Brighten Up Your Abode in Dunya

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.

Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla is saying, “O you who believe, be with the truthful and good ones.” This is His ﷻ order. Stay away from bad people. No benefit comes from bad people, only harm. Goodness never comes from bad people. Their evil is contagious.

Therefore, the time we are living in is the end of times. We always repeat this, because what our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam had said, all signs are appearing one by one in this time up to their smallest details. And the worst is that people of this time cheat other people. They think they are doing good and that they are following good people. They cheat them showing the bad as good, and they show the good as bad. They harm people from both sides. People are both cheated and shown the bad as good.

Even when people go to the market, if they put better vegetables on top and worse ones in the bottom, people get bothered. They fight about it and leave without buying them. These apparent things are not so important; they are the food for the body. But they are giving the truly harmful things to people from day to night.

People who think they are the smartest, educated or learnt ones who think they are very clever, university students, college students. Small children are cleverer than them. Students of elementary and middle schools are much cleverer. They are at least more innocent and know better. But when they grow up and shaytan jumps on to ride them, they think there is no one more intelligent than them. They think there is no person who knows the job better than them and understands it, whereas shaytan is down on their necks and swinging his legs. He hits from the right to go to the left and hits from the left to go to the right. He plays with them as he likes. He misleads them as he likes.

They see themselves as intelligent and say with arrogance, “I am a university student. These idiots hardly ever finished elementary school. They are not as clever as I am. They are torturing themselves by praying five times a day. They stay hungry by fasting. They are giving their money to others for nothing.” They think they are clever. Whereas, the clever ones are the people whom they call idiots, for they are building up their Akhirah. Their Dunya is thriving as well. But their Akhirah is more important.

Therefore, in this time - Indeed, more and more ignorant people are brought up every year. There are more people who go astray. There are more people who like badness, people who like poison, people who like all kinds of Haram (forbidden) things. They are becoming more and more. May Allah ﷻ protect us. We are living in the end of times. Their evil is huge. May Allah ﷻ protect us from their evil. May the children not obey them.

The matter is not about the quantity. Even if all people go against Allah ‘Azza wa-JallaLet alone people, our whole world is not even dust inside the universe. It cannot be even its dust. It is that small. Yet, they are challenging Allah ﷻ with their arrogance. Who are you! Not only you, what is this whole world, what is the whole universe in front of the power of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla! They are not even zero. Therefore, clever people obey Allah ﷻ and conform to Allah ﷻ, they make Sajdah to Allah ﷻ. The rest is not worth being prostrated before them or being conformed to, whoever they are. Conform to those who are on the way of Allah ﷻ and walk on their way. Their way is the good way both to humanity and to Muslims; to everyone. The way of Allah ﷻ is good.

Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla says, ‘ ’, ‘Wa la-daru l-Akhirati Khayr’, ‘And the home of the Hereafter is better.’ (Qur’ān 16:30). The home of Akhirah is better. The home of Dunya is temporary. You have to make it prosperous as well. They say, “Abode is in Dunya and Iman is in Akhirah”. Brighten up your abode here with Iman and Islam. Make it prosperous so that your Akhirah is prosperous as well. This is it.

We see that many people are sometimes embarrassed to say they are on the way of Allah ﷻ in front of each other. What is it to be embarrassed of? Those who must be embarrassed are the people who are not on the way of Allah ﷻ. Embarrassed must be people who run after shaytan. Those who follow him are disgraced in this world. There is no benefit. They attain nothing but loss.

Even though people know this, they are still cheated. If they are cheated, it means they are mentally deficient. Clever people must think. If they think, Allah ﷻ will surely help them. He ﷻ will show them the way of truth, and they will walk on that way. May Allah ﷻ show the way of truth to these people, these youngsters.

Youngsters don’t like anyone the most. As they don’t like anyone except themselves, they are at loss. May Allah ﷻ protect them. There is experience to be attained by youngsters. If Allah ﷻ gives them a long life, they will look around. There are many youngsters who regret what they did. Insha’Allah may they regret as well, may they repent and come to the right way insha’Allah. May Allah ﷻ protect us. May Allah ﷻ protect us from the evil of shaytan.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 20 November 2023/ 08 Jumada Al-Awwal 1445 Isha Prayer – Alanya, Turkey