A Special Attribute of the Believer

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.

Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says,

“The believer is friendly and can be befriended.” [Hadith]. A believer is someone who is forbearing, peaceful, and gets along well with people. He gets along with people and people get along with him too. People’s temperaments are different, so tolerating them is the attribute of a believer, the attribute of the people of ṭarīqah. And that is also the attribute of our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, and something he ﷺ loves.

Therefore, a believer must get along well with people. He must tolerate them. Of course, everyone has their own temperaments, and different habits. If he doesn’t tolerate them, he decreases in rank. There is īmān and there is Islām. There is the believer and there is the Muslim. A believer is a more sincere Muslim. Everyone who is a Muslim is a Muslim. Someone who gets along well, someone who gets along badly, someone who commits sins, someone who does evil can be a Muslim. But a believer is not like that. A believer is indeed one who: gets along well with people, performs his worship, is on the way of Allāh ﷻ, fears the ḥarām and avoids it and strives to do good.

Therefore, most of our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam’s words and ḥadīth sharīf are short, but complete. They are like that so mankind don’t forget them. If a person does them, he earns great rewards and is relieved. All of our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam’s words, advices, instructions are for our benefit, for the benefit of humanity. May Allāh ﷻ make it easy for us to do them. May Allāh ﷻ make us successful in doing so, in shā’a Llāh.

Wa min Allāhi t-Tawfīq. Al-Fātiḥa.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 19 July 2025/ 24 Muharram 1447 Fajr Prayer – Akbaba Dergah, Istanbul