Muslimsufi : Awliya Give You Many Test
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Awliya Give You Many Test
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani qs
16 June 2012 - Fenton Michigan
A'udhu billah mina 'sh-shaytani 'r-rajeem Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.
Today is 27th Rajab and we are asking support from Allah swt, from the Prophet (saw) from our shaykh. And
we are asking support is not shirk. Because as we know, everyone asks
support from those who have power. And those who have power, they have
supporters. So these supporters they follow them, because they can give
them support, both sides. Allah swt gives support to His Prophet
Sayyidina Muhammad (saw) whenever the Prophet (saw) needs anything his
demand or his request is never turned down. Always he will be answered
and Allah said in Holy Qur'an,
"Id`oonee astajib lakum.
Call on Me I will respond to you.
But
you have to ask for support. You have to remember you need support.
Everyone needs support. The doctor when the patient comes to him and
they see him in bad shape they give him life support. And this patient
is on life support. All of us, human beings,
creation, Allah gave them life support. When Allah takes His Support,
not only the patient dies or the creation dies, but it disappears. No
one can see them anymore, like they said, in the universe there are
stars that the light in them disappeared, they called them died stars,
extinguished, extinct. But still you see their light because their light
is still moving, it is still reaching as it is moving 300,000 kps.
Which is nearly 200,000 mps.
And that light which is
coming from star 2 or 3 billion years ago, as physicists say, but the
star is already gone. Look at Allah's Greatness, SubhanAllah. Who is farthest, the Divine Presence or a star? The Divine Presence. A
star is compared to the distance of the Divine Presence, doesn't exist
even for Allah swt. He doesn't need the star to His Divine Presence or
to Paradises even, you cannot compare. The support, we are on life support, heavenly life support. Why? Because example is Allah said,
Fee yawm alastu bi-rabbikkum qaaloo balaa
On the Day of Promises when Allah asked "Am I not your Lord".
We
said, "Yes", and that means we were beyond when were created as souls,
when Allah wants our first creation to apear, we were beyond this
earthly universe. Not like billions of light years as far as stars, we
were far more far than that that canont be compared. That is a station
where Allah asked us "Am I not your Lord?". And this was not in our
universe. And that heavenly life support reaching everyone present there
as a soul and that soul is coming and entering the womb of the
mother, a reflection of that soul, but the reality of that soul is
still there. That is why awliyaullah say that Allah created everything
zawjayn, the real and the reflection of the real.
So when awliyaullah are able to connect their reflection with the reality, then they can see everything. Example,
you have a mirror and that mirror is reflecting the light. It reflect
for you and you diret it, it reflect a light. But it does not give the
strong light like the original, it give you traces, a reflection of it.
But if you are able to break the mirror you see the orign, the real
lamp that it is giving light everywhere. like you are
in a cave an the light of the sun is coming through some holes, you
can see. But if you break the cave you are in the light itself, the
real life, the reality of the light. If you are, we are now everyone of
us in a box. And that box has holes. So from the holes the light of the
sun comes, that light you can see, and it is astonishing.
Millions
of years it didn't stop, the light of the sun. Say, one atomic
reaction happening on the sun at every moment. The heat in the core of
the sun is 55 million degrees centigrade. 55 million
degrees centigrade and exploding every moment and still the sun is in
its place. Is it not? The sun is constant, in our eyes. In Allah's
knowledge something else. The reality of the sun, as Imam Ghazali,
everything on earth is a mi`raj and the reality is when you die, yo
usee the realtiy. reality now you cannot see. Muhiydeen ibn Arabi said
we are creating, our mind creates images in front of you but the
reality has not yet reached. So we are in a box and these holes are
inside and you are seeing that light inside the box.
The
box is the ego. When you break the box, you be in reality.Who made the
sun to have always light can make you to have light. So the souls of
human beings are traveling, if we want to count how far they are, the
star traveling 300,000 kps and the souls therefore are traveling in
time, there is no limit, because it is heavenly. And in a moment it
moves, not 300,000 kps but might be unlimited figure. And a figure that
you cannot understand moves from where its reality of the soul to the
womb of the mother. Why Allah swt made it in the womb of
the mother. Cannot Allah create a human beings like he created
Sayyidina Adam (as)? But Allah wants to show us that I am bringing you
from a place that you cannot raise your head.
Dont be arrogant!
bayna dammin wa farthin, Allah brings you form this place that there
is blood and all kins of things that are in a human beings. And when
Allah asked Sayyidina 'Isa (as) did you ask your disciples to take
yourself and your mother as gods other than Me? And Sayyidina 'Isa (as)
said, you know better. And Allah said about Sayyidina 'Isa (as) and his
mother, they were eating food. And eating food means you need to
refresh out back and renew your wudu. So can a God be like that? No.
So immediately a reflection of your soul goes in there
and goes into seclusion for 9 months and 10 days. And then they say
the water broke. And that means the box broke. You come out with open
eyes. Because you are already a pious sincere servant and that is why
when you come out you cry. You dont laugh. Laugh, doctors, say! hahaha it doesn't open the chest? [yessir].
Why
does crying open the chest they say? Doesn't laughting open the chest.
But they say the cry opens the chest. Because the child comes crying.
Because he sees and doesn't want these miseries he doesnt want dunya he
wants to stay where he is in akhir. As the mother is carrying the
child the child is affected by the mother's emotions, if upset he is
upset, if crying crying, if happy , happy. If upset with husband, that
affects the child. So the child will come out depending on how the
mother was behaving during these 9 months. That is why sometimes
awliyaullah have to have a nasab, that is a chain that takes them
through pious and pious ancestors. So they take supprot from the womb
of their mother. And they are crying, Ya Rabbe we want your akhira,
your love, we are coming to this misery to this dunya.
So
anyone able to overcome, replacing dunya with his akhira, in his heart,
and doing his obligations of 5 prayers and his obligations shariah
wise, because mutasawwifoon, are the ones who comply with the Shari`ah
of Islam. You might find a lot of sufis that don't comply that doesn't
mean they are the real sufis. The real sufis they take Sharia`ah with
its utmost respect and honor. And these awliyaullah are big scholars in
Shari`ah and in tasawwuf. You cannot be a sufi shaykh without being an
`alim. And most of these `ulama came from North Africa, Central Asia
and Middle East coutries at that time, came from India, there was no
Pakistan, now there is Pakistan. India, had big `Ulama. Now
subcontinent is full with `ulama. They were able with their piety to
break the box, in their mother's womb, then after they come out they
have to use the training of religion to break the dunya box.
And
Allah will grant when they break the box. To see the real light, not
the reflection that is coming into box through the hole. It depends on
how strong is that Wali. Might be some wali cannot break the box, but
can make the box thinner. And keeps polishing, eating from inside, it
become very thin, and when you look you can see. And some were able to
polish and polish until it disappeared. They bring
you big stone and say this is diamond. And the jewler has to cut and
cut until he gets to the real stone. And so awliyaullah their box is
thin and as much they are poolishing they are able to see through.
There are awliyaullah they are dragons, and they break the box they
immediately connect with their reality their image. When that connection
happens nothing is closed. They inherit from the Prophet (saw)
support. They take from Allah swt support. That support will give them
that light in their heart.
This such meeting is an
example of polishing. Why are we coming? To polish ourselves. For one
hour, 2 hours, 3 and then go and then come. Slowly slowly, people come
to such association in order to polish their boxes in order to make it
thinner and thinner until they reach realities. There was a Sultan who
love artwork, designs and pictures. He made a competition between the
two best artists to draw a painting. He put a huge room and they cannot
see each other, there is a partition between. He said you have this
wall and you have this wall. And he said, we will see in 1, 2, 3 months
who is better. This one on left, was Persian, let us say like that and the other one on that side was Pakistani. Or vice versa.
The
one on left was Pakistani and the one one right was Persian, whatever.
And on that wall that person who is either Pakistani or Persian, we
don't know, was drawing. Very nice begin to draw. And the other one
Pakistani or Persian, I don't know which you want to choose. [right] Ok
any Persian here? Next time we have Persian. So Persian on the left.
You know Persian are not famous for art. But they are clever in another
way. Persians are very into poetry calligraphy,
pictures, everything. So that one Persian was doing very nicely and the
other Pakistani is very clever he has a scrubber and scrubbing the
wall. And after scrub he takes sponge and polishing. This one is
drawing and this one is polishing. Pakistani, like an Arab.
So
everyone saying the competition is nearly over and the King is coming.
What is he doing? And the time is over and that one polished the wall
and the other is very high fancy poetry, Picasso. I was
in Morocco in a conference and they introduced me to a lady. And
everyone going crazy that she is speaking tasawwuf and spirituality and
her husband is .. and at the end they told me her name is Paloma. And
someone asked me do you know who is Paloma? And I said I don't know.
They told me she is daughter of Pablo Picasso whose paintings are worht
millions.
So that one is Pakistani polishing and the
other is Persian painting. And the King came and he wants to see who is
better. He looked there and didn't understand what is this. And he
said to the Pakistani what is this? He said, Your Royalty, please wait
you will see what I did. Wait. I am Pakistani. And the Persian came and
opened said every nice picture. The Pakistani said my picture is
nicer. And they said open the partition. And so immediately the Persian
picture was reflected in the wall, which he had polished and polished.
And it was reflecting the Persian picture. Anything that can be
poslished becomes a mirror. And he said, O King I am showing you how
much is reality and how much is imagination.
That is my
portrait to you, not .. I am opening your eyes, that there are too many
imaginaries, like mi`raj, in the desert you think it is water but it
is not, don't be fooled. So the King said to the Pakistani, you win.
And the Persian was crying. So awliyaullah were able to
polish so much their minds and drop imaginary. That is why Imam Ghazali
said you will find the reality when you die. And Muhiydeen ibn `Arabi
said, you create reality in your mind and until you connect with your
realty you cannot see and understand what is going on. And that is why
we say awliyaullah are like lasers. With that they can penetrate
anything. with laser you heal, x-ray and mri machine work on what? they
send a light but you dont see the light. When they take x-ray you don't
see the light. But if you have eyes like that machine, you can see
everything and awliyaullah have heavenly eyes. That is far more. And
they can see everything.
Now they have CT scan. And every
one is using same film and same light. And each Wali depending on how
much they reached their realities. And we go back to where we begin
you need support. Without support don't think you can do anything. You
came here you drove. If there was no car to come a distance of 30,40,60
km or miles, how many hours is it walking? You will not come. So what
you need? The means, you took a vehicle as a means and
came here. Awliyaullah are your vehicles. Without awliyaullah you cannot
go anywhere. Today why we are losing? Because we are rejecting
awliyaullah and we are thinking "O they are trying to get benefit
from their students or from their followers". And you have lot of
doubts. Small test from Wali to you, and you run away. You cannot run
away. Because this life is full of tests.
And that is why
a guide is important in your life in order to get support and from
your guide he will connect you to presence of the Prophet (saw),
through different means. Some they might say Kun fayakoon! They might
ask, Ya Rabbee, Give support to this person. Kun fayakoon it is finihed.
That is why in western life there are different ways of understanding.
They say different means. What can he do for us? You know a door keeper
at the door of the King, can do more than minister in the cabinet. But
in one country, I don't mention the name, the barber of a country can
request from the King. Someone wanted to be citizen of that country and
the person went to King and they say the barber of the King is
stronger than any minister. He took the paper and said, can you sign
this? And he did. Even the door keeper on the threshold of the Prophet
(saw), awliyaullah are door keepers at the threshold of the Prophet
(saw). And the Prophet (saw) accepted them. And give them whatever they
like according to their levels.
So be at the door of a
doorkeeper. Because he can take you inside. Don't, people today, the
problem today is the people are trying to think from what they have
learned. What have they learned? This one said this and this one said
that. If you don't put it in your thesis for Phd, half of the paper is,
no quarter is original quote and all the rest is footnotes, thies one
said this and this one said this. If you dont put footnotes they say
where did you get this knowledge? Stupid, don't you know that if Allah
wants to give he gives fresh. Do you understand what fresh means here.
Today what Allah is giving to awliyaullah hearts as the Prophet (saw)
is ascending awliyaullah, he takes with them, with fresh knowledge and
fresh understanding. What they say has to be qupoted. It is not that if
someone didn't say it in the past it is not correct. No, it is more
correct, it is a higher level.
Grandshaykh
Abdullah qs, may Allah bless him, was known for his piety. He said that
I came, as I was explaining before, I came from the womb of my mother,
every child comes with open eyes and as the parents and environment
around becomes more negative or feeding child with no wudu, or husband
and wife fight. And problem it will affect the child and his eyes are
closed, and he will no longer see heavenly reflections as we were
describing before. And he told us I was born open eyed until I died. He
was telling us before he died. And they used to come to him in
Daghestan at 7 years old and ask him whom we have to marry? And he used
to tell them from the Preserved Tablets who to marry. This boy with
that girl. So awliyaullah have fresh knowledge that Allah gives them.
The
example that Grandshaykh used to have every week and every month
meeting, where ulama from Damascus go up the mountain from the city and
I am not speaking like our associations these days. As I mentioned
just now there is Persian level poetry and high standard and there is
Pakistani that reflect what the Persian did and say "We did it". For
that masterpiece we spoke about before. And the ulama come and no
association with someone lower than `alim in association and
grandshaykh is pouring knowledge. And my uncle is Head of Ulama of
Middle East and we took him to grandshaykh and he said, from what he
spoke today in 3 hours of suhbat, from every word, or from every
sentence I can put a book. He was amazed.
So
every first monday of the month they go to visit the grave of
Sayyidina Khalid al-Baghdadi qs who brought the Golden Chain from Habib
Jani-janan from India to Damascus. And then from him to Daghestani
shaykhs and then to Grandshaykh Abdullah qs and to Mawlana Shaykh Nazim
qs. And so they go to the maqam of arba`een that is up on the mountain
and they are teh Abdal of sham whom you may call on them for
assistance, they had faith, but today they only have faith when they
have problem. And he was telling grandshaykh, I mentioned
it before. And this is to show how knowledge today is, and how it was
before, it changes. He said that there was a lady in England that came
to me and he didn't say the story at the beginning. She doesn't know my
address, only he is on top of the mountain in Sham, Jabal Qasyoun. You
cannot reach without a donkey. That story took place in the 40s or
50s that english lady came to Muhiydeen ibn `Arabi's
mosque which is down the hill and she was askking about Grandshaykh
'Abdullah al-Fa'iz ad-Daghestani (q) and an English lady asking
Abdullah Daghestani.
And there was a barber there. And we
were speaking about the barber berfore having access to kings. So the
barber is always with King as he has to be presentable. So he is best
to approach the king. So he took her up and was 1st Monday of the
month, and all ulama filling the place. What you think that lady did?
She came in and she has a picture, and it is Grandshaykh picture. She
entered and what do you expect from an English or American lady when
she is amazed about you? What do they do? Hug you and kiss you on your
cheeks. Is it not? And all these ulama sitting and she is going to
grandshaykh and hugging and kissing him on his cheeks. And everyone was
stunned, cannot move.
Now. Of course Islamically it is
not accepted. But that lady out of affection, for her it is nothing
might be kissing hundreds of people. And she said, "Teach
me what you taught the Indian lady." So now they say islamic state of
Pakistan, we have one Indian here. So everyone looking at her and one
who knew english, said, what Indian lady? There are no Indians here. And
she said, no. When shaykh was traveling to India and teaching the lady
there. And the man said, Grandshaykh never left Damascus. And
Grandshaykh said, stop, dont argue. But what is your story. Because
everyone wants to know now. She said, I once received a letter and it
has no return address and it is stamped with Indian post office meaning
it left from India. I received that letter from an Indian lady telling
me about tasawwuf. And I read it, very nice. And then one month later
another letter came, and qoting a shaykh about tasawwuf and that lady
said I am Indian and Hindu, and I read about Zenism and Buddhism.
And
what I saw from that shayk's teaching is completely different. There
was no internet then. Tthen she kept sending me teachings from that
shaykh that every week he is coming to her home and teaching her and
going. And until I became Muslim. After 12 letters, 12 months, the last
letter that she sent to me, she put her (return) address. After that
letter no more letters. I took a plane, went to India and asked for
this address. And it was in a remote area, a village and everyone knows
that lady there and everyone saw the shaykh coming and teaching. And
many other ladies were coming and listening. So they said there is no
one here who can give you more information about that Shaykh except her
daughter and she lives in that house.
And so she went to
the daughter and said, I want what you know about. And she said, the
only thing that my mother expressed to me about that shaykh is his
picture. This is his picture and this is his location at Ibn Arabi's
mosque. So I went and took a flight, as I was amazed at what he was
explaining and teaching. And so I immediately took plane from India to
Damascus and she has the picture and showed to Grandshaykh and it was
you. And all these ulama were amazed they cannot speak anymore. It is
finished their `ilm is ended there. Great `Ulama of Middle East. Not
the Phd of today, if you have Phd put in toilet. And this one is
different Humayra.
So also your doctor
certificate put it there, because for sure all your patients use the
bathroom, they can see it there with your picture. Who else has Phd
here? Computer, Taher. They were amazed they were ulama of first
calibre, from Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal, Nigerai, all Middle East
countires, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, many ulama come to his meetings. And
they didn't have anything to say and she said, what you
gave her about Islam, give me this thing. She wants to check here now,
as she knows the Indian lady became Muslim and she wants to make sure
that what he gave the Indian lady is the same as what he is giving her
or is there a change. If there is a change that means there is a
question mark.
So he said, Allah swt as we
said just now that when awliyaullah connet to their reality they can
bring India to Sham, and bring Sham to India. They can move mountain and
they can bring rain and stop rain. I was with Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad
Nazim al-Haqqani doing tawaf in Mecca. First tawaaf, 2nd tawaaf and he
stood at Bab al-Multazam, the door of Ka`bah. They will push us now and
as if he is in a trance. You know how hard it is there, in Hajj time
they push you and if you are pushed and we are standing beside him and
he is standing in the middle looking at Bab al-Multazam and it is
dangerous. As if we are not seeing people, in his circle we are
standing. Awliyaullah have a circle that surround them and who enters
that circle will not be harmed,will be supported and as if we are in
that circle and protection there and people passing behind, none in
front even. And he is asking dua and he said, "Ya Rabbee, I am not
moving from here, we are coming here for You and for sake of Your
Prophet (saw) and we are beggging from You to send Your Rain.
And
we will stand under Mizab ar-Rahmat. There is place behind Hijr
Ismaeel that is the place that Sayyidina Isma`eel is buried there, that
is why they don't let you pray there. And there is Mizab ar-Rahmat,
when rain fills the roof it will flow through that pipe. And sahaba
used to wash under it. And then before he finisehd the dua, we heard
thunder and there was no cloud in sky and then suddenly like in
equatorial areas, in short time, it was pouring rain and we finished
our seven tawaaf from fourth, because water beginning to rise, and we
had to run away the water becoming like here, we run up the stairs, and
everyone is watching. And some people go to sit and Mawlana is going
to sit after doing 5, 6, 7 tawaf under rain we sat under the stairs and
water is coming to our feet. How can they do that? That is something
we cannot understand.
Awliyaullah they can.
Not they can, but if Allah gives them they can. And Allah said, call
on Me I will answer you. That is why we come to Wali to ask du`a as
their dua` goes quicker than ours and we ask Mawlana from here to make
du`a for us and to keep us in his circle in presence of the Prophet
(saw). So he said to the lady, I will give you what I gave her and you
do the same. And for every guided person, we dont say convert, to do
that. And it will insha-Allah open his heart. I will not say more than
that. Say shahada when you wake up, ashadu la ilaha ill 'Llah wa ashadu
anna Muhammadan rasoolullah and every time of prayer, you make a
sajda, because she doesnt know how to read Arabic and she doesnt know
how to pray.
And today there is too much information but
in that time there was nothing. So in every prayer time make sajda and
say O my Lord You are my Creator and I am your servant. And every time
you go to bed shahadah and one salaawat on the Prophet (saw). And she
said is that it? He said that is it? And she said yes that is what you
gave to Indian lady. And she authenticated what he said, because how to
know what he said. And around the world not just Indian lady, but
indian ladies and around the world we have been ordered to move to
subcontinent to Indonesia, to give guidance to people. And this opens a
new subject, like Sariya when he was in Damascus and Sayyidina 'Umar
(ra) was telling him go to the mountain and he was hearing.
So
there is fresh knowledge coming all the time and fiqh is fiqh, how to
pray and fast and eat and sleep and suicide bombing and islamic banking
and social welfare, all this is based on different opinion in order to
have stronger ruling. But tasawwuf is different. It is what is coming
to the heart of the Shaykh from the heart of the Prophet (saw). That is a
situation that not everyone can have it. Now in western style they
give grants or loans. And the best is grant and that is given and dont
have to pay back. Allah grants to some awliyaullah free,
with no knowledge they don't read and don't write. Only a little bit
Grandshaykh Abdullah used to read Holy Qur'an and Dalail al-khayrat.
And when he speaks ulama are astonished. Coming new knowledge from his
heart. And it is amazing. Even 15 year old person comes to him he opens
suhbat to him for 3 hours, in Daghestani or Turkish and someone will
translate.
Dunya for him doesn't weight the weight of
mosquito. My father used to work in jewelry and he had a ring, with blue
diamonds, very rare. And we took it and happy, we are taking the ring
to him which we are not caring for the diamonds and we want his ring.
And we present the ring to him. Mawlana please accept the ring from our
family. And he said Masha-Allah and we took the ring and said, O
Mawlana here is the ring. And we took his ring put in our pocket. And
that evening a person coming, we didn't know him and Mawlana begin to
open a big lecture. And that man looking at Mawlana's hand
at the ring. And we were looking at the man and looking at his eyes.
What does he want from that? And he said, O Shaykh you have beautfiul
ring. Oh, do you want it? Here. And yes, here take it. And he took it
and left. And he said to us, where is my ring? That was one of ministers of Mahdi that he called to come and take that ring.
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