Enemies from the Inside

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 Prophet ﷺ mentioned many things [about the end of times]. And among them he ﷺ mentioned that there will be a lot of Muslim people, but there is no value for them. They are only like the tide of the sea. When the wave comes to the shore, it makes bubbles, it gets bigger and bigger than finishes. It will be like this. Why? Because there is Fitnah. There is many Fitnah. An enemy from outside is not needed. The enemy is coming from inside. The biggest enemy are those who are coming from the inside and destroying them. The biggest Ni’mah (favor) is belief. To be Mu’min, believer is the biggest Ni’mah. But these people are destroying belief. For this, we are saying that there’s no need for an enemy from outside. What is enough for us and is destroying us are these people. They are dividing the Muslim world, dividing everywhere.

Here, we are in Sri Lanka. 30 or 40 years ago, the most peaceful people were Sri Lankan people, the Sri Lankan Muslims. They were very soft. Even when I was with Mawlana, we were going from here to Pakistan, it was really terrible. Because the people here were very soft people, but in Pakistan they were tough people. But now, these people who don’t have mercy and claim are Muslims are hurting Muslim and Mu’min people. These people are the most ones giving a hard time and bad things to Muslims. They don’t have any mercy, they don’t have anything. Just as what the Imam today was saying about Abdul Wahab. He was the most criminal one. He killed maybe more than a thousand, a hundred thousand of Mu’mins and Muslims because they are following the Sunnah of Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wasallam and following the right way. And people are still going after them. But what shall we say. It must be like this for Qiyamah to come, for Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam to come. So all of this must be like this. We are not happy of course with them. We are not happy at all. We don’t agree with anything of what they are saying, and what they are doing. They are completely no-minded people.

In Turkish there is a word “Mankurt”. In old times, when capturing people they put [wrap] on their heads [camel] skin [and tie them under the sun]. After that, when it dries it becomes tighter and tighter on their heads. When it becomes tighter, it becomes very hard on them. They slowly slowly lose their control. The one who has captured them controls them. And he can send them anywhere to do what he wants to do.

These people are becoming like this. There are many things in this world and one of them are these people: they are not using their minds, they are not listening to anybody. They are just, as these Mankurt people, running from here to there and saying the most word they know, “Shirk, Bid’ah”, “Shirk, Bid’ah.” Do you know what is Mushrik and what is Bid’ah? They don’t know at all. They are mixing up everything. Even for Sunnah they are saying Bid’ah. They are a real disaster for Muslims, for Mu’mins. They are not a disaster for the enemy of Islam. They are friends with shaytan. They are friends with the enemy of Islam. They are harming people and people are thinking all Muslims are like this.

We are asking from Allah ﷻ to protect you and us from these people. Because they are really damaging everything. They don’t have any mercy in their hearts. Their hearts are like stone. Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam doesn’t love this. He ﷺ doesn’t like this. He ﷺ likes the one who has mercy in his heart. When Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam was playing with his ﷺ grandsons Sayyidina Hassan and Hussein, he ﷺ kissed them. There was one Bedouin - Bedouin don’t have Adab - he said to Prophet ﷺ, “How are you kissing them!” He ﷺ said, “From mercy, I am kissing them. You must be like this.” So mercy is the most acceptable attribute from Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam and Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. You must imitate this attribute. Try to be merciful with everybody.

May Allah ﷻ help us. May Allah ﷻ give us power and give Hidayah (guidance) to the people who were cheated. They are real cheaters. May Allah ﷻ give them Hidayah to understand and come back to this. To be good with Muslims, good with human beings, good with everybody. This is Islam. Islam and Tariqah are the same. This is our way, way of Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. May Allah ﷻ help us insha’Allah. We are living in a time that is really difficult.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 03 November 2023/ 19 Rabih Al-Akhir 1445 Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka