The Real Forever

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.

AlhamduliLlah, Shukr to Allah ﷻ, the anniversary of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim’s passing passed well with the grace and favor of Allah ﷻ. It has been ten years since Mawlana Shaykh Nazim passed away physically, and the eleventh year has started. Spiritually, he is always with us, Shukr to Allah ﷻ. Whoever wants to be with us, his spiritual presence is stronger now, Shukr to Allah ﷻ. Because it will be forever with the permission of Allah ﷻ.

Allah ﷻ makes people be with their loved ones. “Forever” that the people of present time mean by saying “This one will live forever or that one will live forever” is nonsense. Forever is the life of hereafter that Allah ﷻ likes. That is the eternal life. In this life here, there were people who had lived for a thousand, or two thousand years in old times. Yet, they are not here. They are gone to Akhirah. They passed away to the actual real life in Akhirah.

Those who are on the way of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla are in profit. And those who left the way of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla are in loss. There were Pharaoh and Nimrod. There were various people, good and bad. The good ones were in profit. People who had followed them were in profit. Those who follow that way are clever and mindful people. And those who go out of that way are heedless and short of mind. Whoever that is, no matter if they say he is a scholar or a learnt man, unless he is on the way of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla, he doesn’t have a way. His way is not the way. Following him brings eternal disappointment to people. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

May we always have the Himmah (support) of our Shaykhs. Shukr to Allah ﷻ, it is obvious that they are the means of guidance with the permission of Allah ﷻ. People came from all over the world for the Mawlid of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. They took from his Barakah with the permission of Allah ﷻ. May his Barakah always be upon us. And may there be guidance for people, because his way is the beautiful way. It is the way of mercy. He wished people mercy and wanted everyone to come to this way. This is our Dua. May people have guidance insha’Allah. May those who are not on the way come to the right way insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 15 May 2024/ 07 Dhul Qa’dah 1445 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah