Inner Beauty is the Real Beauty

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 Sheikh Abdullāh al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistāni, Sheikh Muḥammad Nāẓim al-Ḥaqqānī. Madad. Ṭarīqatunā aṣ-Suḥbah wa l-Khayru fi l-Jam‘iyyah.

Insha’Allah our gathering is for Allah ﷻ. Allah ﷻ bless you and bless us insha’Allah. AlhamduliLlah Allah ﷻ gave us this favor: to be Muslim. Because people don’t know about this beauty. They try to imitate this beauty that Allah ﷻ gave, and they think that they can make a better one. Allah ﷻ loves beauty. The Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says, “Allah ﷻ is Beautiful and He ﷻ loves beauty.”

Beauty must come from the inside and it goes outside; not from the outside coming inside, but from the inside going outside. The real Mu’mins and Muslims were doing this. They were giving beauty from the inside to the outside. Even in their buildings, their structures, their cities; beauty was hiding behind walls. It’s only a wall that you see, but if you go inside, you see a beautiful house or a beautiful place. Whereas the buildings of Non-Muslims are open on the outside so everybody can see. And they think that it’s very beautiful but when going inside, nothing.

Five days ago we were in a city in France, they said that there’s a palace near our place. My sister Hajjah Rukiyya likes old palaces. They told us that they want to take us there to see it. We went there. From the outside it was very nice, a good, big and strong building; it looks good and nice from the outside. When we went to go inside, they said that people from the government make it as a house for them, and they open it very few times for the public to see inside. I told Hajjah Rukiyya, “Don’t worry, the outside is nicer than the inside.” [Mawlana laughs]. There’s nothing inside. AlhamduliLlah we went today to a château here near a very nice lake; it’s a very good place. The scenery is very beautiful outside. We went inside, it was like the place they put horses or cows [Mawlana laughs].

People are only looking at the outside. Islam is looking at the inside. It is more important because when you have something inside, you are happy. If you are living in a place like the cows’ or horses’ place, then what’s the benefit of the outside being very beautiful? This [point] is not only for buildings. This is especially for those who take their religion, empty it from beauty and just put hard and difficult things. You don’t feel a good feeling [regarding that]. What’s the problem? It is because they don’t follow the real teaching of Sayyidina ‘Isa and Sayyidina Musa. They are not following this at all. They made up another thing. They [these prophets] are beautiful people. And where is this beauty coming from? It is from the beauty of Allah ﷻ. And when they leave this beauty and they want to change as they like, there won’t any beauty anymore.

We have the same problem in Islam; they want to change this beauty to ugliness. There is an enemy or opposite for everything; for white there is black. The enemy of these people are Sufi people. All of these nice things happening are with the Sufi who are following and keeping this beauty from the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam until today. And now we see everywhere, these people are making ugly buildings and ugly things. They like everything ugly, they don’t like beauty. And many people are cheated by them, and they show Islam as ugly.

For this, many Non-Muslim people, when you say Sufi, they are happy, they like it. Everybody likes it. Nobody says that this is ugly. Most people have no problem with Sufi. Sufi means who are exactly following the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. He’s ﷺ the most beautiful one in this world and he ﷺ likes beauty. And everything he’s ﷺ done is to show us this beauty. But when you say Islam, people run away. These ugly people made people think that Islam is ugly. It is the same with other people. Who loves reality, loves beauty and will find it insha’Allah.

You see that with money, you cannot get beauty. With money, you only get ugliness. Because there’s no sincerity and nothing good. And these people with this money, destroy the Ummah and destroy the world. So this money is not good. But there’s a short time [left] for these people. They cannot be for a long time because they are liars, and they don’t have a good behavior or good intention. There’s nothing good in these people. Maybe with money they survive a little bit, but when the money finishes, they will be finished.

This existed from the time of the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam or even from the time of Adam ‘alayhi s-salam, this [confrontation] between beauty and ugliness. Peace is beauty, war is ugly. Musa ‘alayhi s-salam, Isa ‘alayhi s-salam, Dawud ‘alayhi s-salam, Yusha ‘alayhi s-salam, all of them were fighting ugliness. They didn’t want war. But for peace, they were defending and taking ugliness away from people. So the chosen people whom Allah ﷻ loves are showing people the way, the way of beauty, the way of happiness. Beauty means happiness. What’s important is the inner beauty. The inner beauty is the real beauty. The outside is not important and it’s not forever. Inner beauty is forever. May Allah ﷻ give us all - AlhamduliLlah you have this. Insha’Allah may it be forever with us.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 26 June 2022/ 27 Dhu l-Qiʻdah 1443 Maghrib Prayer – Sufland, Germany