Alhamdulillah, Rabbil 'aalameen. InshaAllah. "Faawzi billahi min ash-shaitani rajeem, Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem." Atee Allah, atee Rasulul 'ul-Ramji minkum. And always a reminder for myself, "Ana 'abdukal 'ajeeza, daeefu, miskinu, zhalimu, jahl." And but for the grace of Allah that we're still in existence.
Alhamdulillah, Allah granted us to enter into the month of Jum'at al-Awwal and the reality is of 45 and that alhamdulillah this way towards the ma'rifah of Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º which is the ma'rifatullah, the ma'rifah of Allah. Allah loves you He shares His kingdom and that which He loves.' And people think that they're going to
have the ma'rifah of Allah, they think very highly of themselves. But this way of ma'rifah, Gnosticism, the way of realities, understand, it has to do with the reality of the world of creation. And through understanding the world of creation, by reflection we can understand the creator. But there's no way to enter into the oceans of the creator and it's
above what anybody arrogance and bad character. The way of humility is, 'I'm nothing and I'm no one. I'm based on my nothingness and my being no one.' Awliya come into our lives and say, 'First thing you should know is yourself. What binds you, what holds you, what grabs you, what controls you.' path of self-observation
through the teachings of the shaykhs whom their teaching gives more observations because we don't really want to see our sicknesses but through their sicknesses are and that we have to apply those to our path. As a result of looking at the self and looking at the sicknesses, looking at the desires and all the characteristics, it should open a humility of 'Who am I to even
think that actions and bad character. That's the purpose of tafakkur and contemplation, to go deep into the nafs, understand the nafs, understand what type of sicknesses are being applied to ourselves, is to open humility. I'm serving my Lord and that I'm someone that could draw near to that reality." Without that, you hear people whom talk with
a tremendous amount of arrogance. They talk a lot of the Creator and make it seem like they're familiar with the Creator they're not even familiar with themselves and themselves are right in front of them. Without the path of meditation and contemplation, pride and arrogance will take place. Pride and arrogance
makes us to think that everyone else is wrong and that I'm right. our life is not to focus on anyone else, not to talk about anyone else or make reference to anyone else and now external people even name other people and begin to attack them. judged not for you shall be judged." That the way of tariqah and all tariqahs is
that we have to fix ourselves. When we do our remodeling we can't be a inspector for someone else's property. somebody else's property.' And I said, 'Like don't you have anything to do? You have your own remodeling to do.' He said, 'Yeah but I wanted to come here and tell you that you did this wrong.' Anyone whom doing that it would be obvious that
you're not spending any time on your own project, seems all your time is reviewing me. has fooled you, that you have enough time to critique and review others and that you should be busy critiquing yourself which is a full-time job because Prophet ï·º gave to us that, 'Ya Rabbi don't leave me for a blink of an eye.'
If Prophet ï·º, Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º is saying, 'Blink of an eye,' the danger within a blink what can happen then we stand no chance. With all the azimah, with all the Allah giving sight and hearing and breathing and hands and feet, all of that Prophet ï·º is warning to us, 'Don't leave me for moment if the nafs should grab, the ego grabs and
brings in the partner of the devil and everything becomes corrupt. And the way is built on finding myself, finding my faults, looking at my faults and looking to no one else. it has something to do with me, it has a message for me. Not that I was to critique it, especially to use a podium to come out and critique
it, but that which you dislike Allah always shows you in the mirror because some people And the way of reflection is that which you see that's not pleasing, it must have something inside of you. That's why it's displeasing to you and that's why Allah brought it to your attention. If you're looking out, Allah will show you, say, 'Look, look, look, look, see all
these things? Yeah, this is you.' of Sufism, the way of ma'rifah, the way of drawing near to the heart of Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º was we busy ourself with ourself. We're meditating, contemplating, looking to my character every night figuring out what throughout your lying down to sleep begging that Allah forgive you, grant you better character, better
results than the day that passed and inshaAllah Allah accept as long as you are trying to become better. But not acceptable is when someone doesn't try to improve, means never at night thinking, my character to be better tomorrow,' because then resides within that character that you must be okay. And the way of tafakkur, the way of contemplation, the way of analyzing everything
within ourselves is there's no way that I'm okay. that, record that and keep asking my Lord for forgiveness to resolve that. Give me greater patience, give me greater energy, greater understanding, grant me to have better character, more control over my character and bad characters.' And if we do that daily, can you imagine you look at your faults and at night you're
that, 'Ya Rabbi please make me better, I don't know how much time I have.' You don't have time to wake up and make a comment on somebody or to use some sort of a forum that if Allah give you an access that you want to use that access to come against people, then basically shaitan has hijacked the mic.
When you are to fix yourself and then advise yourself in the talks. You don't talk to people but Mawlana Shaykh would describe that why you start and say that, 'I'm nothing, I'm no one, I'm nothing,' is that you're asking for the shaykhs to come through and that you're in the audience. guidance they're going to give is for everyone including the one speaking, that you
have to be the first recipient of that knowledge, of that advice, that nisa, to build our realities and to improve our character. That is the tariqah. we said then it can't be the tariqah, it can't be the way of ma'rifah because the time not spent on attacking the self, observing the self, looking at all of the errors of the self, there is no time to
look to others. ma'rifah, there are times in which they give examples of the external knowledge and the pursuit of external knowledge and the difference and the childish nature of that In anything, presented to you the childish character is to find where there's faults exactly like children. That whatever you present to them they point out something that's broken, wrong,
it's mature character is based on overlooking the faults, that to not acknowledge it, not to see it, that there's a crack but to overlook it. in our lives. That's not to say that the shaykh… the shaykh is only going to find cracks in you, that's his job. But we're talking about you in reference to yourself, that me in reference to my
personal self and my personal life and everything about my own reality is to overlook the errors. coming right, not coming perfected, not coming the way that you wanted it, you try your best to overlook it. The faults in people, the character in people, as a result you be granted higher stations of perfection.
Allah give you an ocean and say, 'Empty it with this bucket.' And the bucket they give you has holes. These examples, we've heard for 40 years from Mawlana Shaykh giving these examples, Yeah, I understand what you're talking about. If I'm ever in front of the ocean and they give me a bucket with holes, I understand
what you're talking about. I'll just keep pulling the water out." But no, that's an example that in your life everything's an ocean in front of you. And everything… they want to see like, "How are you going to go after that ocean?" faults in it, every bucket you pick up is going to have holes in it,
and your life duty is just to conquer it. Much more difficult than understood. So when they tell you go out and apply for something people will apply to three things and say it never happened. Then you come back and remind, 'Remember the ocean, the bucket and the hose?' You say, 'Yeah.' 'Well, what does that mean in reference to what you're doing?' You say,
'Nothing. I don't have a bucket at the ocean.' This was not an example of going to the ocean. It's your life is an ocean. So in life when you're faced with something and they say, 'Apply,' you may apply to your life was just to keep applying, that's all you were told to do, apply. They didn't say that you would have positive results, that you would have results
in three, that you would have results in ten. And it was similar to they give you an 'Ugraat and they say, 'Make five thousand zikr silent a day, five thousand laud a day and Allah will open your heart.' six months nothing happened and you may have a code at 343 million Allahs and you were supposed to just do it.
When it was going to open was not your business, that again is an ocean and you are the broken Your nafs and shaitan keep telling you, 'Stop, it's not going to happen for you, it's not going to open for you.' And this is the game and the battle against the ego and the devil because they're partnering.
And every analogy has a deep reality in our lives that our life was the struggle and to and to God belongs the victory. Whatever he gives us is… the struggle is pleasing to him. Not that you're victorious because your concept of victory, his concept of victory may be completely different. Your concept of victory is within five minutes you accomplished everything, you nicely
relax and you're finished.' But in Allah's eyes nothing was accomplished and why would you be relaxing? The struggle, exerting, moving is the path. the path. When they accompany a shaykh the path is not one day I will sit down and in my tafakkur the shaykh will appear and all of a sudden all the secrets of Surah
Al-Yaseeb will be thrown into my heart. Those are important. other task I'm given I do it with no perfection, no khuluq, no character. And there's a great disconnect. The realities will never open based on realities. So, there's nothing you sit and meditate and meditate and meditate and something open within the heart.
I hope people are understanding these analogies because even analogies are not understood. But for myself, no matter where you are and those whom are in service, those whom are character. So they tell you, 'Dig a hole and put a light.' Your life was to come and dig the best possible hole, put the most perfected light and return
And you think, 'How would this… would I reach my reality when I could be sitting and doing my meditation on Surat al-Yaseen and that will open for me?' It's absolutely… you're completely wrong. They don't care about you doing all that. All of those will be activated with your khuluq. clean, you're sharp, you do it with the best of character.
I said even before, there's a structure when you look at the structure you can see nothing visible with it, that barn, what kind of person built this thing? You can only see nothing. You look at our things, every nail is not even in the wood, just. This is not the khuluq of perfection. Even the khuluq of perfection lines everything up, "Tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch."
Why? Because Allah and His Rasul are looking. This is the masjid for paradise and for eternity. What you built here Allah building there. Now you go into your paradise, "SubhanAllah Ya Rabbi open the door and it fell." paradise home.' I say, 'Yeah but the door you built there broke.' So the door you
have here will also be broken. Go into your room and the bed collapses. Go into the backyard and the trees fall.' I say, 'Ya Rabbi what happened?' He said, 'This is what your hand sent before you. You thought you're doing something but you really didn't do it with the character of perfection, you did it as if to just do it and then my deen is something separate.'
But that's not how the shaykhs were raised. The shaykhs understood that, "Fa-dunya hasanat wa akhirah hasanat wa kinadha banar." every right here was a writing in paradise. Everything they did here for the tariqah they did to the best of their ability, to the… you know if they… it can only be to the limit of what they have and what they
know to the best of that because they wanted the best in paradise. is from akhlaq, this is from a rijal.' They look at it and say, 'This is from a rijal.' As a result that's a reflection of their paradise. And wherever you are, whatever task that you're given because these are the people whom are near the shaykh is more dangerous than being farther away.
Why? Because is upside down, they see it right away. At a distance you may be more careful. You go out hand food, hand out your food. You go out and they say, 'Distribute,' don't look at women if you're a man. Keep yourself to be distant, don't make your means of supporting and helping to be inappropriately at other people's women who are in need.
You have to have a khuluq and character that Prophet ï·º is right with you. You're dealing with women, children, those whom are in need, your khuluq is they're looking now. How do you feel when you think you're giving food to those in need? You know they're giving in areas that are in great need and these people are poor.
They're monitoring your heart, monitoring your eyes, and monitoring your character. That's how you achieve in tariqah. Not that you're going to go home and now meditate and your meditation going to open up but out in the field you are like, you know, shaitan's partner. They give you opportunities to prove your character.
doing charity with other people, what do we care about what they're going to do? It's just our tariqah people, why? Because it's an opportunity for them to get their amanat. It should be very basic sense, to me I'm kind of astonished that it doesn't have that understanding. where all the shaykhs and their rohaniyat with their eyes, their hearts, everything
are monitoring. How you do it? You throw it out like you're special and they're poor? You're looking inappropriately at people whom are in need and you feel like you have something over them so that you can abuse them and take advantage of situations? Many, many dangerous things that you're involved in now.
these types of things for tariqah you can fall very hard and enter, you know why they call the Ka'bah haramain. Because once in there sin, sayyat is counted by one million. That's why it's called haramain as a warning to you. didn't call it what would be al-Quddus – the holy place, they called it the no haram.
As a reminder, 'Look you're about to go in here, if you plan on doing something inappropriate, pushing yourself up to somebody inappropriate, touching, grabbing, stealing, pickpocketing, million times worse at the Ka'bah.' treatment but that's once in a lifetime. Tariqah, every day is the Ka'bah. Every day is an opportunity that your khidmat and your service is under observation.
They want to see what your character is, what your khuluq is, what's beating within your heart, what complaints are you putting in your heart, what are you whispering within your mind. everything is under observation. When people go to hospital they strap them up with all of these equipment from Japan.
They don't need equipment from Japan, they have Allah. From a distance they monitor your heartbeat, the shaykh can monitor your heartbeat. Anybody who fixes their heart a little bit, stand up next to that person you can feel their heart beating fast, they're nervous in front of you. heart puts out an energy, "Hum, hum, hum, hum, hum." You can pick it up exactly how
the heart is beating. Allah has very advanced technologies, you don't need anything from Japan. Now imagine all the spiritual presence of the shaykhs. Everything you do they're listening to the waswas, listening to what is going on in your mind, what are your shaitans saying, what is your heart saying, what 'What
is everything that you're doing?' And this is in either an opportunity to be a blessing and a reminder that this is haramain or an opportunity for a great amount of failure. Because if you're a crook going to the Ka'bah you're not going for any blessings, you're going to get one million times the amount of sins and that's why they have
very bad crooks at the Ka'bah. paralyzed people and they paralyzed them in intention to steal and they put all these people there and they go with intention to steal. So very, very, very bad. Those people must be from the pits of Jahannam. But in tariqah life and tariqah understanding, everything is an opportunity to receive,
to take our blessings. That's the secret. Then when they tell you, 'Meditate, muraqabah,' it's activated by the khuluq. So when somebody sit there is working hard and people are bothering and they're not complaining and they're not complaining about what they do, they do it with the best of love, the best of intention, they're doing for Allah and His Rasul ï·º and they
put their love into their actions, they did their khidmat with this type of character, of course when they go and sit Allah is going to reward them in their tafakkur because the tafakkur is the reward. khidmat. When you did your service and you did your service with the best of character, the best of your ability, the best of love, handling animals very dangerous because
each one of them complain to Allah. You can't kill them, you can't harm them, anything you do has to be built perfect, everything you do has to be built perfect. Whether you're 30 years into it and you're still not perfected. So what's the difference between you and the guy who came 10 minutes ago?
So it's not I've been here 30 years, then you sound like a prisoner. 'I'm here for life.' 'Oh okay great, it looks like it's taking a long time for you to get somewhere.' Tariqah is not a death sentence where you're going to sit there for the rest of your life and not achieve. are people whom come quickly realize everything is under observation, why you don't understand that?
Why don't you understand that they're watching everything, everything. How you cook, how you clean, how are you in being clean? If you go to Masjid Nabawi ï·º and Prophet ï·º in Madinah, why are you treated differently? Madinatul Munawwarah could you imagine like you're taking a chocolate, walking on the white tile near Rauza Sharif and then you throw it and then go into make a du'a
to Prophet ﷺ. He's like, 'Oh you're a bandit? What kind of brain is this that thinks like that?' No, you even I… you take your shoes off as soon as you got near the white tile we took our shoes off because how we're going to walk with our shoes walking towards Prophet ﷺ? off, everything is clean, give the cat some water, be polite to people, somebody
ask for something give them some sadaqah, Prophet ï·º is sending someone to take from you to take your burdens. And then you enter Rauza Sharif with good character, good amr, good actions to get your rewards. Nothing changes. We say when the light of Prophet ï·º is involved in the tariqah. the tariqah asks you to do something it's a request coming from the heart of Prophet
ï·º, wherever you are in this world. You make a cookie to give to people, you make it with love and you give it to people that they are better than me, I am nothing and Allah grant and accept my service and anything you do, you do with the best of character. dangerous days. There's not much time left.
With the time that you have, you are responsible to build the best of character, the best of actions. That your character, if other people were to ask, 'What type of character do you have?' It has to be clear, their children are similar in character, straight and upright. Everything, everything is under observation.
That how you act, how your family acts, how you trained yourself, how you trained your family, everything, everything should be a result of your belief. If your belief was correct good and respectful, it shows in everything you do. As a result the reward is your tafakkur. You contemplate and Allah opens doors.
The time that people have left we said to think. The effort you're going to put on dunya is not going to give you the reward you think, it's collapsing. that you have put your effort onto akhirah and everything you do in akhirah you have to know with all your heart and soul Prophet ï·º is watching. This is my opportunity to do it to the best of ability.
You go amongst the poorest people on earth you're in big danger, big, big danger. grave with immense torment. Why? Because the potential of you doing something wrong is much greater. So you judge yourself and govern yourself very carefully. Go with clean eyes, clean hearts, keep your distance from people whom are in need
that and distribute help and as a result of good character and awliya watching and observing you close your eyes to meditate and the reward should be great because the danger is so great. Don't think that you're far away and nobody sees. 124,000 awliya everywhere are watching. This world is not how you think it is.
The vision they have and the means in which to observe like a movie, in an instant they can get like an email that, 'Look,' and Allah shows the whole scenario of what's happening. far, you see it in like a movie, it come in like a dream vision and exactly what that person is doing saying with all from heavenly side, not your
side of how you're approaching it, but the beat of your heart, the thought within your mind, everything, everything is under great reward for good character. Those whom are interested in building themselves, working on themselves, that's why we say when you know all of this about the self how do you have time to worry about
somebody else and talk bad about somebody else and for what? You have not focused on the right self which was yourself. Subhana rabbika rabbal 'izzati 'amma as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah, wa rahmatullah wa barakatuh. Al Fatiha. InshaAllah what do we have from our SMC families here? As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah
Sayyidi how should we warn friends and families, youngsters outside our households about the upcoming events and difficulties? Warn, warn yourself only. Nobody else will believe. If Allah gave you heart to understand and believe that difficulty everywhere then you live your life with preparation and that your children to see you're a prepared person, you have supplies, you have
food, you say, 'Why do you have food?' He say, 'In case the market doesn't work.' So that makes sense, Baba. So yeah, why we're going to rely on the market to be open for us? Allah wants us to believe. So you have your supplies, you have all these things. The people whom prepare their lives for difficulty are people whom are always mocked
by other people, for verily the righteous shall be persecuted.' Anything you do correctly in Allah's way is not liked by other people, they mock it. 'Hahaha' like Jonah, was it Jonah or Nu? Sayyidina Nu. You building a ship for what? What rain? There's no rain for 40 years, we haven't had rain. So, you trying to get your life in order, your family to order, supplies to have
and all of these belief systems, of course people are going to mock you because the majority of people are outside of the ship and when the flood comes what happens? They all want to get in the ship but that's too late. good character, good deeds, good actions. That's why it's time now for shipbuilding, it's almost finished the time for shipbuilding.
So every action that you do and every khidmat that you do is building something for you so that you and your family and your children have something that you believe in and it's all by example not by words. you teach by the example of that life and your family understands through all of their laughing and mocking, that's really what you believe.
And as a result when you're solid like a mountain everything else collapses but you're still there. And they come back to the mountain inshaAllah unless like Nuh had a son that said he can find his own mountain. so but the thing is you have to remain to be a mountain strong in your belief and your practices consistent in your practices your belief
and that hamdulillah whom believe in your belief should find a safety inshallah assalamu alaikum you've mentioned before there's a durood sharif for every situation, how can we find the durood for our specific situation? Whatever you have available, just go through the site, go through our app and you
should find any of those durood sharif that are on the app and salawatul Fatiha is your situation for an opening. that if there's a need for another opening they'll inspire within your heart and that durood will find you inshallah assalamu alaikum saidi relationships? If we're in a family situation, how can we practice the disengaging?
Family relationship, you can't disengage because it's family. But don't put your heart into something that not of a positive nature. So family you have to be careful because they have certain rights over people and you don't want to transgress those rights. But we said many times, thousands of times, you go somewhere where your elders stay
quiet, don't open your mouth. say? They say every type of complaint and just say, 'InshaAllah, inshaAllah, I'll be better inshaAllah, I'll be better inshaAllah,' and stay quiet. Entanglement is when you engage people, you like too much those people and you know that they're not right in their belief.
entangle yourself with the wrong people. The words pretty much they're self-explanatory so we don't really need to make it so complicated. Bad people don't entangle yourself with them. So I like it because this guy always talks, he's so funny, he's always gossiping so… but you're going to have problems.
remain silent and keep a life of silence and quietness and find those people whom when they talk it's something of a reality and love of Prophet ï·º and you begin to disengage so that not to entangle your light in things that are not good for you and not right for you. khuluq, everything is character.
Everybody has to have good character and you have to have taught your family good character. As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah wa barakatuh when people talk around me all the time I've attempted to get my remedy by doing namaz and making my connection but I feel like I'm failing how should I improve
do more of your muraqabah, your energy and build your connection do lots of salawats inshallah assalamu alaykum Sayyidi wa alaykum salam Sayyidi when it allowed to make madad through our connection when listening to the recital of du'a ayatul kursi? Make madad? What do you mean? Tafakkur to ayatul kursi, du'a ayatul kursi.
You know with the shaykhs, you make your muraqabah all the time. You should always be in your muraqabah. Then you listen to ayatul kursi, do your salawats, read dalaila khayrat, it has to be in muraqabah. It's never a time outside of muraqabah. Anything outside of muraqabah it's you and that's what you're trying to get away
from. Everything has to be in muraqabah, everything has to be in the madad of the shaykhs inshaAllah. As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum as salaam wa rahmahtullah nishas that we should refrain from using when sharing the teachings? No, everybody to their own ability or to their level of knowledge.
I wouldn't send a Babaji a lot of stuff about aliens that think you're crazy. So everybody has a level of their belief, you know that certain people don't like these them those types of teachings.' So what you know that they like this so you send them that. Everything is based on "Ilm al-Laduni wa hikmati bi Salihin." This way
is based on heavenly knowledge and hikmah. Allah has to give people whom are trying to achieve Ilm al-Laduni, they are on a path of heavenly knowledges and "Hikmati bi Salihin" and the wisdom of the righteousness. you don't send the wrong information to people who won't appreciate that information at all. But I think now with our clip factory, what do you got now?
You have 3000 clips and almost close to 300 people sharing these clips. The good thing about sharing the clips is just share it everywhere. Make you know five TikTok accounts, Instagram accounts and every day share 10 videos, 10 videos, 10 videos, 10 videos, 10 videos and say, 'Alhamdulillah' and go to sleep.
Then leave it for Allah to send where He wants and who's going to click on it, who's going to watch it, who's going to understand it. And there's nothing personal involved, you're not sending it to a specific relative. Also we said before, 'Don't do da'wah to your relatives.' show, 'Look, look, look what I got, I got like this gold mind of realities and I'm
learning all these things,' because they don't appreciate it, they most likely won't like it and they begin to attack you, 'This is wrong, this is this,' and before you know it you're running away from tariqah. that, 'Oh I want to brag to the world of what I know and these realities that I'm learning,' especially not to relatives.
The knowledges are for you and for you to understand and absorb and to build yourself. The spreading of dawah like we're teaching you are random TikTok accounts, not your personal account that all your relatives are connected to. You make a send out the reels and teachings and let their algorithm find 10,000 people who will watch it.
Some of the guys are saying now they got 30,000 views, 50,000 views, 100,000 views and then went down to two because they'll grab it and slow it down once they see its realities. But that's why our job is basically just start sending it out, sending it out and leave it inform. Subhana rabbika rabbal 'izzati 'amma yasifoon, wa salaamun 'alal mursaleen,
walhamdulillahi rabbil 'aalameen. Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha. InshaAllah please help the masjid project, the ladies lounge, Ali's going to get some out of a container, we put together three facilities, two showers, amazing project, lots of support. Sponsor with your name, alhamdulillah especially these holy nights
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Everything that been taught is now showing. We told you all those areas that disappear, this is that time now. Everything is going to be vanishing. time that Allah warned about and that only Allah taught about. This is the time to make sure that you have your ta'weez, you have your belief that you're listening to the guidance and that keep yourself and your families to be safe.
Bi Hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa, bi siri Surat al-Fatiha. see everybody tomorrow night, Jummah Mubarak inshaAllah.