War Throughout Our Lives

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 created people. When He ﷻ created them, He ﷻ put them in this world for a test. How does the test come? It comes through hardship. When He ﷻ created people physically, He ﷻ created the ego, and He ﷻ created shaytan, Dunya and Hawa (desires) against them. These are the four enemies of people. While in this world, they struggle with these things. We are in war with them throughout our lives. It is Jihad against our egos, against shaytan, against Dunya and desires. We are in a war against them. They have other things as well like jealousy, envy, evil and all kinds of things that go together with them.

Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla says to mankind, “When you win this war against them, you will go to paradise insha’Allah”. We will go to paradise insha’Allah, but what will happen to them? All of these things will remain up until we reach the door of Paradise and drink from the pool of Kawthar of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. When people go in and drink from it, all of these bad things will leave them. No badness enters paradise. Only clean people enter paradise; neither jealousy, nor envy towards others’ wealth and honor nor all kinds of bad things. As there is no ego by that time, shaytan cannot enter paradise too. Whatever there is inside people, all of them will be cleansed there. There is nothing apart from beauty and goodness in paradise.

People certainly argue and fight here. They argue within their families and between spouses. It is the order of Allah ﷻ. There is not a person who doesn’t fight. But it doesn’t happen in paradise. There is no problem there. There is only comfort forever with beauty. Every bite is sweeter than the other, clothes are better than the others. It goes this way with the permission of Allah ﷻ.

Therefore, we must always strive against these enemies in this world. We must do as much as we can so that whatever Allah ﷻ wants happens and not what they want. Certainly, mankind does as much as they can. They commit sins and make mistakes in this world. But Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla will forgive them.

Therefore, we must know this. No one can do 100% of everything. Only Prophets are infallible. And our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is the last Prophet. Therefore, there are certainly nowadays mistakes done by the people who came after him ﷺ. Most of us are sinful as well. Those sins are given by Allah ﷻ in order to increase our ranks. When we repent and ask for forgiveness, He ﷻ changes them into Thawab. May Allah ﷻ help us be on His ﷻ way, because without His ﷻ help, it is hard for us. May He ﷻ give us the strength of Iman for the sake of our Holy Prophet ﷺ insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 25 November 2023/ 11 Jumada al-Awwal 1445 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah