Wali Therapy

SufiLive.com > Transcript Wali Therapy Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Friday, Nov 25, 2005 | Fenton, MI US SufiLive.com Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah azeez Allah Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah azeez Allah Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah subhan Allah Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah sultan Allah Allah is the Sultan. Dastoor Ya Sayyidee, Madad.   These days, there is a new treatment to people, it is not new, but it is from a long time ago. It is massage therapy. Do you know massage therapy. It is to keep, like what Reza is doing, massaging, massaging. It is to make like you have a dough, daw, and you are kneading it. Opening it, as much as you are kneading it, it becomes thinner and increases, increases, increases. And it becomes more and more thinner instead of being thick. When it is thick, people don't like it; they don't eat it, because it is thick. But when it becomes thinner and thinner and thinner people like it more because it does not make them too much fat. And it increases in a way that sometimes they use it in sweets, so that it becomes so thin that when you put it in your mouth it dissolves, if it is of many layers, it becomes very thin. Awliyaullah, always there is a wali therapy, like massage therapy. Massage therapy is to keep pressing and pressing to make the blood move and to make the muscle relax and wherever there is a knot, it will disappear. These knots make the pain because they are in different locations and their existence in these different locations affect the muscles and affects the smoothness of the blood flowing through the body. So they go to massage therapy, in order to treat them. Awliyaullah, they have - if we can call it that - we call it knowledge therapy. Knowledge therapy is more effective than any other kind of therapies. Because that knowledge therapy is what relates and can speak with every part of the body; it can speak with every cell of the body.   Through the shaykh's speeches or through the wali's speeches, he gives words that are directed directly to the composition of the body, that it will immediately, as if you are kneading the dough, (daw) it kneads the whole system and makes the system capable of getting away all these knots that they are obstacles that have been put by shaytan in different parts of the heart. Through their knowledge therapy or their singing therapy or their speeches therapy, or their disseminating from themselves that light, which is a light therapy, [which] goes into the people who are listening and sitting and takes away all these knots and prepares them to receive heavenly messages, heavenly inspirations, heavenly information that are always descending on earth from heavenly sources. As the Prophet (s) is always in ascension, ascending, it means that knowledge is always descending. Are you understanding. As long as the Prophet (s) is ascending, knowledge is descending. It means as the Prophet (s) is in ascension he is receiving from Allah's swt Divine Presence, knowledge - more and more - and when he receives in his ascension he sends it to earth for the Ummah. So it is a two-way system. One way is ascending and one way is descending. Because we cannot have the power of ascension like the Prophet (s), going up in the Divine Presence, we cannot do that because of the many many knots we have in our system, so the Prophet (s), by Allah's Order, sends that informant that he (s) is receiving, whatever he wants to send, he sends down, if we want to say down, as there is no direction - to us in order for us to understand and eliminate these knots. That descension, can we say, that ascension and descension, are what we were speaking before, they are relatively around each other. They are like stars, as you were describing, stars are moving relatively together in the same system, but they are all of them in different orbits. Is it not. That is what Allah swt said in the Holy Qur'an: وَكُلٌّ فِي فَلَكٍ يَسْبَحُونَ wa kullun fee falakin yasbahoon. 36:40. Each (just) swims along in (its own) orbit (according to Law). Surah Yasin, 36:40. Everything is in its orbit it is swimming Surah Yasin. Allah swt said yasbahoon. He did not say yaduroon, which is to turn around. Usually what do they do, stars? They spin, they revolve, they move. But why He used yasbahoon? Instead of saying everyone is in its orbit revolving or turning, He said, everyone is in its orbit swimming. Whey he didn't say yaduroon or yataharakoon, moving. He said "swimming." That means that in every orbit there is that star which we are thinking is revolving, but in reality it has, and it is swimming it its, private ocean. Every star has its own ocean that Allah made that star to swim in it. wa kullun fee falakin yasbahoon. As we were describing these stars, their lights from one star to another star differs, like the identity of the eye, from the color of the iris, everyone has a different color that is coming out, that can be known by that color, as the eye is swimming in that watery, aqueous, it is also like a star. It is light and it is swimming in that watery aqueous. These stars are swimming in a watery aqueous that is known to them, not known to us. They have that watery aqueous - that means that significant or special ocean that we cannot describe here, that relates to every star and every person receives from different stars different light that only relates to that person, to him, in order that Allah with his mercy, sends that heavenly light, because He said: وَلَقَدْ زَيَّنَّا السَّمَاء الدُّنْيَا بِمَصَابِيحَ وَجَعَلْنَاهَا رُجُومًا لِّلشَّيَاطِينِ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لَهُمْ عَذَابَ السَّعِيرِ wa laqad zayana as sama ad-dunya bi masabeeha wa ja`alnaha rujooman lish-shayateen And, indeed, We have adorned the skies nearest to the earth with lights, and have made them the object of futile guesses for the evil ones [from among men]: and for them have We readied suffering through a blazing flame – Mulk, 64:4. We have decorated the first layer of the skies with lamps, with stars, wa ja`alnaha rujooman lish-shayateen - and We made it rockets on shaytans. But still we were saying before these stars are still there revolving around each other, it means their light comes to a human being and everyone has a different star and that is why when awliya wants to look at you, they look at your star, they know everything through your identity. Because everyone has an identity, coming from there, giving a different color for his eyes. That is what you are seeing, doctor, from different eyes, encrypted knowledge that now they are using like thumb knowledge, it is because of the reflection from the light that comes from different stars and every person has a light coming from there that reflects from there to the eye like a mirror, so the eye becomes like a mirror for that star, when they are reading the eye, the encryption is really reading that star, but they because cannot read that encryption, they know there is an encryption but  they cannot decode it they cannot understand that star, else they will see that star as you. If technology is able to decode then encryption of the eye, when they look at you and look at that star they will see a resemblance. They look the same, a reflection. So Allah swt said, to show us that that star is swimming in that ocean that Allah swt gave to it, that Ocean of Knowledge and Ocean of Beauty and Ocean of Power. These three oceans mixed together and give that appearance to you. So He said yasbahoon. They are swimming.  It means you in dunya, you are a reflection of that star , the reality of that star that represents you there, in that ocean, you are a reflection of that star here and you will be able to swim in that ocean of these three Beautiful Names. Al-Qadir, wa al-Jamal and bahr al-`ilm. Bahr al-qudrah wa bahr al-jamal wa bahr al-`ilm – the Ocean of Power, the Ocean of Beauty and the Ocean of Knowledge - they are three Oceans that you are swimming in it. فَلَمَّا سَمِعَتْ بِمَكْرِهِنَّ أَرْسَلَتْ إِلَيْهِنَّ وَأَعْتَدَتْ لَهُنَّ مُتَّكَأً وَآتَتْ كُلَّ وَاحِدَةٍ مِّنْهُنَّ سِكِّينًا وَقَالَتِ اخْرُجْ عَلَيْهِنَّ فَلَمَّا رَأَيْنَهُ أَكْبَرْنَهُ وَقَطَّعْنَ أَيْدِيَهُنَّ وَقُلْنَ حَاشَ لِلّهِ مَا هَـذَا بَشَرًا إِنْ هَـذَا إِلاَّ مَلَكٌ كَرِيمٌ  fa lama ra'aynahu akbarnahu wa qata`na aydeeyihunna wa qulna hashaa lillahi maa haadha basharaa, in haadha ill malakun kareem. And when they saw him they exalted him and cut their hands, exclaiming: Allah Blameless! This is not a human being. This is no other than some gracious angel. Surah Yusuf, 12:31. When they saw him said, "Allahu Akbar, what is this, they magnified him." They dignified him, and they said, "oh," and they cut their hands, they were cutting their hands and they were not feeling, the ladies, the women, about Sayyidina Yusuf .  And they said this is not a human being, this is a malik, an angel, from his beauty. Because Sayyidina Yusuf was swimming in that Ocean of Beauty, that appearance came on him so strongly, he was dressed with that beauty…Allah wants to teach a lesson, that when you become very well polished, and the dough is kneaded very hard, you become very thin, polished like a mirror shining. So he was shining like a mirror, from his original reflection from heavens in heavens that stars so people said, "He is not human being he is not ordinary,  we cannot accept, he is a malak, an angel." When you swim in those kinds of oceans you become like an angel, people look at you like an angel, they cannot, they are continuously looking at you, they cut their hands. Sayyidina Ahmad al-Badawi, they were not able to look into his eyes because when they look they faint from that beauty and light. Sayyidina Yusuf, more then they fainting is fainting, there is no pain in fainting, everything becomes black, as before. But when you are having a higher and higher level of angelic power and you are becoming more strong on your faith, even if people are cutting themselves and bleeding they feel no pain because of the beauty that is attracting your eyes to that angel. That is what happened to the one who asked Sayyidina Musa for Allah to send him love, faith. You don't have faith?  No I need love, infatuation, that love to Allah that `ishq, that infatuation to Allah. Sayyidina Musa went to Tur Sina, and said, "Ya Rabbee, that one that is believing in me, that servant, that `abd is asking this." Allah said, "Very well. I am sending from that ocean of love to his heart." So when Sayyidina Musa came back, he found him, he is gone. He shocked him, he moved him, nothing. Allah said to Sayyidina Musa , "Ya Musa , if you grind him or put him in a blender - there were no blenders in that time, but they had stones, that you put and grind seeds - if you put him in there and grind him with that one ton stone, he will not feel anything. If you take and cut him into pieces, he will not feel it. He is already in My Presence. He doesn't feel anything except My Presence." So Sayyidina Muhammad (s) in his ascension, he is going deeper and deeper, nearer and nearer but whatever we say nearer, still it is far, for the nearness to Allah swt, as much as you come near, as much as you feel it is far, because you want to get it and you cannot are approaching Allah, as much as you come near you feel far. Like someone who says "I am going to celebrate my birthday." But as his birthday approaches, he sees it far, even if it is one week away. That one week may seem more than a year. As much as you approach the target as much as you feel that target is far. So the Prophet in his nearness and ever nearness to Allah, as much as he approaches, as much as he sees it far. That is because he is `abd and Allah is Allah swt. So in that ascension he is sending that knowledge and that knowledge is reaching our realities, in these stars, and from there it reflects.  And as they are reflecting and we are allowing that reflection to pass through us, then all the knots in our body will disappear and the knowledge will find a way to reach the heart. But if we are not trying to accept that reflection and allow it to come, then these knots will sit there forever until you die. And this knowledge will never reach you, because there are obstacles in the middle, in the way. So Allah swt ordered us to remove these obstacles: the five pillars of Islam. Those are obstacles, removers, and the Sunnah of the Prophet. You cannot eliminate the Sunnah of the Prophet. When you eliminate it then these obstacles are going to be there. Why was the Prophet praying Sunnah? If it is not necessary then he will pray only the fard, the obligation. Like yesterday, we immediately went into the `Asr payer. I did not say anything we immediately went into fard. We didn't pray the Sunnah. They went directly into the fard, they made iqamah. Where is the Sunnah. It is gone? It is eaten. Why the Prophet prayed Sunnah. The Sunnah is the key of the lock. To open the lock you need the key. The lock is the obligation, the Sunnah is the key. Without that key put inside and turn the lock doesn't open. So both of them work together, Sunnah and fard. Like you go to ATM card machine and you put your pin number or you put your name -  is never going to work. What do you need to make it work? You need the card. So you need the card, the card is the Sunnah. Then the fard will work, the obligation. That makes the fard, the obligation to work. So without the Sunnah the door will not open. How do you come to the presence of, let's say, a president or a king without a nice dress? Can you go wearing a dress that is not suitable for that presence? So Sunnah is the dress that decorates you in order that you will be able, when you enter in the presence, you are in a very nice decoration, as Allah said in the Holy Qur'an: يَا بَنِي آدَمَ خُذُواْ زِينَتَكُمْ عِندَ كُلِّ مَسْجِدٍ Ya Bani Adam khudhoo zeenatakum `inda kulla masjid. O Children of Adam, wear your beautiful apparel at every time and place of prayer. Surat al-`Araf, 7:31 Take your decoration, it mans take the best of what you can, to wherever you go to a mosque to pray take your decoration. It means in literary meaning dress nicely and put nice smell and go. But in reality it means don't leave the Sunnah behind, because that is the dress. When you put on that dress, the Sunnah of the Prophet, then you can enter into the divine presence. Then this knowledge will be coming to you, this revolving, all of them are spinning in a different way, yet all are all together are moving. What do you call them, constellations. All these stars in the universe, although they are moving in a different way, yet all together, they are dancing. That movement is dancing in Allah's love. That love makes them to vibrate. If you put your ear then you can hear their vibrations, you can hear their praising of Allah, these constellations. Don't think they are fixed there like statues. They are in continuous praising to Allah. Awliyaullah can hear that. Some can hear it but they cannot decrypt the encoding of that music. Some they can, it depends on their levels. And for us to know, is that: وَكُلُّ شَيْءٍ عِندَهُ بِمِقْدَارٍ wa kullu shayin `indahu bi miqdaar, Every single thing is before His sight, in (due) proportion. Surat al-Ra`d, 13:8 Allah said in Holy Qur'an - everything in his presence is in a balance. Not imbalance. In balance. Everything bi miqdar, in the right quantity, not more not less. And it comes according to what you are doing and how far you are moving. So our realities, Allah wants us to reach that realities and wants us to let these knots out, and this is the awliya knowledge therapy or as we said light therapy or love therapy or speech therapy or singing therapy, through their different ways with their followers it is a therapy to eliminate satanic characteristics from that person and present him with angelic characteristics, in order to be able to become like this light. Look, when we put it on it was so powerful that you could not open your eyes. But now you can open your eyes, it doesn't affect as before. Why? Physics. [because before our eyes adjust to the light. When it was dark, our eyes were more sensitive to the light] yes, as you said we had to adjust to the light, now even though it is more strong, when we adjusted we are able to look to it. Our bodies and our souls when they dressed in darkness of satanic characteristics they are adjusted to darkness they are unable to see lights, until they are adjusted, because darkness stops them, until they are adjusted. To adjust them, you need speech therapy or wilayah therapy or wali therapy in order to adjust yourself, he will adjust you slowly, slowly, to be able to reach that huge light that we are seeing shining there. Then your system will be able to adjust to heavenly characteristics. At that time he will be able to present you to the presence of the Prophet and the Prophet will be able to present you to the presence of Allah swt. May Allah forgive us and give us the best of this day and keep us always together under the wing of Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani. Bi-hurmatil-fatiha.                                                                                                                   Grab this Headline Animator

Are you alarmed against intruders?

SufiLive.com > Transcript Are you alarmed against intruders? Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Thursday, Feb 22, 2007 | Oakland, CA US SufiLive.com Alhamdulillah, Allah made Muslims to meet at least once a week.  Allah wanted them to meet five times a day, but because of dunya issues, Muslims, alhamdulillah, meet once a week for fellowship.  They come together as they might have issues that concern them.  But the most important thing in our lives (many people might look into it, but not in enough depth) is that we have to be alarmed. We were passing by here and I saw a bulletin board on which was written "Be alarmed!" … with (or be very alarmed), written underneath. That has huge meaning.  We are looking for companies to get alarms to be armed from burglars, but we are forgetting that we have a bigger world that has to be armed.  We have a universe that has to be armed.  Don't look too far for the universe that has to be armed…You are a huge universe by yourself. If you want to count how many cells are in your body (and each is a factory) they estimate that there are 3 trillion cells. Allah warns us to be alarmed - that not everything in this life is for entertaining ourselves.  This is not only doing five prayers, as many people who do the obligations think that that is enough.  That is part of the religion, but the other two thirds are the state of iman and the state of ihsan, according to the famous hadith of Sayyidina Jibreel and Sayyidina `Umar (r).  Allah wants us to be alarmed.  He sent His Messenger to alarm us - to wire us.  Everything that Sayyidina Muhammad (saws) has mentioned has wires: wires that are connected together in a certain way so that if there is one problem the system will shut down. These companies, when they come and arm your house, watch for even one problem and when they see one, they call you and say "Oh, there is problem in that room." So what do you think?  Allah has put all these devices on us; put angels to monitor us.  What are you going to say?  Are you going to lie? You cannot lie.  You cannot dare to say "No, this is wrong." When the fuse burns, the whole system will break down. It's so very simple - one step towards shaytan and our whole system shuts down and we follow shaytan.  It is very simple and very easy.  You check yourself: all of us are like that.  We are one moment falling into the trap of shaytan and our whole system shuts down.  Like Sayyidina Adam - are you better than Sayyidina Adam?  Sayyidina Adam is the father of every human being and Sayiddia Hawa is the mother of every human being.  Iblees came and gave him one short circuit and he and his wife ate from the forbidden fruit.  He was a prophet.  We are not prophets, we are not companions of prophets, we are not imams, nor are we awliya.  We are normal human beings. That means that if Sayyidina Adam's system shut down, then our system will surely shut down with even a very small problem. He was already in Paradise and because of the shutdown he was sent to Earth.  We are already on Earth.  That shows how far we are from what Allah wants us to do… we must not say we are so close because we are praying our prayers.  "la tumaninu…"- We, O Allah , are doing this for you."  No, it is not from you.  Hasanat are from Allah .  Bad is from us.  Who is bringing us to here? "Fa talaqa adam bi kalamaatin fa taaba ilahy."  He learned to say, "O Allah , what is good is from you and what is bad is from us." Today we are trying to give advice to people but we are not following the advice ourselves. How many of us try to speak of the goodness of Islam - Islam is this and Islam is that - but we are not applying it to ourselves.  To make a bigger mosque some organizations receive 50 million dollars: to do what ...To do more dawah?  Allahu Akbar - that is the problem today.  It is a business with salaries, with an office. Did you see Prophet (saws) collect 50 million dollars and give it to sahaba to build businesses and buildings? Allah gave a remedy for everything.  Prophet (saws) gave medicine for everything.  And the best medicine is what the Prophet (saws) mentioned to us.  What he said is what will make things easy for you. How many are following their egos?  Everyone except Sayyidina Muhammad (saws).  And we know that Jibreel came to take the place of shaytan.  All except Sayyidina Muhammad (saws) have that place of Shaytan in their hearts.  Prophet (saws) said, "I have made shaytan to become a Muslim.  No one can do that except Sayyidina Muhammad (saws). But we have an opening from the Holy Qur'an in order that they can save themselves from many problems. I will give an example of that which many people might not be aware which was used a long time ago and people today are dropping it from their studies or from their knowledge. From `Ali (r) , Prophet (saws) said, when he was asked about the importance of Surat al-Fatiha; "People have to know something important for their lives in order to help themselves"- "Attbi`a as-sayyiat al-hasanaat" – "Follow something bad with something good."  It will erase it, and Allah will forgive you.  Allah gave us many things in the Holy Qur'an which will help us through all these wires we were speaking about - things that will enable us to be armed…There is an alarm in your mind that will pick it up.  Sayyidina `Ali (r) was asked about the importance of Surat al-Fatiha concerning any problem we have.  He said, "The Prophet (saws) told us that it was revealed from a treasure under the throne.  It was picked up and given to human beings by Allah and that is why it is called 'Umm al-Kitab': because it has everything in it.  Sahaba used to use it for healing people from sickness.  Because when you are ill, your whole body is sick and all the alarms are going out… and ad-Daylami, brought out from `Umran ibn Husayn said, that "For any servant who recites al-Fatiha and al-Kursee in his home no harm will afflict him in his house - morning or evening - from eye of an ins (human) and eye of a jinn (meaning eye of jealousy and envy)." Because envy and jealousy are polluting everything we do when we move about in our homes and outside. The Prophet (saws) said that anyone who recites al-Fatiha and al-Kursee will not get harmed by the jealousy of Shaytan nor of ins from their jealousy.  They cannot come and make you do something wrong.  Shaytan knows your alarms are on today and he cannot come against you.  Look how much Allah loves his servants - how he gives what they need in dunya in order to be good servants. Wa akhraja al-Ubay wa al-Hasan hadith says that the Prophet (saws) said, "For whoever recites al-Fatiha it is as if he recited the Tawrat and Injeel and Zaboor and Qur'an."   For whoever recites al-Fatiha one time or two, ten times or one hundred, or even ten thousand, it is up to you, it is as if you read the Tawrat and Bible and the Psalms and the Qur'an.  That is for reading al-Fatiha: as if he had read the four books. There are secrets of the Qur'an: Yasin is the heart of the Qur'an and the heart of Yasin is al-Fatiha.  So what is an easy task that many people are not aware of?  I see and we all see, but in some cultures you learn things that you don't learn in other cultures.  In the Middle Eastern countries, especially where there is… I don't say that but there are ways that you are raised with it when you are young: that after every du'a or after every prayer we recite Surat al-Fatiha.  In many countries you don't see that amongst the Muslims.  When they make du'a they wrap with salawat on Prophet (saws) and they wrap with subhana rabbika rabbi'l-`izaati ama yasifoon. Wa salamun ala'l-mursaleen… but they don't recite al-Fatiha.  You have to recite al-Fatiha - as it is like reciting the four books. These things are like the alarm system.  If you have a problem, make wudu and pray two raka`ats and recite Surat al-Fatiha.  How many of us today are sinning when we drive down the road?  What is the easiest sin we are committing - looking.  You have to look.  It is becoming usual for so many people.  Oh, it's ok.  Man or woman.  Men say, "O, beautiful woman."  Women say, "O, handsome man."  Both are falling in sin.  Allah said, "Follow up the sin with an istighfar - that will waive it." "Qala qara rasulullah fatihat al-kitab thumma qaal" that Allah said, "y'abna adam, anzaltu alaykum saba` ayaatin, three of them are to me, and three of them to you and one of them is between me and you.  Look how Allah's love is to human beings that he gave three to himself and three to us and then the last he shared and said, "I shared it." "The one that is for me is 'alhamdulillahi rabbil-`alameen, ar-rahman ir-raheem, maliki yawmi'd-deen', what is for you is: 'ihdina as-sirat al-mustaqeem sirat alladheena ana`mata alayhim ghayril maghdoobi `alayheem wa la daleen', and the one between me and you is the 'iyyaka na`budu wa iyyaka nasta'een' - we are worshipping and you are supporting.  So Allah didn't just take for himself but he gave to us as well - this for us and this for me.  What can we say about His love to His servants?  We cannot say sharing but we can say His love. One verse is from us asking and from him accepting.  May Allah forgive us. In Salat al-Jummah we don't recite al-Fatiha [in du`a] but in normal du`a we do: it is better.   Grab this Headline Animator

Satan has a bridle for you

SufiLive.com > Transcript Satan has a bridle for you Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Thursday, Feb 08, 2007 | Oakland, CA US SufiLive.com One saint, Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami, was visiting the grave of the Prophet (saws). He was in Madinat al-munawwara. Allah gave him eyes: he can see. These awliyaullah can see; not like with our eyes but like those of bees - they can see at night. These awliya can see these electromagnetic waves; everyone is producing electromagnetic waves. That picture that you see of each other is what you are reflecting to each other: that produces your picture. He was seeing that, oh, there is Satan walking there. And he had a lot of bridles in his hand. He had many of them…too many. He said, "O Allah , that Allah cursed you, ya `aduwullah. What are you doing with these?" He said, "I am riding on people in Madina with these bridles, because all of them are angry with each other. Go there and see. Many people go there and fight for nothing. So when anyone has anger, it means that Satan is putting a bridle on them and riding on him or on her. Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami asked, "Who?" Shaytan answered, "Too many. I am putting on the bridle and riding them." Sayyidina Bayazid asked, "Do you have one for me?" That is ego coming out. Bayazid is a big saint. Even if you are saint, you have to be humble. Iblees replied, "For you, I don't need a bridle. I ride without one." He said, "Allah cursed you, I will show you." So after some days it passed and it rained very hard. In those days, there was no sewer for the water. So there, subhanallah, the ground does not absorb the water; it stays on top. It was raining and raining and showering, until it was a flood, reaching the chests of people. One time I was with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim in Mecca in Ka`bah and we were in umrah. We were wearing ihram and we were making tawaaf. We did one round, a second round, a third round, circumambulating the Ka`bah, and Mawlana Shaykh [may Allah give him long life] stopped, and he stopped just past the Hajar al-Aswad. He said, "Ya Rabbee, this is drought here, what is this? We need mercy. We need the manifestation of Allah's Beautiful Names and Attributes from the rain." As we said, the association is a manifestation of blessing. So similarly, rain is a blessing; a mercy. He said "Send us a sign - send rain on us." What? To send rain? The temperature is 140, not a cloud, nothing. I was young at that time. I was thinking, "How is it going to rain?" People were pushing us as he stopped in the middle. And why did he stop at that particular point? - It was strange. And then he made du`a: "O Allah , for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad (saws), rain on us. Shower us." We began to continue the fourth round, and after about three or four minutes, from out of the blue, you could see all these clouds coming from every side over Mecca, pressing, and building up. Then by the fifth round it began to thunder. Then showers were coming. That was in 1979. There were showers and showers and no one was expecting it. We were in ihram. The water was coming: rising and rising and rising around the Ka`aba, in all the Haram. It came up to here [shows his hands up to the chest]. It was something surprising: the whole of Mecca stopped. No cars coming and going; people could not move. I am giving the example of what happened with Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami. Now they are building the sewers but then they could not move. When awliya ask, Allah gives. He was speaking in the beginning of the suhbat that the importance of association is the fusion that makes these manifestation to come. So Abayazid al-Bistami asked, "Do I need one?" He replied, "No, you don't need one, for I will ride you without one." So it was raining, raining, and raining, and when it rains there they cannot move. This was 1000 years ago, so of course the water is going to be higher than today. Then no one could move in Madina. Sayyidina Bayazid was standing on a higher side and water was moving between the houses in the streets. There was one old man who wanted to cross from one side to another. He had a stick in his hand and he was humpbacked, kyphosis.  Abayazid came to that old man and asked him, "Do you need help?" He answered, "Of course." "I can carry you." So he carried him to the other side. When he came to other side, he asked, "Can I get down?" He said, "Of course." Then he looked at Bayazid and asked him, "Didn't I tell you I will ride you without bridle?" So, when ego comes, anger comes, and everything is finished. You lose everything; you forget everything. That is why we have to be very careful in controlling our anger. That is why we were saying if you want to see if Shaytan is playing with you, look at yourself; if you are angry, then he is. Repent immediately. Allah ordered the angel on the left not to write anything bad until they repent; wait 24 hours in case they repent. If they repent, then it is gone. I will not be too much longer, but these meetings are like a washing machine: they take away all bad manners and all our sins because we are sitting and reflecting on love of the Prophet (saws), love of awliyaullah and love of Allah . We are not coming for any dunya benefit. We aren't only coming for love of the Creator; it is something for the hereafter. That is why it is best to be together in such meetings. Don't leave such meetings; even if you are going to be by yourself and you have no one with you, put on your turban and make dhikr with it. That means try, even if you are by yourself. Allah is your witness. You have two angels with you – witnesses - and the Prophet (saws) is Hadir Nadhir: he is present and looking. As in hadith of the Prophet (saws), he observes your `amal - what you are doing, and your Shaykh is always watching you. So you are with someone, you are not alone. Allah said, in the Holy Qur'an: وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ الْوَرِيدِ  "nahnu aqrabu ilayhi min habli 'l-wareed." –  "We are closer to you than your jugular vein." [Qaf 50:16] And Allah said: وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ فِيكُمْ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ "And know the Prophet is among you." [al-Hujurat 49:7.] They are there; they are present. Only make du`a, and Allah will accept. May Allah forgive us and bless this meeting and give us good times. It is very near…there is only a short time. Awliyaullah are now preparing themselves, for after this New Year – Muharram, the Arabian New Year. Awliyaullah are ready now. They have to be prepared. If you want to use any kind of software today, you have to prepare a plan. If you want to build a building, you have to prepare a plan. You have to prepare the engineers. Now awliyaullah have taken all this time to be prepared. They are being trained. Now this training is going to be finished soon - the training of bringing the hearts of people together. The sign is coming soon that you are going to see that the hearts of those looking for love of Allah and love of the Prophet (saws) and love of peace are going to be successful. Those who are looking for violent actions are going to be down; falling down. Haqq is coming up and baatil is falling down. And that is what awliya are looking for. It is coming soon. Bi hurmatil Fatiha. Grab this Headline Animator

Seeing the Prophet SAW

Seeing the Prophet Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani | Saturday, Jan 09, 1999 | Fenton, MI US SufiLive.com   No one knows when he is going to die. Allah hides the knowledge of the time of death. When the time of Sayyidina Ibrahim ibn Adham's death approached he moved to a very cold snowy place. He knew that his death was near. One of the `arifeen, big saints, said that depending on his level Allah will send to every human being an invitation for his death. Some saints know but they fear to say, while some others know and they say when their death is approaching. Grandshaykh Mawlana Abdullah al-Faiz ad-Daghestani said that Allah sends to everyone when his death is approaching according to his level to prepare himself. To prepare himself, Sayyidina Ibrahim ibn al-Adham took a shower with snow, prayed two rakaats and was waiting, making dhikr. He entered under a deck or cave half of his body inside not under snow and half of his body outside under the snow. When his ajal, appointed time, came Sayyidna Azrail came to take his soul. When he comes to take the ajal of the `abd always he hides himself according to the level of the `abd. From the tajalli he is carrying the `abd might go into pieces from fear so he hides himself. He knew that Sayyidina Ibrahim ibn al-Adham was the Sultan al-Awliya at that time, Sultan az-Zahideen. He covered himself seven times more than he had for anyone else. He came to Ibrahim ibn al-Adham, standing asking, 'Ya Ibrahim I am coming to visit you.' He began a dialogue with Sayyidina Ibrahim ibn Adham. Ibrahim ibn al-Adham said to Sayyidina Azra'il, "Sayyidina Azra'il is trying to hide himself. Ya Azra'il I am waiting for you. Why are you hiding? I am waiting patiently for that time to move from this dunya to akhira to be in the presence of my Lord - take it! Don't hide.' Look how Allah taught and inspired the hearts of awliya. They are waiting, not busy with their stomach and what they are going to eat. They are not busy with when they are going to get pleasure, not busy with their desires. They are busy with dhikrullah. He was Sultan az-Zahideen. He became Sultan az-Zahideen - la tahdee man ahbabt inna Allaha yahdee man yasha, - you [O Muhammad] can't guide whom you love, Allah guides whomever He wills." Hidaya, guidance, comes in the blink of an eye. He was a king and one time he was resting in his palace when he heard movement on his roof, and his palace roof was very high. He looked and saw a man. He said 'What are you doing here?' He said, 'I have lost my camel. I am searching for my camel.' He said, 'Are you crazy? Do you think your camel is going to be high up on the roof of my palace?' 'Ya Ibrahim' - he called him Ibrahim - 'there might be a possibility to find my camel on your roof, but there is no possibility to find Allah the way you are living.' Immediately Sayyidina Ibrahim ibn Adham was afraid. Allah had sent someone to guide him. He immediately called his ministers and gave them authority to run his kingdom. He gave his ring to his wife who was pregnant and told her, 'When you deliver give that ring to my son.' He went fi sabeelillah - in the way of Allah. It is a long story. Such people are waiting for Allah to call them.  Everyone is waiting, and no one is going to run away. Today or tomorrow we are waiting.   When your call comes it will not be one second early or late. When it comes it comes, so why fight, why run? Why build skyscrapers? If human beings know what Allah is preparing for them they would live as our ancestors lived in the Stone Age. What is different from the Stone Age and today? They ate, they drank, they worshipped, they slept and they were happy. In the Stone Age they were happy. We now are eating, drinking, sleeping, worshipping and are going to die. The Stone Age and the 20th century are the same. What differs? Nothing differs except Shaytan. Life is the same, the body is the same, the air is the same, everything is the same. They were happy in their life in the Stone Age and we are not happy in our life in the easy age.  SubhanAllah look how much we are arrogant and not content. No contentment no thanking Allah. You see people coming to masjids sitting in circles 'Oh we are explaining Qur'an, reading hadith.' It is not enough reading Qur'an and hadith. To be a real servant of Allah means that if someone throws the burden of dunya on you, you don't say 'No.' You carry. A neighbor of the Prophet (s) was throwing garbage on his door for seven years and the Prophet never said anything about it to anyone. We have ten cats here. Cats might fight, and if they fight the cats' owners will fight……. Awliya are like shadows - no physicality which means submission. As tajalli moves they move, they do not resist. The Prophet (s) had no shadow - why? Because he had no physicality, he became subtle. He was the only one and no one else. Big sahaba or youngest sahaba, big wali or small wali only the Prophet (s) had this characteristic because Allah created him from light. 'The first thing Allah created was the light of your Prophet, O Jabir.' When Allah wanted the light of the Prophet (s) to appear, it appeared with Amina . The Prophet (s) was able to differentiate between spirituality and physicality. He was the only one. May Allah teach us the adab with each other, with awliya and to make us to be in the presence of the Prophet (s) in dunya and akhira. Because the Prophet (s) said, 'Man ra'anee fi'l-manaam fa qad ra'anee haqqa- whoever saw me, he saw me truly.' There is another hadith 'Man ra'anee fa sa yarani- whoever saw me is going to see me.' Whoever sees the Prophet in a dream is going to see him in akhira because Allah gave that tajalli to the Prophet. But some scholars went further than that. Imam Suyuti said, 'What is the benefit of the Prophet saying whoever sees me will see me in akhira? Because everyone is going to see the Prophet in akhira even non-Muslims. So that hadith means that whoever sees me in a dream will see me before he dies, in reality.' That is Imam Suyuti's explanation in Manaqib al-Nabi (s). He is going to see before akhira, in dunya might be in any day and if that `abd was not ready to see in any day means that `abd was not ready to prepare himself means at the moment of death. At that moment everything is opened and the veil will be taken away. So those who try to progress to see the Prophet (s) in dunya through dreams they will see the Prophet (s) in dunya before akhira. There are many different ways of awraad that you can recite to see the Prophet (s) in dreams. Insha Allah one day I will give you these awraad that you can recite before you sleep. There are more than 70 or 80 ways of recitation of different verses of Qur'an, du`a and awraad that make it possible as much as you give interest to see the Prophet (s) in a dream and whoever sees him in a dream is going to see him in reality. Seeing the Prophet (s) is the highest level of shafa`ah. The Prophet (s) will not leave those he loves or those who love him. He will take them to Paradise, insha Allah. May Allah make us to be under the shafa`ah of the Prophet (s) and to see him in dunya before akhira. May Allah make us victorious over the kuffar - first the kuffar in yourself. The hidden shirk in yourself that the Prophet described akhwaf ma akhafu ala ummatee al-shirk al-khafee. The hidden shirk comes from the four enemies of humans: nafs, dunya, hawa, Shaytan - what we call in tariqa al-'adaa al-arba` - the four enemies. The strength of these four enemies can be eliminated by reciting 'Ya Samad' 500 times every day. From what was inherited or what was reflected on you in childhood when you were being raised, the four enemies will become bigger and bigger. 500 'Ya Samad' will bring their power down. Don't leave off reciting 500 'Ya Samad' every day. You are calling upon Allah to help you and support you with His strength and power, with the baraka of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). He is Nabi ar-Rahma and Allah is ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. The Nabi (s) is ar-Rahma, so he is called Rahim and Rahmatan lil-`alameen. NO SHAREEK It is Allah wahdahu - He is alone. He doesn't need anything. La shareeka lahu no partner. Muhammadun Rasulullah. Allah is alone. And Allah 's Word Kalamuhu al-qadeem His Ancient Word is uncreated. The Qur'an is not created because it is Allah's word which is qadeem, ancient/pre-eternal. This is how `ulama describe it. They have no words to describe further than that. Allah's words are qadeem - old. We don't know beyond that and the scholars' knowledge cannot go farther. They said it is ancient. So Allah's words are ancient and Allah said in the Holy Qur'an: ar-rahman allama al-Qur'an / khalaqa al-insan  Allah taught the Qur'an, created human beings. So who did He teach the Qur'an to? Allah is alone la shareeka lahu. His hikmah wisdom is to teach the Qur'an. But he didn't say yu`allim (teaches) the Qur'an, instead he said `allama (taught) in the past tense. He taught the Qur'an - to whom? ``ulama wonder who this is. Awliya say that Allah taught the Qur'an to the one that Allah created first. Allah taught the Qur'an then created human beings. One saint said 'He taught the Qur'an to angels,' but before angels there was the Prophet (s). Allah said to the Pen, 'Write' and the Pen said, 'What am I going to write?' He said, 'Write la ilaha illa Allah' for seventy thousand years. Then he told the Pen to stop and write 'Muhammadun Rasulullah' for another seventy thousand years. The Prophet said Allah first created my light. So the Prophet was under Tarbiyya ar-Rahman (being raised up by Allah) for a period which no one knows. La shareeka lahu also applies to the Prophet. Allah has no shareek, He is the creator no shareek. The Prophet (s) in his level also has no shareek. Allah has taught Sayyidina Muhammad (s) from his heavenly `ilm - `allama al-Qur'an - and no one knows for how long. Only the Prophet (s) knows how long he was under that tarbiyya, so he knows this ghayb. That is not the ghayb al-mutlaq - the Absolute Unseen of Allah. Pseudo-`ulama don't know the difference between absolute unseen and ordinary unseen. For example, I don't know what is behind that wall but he [a brother] knows because he goes there every day. For me it is ghayb, for him it is not ghayb. But this is not the absolute ghayb. The essence of the essence the reality of Allah's essence al-ghayb al-mutlaq the absolute unseen no one knows except Allah.  Whatever is created is known to the Prophet (s). It is ghayb for us the Ummah, but it is not ghayb for the Prophet (s). Because the Prophet said 'Allah has shown me `uloom al-awwaleen wal-akhireen He showed me everything, every person and their place either in Paradise or in Hell.' Sayyidina Adam - is paradise not known to him? For us it is ghayb, for the Ummah it is ghayb. It is ghayb for other prophets but for Adam and for Sayyidna Muhammad (s) it is not ghayb. Because the Prophet (s) went on Isra and Mi`raj he knew what was in Paradise and what was in Hell.  Sayyidina Adam knew what was in Paradise but he didn't know what was in Hell. So for him Paradise is not ghayb. For Prophet Muhammad (s), Paradise and Hell are not ghayb. For Sayyidina `Isa the first Paradise is not ghayb. So the term ghayb is flexible. Absolute ghayb- Allahu wahdahu la shareeka lahu- that ghayb for Allah the Creator Who wants to conceal it from even the Prophet (s) that is the ghayb al-mutlaq. But other than ghayb al-mutlaq Allah gave to Sayyidina Muhammad (s).  Why did Allah say 'Allah Muhammad: la ilaha illa Allah Muhammadun Rasulullah'? Muhammad comes immediately after Allah. When you say 'ash-shadu an la ilaha illa Allah' it is not necessary to say 'wa ash-shhadu anna muhammadan rasulullah?' You can say 'ash-shhadu an la ilaha illa Allah wa anna muhammadan rasulullah.' Allah is reflecting His `ilm to the Prophet (s). If you take away Muhammad (s) that light will not reach us. Satellites from outside the atmosphere send to small dishes the small dishes send TV to you. If you take away that small dish you won't receive anything. Look at electricity outside in such a high voltage 660V. Can that electricity come to the house directly? No the whole house will explode. So what do they put? Transformers. Transformers will reduce it to a usable level that you can carry. Allah sends 70,000 tajalli to the Prophet (s) in every instant. And the Prophet (s) sends rays from these tajalli to the Ummah as much as they can carry, not the whole thing otherwise they will all burn up. So la ilaha illa Allah muhammadun rasulullah. Allah is sending to Muhammad (s) and that is why there is no way to take away Muhammad (s) because then everything would fall down. That is why Muhammad (s) is Hayyun Baqi - Alive, Everlasting. If you look in the book of Signs of the Last Days the Prophet (s) sent Miqdad ibn Aswad to meet al-Messih ad-Dajjal (false messiah, Anti-Christ). The Prophet told Miqdad ibn Aswad 'When you meet him and he asks you about me, tell him that I am alive until Judgment Day; then his power will go down.' He told Miqdad to deliver a message to Messih ad-Dajjal because we are all a false Ummah. We are not on the right way. One day like this, one day like that - thumma amanu thumma kafaru thumma amanu thumma kafaru they believed, then disbelieved, then believed, then disbelieved. This is to tell us, 'Ya ummatee be careful wa `allamoo anna feekum Rasulullah - know that the Prophet is among you. Be careful I am with you until Judgment Day. My power - quwwatee not my physical body - my power goes up to Judgement Day. That is why muhammadun rasulullah (s) is always the focus. That is why awliya know the importance of the Prophet (s). When Imam Malik was asked by the Khalifa al-Mansur, 'When I make du`a in Madina at the Prophet's burial place should I face him or face away from him [towards the qiblah]?' Imam Malik said not to face away from the Prophet (s) . The Prophet (s) is your wasila and the wasila of Adam to Paradise. If not for the Prophet (s) no one would enter Paradise. If not for the Prophet (s) you would not know where the qiblah is or the Kaaba. Before the Prophet (s) they were praying toward Masjid al-Aqsa in Jerusalem. La shareeka lahu is for Allah in His knowledge, reality, tajalli, oneness, uniqueness. La shareeka lahu for the Prophet is for what Allah gave him in his station, in his prophethood, as the seal of messengers, how his light was created, how he was created, his ascension and what Allah `azz wa jall gave him in that night. Allah has no shareek in His knowledge - in His creation no one knows His realities - haqa'iq. Allah alone knows the Absolute Unseen. It is only for Him with no partners. The Prophet (s) has no shareek and no partners in his level in his knowledge which Allah gave to him. In his seal of prophecy, in his `ilm the Prophet has no shareek.  If the Prophet's presence and his nearness is removed from us, to us, if we drop it from our hearts, we are dropped completely from receiving Allah's tajalli and blessings. That is why prayers, any `amal you do, you have to begin and end it with salawaat on the Prophet (s). You are wrapping it with the real wrap - that is a rope connected to the heavenly message. Without that rope your `amal can never reach its place. Allah sent to the Prophet (s) and the Prophet sent to the Ummah until Judgement Day.   Judgement Day. Maliki yawn id-deen. The Owner of the Day of Judgment. Which day of judgment? Is there only one judgment day? If there is one judgement day where is the meaning of creation? Maliki yawn id-deen - He owns the Day of Judgement. When Khidr asked Jibril when Allah created Adam. 'Which Adam are you asking me about?' 'Is there any other Adam?' 'Yes there are 124,000 Adams which Allah created before the last Adam.' Allah in every second, every moment Allah is saying al-hamdu lillahi rabb il-alamin ar-rahman ar-raheem malik yawn id-deen. He opened the Qur'an with praising, hamd, which means to reach your Judgement Day you must follow you must begin your life by praising Allah . You cannot reach maliki yawm id-deen without coming through praising, worship. Alhamdulillahi rabbil-`alameen means al-hamdu ya rabbee ya Allah I am thankful for the favors You gave us; for that reason I have to be in continuous worship as the Prophet (s) was asked by Aisha, 'Why are you worshipping so much that your feet are swollen and Allah has already forgiven you?' He said, 'I have to be a thankful servant.' Hamd means to show thanks to Allah, your every action has to be hamd. All your worship day and night must be thanking Allah for His favor. That is the beginning of the Qur'an, by saying "al-hamdulillah rabbil-`alameen – all praise is to Allah the Lord of all the worlds," means you have to admit that he is the Creator of everything. When you do your worship by hamd, when you pray that is hamd, when we fast that is hamd, when we give zakat it is hamd, we make hajj this is hamd for Allah. This will build us up to the second level worship to be a believer in the five pillars of Islam which comes in hamd, the first word of Holy Qur'an alhamdulillah. The whole Shariah comes from hamd when that builds you up leads you to the second state - iman which the Prophet (s) described to Jibril . Islam is the five pillars. Iman is to believe in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, the last day, destiny. Rabbil-`alameen means believing in Allah in His angels, His books, His messengers, the last day. Destiny means He is the Creator la shareeka lahu. `Ibadah, hamd, is the whole Shariah and leads us to real oneness real, tawheed which comes in the second verse of Fatiha, rabbil-`alameen. So now you completed your Shariah through hamd, you perfected your oneness through rabbil-`alameen. Then you come to your Judgement Day. Maliki yawm id-deen 'Oh Allah we are coming through Shariah with the hamd to la shareeka lahu admitting Allah's Oneness and believing in it. Judgement Day comes clears you and raises you to the level of sincere pure worship of Allah iyyaka na`budu wa iyyaka nasta`een. That is the `uboodiyya that Allah gave to the Prophet (s). Alaa lillahi ad-deen al-khalis. Only the Prophet (s) was able to worship when he said Allahu Akbar. He was the only one able to really say iyyaka na`budu iyyaka nasta`een because it is in the present tense. He was directing himself to the presence of Allah , 'Oh Allah iyyaka na`budu iyyaka nasta`een' in mushaahada. You cannot see Allah except when you pass Judgement Day. Allah can be seen but not in dunya but in akhira for those who are in maq`adi sidq. That comes after Judgment Day so that iyyaka addressing in the present tense the Prophet (s) was saying it in the Divine Presence. [As it will be] when we have been cleared on the Judgement Day. So this verse alhamdulillah means all worship, the whole Shariah, five pillars are under al-hamd, it means you have to thank Allah for everything, for your creation, all your life, your worship, everything is hamdan lillah praising Allah. Then rabbil-`alameen, you are admitting His Oneness leads you to the highest level clearance to go to Paradise on the Judgment Day leads you to the presence of Allah to be able to say iyyaka na`budu iyyaka nasta`een. Now you can say it clearly, 'Oh Allah iyyaka na`budu iyyaka nasta`een.' Allah has taught His Prophet (s) `uloom al-awwaleen wa'l-akhireen. When the Prophet (s) was nur in that misbah under that tarbiyya He raised him up with that tajalli of Qur'an teaching him, teaching him, teaching him because Allah created him first teaching him. Then He, Allah, khalaqa al-insan - then Allah created human beings. So He taught his Prophet everything that he has to know, then created He human beings. May Allah bless us with the tajalli of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) and the love of our shuyukh to bring us in the presence of His Prophet and in His presence and the presence of our shaykhs. Bi hurmat al-Habib wa bi hurmat al-Fatiha. Grab this Headline Animator