Iman is Only with Prophet’s ﷺ Love

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.

May today be blessed. Mubarak Shahru Rabih ul-Awwal! It is the blessed month of Mawlid, the month of the holy birth of our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. After the month of Safar, this month is the month of relief and joy. It is a relief for people.

The Mercy of Allah ﷻ sent to people: our Holy Prophet ﷺ, was born in this month. Therefore, we should love and respect this month. To remember our Holy Prophet ﷺ is to love him ﷺ. Through him ﷺ; wherever he ﷺ went and whatever he ﷺ did, to follow his ﷺ Sunnah and to love him ﷺ increases our value in the sight of Allah ﷻ and increases it among people. Those who don’t follow him ﷺ, whatever they do, they won’t increase but will only go down more. Therefore, the more you honor our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, the more benefit you get.

There is a Qasidah, I think it is Qasidah Burda. It says, “Honor our Holy Prophet ﷺ. Do it as much as you can like the people of ‘Isa ‘alayhi s-salam. But do not say like them”. They made Sayyidina ‘Isa a god. It is wrong. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ is the highest among people. He ﷺ deserves all kinds of exaltation. There isn’t a person higher than him ﷺ. In any case, no matter how many Prophets, no matter how many Awliya and Sahabah there are, all of them cannot reach our Holy Prophet’s ﷺ greatness. No one can reach his ﷺ high station, his ﷺ mercy and his ﷺ value in the sight of Allah ﷻ.

Our value increases by being with him ﷺ, making Salawat on him ﷺ and honoring him ﷺ. Because Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla says that if you make Salat and Salam, He ﷻ will make Salat and Salam to you by means of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. Can there be a greater elevation and greatness than this? No. And that is by means of our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam.

There are confused people now – not confused people, but people of shaytan. They say it is Shirk if you honor our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. Why are you saying it’s Shirk? Do you become Mushrik when you honor the one loved and honored by Allah ﷻ? Ḥāshā! (far from it)! Who calls them Mushrik is mistaken himself. May Allah ﷻ protect us. It means he doesn’t have Iman. He’s lost his Iman. He doesn’t have even as much as an atom of Iman. Iman only comes by loving our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam and by honoring him ﷺ. It cannot be otherwise.

Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla said in Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan, ‘ ’, ‘Qālati l-‘A’rābu 'Āmannā, Qul Lam Tu’uminū Wa Lakin Qūlū ‘Aslamnā Wa Lammā Yadkhuli l-‘Īmānu Fī Qulūbikum’, ‘The bedouins say, “We have believed.” Say, “You have not [yet] believed; but say [instead], ‘We have submitted,’ for faith has not yet entered your hearts.’ (Qur’ān 49:14). They said, “We believed”. Aa’raab mean bedouins or those whose hearts are hard and who don’t respect anyone. They said, “We believed”. It is said in Qur’an ‘Azimu sh-Shan, “No, you didn’t believe. Iman didn’t enter your heart even a bit. Say that you’ve become Muslim”.

Muslim is different. To be Muslim is not related with Iman. Iman is by respecting our Holy Prophet ﷺ, honoring our Holy Prophet ﷺ and obeying the orders of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Otherwise, everyone can become Muslim. Everyone who says “La ilaha illa Llah Muhammadun r-RasuluLlah” becomes Muslim. But Iman is a higher level. It is a superior level.

Therefore, we should honor our Holy Prophet ﷺ. We should love our Holy Prophet ﷺ. We should love our Holy Prophet ﷺ more than everything. It is the order of our Holy Prophet ﷺ, “Who doesn’t love me ﷺ more than himself, his family, mother father, and children cannot have Iman”. He can be Muslim, but as we said, Iman is greater and higher. Therefore, our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam has shown this way to us. Whoever goes on that way will reach happiness. And who doesn’t – may Allah ﷻ protect us. May Allah ﷻ give strong Iman to all of us.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 27 September 2022/ 01 Rabih al-Awwal 1444 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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