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<b>SufiLive.com</b><br> <a href="http://www.sufilive.com/The_Best_of_Miracles_is_Continuity-3690.html">http://www.sufilive.com/The_Best_of_Miracles_is_Continuity-3690.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.6 AUG 2011.POST.ENG.Vol8</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.6 AUG 2011.POST.ENG.Vol8</div><div id="contents"><style type="text/css">ol{margin:0;padding:0}.c14{max-width:468pt;background-color:#ffffff;padding:72pt 72pt 72pt 72pt}.c8{font-size:12pt;font-family:"Verdana"}.c0{font-size:18pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"}.c4{font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"}.c1{font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"}.c3{margin-right:5pt;direction:ltr}.c6{direction:rtl;margin-left:0pt}.c13{direction:rtl}.c10{margin-left:5pt}.c12{text-align:right}.c2{font-style:italic}.c5{height:11pt}.c7{direction:ltr}.c11{font-family:"Times New Roman"}.c9{text-align:center}.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="c7 c9"><span class="c0">“The Best of Miracles Is to Be Consistent”</span><p><p class="c7 c9"><span class="c0">Ramadan Series 2011, Volume 8</span><p><p class="c7 c9"><span class="c4">Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani</span><p><p class="c7 c9"><span class="c4">6 August 2011 Fenton Zawiya, Michigan</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c7"><span class="c1 c2">A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.</span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">Nawaytu 'l-arba`een, nawaytu 'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu 'l-khalwah, nawaytu 'l-`uzlah,</span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">nawaytu 'r-riyaadah, nawaytu 's-sulook, lillahi ta`ala fee haadha 'l-masjid.</span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2"> </span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">Ati`oollaha wa ati`oo 'r-Rasoola wa ooli 'l-amri minkum.</span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">Obey Allah, obey the Prophet, and obey those in authority among you.</span><span class="c1"> (an-Nisa’, 4:59)</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh. </span><span class="c1">T</span><span class="c1">here is no teacher and no student here, all are the same. </span><span class="c1 c2">Awliyaullah </span><span class="c1">don't differentiate between themselves and their students. As we have learned from our </span><span class="c1 c2">shuyookh</span><span class="c1">,</span><span class="c1"> no one is better than the other.</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">Everyone is carrying a watch, except lazy ones. Everyone has a clock in order to be aware of the time and not to sit being lazy, as time is passing. Everyone constantly looks at the time, but time never listens to them; it is moving and we watch it move. We never saw time going backwards but we see it going forward, so time always keeps us up to date on where we are. </span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">The words of </span><span class="c1 c2">awliyaullah </span><span class="c1">are timeless and give us an awareness of where we are and how far we are moving forward. That is why looking and listening to the words of </span><span class="c1 c2">awliyaullah </span><span class="c1">is as important as looking at a clock. Some people might listen once and then disappear for one or two weeks, then come back and listen a second time, then return after one month, leave and return. That is not going to work. Although people are going to be away from them and usually to be in the presence of the shaykh you have to travel, Allah (swt) made it easy for you to read from notes of what they said. </span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">Before Grandshaykh (q) left </span><span class="c1 c2">dunya</span><span class="c1">, he said, “When you want to address people, open the notes you have taken and read them, even one or two sentences, then </span><span class="c1 c2">fuyoodaat</span><span class="c1">, a flow of information will come and your tongue will begin to speak. This means read what you have written, because, for example, if you are cooking food you don’t put the pot on the stove and cook it for ten minutes, take it off the fire and then return to it after one week to continue cooking another fifteen minutes! If you did that the food will never be cooked, but if you kept the fire even over a slow flame, slowly, slowly the food will cook in perhaps one day. For instance, if you want to cook meat until it is tender, put the meat in a pot with no water, add whatever you want of salt and pepper, then put it over the stove’s lowest flame and leave it all night; in the morning you will find the meat is very tender and then you will say, “</span><span class="c1 c2">Mashaa-Allah</span><span class="c1">, it</span><span class="c1"> cooked over a slow fire.” If you cook it over a high fire, there may be a little bit of flavor but it will be chewy, so everyone prefers meat to be cooked slowly. </span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">Similarly, </span><span class="c1 c2">awliyaullah </span><span class="c1">prefer their followers to attend their </span><span class="c1 c2">naseeha, </span><span class="c1">advice, and to take it easy. They said, </span><span class="c1 c2">ajalla al-karamaat dawaam at-tawfeeq</span><span class="c1">, “T</span><span class="c1">he best of miracles is to be consistent in what you are doing.” Miracles are only for </span><span class="c1 c2">anbiya</span><span class="c1">, but </span><span class="c1 c2">karamah</span><span class="c1">, a blessed action that gives fruit quickly through the blessings of the shaykh, is like a miracle. To be consistent, we don’t do </span><span class="c1 c2">dhikr </span><span class="c1">1,500 times a day</span><span class="c1 c2"> </span><span class="c1">then </span><span class="c1">stop for two days and start again. Some people do 5,000 </span><span class="c1 c2">dhikr </span><span class="c1">and then they stop. It is better not to stop but to stay with</span><span class="c1"> </span><span class="c1">the lowest level, which is 1,500 times recitation of “</span><span class="c1 c2">Allah, Allah</span><span class="c1">”. </span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">Continuation of such associations are like miracles on us; they are not dead associations! If we have no continuity we are not benefiting. Today, the continuity of such associations is available through the Internet, by reading your notes, and by listening to the shaykh’s recordings to hear what he has said. That is what is important, then the food will be cooked slowly, slowly, and as it gets cooked, you will see changes! Don’t say, "I am not seeing anything." You are not cooked yet; you have to be continuously cooked slowly, then you will see the changes. Through the quotes of </span><span class="c1 c2">awliyaullah, </span><span class="c1">may Allah bless Grandshaykh’s soul and give Mawlana Shaykh long life, they said, “The best of miracles is the continuity in what you are successful,” which means to continue what you are doing.</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">One time Grandshaykh (q) said, “If someone takes </span><span class="c1 c2">wudu,</span><span class="c1"> prays two</span><span class="c1 c2"> raka`ats,</span><span class="c1"> and when he feels tired or sleepy, takes a new </span><span class="c1 c2">wudu </span><span class="c1">and prays another two </span><span class="c1 c2">raka`ats</span><span class="c1">, </span><span class="c1">he will feel awake. Whenever he feels sleepy or tired, if continuously for forty days he takes new </span><span class="c1 c2">wudu </span><span class="c1">and prays two </span><span class="c1 c2">raka`ats</span><span class="c1"> and then does whatever he needs to do, he will never need any sleep.” If you really follow that procedure continuously, then at that time you will never need any kind of sleep, you will begin to feel awake, but you must not stop doing </span><span class="c1 c2">wudu </span><span class="c1">and praying two </span><span class="c1 c2">raka`ats</span><span class="c1"> or else you will revert to your previous condition. That is why in many of his seclusions he didn’t sleep, and his seclusions are not like ours of only forty days, but for one year or five years. He said, “I no longer need sleep or food.”</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">There are some people who don’t eat food and yet Allah gives them life. It is not like someone who is on a hunger strike, protesting against the government by starving himself. </span><span class="c1 c2">Awliyaullah </span><span class="c1">don’t starve because Allah (swt) gives them heavenly food due to the continuity of what they are doing. They are busy with </span><span class="c1 c2">awraad</span><span class="c1"> and </span><span class="c1">recitation of Holy Qur'an, and they keep their time full of Allah's love and the Prophet's love.</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c6"><span class="c4">وَمَا خَلَقْتُ الْجِنَّ وَالْإِنسَ إِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُونِ مَا أُرِيدُ مِنْهُم مِّن رِّزْقٍ وَمَا أُرِيدُ أَن يُطْعِمُونِ</span><p><p class="c7"><span class="c1 c2">Maa</span><span class="c1 c2"> </span><span class="c1 c2">khalaqta</span><span class="c1 c2"> </span><span class="c1 c2">al-jinna</span><span class="c1 c2"> </span><span class="c1 c2">wa ’l-ins illa li-y`abudoon. maa ureedu minhum min rizqin wa maa ureedu an yut`imoon.</span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">And I created not the jinns and ins (humans) except they should worship Me (Alone). I seek not any provision from them, nor do I ask that they should feed Me. </span><span class="c1">(Adh-Dhariyaat, 51:56, 57) </span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1"> </span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">Illa li-y`abudoon</span><span class="c1">,</span><span class="c1"> He didn’t say </span><span class="c1 c2">y`abudoon</span><span class="c1"> one day and stop the next day, but continuous worship. It is an affirming verb in the future tense that means it keeps running.</span><span class="c1"> </span><span class="c1 c2">Maa ureedu minhum min rizqin, “</span><span class="c1">And I do not ask them to provide </span><span class="c1 c2">rizq </span><span class="c1">for themselves; I provide for them.”</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1 c2"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">W</span><span class="c1">hat kind of provision will Allah (swt) give them? From our understanding it means Allah will send people to help them, but the spiritual interpretation is that Allah will provide them </span><span class="c1 c2">rizq</span><span class="c1"> as He provided the Virgin Mary. He gave that as an example--not in a prophet but in a normal person and in a lady--because in that society men were held at a higher level than women. Allah (swt) provided heavenly provision to someone that was not a </span><span class="c1 c2">nabi</span><span class="c1"> nor a man.</span><p><p class="c3 c5 c12"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c10 c7 c9"><span class="c4">كُلَّمَا دَخَلَ عَلَيْهَا زَكَرِيَّا الْمِحْرَابَ وَجَدَ عِندَهَا رِزْقاً قَالَ يَا مَرْيَمُ أَنَّى لَكِ هَـذَا</span><p><p class="c7 c9 c10"><span class="c4"> قَالَتْ هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ اللّهِ إنَّ اللّهَ يَرْزُقُ مَن يَشَاء بِغَيْرِ حِسَابٍ</span><p><p class="c7"><span class="c1 c2">Kullamaa dakhala `alayha zakariyya al-mihraaba wajada `indaha rizqa. qaala yaa maryamu anna laki haadha</span><span class="c8 c2"> </span><span class="c1 c2">qaalat huwa min `indillaahi inna Allaha yarzuqu man yashaa'u bi-ghayri hisaab</span><span class="c8">.</span><p><p class="c7"><span class="c1 c2">Whenever he (Zakariyya) entered her prayer niche, he found with her provision</span><span class="c1">. </span><span class="c1 c2">He said. "O Mary! From where does this come to you?" She said, "From Allah, for Allah Provides sustenance to whom He pleases without measure." </span><span class="c1">(Aali-`Imraan, 3:37)</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">What kind of </span><span class="c1 c2">rizq</span><span class="c1">? Every time Zakariyya (q) visited Maryam (r) there was a different fruit, </span><span class="c1">not just simple bananas or apples, although the narration didn’t say what kind of heavenly </span><span class="c1 c2">rizq, </span><span class="c1">but it made Zakariyya come back and pray for a child. Grandshaykh and Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) say that in time of Sayyidina al-Mahdi (a) people will not need food, that one bite every forty days will be enough to keep them running with power! That one bite is to show you are in need, to make you humble, not to make you an angel. So as human beings we need, but Allah will nourish you for forty days with one bite!</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">Do you receive the one bite on a plate? How do you receive it? It is brought to you by angels. You don’t have to do anything, angels will appear and put it in your mouth, like when you put fuel in a car to keep it running, but here one bite keeps you running for forty days. Each bite has a special angel that allows you to run for the time between each bite. Each bite is different, depending on the time, moment and environment. Each person has a different bite that keeps you moving forward without tiring, because at that time Allah orders the Earth and Heavens to give their power and you will be moving like a very strong wrestler who never gets tired.</span><span class="c1 c2"> SubhaanAllah</span><span class="c1">, what nutrition that one bite gives! </span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">In Indonesia, in the mountains you see old men and women still very strong, working in the rice fields, and they eat only a bite of rice wrapped in a banana leaf. So how do nutritionists claim that to maintain health we need a normal daily diet of 2000 calories and must take vitamins and supplements? Today everyone buys big bottles of them and they take ten tablets from this, five capsules from that, and manufacturers make more money. It has become like a pharmacy of alternative medicine. Those poor rice farmers eat one bite of rice in the morning and they are muscular, tanned, and working hard. </span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">What is inside the one bite of rice? </span><span class="c1 c2">Barakah</span><span class="c1">! </span><span class="c1">With </span><span class="c1 c2">barakah</span><span class="c1"> you get everything and when you truly understand the meaning of </span><span class="c1 c2">barakah,</span><span class="c1"> Allah will open everything for you, when you approach Him through the Prophet (s) and you know Allah is the One to bless you. You approach the Prophet (s) through your teacher and then every day they open new secrets to you. </span><span class="c1 c2">Awliyaullah</span><span class="c1"> understand that and then new secrets open to their hearts. Do </span><span class="c1 c2">awliyaullah</span><span class="c1"> prepare notes before they talk? I never saw Grandshaykh (q) write anything except once: he read Holy Qur'an and so on, but never wrote. Before my time he asked Mawlana Shaykh Nazim to write, and in my time he used me to write correspondence and the like. The one time he wrote it was the </span><span class="c1 c2">taweez,</span><span class="c1"> the </span><span class="c1 c2">ruqya,</span><span class="c1"> that everyone is wearing. He was ordered to hold a pen and by order of the Prophet (s) his hand wrote the </span><span class="c1 c2">taweez</span><span class="c1">. You can see his handwriting.</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">So </span><span class="c1 c2">awliyaullah</span><span class="c1"> don’t prepare, the information just comes. The one who is clever believes in what they are saying. The one who wants secrets to open to his or her heart believes what they are saying as Imam al-Junayd (r) said, </span><span class="c1 c2">at-tasdeequ bi `ilmina hadha wilaya,</span><span class="c1"> “To believe in what we say is a level of sainthood.” Do not to object or question; take it as it is. As Grandshaykh (q) said, one bite is enough for forty days; don’t question as your mind over-analyzes and may object. We have the example of these people in the mountains who are eating one bite of rice in a banana leaf. </span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">So continuity is important, and to read Holy Qur'an is very </span><span class="c1 c2">muhabbab,</span><span class="c1"> likeable, but don’t read it through once and then stop. It is better to read one </span><span class="c1 c2">juz</span><span class="c1">, a thirtieth, every day or you can read one chapter or even one page. </span><span class="c1 c2">Ajall al-karamaat dawaam at-tawfeeq,</span><span class="c1"> “Don’t do something you cannot do next day.” Do what you can do each day. Read one page or one line. Open the Holy Qur'an and just look at the Arabic characters on the page if you don’t know how to read, and pass your fingers over the words as there is light in those letters that is not found in any book! You may read millions of books in Arabic, but if it is not </span><span class="c1">hadith </span><span class="c1">or Qur’an, it has no light of </span><span class="c1 c2">akhirah</span><span class="c1">. Each word of the Holy Qur'an is shining with light that will raise you more and more in your attachment to </span><span class="c1 c2">akhirah</span><span class="c1">. Don’t let Shaytan cheat you! He is always after us and he is never tired and very clever. He whips his </span><span class="c1 c2">shayaateen</span><span class="c1">, “Continue!” They are enemies of Mankind:</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3 c9"><span class="c4">وَلَقَدْ كَرَّمْنَا بَنِي آدَمَ</span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">wa laqad karamna Bani Adam. </span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">We have honored the Children of Adam</span><span class="c1">. (al-'Israa, 17:70)</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">We break Shaytan’s head by reading Holy Qur'an! Even if you pass your fingers under the different verses, Allah will be happy with you because you don’t know how to read but are trying your best to learn. Those who know how must read and if you miss it one day then make it up the next day, so if you are reading one page, then read two pages, or if you are reading one </span><span class="c1 c2">juz</span><span class="c1">, then read two </span><span class="c1 c2">juz. Awliyaullah</span><span class="c1"> also say if you cannot read Holy Qur'an then recite one-hundred </span><span class="c1 c2">qul huw allahu ahad</span><span class="c1">, or t</span><span class="c1">hree </span><span class="c1 c2">ikhlaas, </span><span class="c1">because </span><span class="c1 c2">thalathat al-Ikhlas ta`dil al-qur’an</span><span class="c1"> - “r</span><span class="c1">eading three times Surat al-Ikhlaas is equivalent to reading the Holy Qur'an.” So in your </span><span class="c1 c2">awraad </span><span class="c1">if you recite one-hundred times “</span><span class="c1 c2">qul huw Allahu ahad”</span><span class="c1"> it is like reading the Holy Qur'an thirty-three times. </span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">Look how Allah (swt) is generous with His servants! Even if you recite one </span><span class="c1 c2">juz</span><span class="c1"> it is better to add one-hundred or three recitations of </span><span class="c1 c2">Surat al-Ikhlaas, </span><span class="c1">because there is a great secret of the unity of Allah in that </span><span class="c1 c2">surah</span><span class="c1">: “Say! T</span><span class="c1">his is My Holy Qur’an, My Words, Whose Essence cannot be known, that is Allah, and The One with Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names and Attributes is Unique!”</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">Surat al-Ikhlaas shows the Oneness of Allah, so</span><span class="c1 c2"> awliyaullah</span><span class="c1"> pull out their secrets from it. </span><span class="c1">T</span><span class="c1">hat is why they have many quotations from which to advise their followers. One such quotation is, </span><span class="c1 c2">maa yata`abad al-muta`abidoon bihaa,</span><span class="c1"> “Worshippers did not worship except seeking the love of </span><span class="c1 c2">awliyaullah</span><span class="c1">.” How much they have worshipped is highly accepted by Allah (swt), but more than that, what makes their worship higher is their love to their </span><span class="c1 c2">shuyookh </span><span class="c1">to </span><span class="c1 c2">awliyaullah</span><span class="c1">.</span><span class="c1"> It means as much as you love your mentor, your shaykh, your master, your guide, and according to the love you show and the level of that shaykh, you will be raised like a rocket!</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">Li anna mahabbata awliyaaihi daleelan `ala mahabbatih, </span><span class="c1">“Because love of His saints is proof of love to Him,” as mentioned in the Holy Qur’an:</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c7 c9"><span class="c4">أَلا إِنَّ أَوْلِيَاء اللّهِ لاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ</span><p><p class="c7"><span class="c1 c2">alaa inna awliyaullahi laa khawfun `alayhim wa laa hum yahzanoon</span><span class="c1">.</span><p><p class="c7"><span class="c1 c2">Behold! Verily on the friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve.</span><span class="c1"> (Yunus,10:62)</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">Love of the saints is proof of love to Allah and His Prophet (s). As much as you love your shaykh, it takes you to love of Allah (swt) and love of the Prophet (s). Your shaykh guides you to way of the Prophet (s), which is the way of Shari`ah and </span><span class="c1 c2">ma`rifah</span><span class="c1">, </span><span class="c1">but first comes Shari`ah. That’s why, Allah (swt) said, “If you really love Allah, </span><span class="c1 c2">yaa </span><span class="c1">Muhammad, tell them, if they love Allah, they have to follow your footsteps.” And who guides you to the footsteps of Prophet (s)? They are your </span><span class="c1 c2">shuyookh</span><span class="c1">. So if you love them and His Prophet, then you love Allah (swt). If you have good thoughts about them, if you find familiarity and are happy with their ways, then you will reach sainthood, as mentioned, “Anyone who accepts and believes them will become a saint and reach the level of sainthood.” Don’t have doubts or you will stay in one place! </span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">Another bullet point/quotation:</span><span class="c1"> Keep the company of the people of religion, especially the people of </span><span class="c1 c2">khayr</span><span class="c1">, favors and goodness, because to sit and mingle with pious and sincere servants of Allah is accepted and loved and in it there </span><span class="c1">are</span><span class="c1"> a lot of benefits, `</span><span class="c1 c2">ajilan wa ajillah, </span><span class="c1">some which will be granted immediately </span><span class="c1">and some which will be given later, as you are progressing in their ways. Since the condition to receive benefits is to mingle with them, </span><span class="c1">be with them, listen to what they say for you will be loved, and then, as the Prophet (s) said:</span><p><p class="c10 c13"><span class="c4">ولا يزال عبدي يتقرب إلي بالنوافل حتى أحبه، فإذا أحببته كنت سمعه الذي يسمع به وبصره الذي يبصر به، ويده التي يبطش بها ورجله التي يمشي بها،</span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">Wa laa ya</span><span class="c1 c2">zaala `abdee yataqarabu ilayya bi’ n-nawaafil hatta uhibbah. Fa idha ahbaabtahu kuntu sama`uhulladhee yasma`u bihi wa basarahulladhee yubsiru bihi, wa yadahulladhee yabtishu bihaa wa rijlahullatee yamshee bihaa. </span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">My servant does not cease to approach Me through voluntary worship until I will love him. When I love him, I will become the ears with which he hears, the eyes with which he sees the hand with which he acts, and the legs with which he walks (and other versions include, “and the tongue with which he speaks.”)</span><span class="c1"> </span><span class="c1">(Hadeeth Qudsee, Bukhari) </span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">Then Allah will give you hearing different from everyone else: He will be your hearing and your sight,</span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">then </span><span class="c1 c2">Allah yaj`al waizhan min qalbik</span><span class="c1">, “When Allah sees you asking and sitting with your teacher, Allah will make a guide in your heart, advising you.” Allah will make a guide from within your heart, which means you will be guided in your way. Your food will be cooking slowly to become tender. So that is why it is essential to not be one day practicing and one day leaving practices; consistency is best. If you cannot attend the gathering, open your notebook and read. That is why we say keep a notebook to write in and then you can open it anytime and read and think on it.</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1">They hire thousands of people with different languages to research and analyze what Shakespeare meant in his play, “Macbeth,” when it is from his imagination. When you analyze the notes of </span><span class="c1 c2">awliyaullah’s</span><span class="c1"> teachings, is it not better? But we are lost in the era of Facebook and YouTube. Yesterday when we gave the Jumu`ah </span><span class="c1 c2">khutbah</span><span class="c1"> against using Facebook and YouTube, one lady told me she was writing a paper on Imam Ghazali and Googled him, but when she opened the page, on every side there was porn! May Allah (swt) protect us.</span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><span class="c1 c2">Wa min Allahi 't-tawfeeq, bi hurmati 'l-habeeb, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.</span><span class="c1"> </span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c3"><img height="1" src="pubimage?id=1bPnFurtMU1JakyyrPoiOaJ55Cj2W-uVulMstwkNz2nA&image_id=10a-S8uToWwa6a_Phojl-onNXf9voX38" width="1"><p><p class="c3"><img height="1" src="pubimage?id=1bPnFurtMU1JakyyrPoiOaJ55Cj2W-uVulMstwkNz2nA&image_id=1JIj2WgAB-daYFg3OmGqAN7Gl0dP9N7s" width="1"><span class="c1"> </span><img height="1" src="pubimage?id=1bPnFurtMU1JakyyrPoiOaJ55Cj2W-uVulMstwkNz2nA&image_id=1eD-Gx3OJQeMEW3CofjJ6kW3vfkW04Rg" width="1"><span class="c1"> </span><img height="1" src="pubimage?id=1bPnFurtMU1JakyyrPoiOaJ55Cj2W-uVulMstwkNz2nA&image_id=1TnSCMLu_4RVbhvWHhMMoZvpDsH2U9YY" width="1"><p><p class="c3 c5"><span class="c1"></span><p><p class="c5 c7"><span class="c1"></span><p></div><div id="footer"><span>Published by <a target="_blank" title="Learn more about Google Drive" href="//docs.google.com/">Google Drive</a></span><span class="dash">–</span><a href="//docs.google.com/abuse?id=1bPnFurtMU1JakyyrPoiOaJ55Cj2W-uVulMstwkNz2nA">Report Abuse</a><span class="dash">–</span><span>Updated automatically every 5 minutes</span></div><script type="text/javascript"> (function(){var e=!1;if(window.jstiming){window.jstiming.a={};window.jstiming.b=1;var k=function(b,a,d){var c=b.t[a],g=b.t.start;if(c&&(g||d))return c=b.t[a][0],void 0!=d?g=d:g=g[0],c-g},p=function(b,a,d){var c="";window.jstiming.pt&&(c+="&srt="+window.jstiming.pt,delete window.jstiming.pt);try{window.external&&window.external.tran?c+="&tran="+window.external.tran:window.gtbExternal&&window.gtbExternal.tran?c+="&tran="+window.gtbExternal.tran():window.chrome&&window.chrome.csi&&(c+="&tran="+window.chrome.csi().tran)}catch(g){}var f= window.chrome;if(f&&(f=f.loadTimes)){f().wasFetchedViaSpdy&&(c+="&p=s");if(f().wasNpnNegotiated){var c=c+"&npn=1",l=f().npnNegotiatedProtocol;l&&(c+="&npnv="+(encodeURIComponent||escape)(l))}f().wasAlternateProtocolAvailable&&(c+="&apa=1")}var m=b.t,t=m.start,f=[],l=[],h;for(h in m)if("start"!=h&&0!=h.indexOf("_")){var n=m[h][1];n?m[n]&&l.push(h+"."+k(b,h,m[n][0])):t&&f.push(h+"."+k(b,h))}delete m.start;if(a)for(var q in a)c+="&"+q+"="+a[q];(a=d)||(a="https:"==document.location.protocol?"https://csi.gstatic.com/csi": "http://csi.gstatic.com/csi");return[a,"?v=3","&s="+(window.jstiming.sn||"_s")+"&action=",b.name,l.length?"&it="+l.join(","):"","",c,"&rt=",f.join(",")].join("")};window.jstiming.getReportUri=p;var r=function(b,a,d){b=p(b,a,d);if(!b)return"";a=new Image;var c=window.jstiming.b++;window.jstiming.a[c]=a;a.onload=a.onerror=function(){window.jstiming&&delete window.jstiming.a[c]};a.src=b;a=null;return b};window.jstiming.report=function(b,a,d){if("prerender"==document.webkitVisibilityState){var c=e,g= function(){if(!c){a?a.prerender="1":a={prerender:"1"};var f;"prerender"==document.webkitVisibilityState?f=e:(r(b,a,d),f=!0);f&&(c=!0,document.removeEventListener("webkitvisibilitychange",g,e))}};document.addEventListener("webkitvisibilitychange",g,e);return""}return r(b,a,d)};window.jstiming.reportDone=function(b){if(window.jstiming.b<=(b||1))return e;for(var a in window.jstiming.a)return e;return!0};var s=function(b,a,d,c){return 0<d?(c?b.tick(a,c,d):b.tick(a,"",d),!0):e};window.jstiming.getNavTiming= function(b){if(window.performance&&window.performance.timing){var a=window.performance.timing;s(b,"_dns",a.domainLookupStart)&&s(b,"dns_",a.domainLookupEnd,"_dns");s(b,"_con",a.connectStart)&&s(b,"con_",a.connectEnd,"_con");s(b,"_req",a.requestStart)&&s(b,"req_",a.responseStart,"_req");s(b,"_rcv",a.responseStart)&&s(b,"rcv_",a.responseEnd,"_rcv");if(s(b,"_ns",a.navigationStart)){s(b,"ntsrt_",a.responseStart,"_ns");s(b,"nsfs_",a.fetchStart,"_ns");var d=window.external&&window.external.startE;!d&&(window.chrome&& window.chrome.csi)&&(d=Math.floor(window.chrome.csi().startE));d&&(s(b,"_se",d),s(b,"sens_",a.navigationStart,"_se"));s(b,"ntplt0_",a.loadEventStart,"_ns");s(b,"ntplt1_",a.loadEventEnd,"_ns")}}}};})() </script><script type="text/javascript">KX_timer.tick('tl'); if (document.location.protocol == 'https:') {window.jstiming.report(KX_timer, undefined , 'https://gg.google.com/csi');} else {window.jstiming.report(KX_timer);}</script></body></html>