For a Clean Community

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.

We began with sweets. In shā’a Llāh, may our gatherings all the time be sweet, in shā’a Llāh. Sweets are a blessing from Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Of course, all ni’mah are coming from Allāh ﷻ. Eat with Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm and be careful. Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says, eat a little bit, don’t be full. For many people this whole plate is not enough. But when everyone takes a little bit, it will be enough for all of them and benefit for all of them, in shā’a Llāh. May Allāh ﷻ keep us in His ﷻ way, the best way, the sweetest way. Mawlānā Shaykh was always saying, “O how sweet are the words coming through Awliyā’, through Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, through Qur’ān!” He was happy with spiritual sweet. Sweetness gives people happiness.

So Awliyā’u Llāh, are the (most) sweetest people in the world. The sweetest are Prophets. Every sweetness, every happiness is coming through them to people, but people are going away, taking ugly things, not good things for themselves or for their spirituality. They’re doing that and after that destroying themselves and destroying family also, destroying nations. When you do some bad thing, this bad thing spreads. If you put - we’re not saying a dirty thing in water - even if you put one drop of petrol in one big gallon of water, you will taste it. It is not good. But if you are thirsty maybe you can drink. But normally, no. For this, when somebody makes a bad thing, the other also makes it. One drop, becomes two drops in one gallon. A third becomes three drops. Maybe you can still drink. After five, six, ten: you cannot put it in your mouth.

This is what happens when people are doing bad things, they will be, as Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says, when they are doing not good things and other people follow them, they will have punishment for each one who follows this man or woman or anybody of those doing bad things and are learning from them. The punishment will be double for them. If three people imitate them, there will be three times the punishment for who is showing the way. It’s important to keep the community clean. One from here, one drop from here, one drop from the other side, all the community will be in badness; no benefit, only misery, fighting, not happy together or with their family or

neighbor, or everybody. For this, everybody must know and think of the consequence of what he does upon others.

Nowadays, it is really terrible. Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says, “If you are afflicted with sin, hide yourself.” If you made a sin or a bad thing, it is balā’ (affliction) for you; not good. But suppose it happened, don’t say it, don’t spread it in the society, don’t tell people, keep it for yourself. Say, “This is balā’. May Allāh ﷻ forgive me.” Don’t spread it. When you spread it, you make a bigger sin. A bigger sin because others will also be following you. Even if they’re not following you, they will say, “Okay, what shall we do. We are not responsible of him.” Consequently, they make sin normal. After that, when it becomes normal, everybody can do it, and it will destroy the community, destroy the family, destroy everything.

Nowadays unfortunately, it is like this. Everywhere is like this. Many times, since coming from the north and here also, most people have been telling us this. And the most thing they are doing is drugs. They say, “My son is using drugs.” Today one woman came, she’s Turkish. She showed me a picture of the first boy, he has a problem that he’s hearing some voices; a little bit. She then showed me a picture of the other one, I thought it was the same boy. She said “No, all of them take drugs.” This is a very bad thing. Because they are seeing each other and imitating each other, “This has done this, I will also do it; no problem. My brother did it, my friend, my relative. All of them are doing it, so it is not so bad. We can do it.”

And now what’s worse than that – every time we say this – is this machine. They are doing every bad thing on it and spreading it to other people. And other people use it to make worse things for them or for others. For this, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says to not say what you’ve done from sin. If you hide it and ask for forgiveness, Allāh ﷻ is As-Sattar. It is one of His ﷻ names. It means He ﷻ hides, He ﷻ conceals. So if you are hiding this, not appearing it for people, He ﷻ will say on Yawmu l-Qiyāmah, “My servant was ashamed of what he’d done, and he doesn’t want to be ashamed among all these millions and billions of people. He concealed himself; I will conceal him, I will not tell it among people.” He won’t become ashamed then. This is very important. Unfortunately, this machine is making everybody’s ego bigger and bigger, bigger and bigger. It becomes like a balloon and they blow up.

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm:, “Annamā l-ḥayātu d-dunyā laʿibun wa-lahwun”, “Know that the life of this world is only play and amusement.” (Qur’an 57:20). Ṣadaqa Llāhu l-‘Aẓīm. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla says, life this is only enjoying and playing. Don’t be cheated by it. Every time, I say this example. I went

once to America. I took my mother to my sister. Before, of course, when we are young, all the time we see in movies and think, “America MashAllāh, Oh, what is this, what is that!” But when I landed, I realized it was a very very big balloon of lies and it blew up. I don’t want to ever go there anymore but, in shā’a Llāh maybe we will because there are many Murīds there who are asking for us to come. But normally, for the end of my life I don’t want to go. This is very important for those who are looking after dunyā. Don’t look at this. Look for what Allāh ﷻ loves, what Allāh ﷻ likes, not what your ego likes, what the cheaters like.

So may Allāh ﷻ forgive us. Nowadays what we can only do is pray for everybody: young, old, child, woman, girl, for all of them: may Allāh ﷻ keep them safe. It’s really very easy to be caught by shayṭān’s hook. It’s very easy for him to catch us. May Allāh ﷻ keep us safe, in shā’a Llāh.

Wa min Allāhi t-Tawfīq. Al-Fātiḥa.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 01 February 2026/ 13 Sha’ban 1447 Ottoman Centre, Sheikh Nazim Dergah; London, UK