Burn Your Ego

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.

Mawlana Jalāluddīn Rūmī says: “Hamdım, piştim, yandım,” “I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt.” Meaning, “I was raw. After that, I was cooked. After that, I wasn’t raw anymore, I was already cooked.” Then, “Yandım”, meaning I was burnt. This is the life of believers. Because first, they are very raw; they don’t know anything. Slowly, slowly, they become well. This rawness finishes and they can be something.

Everybody must be like this; not be raw. Every time - when young, they’re slowly, slowly learning and after that becoming a learnt one. But for ṭarīqah people, it’s more than this. You burn the bad characters, burn the ego, to be pure for Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. This is what Mawlana Jalāluddīn Rūmī said about himself. He said, “I was raw, I became cooked, after that I burned.” He finished his personality. Everything is for Allāh ﷻ, Li-Llah, “Pure for Allāh ﷻ.” Not anything from himself.

This is what ṭarīqah is teaching people. To not say, “I am like this, I am like that.” What’s important is to leave everything in this life before going to akhirah to be ready for akhirah, ready for Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Burn every bad thing from ourselves, from our ego and what it is happy with. All of this is not important. What’s important, our aim is to go without anything from ego in us.

May Allāh ﷻ help us. May Allāh ﷻ make us to slowly slowly, somebody cooked very slowly. Slow is okay, it is still in this way; it is not bad. But not to be raw, going to akhirah raw; no. But to be a little bit cooked at least. May Allāh ﷻ help us. May Allāh ﷻ make us - our intention is to be like what Mawlana Shaykh is saying insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 16 October 2024/ 13 Rabih Al-Akhir 1446 Fajr Prayer – Kuala Lampur Dergah, Malaysia