pray and who don’t fast anyway. He says, “They are already in our hands”. Shaytan and his associates are striving so that these people are deprived from virtues too. We shouldn’t listen to them. The more worship we do in this month, the more virtues it brings insha’Allah. May Allah ﷻ bless it and may Allah ﷻ increase its Barakah insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 03 April 2022/ 02 Ramadan 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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