Life is Three Days

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.

Mawlana Jalāluddīn Rūmī says: “Dunya, life is three days: yesterday, today and tomorrow.” Yesterday is finished; you cannot change it. You cannot do anything for Dunya. And for Akhirah also, you cannot do anything. What you can only do for Akhirah is: for what you have done yesterday from sin or any wrong thing, you can repent and ask for forgiveness from Allah ﷻ, Allah ﷻ forgives you. But for Dunya, “If I bought this, it will be like that. If I went there, it will be like this.” No, this has finished. You cannot change anything from yesterday. But what you can change is to make your sin a reward. ‘ ’, ‘Yubaddilu Allahu Sayyi’atihim Hāsanat’, ‘Allah will change their sins into good deeds.’ (Qur’ān 25:70). Which means, if you ask forgiveness, Allah ﷻ will make your sin a reward for you.

This is good for Muslim, Mu’min/believer. This is a good chance for them. For other people, there’s no chance. It’s just the past; they cannot change, they cannot do anything.

Today, we are living today so we must do as much as we can do from good things. To control ourselves, to do what is of benefit. Even for Dunya, there’s no problem. If your intention is for Allah ﷻ, to keep yourself and your family as strong Muslims, there’s no problem. When you do for Dunya also, Allah ﷻ rewards you for this also. This is important.

For tomorrow, we cannot say that we will live for tomorrow. For this, what’s most important here is: Today. Because for what you’ve done yesterday, today you can ask for forgiveness. For tomorrow, you cannot say anything. Today, you must do as much as you can from good things. Tomorrow, Arabs say, “Tomorrow insha’Allah”. They say this to throw you out from their head [priorities]. Everyday day they say “Tomorrow”. Tomorrow [comes]: “Where is tomorrow?” “I said, tomorrow insha’Allah, ”. It is something like a joke. But they don’t want to do today, they throw it to tomorrow. Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow; Tomorrow never comes and nothing happens.

So today is what’s important. This time you are living here, in this time, every time must be precious for you. Don’t waste it insha’Allah. May Allah ﷻ help us to do this insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 28 January 2023/ 06 Rajab 1444 Fajr Prayer, Sheikh Nazim Dergah – London