The Iman of Awliyau’llah

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.

We are living in a time that’s difficult for the whole world. Before, it was for some countries and not for other countries. But now it’s difficult for the whole world. As a Mu’min, you must not be afraid from this. It is already known what Allah ﷻ will give a person. When he’s in his in mother’s womb, Allah ﷻ writes what he’ll get in this Dunya.

Awliyau’Llah are the only ones who are not afraid of that. Other people are all the time worried, “What will happen? What if we can’t find something to eat? We will not find something to drink.” Normal people are afraid but Awliyau’Llah are not afraid at all from this. Some of them if they get more, they get afraid, asking, “What happened? Maybe Allah ﷻ is not haappy with me so He ﷻ gave me this.” Some of them are happy, they’re not asking.

One ‘Awliya from the center of Turkey, his name is Hamidu Vali known as Somuncu Baba, the father of bread; he baked bread. And he is the Sheikh of Hacı Bayram, a very famous one in Turkey also. Once one of his Murids who was big then was asking him for permission and blessings, Barakah to plant a land with wheat. Vali said to him, “Okay you have permission, but give me the first half of the land that you planted and the second half is for you.” The Murid was happy, he thought, “Okay why not. My Sheikh asked for half, it is a good thing for me to serve him and to help him.” They agreed and he planted this land. Sheikh Hamidu told him, “Divide the land in half; one part for you and one part for me. I must know which one is for me.” When the wheat grew, the wheat in the part of this Murid was very good and very strong, and the other side was very weak. Then Sheikh Hamidu came and said, “Let me first look at what happened there.” He came and looked, there was one side that was very strong and in the other side there’s nearly nothing. He asked, “Which one is for me?” The Murid was very embarrassed and thought to himself, “What will I do, I’m ashamed to say that this is yours and that is mine.” He showed him the good part and told him, “This is

yours and that is mine.” When the Sheikh saw this he didn’t become happy, he was very sad and not happy at all. He said, “What have I done to get this? What fault did I do that Allah ﷻ gave me this?” He was very sad and very unhappy. So the Murid said, “I said that that is mine and this is yours just to make you happy but that wasn’t good also.”

Some of them were like this. They like to take the burden off people, to sacrifice themselves for helping people and not to be better than people. They know that this is a test. And if Allah ﷻ tests them they are happy; if not, they are unhappy. From their Iman, they know that what Allah ﷻ gives, nobody can prevent. This is what people are not understanding so they’re unhappy. May Allah ﷻ give us from their Iman insha’Allah; to accept and be happy all the time in insha’Allah. And to be happy with our Lord insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 27 June 2022/ 28 Dhu l-Qiʻdah 1443 Fajr Prayer – Sufland, Germany