Mankind Was Created Forgetful

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.

Insān comes from the word nisyān which means forgetfulness. This means mankind is forgetful. It is also one of the attributes of mankind. Forgetfulness - people sometimes do things. Everything has a wisdom. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla is the one who created everything. He ﷻ knows what the wisdom is and what it is useful for.

Therefore, if human beings do not forget everything, life becomes unbearable. Their pain, memories, all kinds of things; there is wisdom in everything. There is wisdom in forgetting also. Because if a person remembers everything, he wouldn’t need anyone.

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla removes things that should be forgotten and pain from one’s heart and mind by making him forget them. As days pass, a person’s sad conditions or the various difficulties that come his way are forgotten. His life passes by.

That’s why in forgetfulness - but there are some things that are difficult to forget. These too are certainly - for example, if you memorized the Qur’ān, you must read it constantly in order not to forget it. So what you have memorized, you have to do something not to forget them. And for forgetfulness, by reciting ṣalawāt-u sharīf upon our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, those things you forget will come to your mind, with the permission of Allāh ﷻ.

Regarding lessons and this and that, sometimes people get sad and say, “I am forgetting.” Forgetfulness is something Allāh ﷻ gave to mankind. Because it comes from Allāh ﷻ, you must accept it. But in order not to forget when important things happen, you should repeat it in your mind or it would be better to write it down somewhere: what you will do, “I will go there, I will go here.”

The most important thing is not to forget the principles of Islām. You should not forget prayer. You should not forget fasting. Ḥajj, again, you should put it in your mind, “I will perform ḥajj also, in shā’a Llāh.” You must not forget to give zakāt. These are important things. In order not to forget them, you should take note and pay attention.

May Allāh ﷻ help us. May Allāh ﷻ protect us. In order not to forget what we know, especially what we have memorized of Qur’ān ‘Aẓīmu sh-Sha’n and the beautiful words of our Holy Prophet ﷺ, recite ṣalawāt and in shā’a Llāh we leave this world in our right minds.

Now there is also the forgetfulness disease. It is even more severe and totally worse. They don’t recognize anybody. Those new diseases have emerged. May Allāh ﷻ protect us all from them, in shā’a Llāh

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 21 November 2024/ 19 Jamada al-Awwal 1446 Lefke – Cyprus