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Oakland Zawiya Allahuma salli `ala Sayyidina Muhammad (s). Allahuma salli `ala Sayyidina Muhammad wa `ala Aali Sayyidina Muhammad (s) A`udhu billah min ash-Shaytaan ir-rajeem Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem Nawaytu'l-arba`een, nawaytu'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu'l-khalwah, nawaytu'l-riyaada, nawaytu's-salook, nawaytu'l-`uzlah lillahi ta`ala fee hadha'l-masjid As-salaam alaykum wa rahmatullah, Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum قُلْ هَلْ يَسْتَوِي الَّذِينَ يَعْلَمُونَ وَالَّذِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ إِنَّمَا يَتَذَكَّرُ أُوْلُوا الْأَلْبَابِ qul hal yastawee alladheena ya`lamoona wa'lladheena laa ya`lamoona innama yatadhakkaru uloo'lal-baab Say: "Are those equal, those who know and those who do not know? It is those who are endued with understanding that receive admonition. [Az-Zumar, 39:9] Allah swt said in Holy Qur'an, are they going to be equal those who knows and those who don't know? Only those Allah gave them uloo'l-albaab, are the owners of the hearts, those who can read their hearts. Those who can know their limits. uloo'l-albaab are those who have intelligence, those who are awake and they are ready in every moment. Those who know and are in that group who are intelligent of whatever is going in their hearts aware of what is going, or those who don't know anything and they are blind, of course there is no way of comparison. One they know and one they don't know. Then those who knows, are only those who are uloo'l-albaab. Those who have fitna [with tha], inspirations, who can understand between the lines and they can understand the secrets behind every verse of the Holy Qur'an. Those who are open-eyes as we explained in the previous session, as this is a series. Those who don't know there is no way to compare those who know. Those who don't know are blind. They don't know any farther than their nose. After that they cannot. That is the description of awliyaullah: Hal yastawee… Those who knows are awliyaullah. Those who don't know are common scholars. We are not speaking the difference between common people like us. We are speaking the different between a scholar and a wali. We are speaking of those whom Allah said, " Ya ayyuhalladheena aamanoo ittaqullah wa koonoo ma as-saadiqeen O you believers. Ya ayyhualladeheena aamanoo. Those who say we are believers. The English explanation is "O believers." But in reality it is, "O if you consider yourself a believer then what you have to do?" Ittaqullah. How a believer and say ittaqullah. A believer is going to have taqwa for sure. If he doesn't have taqwa, sincerity, then how is he fitting the description of believer. If he is a mu'min for sure he is going to have taqwa, sincerity. It means you are not yet considered a believer but if you consider yourself a believer then you be with trustworthy people. He said Ya ayyuhalladheena aamanoo ittaqullah wa koonoo ma as-saadiqeen. It means, "you are not yet a believer, but if you consider yourself a believer then keep with trustworthy people." Not trustworthy in our description we look at someone and say that is trustworthy. Not to our knowledge or our evaluation. That has to be trustworthy to heavens. Allah will dress him as he dressed Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq  . Siddiq, he dressed him as "the Trustworthy." Always he said, "sadaqta ya rasulullah." No doubt Allah dressed him. O ye believers, whom you considered yourself a believer, then you have to have taqwa. Do you have taqwa? We are struggling. We cannot say we have taqwa. We cannot Sayyidina.. We can say we have nothing. We have nothing. You need taqwa. You cannot declare something that doesn't belong to you. They will not give to you. Go to the bank and say I am Mr. so and so, I have an account with you, I have 10 million dollars. They say, "no, no you are not that person. You cannot take it." You cannot take the personality of someone else – we say in Arabic yantahil ash-shakhsiyya – someone who makes himself someone else. You cannot go to bank and say I am that person. You are not that person. So we cannot say to ourselves that we have taqwa. We don't have it. You cannot declare something that you don't own. Taqwa is when you are reaching the highest level of discipline and no lies; no deceive; no conspiracy, nothing. It means you are loose from the hand of Shaytaan. Are we loose from the hands of Shaytaan? And what is the smallest, the lowest, uh… if we have that it means we are still in the hand of Shaytaan. When you argue with someone that you are right and he is wrong. That means you are still in control of Shaytaan. Whatever that person says, close your ears. Let him say whatever he likes. Then you are not in the hands of shaytaan. So are we in the hands of shaytaan? We hope we are not and wish we are not. We ask Allah swt that we are not in the hands of Shaytaan that we are in the Divine Presence. Without Allah's support, without the Prophet (s)'s support, without sincere awliyaullah support we cannot. It is a question mark. So Allah is asking are those who know the same as those who do not know? No; no way. So those who know are the awliyaullah the saadiqeen. Allah is ordering us to be with the company of trustworthy people. Where your heart is attracted is a place where it is, you can feel that is a trustworthy person to you. you will be attracted. And from one to another it differs. From one trustworthy to another trustworthy it differs. It might be someone is trustworthy for dunya so what you get? You get trustworthy for dunya. And it might be someone for akhira. So what do you get? You get akhira. So if you be with him he is trustworthy for akhira. So what it means is be with those who are trustworthy for Allah's Divine Presence. Don't be with those who are trustworthy for dunya. For example there are those who are trustworthy in finance. They are trustworthy for money. They know about money but they don't know about akhira. Our focus is on akhira. Awliyaullah their focus is on akhira. So from those who knows where Allah says hal yastawoon… They say … they say according to their levels. So what we are going to speak about today is from the level of Grandshaykh's wilayah, sainthood and level of Mawlana Shaykh sainthood. It is not from the level of normal [awliya]… Between awliyaullah there different level. We are speaking from what they say from their high levels. May Allah give them high and higher levels. Because if they get higher levels we get higher levels with them. We cannot go by ourselves. we go with them. That is why Allah said, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ اتَّقُواْ اللّهَ وَكُونُواْ مَعَ الصَّادِقِينَ Ya ayyuha alladheena aamanoo ittaqullaha wa koonoo ma`a as-saadiqeen O you who have attained to faith! Remain conscious of God, and be among those who are true to their word! [Tawba, 9:119] Saadiqeen - trustworthy ones. You cannot be a trustworthy one, but be with them. So to be with them, we understand, as we said yesterday, is a drop from an ocean they are speaking from, and that ocean is but a drop from the ocean of the Prophet (s). The Prophet (s) has infinite knowledge oceans, no limits. All awliyaullah in total, with all their knowledge they are taking but a drop of the oceans of the Prophet (s) knowledge. And in that drop, every wali has oceans and what they are saying here is a drop. Say that Allah swt created Sayyidina Muhammad (s) before any creation. Because when you love,.. .we cannot make this comparison, I don't want you to say "O we did," but [we say this] only [as a means for us] to understand. An artist will have something in side him he has an artistic touch. So what will he do? He will draw a beautiful calligraphy. Look all these big calligraphers of the Holy Qur'an who wrote the Holy Qur'an. They want to show all their beauty for the Holy Qur'an. They want to show their best for Holy Qur'an from time of Holy Prophet (s) up to today. They innovated all kinds of different styles of writing to show the beauty of the Holy Qur'an through their love of Holy Qur'an. Because there must be something in them that make them do that. Not every one can do that. People who love flowers put flowers together to make a bouquet. Everyone has different ambition or touch or taste. When you have that you have to put all that on what you want to do, is it not? If that is for human beings, then what do you think about Allah swt. If human beings have this artistic touch they like to express their artistic feelings in something that stands up. Then Allah that created arts and artistic touches, then this whole universe that Allah created is all like a very beautiful appearance, a very beautiful manifestation to His Name al-Qaadir or his name al-Khaaliq, the Creator. So when Allah swt wanted to show His Beauty out, He created the dharratu 'n-Nabi (s) - the atom, if we can say atom. The essence (is better word than atom). The essence of the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad (s) before any creation. Allah wants to show that love to his beauty and to his Beautiful Names because He has only been described through his Beautiful Names. You cannot know Him except through his Beautiful Names and Attributes – that is it. So through His Beautiful Names and Attributes that flower, if we can say, that beauty of Muhammad (s) came out from this manifestation of these Beautiful Names together Allah wanted something to appear. So what appeared was haqiqat an-Nabi (s) - the reality of the essence of the Prophet (s). That made awliyaullah to be stunned from this information. That is not an easy information to understand and get. Because what we are understanding is some notes that they gave and expressed to us. But what they have seen is completely, with its taste it is coming out. With its beauty it is coming out. Like you look at a nice garden full of all different kinds of beautiful flowers and fruit trees. You go inside and you smell the smell of the flowers. You take a fruit and you take a taste of these fruits. So you are tasting it and feeling it. But we are only reading it. It is a big difference. We are not tasting it. When it was given to them it was given slowly with all its level. Not every wali can bring such kinds of knowledge. He said, "no human being, wali or not even wali, but even all prophets other than Sayyidina Muhammad (s), there is no way for them to understand dunya or in akhira about the reality of that essence. That is only for the Prophet (s). He has no partners in that. As Allah has no partner, He is Allah, our lord and our God, He has no partner, so the Prophet (s) has no partner in his servanthood. So that essence that came out, awliyaullah they took some, they taste some and they understood some but not everything. Because the knowledges of the Prophet's essence are always pouring out, more knowledge, more knowledge and more knowledge. So no one can reach the complete knowledge of the Prophet (s). You look up and can see but you cannot see what the one up can see. You sit below the roof you see the roof but the one on the roof sees much farther. So Grandshaykh may Allah bless his soul, said, "Allah created the reality of Sayyidina Muhammad (s), the essence of the atom of his reality from the manifestation of his Beautiful Names and Attributes, and especially from two of these different names, ar-Rahman and ar-Raheem: ar-Rahman the Merciful and ar-Raheem the Compassionate. From these two Beautiful Names ar-Rahman and ar-Raheem. That is why He mentioned in Holy Qur'an: وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلَّا رَحْمَةً لِّلْعَالَمِينَ Wa maa arsalnaaka illa rahmatan li'l-`alameen - We sent thee not, but as a Mercy for all creatures. Al-Anbiya [21:107] Because his reality and his essence came out to know the 99 Names. If we can say the 99 Names they are together, like we say, as a bouquet of flowers and in the middle you have the most beautiful flower that everyone looks at it. These Beautiful Names and Attributes have in between them, the two names ar-Rahman and ar-Raheem and the offshoots of the reality of the Prophet (s) are coming out from in between these two Names. That is why his name is rahmat. Ar-rahmat al-muhdaat - the gifted mercy to humanity. So Allah swt created the reality of the Prophet (s) from the beautiful attributes of ar-Rahman ir-Raheem and He decorated him with all kinds of lights - beautiful lights. Every Beautiful Name and Attribute has its own light. The Prophet (s) when he looks in the laylat al-isra wal-miraj he was looking at these lights in the Divine Presence, qaaba qawsayni aw adna and he was seeing all these beautiful lights the differing lights coming from the appearance of these Names. Every name has its own appearance. Which for us we say on rainy day and then a there is a little sun and we see the rainbow of different colors and we look observing and say, "that is very nice." So Allah's Beautiful Names and Attributes was, we say, emitting light of different colors which means different realities and different knowledges appearing from these different Beautiful Names and Attributes. He was dressed and decorated with these lights, and these lights were the lights of wilayah. Wilayah means that when someone is dressed with light of sainthood he becomes holy. That wilayah, every wali is under different name of sainthood. Wali - wilayah. Wilayah means a territory. We say wilayaat al-mutahiddah, United States. So it is a state, a territory. So the Prophet (s) was given that wilayah - that state. What is that state? Allah swt was dressing him with a dress of to be ready for that state. What is state? It is to be ready for the creation that He is going to create for him. That is why He was dressing him with all these Beautiful Names and especially the light from the wilayah of the name al-Qudoos - The Holy One. So He was dressing him with a Holy Divine Presence and dressing him, preparing him for prophecy. So that is why when you be a prophet… and that is why he said, "I was a prophet and Adam was between clay and water." He was being prepared already even before Adam  to be the leader or head of creation. That is why when Allah ordered the Pen to write la ilaha illa-Allah it was writing for 70,000 years, and then He ordered the Pen to write Muhammad rasulullah. La ilaha illa-Allah represents Lordship and Muhammadun Rasulullah represents servanthood which Sayyidina Muhammad (s) is head of servanthood. Allah created creation as servant to Allah but as subjects of the Prophet (s) to be prophet for them; for Sayyidina Muhammad (s) to be sent to them. So He prepared him to carry the prophecy. So all that which came before was not yet sent as a prophet - it was preparation for him to be sent prophet. Then Allah took that essence of the Prophet (s) that has been under the manifestation of the Beautiful Names and Attributes and He begin to decorate that light with the light of prophecy. And the light of prophecy has been taken from one Beautiful Names - Maqam al-wahdaniyya – al-Wahid. From the Beautiful Names and Attributes al-Wahid - the One. That is why we say the Oneness of Allah swt. Who calls for the oneness of Allah? The prophets. So the prophets, their realities are coming from theyhave been dressed by the reality of the meaning of the name al-Wahid. They are the ones who are allowed to point to the Oneness of Allah swt. From that reality the Prophet (s) was dressed. Now he is dressed with prophecy, as he was dressed with prophecy. Now as he dressed him from that name al-Wahid then He moved him to a higher level. After that He dressed the Prophet (s) from the Beautiful name al-Wahid he move him to be moved to be dressed with the light of ar-risalah and the risalah is taken from the Beautiful Names al-Ahad. That represents His uniqueness in his Beautiful Name, Allah. Allah dressed him from the Beautiful Names al-Ahad and that leads to dress him from the Beautiful Names of adh-dhaat. The essence we don't know but we know it through the Beautiful Names Allah. And we know Allah through the 99 Beautiful Names and Attributes. So all these Beautiful Names and Attributes were dressed on the Prophet (s). That is why he became a manifestation of Allah's Beautiful Names and Attributes on the essence [of the Prophet (s)] from the name ar-Rahman ar-Raheem then that offshoot came out, then from…. Then from the light of a messenger from the name al-Ahad which lead to the manifestation from ismullah adh-dhaat Allah where all the Beautiful Names and Attributes are in these names which was dressed on the essence of the atom of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). After that has been done, how many years it took? Do you know? Allah knows. And for sure the one who has been created, Sayyidina Muhammad (s), he knows, he was under that tarbiyya, that discipline. And after that has been done and dressed on that atom, then Allah asked that atom, "who am I and who are you?" "Who are you, and who am I?" What you want to answer? What the Prophet (s) answered? That dharrah began to speak and the first word that came out, as Grandshaykh and Mawlana Shaykh and as grand Grandshaykh all were saying on these realities that they were pulling out from these levels of their sainthood, the Prophet spoke according to a language and a tongue that belongs to highest level of malakoot - heavenly state. Not according to dunya state or normal heavenly state. It is according to the highest level that the Prophet (s) was in it. And he is giving this information to awliyaullah about the reality of the Prophet (s). What the Prophet (s) said? They say that he said in a language that respect and honored the place that it is in which no one knows what is that high level because we cannot say there is a place or a direction, or… no. But wherever it is the Prophet's (s) first word was "Anta al-Qahhar - You are the Subduer, Wa ana abduk al-`ajiz - and I am you weak disabled servant." `Ajiz means the most weakest that cannot do anything. After that Allah dressed him from His Ancient Word; from His Kalaamahu al-qadeemi. The Ancient Uncreated Words was dressed on the Prophet (s). That is why He said: الرَّحْمَنُ عَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ "ar-Rahman `allama al-Qur'an – the Merciful One taught the Qur'an." [ar-Rahman, 55:1-2] The Merciful, from these two Beautiful Names and Attributes, Allah created the essence of the Prophet (s) and dressed him with siffat ar-rahma, the attributes of the Merciful From that secret Allah was dressing him from that name. From the secret of ar-rahman `allama al-Qur'an. Ar-Rahman taught the Holy Qur'an and then He created creation. So ar-Rahman who created the essence of the Prophet (s) taught him in that Presence the Holy Qur'an, then He created creation. So the Holy Qur'an was taught to the Prophet (s) where there was yet no creation; there was no universe - nothing. That was after. So Allah gave and addressed the Prophet (s) in a way that we don't understand and no one understands. They say that words that came out like from the reality of Allah's Essence, which is completely mujarrad min al-asma was-siffat, that is completely abstract, unknown, coming directly from the Essence without passing through the Names and Attributes. At that moment, when He said, "I am the Subduer," the Prophet (s) said, "I am Your weak servant" Allah dressed him directly from the Absolute Essence that no one knows, that Essence was giving knowledge to the Prophet (s) that was coming, not through the Beautiful Names and Attributes, but taking another way or channel, if we can say that. So that means more Beautiful Names and Attributes were coming, ones we don't know, not only the 99 Names that everyone knows but many more names that were given to the Prophet (s). Then Allah asked the Prophet (s) after all these knowledges that has been passed to the Prophet (s), He asked him, "What is the meaning of Subduer and what is the meaning of servanthood?" "What is the meaning of Subduer and what is the meaning of servant or servanthood?" And the Prophet (s) looked and he said… and we leave it to tomorrow. Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi-hurmati 'l-Fatiha May Allah forgive us, we are weak to understand. SubhanAllah, they speak like fountain and one line can make one book. How these knowledges come. Makes us to see all the books we know like one to a million. | 
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