Knowledge is Useful with Adab

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

There is no school for students these days as it is summer. Students study and study and are finally receiving their diplomas. Before we returned from Cyprus – Allah ﷻ knows how many universities there are there now. Before, there was one or two universities. Now there is plenty. One of the students, may Allah ﷻ be pleased with him, thought about coming to Dergah when he got his diploma and asked for Dua so that it is good for him. There is just one person who thinks like that. The rest get their diplomas and go to other places to celebrate, not to the Dergah. Some of them celebrate with Haram things, and some do all kinds of things. And then they expect goodness out of it.

What starts badly ends even worse. It is not good knowledge. What makes people do this is not knowledge. It is ignorance that teaches badness, that makes them do badness. Knowledge makes people do goodness, it orders goodness. It orders to be useful. If they want their studies to be useful, it should be useful for themselves before all. But it is good neither for Dunya, nor for Akhirah. When people who think that they are clever and intelligent do so, it means they have neither mind, nor intelligence, nor understanding.

These universities and schools don’t give anything to people. If children have it inside them, it works. If they don’t have it inside them, they go in with Adab and leave without Adab. They go in as clever and leave as stupid. Therefore, when you teach your children, you must teach them good manners and Adab alongside so that it is useful. When it is useful for them, it will be useful for other people, for the country and for the world. Otherwise, if it is not useful for them, it will not be useful for anyone.

For it to be useful, as we said, it should be for the pleasure of Allah ﷻ. They should remember to say “We have it now, let’s make Dua. We shouldn’t start it by spending money and committing sins.” The first step should be the pleasure of Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla. Because when applying to a university and having an exam, children ask for Dua most of the time. But afterwards, they forget about it. They don’t keep up with this beauty, they cannot keep up with that.

These institutions should make them keep up with it. A child who enrolls with Dua is then brought to a useless state and graduates as such. This work is not by the quantity. “We teach so much, to so many.” It should not be by quantity but by quality. Quality comes with Adab and Iman. Otherwise, it is useless. May Allah ﷻ give guidance to children, because all types of badness are taught to them. May Allah ﷻ protect them. They go in with Iman and leave without Iman. May Allah ﷻ protect the children of Islam, because shaytan attacks them the most. May Allah ﷻ protect us and give guidance. May He ﷻ give strength of Iman to us all insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 17 July 2022/ 18 Dhu l-Hijjah 1443 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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