A Chance in These Ten Days

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.

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm:

(Qur’ān 89:01-02). ‘Wa l-Fajr 01 Wa Layālin ‘Ashr’, ‘By the dawn 01 And [by] ten nights.’ We are in these days, the ten days of the beginning of Dhu lHijjah. These are the most blessed days in the year.

Allah ﷻ rewards you for what you do with His ﷻ Generosity without counting. We make charity, Tasbih, read Qur’an and Surahs, make prayers. Allah ﷻ gives not double but maybe a hundred times or a thousand times for all of this, He ﷻ knows insha’Allah. As much as we can do, we get blessings and benefit. For spiritual and physical also. Because it’s important for your soul. And if you do something good for your soul, it becomes good for your body also.

We can do this and on the other hand, for these blessed days, for the sake of Allah ﷻ and for respecting these days, you must control yourself to not do a bad thing, a Haram thing. Maybe this is more important than worship. You do worship every time without looking what’s right or not, but to leave a bad thing you do, a bad habit, anything against the order of Allah ﷻ is also more important than that.

All the time when the three months: Rajab, Sha’ban and Ramadan began, people were leaving every bad thing they were doing as drinking, gambling or any bad thing. They were respecting and were not doing that in these three months. Many of them, because of this good intention, were not going back to this bad thing after the three months.

And we are now in these ten days only, you must try to leave this bad thing and remember these blessed days, Allah ﷻ will reward you for this. If you leave it ten days for Allah ﷻ, insha’Allah Allah ﷻ helps you to leave this bad thing that you do forever. May Allah ﷻ help us because it is difficult to leave a bad habit, to leave a bad thing. Because it looks like you’re controlling yourself strongly. But to free yourself from this, you must look for a chance like these days. Maybe insha’Allah after we finish these days, you’ll get used to leaving this bad thing and you’ll be free from it insha’Allah. Allah ﷻ will be happy with you, the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam will be happy with you and you will be happy insha’Allah with this.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 30 June 2022/ 01 Dhu l-Hijjah 1443 Fajr Prayer - Royal Ottoman Society Centre, Germany