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“A’uzu Billahi Minash Shaitanir
Rajeem. Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.”
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“Atiullah atiur Rasul wa Ulil amre minkum.”
And always a reminder for
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myself ana abdukal 'ajeezu, dayeefu,
miskinu, zhalim, wa jahl, and but for
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the grace of Allah (AJ) that we are
still in existence. Alhamdulillah
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for all the khidmat (service). That alhamdulillah
everyone putting out nice AI videos, images,
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and cutting up the longer videos, putting
out reels. InshaAllah Allah (AJ)... Also,
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people translating to Spanish, to other
languages. Allah (AJ) give everybody immense
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blessings and himmah (zeal) to do more. Our food
collection, mashAllah, immense amounts of food
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being collected. Our video productions, in-house
productions, the zikrs (Divine remembrance), the
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majlis (association), the center. Alhamdulillah
for everyone's life of service and their immense
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love for Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ shows by
the khidmat and the service. InshaAllah,
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the food distributions, the orphanage
support, the qurbani (sacrifice) programs,
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the water well programs, and distributing food
in Kenya. Hopefully now in Nigeria there's
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a Naqshbandi out there that will start putting
out food and qurbans. In Pakistan and Vancouver,
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Los Angeles, Chicago. So, alhamdulillah,
everywhere, wherever we can go and wherever
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there's students whom are willing to participate.
All it takes is a… somebody with a bit of himmah
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or zeal within their heart to want to serve, want
to participate, and the rest Allah (AJ) opens. We
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pray that Allah (AJ) inspire their hearts to
send us more people who want to participate
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and have the zeal - the himmah in which to
participate and receive the nazar (gaze) of
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Prophet ﷺ and alhamdulillah, inshaAllah.
Bi Hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa
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wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
Ya shafa’at (intercession) ya Rasulul Kareem
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(The Most Generous Messenger). Ameen!
InshaAllah, what we have from last
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week? InshaAllah we'll go over some of the things
we have from last week. Anybody... comments from
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the talks, we can get where people are on these,
inshaAllah, so we don't have to keep opening
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new subjects and we can go over some of the
subjects that we've talked about, inshaAllah.
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As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah
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And please, everybody, do go to the Muhammadan Way
website and keep playing with the AI. Keep asking
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the AI the questions and ‘what is the awrad’
(daily awrad), ‘what is Naqshbandiya,’ ‘what is
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the muraqabah’ (spiritual connection). Whatever
you think you want to ask, ask the AI. If the
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answer was good, give thumbs up. If the answer was
you think off and missing some essential facts,
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put the thumb down so that they can monitor and
begin to tweak the AI because this is all custom
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and in-house for us. It'll go off of ChatGPT
and we'll be running on our own servers. So,
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the more input we have, then the more the guys who
are monitoring can understand where the answer is,
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how to tweak it, and how to make it more
appropriate or if something was inappropriate,
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inshaAllah. Allah (AJ) bless everyone
and dress everyone and try your best
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to use it and spread for people to use it
because it's truly amazing. Pretty soon,
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it'll be answering the emails and correspondence,
everything because it gives a much better reply
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because it has also the AI for English, letter
writing, it has a very eloquent skill of
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putting knowledges into an information back to
somebody. So, alhamdulillah, very good. Sorry,
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what was the question?
As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi.
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Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah.
Could you please expand on the strong-tied
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analogy you used that could possibly take
a student away or cause difficulties on
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their path? Also, the benefits of learning
how to swim spiritually and physically.
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How to increase your tie to the shaykh? That's
what we asked the AI, and I posted the reply.
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That, ‘How can I serve the Shaykh better?’
Go to Nurmuhammad, go to our AI, and say,
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‘How can I best serve the Shaykh?’ And then
you’ll get a wonderful reply, that better than
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how we would reply, and the English skills from
our people, but it comprise it very nicely in
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paragraphs. That ‘Do like this, do like this, do
like this’. And I encourage people to go to the AI
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and actually ask that ‘how to increase the ties,’
and it listed that everything that we've talked
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about is that do all of the services and practices
that the shaykh has asked. So I don't really think
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if somebody is truly, truly doing what has been
taught that they would have any doubt of their
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connection and the strength of their connection.
But it's when we leave things, and we truly don't
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listen because we have ears but it's sometimes
difficult for people to hear, and it's important
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to go back to everything that's been taught.
That we do the charity. Why? So that our hearts
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are open and that we have a charitable, humble
character. We live a life of service, wanting to
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serve others and improve the conditions of others
while we want to improve our own conditions. Then
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we do our meditation, our muraqabah, all our
practices that the shaykh has asked. Why? So
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that we have our spiritual connection. So, body,
mind, and soul must be connected to the way. So
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how do you connect the body and it has reference
to parts of the soul – Is by your charitable acts.
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How do you tame the physical body? By putting your
time into it, putting your effort into practices,
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going out and doing charities. Although it dresses
the soul, but it has a very strong discipline upon
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the physicality. When you've committed yourself
and charity is like a tuition into a Divinely
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university. If you were the one paying your
tuitions, not your dad, and you pay your tuition,
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you pay your tuition, the likelihood of you
showing up to your classes is very high. When
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someone else pays your tuition, you don't really
care about the classes because you didn't pay
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for them. You didn't have anything in it to be
worried about. If you worked and from that work
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you paid for your courses, you're the first one
to show up in the class. There's no difference
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in Allah's (AJ) way. That when we have some skin
in the game, when we have our own participation
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in the game, when we do our charity, we do our
service. Oh, you know how many times we went out
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and fed, and how many times we did this and how
many times we did that. You're tied into that
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system. You're not likely to bounce around and
bounce out of it unless you're willing to restart
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that whole system somewhere else. And most people
after a few years of serving and giving and doing,
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that's it, you know, they put the nail on their…
on the rope, and they're tied to the shaykh,
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tied to the way, tied to the tariqah (spiritual
path), and that's what we're trying to do is teach
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people: tie yourself to the tariqah, tie yourself
to the love of Prophet ﷺ. How? By following the
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tariqahs. You can't say, ‘I'm just going to
follow and love the Prophet by myself ﷺ.’ Very
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difficult. The overwhelming tide of people do not
talk like that nor think like that. So you start
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to try to watch other people's TikToks, social
medias, and YouTubes, and the last thing they talk
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about is Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. They even, even
give reference to Hadith and Qur'an and they lie,
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and it wasn't true. And you go back and say,
‘This is not true at all.’ When someone said,
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‘lower your gaze, and the gaze was only for the
men to lower their gaze,’ it was a lie. The Qur'an
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actually asked women ‘Lower their gaze,’ but
that person who said that was lying. So they
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don't even have a problem about lying of Qur'an
and Hadith because they'll reference everything
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according to themself and their understandings.
So tariqah is a path to the heart of Prophet
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ﷺ. So to keep on the tariqah, keep on the
way, support the tariqah, support the way,
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support your relationship with the shaykh
it ties you to the reality. It doesn't tie
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the shaykh because the shaykh is already tied to
Prophet ﷺ and to his shaykhs because that's what
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he did all his life. So you're not untying the
shaykh if you don't support, and you're going to
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make them to lose their mission. No, no, Allah
(AJ) will exchange people for better people,
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so the mission's never lost. It's mission
impossible. It's always in the heart of Prophet ﷺ,
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but Allah (AJ) will exchange us for a better
person. If I don't do what Allah (AJ) asked of me,
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no problem, one better will come and do a better
job of what I should have been doing. So the life
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is of service. So all of these bind the student.
Then, if they're truly binded and they’re truly
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bound, then you think that they would sit and
make their muraqabah, make their connection.
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They paid for it with their blood, their sweat,
and their tears. So why aren't they trying to get
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their treasures? So that's the key to tariqah. If
we don't do any of that and we just want to know,
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like, ‘How can I increase my connection’,
it's not going to be fast. But I recommend
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people to use the AI at the website. And
alhamdulillah, very eloquent responses and
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very thorough, inshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum, Sayyidi.
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Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah.
Sayyidi you taught us that Sayyidina TaSeen is
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the Catalyst during tafakkur (contemplation).
Does ghadab (anger) come as a catalyst when
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we are heedless and not staying in
hudur (presence) of our shaykhs?
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Yeah, the... we have the fire of Nimrod.
The talk about the fire, “Qulna ya naaru,
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kunee Bardan wa Salaman ‘ala Ibrahim.”
Then this is the story of Sayyidina
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Ibrahim (as) being cast into a fire
because everyone's going to follow the way
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of the Prophets (as). So this is what the story
and these qissah, these realities of the lives of
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the Prophets (as) is that we have to walk through
them. So when Sayyidina Ibrahim (as) comes to
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us in this station, and when you study the
levels of the heart, when he's coming into
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the Qalb (heart), the Sir (secret), the Sirr
e Sir (secret of the secret) Sayyidina Ibrahim
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(as) wa Sayyidina Musa (as) and opening the
realities of the kingdom of light, he's coming
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and teaching that: you have to overcome
fire. This fire that comes into your life,
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you have to make it to be cool and peaceful. And
in your abode, the whole dunya (material world) is
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Nimrod. That's why we call the ‘Fir’aunic
bloodline.’ They rule this Earth, and it's in
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Qur'an that they rule the earth because these are
the people of Nimrod. These are the people of the
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Fir’auns (pharaohs), these are the descendants
that rule the earth till today. And because of
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their allegiance with shaitan (satan), their game
is to make people angry and ignorant. That when we
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described in other talks, ignorance—it amplifies
anger. Wise people shouldn't be angry; ignorant
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people are always angry. You see them ranting
and raving on social media, yelling, screaming,
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yelling, screaming, yelling, screaming, because
they're ignorant. But wise people, they don't talk
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like that, they don't even think like that. And
as a result of these knowledges, their behaviors
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are different, and the reality is different for
them, inshaAllah. What were we talking about?
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What was the question? [Shaykh laughs]
Sayyidi you taught us that Sayyidina TaSeen is
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the catalyst during tafakkur…
The fire, the fire, yeah. That how
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to control the fire from anger and then bring
that fire once it's stable “Qulna ya naaru,
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kunee Bardan wa Salaman” to be “bardan wa
salaam” means the presence of Prophet ﷺ.
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So with the salawats (praises upon Prophet
ﷺ Muhammad ﷺ) and the Hudur an Nabi ﷺ – the
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presence of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, that fire comes
under control and it becomes, and should become,
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something cool and peaceful. When something's
cool and peaceful, it means you have a control
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over the fire. The fire becomes the zeal in
which you want to operate; you want to conquer;
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you want to go out and spread the word; you want
to do the good deeds; you want Prophet ﷺ to be
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happy with us. If it's not under control, it's
like a volcano just trying to burn everybody,
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and the zeal becomes anger, and the anger just
becomes the scorching and hurting of people. So
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this is an essential station on the Sirr e Sir on
how to use the faculty of closeness, of hearing
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and seeing to open up these realities of lights
with the salawats and the light of Prophet ﷺ,
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the presence of the Muhammadan fire and not
satanic fire. The Muhammadan fire in which is a
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blessed light, and that requires then the salawats
so that you can draw near to the Muhammadan fire.
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Without that, the fiery nature of people will be
satanic, because everybody's going to have a fire;
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it's an element within them. If you don't
do the salawats, the fire becomes satanic,
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and they do, you know... they can even be and
say that they're spiritual, but they have a
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strong satanic energy. And if they should get
angry or something not the way they want it,
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they explode, and that's when the wildness of
their beast that we talked about. So yeah, that
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fire is the love of Prophet ﷺ. The only way to
take the light of TaSeen ﷺ is by the salawat and
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durood sharif (praising on Prophet Muhammad ﷺ),
inshaAllah on Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, inshaAllah.
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As salaamu alaykum, Sayyidi.
Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah.
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Is it ever possible for the actions of the form
to alter the standing in the world of light,
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or do our actions only reveal and unlock
what we already have been given?
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What's the difference in that? How do you know
what you've been given and what you're altering,
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because you don't know what you've been given?
I would say it's the same. If I don't know what
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Allah (AJ) is giving to me, all my concern
should be, again because we're not philosophy
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students here, all my concern in life should be
is that my form has to submit and do the Will of
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Allah (AJ) for His kingdom is in my heart, and
I want to put His kingdom in my heart. Then,
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my life is to submit. If I submit, I try to
use my form for the hasanat (goodness) of
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my dunya. So that I have the goodness
of my life that I'll build and use my
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life to build my akhirah (hereafter).
I do good, I speak good, I act good,
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and I should see good. What Allah (AJ) gives to
me, it doesn't matter if it’s… was decreed for me,
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newly decreed for me or anciently decreed for me.
That doesn't matter because Allah (AJ) will give
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what He wants to give. But the most important
is to make my physicality to serve. The time I
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have... “Qul inna salati wa nusuki wa mahyaya
wa mamati lillahi Rabbil ‘Aalamin”. ‘And did
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you think you would not be tested like
those who came before you with your life,
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your family, your property, your wealth, your...’
everything will be tested by Allah (AJ).
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So, alhamdulillah, we put all of that so that
we can reach our perfection, inshaAllah. And
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there's not too much time left, so these days are
immensely important and to learn the understanding
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of service, khidmat and how to draw near to the
shaykh, how to draw near to the Hudur e Shaykh and
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the presence of the shaykhs, so that we can
move closer to the presence of Sayyidina
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Muhammad ﷺ, inshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum,
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Sayyidi.
Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah.
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Sayyidi, regarding the levels of the heart, does
the slave move from one level from the other in
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the exact order, or does he move to specific
levels according to his specific conditions?
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No, it's just an opening at all time. It's not
necessarily one, then the next, then the next.
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It's a general opening of all realities,
but one fully doesn't elevate until the
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lower levels are understood and opened.
And they can only be open by a strong
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connection with the shaykh. It's the faiz
(downpouring blessings) of the shaykh that
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the connection opens those realities. For the
Qalb to open, they have to have a very strong
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connection with the shaykhs. It's the knowledge
of this, Ilm ul Yaqeen (Knowledge of Certainty)
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so that they studied these subjects. Ayn ul Yaqeen
(Vision of Certainty) means that they entered
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into the subject with the eye of their heart and
they're witnessing that light entering into their
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heart. They witness the realities that the shaykh
has read about, that wrote about, and they begin
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to witness those realities so that it becomes Haqq
ul Yaqeen (Certainty of Truth). So, they have to
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open up the Qalb which is knowledge, they have to
open up the Sir which is red, and the inner fight.
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So, if you had and a strong inner fight, you must
have a very strong connection with the shaykh
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because you're willing to push off the demon that
sits upon the heart and allow the shaykh to sit
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upon the heart. So, that's why at the Sir is a
big battle where Sayyidina Umar al-Farooq comes
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to help ‘alayhis salaam that “Qul jaa alhaqq”.
That if you're standing for truth, get rid of that
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falsehood within you and around you. So, all of
these are you know self-evident. We seek a path
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towards knowledge is the Qalb, so that we become
students of knowledge. So, your greatest weapon is
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a pen, to write knowledges, understand knowledges.
Those knowledges have to be written onto my book.
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I'm not a spectator just hearing knowledges. I
want to write the knowledges so I can transfer
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them onto my kitab (book). Once they're on
my kitab, I'm dressed with those knowledges.
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Then I begin to close my eyes, meditate into
these knowledges so they become a real and a
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haq (truth) for me. As I'm being dressed by
these knowledges, then now you are traversing
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these oceans of light into these realities, into
these oceans of realities. You'll be dressed with
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the Sir, and then all the knowledges within the
Sir begin to dress the servant. And from the Sir,
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they go to the passing through the Akhfa (most
hidden) and the realities of death until they can
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enter into the world of light. Because if you
study the diagram that from the Sir, you have
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to pass through the black hole, the black Akhfa
reality, which is death. Everything has to die,
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for you to die to reach to the world of light -
Alam al Mithal and the world of light and malakut
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(heavenly realm). That's why everything in its
key is based on tafakkur and how to contemplate,
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how to connect with the contemplation. And as a
result of contemplating, then you would understand
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that your connection with the shaykh is extremely
important and how to serve and a khidmat towards
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the shaykh, inshaAllah.
As
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salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah
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Sayyidi, you had mentioned about smart contracts
and that if you take even one letter from someone,
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you owe your life. Now, what if a person is taking
from five different shaykhs, what happens?
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Five different shaykhs, you can’t take from five
different shaykhs. So, they take knowledges but
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they're not truly entering the contract with
the knowledge. So it's a difference. Your…
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And especially if they’re tariqah shaykhs, it’s
very difficult to understand their knowledges,
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make your connection and connect your heart and
connect to their wallet and the conveyance of
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their coin into your heart. It's like you playing
on a website thinking you have a whole bunch of
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Bitcoins. You don't have the coins; you may even
have spam coins where somebody send something
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to you thinking you got a Bitcoin. It's not
that easy to get the shaykh’s coins. It means
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you connected. When you sought the connection;
you felt the faiz. When you felt the faiz, the
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downloading poured into the heart. We've met many
people in this luminous path of ours in 35 years,
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people saying like ridiculously clowny statements
that, ‘I hold five tariqahs.’ And they tell us,
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‘You know, Naqshbandi I hold five tariqahs’. Say,
‘What kind of a clown is this? How could you talk
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like that?’ You can't even hold the one tariqah;
not even one tariqah can be held. Its amanat and
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its trust; its responsibility of how it's holding
mankind and their sicknesses kill the shaykhs,
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you're talking about you holding five
tariqahs? These are the times we live
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in when ‘They take the religion as a jest’
Allah (AJ) talks about, like a ‘Playing.’
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They say these ridiculous, playful statements
as if… what are you talking about? Not even
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one tariqah can be held. All the tariqahs now are
in the hands of Imam Mahdi (as) and Sayyidina Ali
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(as). Not one of them can be held. How you hold
five tariqahs? And the person doesn't even do
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muraqabah and connect. It doesn't work that
way. And when you connect with your shaykh,
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when connected with our shaykh, connected with
our shaykh, connected with our shaykh, immense
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amount of testing, immense amounts of humiliation,
immense amounts of demolishing and effacing. Onto
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a day in which your heart was smashed and Allah
(AJ) rebuilt, and as a result of the rebuild,
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the faiz and the flow of knowledges began. That's
not something you can go around with five people
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and do because the other four will say, ‘What
kind of a adulterer are you? That what you do,
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took from this shaykh, and now you want to
come and take ours?’ It’s considered adultery.
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So, no, it doesn't work that way. So, the loyalty
is to their life and death with the shaykh. He
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passes, then he represents that reality that the
shaykh dressed him for. If he didn't reach that
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trust and he didn't reach his trust, then he will
be transferred over to a shaykh that can complete
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him, and he'll now connect with his shaykh and
the new shaykh and now again start the process of
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what the shaykh wants as a criteria of loyalty and
training, and then to be completed in the process
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of their annihilation and the process of the
downpouring and downloading within the heart. So,
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it's not something easy, and it's not something
that's playful - it comes and goes. That's why
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we gave the talks on the technology. You know how
difficult it is to get this coin? It doesn't don’t
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come like that. You actually have to give your
code. See the code of the sending wallet, match
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the code with your receiving wallet, sync them
to make sure that you have the correct receiving
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wallet, and then this encryption will come, the
transfer will begin, and it's written on a ledger.
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It's written somewhere. Allah (AJ) is the best
of those to keep hisaab (account). So, what kind
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of a reality is that, that you're going to try to
connect with a shaykh, he's like the Bitcoin mine.
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You're trying to get coins and realities from his
heart. They're going to investigate your code and
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the wallet within your heart – Is it capable of
receiving this coin. That has to be downloaded,
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the permission in the heart has to be given
by Allah (AJ), by Prophet ﷺ, ‘His heart - his
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wallet is capable of receiving the coins you
want to send’. Otherwise, he doesn't even have
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the code. You know, if you try to download hex
or some other type of code into your wallet,
-
for our tech guys who are listening, if it's not
there in the receiving wallet, you can't take the
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code because the code will be sent to somebody who
can't receive the coin. All of those are signs of
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Allah's (AJ) immense technologies. Allah (AJ)
will look to the heart of the receiving servant
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and said, ‘No, that that is not even capable
of receiving these knowledges. There is no coin
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ready for them.’ And if it is ready, then their
encryption has to match the shaykh's encryption,
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and then begins the faiz with all their testing,
with all their loyalty, all their commitment,
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everything they've done and asked that the
shaykh has asked and they did of their service,
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their life, their dedication, then these coins
begin to download. And they keep checking them
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downloading, downloading. And a greater possession
where the shaykh keeps the custody wallet. So,
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now with these technologies, we're understanding
where Mawlana Shaykh (Q) would say that whatever
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we downloaded to you, we're keeping the custody of
it in case one day shaitan plays with you because
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you're not perfected yet, plays with you, makes
you lose your mind, and you think you're running
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away with these jewels. So now in technology, they
have the custodian. Even when I transfer to you,
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I keep the custody of the wallet. Why? Because
anytime I can lock it and hold it back. Or at the
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same time, you can say, 'I lost it. Now what do I
do?' Well, if I have the custody of your wallet,
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I can say, 'Oh, we'll give you access again.' So
these technologies are immense in showing Divine
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realities, and it's just a tip of the Divine
coding on how difficult it is to achieve in
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Allah's (AJ) way. So nobody can say that they're
holding five tariqahs, 'I hold this, I hold
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that.' It's not given away like you know cracker
jack box and candy and carnival toys. These are
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things that are the trust of the entire created
universe, these realities, and just to achieve
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some sense of reality from it is an immense
achievement than anyone could ever possibly
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say they hold the tariqah. That, that is in the
hands of Imam Mahdi (as) because the burden of
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it is too heavy and too high. If they have ijazah
(permission) for zikr, that's something different.
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But to hold the tariqah is just something
immense. InshaAllah, Allah (AJ) help us all.
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As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah.
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Sayyidi you mentioned the level of the heart –
Sir is important for the inner fight. Is this
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why Sayyidina Mahdi (as) dresses this reality
and level as now is the time of the fight?
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InshaAllah, you have to get the book and then ask
the AI also, ‘What's the reality of the Sir?’ The
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Sir is a red and represents struggle. Sayyidina
Umar al Farooq (as) and we described the reality
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of the siwak (teeth cleaning twig) and the
struggling for the truth against falsehood. And
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so everybody has a falsehood in their life, and
we have to destroy it and we have to live on the
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reality of the truth. And the truth is the love
of Prophet ﷺ, follow what Prophet ﷺ brought for us
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and leave what he forbid for us. And this becomes
a inner fight, a battle that's inside and outside.
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You'll fight everybody inside, all the shaitans
within us that don't want to follow the way and
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the sunnah (traditions) of Sayyidina Muhammad
ﷺ, and they give every reason possible and
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every logic possible. And then the immense battle
outside that none of your family want to follow,
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none of the friends want to follow, nobody around
wants to follow. And that's when we said it will
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be like holding a hot coal will be like carrying
your religion because the religion is the way of
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Prophet ﷺ, not the modification that people do
thinking ‘This is okay and that's all right.’
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And they logic and have logic with themselves
and Allah (AJ). But no, keeping the way of
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Prophet ﷺ that is the fire and the coal, that
is what will be difficult because that’s the
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key against the fire. Anyone who can hold a fire
in their hand well they must be pretty strong and
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the rest will be taken by the fire because they
don't hold it, they don't keep it. And we said
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before a thousand times: that Prophet ﷺ is the key
of protection. As much as if we in our life that
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we can adhere to that reality, then we should
be dressed by his holy nazar, his satisfaction
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and his rida, inshaAllah. That's the key to
love, is that you have to follow the one whom
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you love. And you have to follow with respect and
admiration and the best of manners, inshaAllah.
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As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah
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Sayyidi as many of us have
non-Muslim family members,
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during the holidays seems like the testing fire
increases where we also have to deal with foul
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language and being made fun of by others, by our
family members but they still love us and care
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for us. How should we respond and act?
What we just described like a hot coal. So
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try to put a lollipop in your mouth so you don't
have to say anything and try to tolerate what you
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can. And wherever it’s respectful and polite and
wherever the atmosphere is correct and respectful.
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And anywhere that's beyond the level of respect
then politely bowing out. There's going to be
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a lot of forbidden food and a lot of forbidden
items then you say, ‘It's not really good for me
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and it's not good for my family to be around that
so we'll pass’. And if people are reasonable and
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wish to accommodate then people accommodate.
So we try our best to do whatever we can for
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the people whom are in the west, the people on
the East don't understand what we're talking
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about but because you know, they're all in Muslim
countries. But in the west with people whom are
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even Muslim background doing things and wanting to
have trees and wanting to do all sorts of things
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to imitate a people and to imitate a way that's
not our way. So in these days, going to events,
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trying to make sure that the events are halal
(permissible) and clean and appropriate so that
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Allah (AJ) won't be upset, Prophet ﷺ would not
be upset, it's probably more important than other
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people being upset. And the imitation and taking
into one's homes items that are forbidden and not
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a part of the deen (religion), I would imagine
that it's not a time to have Allah (AJ) upset
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with us. So everyone has the right to use
their own judgment but in our judgment and
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our understanding is we don't want Allah (AJ)
angry in days of difficulty. If you thought
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you could do that before and then you'll just say
forgiveness and make tawbah (repentance), now is a
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day in which you could wake up and there's no time
for forgiveness. An earthquake has come, a flood
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has come, lightning has come. Towns go missing
with floods, there's all sorts of calamities
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happening by Allah's (AJ) ghadab and anger. So
it's probably best time on earth right now is to
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keep Allah (AJ) happy and to follow the shari’ah
(Divine law), and to follow the way of Sayyidina
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Muhammad ﷺ, in the east or in the west to the best
of our abilities, inshaAllah. This keeps us under
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the umbrella of protection, inshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
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Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah.
Sayyidi Allah (AJ) says He hears the
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du'a (supplication) of the oppressed ones
most, and if we oppressed ourselves will
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Allah (AJ) hear our du'as to be good
ones? Madad (support) ya Sayyidi.
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Yeah, He hears the du'a of your soul asking
for guidance and that to send a guide to get
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rid of this guy's ego. So that's why we're
now all inspired to be sitting here. So,
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Allah (AJ) accepted the du'a of the soul that,
‘Please don't let me to be oppressed by my
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physicality.’ So, the opportunity that Allah
(AJ) gave all of us to come to the tariqah,
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to sit to listen to the tariqah, this is our
greatest battle. Now, are we going to follow it,
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and are we going to follow our physicality, or
are we going to follow the inspiration of the
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soul and the shaykhs? Because the soul
wants what the shaykh wants that - take
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over this guy's physicality and control
it. So, anytime someone wants to know,
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‘What does my soul want and what my
physicality wants?’ My physicality wants
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recognition and wants to be correct. My soul wants
my physicality to be humiliated and brought down,
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and my soul wants humility and humbleness and
wants to be a servant of the light. So these are
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very different understandings and different wants.
Anytime you feel humiliated, your soul is happy,
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and your physicality is very angry. Anytime
you feel not listened to, not respected,
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your soul is very happy and your physicality is
very angered. And the reverse. So, it means that
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the what the soul wants is something completely
different than what people understand. That's why
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if you humble yourself without needing to be
humiliated, the soul is very happy with you.
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And that's when your nafs (ego) is trying to learn
from your soul, because if you have a strong soul,
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your zikr, your practices will keep pushing
it down, and the energy of your soul will burn
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the nafs. So, you'll go places, and you will be
very humble because the soul has a strong power
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to put your nafs down. Now is not the time to act
like something. Be nothing. Be humble, and people
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feel comfortable with that. So, it's training
and the energy that they bring upon their soul
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in which to be humble and people to be happy. And
there's a time in which they use their authority,
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and there's a time in which to learn what the...
use what they've learned in humility and in the
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way of Allah (AJ), inshaAllah.
As salaamu alaykum Sayyidi
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Walaykum as salaam warahmatullah
What is the spiritual benefit of
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doing a lot of Khatm e Khwajagan (Zikr of
the Masters of the Naqshbandi Way) after
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completing daily awrads (daily practices)?
I don't know what the spiritual benefit is
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because it's not recommended to do lots of Khatm
e Khwajagans because… Don't do things that haven't
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been authorized because it's an energy that people
can't handle, and it wasn't something authorized.
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So, when they're given authorization that: do the
awrad, do the zikr, do the khatm and these are
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in the prescription amount. So, if we say like,
‘Take this antibiotic because of your sickness,
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one tablet three times a day.’ Can you take
three tablets three times a day? No, because
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the toxicity of that medicine most likely will
put you in the hospital very quick. That which
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was a healing for you became toxic for you because
you're not capable of handling that. So, sometimes
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people may do zikrs beyond what was asked of
them, and all of a sudden, they start to sense
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many different energies around them that Allah
(AJ) veiled them. And as a result of that energy,
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immediately they became anxious. Immediately,
they felt they were being attacked because if
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you could see the amount of negative energy just
waiting to attack you, you would have a difficult
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time functioning in life. But Allah (AJ) veils
us. When you unveil yourself at a not authorized
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time and you're not at an authorized level, it's
like taking a video game, getting a cheat code,
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and going up 10 levels. But you didn't progress
for those 10 levels. You don't have all the things
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you were supposed to gain on each level. You just
went up 10 floors, and now you're dealing with
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demons that are much more powerful and ready to
come after you. So unveiling oneself when they're
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not ready to be unveiled, nor do they have the
tools to equip themself for that unveiling is
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not allowed at all and not appropriate. That's
why we say, follow the tariqah way, follow what
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the shaykh has given. Don't be anxious thinking,
‘I can take 10 of these pills, and I'll get there
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faster.’ There is no fast way. The only way is to
connect with the shaykh, connect with the shaykh,
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do the zikr that's been asked, and make your
connection. You start doing beyond that;
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you start to hear and feel things and will have a
very difficult experiences, and it's difficult to
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close those doors right away, inshaAllah.
Seems like many people are asking
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AI questions.
The which one?
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Seems like many people are
asking the AI questions so…
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Oh yeah, questions that are appropriate for the
AI? Yes, you can please contact my associate at
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Muhammadan Way, the little guy all the way at the
bottom. Click on him, and he answers things very
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eloquently, very nice, mashAllah. Remember to put
a thumbs up if it was appropriate, the answer was
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nice, the response was good, and if it was off
and didn't seem like it was missing something,
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the guys need you to put the mark down. Don't
just because you don't like the answer, but
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if the answer you don't think was like complete,
that way they can go back and formulate and find
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out why it didn't answer or give the appropriate
response, inshaAllah. Allah (AJ) dress everyone,
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bless everyone, and Jum’ah (Friday)
Mubarak to everyone inshaAllah.
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Bi Hurmati Muhammad al-Mustafa
wa bi siri Surat al-Fatiha.
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Barakah shafa’at ya Rasulul Kareem, ameen.
Anybody have a question, give me like a
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good basic question; Junaid open up the AI and
let’s see what it… and he’ll read the response.
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‘How best to serve the Shaykh?’
Alhamdulillah, from the teachings of
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Mawlana Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi (Q)…. too,
too much writing here. It's still writing
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Sayyidi, one second.
It's still going?
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It’s okay, it’s done.
Alhamdulillah, from the teachings
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of Mawlana Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi (Q), serving
the shaykh is a noble and significant aspect of
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spiritual growth and Sufism. The shaykh represents
a link to the Divine presence and to Sayyidina
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Muhammad ﷺ. Thus, serving him is a means to
draw near to Allah (AJ) and embody the prophetic
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character. To serve the shaykh one should:
1. Follow guidance – adhere to the teachings
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and guidance provided by the shaykh. Implement
his advice in your daily life and strive to
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embody the characteristics of good manners,
patience, humility, and sincerity that are
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taught within tariqah (spiritual path).
2. Support – Offer support to the shaykh's
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mission by participating in events, spreading
the knowledge you have gained responsibly,
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and contributing through service
and financial means if possible.
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3. Maintain adab (manners) - respect.
Show utmost respect towards the shaykh
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by observing proper Islamic etiquette. This
includes being polite, not demanding his time
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unnecessarily, and understanding that he has
responsibility towards all his students.
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4. Keep connection – stay connected with the
teachings of the shaykh through regular attendance
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of suhbah (discourse), gathering for spiritual
talks, participating in zikr circles if available,
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reading articles or books written by or about
him, and watching videos of his lectures.
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5. Seek permission for services – before
engaging in any activity on behalf of the
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shaykh or using his content for any purpose,
seek explicit permission from him or through
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established channels within tariqah.
6. Financial support – if you are moved
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to offer financial assistance without
any feeling of regret or obligation,
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but purely out of love and sincerity after
reaching a state of spiritual maturity, this
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may be accepted as it aligns with the prophetic
tradition where companions offered their wealth
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sincerely after reaching a state of perfection.
Remember that true service is not just about
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physical actions but also about purifying
one's intentions for Allah’s (AJ) sake and
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seeking His pleasure through your efforts.
Service to others is highly regarded as well;
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helping those in need can often be more
valuable than personal acts of worship.
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If you wish to learn more about how best to serve
or connect further within tariqah practices such
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as adab, awrad or wazifa – spiritual practices,
please reach out to helpme@nurmuhammad.com for
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MashAllah! I'll be ready to retire
soon, and these questions every night,
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we can just ask the AI and the AI Shaykh
Nurjan will be answering everybody.
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As salaamu alaykum warahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
It’s Shaykh Nurjan.
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