Everything Has a Wisdom

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 40:44). ‘Wa ‘Ufawwidu ‘Amrī ila Allāhi, ‘Inna Allāha Basīrun Bil-‘Ibād’, ‘and I entrust my affair to Allah. Indeed, Allah is Seeing of [His] servants.’ This is something Muslims should do. We have to entrust all our work to Allah ﷻ. We have to leave it to Allah ﷻ. And we have to know that Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla sees and hears His ﷻ servants. Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla is the one who gives them everything. People who know this will become people of Iman.

This is the biggest goal of Tariqah; to submit to Allah ﷻ and leave everything to Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla, to be pleased with it, as everything comes from Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Sometimes mankind wants to do some things. They get upset when it doesn’t happen. And they are happy when it works out. Whereas it is possible that something they are happy with may cause sadness to them later. And what they are upset about may bring goodness to them in the future.

There are many examples for it in Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan. It is the same in life as well. And the biggest example that Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla shows us clearly is the events that had taken place during the journey of Musa ‘alayhi s-salam and Khidr ‘alayhi s-salam mentioned in Surat al-Kahf.

Some of them are known. For example, the first of them is when a hole was made in the ship and water started running in. People who worked on it covered it up. They got upset without knowing who had done it. Later, there was a king who was hijacking ships. He looked at this ship and let it go, saying it was useless. They got happy immediately and realized that it was a beneficial thing. It was bad in the beginning but turned out to be beneficial.

The second, which is more important, is when a man came to a mother and told her that her son was killed. The woman felt enormous devastation, of course. But it had a great benefit, because the child wasn’t a good child. May Allah ﷻ protect us. We are living in the end of times, there are many of these types.

But another part of this story is that the mother didn’t understand it. She suffered all her life that someone had killed her son. And she didn’t understand the wisdom of it; whereas there was wisdom in it, a hidden wisdom. It was something done for her goodness. She didn’t understand this matter. But it was something done by the wisdom of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. And because she didn’t understand it, it is a lesson for us as well.

Sometimes, as we said, things that we don’t like happen. We don’t understand their wisdom. It is a hidden wisdom that will be revealed only on the Day of Judgment. You will understand only then. It is the matter of Akhirah.

Therefore, don’t be happy or don’t get upset for things that are happening or not happening. Don’t cling to it much, leave it to Allah ﷻ. Say that there is a wisdom from Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla in this matter and be patient. You will get your reward for it. If someone is not patient, he will suffer for nothing and be upset. He will be upset about something he should be happy with and he’ll be happy for something he should be upset about.

Therefore, we should submit to the wisdom of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Being pleased with everything is the duty of Muslims and Mu’mins, the duty of those who have Iman. Those who have Iman are at peace here and hereafter. May Allah ﷻ strengthen our Iman. May He ﷻ give true Iman to all of us.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 13 September 2022/ 17 Safar 1444 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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