The Lesson from As’hab Al-Kahf

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.

Shukr to Allah ﷻ, our Tariqah and the way of these holy ones is the way same way. It is the way of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Since ‘Adam ‘alayhi s-salam, there have been thousands and hundred thousands of righteous people, Awliya and Prophets. We are at the holy place of As’hab ul-Kahf, these holy ones praised by Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla insha’Allah. May their Barakah be upon us insha’Allah.

They had left Dunya. They stopped following Dunya, but Dunya didn’t stop following them. They were beloved people near the king. They were given all kinds of tests and instructions but not on the way of Allah ﷻ. They didn’t agree with them. So they left everything and joined the true way, the way of Allah ﷻ. They left everything risking their lives and ran to Allah ﷻ. People were astonished about where they could run. Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla showed them the way. He ﷻ said, ‘Fafirrū ilāLlāh’, ‘So flee to Allah.’ (Qur’ān 51:50). “Run to Allah ﷻ”, He ﷻ said so and it always applies. It was like this before, and it is like this now: the same place to flee to.

People nowadays are weary. They don’t know what to do. They think about doing this or that and what will happen. What will happen is whatever Allah ﷻ says. As long as you are on the way of Allah ﷻ, don’t be afraid at all. Everyone will go to Akhirah eventually. Those who will win will be those who are on the way of Allah ﷻ. If they get all the wealth in this world, there is no benefit.

Our region here which is called the Middle East is the place of the oldest of people. Millions and billions of people had lived here. Is anyone alive from them? None of them is alive. All of them are gone. Who has remained is Allah ‘Azza waJalla. Eventually, those who win are those who are with Allah ﷻ. Who are not with Allah ﷻ are not in profit, they are at loss.

Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla had put these youngsters to sleep for 313 years. He ﷻ didn’t kill them but put them to sleep. And then, in order to show it as a lesson, as a miracle, in order to show it to people, He ﷻ woke them up. They were present in this location and disappeared later by the wisdom of Allah ﷻ. People who had lived here and who came after 300 years knew the way of truth. So they were happy to see this miracle of Allah ﷻ. They built a Maqam and Masjid in this place later. This Masjid is holy.

There are many places of As’hab ul-Kahf. However, the most accepted one is here. Our Shaykh Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, may Allah ﷻ increase his Maqam, and Hajjah Anne, Hajjah Aminah Sultan said they are revealed to be here. The real location is here, because there are 5-6 more places where As’hab ul-Kahf are claimed to have slept. But the real one is here. So insha’Allah Dua is accepted here. There is strength for Islam.

Who are on the way of Allah ﷻ are always in profit, as we said. Be with Allah ﷻ. Be with Al-Baqi (The Everlasting). Do not be with the temporary and the mortal. Who are the mortal ones? Those who are not on the way of Allah ﷻ. Those who are on the way of Allah ﷻ are immortal. Prophets are immortal. Awliya are immortal. Sahabah are immortal. Shaheeds are immortal. They are everlasting. Those who were against them are dead and gone whoever they were. To follow them brings no benefit unless they are on the way of Allah ﷻ.

May Allah ﷻ help people. May Allah ﷻ give mind and understanding. People should think well. People who think certainly win. Why did Allah ﷻ give mind to people and didn’t give it to animals? So that people think and win. Animals don’t need mind. Their duty is to eat and drink. Then edible ones from them will be eaten as service to people. Inedible ones have other duties given by Allah ﷻ. But mankind is given mind by Allah ﷻ. He ﷻ gave them mind and understanding. If they don’t use it, they make a mistake and commit a sin. Because Allah ﷻ says, “I gave you this favor. Why didn’t you do this? Why didn’t you use it? I gave you so many favors. Why didn’t you use them? You destroyed yourself. You ran after useless people. You ran away from My way and went after the way of shaytan”.

Everyone will die. Shaytan will die. Jinns will die. And people will die. To follow them is a mistake and danger if they are not on the way of Allah ﷻ. Be on the way of Allah ﷻ. Even if you cannot do everything, say “I cannot do it but I am not following these people. I am not following shaytan. I have mistakes and sins”. Allah ﷻ will forgive. Allah ﷻ is Forgiving. He ﷻ forgives the sinners. But if you

persist on your sins and say, “This is not right. I am right”, you will destroy yourself and lose everything.

May Allah ﷻ give strength to our Iman. May Allah ﷻ give strength to our mind as well. Mind is the adornment and decoration. The decoration of people is their mind. Those who have no mind and run after those are like a flock [of sheep]. The flock is even better than them. As we said, they have benefits, but these have harm.

May Allah ﷻ help Islam. We are living in the end of times. There is Fitnah and immorality everywhere. They are showing badness as good and goodness as bad. They are shaming people as if it is embarrassing; they say words against those on the way of Allah ﷻ and dislike them. Whereas as long as Allah ﷻ likes them, the whole world may not like them, that is not important. What’s important is that you attain the pleasure of Allah ﷻ., “Ilahi Anta maqsudi wa Ridaka matlubi”, “O, my Lord! You are my objective and Your Pleasure is my desire.” Our wish from Allah ﷻ, all we ask for is You, O Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla! Your pleasure is our wish and goal. What we want is Your pleasure. This is the most valuable thing. If you attain the pleasure of Allah ﷻ, if you attain the pleasure and love of our Holy Prophet ﷺ, that is very important. That is the most important thing. It is not only very important, it is the most important thing. Do not ignore it. Do not underestimate it.

They say now, “We are educated. My son has enrolled at university.” So what? He enrolled and what happened? He is swearing at you, swearing at his mother, swearing at his ancestors and his past. What he is taught is not a good thing. Why did it become so? Because you didn’t show importance to the way of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. You said the most important thing for your child is university, the most important thing is the school. University graduates are neither finding jobs, nor looking for jobs. If you talk about vocations (craft), no one wants vocations anymore. Everyone is arrogant. And those who studied a craft are not considered accepted, and they don’t find a job later. It is not important that they don’t find a job. What’s important is that they take in that poison, they accept that poison. That is the most dangerous thing. They can study and be useless, but they shouldn’t take that poison in. That is the important thing.

As we said, parents must pay attention to their children. They must show them, first of all, the way of Allah ﷻ. Make them start praying when they are seven years old. Pay more attention [for prayer] when they are ten. Don’t be lazy and

don’t get tired of saying “O my son, pray. O my daughter, pray. This is the way of Allah ﷻ”. This is your duty at home.

May Allah ﷻ help us. We are living in such a time that all of us, including us - When babies are just one year old, their mothers give them these machines (phones) to watch and stop crying. They watch and mothers say, “I want to rest.” Afterwards, children concentrate their minds on other things and cannot talk. And then it becomes even worse and they don’t go out of their rooms. They don’t talk to anyone at the age of ten. As we said, the laziness of parents has reached its peak. Indolence has reached its peak. People don’t look even after their children.

In old times, women gave birth to 10-12 children and looked after everyone very well. Now they have both diapers and baby food and I don’t know what. Yet, that is not enough. They are lazy to look after one child. We ask that Allah ﷻ sends the Sahib, nothing else. The world is out of joint and cannot hold itself. We see that not only here but the whole world is like this. We went as far as 10,000 km from here. Then we passed to the other side. From the North to the South, from the East to the West - everywhere is the same. They call it global. Shaytan has put all of us in one mold. However women are in England, they are the same here. However they are in Japan, they are same in Malaysia and India. All of them are put in one mold and are told “You will follow this way”.

Insha’Allah Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam will open the right way to us. We don’t have hope for anything else. But our Holy Prophet ﷺ has good tidings that Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam will come in the end of times and improve everything. This is certain. He will improve and make the whole world Muslim insha’Allah. We have approached these days, because the soldiers of shaytan, soldiers of Dajjal have surrounded the world. Everywhere is full of them. There were no soldiers of Dajjal in old times; meaning they were very few. Nowadays more than half of normal people are soldiers of Dajjal. Therefore, the time is certainly near. May he appear as soon as possible insha’Allah so that we see those beautiful days. May Allah ﷻ let us all reach him.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 22 November 2023/ 10 Jumada Al-Awwal 1445 Maqam and Masjid of As’hab Al-Kahf – Tarsus, Mersin; Turkey