First is Adab

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.

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla wants people to attain knowledge, to ask for knowledge. Together with knowledge, what’s important for that knowledge to be useful is to have adab. It will be useful then. Without adab, the knowledge becomes something that has no benefit. Apart from benefit, it can bring harm as well.

This is because the most knowledgeable among the creatures of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla was Iblīs. He knew everything. He performed worship so much that there was no place where he didn't pray or make sajdah. However, because he didn't have adab, he was thrown away. He was thrown away from all his ranks, all high stations. From a beloved one he was thrown away as a cursed one. Otherwise, he knew every knowledge, all the knowledge. There is no knowledge that he didn't know. But he didn't have adab. Without adab all that knowledge, everything he knew and his worship didn't bring any benefit. What brings benefit is adab.

Therefore, ṭariqāhs exist in order to teach people adab. They show us the way of our Holy Prophet ṣalla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. They are for teaching his ﷺ way, things he ﷺ showed and taught, for learning adab. Otherwise, ṭarīqah is not for other things. Without ṭarīqah there is no adab.

We see now there are various things everywhere around. They teach religion at universities, at schools, here and there. Most of them have no adab. How do they not have adab? They are not showing respect to our Holy Prophet ṣalla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam and they are not showing respect to ṣaḥābah, Ahlu lBayt, tabi‘īn and tābi‘ī l-tābi‘īn. So there is no adab.

They are saying to people who come from them not to respect anyone. But people of bid‘ah respect people who don't follow the sunnah of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. They hold them dear. And they don't show respect, don't keep adab towards those who should actually be respected and shown adab. If you want to do something, they say it is wrong. It is wrong. If it is wrong you are wrong too. You lose all your value too. The value of people, the value of a servant in the presence of Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla is greater when they have more adab. Our Holy Prophet ṣalla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says, “Addabanī Rabbī fa-aḥsana ta’dībī”. “Allāh ﷻ taught me adab, and He ﷻ taught me the best adab”, says our Holy Prophet ṣalla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam.

Therefore, whoever loves this way, loves him ﷺ and respects him ﷺ will win. Even without knowledge, adab is more important than knowledge. Without adab nothing has any benefit. You are tiring yourself in vain. The things are not useful for anything except exalting your ego. May Allāh ﷻ protect us insha’Allah. May Allāh ﷻ not keep us without adab insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 17 December 2022/ 23 Jumada al-Awwal 1444 Lefka, Cyprus