Benefit is by Being with Allah ﷻ

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.

Our Holy Prophet ﷺ says, “Allah ﷻ gave us a long life. The beneficial among you is the one who has a long life and does good deeds”. A man who has a long life but lives uselessly, he is not a beneficial person. He has goodness neither to himself, nor to others.

No one will remain in this world. Therefore, a clever person is the one who works for his Akhirah, who doesn’t waste his time and evaluates every minute. Tariqah is a very beneficial way for people’s lives. Tariqah is the way that leads to our Holy Prophet ﷺ and Allah ﷻ. Whoever joins it always remembers Allah ﷻ, makes His ﷻ Dhikr and does not forget Allah ﷻ. When he doesn’t forget, his life does not go in vain.

Life is passing no matter how long you live. The woman who was the longest reigning queen in the world died yesterday. This is excluding old times. Pharaoh had lived for 400 years in old times. There were kings who lived a very long life in old times. But the longest reigning queen of England in our time, the most magnificent ruler in the world just died. Allah ﷻ knows how He ﷻ will evaluate her life and treat her. That is between her and Allah ﷻ. We cannot interfere in that. We should mind ourselves.

You can be a Sultan, a king, or a normal person, it has benefit only when you are with Allah ﷻ. If you are away from Allah ﷻ, you can be a Sultan for a thousand years, it will have no benefit to you. When you are with Allah ﷻ, when Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla is happy with you, you will be in profit. The Sahabah knew this and applied it in their lives. During the time of Sahabah, to become a Shaheed, to die on the way of Allah ﷻ was their greatest wish.

Arab tribes asked our Holy Prophet ﷺ to send people from his Sahabah who’d teach them Qur’an. They were big tribes. In old times, when someone from people said, “They are under my protection”, that protection was real. But sometimes there were people who didn’t do so. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ sent seventy Sahabah to those tribes. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ had sent them to a leader of one tribe thinking they were safe. He ﷺ told them to invite him to Islam as well on the way. That man had been offered it by our Holy Prophet ﷺ before. But he had suggested to become partners and share it equally. He said he’d become Muslim by showing such rudeness. And when our Holy Prophet ﷺ didn’t accept it, he held a grudge.

When the messenger came - Wherever a messenger is, his life must be in safety both in old times and now. The leader gave a sign to a man to kill the messenger when he arrived. The man who was given the sign immediately hit the messenger with a dagger that entered the back of the holy Sahabah and came out from his chest. Right at that moment when the blood was flooding, the Sahabah took his blood and started applying it on his face and hands. And when they started applying it, he said “I won! For the sake of The God of Ka’bah, I won!”.

The man who made the Sahabah Shaheed got surprised; “A man is dying. What did he win?” “He lost his life” as people say now. He said, “No, I didn’t lose it. I won it!”. He asked, “What did you win?”. They said, “To become Shaheed is the highest rank for Muslims. He won it now”. The man got interested in it, and by asking and learning, he became Muslim eventually when he found out about this beauty. Winning life is by being with Allah ﷻ. May Allah ﷻ let us win our Akhirah. May there be guidance for people insha’Allah. May they not live for nothing.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

There are recited Qur’an Khatms, Yasin, Tabaraka, Salawat, Tahlils and Takbīrs from all over the world. May Allah ﷻ be pleased with them. May Allah ﷻ accept all of them. We dedicate them first of all to the soul of our Holy Prophet ﷺ, his Ahlu l-Bayt and Sahabah, to the souls of all Anbiya, Awliya, Asfiya, the souls of our Mashayikh, our Shaykh Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, Hala Sultan and Hajjah Anne Sultan, and the souls of all our late relatives. For goodness to come and evil to be gone. On the intention of Shifa/cure.

Li-Llahi Ta’ala l-Fatihah.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 09 September 2022/ 13 Safar 1444 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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