Be Straight

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.

BismiLlahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim:

(Qur’ān 11:112). ‘Fa-staqim kamā umirta wa-man tāba ma‘ak’, ‘So remain on a right course as you have been commanded, [you] and those who have turned back with you [to Allah ].’

It is the order of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla to our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. This order is a big order. Our Holy Prophet ﷺ says, “This sūrah [Hud] turned my beard into white.” The holy beard of our Holy Prophet ﷺ was completely black. But then he had very little white hair in his beard. And that came from the greatness of this sūrah. Because going straight is a difficult thing. But believers and people who love our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam must follow him ﷺ and keep on a straight direction.

Lying and cheating are not from straightness. They are the opposite of straightness. People who do so are people who obey their egos and have weak will power. Both their will power and mind must be weak, because things outside the straight direction don’t bring any benefit. People think, “I have to be alert. I have to do this and that. I have to cheat people in order to earn.” What they will earn is a sin and regret. Because lying and cheating never bring any benefit. Going straight brings benefit. Even if difficult, its result is good. It is the best. Nothing is better.

But people choose to solve things by themselves. They forget Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. They forget goodness. They think that only they are good and strive to do something. As long as Allāh ﷻ doesn't want it, they can be as good as they want, they can think they are very clever, they will lose everything with just one thing.

As we said, this is a lesson for people. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla ordered something that is 100% beneficial for humanity. Doing the opposite of it brings loss both to them and to everything. Therefore, be straight. Be with people who are going straight.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 22 December 2022/ 28 Jumada al-Awwal 1444 Lefka, Cyprus