Use Your Minds

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.

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm:

(Qur’ān 12:02) ‘La-a’llakum ta’kiloon’, ‘That you might understand.’ Allah ‘Azza waJalla is saying to use your mind in order to see the Greatness and Power of Allah ’Azza waJalla in His ﷻ creatures. Don’t think about the essence of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Think about His ﷻ Greatness. Think about all the lives and universes He ﷻ created. You cannot reach the essence of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. You can never come close to it. A person who tries to understand the essence of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla by using his mind will lose it.

Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla has given mind to everyone. They must use their minds. Some people assume they are very clever, whereas they cannot use their minds in some things. They use it in some things and can’t use it in other things. For example, we are in the middle of winter. The weather is sunny and warm. A person who can’t use his mind completely says, “What a beautiful weather! It is so sunny and warm. And we are walking around”. But the peasant whose mind is unfavored by people gets upset. There is no rain, there is no cold. It is bad for the future, for our food we have planted. When cold doesn’t come and doesn’t kill the pests, these pests will reproduce in summer and eat the trees and plants. His thinking is more intelligent from this perspective. He is cleverer than people who think they are very clever and say “How nice! So sunny and warm” and walk around.

This is a greater level of mind given by Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla to people who think about what will happen in the future. They are cleverer. Because people live in this world and don’t think about the future. They don’t think about Akhirah. They think this is the only life. Millions and billions of people like you had passed away from this world. None of them was able to take something with them. This world is still there like it was without lacking anything. What will lack is you.

Therefore, you can’t take anything from this world. You will take it from Akhirah. You must think about Akhirah. They say, “We are having fun and enjoying it here as we have money.” But it has its end. Just like people are happy about the sunny and warm weather, they will not know what to do when they run out of water. There are many people who will not know what to do. It is the same for Akhirah. You must think. You must use your mind.

Allah ﷻ gave mind to people to make them different from other creatures. As He ﷻ gave them mind, there are duties to do. If they don’t do them, their Akhirah will be disappointing. They will then wish if only they didn’t have mind. They will wish if only they were animals and weren’t brought to account. They will say if only we didn’t have so many troubles. May Allah ﷻ protect us. As we said many times, may Allah ﷻ give mind and understanding. May Allah ﷻ help us use our mind for the better insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 02 January 2023/ 09 Jumada al-Akhir 1444 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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