A True 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 shows us the way. He ﷺ says that the one who loves for the sake of Allāh ﷻ, hates for the sake of Allāh ﷻ, gives for the sake of Allāh ﷻ, takes for the sake of Allāh ﷻ and marries for the sake of Allāh ﷻ has indeed perfected his īmān. What does that mean? For the pleasure of Allāh ﷻ. Allāh ﷻ has given every good thing. You should love that beauty; you should love goodness. You must not stay away from it. This is for your own good. When īmān is perfect, all kinds of troubles disappear for a person. A person with īmān has no troubles. He has no worries about this world, or rather, no worries about the troubles. He won’t worry about anything.

Therefore, you should love for the sake of Allāh ﷻ. Why do you love this person for the sake of Allāh ﷻ? Because they work for Allāh ﷻ, they love Allāh ﷻ. We should love them too. They will bring you good, no harm will come from them. And you should hate for the sake of Allāh ﷻ. People nowadays want to be humanists. It means you must love all people. You can love them, but you cannot love someone who doesn’t love Allāh ﷻ. Because that person is nothing but harm. They cause harm. They harm you and they have already harmed themselves from the start. Therefore, hating means staying away. Not talking or showing care to them, not sitting with them, not listening to them. Not getting much close to them. That’s what hating means.

And you will give for Allāh ﷻ. You will receive for Allāh ﷻ. That’s it. When you give, you give for the sake of Allāh ﷻ. And if you receive for the sake of Allāh ﷻ, it will benefit you. So, when all trade, buying and selling, is for the sake of Allāh ﷻ, no rights will be violated then. No one can infringe on anyone’s rights. You give what is due; you make it ḥalāl. That too becomes for the sake of Allāh ﷻ. And you marry for the sake of Allāh ﷻ. That is, when you are marry as ḥalāl, you marry and have a ḥalāl marriage.

The person who does that, says our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, is someone who has īmān. A person who possesses īmān is someone who knows that everything comes from Allāh ﷻ and relies upon Allāh ﷻ in everything. When that happens, mankind finds peace. Otherwise, they are constantly worried about what will

happen, etc. Allāh ﷻ knows what will happen. Your duty is to focus on your own affairs, continue steadfast on the right way, give and receive with goodness, love with goodness, and hate with goodness. That’s your duty. There is no need to worry about other things. Allāh ﷻ created you. He ﷻ gives you your rizq (sustenance), and gives you all your needs. He ﷻ knows when and what will happen.

Therefore, a person with īmān seeks refuge in Allāh ﷻ. A person with īmān believes in Allāh ﷻ, has īmān, and does all kinds of goodness. As we said, a person with īmān is the best of people, the most comfortable. He has no worry. A true believer wouldn’t care even if the world collapsed, because it is Allāh’s ﷻ decree. A person with īmān doesn’t worry but says, “Allāh ﷻ wanted it this way, He ﷻ willed it this way, it happened this way.” That’s what a true believer is like.

As we said, a person who does all his affairs for the sake of Allāh ﷻ finds peace. May Allāh ﷻ grant us all that īmān, in shā’a Llāh. Because these days everyone is under influence. Everywhere is full of people with no īmān, no religion and no morals. They influence people, making them forget Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. They instill such fear in people that you might think fear has some benefit. Just fear Allāh ﷻ, it’s enough. May Allāh ﷻ help us all, in shā’a Llāh. May He ﷻ grant us true īmān. May these troubles be lifted from within us, in shā’a Llāh.

Wa min Allāhi t-Tawfīq. Al-Fātiḥa.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 27 March 2026/ 08 Shawwāl 1447 Lefke, Cyprus