A Trap in the Last Breath

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.

When a person reaches the end of his life, may Allah ﷻ protect us, the shaytan confronts him in his last breath and wants him to pass away without Iman. What he shows as true is false and the false is true. Whatever the shaytan shows leads the person to hell. In order to pass away with Iman in the last breath, one must do goodness and carry out the orders of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla in this world. Insha’Allah he will pass away with Iman. In order to pass away with Iman, as we said, he must pray and follow a way, follow a Madhhab for not to be lost or misled.

The trick of shaytan before reaching the last breath is to put a doubt about Islam. He wants to place doubt in people’s hearts and says, “This is good, this is bad, this is not right. Why are you following Madhhab? Why are you following Tariqah?” He wants to push them away from them by saying there isn’t such a thing and to make them dislike them. Who doesn’t like them will fall into the hands of shaytan in his last breath.

Even if someone is not in Tariqah, he must certainly be in a Madhhab, in either of the four Madhhabs. As there is nothing we can follow apart from them. Certainly, there were many Madhhabs. After our Holy Prophet ﷺ, every Sahabah was considered a Madhhab. But later, they decreased in number. And others are not accepted now, apart from these true four Madhhabs. There is nothing else. You can follow if there is something else, but there isn’t any other Madhhab that is from Ahlu s-Sunnah wa lJama’ah.

Now shaytan wants people to leave them, because they are the biggest enemies of shaytan. They are castles that protect people. Madhhabs are castles that protect our Iman. If you say, “I will look up in Qur’an. I will look up in something else. I will do according to my own mind”, you will fall into the hands of shaytan in the last breath. And then you will go to hell. May Allah ﷻ protect us. The shaytan will say, “Believe in me” with water in his hands. People get very thirsty in their last breaths. The shaytan will say, “If you believe in me, I will give you water”. Certainly, a person who acts according to his own mind will fall into that trap. But a person with a strong castle will certainly pass easily. He will not fall into that trap. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

This is the state of our world today. Muslims are falling into big traps. They assume they are on the Haqq/right way, whereas they are on the false way. May Allah ﷻ protect us. May Allah ﷻ protect our Iman. May we pass away with our Iman in our last breath insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 15 August 2022/ 17 Muharram 1444 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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