Don’t Ask for Patience

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 tells us out of mercy, grace and kindness, “Don’t ask for patience”. Patience is tough. Therefore, we have to make Dua: “May Allah ﷻ give us easiness. May He ﷻ not give us hardship in anything we do.” Because some people say, “Let me have a trouble to be patient with it.” They assume that it is easy.

Therefore, our Holy Prophet ﷺ had said from the beginning not to ask for it. With patience comes hardship. Not everyone can handle it. There are very few people who can handle it. Certainly, some people are afflicted. Afflictions fall on them like rain, one coming before the other one is over. But they are patient people. Some people rebel immediately. Therefore, without any rebellion our Holy Prophet ﷺ says to us, “Don’t ask for patience”.

Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla has many manifestations. One of them is the manifestation of test, and there is the manifestation of Ihsan/beneficence. We are not people of test. We cannot do with a test. And Ihsan/beneficence means that He ﷻ gives such beautiful things that we should always ask for that Ihsan/beneficence. May He ﷻ always treat us with Ihsan/beneficence. May He ﷻ not test us with diseases, poverty and children. May He ﷻ not test relatives, husbands and wives with each other. May Allah ﷻ give everything with Ihsan/beneficence. We should make such a Dua. Otherwise, as we said, people of real patience are very few.

People assume that they will get closer to Allah ﷻ by suffering. It is right. The most afflicted people with troubles are the Prophets, and then comes; then those who resemble them, then those who resemble them [Hadith]. Some people think about it and want to be like the Prophets. Where are you and where are the Prophets? If people were given even a drop from their ocean of patience, it would be enough for all of them. Therefore, don’t ask for it. You cannot carry it. They say, “I can”. You cannot carry it at all. May Allah ﷻ protect us. It is difficult. May Allah ﷻ not give anyone a burden they cannot carry. And may people not ask for it themselves. May Allah ﷻ protect us. May Allah ﷻ give us all from His ﷻ Ihsan/beneficence.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 05 June 2022/ 06 Dhu l-Qiʻdah 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

www.hakkani.org