The Fort of Islam and Their Enemies

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 Sheikh Abdullāh al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistāni, Sheikh Muḥammad Nāẓim al-Ḥaqqānī. Madad. Ṭarīqatunā aṣ-Suḥbah wa l-Khayru fi l-Jam‘iyyah.

Dastur Ya RijalaLlah. Dastur Ya Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Gilani Hazretleri. We are on the day of the URS of Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Gilani. On this occasion, we are gathering here for Allah Azza wa Jalla. This is insha’Allah Barakah of Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Gilani, it will be Barakah for all of you. We believe that he is Ghawthu l-‘Azam. He is from the pillars of Tasawwuf, Sufi Way. He is, as Mawlana Sheikh was saying, King size Awliyau’Llah; in all east and west, north and south.

From his time until this time, all the people benefit from his Barakah, from his light, from his way. He was making people to be aware from Ahlu l-Bid’ah: people who are claiming they are following Islam and are not happy with these blessed Awliya’uLlah. He has many books. Especially this one book “Al-Ghunya”, [where] he wrote the names of each one of these people. These people are coming from the time after the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. Everytime they are in a different shape but they are the same. Alhamdulillah with his miracle, Karamah of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani Hazretleri, he is showing each one and writing what they are.

These people must be. There must be black to see the white. There must be night to see the day. It is normal. So people who have love for Prophet ﷺ are following Awliyau’Llah, following these Aqtab and Mashayikh. Since the beginning of Islam until Qiyamah, there are two enemies: there’s the enemy of Allah ﷻ, and the enemy of shaytan. They cannot be together, because one love Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, love Ahlu l-bayt and love Sahabah. And the other don’t love, don’t respect and they are against this way, the way of Allah ﷻ. So they cannot be together. There must be a difference between them. What’s the middle? Middle means, as Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says, Sawadu l-Azam (the great majority). They are normal people. They’re even not in Tariqah. All the Muslim world believe, love and respect Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wasallam, Ahlu l-Bayt and Sahabah. All of these people are respecting. They are the majority. But other people who try to make people to not accept this, not love Prophet ﷺ, Ahlu l-Bayt, Sahabah, Awliyau’Llah, Ulama and the pillars of Islam – this also cannot be. People are not with them. But they are making Fitnah. They are making too much voice. They are oppressing people. They are doing all kinds of oppression. They don’t have any mercy for human beings, for Muslims. Especially for Muslims, because Muslims are their biggest enemy. The enemy of shaytan are Muslims. These people are exactly with shaytan.

For this, our way, way of Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is to remind people about this way, to make people aware to not be cheated by these people. Because they are like: ‘ ’, ‘Al-Waswas Al-Khannas’, ‘The retreating whisperer.’ (Qur’ān 114:04). Whispering for people, “You are not right. We are right.” So people become in doubt about them if they are right or not.

For this, we are saying: the way of Ahlu s-Sunnah wal Jama’ah is the way of Tariqah. Those who are not accepting Tariqah, not accepting Awliyau’Llah, not accepting Sahabah and not giving respect for the Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wasallam are not from Ahlu s-Sunnah wal Jama’ah. Ahlu s-Sunnah wal Jama’ah are four Madhhabs: Hanafi, Shafi’i, Hanbali, Maliki. They must follow this. If they don’t follow, they are not from Ahlu s-Sunnah. If they don’t accept our Imams of Aqidah, Imam Al-Maturidi, Imam al-Ashʿarī, they are also not from Ahlu s-Sunnah. For this, if anybody says: “I’m from Ahlu s-Sunnah wal Jama’ah.” Ask him, “Do you accept these four Madhhabs? Do you accept Imams of Aqidah?” If not, they will quickly run away from this [question], because they don’t like this at all.

These are the fort of Islam, defending Islam. Since Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, all the time, these Ulama and these Awliyau’Llah, by the order of Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, spiritual order, they collect the real Sunnah, all what Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam was ordering and what he ﷺ was doing and put them in books. Until now, this knowledge is coming through them.

Especially Sayyidina Abu Hanfiah. Abu Hanfiah was the Imam of Hanafi Madhhabs. After Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, 150 years – Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam was saying in Hadith that someone like him [Abu Hanfiah] will come, he ﷺ gave a sign of him. He wrote a book. It is impossible for anyone to write this book and this knowledge, huge knowledge in such a time. Normally, if without Karamah, it needs maybe 300 years to write it. But he was very active and alhamduliLlah full of knowledge, and he wrote it. He was also the step-father of Sayyidina Al-Shafi’i. Sayyidina Al-Shafi’i said that he learned many things from

Abu Hanfiah and from his student Abu Yusuf. So if you take [out] these people, nothing of this knowledge will be left for Islam.

The reality of these people is that they are enemy of Islam, the reality is that they are enemy of Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. They are jealous. They don’t have any respect. They don’t have anything [good] for people. What they only have is: harming people, making people go to Jahannam. This is what is said in the Qur’an also, when somebody says: ‘ ’, ‘Yā Waylatī Laytanī Lam ‘Attakhidh Fulānāan Khalīlāan’, ‘Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend.’ (Qur’ān 25:28). “Oh! I wish I didn’t take this man to be my friend.” ‘ ’, ‘Laqad ‘Adallanī ‘Ani dh-Dhikri’, ‘He led me away from the remembrance.’ (Qur’ān 25:29). He will say, “He made me to lose my way and now I’m here in hell with him.” This is what will happen to people who follow these people and believe them.

We are here alhamduliLlah. He said, “You are coming here for visiting Murids.” [Before the Sohbet, the Wakil was welcoming Mawlana and thanking him for coming to visit his Murids mentioning that before, Murids used to go to their Sheikh]. This is our duty. We are not coming for Dunya, for resting, sleeping and going here and there. There is something, we must come to defend Islam, to defend Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. Because we didn’t come for 3 years, we are looking that these people have become with more bad behavior for Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, for Sahabah, for Ulama, for everything. They have no respect, no shame, no Adab and even no humanity. Who has something from humanity, must think. Because humans - Allah ﷻ says that He ﷻ gave him a brain to think. But these people don’t have any brain. They say, “You cannot do this. You cannot do that”, and they are reading Arabic. And in Arabic it’s written that you can do everything of what they are saying you cannot do. We can do everything.

They are liars. They are hypocrites. When it comes to their own benefit, they are doing everything and making Fatwah for everything. But when you want to praise Allah ﷻ and to make people have more love for Allah ﷻ and for Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, they are attacking and they are saying that this is not from Islam as if they created Islam. Allah Azza wa Jalla created it and he ﷺ said: [Hadith]. Make it easy don’t make it difficult. Because when you make it difficult, people cannot do it. For this, as much as they can do, they must do. And don’t interfere. This is from Ibadah what they’re doing. As much as they are worshiping, it’s good. No need to interfere.

Many of these people are making people to run away from Islam, to be afraid of Islam. And making people to be enemies to each other. All of these Islamic countries were before 50 years respecting and were following. Nobody was objecting Tariqah and Madhhab. They were all following. There was no problem. What happened after when these people came and made Muslims enemies to each other and they divided Muslims! So people must think about this. They must ask, “Why before 50 years, it was nothing. And after, from the beginning of the 50 years, especially since 1974 or beginning from 1974, Muslims became enemies to each other?” Because these people appeared.

After this time, they got money, black money. You cannot wash it because it’s petrol. The cursed thing. This is coming everywhere, this black poison destroying earth, destroying people, destroying belief which is the most important thing. Petrol is not a good thing. You can see everywhere that petrol must be with blood. Who has petrol, many people are coming to attack them to take it from them. Take the petrol it’s nothing, but don’t take our belief. Our belief, the belief of Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam and Awliya is for the benefit of human beings. For love, respect and peace. This is what Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wasallam brought and his Sahabah followed this.

The Sahabah were fighting east and west. They say, “They have blood and they were making war on earth.” No. This war was against tyrants. For when they conquered these countries, all the people became Muslim because they were happy with the justice of these people. They were happy that they were finished from oppression. This is the main thing. People say, “Islam was spread with the sword.” Islam used the sword but to defend people, to defend poor people, to defend oppressed people. This is what Islam is. Islam means peace, nothing else. Peace here and hereafter. If they don’t want peace after, they can stay in their religion; there’s no problem for Islam. But for here, there must be justice. Islam doesn’t accept oppression.

All Awliyau’Llah, Sahabah and others are all with Haqq, with the right, with way of Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. The right of non-Muslims in Muslim countries is more than that of Muslims even. This is our belief and Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam’s order. He ﷺ was not happy to see anything happen to non-Muslims living in Muslim countries. This is what all the Khulafāʾi Rāshideen did. Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, and after him the Khulafā from Khalifah or Sultan or other were very sensitive about this. And from Ulama also, they were warning them if anything happens, and they didn’t accept any wrong or any oppression to anybody.

This is what these people don’t like. They are jealous. They have bad intention. But Allah ﷻ is, all the time, with His ﷻ beloved ones. For this, this religion, Shari’ah, Tariqah, Madhhab: Allah ﷻ kept them and Allah ﷻ loves them. Who doesn’t love them is free, he will regret that.

May Allah ﷻ keep us in the right way insha’Allah. May Allah ﷻ keep all of you in the right way, for the blessing of Awliyau’Llah. Even if they are not happy with Awliyau’Llah, they especially talk about visiting graves – visiting graves was done by Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. Nothing of what Tariqah is doing is out of the order of Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam was every time going to visit Jannat al-Baqi’ and reading there. Before he ﷺ changed his ﷺ Dunya, world, he ﷺ asked Sayyidina Ali and one other [person] to take him to Jannat al-Baqi’. It’s a graveyard near Rawdah. Before 2 days, he ﷺ went there and he ﷺ was praying, speaking to them. How do they say that this is Bid’ah! There must be a wrong in their minds. If they’re saying about Prophet’s ﷺ Sunnah Bid’ah, this is craziness. We are doing all what Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is doing and we are accepting. Those who don’t accept this, they are Ahlu l-Bid’ah. There’s no problem to go visit the graveyard and to read there. Especially also, Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says that who goes to the grave of his father and mother on Friday and reads Surat Yasin, Allah ﷻ rewards him; he ﷺ said.

These people don’t know many Ahadith and many things that Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam did. They are ignorant. They’re only following one [person] who doesn’t have any knowledge. He only has bad intention. Thousands of Ulama, hundreds of thousands of Sahabah, hundreds of thousands of Ulama and Awliya were doing this, only one says you cannot and people follow him. May Allah ﷻ help us from these people. May Allah ﷻ save us from them insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

When Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Gilani was a student, he had many good things. When he was a small boy, he was Yateem/orphan. His mother gave him 40 gold coins and sent him to Baghdad to study. And she made him something [bag] to put them in so nobody can find it. When he was going with the caravan, thieves came and attacked them. They stole all of the caravan. The chief of the thieves saw this boy and just said, “What do you have?” He said, “I have 40 coins of gold.” He said, “What! Where are they?” Sayyidina Abdul Qadir showed him. He said, “Why did you say that? You can say nothing and keep your money.” He said, “I cannot

lie for gold. I promised my mother to be saying the right thing.” And when the chief of thieves saw this, he was crying and said, “Look this boy is afraid from Allah ﷻ and we are not afraid. We are all going to repent and give the money back to them.” And all these thieves became Murids. Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Gilani has many good and nice stories alhamduliLlah. On this night, may Allah ﷻ give us from his Barakah insha’Allah.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 05 November 2022/ 11 Rabih al-Thani 1444 Naqshbandi ‘Aliyyah Zawiyah – Singapore