Be with Good People

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.

Our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says, “Be with good people so that you are in benefit.” If you are with bad people, you will not have any benefit. There will be harm. Our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is making a comparison: when you enter a shop that sells beautiful fragrances and perfume, you get pleasant odors. Even if you don’t buy, just by standing there you get that pleasant odor.

And in old times there were blacksmiths. They are people who worked with iron. Our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is showing it as a bad place. If you stand there - It is different for those who work there, but when those who don’t work go there and stand just like that, they get bad odors of smoke. Because they burn some things so that iron takes various shapes. They either get that bad odor, or fire may catch them. It is not good to be there.

You must be in good places. When you are in a good place with good people, their states, the manifestations and mercy that descend on them will come to you as well. But if you are with bad people, the rage of Allah ﷻ descends on them and things disliked by Allah ﷻ will happen to you. Even if you don’t do anything, that burden, darkness, badness and hardship will come to you.

Therefore, people should be with good people as much as they can. They shouldn’t stay with bad people who won’t reform. People may look once or twice: if they look like they will reform, it is ok then. But if they go worse and more stubborn every time, they shouldn’t stay with them. Because there will be harm for them. There will be no benefit but only harm. Therefore, may Allah ﷻ let us all meet good people. May He ﷻ put us with good people insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 17 January 2023/ 24 Jumada al-Akhir 1444 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah

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