Middle is Best

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 salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam says that the middle of everything is best. Exaggerating is not good, says our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. You must go on the middle way in everything. Don’t try to perform a lot of worship all at once, because afterwards you won’t be able to do it at all. It will be hard. But people who keep in the middle can keep it going. It is so for all aspects, not only for praying and worshiping. It is the same in worldly matters as well. You must go in the middle. It is not good to lean towards this side or that side. People who go on the middle way are comfortable.

People of the present time call it stress now. It is because of exaggerating. When they want something, they get attached to it and obsess over it. And they want all of it. “Let it be half.” “No.” People want it to be perfect. When they are in trouble and they have to do something, they do the same; “I have to do it perfectly. I want to have it all. Everything must be perfect”. That is difficult. Nothing is perfect in this world. Apart from Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla and our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam, everything has a flaw. Nothing can be perfect 100%.

Therefore, out of the mercy of our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam to us, Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla gave this to the Ummah for the honor of our Holy Prophet ﷺ so that they are in the middle. ‘ ’, ‘Wa kadhalika ja’alnākum ‘ummatan wasatāa’, ‘Thus We have appointed you a middle nation.’ (Qur’ān 02:143). It is said in the Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan. The Ummah is in the middle. The people before them had tougher orders, and they had to carry out all of them. Fortunately, we are the luckiest Ummah. We are from the Ummah of our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam. For the honor of our Holy Prophet ﷺ, whatever you do, Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla will accept it. No need to exaggerate. May Allah ﷻ let us be consistent on this beautiful way insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

There are recited Qur’an Khatms, Yasin, Surahs and Ayat, Tasbihat and Salawat. Our brothers from all over the world have recited them for today and gifted them to us. We gift them firstly to our Holy Prophet ﷺ, to his Ahlu l-Bayt and Sahabah, the souls of all Anbiya, Awliya, Asfiya and Mashayikh, especially to the soul of our Shaykh Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, the souls of all of our late relatives. May their good goals be reached and may it be the means of happiness here and hereafter. May it be the means for not separating from the right way. For goodness to come and evil to be gone.

Li-Llahi Ta’ala l-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 27 May 2022/ 26 Shawwal 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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