You are Free to Choose

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:

‘Wa-Llāhu yad‘ū ilá dāri s-salām’, ‘And Allah invites to the Home of Peace (i.e. Paradise).’ (Qur’ān 10:25). Ṣadaqa Llāhu l-‘Aẓīm.

Allāh ﷻ is calling people to the house of peace. What is this house of peace? Dunyā? No. In dunyā there’s no peace. It’s for Jannah. It’s beginning from dunyā if you are following what Allāh ﷻ says, you are going towards Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, He ﷻ makes your journey a good journey in shā’a Llāh.

Because Allāh ﷻ is calling people for peace, for Jannah, for Paradise. And there is another option. There are people calling people with shayṭān to hell, to the house of badness, to the house of torture, to the house of every badness. This is the difference between ḥaqq wa l-bāṭil, the right and false, bad. Allāh ﷻ calls you to save yourself and shayṭān wants you with him. Where is he? In jahannam, hell.

There are two options. They are saying democracy – we cannot say this is real democracy, for democracy is not a good word. [We are saying this] just for example. You are free. Allāh ﷻ has given you free will. Allāh ﷻ doesn’t oppress anybody. Allāh ﷻ knows what He ﷻ does. We don’t know anything about His ﷻ wisdom.

So everybody can be if they want to be in Paradise, the house of peace, they can follow. Because Allāh ﷻ is calling all, not making difference between people, calling all of them. If there is billions like this planet, an endless count of planets, also no problem for Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Ḥāshā! (far from it). He ﷻ is able to put them, all of them in Paradise. But they, who are following the other way, they will be asked for this and they will be blamed only themselves; nothing else. Everybody can be in the right way. But people are not believing. They don’t have belief. When you don’t have belief, you will be suffering. Allāh Azza wa Jalla, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, He ﷻ is the Most Merciful. These people are saying, “Why this? Why that?” Everything has wisdom; nothing is without wisdom.

For this, you must be in the way of Allāh ﷻ. Don’t follow anything from the way of those who are against Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Because just as when you go on the way of Allāh ﷻ, you go on the way of Paradise, also the other way: the way of hell is beginning from here. Everything you do here, first you suffer here, after that you suffer in the next world. May Allāh ﷻ keep us safe in shā’a Llāh. May Allāh ﷻ keep us in His ﷻ way, keep us in His ﷻ Paradise in shā’a Llāh.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 29 February 2024/ 19 Sha’ban 1445 Fajr Prayer - Sheikh Nazim Dergah; London, UK