Prayer is the Light of Believers

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 is saying in this beautiful Hadith Sharif: prayer is the light, the light of Mu’mins and Muslims. The light of someone who prays increases. The light of those who don’t pray decreases. Even though they are Muslim, there is very little light. People still have the light of Islam. But the light of those who pray is different.

When they have this light, all kinds of beauty occur. When there is darkness, no goodness remains. Mankind must run after light, not after darkness. They should not go after and into darkness. Darkness is bad. The darkness of the night is brightened with the light of the day. People with bad intentions love the night. They love it as it is dark as themselves. But for believers, the night is for them to be in light. The worship they perform is more acceptable. A two-Rakā’at prayer made at night is 100 times or even more virtuous than that made during the day. There are holy words and Hadiths of our Holy Prophet ﷺ which say this.

Therefore, people who don’t pray are in loss. They lose big things. People say in this world, “If only I did this, I’d be in profit. If only I did that, I’d take it.” They feel upset about Dunya, whereas they have millions of benefits they miss in front of them. They don’t think about them. Your life is slipping away every minute. It is slipping through your feet and hands and from everywhere. We must evaluate it and not lose it. And the most important is praying. “I am making Tasbihat until the evening. I have a little Tasbih in my hands. I make Tasbihat with it”. If you do it for million years, it won’t replace one Rakā’ah prayer.

Therefore, prayer is the head of everything. In your work, your health, in anything - there is no benefit without praying. With praying there is Barakah. With praying there is healthiness. With praying there is beauty. May Allah ﷻ make praying easy for all of us. What is the most difficult thing in this world? It is praying; it is so to people. But we make Dua that apart from wealth and property, our Iman gets stronger and that we keep our praying insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 05 October 2023/ 20 Rabi’ Al-Awwal 1445 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah