Show Goodness Not Badness

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 whoever does something good, people will do like him. If he shows the beautiful way of Allah ﷻ, he earns the same Thawab for the people he was the means of guidance to. Nothing will lack from his Thawab, and it won’t lack from other people. Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla will give the same to all of them.

If you become the means of guidance to one person, you earn for that one. If there is another person, you earn the Thawab of two people. The more people reach guidance and attain knowledge, the more of the Thawab of those people will be written for that person. You earn the same Thawab as the people you become the means of guidance to. People can do so as much as they can. Some people do, some people cannot do. For those who do, as we said, it is beneficial both for those who reach guidance and as much for those who are the means of guidance. They have a lot of benefit.

On the other hand, if a person shows the bad way, the sin for doing it goes to him. If it is one person, he gets the sin of one person. If they are two persons, he gets those of the two. If they are a thousand people, he is responsible for the sins of a thousand people. The more people do things that Allah ﷻ is not pleased with, the more sins are written for the person who showed this wrong way. He gets a sin for every person. While he thinks “I showed the way. I did something good”, he is doing wrong. Goodness is clear and badness is clear. Haram is clear and Halal is clear. The same sins of the people who did them will be written to the person who made the people do them. One person, or a million people, or fifty million people; the same sins, Haram and evil of all of them will be written for that person.

Therefore, we should show the good way in this world. If you are on the bad way, at least don’t show this way to others and don’t let others do this bad thing. Don’t encourage them. If you are afflicted with a sin, when you do it secretly, Allah ﷻ will keep it a secret. If you do it openly and show this way to people, it won’t be good for you. You may become famous in this world, but fame is not good. People who are not on the way of Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla, and who are wrong will be punished for this. Therefore, may Allah ﷻ protect us.

People usually think that they are in gain. They don’t earn anything in Dunya, and they don’t earn anything at all in Akhirah. May Allah ﷻ protect us. May Allah ﷻ make us among those who are right and do the right. The right is clear. But there are many things that people do by force. When they do it by force, Allah ﷻ knows how it is written for them. Allah ﷻ forgives. Then the punishment goes to those who make people do it. May Allah ﷻ not let us show badness to anyone insha’Allah. May we always show goodness insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 19 May 2022/ 18 Shawwal 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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