Spoken from the Mouth of Shaytan

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.

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm:

(Qur’ān 06:116). ‘Wa in tuti’ ‘akthara man fī l-‘ardi yudillūka a’n sabīli Llāh’, ‘And if you obey most of those upon the earth, they will mislead you from the way of Allah.’ Sadaqa Llahu l-‘Azim. Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla says that if you listen to most of the people, they will take you away from the way of Allah ﷻ. They mislead you and you lose your way.

People are like this now and even worse. In old times, there were people who spoke badly. But they spoke to few people and misled those around them. It is much worse now. Even though people are educated, their ignorance has increased. Since the internet and computers appeared, everyone speaks in order to become famous, in order to satisfy their egos. And people listen as if that is true. When they listen – there is no need to listen to someone who is not a scholar anyways. There is no benefit in listening to him. There is only loss.

As Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla said, if you listen to most of the people, most of them will mislead you. It is because they are misled themselves and follow their egos. Whatever they say has no value. And they cross the line so much that they question why it is said like this or like that in the Qur’an; Ḥāshā (far from it). Who are you to interfere in the business of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla? Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla is the one who gave life to you, to me and to everyone. He ﷻ is the one who does whatever He ﷻ wants. Are you, someone who doesn’t know his own business, who lost his own way, going to teach Him ﷻ what to do?

Therefore, it is not permissible to listen to such people. It is not permissible to consider them human. If you say that they are crazy; crazy people have an excuse. They are not held responsible. But these people claim to be clever and want to tell something. What they tell is leading people to ignorance. It is leading people to hell, nothing else. They will get what they deserve. To respect them takes away from your worth. They hear some gossip and then they say this is like this and like that. Many educated people follow them. If you want to follow someone, follow a decent man. Use your mind, once at least. Is Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla in need of you? Are you going to teach Him ﷻ what to do? Who thinks so is ignorant. He is an idiot. He is not crazy, though. But if he was crazy, he’s saved from punishment as he’s not Mukallāf/responsible.

But people who teach this shame, as it’s not knowledge, have no worth. Even to watch them - Mawlana Shaykh Nazim used to say not to watch television. There were various bad scholars appearing on TV saying this one said this and that one said that. Whatever they said was much closer to knowledge compared to this shame they speak now.

This is completely the work of shaytan now. These people speak from the mouth of shaytan. They want to weaken people’s Iman and weaken people’s creed for their personal interest, in order to make a show and to become famous, or for money which is even worse, to be raised, for Dunya. If you are raised in Dunya, you will be lowered in Akhirah if you go on in that way. May Allah ﷻ protect us. May Allah ﷻ protect us from their evil.

Therefore, whatever everyone says or whatever the majority says is not necessarily true. The Haqq/true is the word of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla and the word of our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. May Allah ﷻ let us follow that. May we not leave the right way insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 17 August 2022/ 19 Muharram 1444 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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