Wa'ayya al-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-Ismihi Al-A'l-A'l-Am'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-'A'l-A'l-Al-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A'l-A' the holy month of Muharram, the month of No Forbidden, and that the month of the Hijrah,
the month of the first month of the Islamic calendar and that calendar is based off of the movement of Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º from Mecca to Medina Munawwara. and the immensity of that reality and that our life is to follow that example that this way of the heart purify the heart and then ask Allah from dunya stations of belief
that let us make our hijrah towards the City of Lights, the Malakut that Makkah represents the mulk and Medinata Munawwara represents the Malakut, the world of light. And that after years of struggling Prophet ï·º was given permission and that permission was to migrate. And as a result of that migration was the movement of
Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º from the holy precincts of Ka'bah through the cave and from the cave into the city of Medinatul Munawwara and every year we ask that Allah grant us Ya Rabbi that to follow that sunnah, follow that haqqaiq and follow that reality. That we live a life on a day to day basis of struggling with our Mecca which is the station of the heart.
And that Allah gave everyone a mecca, everyone a heart and a heart in which is the center of our existence and that heart has to be purified and cleaned. Everything that Prophet ï·º brought is an eternal example for us all that we want to take a path of belief and that belief has to be housed within the heart of the believer.
And Allah I'm not on heaven or not on earth but I'm in the heart of my believer. If we want to have God within our heart and everybody has a heart, everybody has a mecca, everybody has the center of where their belief should be because these are symbol and you have to circumvallate that belief, that heart. We have to purify the heart.
We have to struggle for its purity and destroy all the idols within the heart. that becomes a life of struggle. When we described the night before that people want to say peace and they think by saying peace or being near something peaceful that you've accomplished peace but you are moving towards it. But the accomplishment of peace is a great struggle
against everything that this material world represents and the energies and the magnetism of this material world. And Prophet ï·º struggled for 13 years in the state of Mecca, in the state of that reality that the immensity of struggling and struggling and struggling and then Allah giving permission to migrate to Medinat Munabara which translates to the City of
Lights. Every Muharram is an opportunity for those to join the spiritual train of the Shaykhs. that they wait in Muharram and whom wishes to board upon their way and their path and their teachings and they may board and as they board on to that train they take them through 12 months of journeying and at the 12th month they end up on the pilgrimage which in its reality is towards the
kawthar springs. This gate of Muharram and the immense realities of Muharram are locked into the secrets of nine in the first nine of Holy Qur'an Is Suratul Tawbah, and in that surah its uniqueness is, there is no Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem as a clue for us that Allah gave this hidden path for those whom are aÅŸiqeen and muhibin of Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º.
For everyone Allah has given a path and for these lovers and followers of the reality and the ishq and muhabbat of Prophet ï·º, he gave to them a secret passage that come through Bab al-Tawbah which is Surat al-Tawbah and that there's no Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim at the top because it represents a gate for the Ulul al-Baab. That gate is towards the
city of all knowledges but what it requires is that lose your head. Lose your thought of logic and everything that the devil wants to whisper into your head and this is a path in which to negate your head and open the heart. And our whole struggle our whole mecca reality is trying to open the heart.
so 13 years is going to be a struggle with the brain which represents the dunya the difficulties the testing means trying to clean your heart and enter the heart is not an easy phase because of all the whisperings within the head that very much so now everybody lives within their head knowledge is enter within the head everything is moving through that head
and to struggle with the head because you're trying to reach after 13 years the state of struggle, struggle for your heart. You have to fight for the heart and who's blocking your heart is shaitan, the devil and every evilness and that devil resides within the heads of people. So Allah gave us our own little nation that when we look to the outside
Side of the prophetic reality, this is a code for our inner reality. That if Prophet ï·º as an example 13 years of battles and struggles of Mecca, continuous continuous difficulty, continuous testing, continuous hardship, continuous challenges. And that becomes the reminder for us our life is of testing.
It's not that you thought you would enter Islam or hear haqqaiqs and realities and the next day that you would achieve them but we are the people of the way of Prophet ï·º Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam what they call the Sunnah. The way is in everything. It's not only a fashion but the way in which Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam struggled
and lived and the path that he laid for us of achieving realities. That our achievement of Mecca is the struggle against our head. continuously meditate, contemplate and every type of knowledge and reality and teaching and sunnah and everything we're learning the head is saying no the head is altering, the head is modifying,
the head is continuously trying to change and anyone who meditates can see that when they stop meditating they stop seeing that. Means that they hear, oh this is the way of Prophet ï·º. As soon as they stop meditating, oh no I got to take this, I got to do this, I got to do that, I got to call this, I got to do that. Everything becomes external solution to everything,
external importance for everything and that's the battle and that's when you know you're losing the battle when you're strong on your battle strong on your understanding you know that that time of struggle is to clean the heart to reach to your Mecca in which I want to take a path in which my life is based on my heart and Allah says fight your head
head. You want to enter into Islam then draw your sword against your head because your Islam based on head is of no value. There has to be a Hijrah and the Hijrah won't be granted until Allah finds that your struggle was correct. There is no city of light that It opens for people if they haven't entered into Mecca.
Mecca resides within the heart. Most people's Islam is in their head. The heart is dirty, the heart is angry, the heart doesn't really have belief. Every time you say, well dude this is from Prophet ï·º, he'll say, no, no, no, no. This is not like this. This is like this. No, no. This is gonna help me.
Not this. This is gonna help me. Means, your Mecca never came and your Mecca became your head. That when the call came to Prophet ï·º, understand the analogy that our life is that and then the call came to Prophet ï·º that establish the Deen. The issue or the life of Prophet ï·º will be cast within our existence.
That you come in and Allah is saying, look at the example of Prophet ï·º, bring my Deen into your heart. Not by you saying it, that I want to follow the way of the heavens. But there's a Satan in your head who's like, what? I'm gonna come after you now and there is no way you're going to establish Mecca in
that heart. You want or you don't want they don't care but Allah's teaching Prophet ï·º inspiring that your dominion and the flag satan has already put his flag on your head You were born in submission. Your parents made you left and right. They took away your belief. they programmed you and conditioned you through whatever their experiences
their practices their beliefs their understandings now at the age that you decided uh i don't want that doesn't mean you're a clean slate It means that you have a devil running your head and you're looking to the example of Prophet ï·º that he heard the call and established that the Harameen and Hijaz has to be established
for the religion of Allah and began the call to Islam and this becomes our inner journey that I have to begin the call to Islam within myself. That Islam will reside within my heart and I have to build my heart into a Mecca and And everything that is in Mecca in my heart was following shaitan. Just because you decided to accept Islam doesn't mean there was not already a situation in
play. You're now having to come in to fix it. Your heart is used to listening to your head It was trained to follow the logic of your head You were conditioned in schools to follow the logic of your head To memorize and not think Not to meditate and follow your heart for last hundred years they've been teaching to mimic information nobody has thought processes
they don't try to encourage children to think to meditate to contemplate it's just the memorization of facts most of the facts are not true said it's his story and you go down the street and he has a different story and a different set of facts. So it produced an insan, a human or human-like qualities that govern by evilness.
And the entering into Islam and the entering into the heavenly way and heavenly religion was that I have to begin the battle to conquer my heart and then my Islam has to enter into my heart but my heart was conditioned to listen to my head. And now my heart has to be trained to listen to these shaykhs, listen to Allah Most High, listen to Prophet ï·º. And then listen to the
the radio that represents a heart frequency. When everything they're telling you, you listen but your brain says no I don't really think so. I don't think it really meant that. And I don't really meant that for me maybe there's other people that need to do that. And that becomes the system because the people yaqeen they hear that's it they understood
the haqqayik of it and how it's supposed to be implemented, everybody else is… I don't think he meant that. I don't think he meant this. Because exactly what is happening is that the knowledge is from heavens are coming, trying to enter into the heart, trying to make the heart of the believer to be a Ka'bah,
to be purified, to be cleaned. What was happening at the Ka'bah? All the idols were there and all the governors of the idols were there. And all the people who ruled that heart were fighting Prophet ï·º, why are you going to bring that here? You don't think that that condition exists within everybody who enters Islam?
It only came to Prophet ï·º? If it came to Prophet ï·º ours is going to be billion times more difficult. it, that Allah is saying, my religion is Islam and you will establish the Ka'bah for this belief. Well, there are whole bunch of pagans there and evilness there and everyone saying it's not going to be here and you're not going to bring that here.
And every struggle and battle from not allowing washing, not allowing praying, not allowing allowing azan, not allowing the belief, not allowing their gathering. All of that is symbolic for the person who thinks that they're entering Islam and everything's finished. And even the people whom are in Islam only are coming and teaching, check again because
you're hearing the teachings but you're really not letting it enter your heart. shaitan immediately pulls the knowledge to your head and then now start to chew on it with you take it out like a he's like a lawyer he comes and says this word you don't need this word this word. This and, this but, this maybe, this we. Oh, these. No, no, no, that's not you.
It meant him. People pull apart every teaching to take away its reality and its power. And in the end people are not following, they're not believing. Now we said before many people think they're Muslim, many people think they're mu'min. We said that when they realize later if they hear the teaching when they lost the love
of Prophet ï·º these are Muhammadan titles. So people are busy but they don't know what they're busy with because their belief is in their head and we know who resides within the head is evilness, the devil, the nafs whatever you want to call it, it's the bad ego, consciousness, God consciousness, empathy, softness, love, generosity, kindness all resides within the heart.
And you, thy kingdom come and thy will be done. That kingdom of God has to come into the heart but people are bringing it into their head. They say, no, no it's in my heart. But in reality it's in your head because you'll make it logical you make it clinical and everything will be tampered with so that it fits perfectly for you
unless the danger That the Hijrah begins, Muharram begins and the way of struggle begins and the reminder comes that your life is about struggle. When Allah finds acceptance in your struggle, 13 years of struggling to establish your belief within your heart and that's not something easy. That's when everything is illogical
and you have to keep it within your heart. Every type of testing, every type of condition, every type of situation. And when knowledges and realities enter into the heart of the servant and their struggle for Allah , the struggle for the way and the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º. It becomes planted within their heart that your fight is very strong to keep your heart
in our way. To make Allah happy and Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º happy. And as a result of that struggle, that struggle, that struggle there has to be a permission in one of these Muharrams. Everyone is at a different state in life in which Allah grants. Now you are being given permission for your hijrah into the city of light.
Why? Because their heart is a place in which they struggle against everything. completely fighting their head and all whom whisper into their head talk into their head because the head is a place for everybody's it's like a microphone you have two big speakers here where everyone's trying to talking to them. Trying to isolate yourself with tafakkur and contemplation and follow
the way of Prophet ï·º. When Allah commanded to Prophet ï·º through Quran and to the Holy Companions that don't say, listen to me to Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º. Means don't take his ears ï·º. Why? Because he's created with the perfection of hearing only God. He doesn't hear you, he's not here to obey you, to listen to you, but ask that Prophet ï·º to
look at you. Unzur khalana wa ishfarana, Ya sehidiya Rasulü Karimah, your holy gaze be upon me. Who am I to ask for you to listen to me? I'm nobody. Your ears only listen to God. but it draws us to understand that those 13 years everybody going for your ears because they want to alter your religion and your belief and shaitan works through everyone
everyone going to come and tell you no you do like that no you don't have to do like that you do like this, you do like that, you do like this, you do like that. Shaykh people, no Shaykh people, people who don't even agree to be Shaykh people, everybody wants your ears. Why? Because we know the struggle is going to be
for my heart. Shaytan's easiest door to my heart is my ears. Whether it's the hidden whispers, the continuing whispering to me in every talk and in every teaching and in every way or the physical whispers that he pushes through the people you know because he's not getting a result through his waswas but then now the
physical ones come whom he whispers to them and they're completely obedient, «Hameenu wa ta'ano, I have heard you and they come physically to you and start speaking to your ear, you don't need to do that, you don't need to follow that, you don't have to do like this, this is not like that. You can be in a masjid and somebody comes to you,
Ah, why you have to put your toe like that? Why you have to have tasbih like that? Why you have to have ring like that? It will never end, that battle. That's that 13 years of struggling to establish our faith and to prepare our hearts to be a Kaaba. But it can't be exactly that until you enter to Medina because we need the light of
Muhammadun Rasulullah ï·º. Only after that struggle Allah will grant that, you can make the hijrah. And imagine now people who understand that I have to have a significant amount of struggling. So don't keep sending emails complaining about your struggle, you won't accomplish your 13 years. And imagine then if you don't have that struggle there is no hijrah.
Imagine the people who don't even follow the Hijri calendar, which is now what 99.9% they don't even know that Muharram opened they're showing they're at a soccer stadium. They don't even know, they're out, they're there, that's when we said, do you think they achieved the Muslim title, Mu'min title, Mohsen titles. These are Muhammadan
titles of light. They don't even know it's Hijri calendar's purpose. So how Allah is going to grant them permission for Hijrah? When you don't even follow the Hijri calendar? You grant Hijrah for who? Who has been granted permission for pilgrimage? And they don't even follow what month it is in the Hijri calendar which was the greatest gift that Prophet ï·º,
ï·º. Everything that Prophet ï·º brought of paradise realities is what Allah said, I would not have sent the king of all universes to this earth except what? It was a mercy. Why? We said before what was Allah's rahmat? Protection, The secrets and the gifts is you don't say it's Allah's Rahmah, those are Allah's
gifts for you. The Rahmah and the mercy and grace is if He guides you and protects you to achieve those. And that I would not have sent Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º why the king of all universes but that he comes with every type of reality, knowledge, and protection from his attire ï·º, from his food ï·º, from his teachings, from his holy Qur'an, from everything he brings from paradise realities
as a servant of the Creator. Not a God, sadafullah, it's a servant of the Creator. her, the greatest creation that Allah has made. And I would not have sent him ï·º except that he's a divine grace and mercy and that everything you follow from the way of Prophet ï·º will protect you, dress you and bring you up into
your paradise lines. Once he teaches ï·º how to struggle, how to struggle, how to have good character, people throw rocks at you, test you, aggravate you, agitate you, keep good character. sickness, difficulty, everything comes, nothing takes anything away except Allah . When Grand Shaykh's dua is that, forgive me my Lord if for a moment I thought anything could
relieve me but you not a medicine can help you not anyone can help you not anything can help you except through Allah when you lose that you lose your tawheed and that the only one whom can intercede for you and ask for you is Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º. And that's what we said, the secret of medicine so that you don't
lose your belief system is Ya Nabi Ar-Rahman the merciful messenger of the divine, Ya our my sultan . Allow these medicines to work. Ask Allah on my behalf for my shifa, my healing, my cure, my rizq, my sustenance, everything. Because they established firmly in their belief, nothing comes to them without the hand of
Muhammadun rasulullah ï·º. I think it's even hadith where Prophet ï·º described, Allah partitions the provision and Anaqasim and I am the one whom divides it amongst creation. What is meant for you has to come through Tawheed which is, La ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah ï·º. We don't just say it our way, but it everything
is coming in this way, that from la ilaha illallah only comes to you through Muhammadun Rasulullah ï·º and our only way back to la ilaha illallah, Islul Muhammad Rasulullah ï·º everything is flowing through that road. If you want a healing from la ilaha illallah and not from medicines, not from people you
want money not from a bank not from anyone can give you anything if a command does not Come from La ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah ï·º then everything can be written. And the rest are just the characters of a play, they don't write anything, they don't authorize anything, they don't make anything to happen.
We said all of their top people were eating people, now the barakah completely is gone. Now Allah knows you still thinking they're helping you and showing you they're eating people. The books they gave you and taught you in school, the publishing companies for all school books in America, it was made from these Einstein's who eat people. All knowledges.
Now they're saying you still think that knowledge is going to help you? You think the bank decides, I'm gonna give you money because what he has a check he can give you a check. No, the faith is that nothing can reach to you unless Allah gives the permission. Nothing can be taken from you except that Allah gives the permission and that permission
given and then dispensed out to Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º and if it's good he said Alhamdulillah if it's hard because you're aÅŸiqeen he will ask Allah for forgiveness. Say Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º Ya Allah the Prophet ï·º will ask Allah to diminish the difficulty and when we say Nabiya Rahman, Nabiya Kareem, O generous Prophet of Allah
That you know my condition and what I'm in need of that your nazar grant upon me. That you ask Allah . This whole love and this whole relationship is its importance. The heart that understood that lived the life of struggle. everything in their life they realized because they're tested in every aspect.
When difficulty came they understood it because Allah sends a difficulty say, how are you going to resolve that difficulty? When provision became difficult how are you going to resolve that? When health became difficult how are you resolve that? When people became difficult. How will you resolve that? Everything goes back to tabeek. There is nothing but
la ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah ï·º in every aspect of life. If for a moment you leave that you have broken your belief and that's why Grand Shaykh in his dua asked, Ya Rabbi if every time I went outside of that belief I'm asking for forgiveness. Wa ash-hadu an la ilaha illallah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadun Rasulullah ï·º.
Because it's a big guna it's a big sin that you think something else or someone else will relieve you give you, grant to you bless you other than Allah through the hands of Muhammad Rasulullah ï·º when the heart is firm in all those testings, all those testings, all those testings. Why? So that their whole life relies on that, their whole understanding relies on that.
And in any condition they go back to their prayer mat, back to the feet of Prophet ï·º Allah is saying, say, You are Nabi Ar-Rahman, you're my king, you are my sultan, you're the only one who can ask Allah for me, I place my condition at your feet, you do with me whatever you want. When that's solid, when that's firm, that level of belief Allah said then this servant
is ready for their hijrah and they follow the hijri calendar. And they understand every month, every month, every month what's happening and that's why this path that we teach is Shams al-Arifin because it's the way of that reality to teach every month's Hijri reality through the Twelve Veils, starting from Muharram
and Baba Tawbah. Then what does come after Muharram and Safar and after Safar the reality is Rabbil Awad and the related Surah which is the door for that reality to reach to the Kawthar. The twelfth Surah and the 12 times nine is 108 and how to reach to the Kawthar oceans. Means at one point Allah grant you the reality of the hijrah that now your faith and
your struggle is true and you have to enter now towards the city of lights and you have to enter into the reality of the city of lights and that your way and your tariq is like the path of the hijrah that you have to imitate the reality of Imam Ali and lie within the bed and youthful innocence in which your whole being is in taslim.
I'm in this bed, whoever coming, coming, not coming, not coming and the love and the ishq that you have to have like Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq as-Salaam come to accompany into the heart and into the cave of Prophet ï·º and all that transpires within the reality of the cave. We pray that Allah give us a greater understanding of the importance of Muharram and the immense
lights and blessings of the holy month of Muharram. And to recalibrate ourselves so that to understand that we want these lights, we want these realities we want these dressings it comes with the zikrs the awrads the practices the belief it comes within every moment of our life as a struggle to establish the Mecca reality
that I accepted Islam and I want Islam to enter into my heart notice light will come yet because that has to be after you went into Medinat-i Munawwurah because the light is in the city of Madinatul Munawura. You're just now at the phase two, clean the heart where Allah describe the Ka'bah, clean my house, circumvaluate the house. Means your whole focus in life
should be the heart. Keeping the heart clean, circumvaluating the heart that all the thoughts should be based on my heart. What is my heart, say, La ilaha illallah Muhammadun Rasulullah ï·º and not my brain and not anything that the television is telling of my brain, what the radio says of my brain, what people say to my brain,
but to establish faith and to establish the Ka'bah within our heart. Subhana rabbika rabbala izzati ma yasikun wa salaam minam mursaleen. Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen. Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri surat al-Fatiha. Umar al-Farouq is an immense gate in this struggle. The one who comes and have a straightness like Sayyidina Umar al-Farouq that if you're
on the truth then stand for the truth and don't mix the false with the true. May Allah place that blessing right at the beginning of the Gate of Muharram that by loving them give food and water for their sake and asking from them from the love that You have for Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º, make my faith to be in truth and to walk away from
falsehood that you are an aashaqeen and great companion of Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º, Ya Sayyidina Umar al-Farauq as-salam that make me to be truthful, make me to have my path to be truthful and that becomes a firmness and a gift that all of the holy companions their lives, their passings, their births they're like pockets of lights and gifts
within the holy month that when we give water for their sake read even Surah Fatiha for his holy soul what he will remember us in a much greater association and lend support and blessings upon our life and every time we're in a situation where there's some doubt then Sayyidina Hazat Umar come and inspire within our heart choose the truth. Don't mix false with truth because
if your heart is based on truth when you throw falsehood you will contaminate the whole of that container and if you contaminate it you have to spend your lifetime to clean it again. Gold is gold as soon as you throw something into it it's changed its composition I say oh like rose gold they say oh you want to
to buy something from rose gold is again those guys who sold you donut holes right because they threw copper in there what would they want rose gold when gold in gold is valuable they threw their garbage in there and sold you something precious same guy who had a donut and he took the circle out sold you 30% less donut for more money and then sold you the part he took out
as a novelty this is special I mean shaitan is always trying to fool us try not to be fooled by the great deceiver what we got from our SMC family shaitan Make lots of reels. Guys who are making reels and for the nasheed reels Alhamdulillah make reels for the charity go to the charity site choose one of the water projects, masjid projects, food projects, orphan projects, make the reels and to be real.
real characters and real conditions that are happening and asking for support and make beautific reels and post them everywhere with the links to the site, to the projects. And alhamdulillah people donate through you as if you donated. It's such an easy system. You know there are other organizations that if you fundraise for us they give you 20%
which is I don't know just not something nice so you see these people come out and say oh we're with this relief we're with this relief and then now going to the kids and telling the kids go out and tell your other friends promote for us we're gonna give you money and they make a money on those things. But for our way
of khidmat and service let Prophet ï·º pay you and not this dunya that do your khidmat and service for the sake of Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º. Promote the video, promote the wells, promote the food, promote the charity, promote all of these actions and when people give that give as if it came from you because it came
through your reel, through your post, through your actions. So, the easiest way to receive these barakas and blessings is this life of khidmat. We said if somebody reads an article and then post something and then it goes viral you get the benefit of that. So some people posted some TikToks and some of those TikToks were reposted
by other people and you look it has three million views. You get the benefit of that because you were clever enough to put it on to the platform that other people grabbed it and then they spread it and their audience was huge and picked it up. So Alhamdulillah this way of khidmat has a reward that people can never understand.
Just like when we watch something and someone will say, Sheikh this video got like 10 million views. I have no idea who got 10 million views. But imagine in your grave and all of a sudden Allah gives your deeds and say, here are these deeds, here's this deed, here's this deed. You're like, where did this come from?
It went viral. came from your khidmat. So same system that we see on this dunya Allah is much more blessed that you come into your grave and see the deeds and the design and the beauty and how Allah dressed the grave and people will be astonished and how this all happened. Says your life of service, your life of ishq and all of your deeds and these are the beauty of those deeds,
These are all the people who came to believe. The people who came to the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º. This is the way of immense rewards, InshaAllah. As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum as salaam wa rehmatullah Mawlana, is complex trauma and the damage that it created within us also a part of our
struggle and if so what should we do to resolve it? Complex trauma… is that… just in case I'm missing something is it means just lots of trauma or is that like a particular psychological phrase, early life trauma is that what was the question? Is intense trauma and the damage it created is that a part of our struggle and if so how
do we resolve it? You have everything written what can anyone do, can anything happen? Let's go the reverse. Can anything happen that's not written? No. So, whatever is written and how then we can deal with it, inshaAllah Allah sends the tools. So, anybody who has that level of difficulty, Allah sends someone like ourselves as a tool. Just hearing us you have to know that God has
giving you a tool. Why? Because we're people who teach how to contemplate, how to meditate and that very meditation opens the door of reward, if you meditate our way. So you take the trauma, whatever it is, put it aside for now. You learn how to make your connection and never alone, never sitting to think never sitting and contemplating by yourself because you have
two microphones that the devil will recite and will say everything negative everything bad and everything deserving and our way of tafakkur and contemplation is to listen to the salawats visualize the shaykh and asking to make a connection and establish that connection and cry with all the difficulties of the past with that connection, use that as a means in which to
approach the Divine, that I'm overwhelmed with difficulty, overwhelmed with sorrow, overwhelmed with the testings that have come into my life. Open your door Ya Rabbi. And through their tafakkur and through their contemplation, they should experience very strong contemplation and as a result when they make the connection with the shaykhs and make that
connection with the love of Prophet ï·º, the sorrow was a means to bring us to the door, not the details of the sorrow but that the hardship and broken-hearted people run for the heavens. Those whom experience hell on earth, they are easy to convince there is a paradise. But those whom live a paradise reality generally have to be brought down to hell and then shut
back up. So very different. Most people in tariqah have experienced some form of health. Difficulties, bad testings, bad experiences in this world. So it doesn't have to convince you so much that you're at the bottom of the barrel. There's only looking up. But if you're at the top, you have to be brought down to be taken up.
Because for you know that I don't understand what you're talking about. I haven't experienced no sadness no nothing then you understand that your testing will be downward and brought down into difficulty in which you truly believe there can only be up so it has its hikmah most of tariqah is based on that and that's why they don't just you know come
walking on water and then follow a sheikh they're people from all sorts of backgrounds most of them doing not so nice things having not so nice experiences and they pretty much understand yeah there is a hell they knew hell they talked to people from hell some of their friends were from hell so they're very familiar with that so they they know looking up is the only way to go
then once your connection is strong the lights are strong the reality is strong Allah may use those experiences once you have light and that was the talk before. There are people whom drive Uber but with strong belief, wherever they go they're like spreading light left and right. There are people in every walk of life, what they do, they're of service
to Allah. Where their service is doesn't matter, it's not for them, it's not their business. Their business was to build their light. Where Allah sends them it's up to Allah. Imagine now old stories of awliya where they would go to the bazaar, and the shaykh would say, there's going to be a wali back there he's in the middle of the bazaar fixing shoes.
Well why would a wali have to be fixing shoes? Well because Allah wanted him to. Why? Because he would be placed in a location in which many people would be around that person. but do you think he chose that as a profession and I just want to fix shoes all day long it doesn't matter what the profession is what you're doing the matter was that you gave your
life to be of service once you're of service then Allah would tell you how to serve and wherever they go they're dispensing light they're dispensing interaction from their soul to other souls and we don't know who was in need of that interaction of light how they took that light and what they would do with that light but God has servants everywhere they're not all
sitting in the masjid sitting down but they're out out and about and that's from when Allah described we have one of our servants in Pharaoh's court there are servants everywhere in every walk of life with every type of clothing or no clothing and they're serving their creator dispensing light and this is their job and their reality.
So once we get that light and what Allah puts out for us to serve, we serve. Then imagine people with experiences, they understand the difficulty and now they can deal with other people whom also have had difficulty. So you can't talk to people whom have difficulty if you haven't had a similar difficulty. It's nothing relatable. So there's
a wisdom in hikmah and everything and the people who will be punished for the torment and the people whom did the bad things, that was a means for them to be punished. So they'll receive their punishment you'll receive your reward and many other people will benefit if you achieve light inshaAllah. As Salaamu Alaikum Shaykh. Walaykum As Salaam wa Ramanthullah
Sayyidi, a question regarding the charity. Is it okay to use my government name if it's not a Muslim name for donations on a dedication plot for the new masjid? You can use any name you want. There's no difference of Muslim name, it's your God-given name. You want to add a Muslim name means that you want to receive some of the lights and
blessings of these holy souls and… but any name that Allah has given to you alhamdulillah. As Salaamu Alaikum Sayyidi. Wa Alaikum Salaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. Sayyidi, when the servant is granted permission to take the hijrah is this similar to how Sayyidina Bilal reached his ahad? Permission to make the hijrah to the City of Lights?
And the story that we relate about the life of Sayyidina Bilal al-Haba Shia Salaam on his love for Prophet ï·º and the degree in which his love for Prophet ï·º. That he entered that reality through captivity and that all of us are held captive by shaitan until that sincerity comes and that an order from Prophet ï·º comes for Sayyidina Abu Bakr
of Siddiq that buy that one from the hands of Sayyidina. And if you watch media nowadays, days, these people they can't walk away from what they've done. They even have a sickness from the consuming of flesh and the deeds in which they've bound themselves to the shaitans they cannot walk away. They go mad and crazy because the marada are going to rip their brains into pieces spiritually
We just torment them. So that becomes the evident proof that you sell something to shaitan you're not just walking away. So tariqah comes to give a provision to people listen to the nasheeds, follow the guidance and if you do things right and you create the love of Prophet ï·º there's a chance that
Prophet ï·º will send out a decree in which you'll be free from shaitan. But that's not true with all these people who think they entered into Islam. You see them with all sorts of markings, all sorts of backgrounds and they still talk garbage. They still look like garbage and they're still acting like garbage. So shaitan just running a game through them. He has many
so-called people who believe in Islam but they don't really believe the khuluq and their character has not entered belief and they have not been set free from the hands of shayateen. So don't think it's something hard for satan to have dogs that impersonate a religion. He has big ones too. They were giving the chiswah to Einstein people. Big ones. Even the guy who
calls himself he's the custodian of all of them. Big shaitans. You think it's something difficult? Those are big shaitans with big dogs. So unless they've been sent to the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º and the decree comes that this one will no longer be with shayateen and that's when the ayat of Qur'an says and shaitan said, I'm going to attack them
old.' And Allah said, no, no, not my muhlis. Means up to the title of muhlis you can be attacked by shaitan. So, he has and plays with many people from very high positions. So, who then is a muhlis? When Allah said, no, no, no, no not my muhlis, means the one who is muhlis is what a decree came from Prophet ï·º that by that from shaitan and that he has
no longer hand on this servant and that decree has to come, Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq has to be dispatched and that person has to be pulled from that reality. Then taught the ways of tariqah so that to stay and keep that door shut and keep the friends of that reality shut and those people who come under the protection of tariqah with
that reality then shaitan doesn't have their number and doesn't see them and doesn't keep haunting them but everyone else good goodness shaitan is after them calling them sending people for them he's not letting anyone go because they made a deal with him and he keeps his deal he's part of the bargain. So, it's a big reality. You'll see it throughout the Quran,
it's proofs and evidence like what we're telling you. They sold their soul for a small price and something has to be exchanged for that. And guidance is when Allah sends them to the tariqah. And Sayyidina Abu Bakr al-Siddiq's hand is directly Naqshbandiyatul Aliyyah, it's the soul of all tariqahs. The one that has a living stream from the heart of Sayyidina
Muhammad al-Mahd alayhi s-salam which are the knowledges. Wa alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu Sayyidi. Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu. does the mention of the hurufs in the dua grand shikh's dua ka, ha, ya, ain, sad ha, mim, ain, sin, kaf help a servant to fight their bad deeds
and draw closer to a life of struggle Yeah I'm sure anything the grand shaykh put in du'as must have immense secret but those huruf have to do with your chest and opening your chest. So that only can be when your tafakkur and muraqaba is very strong. and ka'af ha yah ain saad is the right side ha mim ain singh ghaf is left side,
but that through your tafakkur and contemplation. These are codes to open up the chest inshaAllah. But again everything comes to the tafakkur make the connection, make the connection, make the connection and that's with cleaning the heart, cleaning the character, destroy the character, destroy the character so that to achieve the mecca state. Then when Allah grants
permission for Hijrah what happens? That tafakur will begin to shoot light into the heart of the servant because now Medina is entering. You have to fight for the chest to be clean, the character to be clean otherwise said if you're attack dog what light of Medina going to come into an attack dog? You know bad character, angry, that they're gonna have anything to do with that light.
So, all of that has to be cleaned when that permission is given then Allah will begin to dispense the lights of Prophet ï·º into the hearts of servants. Then that becomes You know, immense Hudan al mutaqeen, this becomes the light of Prophet ï·º, Hudan al mutaqeen haris alaykum bil mu'mineen, hua raufun raheem.
All these lights and realities of Prophet ï·º are now moving into the servant. Who can conquer you is only Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º's light if Allah gives permission because you're one from his nation and how can you enter without your imam?' So it means the Prophet ï·º has to come, the light has to come in front of you and say
let's go and he starts to come in ï·º into your wujud and begin to conquer all the demons and the devils and the idols and to lay waste to everything inside other than what's pleasing to Allah . But Allah wants to see the struggle for permission to enter the city of light. And the city of light enters then that begins to illuminate the chest with the Muhammadan
light, inshaAllah. As-salamu alaykum Sayyidi. Walaykum as-salam wa rahmhtullah. Mawlana, during our connection the head is down but afterwards it always seems to come back to its original position ruling us. Are we able to keep that connection or the state of the connection all the time?
which connection? To the Shaykh. Yeah you keep your head down so that not to try to look out through your eyes if after you're connected and your head moves it's okay not a problem but you're trying to train yourself it's not through your eyes where you keep your head straight and keep looking out through your eyeballs but through the state of your faith that your head is down
and that your heart will cast the image of the Shaykh's in front of you and that you are connecting to them and that light to be true and that light to be powered and I'm nothing, I'm nothing. And your belief has to kick in that their light is coming, their light is coming, their light is coming. And everything else, keep the pictures of the Shaykh, Shaykh Dagestani, Shaykh Nazim,
Sultanul Awliya, they're very powerful. People have even stated, oh I put a picture of Shaykh and I saw it in a dream it was huge.' Meaning what? They're very much alive if you remember them they remember you. So this is Qur'an. Ash'qurouni. Allah says, remember may I remember you in a better association.
But that's true for all of those who carry the light of Allah and the faith of Allah's faith. So these are the ashaqeen of Allah and the ashaqeen of Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º. When you remember them don't they remember you? Maybe they keep a picture of you in their maqam wherever they are. Because they say, oh this little one remembers us. Because you have
a photo of them in your home and you look at them and say, please help me. I'm in difficulty. That bring the nazar of Prophet ï·º, bring the power of Allah upon us. So, these are the symbols of love and actions of love. Only people who love do these things. If you have to convince your head, why do I need a picture of them?
Don't, you don't need anything until shaitan will appear with his face in your face and enjoy that. Then you come back to, shaitan, I need a photo of the shaykh. Then I'm here to convince you and to argue with the khawarij people. Until you see a face of a devil and you can't rid yourself from that face
and he doesn't leave you alone every single night. Then you beg, do you have a photo of one of these awliya that I can put in our house? I say, yeah, yeah, you can. It's going to cost you more now. It means your faith is going to be tested much more now. So when you put the faces of awliya and this love of awliya, it's a symbol of love.
and it begins to open its reality that every time you look at them they're looking at you this is a soul of a wali so their souls are very free you look they look back at you you can even think like they're actually making a dua for you right then those whom their tafakur is strong yeah they they see many many things when they look into the faces of these old ya so very much alive
You go look at the photos back there, very much aligned. As Salaamu Alaykum Sayyidi Walaykum As Salaam wa rehmatullah Mawlana, with your teachings on faith in action and living a life of service is pursuing this lifestyle the ultimate struggle for a believer? it's i it sounds like a struggle but i couldn't imagine life without this
because i we're describing to you god's mercy is when he teaches you how to protect yourself if you're not in tariqa how the heck are people protecting themselves every crazy thing they see on the news every fearful event they're hearing every type of confusion every video says this haram this haram this haram everything now is confusing
they don't know which way to walk and talk and to do so i think a life outside of tariqah is horrible and that's why many of them walk away from islam you see them as influencers one day they're covered next day they're not one day the guy has a beard next day he looks like he's trying to be a rock
stuff. So I think that Shaitan is decimating people outside of tariqah, smashes them. So what we're describing as difficult is actually beatific but look you've got to struggle. It's not going to be a walk in the park because your ego is probably big. So if you're willing to fight your ego and do your salawat and practices it's very
beautiful, lots of energies, lots of experiences. The religion becomes very real. Then it becomes very beautiful. So when you pray, your prayer is real, you do your nasheeds, it's real. You feel the energies is real. Most of the people listening to the nasheeds, we said before if you're not listening to nasheeds there's a sign of a lack of love for Prophet ï·º and you do the nasheeds
in the language you understand. If the Urdu is nice for Jawad because he understands Urdu, if I do a Urdu not I have to know the words because then I say, I hear that word I know what that means. I hear that word I know what that means. But when I'm listening to English I know right away what that word means and I'm driving and now that nasheer is like talking to
me and I'm putting my place that that's about me. This is now a story about me.' And you start to cry and that's the purpose of it. When Prophet ï·º described, there are people whom love me and just the mention of my name brings tears into their eyes. So this is a state in which the heart has to be conditioned and developed to have a love
so that just anything of that praising and the words of coming weak and oppressed and I have oppressed myself and all of those words that are in these nasheeds and that I'm coming to the threshold of Sayyidina Muhammad ï·º. Of course you relate to it and you begin to cry and every time you have difficulty and say that's me again and you're in continuous difficulty if you're a
believer out of nowhere something falls, it's not supposed to fall. Every moment is continuously a struggle, continuously a struggle. So you always have to have that relationship, that love, and that love becomes very sweet. Why? Because you have someone there that can help you which is Prophet ï·º inshaAllah, Subhanallah
Surat Al-Fatiha.