A reminder for myself before we start the talk somebody had emailed that question that,
‘For my understanding, am I to understand that we can't get anywhere without the shaykh?’
And astaghfirullah, no.
That's completely incorrect understanding.
You can do many things on your own and everyone is capable and we're talking about the rule
and not the exception.
In dealing with Allah (AJ) can do anything Allah (AJ) wants to do.
No one can limit that.
But the rule is if you want to be a doctor, you study medicine and you study medicine
from a doctor, not from a mechanic.
And if you want to learn about being a mechanic, you study from a mechanic.
It's not something you pick up in a book - being a doctor.
So, it requires studying.
So, we understand that in dunya (material world) and it seems to be very well understood
in dunya.
Nobody has conflict in their mind and shaitan (satan) doesn't play with them.
Shaitan actually encourages them, ‘Oh you know go after your dunya and be a big doctor
and go to this university,’ and without a doubt they quickly enroll, find the best
professors, which university puts out the best medical degree so that one day you can
capitalize on that degree and people will come to you.
That's a given.
So, it must be understood and make commonsense that do you think the way to Allah (AJ) is
easier or harder?
And the tricks of the nafs (ego) and the self and is that something that can be done alone
by a person?
“Wa kono ma’as sadiqeen”.
When Allah (AJ)... that's why when we teach, if you write what we teach and then you go
back later and the article comes out and you take the article, print it and study it, it
gives the entire reference to the Qur'an, quotes the Qur'an, quotes the Hadith so that
you understand and you understand how the Qur'an is teaching us.
That we’re not making just khater and thoughts and putting thoughts together but Allah (AJ)
inspiring to the heart of Prophet ﷺ and Prophet ﷺ inspiring to his guides and they
inspire to their students.
That the Qur'an, Holy Qur'an is a guidance for mankind.
“Hudanal muttaqeen”.
As salaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
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As salaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
And when Allah (AJ), “A’uzu Billahir Minash Shaitanir Rajeem.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
Ittaqollah wa allimukumullah.
Ittaqollah wa kono ma’as sadiqeen”.
That everything has to do with a taqwa and consciousness and Allah (AJ) throughout Qur'an
is asking, ‘Accompany truthful servants.’
Not that they say they’re truthful but truthful through their deeds and their actions.
We said before the proof is in the pudding.
That your faith in action, their deeds and actions are truthful, their Maqamul Ihsan
(Station of Moral Excellence) should speak for itself.
They don't have to show their degree to anyone and they don't have to validate themselves
but the proof is what's coming out from their knowledges and from actions.
As a result, that becomes a university and that becomes then a Shaykh I want to accompany
because of the knowledges and the actions that I see.
Those knowledges, I want them so I will enroll with him.
Those actions, I also want to activate within my life, I want the love of Prophet ﷺ, I
want to follow them, I want to look like the love of Prophet ﷺ, I want the knowledges
of the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ and I follow them.
And that becomes the university of the heavens.
Now can you do that by yourself?
That's exception.
There are people whom Allah (AJ) are murad (the one whom is sought), Allah (AJ) calls
them, guides them, dresses them however Allah (AJ) wants to.
And the common is mureed (devoted disciple) in which Allah (AJ) wants the student to reach
these realities.
It's not kindergarten so it won't be in every masjid, it's very advanced realities so they
require advanced teachers.
Not the teacher of a book because you have external teaching and internal teaching.
Somebody asked on another email: ‘What is the zahiri (external understanding) mean?’
Exactly what it says – external teachers.
Means they read the shari’ah (Divine law), they read the Hadith and they teach that.
They are the translators of Arabic to English or Urdu or any other language.
They don't teach about its reality.
And somebody posted a Hadith of Imam Ali (as) that in the time of his being the khalifa
(representative) he went around to all the masjids to hear who was teaching what and
after he went from every masjid hearing what they teach, what they teach, he shut them
all down except for two and he said, ‘Those they don't know what even they're saying,
they're basically repeating back what they read but these two they know the reality of
what they're saying.
Is best that you sit with them’.
Means the external scholar is one whom well-read but doesn't necessarily know the reality and
the depth of what's being said but he can tell you all of its verses and footnotes and
who said to who said to who said to who said, but it doesn't mean he has any knowledge of
what was being said and the reality and the substance of what was being said.
So, those are external scholars and those whom their hearts are attracted to that, they
move towards that.
They don't want inner realities.
They want to memorize the isnad and the Chain of Authorities and that's appealing to them
and their heart is drawn to that.
But again someone who wants to reach to realities, it's commonsense how are they going to reach
their own – on their own?
So then they enlist into a school and a shaykh and say, ‘I want the shaykh from what he's
teaching’.
So you go to find the doctor whom you feel is the most credible doctor with the realities
that you want.
And as a result, you accompany him and you learn from him his realities and from the
realities he teaches, he teaches a way in which to achieve it because that's how he
achieved it.
But it... can it be something done on our own?
No, these are called ‘Upliftings.’
That these realities, this accompanying a guide, loving them, opening your heart to
that reality, supporting them, living a life of khidmat (service), everything that been
described, documenting the knowledges, documenting the realities, it's a ‘Uplifting’ because
your soul will lock onto their soul through the good manners and good character.
And as a result of that locking, their soul is uplifting the students because the soul
is in a continuous mi'raj (ascension).
And Allah (AJ) describes them because these are all from the realities of the heart, these
come from Surat Al-YaSeen, “Fulkil mashhoon.
Wa hamalna dhurriyyatahum fil fulkil mashhoon”.
That their souls are like loaded ships, loaded.
“Mashhoon” – like energies Mawlana (Q) would describe.
And “Hamalna” they carry within their loaded energies the souls of those whom come
into their company because the soul is not a stagnant creature.
It doesn't just sit there.
It's an energy, a vibration that is in a continuous flux of movement and energy.
The only thing that just sits there is that which came from dunya – your physicality.
Right?
Your physicality is of a dunya material matter but your spirituality and your soul is in
a continuous movement and wave.
Its beginning and its end is not understood.
Where your light is coming, how much of it's connected and to where is it connected.
And those whom operate from the realm of light in which Allah (AJ) open their light and they
have a governance over their light, they use and operate their being with their light,
they are like ships.
Anyone who comes into their vicinity, immediately comes on board.
Those whom lock on with their heart, with their deeds and with their actions, because
this is how Allah (AJ) wants His servant.
“Wa kono ma’as sadiqeen”.
So he's teaching the student – you have to also be sadiqeen (truthful) as you're requiring
the shaykh to be because you're looking for sadiqeen.
Right?
You're looking for a shaykh who has knowledges of realities and the actions of realities,
all the deeds and everything that they're doing is by their deeds and their actions
are matching the Muhammadan haqqaiqs (realities) then they train, ‘You come on their ship
and you act the same’.
That's why they tell you contribute.
Don't, don't just think you're going to take it and take the realities and one day run
away.
But be a truthful servant.
What you took, you owe, of the realities you owe and of all of these stations Allah (AJ)
is granting, Prophet ﷺ wants for us a khidmat.
‘Go now and serve humanity’.
That show your loyalty, put everything of your faith within action.
It's not something that I keep hidden.
My faith is something that I continuously put into action.
So means then the students of the shaykh they're continuously showing their faith, showing
their love, showing their respect and showing their khidmat and service.
Why?
Because they're truthful in their deeds and in their actions.
They're not hidden silent people, we don't even know what they believe because their
deeds are not known to anyone.
These deeds have to be known, the love has to be shown and the actions and the khidmat
has to be visible to the help and to the benefit of people.
And as a result, that becomes the tariqah (spiritual path) in which - I want to accompany
them.
The realities they have they're not regular teachings.
And as a result of accompanying them, loving them, being of service in the ways that they've
taught, my soul is locked on with them and wherever they go, they take me with them because
a ship doesn't throw its passengers off every time it goes into a beatific location.
Means as the ship is moving through these tajallis (manifestations), everyone on board
is being dressed by those tajallis and that becomes the beatific dress and the faiz (downpouring
blessings) that people talk about and emanations that Sufis are known for.
Means that as they're being dressed, everyone on their ship will be dressed by its realities.
So we want a ship that talks and teaches about immense ishq and love for Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ because those are the tajallis we want.
If you're interested in a ship that talks about fire and then you find that type of
ship and when it goes through that fire, you can feel the burning of jahannam (hellfire)
and if that's pleasurable for you then best of luck.
Means that which you are attracted to then you look to board that ship.
And as a result, to be dressed and to be blessed by it.
Alhamdulillah for the month of Hajj (pilgrimage) and the immense realities.
At the beginning phase, the student reads Surat Al-Yusuf because now we come to the
12th month which is our pilgrimage and completion of this journey but not an end because every
journey is a circle.
At one point, one point it stops and then it continues on an infinite rotation and that
becomes the opening of Muharram.
But the beginning journey it’s understood by Surat Al-Yusuf in which Allah (AJ) gives
to awliyaullah (saints) and to everyone that, ‘This is a beatific surah (chapter)’.
Now this because these knowledges come to the heart of awliyaullah, they're describing
for us that its beauty and the reality why Allah (AJ) is saying that, ‘This is a beatific
story, this is a beautiful story.’
Because the people of ma’rifah (Gnosticism) know that the dress of the 12th month is the
pilgrimage.
And what Allah (AJ) wants for His servant is that every year you’re a pilgrim and
every year you are in a continuous movement towards Divinely Presence.
Otherwise, you have no purpose on this Earth.
If your purpose on Earth was to eat, drink and use the facilities, it's a wasted creation.
And what Allah (AJ) wanted for this creation was to reach towards beatific realities.
So the entry level, beginning level and those whom are coming new then read Surat Al-Yusuf
and describes how Allah (AJ) says, ‘This is a beatific story we're about to tell you’.
Why?
Because Allah (AJ) wants the beatific dress of Sayyidina Yusuf (as) upon the servant.
And the only way to achieve this beatific dress are through the turuqs (spiritual paths)
and tariqahs.
Why?
Because they are the paths of the Muhammadan light.
They're not kindergarten, they're not regular classes.
These are for the khawas (elite) and the souls in which Allah (AJ) has destined for them
to reach to realities.
That's why we said in the beginning – if they don't have that interest, they're not
interested at all.
Means Allah (AJ) didn't put that interest within them.
It's not their cleverness.
It's when Allah (AJ) loves that servant and wants them to achieve these beatific realities,
Allah (AJ) has to put that desire within.
We say even, ‘Hayya ‘alas Salah (Hasten to the prayer), Hayya ‘alas Salah, Hayya
‘alal Falah (Hasten to Salvation), Hayya ‘alal Falah, laa hawla wa la quwwata illa
billah’.
Means even for prayer you have no power and might or help to even get up and pray if Allah
(AJ) doesn't want you to pray.
You can hear the ‘azaan (call to prayer) all day long and people don't even move, they
don't even feel like they have to move.
Hawla (support) and quwwah (power) have to reach to the servant.
That the help and power has to come from Allah (AJ) that, ‘I want you to pray to Me,’
and they’re “Sam’ina wa ata’na” and the soul's command overrides the sickness
of the nafs (ego) and commands the being to go and to pray.
So means everything we do is by the grace of Allah (AJ) Almighty.
To reach the beatific dress of Sayyidina Yusuf (as) then we read Surat Al-Yusuf and understand
what makes the servant to be so beatific in Allah's (AJ) eyes.
In which the understanding of the women that were chasing Sayyidina Yusuf (as) means ‘Dunya’
in which the dress of the servant becomes so beatific upon them that all of dunya will
cut itself to give to that reality.
And that's what Allah (AJ) wants for the servant.
Is to take a beatific dress, take these dress of realities and lights.
And as a result, your path upon dunya was a means in which to achieve beatific lights
for your akhirah (hereafter) destination.
Your path on dunya was not your path on dunya where you thought, ‘Oh it's just going to
be my... whatever I want to do for dunya is dunya and akhirah is separate.
Church and state are separate’.
Allah (AJ): no.
He want for us that, ‘Use your dunya to achieve your lofty stations in paradise,’
and Surah Yusuf represents that reality.
That given a dream, is a Prophet (as) with 11 Brothers whom are very high stations, we
believe them to be the Prophets (as) of Bani Israel (children of Israel) and the 12 tribes
of Bani Israel and he relates to his father who is a Prophet (as) that, ‘I see the 11
planets, the sun and the moon bowing down for me,’ and telling that, ‘Don't tell
your brothers that what you've seen of your dream’.
Means that the seeker, every step of this ayatul kareem (the generous verse of Holy
Qur’an) and Qur'an, this holy surah (chapter) is a description for the path.
That this path that you're going to partake on it’s not going to be similar to anyone
in your family.
No matter what the darajat (station) of your father or your brother or anyone in your family.
Many come and say, ‘My father is such and such.
Oh my family are all Chishtiya and all this and all that’.
And Allah (AJ) give into the surah first when you come through the door, they don't care
what you think your station is.
Your station may be uniquely different than your father's and that became the reality
for Sayyidina Yusuf (as).
The whole path of dealing with jealousy from the brotherhood, not from outside people.
The brotherhood and its jealousy that when they saw the beatific light upon Sayyidina
Yusuf (as), they became jealous of that and the danger of jealousy we described in nights
before, before we left for the beginning of the month that jealousy is the greatest danger
on the way of tariqah because it blocks every miracle.
When someone has a jealousy within their heart, immediately the miracles begin to be blocked
and they see nothing of the path, they see nothing of its signs.
And Allah (AJ) gives the beginning of the surah as a whole understanding for service.
Means that read it very slow and meditate on each verse that Allah (AJ) is giving.
He’s starting with a description of a very high station.
Can there be a servant in which the sun and the moon and all 11 planets are bowing to
him?
One – means that are their servants that have an immense authority in Allah's (AJ)
Presence in which Allah (AJ) is describing, ‘This is a beautiful surah,’ drawing our
attention and then starting it with the dream of Sayyidina Yusuf (as) that, ‘The sun and
the moon under my command and 11 planets making sujood (prostration) and bowing to me’.
One – establishing this path and this beatific reality is very high.
Its potential is very high.
And as a result of its immense realities, it’s based on manners.
How can you reach any of these on your own?
It's not!
Can you achieve it as an inheritance from your father?
No.
Sayyidina Yaqub (as) was not able to give his secret to Sayyidina Yusuf (as) because
Sayyidina Yusuf (as) had a completely different reality to achieve.
So this lofty station and the first danger of this path is jealousy.
That what you're about to embark on, even your brothers if they hear it, they're going
to try to harm you.
So, then everyone sitting at home wondering, ‘Should I tell my cousin?
Should I tell my this, should I tell my story?’
No, don't tell your dreams, don't tell your path, don't tell what you think you've achieved
and what abilities you're beginning to have within your heart because Allah (AJ) is giving
a warning that those whom closest to you if they become jealous, they can begin to try
to harm you.
This is a Prophet (as) of Allah (AJ) and what the brothers did?
They threw him in a well.
We're going to go fast through the surah because we’re for many years we're going over this,
at this reality.
We will go fastly through it so to encapsulate its understanding.
So Sayyidina Yusuf (as) is thrown into a well.
One – you're now going to be thrown into a well when you enter in the tariqah.
So, first say the shaykh, ‘Oh all my friends they left me, all the people I knew they don't
want to talk to me, even relatives and close associates have all gone,’ and this is your
well.
Everyone on this path has a well.
The life they knew before and they think, ‘Oh I don't know why I'm on this path?
And as soon as I got on this path I lost all these things, I lost the connection to everything’.
Many people have immense sacrifices and they question all the time in their mind, ‘Was
it... was it correct to choose that?’
And Allah (AJ) is showing, if Allah (AJ) chooses you, He isolates you and that's your sign.
Isolation means you're in your own chaah - your own well.
It's the very isolation that, that opens the door to the path of the way because the greatest
danger are people.
You know the people around you they don't just say, ‘Oh you're embarking on a spiritual
path, great.
How can I help you?’
They'll take you down in a second and say, ‘Are you crazy?
Why would you want to do these things?
Why, what's going on?
Come with us to where we're going, come.
We usually always go here, we go there’.
So Allah (AJ) is giving to us all those whom are coming new and understanding, Allah (AJ)
is giving to us: no He has to isolate the servant and the isolation is forced upon the
servant this time.
Later Sayyidina Yusuf (as) will ask for isolation.
This isolation, Allah (AJ) takes and throws the servant in a condition in which to isolate
them.
And as a result of being isolated, he is distressed and a trading caravan begins to approach.
And as a result, this caravan looked into the well and said, ‘Oh look there's a servant
in here.
Maybe we take him and it will be a blessing for us or some money for us,’ and they brought
him out and enslaved him.
Meaning what?
Your free will will be taken away.
If you're trying to use your will in tariqah then how are you really going to be ‘asir
(captive)?
Right?
To achieve these beatific lights Allah (AJ) isolates you.
Then He says that, ‘You're not going to be so isolated because guides are coming’.
They're going to come and pull you out but they're going to teach you because it's voluntary
that to lose your will, lose your concept and your mind of always trying to think what
your path is going to be.
Try to be ‘asir in which you're a ‘Captive,’ you've been ‘Captivated’ by Allah's (AJ)
Divinely love.
Think of it in a nice way.
That, ‘Ya Rabbi all my life I've been choosing and they all seem to be wrong.
So I surrender myself to your will,’ and this is what taslim (submission) and Islam
mean – is surrendering our will to the Will of Allah (AJ) to reach these immense realities
and immense lights.
As a result of that, they understood when this caravan comes in our life, the very caravan
and the tariqah that we enter, the shaykh that we draw near to, it's like a rope that
been tied to us.
Allah (AJ) has destined, ‘This Shaykh will take you now out of that darkness and into
the light and to the path of light’.
And as a result, the caravan is taking Sayyidina Yusuf (as) to Malik ul Aziz (The Almighty
King), to a kingdom, to a king, a noble king.
Why?
Because this is a path towards the heavenly kingdom of Allah (AJ).
‘Aziz (The All Mighty) and why Malik ul Aziz because the sifat (attribute) of ‘Aziz
means that nothing can be taken from it.
When Allah (AJ) decrees upon a servant whatever He decrees to come upon that servant under
sifat al-’Aziz nobody can stop it.
And whatever Allah (AJ) wants to withhold from the servant, nobody can stop it or bring
to it.
Means that name alone is very important in that reality and that that king means that
they're bringing this caravan and this servant to the heavenly kingdom because everything
is an analogy to reach to these realities because every surah is alive right now.
We don't read it like a story for the past, it's right now.
What does Allah (AJ) want from us?
That we're going to be isolated in life and every choice you made that you feel that you're
isolated because of those choices – that was the right choice.
It's only through isolation that you can reach to the reality.
And when the caravan came and it took you and it traded you without your will and your
whole path now is based on surrendering your will, surrendering your will.
‘I know not what you want from me my Lord but I submit to You entirely of myself’.
And admit that you don't know what Allah (AJ) wants and as a result of not knowing what
Allah (AJ) wants, you become taslim and submit, submit.
‘Ya Rabbi I'm submitting.
Only You know what You want for me and I know not.
I know that when I want something, it's most likely incorrect.
But what You want for me is the best,’ and their whole struggle in life becomes that
submission and their submission of their will to the Will of Allah (AJ) and to enter into
the kingdom of Sayyidina Malik ul Aziz – the kingdom of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
That is our life goal is to enter into that kingdom and to enter into the kingdom without
will.
That's why Allah (AJ) gives us the analogy that you come in captive.
Right?
He didn't come walking into the kingdom and meet the king and say, ‘Hello,’ because
Allah (AJ) says, ‘There's an adab (manner) for this beatific dress’.
If you're coming in with your own will and think that you'll sort of lay your path and
you'll design the path that you want and one day you'll present yourself to Prophet ﷺ,
Allah (AJ) says, ‘No, that majesty and height, that reality is so high nobody enters in in
that reality,’ and they enter in ‘asir – captive that they have no will and perchance
the king will look at them and take them into his servanthood and this is the highest level
of khidmat and service.
This was the way that Sayyidina Salman al-Farsi (as) entered that he sold himself into captivity
and slavery and he entered into Madinatul Munawwara (luminous city of Prophet ﷺ) as
a slave and somebody owning him.
As a result, this is a symbol of how to approach the reality of Prophet ﷺ.
That how can we be a slave in this day and age?
It's not possible but the system of taslim and surrendering ourself, continuously taking
down our nafs and bad character and bad desires and asking Prophet ﷺ that, ‘Accept me
as your ghulam (servant), accept me as your servant to be of service to your kingdom and
to your nation,’ and this is the highest reality and the highest achievement – is
to live a life in service to Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
And the word ‘Slavery’ for us and to be a ‘Slave’ is an immense honor for the
kingdom because ‘Abd’ is not the same word in English as it is in Arabic.
Abd is one whom Allah (AJ) when He grants the servant this reality of abd, they're granted
an ancient knowledge.
Means these servants are custodians of Allah's (AJ) ancient ‘Alim, ‘ilm (knowledge).
That they inherit from that ayn and they inherit from the immense realities of knowledges and
realities.
Means servanthood in Allah's (AJ) way is the highest honor.
And that's why Prophet ﷺ described that, ‘Nothing made me more happy than when Allah
(AJ) called me Abdullah’ (servant of Allah (AJ)).
Means the… that servant – abd that reached the highest ‘uloom and knowledges of Allah
(AJ).
We pray that Allah (AJ) grant us an understanding of the immensity of this holy month and the
beatific lights to dress us.
That with that qurban taking difficulties and badness away then the beatific lights
upon the soul that Allah (AJ) complete His ni’mat and His blessings upon our souls
for the sake of the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
Subhana rabbika rabbal ‘izzati ‘amma yasifoon, wa salaamun ‘alal mursaleen, walhamdulillahi
rabbil ‘aalameen.
Bi hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
As salaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
It’s Shaykh Nurjan.
Thank you for watching the video that you’re watching.
InshaAllah if you’re happy with the content and happy with these programs please support
the button below.
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of life.
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that reach thousands of people and rescue foods and give those supplies to people in
need.
Your support is greatly appreciated.
Also be so kind as to leave a loving comments and please share the stream.
Every bit counts.
As salaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh.