Believers Must be Happy

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.

We intended to come earlier but by the will of Allah ﷻ, we just came. AlhamduliLlah you arrived safely so you must be thankful for Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. AlhamduliLlah. We made you wait, sorry for that but Allah ﷻ rewards you. Everything for the Mu’min, for the believer is good. You waited here for maybe 6 hours, Allah ﷻ will reward you for each hour, for each minute from His ﷻ endless treasures. Everything is in Allah’s ﷻ Hand. To be in the way of Allah ﷻ, to wait there is a very acceptable deed for the believer, for the Mu’min. And we, without knowing, waited in the car and we waited in the house. So insha’Allah Allah ﷻ rewards all of us.

We love this place, this place is a Mu’min and Muslim’s place. You are living with all kinds of people. It is safe and they respect each other. It is important in Islam to respect human beings, to respect the creatures of Allah ﷻ: Human beings or anything, tree, wheat, water, animal, bird. All of this is respected in Islam. For this, Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla doesn’t like you to do something you are not in need of doing; just as a hobby or just for fun. It is not good to kill birds or other things. If for eating, you can. But not for fun. Now there are people who are hunters, they go here and there to hunt. There is no benefit for this. They are oppressing creatures of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla.

For this, the Mu’mins, believers respect everyone. This place was like this. And by the Barakah of this, there are still many believers, Mu’mins living here. They are sincere people. Their ancestors were coming from Yemen or other places. They were happy with the local people and the local people were happy with them. This is Islam. This is the teaching of Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam: to be friendly. , “The believer is friendly and can be befriended.” [Hadith]. Which means the believer gets happy [accustomed] with others and others get happy [accustomed] with him. This is for the believer. He must be like this. Not like

what many of these new mindless people. Nobody is happy with them, they are not happy with anybody. They are the whole time in a very bad thinking, bad acting. They have no happiness at all.

Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla says, “Be happy.” ‘ ’, ‘Fa-bidhālika falyafraḥū’, ‘In that let them rejoice’ (Qur’ān 10:58). You are believers, be happy! Don’t be sad. The most happiness is for us. A believer who says, “I am not happy” is not a believer. He just believes by tongue, but not in the heart. You must believe in your heart insha’Allah. May Allah ﷻ make us with these people, to be happy. Maybe some people think that Islam is to not laugh or be happy, just to be sad. No. Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla orders to be happy. ‘ ’, ‘Fa-bidhālika falyafraḥū’, ‘In that let them rejoice’ (Qur’ān 10:58). Who is a believer must be happy. May Allah ﷻ make us happy with everything.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 04 November 2023/ 20 Rabih Al-Akhir 1445 Galle, Sri Lanka