GUIDE AND GUIDANCE AND THE NEED TO FOLLOW A SHEYKH
taken from www.sheiknazim.com ( English Version)
www.mevlanasufi.blogspot.com ( Indonesia Version)
The Pilot at the Controls
Yes, sometimes we are entering into sins through our
worship because we are proud of our worship. This
retards our progress towards the heavens. Therefore
we need a controller over us. Now supersonic
aeroplanes are fully automatic. Or are they? Is there
a pilot controlling it? If he is not controlling it,
why is he sitting there? Even though the plane is
fully automatic yet it is in need of a pilot for
controlling it. In the same way although you may be
fully automatic in your prayers, yet you are in need
of a pilot to guide you and control you. Terefore we
are in need of a Sheik (spiritual guide) The Sheik
knows the finer points of our egos which are in need
of correction.
Today new fashioned Muslims are giving fully automatic
power to everyone. They are denying and cursing to
let a Sheik control them because of their egos. It is
their egos that are cursed. They say that holy books
alone are enough. Fully automatic. But it is not
enough without a controller. Those foolish people
quote Quran, Sunnah, Quran Sunnah and Kitab Sunnah.
What about he pilot? No pilot. Do you think that you
are doing and knowing your best through Kitab and
Sunnah only, without having some one to look after and
control you.
Almighty Allah says to His Prophet (Sal) "Wa sahabi
amfil amar" ・瘢雹that is to control the Sahaba. Everyone
knows to read the Holy Quran and Holy Hadis. So many
priests and so many professors they too are reading
Holy Quran and Holy Hadis, but what is the benefit
they derive from it? Therefore we are asking from
Allah Almighty for good understanding and to give us
some one to control our actions and our worship.
Yes like students who do their homework and the
teacher who goes through it. These people are not
even intelligent as these students who at least have
their homework corrected. Yes these people are so
proud of the way they are following and it is the way
of Shaitan. Shaitan was fully automatic, and Allah
Almighty asked him to take Adam (alai) as his pilot.
He rejected this. He said "I won't accept Adam (alai)
as controller over me. I won't carry any one to be
above me" that is the pride that destroyed Shaitan or
Iblis. Likewise these people say that they are able
to read and understand what is in the Holy Quran and
they say that only they may look and that they may
understand and that they are not in need of a
controller.
The Prophet (sal) accepts a Guide
Our Grandsheik is saying an important good manner for
guidance. Everyone must look for a guide, as we are in
need to reach to our destinations and it is so
difficult. Look to our Prophet, peace be upon him.
All creation is for his honour and sake; Allah made
the universe for his Habib (beloved). Yet the Prophet
accepted a guide, Jibril (alai). All Prophets accepted
Jibril as their guide. Our Prophet is of the highest
station in the Divine Presence, a representative of
Allah among his people, and he is taking a guide. It
is indicating that for everyone asking to reach the
Divine Presence
a guide is necessary.
This is the most important adab. Our Prophet was
always following the orders of Jibril, doing every
action and speaking according to Allah's orders as
brought by Jibril. It means that no one may reach the
Divine Presence without a guide and guidance. You
must give yourself to the hands of a guide, surrender,
or else no benefit can you take.
A guide is one who knows your destination. He is an
open-eyed person. A blind man can't guide, he is in
need for one. In our days very few persons are
accepting a guide for themselves, everyone is so
proud, saying, "I am clever, I know better". They may
know this world's knowledge, but this guidance
is not such that you can read in books and follow.
You only know it with a murshid. You must have a
guide; only pride is keeping people away. There is no
reaching the Divine Presence without a real guide.
For a humble Mureed following a Murshid, if he is
consulting the murshid in every matter it is good, but
for three things it is a must. These are marriage,
divorce, and far journeying. Also for the pilgrimage
is necessary consultation with the Sheik. If not
consulting, one may fall in a bad condition. The
Sheik may give his orders by dreams, as it is
prohibited for jinn or devils to appear in the form of
the Prophet or the Sheik.
Whoever is asking improvement in the Way of Allah must
ask for a guide. It is the quickest and shortest way.
Seyyidina Ali asked the Prophet, "what is the easiest
way to our Lord? He said, Oh Ali, look for one Friend
of Allah and stay in his shadow. A shadow is not
going to separate from a man. Then you may reach
easily and quickly to the Lord's Presence" The
beginning of the way is to agree with a guide.
Our Grandsheik says that Iblis is the most learned of
people for all religious knowledge, knowing very will
the contents of the Torah, Psalms, Gospel, and Qur'an.
But he is prohibited from taking Divine knowledges;
he can never know about the secrets of those books.
If he knew, he would not want people to make them like
himself. What closes these secrets? It is to be
proud of knowledge or worshipping. This puts one far
away. Iblis would never take a guide for himself.
Allah intended Adam to be his guide but be would never
accept Adam or his knowledge. This is the power of
his proud ness, and the reason for which he was thrown
out of the Divine Presence.
Our Grandsheik is saying about the signs of a Murshid,
one who is leading people into the right ways and is
an inheritor of the Prophet. Murshid in Arabic is also
one who pilots ships into unfamiliar harbours.
Everyone has a special destination; no two persons are
alike, thinking the same thoughts.
Everyone who does not know how to go on to his
destination is in need of a guide. The future is
unknown, commonly, but knowledge of it is given to
Prophet and Saints. We are in darkness in need of
lights, the light of Prophet hood is to inform us what
is ahead generally, and the light of sainthood to
guide us to our personal destinations.
Signs of a Guide
The sign of a Murshid is that you are able to trust
him. It is an action of the heart and cannot be
measured with a yardstick or scales. Your heart gives
the signal and the heart is never mistaken. If a
person is sitting with a true Murshid, he feels peace,
rest and satisfaction. Very happy, this is the sign.
He forgets everything from troubles; he is just in an
ocean. Now so many people are going to the sea-side.
Why? Because when they enter the water, they find rest
and enjoyment. As the body is drawn, so the soul is
asking for a sea. We need in our life one person like
an ocean, so that our hearts can be in enjoyment and
satisfied with that person.
Sheik Abd-ul Khaliq al-Ghujdawani was speaking about
the attribute of a Mureed as to how he should be in
front of his Sheik. Surrendering is a good attribute
for all followers, without it comes no benefit or
development. The meaning of surrender is to leave
one's will and to follow the will of the Sheik; to
turn to him for everything, saying; "As you like, oh
my master.: Our Grandsheik quotes Abd-ul Khaliq as
saying, "Oh my sons, we are not accepting a surrender
like a dead person's surrender to the hands of the
washer. They sometimes complain that the water is too
hot or too cold, though not with their tongues, but
spiritually speaking.
If a Mureed is saying objections in himself, it is not
acceptable". Surrender must be inward and outward,
like a dry leaf in the wind. Even if it gets blown
into a fire, nothing will you hear from it. Such a
Mureed is taking 100% benefit from the sheik. As much
as the Sheik takes from blessings, he is also
receiving. If surrender is not complete, then only
half and half. This is the way for one who is asking.
Who says to his ego: "As you like", - how can there
occur development? Step by step, a sheik teaches his
followers how to surrender. It is not so easy a
thing. Prophets sent from the Divine Presence to
teach this were rejected by their people. We are
training now, If we are saying: "As you like" to the
Sheik, then we may say likewise to the Prophet, and
then we may say so to our Lord. We are training how
to be with our Lord.
Our Grandsheik's advice to everyone is that they must
look for a holy person who may guide them to their
Lord's Way. He stresses, furthermore, that this is an
obligation for every believer, and that once the
seeker has found his guide, the most important point
for him as a follower is always to firmly believe that
his guide is absolutely right and correct in his
actions. You must believe in your guide, must believe
that he knows at least fifty times more than you; your
having this attitude is a necessary condition for his
being able to guide you. If you think that he knows
feels or looks at things the way that you do, then you
will never be able to derive any benefit nor receive
any guidance from that person.
Real spiritual guides are inheritors of the Prophets
and in spiritual contact with them. It is a well
known fact about Prophets that they had extraordinary
powers and characteristics that enabled them to serve
as guides for people to their Lord's Divine Presence.
You must know that whatever is the number of people in
a Prophet's Nation, and be it millions or billions,
that Prophet must know at least that
number of times more than any of his people may know.
You can only know for yourself, but a Prophet must
know for his whole Nation, so that he can complete his
Prophet hood by means of them. Because of the
spiritual connection that real guides have with the
Prophet, and by virtue of their being his inheritors,
they also have such extraordinary powers and
characteristics which enable them to know at least
fifty times more than we know.
The most important thing for a seeker (Murid) who
follows a guide (Murshid) in order to move toward the
Divine Presence is to understand that his guide is
going to try him time and again. The Murshid has been
ordered by the Prophet to try his Murids, and everyone
knows that a trial is not an easy thing ・瘢雹or else it
isn't a trial. When a Murshid tries his Murid, he
sends toward him some trial in which that Murid can
see no Divine Wisdom at all.
Perhaps he orders some thing which the mind of that
Murid cannot accept and protests against loudly to
itself: "It is not right to do this; why does he order
me to do such a thing?" If the Murid should openly
express such rebelliousness to his Sheik, or if it
just comes to his heart without him even letting
anyone know about it, the Divine Power between him and
his Sheik is cut ・瘢雹like a blown fuse; he is then stuck
at that level and unable to progress.
Grandsheik says: "For a Murid to rebel, either openly
or secretly, against his Sheik is as terrible as
someone cursing the Prophets; it is abominable to
think bad thoughts about one's own guide. One's
changing of heart in relation to his Sheik is like
cursing the Prophets, for if not for your guide you
are never going to reach to knowledge of the Prophet's
realities." Therefore, a follower must have utmost
respect for his Murshid, not only in what he
expresses, but also in what he conceals in his heart.
This is training for believers so that they may learn
to always keep respect in their hearts for the
Prophet, and never to object in nay way to anything
that the Prophet did in the way of actions and
judgments. If someone says, regarding the Prophet,
"This action of his was totally correct, but that one
not so much," then immediately the power is cut
between the Prophet and that person, and the
connection is in need of being reestablished.
Ultimately, this training is essential in enabling us
to keep our faith and to become real slaves of the
Almighty, as in the course of our lives so many
strange, terrible and unthinkable events may occur
whereby people's hearts will be disturbed, and many
will say, "What is this, is this justice?" So many
people are asking this question nowadays, when,
according to the understanding of their minds, there
is no justice and no mercy in certain events ・瘢雹this is
unbelief. If a person believes in his Lord, he must
believe that his Lord is always guiding events in the
most excellent of ways, and that in everything that
happens you may find the Lords absolute Mercy and
Justice.
Training by a Guide
If you do not accept training at the hands of a
Murshid, you won't be able to tolerate many events
which are happening all around you in this life, but
over which you can exercise no control whatsoever. If
you are going to object to the occurrence of these
events, you are, in effect, accusing Allah of wrong
judgement and injustice. Therefore, every believer
must first be trained at the hands of a Murshid; then,
when he has stopped saying, `No', and `Why', in
relation to his Sheik, the perfume of good actions
will begin to issue forth from that Murid. What this
means is that you will not find any objection in a
real believer to what his Lord decrees, nor can you
witness any breach of manners toward the Lord. He
says: "Oh my Lord, You are right, I am wrong; oh my
Prophet, you are right, I am wrong; oh my Grandsheik,
you are right, I am wrong." This is the peak and the
perfume of good manners and actions; whoever obtains
these characteristics will improve more rapidly than
anyone else.
The trials that come to us from our Sheik will be much
lighter trials than those coming from the Prophet, and
the trials that the Prophet sends will, in turn, be
much easier trials than the ones send by Allah
Almighty ・瘢雹and you must be ready for your Lord's
trial, then you will be alright ・瘢雹not before. When
you can say, "What my Lord decrees is right, and what
I might desire contrary to that is wrong," you have
attained the highest degree of good manners with your
Lord (Adab). All Prophets have been sent in order to
teach this point.
How can a person really believe in his Lord when he
sometimes objects, saying that his Lord is not
performing the best of possible actions? A person has
really overcome this pitfall and attained to real
faith when he can wholeheartedly say, "Allah knows
best what is good for His creatures, the Prophet knows
what is best for his Nation and the Murshid for his
followers ・瘢雹we can be wrong, but they can't." When he
can always acuse himself in this manner, it means that
he has attained the first station of faith (Iman).
The basic and common level for man is to be at all
times one with his ego, and when man is one with his
ego, he is in the darkness of unbelief (Kufr). People
on that level many be heard saying, "I am just fine,
but the problem is with the others ・瘢雹they are all
wrong." As long as a person is on that level, he will
never accept a guide or believe in a Prophet; how
should he, when he thinks that he knows everything
better than anyone else? He is under the control of
the commanding-self, nafs ul-ammara bis-suu), and as
long as he is under its command he will remain on the
level of unbelief.
When one climbs from that level to the second level,
he improves to the awakening of the self-accusing self
(An-nafs ul-lawwamah); once awakened, that self always
makes the person see himself as being blameworthy, and
accuse himself by saying, "You are wrong, oh my ego."
At that stage he will seek some guide to show him what
is right, as he has recognized that his ego is always
wrong; it's praying is wrong, its fasting wrong, its
alms-giving wrong and its pilgrimage is wrong- nothing
is right because he is not right, not yet purified
from the tyranny of his lower self. Once he has
accepted the fact that his ego is preventing him from
doing any goodness, he is ready to accept a guide to
lead him to real goodness, and at that point he is
prepared to be a follower; even if his guide tries him
severely, he will say,
"I am wrong, he is right." When a person has reached
this point, he has attained the first level of real
faith (Haqiqi Iman).
All different kinds of situations may befall a person
during his life. One may encounter both goodness and
badness, and indeed it may be one's lot to have to
suffer the most troublesome and harmful events.
Whenever such events befall one, the sign of real
faith is one's being able to put up with them ・瘢雹for
example, to eat an unliked food (unliked by the ego,
not by the Divine Law); to see hear or come in
contact with something one detests. In all these
cases, one just be able to keep hold of oneself
without flinching, without undergoing any change
within oneself and without saying, "This is wrong and
I am right." This is steadfastness, a sign of real
faith.
Guides are the Inheritos of the Prophet (sal)
The value of human beings is well-known, completely
known, by Allah Almighty, who created them and gave
them their values. Then, the most knowledgeable
person concerning the value of man is the Seal of the
Prophets, beloved Muhammad, p.b.u.h., and the other
Prophets take their knowledge concerning the value of
the Sons of Adam from him. And then, the true
followers of the Prophets and of the Seal of the
Prophets, peace be upon them all, the Awliya (Saints),
know the value of mankind, and they take human beings
and arrange them from every side. Then their values,
their true forms, appear, and they take them to the
Divine Presence. But without a Prophet or their
inheritors, people are like discarded stones. Even if
they are diamonds, without their being cut and made
suitable, they are not going to be put on a crown.
Therefore, every Prophet came to make people ready to
go into the Divine Presence, to their heavenly
stations in the Divine Presence. Whoever comes and
submits to the Prophets, the Prophets arrange them.
But if they run away from them, escaping, they can't
do it. Then they are like stones, thrown away.
Therefore, the most important work of the Prophets and
of their successors, the Awliya, is to make everyone's
value clear by arranging each one according to his
promises on the Day of Promises. If anyone is asking
to be in the Divine Presence, in the first rank, he
must follow the Prophets or those who follow them, the
Awliya. Those who do not follow ・瘢雹no value for them;
they still remain like stones. Then ultimately they
must be treated by some training after they leave this
life and in Barzakh (the stage of existence between
death and the Day of Judgment of the Eternal life) and
in the next life in order to allow their values to
appear, but they are not going to be in the first rank
of those who will be with the Prophets and Awliya.
No value for a person who stays by himself and never
follows the Prophets and their inheritors! Even is
this life, if a person does not follow a college or
university course, he never gains any value in his
community; people say, "A simple or ordinary, standard
person." But the one who follows a course in a
university or college or academy, and it is proved by
a certificate or diploma, has value. No matters how
much you may know by yourself, if you do not follow
one of them, no one gives you value. You can't be a
doctor, you can't be an engineer, and you can't be a
lawyer because you aren't following any school.
Therefore, in the spiritual life, whoever is asking
for improvement, insofar as he may be by himself, he
may acquire something, but it is of no value. You
must follow a Prophet. For this reason, philosophers,
who are asking to reach a point by themselves without
following any one of the Prophets, have no value. We
must follow.
To the extent that you can follow one of them, you may
reach your real value, and that value will appear
among creatures on earth and in Heaven. No one can
attain to that, particularly to heavenly stations,
without following someone who belongs to Heaven. All
Prophets belong to Heaven; if a person has no
relationship to Heaven, he is not going to be a
Prophet. Whoever has no relationship to Heaven is
also not going to be Wali, a Saint; it is impossible.
There must be a relationship between that person and
Heaven, and you must follow such
a person who has a relationship between himself and
heavenly beings; otherwise, the one who is walking on
earth (that is, a person who is worldly and not
strongly connect to Heaven), is not going to be a
guide to you. You many find everything on earth, but
without a guide you can't find the way to Heaven; it
is so difficult and so far and so full of danger.
Therefore, there must be a guide for you. Even for a
rocket which is sent into space, it is so difficult
and so dangerous to be in it or to have the control of
it; you can't send a rocket into space through just
anyone. He must be a person specially trained for
that purpose, knowing best how he can send it. To
send a person from earth to Heaven ・瘢雹it is more
difficult than sending a rocket into space; not
everyone can do that. The one who can do that is the
one who has been sent to Heaven by the Prophet (Sal).
He knows the way and he knows how he may send others.
He comes through the Prophet up to his own Grandsheik,
never making a mistake.
Don't tell me, "Why are you not sending us now?" Go
an tell that engineer or scientist who is preparing
that rocket, "Send it into space now." Would he
listen to you? He is working on it. A person is going
to be ready to be sent up to Heaven, Grandsheik said
to me, if forty scholars who know the Shari'ah
excellently are with him for forty days and they give
a report saying, "This person is all right from every
direction. We forty scholars have been looking at him
day and night for forty days. In every action and
behavior that person is perfect. According to our
knowledge, there is nothing wrong with him." If they
give such a report, it is all right to send him.
We are trying now, but then our egos come, destroying
this path and damaging us; every bad action damages
our inner structure. We are trying to build it but it
is so difficult. But, as we are beginners, it doesn't
matter. We are practicing, we are building, we are
learning, we are preparing ourselves. It is enough to
be here humbly and listening; that gives us divine
help and makes us be ready. Even at the last moment
we must be complete, insha'allah; we are going to
be complete and go to Heaven, and we will see doors
opening to us. So many people, When they go from
earth to Heaven, find doors closed to them because
they are not ready; then they are sent back to make
them ready to go up. But those whom come and listen
and accept and believe, they must be prepared, even at
the last moment before leaving this life, to reach
their heavenly stations in the Divine Presence.
The Guide guards his Followers
If we are separate, we are like parts of a tasbih
(Rosary), beads. If there is no string, they will be
lost, scattered, but when they are on this string that
can never happen. And for each person, if alone there
is danger of being lost, but if coming with an imam,
(The alif or long, terminal bead connecting a tasbih
or string of prayer beads), on a string, he is
protected. Look, everyone! (He shows his tasbih)
Sometimes this string is strong; sometimes it is very
weak and quickly breaks. Therefore you must be
careful. A silver one is stronger, you know? Then
anyone who is with a Sheik, with a guide, the guide
guards them. If not with a guide, they are often
going to be lost.
We must be humble, as much as we are able, to be in
agreement with a sheik, with a guide. The guide is
the most important person throughout our lives because
everyone must take a guide either on a good way or on
a bad way. Everyone takes a guide. If a person does
not take a guide on a good way, another guide is
waiting for him, quickly taking him to a bad way. For
bad ways there are so many guides; so many devils,
dressed like men and taking them. Therefore, everyone
is in need of a guide, but you must be careful to take
a guide throughout your life for goodness, not for
badness.
Everyone knows that, for all people, this life is
going to be either with good things or with bad
things; everyone knows that. But so many times we are
so weak in the hands of our egos, running after our
nafs. When you run and make your ego or someone who
is from devils as your guide, you quickly fall into
dangerous, terrible places, hells. You must choose
that way which is going to be suitable for you.
A strong guide guards his followers; they may be in
the East, they may in the West. When Yusuf (alai) was
in Egypt, his father Yaqub, was in Palestine or in the
area around Damascus. When the wife of the ruler of
Egypt called Yusuf to her bed, (The story of Joseph
and the wife of Aziz is narrated in XII: 23-34), and
he was ready for that, his father
showed himself and said, "O Yusuf, guard yourself."
Yaqub (alai), could have been in the Far East, doesn't
matter, he could have been as far away as you can
imagine. Nothing keeps back that power; distances
never prevent that power from reaching. Awliya have
miraculous powers like Prophets, but Prophets'
miracles are more perfect.
Awliya do not have such power but they have the same
attributes as Anbiya, Prophets; then that power goes
through them, also. They may do miraculous things, and
a true sheik may guard his Murids, whether they are in
the Far East or in the Far West. They may send their
spiritual power to every Murid so that they are not
alone or solitary. When you remember him that
remembrance makes your sheik's spiritual power be
ready with you, be present with you. That is a
miraculous power which every true sheik has been
given.
MURID : How can we make contact with our Sheik, not
just for asking help but for being with him.
SHEIK: If a boy falls in love with a girl or a girl
falls in love with a boy, they are occupied; they are
always in contact with each other. If your have such
love for your sheik, you may be in contact sometimes.
Some people are engaged by their Lord, Allah Almighty;
they are the Anbiya, Prophets, and Awliya. Never does
anyone get into their hearts except their Lord; they
are always in contact. Some people are always engaged
with the Prophet, p.b.u.h., some people with their
Sheik. Some people sometimes, maybe when they are in
need, ask for their
Sheik. According to your need, you may ask, you may
be in contact. And it is so easy. When the
remembrance of him comes upon you, you are in contact;
no need for protocol.
Quickly, when you think about your Sheik, he is with
you; when you forget, you are far away. When you
remember, he is with you, quickly. You must
understand this point. Then it is going to be easier
for our brothers and sisters to be in contact with
their Sheik. Any time they may be in need, if
reciting a Fateha and send it to the Prophet and their
Grandsheik, it is alright.
Being with your Guide
And in our time, people are using so many wrong
methods. They do not understand, or they do not even
know, what is the beginning and what is the end; from
where they are beginning and to where they are
reaching, as a blind person never understands where he
is or where is going to be. And most important for a
person throughout his life is a true guide. A true
guide can be known when your soul is in peace and
satisfaction with a person. That is the sign, the
real sign; to feel peace and satisfaction with him in
your heart. If you are still in doubt, hesitant, it
means that something is wrong with that person and you
must look for another. If your heart is not in peace
with his method, you must not follow that way. There
are so many ways. You must try for another one until
you reach peace in your heart, so that it should be
alright for you.
Then this is the way to attain peace, to die before
dying. This means that when you find a guide, you
must be with him. You must not carry about a
different personality from his but must agree to be
one with him, one unit. You can't carry about another
personality from your guide's; you must melt your
personality in his personality and you must appear as
himself. Then you will be all right.
Once a person came to a Grandsheik and knocked at his
door. The Grandsheik asked, "Who is there?"
"Ibrahim," the man said. "It is I." I, I, I ・瘢雹always
saying I. "I?" the Grandsheik said. "My place is only
for one, not for two. Go away."
And that person went away. After one year he tried
again, coming and knocking at the door. "Who is
there?" the Grandsheik asked. "You, you." "If you say,
You, now you may come in."
Therefore, the first condition for a person who is
asking to reach real peace is that he must give
himself, all that he is carrying, to put into his
guide. His guide can take it and carry it. When you
are going to be your guide that is the way to reach
your destination. There is an airplane. It may hold
one hundred or two hundred or three hundred
passengers, but when it flies you can see only one jet
plane. You do not see five hundred persons inside; you
can see only that it is a plane, flying.
The plane takes all those people into itself,
finished. Therefore, when you take a guide to your
destination, you can be in him; you can give yourself,
your selfhood. You must consider yourself as a drop.
Then it reaches its ocean and no more drops ・瘢雹finished. You leave that
drop and are going to be an
ocean.
That is peace. When that drop falls into the ocean,
can you take it out, can you find it? Finished; it is
all ocean. Therefore, peace is not to be found without
leaving your drop in that ocean. And your guide may
be a lake or he may be a sea, but they run into
oceans, also. That is important. When we say, "Die
before you die," this is the meaning of how we can die
before the natural death. You give your personality
to your guide; you throw your personality into your
guide's personality, and then you say, "I am no longer
in existence," finished. When you look at your guide,
you see yourself in him and when he looks at you, he
looks at himself, and we ・瘢雹we reached our spiritual
peace. You may find it during your short lifetime in
this life. But if you do not use true, correct
methods and you go wrong, you will always go far away
from peace. Instead of running toward oceans, you
will be running toward deserts.
The Obeyed One
There are two types of Quran ・瘢雹"Quran un Nathik" and
"Quran us Samith". The Quran is something that
speaks. It must speak and we must listen and obey it.
If the Prophet (Sal) had not come the Quran would
not have spoken. Almighty Allah first sent the
Prophet (Sal) and then the Quran. The Quran was sent
through the Prophet. The Prophet spoke. Therefore
the written Quran is one thing and the speaking Quran
is something else. If there is no speaking Quran then
that Quran-i-Kareem shall give no benefit to the
people. Therefore Almighty Allah first sent the
Prophet (Sal) and then through him made revelation by
sending Holy Quran to him. Then, the Prophet (Sal)
spoke ・瘢雹The speaking Quran is the Prophet (Sal). The
Sahabas ・瘢雹Mea wa-arba ishreena alf ・瘢雹120,000 of the
Sahabas, all of them listened to this speaking Quran.
Listened and obeyed. If only the Quran was sent who
is to be obeyed.
The Prophet (Sal) is the representative of Man atha
ahu faqad atha Allah, those that obey Rasoolullah obey
Allah. He is the representative, representing Haqq.
Therefore, the Sahabas listened to the speaking Quran
and obeyed him. Before Islam the Sahabas were at the
lowest of levels. From this level Rasoolullah (Sal)
brought them up to the highest level. So much that no
community either before or after shall reach to this
level. It is impossible for any community to reach to
the level of the Sahabas. Is this a fact or a
falsehood?
Rasoolullah did take them from the lowest of levels to
the very highest level so much so that no community
shall ever be able to match it. How was this
possible? It was made possible by listening to the
speaking Quran.
The True Ones
There are some foolish people today who deny this
point. They are a heedless people. They say that
everyone should read Quran and Hadith and that it is
enough. According to them there is no need to follow
an Iman or to follow a Sheik. They follow only
shaithan. If one does not follow an Imam or a Sheik,
who is he following? Everyone must follow someone; so
in that case they love to follow shaithan. They are
an ignorant people because they say that you must look
to the Quran and the Hadith only. I am asking "Were
the Sahabas looking to the Quran or were they looking
to the Prophet, who was the actual speaking Quran?
Were they not obeying him? Allah Almighty has made it
very clear through the Holy Quran "Asta-eedu billah.
Ya ayyu halla-zeena a'manuth thaqullaha wa koonoo
ma'sadiqeen." "O believers be fearful of Almighty
Allah and be with the True ones (The Awliyas).
These foolish people say that the "True Ones" (The
Awliyas) referred to here have all passed away. They
say on the other hand that if these "True Ones" can be
found today, then we must find them and be with them.
Even the tombs of those True Ones are being destroyed
by these people. They deny even them. "Koonu" means
you must be "Ma'a-saadkeen" with the True Ones". "Who
are these True Ones". Sadik ・瘢雹means trustworthy and
true ones. Who are they? Sadakoo ma a'tha Allahu ala
rijalin ・瘢雹they are Rijhalun.
They are a group of people from mankind. They are the
ones who promised to Allah on the day of Promises
"Yawmul ahd wal meezan, alasthu birabbikum qaaloo
balaa." They never changed their promises "You are our
Lord and we are your servants. Only Your Servants".
They were the ones who did not change this promise to
become servants of their egos, or servants of Dunya or
servants of shaithan. They are the servants of
Almighty Allah only. These are the ones whom Allah
ordered people to be with.
They are the trustworthy and True Ones. The Sahabas
gathered around Rasoolullah and listened to him and
obeyed him and reached the highest level of mankind.
Therefore we too have been ordered to look and search
for a "True One" (The Saints). It is an order from
Almighty Allah. The entire nation of the Prophet
(umma) they should have a "True one" to be their
Khalifa. But they have lost it now. Wherever we may
be, we must search and look for such a "True One".
Don't say that you can never find them. "No! We can
always find one. If a person asks Khidr Alaihi
Salaam, "Thalabna wajadna" it is impossible for a
person to ask and not to meet one. It is Almighty
Allah's Divine attribute. If a person asks for
something with sincerity and seriousness, he must
achieve it. As you are Ceylonese people, you know
about gems. The miners keep digging till they find,
they do not say that it is impossible to find. They
keep on digging till they find the gems.
Almighty Allah likewise teaches you. If you are
asking to find precious stones and working for it and
then finding it, then likewise "there are also
precious servants of mine" says Allah, if you ask
sincerely you may find them. Don't say "No", I am
asking. I know that this is Sri Lanka, or Malaysia or
India. Perhaps you may say "we shall never find.
Even if these precious ones are all gone from this
area then it must be that they shall be at Mecca
within the Kaaba and at Medina at the Rawla Sheriff.
It must be.
I ask so many people what do you find in Mecca and
Medina? They say they have kissed the black stone on
several occasion. Then I ask them whether apart from
the stone and the buildings they have not met any
beloved ones of Allah, (Saints). Did you ever look or
search for them. They said "no, only the Kaaba and
the black stone, then we were involved in buying and
selling goods, we did nothing else." This Umma is
forgetting to ask from the Saints.
Therefore all the Saints are now hiding themselves.
They say (the Saints) that the Umma of today do not
value the Saints anymore. So they have escaped and
are hiding themselves, and the Umma ends up loosing
them. They never ask from the Saints and then
troubles begin to rain on them. This is the
punishment from Almighty Allah because they are not
asking from the good ones, the ones that Almighty
Allah ordered us to be with, instead they keep company
with the bad ones. When people get together with
these "bad ones" curses fall upon them. On the other
hand when they are with the "good ones" blessings rain
on them. Therefore it is very important for you and
for the entire Islamic world to look and search for
the Saints. Where are they "They must search for
them.". If they are pleased with them, then Allah
Almighty and Rasoolullah (Sal) are pleased with them.
If Almighty Allah and Rasoolullah (Sal) are pleased
with them, always mercy and blessings will pour on
them.
Today people are fearful. What are they fearing. If
Almighty Allah does not give them permission nobody
can be able to do anything. If He gives permission
then no one can prevent them (the Saints) from coming
to you. Therefore this is a punishment because we are
not with the Saints. Some foolish people are
attacking Saints and trying to put them down.
Therefore those who do this to them, have curses
coming on thm. "Ala inna awliya Allahi la khawfun
alaihim walahum yahzanoon." Allah Almighty in the
Holy Quran praises the Saints when he says "In the
Saints, there is no fear, in them now or in the
future, and they will not be sad forever." It means
that it is also for those who are with the Saints that
they also shall have no fear or sadness. The
companions of the Prophet, (Sal), said that when they
were fearful, the Prophet, (Sal), was a shelter for
them.
Those who were far away came running to the Prophet,
(Sal) to feel safety with him. Al the Saints are the
inheritors o the Prophet (Sal). When you are going to
be with them, physically or spiritually you are
sheltered by them. If you can't find them physically,
let your spiritual body search for them and be with
them. If at anytime you feel fear, run to them with
your spiritual being. They should send a shelter and
also confidence to you. May Allah Almighty forgive us
and our attenders here. Your hearts are very suitable
hearts. Therefore may blessings come on you. I feel
confident and refreshed through my heart as you are
here with me. May Allah Almighty make it continuous
and forever. May He bless you and your ancestors.
The Rope of Allah Almighty
Allah Almighty says : Fala Tamootunna illah Wa Antum
Muslimoon. Allah Almighty orders: "Oh people, Oh
Believers, you believe, but through your heart you may
lose your faith and your wrong actions will make Iman
to leave you and make belief to leave you and make you
not to die in Islam. You must be very careful not to
lose your Iman by your speech, by your actions or by
your intentions or by your opinions. Bad opinions
lead you to bad intentions. Bad intentions lead you
to bad actions and bad actions lead you to loose your
faith and your Iman. "Fala Tamootunna Illa Wa Antum
Muslimoon."
You must take care and not be guided by our own
opinion. There is no "own opinion" for Muslims ・瘢雹Muslims who surrender
to Allah Almighty and to
Rasoolullah (Sal) should not say: This is my opinion
or that is my opinion because this is the twentieth
century, and even if it is the one hundred and
twentieth century you must try only to follow and
not to have opinions. Don't think that A-immatil
arbathil the four Imams, gave their own opinions, No,
Never. They always gave their decisions after looking
at the Quran and Hadees. Therefore wrong opinions
lead people to wrong intentions, wrong intentions lead
them to wrong actions, wrong actions harm Islam and
destroys Islam.
When they destroy Islam, they lose their faith and
Iman as well. Therefore Allah Almighty orders:
Wa'thasimu bi Hablullahi Jami'ah". Don't say this is
my opinion, or that is my opinion, come altogether in
unity. "Wa'thasiu bi Hablullahi Jami'ah". Allah
Almighty says "Hablullah".
Hablullah means Rope ・瘢雹Rope of Allah Almighty. What
is that Rope? Have you seen that Rope? What is that
Rope? Hablullah. Quran: "Hablullahi Ummati".
Rasoolullah (Sal) said, "Quran Hablullahi Ummati.'
Quran-e-Karim" is that Rope or the unbreakable Rope of
Allah Almighty. Then there are also two Qurans.
Perhaps you have never heard about the two Qurans?
There are two Qurans ・瘢雹one is the silent Quran and the
other the speaking Quran. The Prophet (Sal) is the
speaking Quran. The Sahaba, were with the speaking
Quran. They were not only reciting the silent Quran
but they were understanding from the speaking Quran
wa'thasimu bi-Hablullahi Jami'ah.
What is that Quran? It is the Rasool (Sal) who is
Hablullahi Ummati and you must understand this point
well. Please don't aspire to reach the level of
Rasoolullah (Sal) because no Prophet ever inherited
any money or property. Their only inheritance was
Meeraz (revelations) and nothing else. The Prophet
(Sal) inherited the Holy Quran and the Holy knowledge
that was revealed. He left that Meraaz (revelations)
to His Sahaba and to the hearts of his Sahaba.
Therefore Prophet (Sal) was given that inheritance by
Allah Almighty, who in turn gave it to the hearts of
the Sahaba. Particularly Prophet (Sal) said that
"Allah Almighty poured through my heart and then I
poured it to the heart of Abu Bakr (Ral). As Prophet
(Sal) was the speaking Quran to the Sahaba, the Sahaba
were connected to him with this unbreakable rope.
After the Prophet (Sal) the Umma was with the Sahaba,
and after the Sahaba, who carried it? Who carries
that Divine trust which is revealed from heart to
heart? Who are they? What is the Speaking Quran and
who is making mankind connected with that Rope. After
the lifetime of Prophet (Sal) who connected the
Speaking Quran to the True Umma? Not the Umma, we see
today of people who think that anyone who reads a
translation of the Holy Quran is an authority on
Islam. That is the way they think.
It is their opinion. They don't ask the Speaking
Quran or care to search for them and to be with them.
That is our power. Islam's power is to be connected
with holy people because Allah Almighty has promised
that "If you get connected with Hablullahi Ummathi,
that is with such people who belong to the Heavens,
with such Holy people who are the Friends of Allah and
who are close to Him and His Rasool (Sal) and they are
the Saints.
If you are not with them "Wala Tafarraqu", you would
be separated. It is such a sad separation that it is
a punishment in itself. This is a punishment for the
Ummah and what is happening to the Ummah nowadays is
only a punishment because you are not getting
connected with the inheritors of the Prophet (Sal) and
because everyone is claiming that they know in
accordance with their opinions.
Wa min Allah at Tawfiq
wassalam, arief hamdani
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