Hurry to Ask Forgiveness

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 says in the āyah we read in the khuṭbah, which starts as:

“Wa Sāri’ū ‘Ila Maghfiratin Min Rabbikum”, “And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord.” (Qur’an 03:133) Hurry in asking forgiveness from Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Rush for it. Rush for repenting and asking forgiveness, as the forgiveness and mercy of Allāh ﷻ are great.

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla has generosity and mercy as great as heavens and earth. Whatever you do, as long as you repent and ask forgiveness, Allāh ﷻ will accept and forgive. Allāh ﷻ is Forgiving. He ﷻ is ‘Afuww - the Most Forgiving. La Tashbih/ no comparison, but when mankind does something, some people forgive it, but they can’t forgive certain things. However, Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla forgives when they ask forgiveness and turn to the right way.

Therefore, He ﷻ says not to miss this chance. You never know when someone dies. When he dies, there is no more Door of Repentance. But there is a chance while alive. As soon as you pass away to the second life, there is no chance at all. You may regret, repent and ask forgiveness as much as you want.

Therefore, it is not good to hurry in worldly matters. But in the matters of ākhirah, people should always be in hurry. Our people used to say about prayers in old times:

“Hurry up to perform prayer before the time passes, and hurry up in repentance before death comes.” Hurry to pray before the time is up. Otherwise, it is a big loss for people. Because a prayer not performed on time makes you miss great virtues. And it has time just as life. While the time of ẓuhr is until ‘aṣr, ‘aṣr is until maghrib, maghrib is until ‘ishā’; time runs out quickly. Therefore, you should pray on time, do its Sunnah and Adab/practices, make tasbīḥāt and earn the virtues.

And you should repent before you die., “And hurry up in repentance before death comes.” Hurry in repenting. Hurry up as this chance exists while you are alive, while you are breathing. When your breath is cut, it will be gone then. It will have no benefit. You can repent and cry as much as you want, you can regret as much as you want, it will be gone.

Therefore, these chances to make charity, to do good deeds exist while you are alive. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla loves all of those who help people, who forgive other people and hold their temper. ‘ ’, ‘Wa Llāhu yuḥibbu lmuḥsinīn’, ‘And Allah loves the doers of good.’ (Qur’ān 03:134). Allāh ﷻ loves those who are kind and do goodness. And Allāh ﷻ doesn’t like those who don’t do goodness but do badness. People should know this. “I don’t do anything. I don’t pray or anything. But I do good things.” Your goodness is incomplete. Complete it while you have this chance. Don’t give any excuse to yourself.

Because people hurry to do worldy things so much, they run so quickly that they keep themselves in suffering. If they did 1% of what they do for dunyā for the pleasure of Allāh ﷻ, everything would be the best for them. But they are not doing so. You hear here and there in the news they make a sale somewhere. People can’t sleep at all for all night. They wait in front of that shop to buy something. And don’t tell them to wake up to pray, to pray two rakāt for the pleasure of Allāh ﷻ. Even if they wake up and you tell them to pray, they are too lazy for it. Mankind has become servants of their egos. They are lazy in things for the pleasure of Allāh ﷻ. But they are very hardworking and diligent in things that are for shayṭān and ego. Therefore, may Allāh ﷻ protect us.

This world is the world of opportunities. They say opportunities too. But their opportunities are for personal and worldly benefit. Real opportunities are for the benefits of ākhirah. May Allāh ﷻ give all of us those beautiful opportunities. May He ﷻ not let us obey our egos.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 23 December 2022/ 29 Jumada al-Awwal 1444 Lefka, Cyprus