Help Each Other for Good

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.

Madad ya Mashayikhina Dastur, Madad ya Sadatina, ya Ahlu l-Bayt, ya RasulaLlah Madad. A‘ūdhu bi-Llāhi mina sh-shayṭāni r-rajīm. Bismi Llāhi rRaḥmāni r-Raḥīm:

(Qur’ān 05:02). ‘Wa ta‘āwanū ‘ala l-birri wa t-taqwā wa la ta‘āwanū ‘ala llithmī wa l-‘udwān’, ‘And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression.’ Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla orders this: to help each other, to do good things, to help people and to help everything: human beings or other things. This is the main summary for Mu’min, for Islam.

Islam is not only for our Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. All prophets since ‘Adam until the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam are in Islam. ‘ ’, ‘Inna d-Dīna inda Allāhi l-Islām’, ‘Indeed, the religion in the sight of Allah is Islam.’ (Qur’ān 03:19). There is no difference between any prophet; this is what Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla said, ‘ ’, ‘Lā Nufarriqu Bayna ‘Ahadin Min Rusulih’, ‘We make no distinction between any of His messengers.’ (Qur’ān 02:285). All are in Islam.

Islam means peace, and this is what Allah ﷻ sent for people. Now when they say “Islam” in the world, they are afraid. [They say,] “No. We are Christians. We are Jewish.” Christians and Jewish, all of them since the time of ‘Adam ‘alayhi s-salam are in Islam, the Religion of Allah ﷻ. And the rule for this is to help each other for good things, to help each other with everything: with spiritual and material.

What’s the problem with this? This is a big problem for those who are not following and accepting the prophets. Because they don’t want this. They want to make chaos, to destroy people, to not help people, to torture people; this is what these people want. For this, it is a problem for them to obey what Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla wants for people. He ﷻ had told people through his messengers and prophets to make them do good things. For this, we are now in a time when nobody cares about most of what Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla orders and wants. They don’t believe. They say, “No, we must put something we can benefit from. We calculate and make plans for everything for human beings, to rule them.” The most important thing for them is to rule them, to control them, to make them do what they like them to do. And they’re destroying families and gatherings.

Everything that’s a benefit for humanity is an enemy for them and an aim for them to finish. And they’ve been doing this for years; slowly, slowly, every time making more and more. And in the end, now, they’ve become stronger and they’re making it a little bit faster. Because the time of Najat, salvation is near. For this, there becomes too much rebellion against Allah ﷻ. And Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla is patient until it becomes so high. After that, He ﷻ finishes them. They make a very bad thing come [into people] slowly slowly, without you feeling it finishes you. Like water coming slowly slowly inside [a room] while one’s sleeping, without him feeling, he suddenly sinks and dies. This is what they’re doing, and slowly slowly people are accepting everything now.

A very important thing here is that the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wasallam says that when you see something not good, if you can change it by hand, change it; if not, you can tell them “This is not good”; if not, don’t accept it by your heart. Say, “We cannot do anything, but we don’t accept.” Of course now, in these days, you can never do that by hand. And if you say something they will come against you, so we also cannot speak. So you mustn’t accept this by your heart.

Of course, we human beings have many faults, and we do many wrong things and many sins because we are not angels. But when we do something, we must repent, make Tawbah and ask for forgiveness from Allah ﷻ “AstaghfiruLlah”.

There is one more important point here. When you do wrong, don’t make it publicly, and don’t say “I am like this, I am like that. I do this.” Keep it a secret. This is Bala’, Ibtila’/affliction from Allah ﷻ. You do it and it’s not good of course. But when somebody does a wrong thing, he mustn’t say it or show it to other

people; like drinking or doing the bad things they do. If he does that, he will get more anger from Allah ﷻ on him. Because he is encouraging other people and this is what shaytan wants. When somebody sees a person doing this and people are not saying anything, he thinks “Maybe this is normal. I can also do the same thing.” And so it becomes normal around the Muslim community or other. So this is more dangerous and more unacceptable in Shari’ah and Tariqah.

Sometimes you see a very small group, you think that it’s too big because they make loud voices everywhere. This is to encourage people to come to be like them. For this, our duty is to not give them this chance to do this: encouraging people to be like them.

The Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says that when somebody does a sin and doesn’t tell anybody and only Allah ﷻ knows about it, and he passes away like this, Allah ﷻ is Al Sattar/The Veiler, He ﷻ covers him. And in Qiyamah also. In Dunya, He ﷻ didn’t expose him. And in Akhirah, in Qiyamah also, Allah ﷻ says, “I didn’t make him appear as a bad one between people, and also here”, and He ﷻ forgives him.

Mawlana Sheikh AbduLlah was saying that shaytan works very very hard to make people do bad things. He tires himself and after that Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla gives this chance to people; what he built from big sins and other things, with Allah’s ﷻ mercy, it collapses and all of his tiredness [his work] goes in vain. This is good tidings for the Mu’min, for the believer. Don’t be hopeless; what you do from sins, even if it is like mountains, Allah ﷻ removes them away when you ask for forgiveness and you repent.

For this, we must be careful because not only in Europe but everywhere in the world, everything is nearly the same. Because they say “Global, Global”, you can find everything, every bad thing everywhere. For this, Mawlana was trying to make everything different from other people; our costume, our behavior, what we speak and many things. Mawlana never looked like modern people. Of course, you cannot do all of them, but at least sometimes you must do it. He was very sensitive for everything, to know the meaning of things. Because it’s difficult for people, he wasn’t ordering much difficult things. But by his actions and by his way of life, Masha’Allah thousands of people are imitating him and they are known all around the world as Mawlana Sheikh’s followers.

Mawlana was never making people to be ashamed. Even if something happened, he didn’t say anything. When he’s not happy, he didn’t give a direct order. Many times, we weren’t happy with some people doing some wrong thing. And when we tell him, he every time gives an excuse for them. Once Nabil rahmatu Llahi ‘alayh was saying about a man, “He is like this [bad characters].” Mawlana said, “He’s a shy person.” And this man doesn’t know the meaning of shyness [Mawlana laughs]. This was very funny. When Mawlana said this, everyone there was laughing. This man was making not good things to people, so Mawlana made an excuse for him and said, “He’s shy” while this man doesn’t know the meaning of shyness. Mawlana was like this. He likes to give an excuse for people, even with a joke. He doesn’t like to show the bad things of people for other people not to say, “This man is doing this, and we can do it.” For this, Mawlana covers it. May Allah ﷻ raise his Maqam. Insha’Allah his support is with us AlhamduliLlah. We are feeling him here, insha’Allah his spirituality is here.

May Allah ﷻ accept your Ziyarah/visit. All of you came for the love of Allah ﷻ, for the love the Prophet ﷺ, for the love of Mawlana Sheikh Nazim alHaqqani. May Allah ﷻ keep all of you and all of your families and Muslims safe from these Fitan of the end of times insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 30 June 2022/ 01 Dhu l-Hijjah 1443 Osmanische Herberge, Germany