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<b>SufiLive.com</b><br> <a href="http://www.sufilive.com/Love_Is_the_Foundation_of_the_Community-3604.html">http://www.sufilive.com/Love_Is_the_Foundation_of_the_Community-3604.html</a> <html><head><script type="text/javascript"> (function(){(function(){function d(a){this.t={};this.tick=function(a,b,c){this.t[a]=[void 0!=c?c:(new Date).getTime(),b]};this.tick("start",null,a)}var a=new d;window.jstiming={Timer:d,load:a};if(window.performance&&window.performance.timing){var a=window.performance.timing,b=window.jstiming.load,c=a.navigationStart,a=a.responseStart;0<c&&a>=c&&(b.tick("_wtsrt",void 0,c),b.tick("wtsrt_","_wtsrt",a),b.tick("tbsd_","wtsrt_"))}try{a=null,window.chrome&&window.chrome.csi&&(a=Math.floor(window.chrome.csi().pageT), b&&0<c&&(b.tick("_tbnd",void 0,window.chrome.csi().startE),b.tick("tbnd_","_tbnd",c))),null==a&&window.gtbExternal&&(a=window.gtbExternal.pageT()),null==a&&window.external&&(a=window.external.pageT,b&&0<c&&(b.tick("_tbnd",void 0,window.external.startE),b.tick("tbnd_","_tbnd",c))),a&&(window.jstiming.pt=a)}catch(e){}})();})() </script><script type="text/javascript">var KX_timer = new window.jstiming.Timer(); KX_timer.name = 'published';</script><title>MSH.2 JUL 2011.POST.ENG</title><style type="text/css"> body { font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; margin: 0; } iframe { border: 0; frameborder: 0; height: 100%; width: 100%; } #header, #footer { background: #f0f0f0; padding: 10px 10px; } #header { border-bottom: 1px #ccc solid; } #footer { border-top: 1px #ccc solid; border-bottom: 1px #ccc solid; font-size: 13; } #contents { margin: 6px; } .dash { padding: 0 6px; } </style></head><body><div id="header">MSH.2 JUL 2011.POST.ENG</div><div id="contents"><style type="text/css">ol{margin:0;padding:0}.c9{max-width:468pt;background-color:#ffffff;padding:72pt 72pt 72pt 72pt}.c2{font-size:12pt;font-style:italic;font-family:"Times New Roman"}.c3{font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"}.c4{font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"}.c6{font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"}.c1{text-align:center}.c8{font-style:italic}.c0{direction:ltr}.c5{height:11pt}.c7{margin-left:72pt}.c10{direction:rtl}.title{padding-top:24pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-size:36pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:6pt}.subtitle{padding-top:18pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#666666;font-style:italic;font-size:24pt;font-family:"Georgia";padding-bottom:4pt}li{color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial"}p{color:#000000;font-size:11pt;margin:0;font-family:"Arial"}h1{padding-top:24pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-size:24pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:6pt}h2{padding-top:18pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-size:18pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4pt}h3{padding-top:14pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-size:14pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:4pt}h4{padding-top:12pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:2pt}h5{padding-top:11pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:2pt}h6{padding-top:10pt;line-height:1.15;text-align:left;color:#000000;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial";font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:2pt}</style><p class="c1 c0"><span class="c6">Love Is the Foundation of the Community</span><p><p class="c1 c0"><span class="c4">Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani</span><p><p class="c1 c0"><span class="c4">2 July 2011 London, UK</span><p><p class="c1 c0"><span class="c4 c8">Suhbah </span><span class="c4">at CSCA Centre, Feltham</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c4"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c2"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">Dastoor yaa Sayyidee, yaa awliya al-madad, yaa Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) madad,</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">qaal Allahu ta`ala fee kitaabeehi ’l-kareem Ati`oollaha wa ati`oo 'r-Rasoola wa ooli 'l-amri minkum.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">Obey Allah, obey the Prophet, and obey those in authority among you</span><span class="c3">. (4:59)</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">Nawaytu 'l-arba`een, nawaytu 'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu 'l-khalwah, nawaytu 'l-`uzlah,</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">nawaytu 'r-riyaadah, nawaytu 's-sulook, lillahi ta`ala fee haadha 'l-masjid.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c2"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillahI Rabbi ’l-`alameen, wa ’s-salaatu wa ’s-salaam `ala ashrafi ’l-mursaleen, Sayyidina wa Nabiyyina Muhammadin wa `ala aalihi wa sahbihi ajma`een,</span><span class="c3"> </span><span class="c2">nahmaduhu ta`ala `ala ni`amaihi zhaahira wa baatinan wa nashadu wahdaaniyyatih wa naqool,</span><span class="c3"> </span><span class="c2">ash-hadu an laa ilaaha illa-Llah, wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan `abduhu wa habeebuhu wa rasooluh.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c2"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">We ask Allah (swt) to always keep us in the presence of the Prophet Sayyidina Muhammad (s), and our teacher, master, Sayyidee wa Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and Sayyidee wa Mawlana `AbdAllah al-Fa`iz ad-Daghestani (q).</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">Alhamdulillah</span><span class="c3"> with Mawlana's </span><span class="c2">barakah</span><span class="c3"> and after his permission, of course, I came here today to see you; to see our brothers and sisters and to say </span><span class="c2">salaam</span><span class="c3"> </span><span class="c2">`alaykum </span><span class="c3">to all of you on behalf of Mawlana Shaykh.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Prophet (s) built his Sahaabah (r) on love. Before they were Sahaabah, before Islam, Prophet (s) was the most beloved one in his society and community. So love is required as it can move the hearts of people to listen and accept. Allah says, “</span><span class="c2">Ati`oollah</span><span class="c3">, obey Allah!” If there is no love there is no obedience as no one cares. Why did </span><span class="c2">awliya </span><span class="c3">become </span><span class="c2">awliya</span><span class="c3">? Because Allah gave them a speciality; He gave love in their hearts and brought them forward and dressed them from His Beautiful Names and Attributes - but people take that lightly.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">However, the one who is being dressed knows that it is not something light but heavy. Allah (swt) is generous, when He gives a dress of His Beautiful Names and Attributes He does not weigh it on a scale and say, “I cannot give more than that.” When Allah gives, He gives from His endless bounty. And it pleases Allah when He waits for His servant to approach and ask for it; at that time He orders his angel to bless that person with Beautiful Names and Attributes. Many times we came across that verse of Holy Qur'an and up to today every speaker and every </span><span class="c2">`alim</span><span class="c3"> or scholar always mentions it, Ahlu ’s-Sunnah wa ’l-Jama`ah hold so tight to it that they mention in every </span><span class="c2">khutbah,</span><span class="c3"> in every meeting, in every Mawlid or </span><span class="c2">milaad, </span><span class="c3">or in any other celebration. We mention that verse of Holy Qur'an because it is very important and it shows how much Allah (swt) loves His Prophet (s).</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Anyone who does not say it in Khutbat al-Jumu`ah cannot say it is</span><span class="c2"> baatilah</span><span class="c3">, but we say it is not complete. And that verse is:</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c1 c10"><span class="c4">إِنَّ اللَّهَ وَمَلَائِكَتَهُ يُصَلُّونَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">inna-Llaha wa malaa'ikatahu yusalloona `ala 'n-nabi, yaa ayyuha ’Lladheena aamanoo salloo `alayhi was sallimoo tasleema.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">Verily, Allah and His angels send praise on the Prophet. O Believers! Pray upon him and greet him.</span><span class="c3"> (al-'Ahzaab, 33:56)</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Now let us see according to our capacity and understanding, how much love Allah is showing for Prophet (s). Our understanding however, is not even a </span><span class="c2">dharrah</span><span class="c3">, an atom or a drop of that love but we are trying to describe that drop. It is an ocean which no one can penetrate, even Sultan al-Awliya.</span><span class="c2"> </span><span class="c3">The knowledge of all </span><span class="c2">awliya </span><span class="c3">is like a drop. Allah is saying </span><span class="c2">inna-Llaha wa malaa'ikatahu yusalloona `ala 'n-nabi, </span><span class="c3">confirming, “I love.” So our explanation is like a drop in an ocean and this is only to show that when someone has love, it is so strong that it is beyond description.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">So Allah is saying, </span><span class="c2">inna-Llaha wa malaa'ikatahu yusalloona `ala 'n-nabi, fee haqq an-Nabi!</span><span class="c3"> “Allah and His angels make </span><span class="c2">salawaat</span><span class="c3">.” What do you understand from, “Allah and His angels,” how many angels? First, when someone purchases a property, people like to know its capacity, how many it can fit. For example Manchester Stadium has a capacity of 80 to 100 thousand people, but it has limits. Allah did not limit His angels when He said </span><span class="c2">inna-Llaha wa malaa'ikatahu yusalloona `ala 'n-nabi. </span><span class="c3">When He sent angels to support Ashaabi Badr, He gave a number; 3,000 angels were enough to take</span><span class="c2"> kufr </span><span class="c3">away.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">But in this verse, Allah shows no limit, we can say one million or more, it is limitless. We cannot give it a number, how can we? If we do, we are diminishing the power of Allah on His Creation. I understand much bigger numbers than you; trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, or ten to trillion, there is no count. In every moment Allah (swt) is creating angels because creation cannot stop, Al-Khaliq is continuously creating. If we say it stops, we are not giving respect to Allah (swt) as we should.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">When we say “</span><span class="c2">Allahu Akbar</span><span class="c3">” it means Allah is greater than what you think. So who can think and learn in the best way? Prophet (s)! Still we say “</span><span class="c2">Allahu Akbar!</span><span class="c3">” Whatever Prophet (s) knows of high levels of knowledge, Allah is more. Prophet (s) is</span><span class="c2">`abd</span><span class="c3"> and Allah is the Creator. Allah’s name Al-Khaliq, “The Creator” means that in every fraction of a second there is Creation. Grandshaykh (q) used to always repeat the story of Sayyidina Khidr (a) asking Jibreel (a), “Can you tell me since when Allah (swt) created Adam?”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Jibreel (a) replied, “Which ‘Adam’ are you talking about?”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">“Is there any other ‘Adam?’” asked Khidr (a).</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Jibreel (a) answered, “There are 124,000 ‘Adams’ since that one and Sayyidina Muhammad (s) is prophet for them all. Allah has judged them and sent them to Paradise or Hellfire and this ‘Adam’ is the last one.”</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">So Al-Khaliq is enough to keep our heads in </span><span class="c2">sajdah</span><span class="c3"> to show we are nothing. All those who consider themselves to be something have to know that they are nothing. Don't give your ego a boost and don't praise it, if you praise you lose. Sayyidina Muhammad (s) said, “O Allah, don't leave me to my</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">ego for the blink of an eye, or I will go to </span><span class="c2">soow al-khatima, </span><span class="c3">a bad ending.”</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">That is why it is not our place to say, “Where do we sit?” If we get a couch it is fine if not, sit on the floor. But we have to say to ourselves, “You don't deserve to be but at the door of the </span><span class="c2">masjid</span><span class="c3">,” you must bring your ego down completely. That is why Allah sent messengers and gave </span><span class="c2">awliya</span><span class="c3"> and sultan al-awliya to inherit from them and guide the </span><span class="c2">ummah </span><span class="c3">to discipline themselves to say, “What you think is not correct, no! Your ‘self’ is greedy, stingy, and angry.” Thus, all kinds of bad manners can be found within us. We cannot say we are perfect, many people they think they are. Allah says in Holy Qur'an:</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0 c1"><span class="c4">وَفَوْقَ كُلِّ ذِي عِلْمٍ عَلِيمٌ</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">wa fawqa kulli dhil `ilmin `aleem.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">And above every knower is a (higher) knower.</span><span class="c3"> (Yusuf, 12:76)</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Look at the ceiling, your head is not above that. From their “self” and ego Shaytan makes people to be like a peacock. They are inheritors of Iblis because He was the first one to complain. He said to Allah (swt):</span><p><p class="c1 c0"><span class="c4">قَالَ أَنَا خَيْرٌ مِّنْهُ خَلَقْتَنِي مِن نَّارٍ وَخَلَقْتَهُ مِن طِينٍ</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">Qaala anaa khayrun minhu khalaqtanee min naarin wa khalaqtahu min teen.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">(Iblis) said, "I am better than him as You created me from fire and You created him from clay!"</span><span class="c3"> (Sad, 38:76)</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">How could he say that? Doesn’t Allah know better? So the ego cannot accept, the worst character in us is the one that is the “self” between your body, that is what is taking humanity into confrontations. Why do we fight? In order for our ego to say, “I am better than that one.” If you wish to be better, then do as that Companion did for whom Prophet (s) said, “This one will go to Paradise.” Sayyidina `Umar (r) wanted to find out what he does, so he visited him at his home. Proper </span><span class="c2">adab</span><span class="c3"> is to host a guest for three days but the guest may ask no questions. The host locks the door when the guest comes, he has to give the guest a mattress and food for three days. And if after three days the guest doesn’t leave, then the host has to ask, “How I can help you,” do we do that?</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">This Companion used to pray the five prayers behind Prophet (s), nothing more. Sayyidina `Umar (r) was praying Salaatu ’t-Tasabeeh, Ishraaq, and Tahajjud. “I am doing more than him,” he thought. The Companion did not say anything for three days, then he asked, “</span><span class="c2">Yaa</span><span class="c3"> `Umar, can I help you?”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">He said, “Yes. Prophet (s) said you are going to Paradise but I am not seeing you do anything more than me, so what are you doing?”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">“</span><span class="c2">Yaa</span><span class="c3"> `Umar,” he replied. “Before I sleep or at Fajr, I renew my </span><span class="c2">shahaadah</span><span class="c3"> by saying it three times.” Do we do that? We might do it for one day then forget the next five days. He continued, “Then I go to work in the morning and if </span><span class="c2">dunya</span><span class="c3"> came to me, I don't look at it. Allah says the whole </span><span class="c2">dunya </span><span class="c3">does not even weigh the weight of the wing of a mosquito, so why do I have to be happy?”</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Today if we have get something from </span><span class="c2">dunya</span><span class="c3">, we are very happy. Some people have huge cars, they park them showing others, “Look, at what I have.”</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">He continued, “And in the evening if the whole </span><span class="c2">dunya</span><span class="c3"> is gone, I don't care. And finally, when I go to bed I make a hundred </span><span class="c2">salawaat </span><span class="c3">on Prophet (s) and say, ‘</span><span class="c2">Yaa Rabbee!</span><span class="c3"> Whoever made </span><span class="c2">fitnah,</span><span class="c3"> backbiting, gave me pain, or made me sad, I am forgiving them from my heart.”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Sayyidina `Umar (r) said, “</span><span class="c2">Sadaqa yaa</span><span class="c3"> Rasoolullah, we don't do that!”</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">So the problem is our </span><span class="c2">nafs</span><span class="c3">. Prophet (s) was told to say to them:</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c1 c0"><span class="c4">قُلْ إِنَّمَا أَنَا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْ يُوحَى إِلَيَّ أَنَّمَا إِلَهُكُمْ إِلَهٌ وَاحِدٌ فَمَن كَانَ يَرْجُو لِقَاء رَبِّهِ فَلْيَعْمَلْ</span><p><p class="c1 c0"><span class="c4">عَمَلًا صَالِحًا وَلَا يُشْرِكْ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِ أَحَدًا</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">Qul innamaa anaa basharun mithlukum yoohaa ilayya annamaa ilaahukum ilaahun waahidun faman kaana yarjoo liqaa rabbihi fa ’l-ya`mal `amalan saalihan wa laa yushrik bi`ibaadati rabbihi aahada.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">Say, "I am but a man like yourselves, (but) the inspiration has come to me that your Allah is one Allah. Whoever expects to meet his Lord let him work righteousness, and in the worship of his Lord admit no one as partner. </span><span class="c3">(al-Kahf, 18:110)</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Those who don't understand say, “He only brought the message and no more,” but Allah wants you to take a lesson that, “I, Muhammad, whom Allah raised to </span><span class="c2">qaba qawsayni aw adna,</span><span class="c3"> am showing you that I am humbling myself.” For us to learn that humbleness is a must because if we show arrogance we are following Iblis.</span><p><p class="c1 c0"><span class="c4">فَأَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوَاهَا</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">fa alhamahaa fujoorahaa wa taqwahaa.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">He inspired the self of its good and its bad</span><span class="c3">. (Ash-Shams, 91:8)</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Allah likes for us to show humbleness. From the time that He created Prophet’s (s) light, He ordered angels to make </span><span class="c2">salawaat</span><span class="c3"> on Prophet (s) non-stop. So now we say, “</span><span class="c2">Allahuma salli `alaa Sayyidina Muhammad,” </span><span class="c3">but do you think the angels are going to make the same </span><span class="c2">salawaat</span><span class="c3"> each time? Every time they make </span><span class="c2">salawaat</span><span class="c3">, the second one has to be different than the first, the third different from the fourth and so on. They are continuously making countless </span><span class="c2">salawaat</span><span class="c3"> on Prophet (s) and each time with different wording, (it is not repetitive.) Allah does not need a photocopy machine, if you think so, then you are diminishing His greatness.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">So the </span><span class="c2">salawaat</span><span class="c3"> is different each time. And Allah creates an angel from every </span><span class="c2">salawaat</span><span class="c3"> that is</span><span class="c2"> </span><span class="c3">being said,. Thus, this is something that far exceeds our imagination. Do you think that </span><span class="c2">ayah </span><span class="c3">has no weight? For example, a goldsmith can measure everything in his scale, even a hair. One </span><span class="c2">salawaat </span><span class="c3">on Prophet (s) is enough for the entire </span><span class="c2">ummat an-Nabee </span><span class="c3">to be taken to Paradise. Why? Because Allah said:</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">man salla `alayhi marratan yusalli `alayhi `ashar.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">For one salawaat made by a human, Allah will reward them ten times.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c2"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Do you think it is like ours? No! For each </span><span class="c2">salawaat </span><span class="c3">Allah will dress you and give you rewards that are beyond your understanding, it is like a rainbow, dressing you in different colors. That is why Allah (swt) wants you to understand the value of that </span><span class="c2">salawaat</span><span class="c3">,</span><span class="c2"> </span><span class="c3">He wants you to come into this Divinely garden saying, “Do you want to come in? Then make </span><span class="c2">salawaat</span><span class="c3">, to honor him.”</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c1 c0"><span class="c4">وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَم</span><span>َ</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">wa laqad karamnaa Bani Adam.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">We have honored the Children of Adam. </span><span class="c3">(al-'Israa, 17:70)</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">Alhamdulillah </span><span class="c3">Allah loves his Prophet (s) so He wants us to love him as well and to give him what is dear to us. If you do not give what is dear, then it is not up to a high standard. You have to give like the Sahaabah (r) gave to Prophet (s), they gave their entire lives. He asked, “Come with me,” they went through all kinds of difficulties to bring Islam to us. So don't say, “I am wasting my time by coming here,” if you drove for four hours, then I too came from a long distance to sit and speak with you and to give you something. </span><span class="c2">Al-tariqah kulluhaa aadaab</span><span class="c3">, “If there is no </span><span class="c2">adab</span><span class="c3">, there is no discipline, you can smell it. All of </span><span class="c2">tariqah </span><span class="c3">is discipline.</span><p><p class="c0 c7"><span class="c4">ادبني ربي فأحسن تأديبي</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">adabanee rabbee fa ahsana taa'deebee.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Allah trained and disciplined me and He perfected my conduct..</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0 c7"><span class="c4">وَإِنَّكَ لَعَلى خُلُقٍ عَظِي</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">wa innaka la-`ala khuluqin `azheem.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">You are of the most exalted character. </span><span class="c3">(al-Qalam, 68:4)</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c1 c0"><span class="c4">وَمَن كَانَ فِي هَـذِهِ أَعْمَى فَهُوَ فِي الآخِرَةِ أَعْمَى وَأَضَلُّ سَبِيل</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">waman kaana fee hadhihi `amaa fa-huwa fi ’l-akhirati `amaa wa adalloo sabeela.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c2">But those who were blind in this world will be blind in the Hereafter and most astray from the path.</span><span class="c3"> (al-Isra, 17:72)</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">And the worst thing is to say, “I am connected.” Without respect no one is connected. To be connected means that you are like a magnet and will catch anything, or like a pipe, the water will pass through. But if the pipe is broken, you have to go fix it. Connection is not cheap, a plumber charges a lot of money. He will ask for £100 just to install one pipe. How many pipes do you have in your body, especially the very small hair-like capillaries inside the intestines or other organs. The kidney alone has one million holes; they absorb all the good water and throw away the bad minerals you don't need and it can distinguish between the two. Scientists say that if all your capillaries that are hundreds and thousands of kilometers long become dry with no blood, you can die. If </span><span class="c2">awliya </span><span class="c3">don't connect you through all this and plug you with a heavenly plug, you cannot survive. Don't say “I am something,” you are nothing, because only </span><span class="c2">awliya</span><span class="c3"> are capable of this, you are not.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">I will tell you a story that Mawlana always mentions, it is about Sayyidina Abu Yazid al-Bistami (q). He was always asking, “</span><span class="c2">Yaa Rabbee</span><span class="c3">, open for me your Door, I want to enter!”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">One day he heard a voice saying,“</span><span class="c2">Yaa</span><span class="c3"> Aba Yazid, you are asking for something special and it cannot come easy. Do you want My Door?”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">He woke up saying, “Yes!”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Allah (swt) is sending inspiration, “If you want to be in that position to come to My Divine Presence, no problem, but you have to go through a treatment. I have to check you.”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">“Alright, I am ready,” he replied.</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Angels came with the message, “Go and be a dump for My servants.”</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">What is a dump? It is a place where people throw their garbage. When you reach that level and become a dump for your community, then at that time we will check you. Who can be a dump? It means submission, don't raise your head. How many so-called “shaykhs” (do that)?</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">I received an invitation to go to a country for a big conference. Ministers and members of Parliament from all over the world will attend. It is known as, “Al-Multaqaa ’l-`Alamee li ’t-Tasawwuf, The International Meeting for Sufis.” This meeting is going to be opened by the President of Indonesia. I didn’t want to go as I just recently ended my visit from there. I told them, “I will let you know.” I asked Mawlana and he said, “You go and give them </span><span class="c2">ijaazah</span><span class="c3">.”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">I asked, “Mawlana, How am I going to give them</span><span class="c2"> ijaazah, baya`</span><span class="c3">?”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">...</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">He said, “No one now has heavenly power, it is coming to us alone.” (meaning to him).</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">He replied, “Go and you will see,” so I am going.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Allah wanted to test Sayyidina Abu Yazid al-Bistami (q), “Be garbage for people,” so he had to create something for people to throw him in a dump. So he went into a </span><span class="c2">masjid</span><span class="c3"> and he wants to create a situation to make them dump on him. He said, “O Muslims! </span><span class="c2">Alhamdulillah </span><span class="c3">you finished your prayers.” He knew it was correct, but to test them and to test himself, he said, “You made </span><span class="c2">sajda </span><span class="c3">to the wrong place. It was wrong, make </span><span class="c2">sajda </span><span class="c3">to me.” They beat him and they threw him in the city dump. Grandshaykh (q) said, “For seven days he was unconscious, disconnected from</span><span class="c2"> dunya, </span><span class="c3">but he was connected to </span><span class="c2">akhira</span><span class="c3">.” For seven days he was searching for food and found a bone. As he took a bite, some dogs came and said, “This is our territory, are you taking over?” He spoke in their language, “You take this side, I will stay on the other side.” Allah gave him the ability to understand what the dogs were saying. He said, “These children threw me in the dump thinking I was dead. </span><span class="c2">Yaa Rabbee</span><span class="c3">! Forgive them and if they would kill me again, You create me again and forgive them again.” This is real love to Allah (swt)!</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Where is our love today? Love to each other is not there anymore. Goodness in general no longer exists. We try to make conspiracies, “This one does this, this one does that,” it never ends. I was bringing that story to give an example that Allah opened for him to keep coming nearer and nearer to </span><span class="c2">ma`rifatullah</span><span class="c3">, gnosis, until He did something more, created a bigger confusion. We won’t mention it here. But that made them take him to the king to cut his neck. So they have to take him through the desert. They didn’t put him on the camel, but they chained him and made him go to the king on foot. Look at how many tests </span><span class="c2">awliya </span><span class="c3">are put through!</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">After he had been walking with chains through the desert for seven days, the king, Haroon ar-Rasheed (r), saw Prophet (s) in a dream, saying, “Ya Haroon! One of my </span><span class="c2">awliya</span><span class="c3"> and descendants is coming to you. Go and meet him. He is one of my grandchildren, go and meet him.” He went to sleep, had the same dream.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">Immediately, Haroon ar-Rasheed ordered his army to go and bring him. They brought Aba Yazid (q) and immediately washed his feet. Haroon ar-Rasheed stepped down from his horse, stopped the soldiers from both sides, then washed the feet of Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami, and put him on his horse and although he was king, he walked beside it, walking until they reached the palace. He apologized to him and took him inside.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">At midnight, there was loud knocking at the door of the palace. There was a huge crowd and the king asked, “Who are you?”</span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">“We are the students of Abaa Yazid and we want to know where He is.” How did they know? No one knew the soldiers had brought him.</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">They said, “Wherever </span><span class="c2">awliya</span><span class="c3"> move there is light. We were following that light until it ended in this house and we entered here.”</span><p><p class="c0 c5"><span class="c3"></span><p><p class="c0"><span class="c3">So </span><span class="c2">adab</span><span class="c3"> and love is bringing people; it pulls his followers like a magnet. That is why </span><span class="c2">awliya </span><span class="c3">pull their followers through that light that they send to their hearts. No one can go and visit his shaykh if there is no light that draws you to him. And that is a sign this heavenly love is in the hearts of everyone that accepts </span><span class="c2">tariqah </span><span class="c3">and a shaykh. 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