Work in What You’re Skillful

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:

“Each person is facilitated for what he has been created.” [Hadith] Allah ‘Azza waJalla gave each person a quality, a skill. They live based on their skills in this world. If they are happy and content with it, they will live in comfort. People nowadays have left it and are leading their lives only from the perspective of earning more and having more money.

People of old times used to hold the most suitable profession for them. One would be an apprentice first and then become a master. They lived on like this. They had their occupations for life. They used to teach well also. One would testify that his master is a master and do better work every time in the field they knew. They didn’t preoccupy themselves with other things.

But people nowadays say, “There is no money in this job. We should look for another job” and take professions which are not for them at all. And then they complain they can’t make ends meet, or they go bankrupt. You should continue with the work you are competent in. Don’t preoccupy yourself with the work you don’t know and don’t understand. Allah ﷻ didn’t create you for this.

In order to provide for yourself and to worship Allah ﷻ, Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla has shown you the direction and gave you a skill. A person who follows it and is competent in his work takes a load off his mind and feels at ease.

Therefore, whatever skill you have, keep on it. Go on with it and strive to make it even better by improving it. It will bring Barakah and peace. You will be pleased and content for what is given by Allah ﷻ. So you will attain the pleasure of Allah ﷻ. This is it.

You look at people nowadays, totally irrelevant people want to work as builders or contractors. They collect money from people and go bankrupt. And they make those people go bankrupt with them. Others want to make trade and do this and that. No! Allah ﷻ will certainly give you as much as you live.

Therefore, this is not important. What’s important is to attain the pleasure of Allah ﷻ and to perform worship. What’s important is to make Him ﷻ happy. We must make Shukr to Allah ﷻ. May Allah ﷻ give contentment to all of us. May we be pleased with whatever He ﷻ gives insha’Allah. May we all have Barakah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 11 January 2023/ 18 Jumada al-Akhir 1444 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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