Beautiful Souls

Host: I want to welcome you in the name of the Center of Schweibenalp. It is our pleasure and our honor that Sheikh Muhammad and the Naqshbandi family is coming to visit. The tradition of the Naqshbandi family in Schweibenalp is very long.

You see this hat on my head, it is GrandSheikh Muhammad Nazim alHaqqani, the Truthful, al-Qubrusi an-Naqshbandi who gave me this hat. It is one of the many signs that he gave to this young friend and disciple more than 30 years ago. In 1984 he arrived here in a VW van with two Ibrahims from Canada and I don’t know where. He came and when he saw the pictures of our inspirer and founder he said, “Oh! That’s the one who sent me here.” And he actually stood at that corner when I came.

The first thing he always said when he opened a speech, “It is by divine association that we can only be here together.” It is only by divine association that we are now together, and we are sharing this space. And it was so lovely to be many times in the Prayer/Dua of the Naqshbandi. Thank you for leaving us in the Prayer/Dua Sheikh Muhammad. My beloved wife Andrea, it’s her first time with all of you, she said, “So many beautiful souls.” That’s the only thing she said. We are very happy to have you here. Thank you very much for being here. As-Salāmu ‘alaykum.

Mawlana: Wa ʿalaykum s-salam wa rahmatuLlahi wa barakatuh. Thank you for your hospitality. Our Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says that you must thank people. When you thank people, you thank Allah ﷻ. This is our Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam’s teaching for good manners and good behaviors. We learn every good behavior from them, and they this is what they teach.

For this, when you have good manners and good behavior, your soul becomes more beautiful, with more light and more goodness. For this, when some people go to some place, everybody will be affected by this good thing. You can’t see this good thing but you can feel it, you get affected by it. And sometimes if a bad one is coming to some place, he makes the whole place miserable and bad. Why? Because he’s not feeling good towards people, and not wanting good for people, he doesn’t have any good intention. For this, he makes people miserable.

But when you are doing this for the sake of Allah ﷻ, to please Him ﷻ – He ﷻ is pleased with people who have mercy for other people, who want good for them. In everything, they want good for them. These people are believers who believe that when they want good for people, it will not be less for them, but it will be more for them also. But in the material world, they don’t know this spiritual thing. And they think that if another one becomes good, they will be less good or it will not be good for them. So they must be good and the others don’t matter. The others are not important for them. This is teaching of the material world.

We are living in this material world. The whole world is like this now, but there are places that teach goodness, teach beauty and mercy for people. Who understands is clever. Who doesn’t understand, even if he’s a professor or a doctor or has any high rank in university or in life, if he doesn’t understand this, he will be all the time envious of other people.

Since a long time in our country, they are leaving the dogs and cats free, not doing anything to them. But here, they said that if you leave one cat, after three years they may become ten thousand cats. You look, they are even thinking about this. In our country, we believe that Allah ﷻ created them and Allah ﷻ is responsible for them, for their Rizq/provision, and for everything’s Rizq. Even these animals understand this more and better than professors in this world, the material world.

We must insha’Allah help people. We like to invite people to this, “House of Peace”. Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla said to come to peace, and not go to another place. He called them to come but they are running away from this. Why are they doing that? Because they are following the teachings of bad people, the ideas of bad people, and material things. They don’t have enough intelligence to think that there is spiritual and spirituality. May Allah ﷻ give us this nice idea, and to live with this and to die with this.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 24 June 2022/ 25 Dhu l-Qiʻdah 1443 Jum’ah Prayer – Schweibenalp, Switzerland