Brotherhood in Islam

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 49:10). ‘Innama l-mu’minūna ikhwa fa-‘aslihu bayna akhawaykum’, ‘The believers are but brothers, so make settlement between your brothers.’ Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla says believers are brothers. Make settlement between brothers and reconcile them.

Brotherhood by Islam is stronger than brotherhood by blood. Because they are people who were made brothers by Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. They can become brothers later. And blood brotherhood is there anyway. But when he is not on the way of Allah ‘Azza waJalla, a brother on the way of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla is closer to you than him. The one who is closer to Allah ﷻ must be closer to you. If he is away from Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla, you should be away from him too. Certainly, giving them advice and treating them well is also necessary for them to find the way.

As we live in the end of times, many people lose themselves in Dunya. The world in this time is such that ego can do everything it wants. In order to control your ego, we should listen to advice and we should accept the advice. There were no such opportunities in old times to commit sins. Now, it is very available and very easy to sin.

Therefore, brothers should support each other. When they see something wrong, they should do whatever they can in order to prevent it. And the biggest thing is, people come here sometimes and say, “Our brother is taking bad things and going on the bad way. What shall we do?” What you must do is prevent him. And preventing is by not giving him money if that’s in your hands. It is done without money as well, but with money, some people do it more often. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

A brother must protect a brother from both evil and Haram. May Allah ﷻ help all of us. Our time, as we said, is difficult for doing goodness. And we are in time when it is easy to do evil. Allah ﷻ is giving rewards accordingly. A man who controls his ego and prevents it from Haram and evil attains great Thawab, virtues and stations.

Therefore, we must always listen to advice. Because if the ego doesn’t listen to advice, it will get out of control completely. Advice ties people up a little. May Allah ﷻ protect all of us from the evil and Fitnah of the end of times. May He ﷻ grant us its virtues. Whoever captures his ego; as we said, there are great virtues. But there are great dangers as well. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 12 November 2022/ 18 Rabih al-Thani 1444 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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