Make Your Wealth Beneficial for Akhirah

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.

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm:

(Qur’ān 18:46). ‘Al-Mālu Wa Al-Banūna Zīnatu Al-Ĥayāati Ad-Dunyā, Wa AlBāqiyātu Aş-Şāliĥātu Khayrun `Inda Rabbika Thawābāan Wa Khayrun 'Amalā’, ‘Wealth and children are [but] adornment of the worldly life. But the enduring good deeds are better to your Lord for reward and better for [one’s] hope.’ Sadaqa Llāhu l-‘Aẓīm.

Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla says the commodities of this world, money, property, wealth, children and whatever else there is are adornments of this world. These are the things people run after. The good ones among them are those which can be taken to Akhirah. Everything will be gone. But all the Bāqiyāt (enduring good deeds) go to Akhirah and stay there. You will have loved and run after the rest for nothing. Unless you do it for Akhirah, there is no benefit in it, says Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla.

It is said there will be a lot of money in the end of times. But money has no value anymore. Even though it has no more value, shaytan makes people run after money more just in order to make them busy. It is as air now, you can’t touch it anymore. In old times, there was gold and silver. They were truely valuable. Paper money was brought up instead of them, and it is useless. Nevertheless, it was tangible. They don’t want that as well now. They want to remove paper money and put in their place what you can’t touch and is in the air, “You have so many millions in your bank account. You have trillions in your bank account.” But they don’t have anything with them.

There is no benefit in Dunya for people who run after it. When you use from the Halal (permissible) for your Akhirah, that will be beneficial for you. You will have them there. Otherwise, you will have nothing. Normally, nothing remains after you, but people now don’t have any money in their hands anymore even in this world.

Therefore, clever people must think about how to make their wealth beneficial and remain eternally and permanent in Akhirah. And that is what Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla showed. If you do that, you will be in benefit. If you don’t do, there will be no benefit at all.

There was a man we had worked with Nefel Bey, may Allah ﷻ bless his soul. He had industrial machines. One man came to him, as he had several machines he wanted to sell. While thinking about selling them or not, he passed away. So they were left to his sons. They sold them within two months and used up all the money and goods. It had no benefit neither to him, nor to others, nor to his children.

You must have good wealth and you must have good children so that you benefit from them. May Allah ﷻ let all of us have good righteous children, good money and possessions insha’Allah. May we have their benefit. May they not be useless insha’Allah.

People are running after their egos now. Even if you enjoy this money and have fun with it today, tomorrow you will want the same. But you won’t be able to have it then. Do you think it will last when you please yourself? It will be over instantly. Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla is showing and giving examples to all people. But people who run after their egos will not have any goodness both here and hereafter. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 15 November 2023/ 01 Jumada al-Awwal 1445 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah