Spirituality Gives Taste for Everything

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 49:13). ‘Yā ‘Ayyuhā n-Nāsu ‘Innā Khalaqnākum Min Dhakarin Wa ‘Untha Wa Ja’alnākum Shu’ūbāan Wa Qabā’ila Lita’ārafū Inna ‘Akramakum Inda Allāhi ‘Atqākum’, ‘O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you.’

Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla describes in this Ayah: He ﷻ created us from man and woman, and made us tribes and nations. Who is the most acceptable for Allah ﷻ? The one who fears from Allah ﷻ.

This verse is from 1,400 years ago. At that time, it was such a big thing for human beings, to say this to people. They don’t have the idea of accepting anyone from the lower people. The higher people thought that they are the only human beings and others are not human beings. This was all around the world, not only in one place. The whole world had this idea.

In these days, there are people who think that they have civilization. And they are proud of this civilization saying, “We are making human beings do anything. Nobody can say anything to them.” And they think that they’ve been like this since thousands of years. No, they only became like this since maybe 50, 60 years. The law of human beings – they can many times make laws for the color of people, for the language of people, for the shape of people. They can make any law like that in their [country’s] law and all laws. And they change them every time

because they are not creators, they are creatures. And the creature cannot know what is good and what is not good in all situations. Every time, they’re changing them. But the heavenly law – Allah ﷻ created us, He ﷻ knows what He ﷻ does, how He ﷻ creates us, from where we are and what we are. He ﷻ knows all of this and He ﷻ put the best law for us. More than a thousand years ago, this verse, Ayah was given to the Prophet ﷺ to make people know what is best, what is good and what is not good.

There are many Ayat, but this one is enough for human beings to accept the reality of our Creator. If people accept it and know that it is good for them, there will be peace for humanity. Because they will know that nobody is better than the other in shape or color, man or woman, child or old. All of this is not important. The only important thing is to accept Allah ﷻ and to respect Him ﷻ.

What is fear from Allah ﷻ? The Mu’min, believer doesn’t fear from Allah ﷻ in this meaning. To fear means to fear making Allah ﷻ not happy with him. Because Allah ﷻ is – we say in beginning of the Qur’an [recitation], “Bismi Llahi rRahmani r-Rahim” “By the name of Allah the Most Merciful.” The Mu’min doesn’t fear from Allah ﷻ that He ﷻ will punish us or He ﷻ will do this or that, but he fears to make Allah ﷻ not happy with him.

Allah ﷻ is happy with all the people who make a mistake and ask for forgiveness. Because His ﷻ most favorite attribute is His ﷻ Mercy. The Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says in one Hadith, “If you don’t do a mistake and ask for forgiveness, if you’re like an angel, Allah ﷻ will create people to make mistakes and to forgive them.”

For this, Tariqah gives people good tidings about this, not making people hopeless that they won’t have anything from the Mercy of Allah ﷻ. They forget this. Many people make other people be afraid, “Allah ﷻ will send you this, He ﷻ will do like this for you.” No, we are alhamduliLlah not hopeless. We know His ﷻ Mercy. Most of these people are making people to not have hope in Allah’s ﷻ forgiveness, whereas Allah ﷻ is happy to forgive people.

Nowadays unfortunately, many people are accepting that and when somebody says a good thing for them, they say “No you are wrong.” But this is from the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. Without his ﷺ Shafa’ah/intercession nobody can save himself from hell. They think that they know religion, they know Qur’an and they pray. They say, “We are not in need for anybody to interfere with

us. We can do without it. No need for Shafa’ah, no need for the Prophet, no need for anything. We will do everything from this [worship] and we will be” - they don’t even know if they can be in Jannah or not but they think that they will save themselves. This is a very dangerous thing that they’re doing. There’s a thing in this world, they say Russian Roulette: they put one bullet and they roll it. But these don’t put one but five [Mawlana laughs]. Because there’s no chance for them. Because when the angel of death comes, at that time - many people know this: when on the death bed, they speak something with people - the shaytan comes and stands there. Those who don’t have a good heart towards the Prophet ﷺ, meaning those who don’t accept him ﷺ and ask Shafa’ah, the shaytan can easily make them leave without Iman in the end of their life. If there’s nothing, only the shaytan will appear there, and they will accept what he says and they will leave without Iman. But who is asking Shafa’ah and is accepting this, when the shaytan appears there, one good man will tell him, “Do not to listen to him, listen to me”, and he will leave with Iman. This a good deed from the one who appears like that and a Shafa’ah from the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. This is a Hadith of the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. He ﷺ told us and described what we will see in the last moments of our life. Everybody must take lesson and strive to do something. They must make a chance for themselves to be safe.

For this, the most important thing is the love of the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, the love of Awliyau’Llah and Mu’minin insha’Allah. This is what Allah ﷻ teaches people. Not only to strive for the material things without any spiritual things. The material will stay here, and the spiritual is going to Akhirah. Without the spiritual, you cannot find any benefit for yourself.

AlhamduliLlah we are all gathering here for the sake of Allah ﷻ. May Allah ﷻ make our spiritual power and Iman strong insha’Allah. To get a strong Iman, you must respect Allah ﷻ and the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. People who don’t have belief, sometimes respect and sometimes don’t respect. But the Mu’min always has good behavior and respect for everything. Disrespect comes from not respecting and not accepting spirituality. Spirituality gives a taste for everything we do.

Yesterday I was saying that 25 or 27 years ago, I visited America. I was eating but there was no taste for anything at all. I was very surprised. A big country – we went from New York to California, from California to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles and San Diego – we ate but there was no taste at all [Mawlana laughs]. This is the biggest superpower material country. But now, I

don’t know why people, with the material things, they forgot to have taste. They only get material things; this is their aim. We were with Mawlana Sheikh in 2001, it was his last long trip, journey. The last stop was in Karachi. These Uzbek-Afghan refugees have a camp in Karachi, they invite us every time we go there. We went and it was a madhouse; people selling meat and other things in the streets. We passed through it. We saw one butcher selling meat and it was black. I thought that they put a blanket on it but it was covered with flies [Mawlana laughs]. Completely [covered] like a blanket. I thought that they put a blanket for the flies not to come on it. Then, we went to a place where they began to bring dishes. It was as if coming from paradise. Each dish coming was more delicious than the other; Pilaf, Börek, Manti, Kebab. First, Mawlana said, “Look how delicious it is.” All the Pakistani people were also very surprised, “What is this! We never ate something like this.” That is the difference between, as Dr. Salim says, plastic food and real food. Without spirituality it is plastic, with spirituality it is the most delicious thing insha’Allah.

May Allah ﷻ give us this taste all the time insha’Allah. To not be cheated with plastic and make our stomach blocked [Mawlana laughs]. Many people say, “Go to Pakistan, go to this” but nobody goes. But to America, they are killing themselves to go there. People are cheated and they are happy. May Allah ﷻ help us insha’Allah to be in the right way and to be with strong Iman insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 02 July 2022/ 03 Dhu l-Hijjah 1443 Kassel, Germany