Keep Your Intention Pure

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. Our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says:

“Innama l-‘aa’malu bi n-niyyat”, “Actions are but by intentions”. This is the first Hadith taught. It is according to his intention when a person makes Hijra. Whoever makes Hijra for Allah ﷻ and His ﷻ Messenger, makes Hijra for Allah ﷻ, says our Holy Prophet ﷺ.

There were Muhajirs/immigrants who made Hijra from Makkah to Madinah. Whoever could make Hijra for the pleasure of Allah ﷻ as it was the order of our Holy Prophet ﷺ did so. As it has always been, there were people around them who migrated for Dunya, or to marry a woman who had migrated before them. Their Hijra is for them. It is not for the pleasure of Allah ﷻ, but for Dunya, for their personal interests. Allah ﷻ gives rewards to people according to their intentions.

Therefore, the intention must be pure. Everything we do must be for the pleasure of Allah ﷻ. Our intention must be to attain the pleasure of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla in whatever we do. Because the things you do will turn out to be useless. Even if you get rewarded, it will not be as great. Something done with pure intention for the pleasure of Allah ﷻ is accepted by Allah ﷻ and He ﷻ gives its reward. Otherwise, if when we do something and our intention is for Allah ﷻ, but while we are doing it, we forget about it and go another way. People are at loss then.

And when starting a job, people must start it for the pleasure of Allah ﷻ. Whether it is a partnership or something else, if they work together with people, shaytan will later say, “You are doing a better job. You are so and so” and ruins their intention. When the intention is ruined, the work is also ruined most of the time. The intention goes bad then; it is ruined. And then there is no good ending for whatever work was done. “I am doing this work. Why is it not ending well?” It means your intention was ruined. This is the most probable reason.

Therefore, you must keep your intention for the pleasure of Allah ﷻ. If it works out, you are in profit. If it doesn’t work out, Allah ﷻ will still reward you according to your intention. May Allah ﷻ make our intentions pure.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

There are recited Qur’an Khatms, Yasin, Surahs and Ayat, Tasbihat, Tahlilat and Salawat. May Allah ﷻ accept them from those who have recited. We gift them firstly to our Holy Prophet ﷺ, his Ahlu l-Bayt and Sahabah, to the souls of all Anbiya, Awliya, Asfiya and Mashayikh, to the souls of the Sahabah, the souls of Ahlu l-Bayt, and the souls of all of our late relatives. For goodness to come and evil to be gone. May Allah ﷻ accept it.

Li-Llahi Ta’ala l-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 13 January 2023/ 20 Jumada al-Akhir 1444 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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