Tidak Perlu Orang - Orang dilarang untuk Ibadah Haji dengan Quota

Tidak Perlu Orang - Orang dilarang untuk Ibadah Haji dengan Quota

Petikan Suhbah Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani qs, 
Cyprus, 31 Agustus 2013

Wahai Raja Arab, mengapa kalian selalu menghancurkan Masjidil Haram untuk selalu diperluas dan melarang orang untuk ibadah haji denga quota (pembatasan). Meskipun Masjidil Haram kalian hancurkan berkali-kali tetap saja kalian merasa tidak akan cukup untuk menampung jamaah haji.

Hanya Aku yang dapat memperluas bumi-Ku. Ketika kalian yang mengundang, maka kalian hanya mampu mengundang 40 orang saja. Tetapi ketika Allah Dzul Jalal yang mengundang hamba-Nya untuk menunaikan ibadah haji, maka Allah dapat memperluas tempat itu dan jangan kalian larang mereka untuk datang.

Kalian mengatakan tidak cukup jika seluruh manusia datang untuk menunaikan ibadah dan Masjidil Haram tidak mampu menampung seluruh jamaah. Dan kemudian apa yang kaian lakukan, kalian menghancurkan kembali Masjidil Haram untuk memperluas tempat itu.

Serahkan semua itu kepada Allah, jangan ikut campur dengan Urusan Allah ketika Dia mengundang hamba-hambaNya untuk datang menunaikan ibadah haji. Kalian hanya pelayan-Ku, jangan campuri urusan-Ku. Aku dapat memperluas tempat itu, dan kalian tidak akan pernah dapat menampung jamaah yang datang meskipun kalian memperluasnya berkali-kali. Kalian mengira kalian telah membangun tempat yang lebih luas tetapi malah kalian telah mempersempit tempat itu, dan tetap saja tak pernah mencukupi untuk menampung seluruh jama'ah haji.

Wahai manusia percayalah akan KeMaha Besaran Allah, bahkan Allah dapat menempatkan seluruh jamaah yang datang kedalam sebuah kulit kacang saja, dan masih ada sisa untuk menampung seluruh manusia. Siapakah kalian yang berani ikut campur dalam pekerjaan-Ku. "Aku akan memperluas tempat-Ku". Hanya dengan Iman kalian dapat memahami kebesaran Allah Dzul Jalal. 

(Mawlana Syaikh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani qs, 31 Agustus 2013)

If You Want Tariqah You Must Know Shari`ah

If You Want Tariqah You Must Know Shari`ah

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

21 August 2013  Lefke, Cyprus

 

Zhuhr Suhbah 

Alhamdulillahi Rabbi 'l-`Alameen, wa ’s-salaatu wa ’s-salaamu `alaa ashrafi 'l-mursaleena Sayyidina wa Nabiyyina Muhammadin wa `alaa aalihi wa sahbihi ajma`een.

A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani ‘r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem.

Nawaytu 'l-arba`een, nawaytu 'l-`itikaaf, nawaytu 'l-khalwah, nawaytu 'l-`uzlah, nawaytu 'r-riyaadah, nawaytu 's-sulook, lillahi ta`alaa al-`azheem fee haadha 'l-masjid al-kareem, masjidi ’l-ummah, inshaa-Allah, masjid Sayyidee Shaykh Muhammad Nazim `Adil al-Haqqani.

Alhamdulillahi ’Lladhee ja`alanaa min Ummat al-Habeebu ‘l-Mustafa wa ja`alanaa min ahbaabi ‘l-Mustafa wa karramanaa ilaa mahabbati ‘n-Nabiyyi ‘l-Mustafa `alayhi afdalu ‘s-salaatu wa ‘s-salaam. that Allah has made us from Ummat al-Mustafa and has made us from the beloved of Sayyidina al-Mustafa and honored us to be the lovers of Nabiyy al-Mustafa (s), alladhee anbathaqa minhu an-nooru ’l-ilaahee haythu qaal Allahu `azza wa jalla min kitabihi ‘l-kareem, the One from whom was bursting forth the Divine Light, as Allah said in his Holy Book:

قَدْ جَاءكُم مِّنَ اللّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ

Qad jaakum min Allahi nooran wa kitaabun mubeen

Indeed, there has come to you from Allah a Light (Prophet Muhammad) and a plain Book (this Qur'an). (Surat al-Maa’idah, 5:15)

From Prophet (s) the Heavenly Light reached us, reached the ummah, reached humanity, reached the angels, reached everything that Allah (swt) created, reached, where Allah said to Sayyidina Adam (as) in hadith:

لما اقترف آدم الخطيئة قـال : يا رب أسألك بحـق محمد لما غفرت لي ، فقال الله : يا آدم وكيف عرفت محمدا ولم أخلقه ؟ قال : يا رب لأنك لما خلقتني بيدك ونفخت في من روحك رفعت رأسي فرأيت على قوائم العرش مكـتوبا لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله فعلمت أنك لم تضف إلى اسمك إلا أحـب الخلق إليك ، فقال الله : صدقت يا آدم إنه لأحب الخلق إلي ادعني بحقه فقد غفرت لك ، ولولا محمد ما خلقتك

When Adam (as) has committed the sin, he said, 'O Lord! I ask you for the sake of Muhammad [bi haqqi Muhammad] to forgive me.' He subhanahu wa ta'ala said, 'How did you know Muhammad?' He said, 'because when you created me with Your Hands and blew into me from Your Spirit, I raised my head and I saw on the legs of Your Throne written, 'laa ilaha ill-Allah Muhammadu Rasulullah' so I knew You would not put next to your name except the one who is the most beloved to You.' He said, 'you have said the truth, O Adam, and if it were not for Muhammad, I would not have created you.' (al-Haakim in al-Mustadrak)

That means the respect and love is for Sayyidina Muhammad (s), not for this one or that one.

Then after the Prophet (s) it is for the Sahaabah (r), then after the Sahaabah (r) for awliyaullah (q), the awliya that you and me don’t know about. No one can know awliyaullah realities, wherever a person rises up in levels, rising up toward heavenly knowledge, they cannot reach to know the shaykh. The mureed, the follower, cannot have any doubt in his shaykh, in his teacher; if there is doubt that is dangerous. If no doubt, that is good. May Allah bless the soul of Grandshaykh (q) and give Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) long life!

Yes, we love Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q)! Not only you, but everyone says, “I love him the most,” no! All of us, all the mureeds east and west love Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, may Allah give him long life. Don’t accuse this one or that one that he betrayed the shaykh as that is not nice, that is not nice! No one betrays his shaykh. No one betrays his shaykh. Don’t give the example of a prophet and his disciple betrayed him, the example of Sayyidina `Isa (a) who was betrayed by his disciple. These are prophets; don’t touch on prophets!

Mureeds are in the station of thumma aamanoo thumma kafaroo, which means one day they are strong believers and one day kafaroo; “kafara” here does not mean shirk, but it means his faith has shaken a little bit. So try to help him. If you see someone falling try to hold him, you don’t try to push him down more to crush his head.

I will tell you a story, which is a nice story. May Allah (swt) grant our Grandshaykh, Sayyidee Shaykh `AbdAllah al-Fa’iz ad-Daghestani (q) high levels and grant Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) high, high levels! Don’t accuse us that we don’t love Mawlana Shaykh, no! If Mawlana doesn’t love me, why did he give me his daughter? Did you ask this question in your mind? Why didn’t he choose you for his daughter? It’s a question mark.

I will tell you a story, let us change this subject. This is a very nice story. Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, said that one of the awliyaullah had students and they were of different levels, because there are 124,000 awliya on Earth. When a wali dies, another one comes and sits in his place as his inheritor. When they pass they have successor, so there is not only the Forty Awliya of the Golden Chain, but other than the Golden Chain there are too many others, as Grandshaykh (q) and Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q) said. There are 7007 Naqshbandi Order shuyookh. Where are they? We know one, but we know only the Sultan. He is the Sultan, but where are the 7007? Did we ask ourselves that question? They are there. You might be one of them or you might be one of them, or maybe he is one of them. Allah veils them, Allah covers them.

So one of these mureeds that is a wali--and the shaykh at the highest level at that time was from the Naqshbandi Order from the 7007 saints--he had many followers and one follower was such a good worshipper: he doesn’t backbite, doesn’t make fitna, doesn’t spread false rumors, he is always straightforward and worshipping, like Shaykh Mustafa. I never saw him except smiling; he doesn’t speak (casually) with this one or that one as his heart is with Mawlana Shaykh. This one, he is one of the hidden ones. I don’t say that it is coming from Heavens and signs, to go so much higher to qaaba qawsayni aw adnaa. There are such ones, wa maa dhaalika `ala-Llaahi bi `azeez, Allah can do that as it is not difficult for Allah! 

So that shaykh had many followers and one of them was a big worshipper, worshipping and worshipping, every moment in sajda, sajda, at Fajr time hundreds of sajda, Maghrib time hundreds of sajda, always making dhikr, always doing what Allah loves to be done like dhikrullah, until one day he was in sajda and he saw the name of his teacher appearing to him on the Preserved Tablets. He was able to reach, to read what is written on the Preserved Tablets that is known between the awliyaullah, not the original Preserved Tablets, but the Alwaah, the Preserved Tablets that the awliya can read. There are different Preserved Tablets: let it be known so as not to confuse the people that everyone can read what’s on the Preserved Tablets, no! There is a Preserved Tablet, according to `ulama of Islam and awliya, that the first appearance of the Holy Qur'an came from the Preserved Tablets to the Prophet (s) and then he revealed it on the level of the Sahaabah (r) and awliyaullah, but the original came from the Preserved Tablets that is what the Prophet (s) received. So there are many many Preserved Tablets coming from that main Preserved Tablets, according to the level and capacity of the people who are hearing.

So he was praying and praying, until one day in sajda he saw his shaykh was written to go to Hellfire, punishment. His shaykh, one of the 7007 Naqshbandi Shaykhs, his name was written to go to Hellfire. So what does he have to do? He went into more sajda, saying in his heart, “Yaa Rabbee! What is this? My shaykh who is bringing thousands and thousands to Islam and other thousands to imaan, and guiding Muslims to their destiny, how is he in Hellfire?” So he began making more and more sajda, praying, “Yaa Rabbee! Take my shaykh from Hellfire to Paradise. Yaa Rabbee! Take my shaykh from Hellfire to be in Paradise,” until one day after raising his head from sajda he saw on the Preserved Tablets that his shaykh is now in Paradise. He was so happy! After Fajr, he quickly ran to his shaykh, so happy to tell him, “I took you from Hellfire to Paradise!” But as soon as he entered, the shaykh took his miswaak like this and broke it, and said in front of everyone, fa w ‘Allahi wa Rabbu ‘l-Ka`bah, giving an oath by Allah, the Lord of Ka`bah, “Who allowed you to interfere in my destiny? I will break you into pieces like I break this siwaak! You are not allowed to come back to my association until you bring me back to where I was, to Hellfire, for my name to go from being in Paradise back to Hellfire!”

Everyone was surprised and they were running after him to know what happened. He didn’t speak, he was crying, “I did good! What is better than that?” So he went home and then he went into sajda, (pleading), “Yaa Rabbee! Take my teacher back from Paradise to Hellfire. O Allah! Take my teacher back from Paradise to Hellfire,” until one day his name was changed from Paradise to Hellfire. He went happy to tell his shaykh. But as soon as he entered the door, his shaykh said, “Yaa waladee, O my son! We worship Allah for His love, so if He wants to put us in Hellfire let it be, if He wants to put us in Paradise let it be, we don't interfere. You broke the rule! I am seeing this in the Preserved Tablets since twenty-five years and my worship never changed. I was worshipping harder and harder, because my name was there and (I began) showing more love to my shaykh. I am seeing this since twenty-five years ago and I didn’t put my iraada, my will.”

Don’t put your iraada in the Will of Allah (swt), don’t put your will in the will of Prophet (s), don't put your will in your shaykh's will. Submit, surrender; don’t bring yourself up as if you are a partner. Allah has no partner, He is The Creator and everyone is His servant! The Prophet (s) has no partner, he is the Seal of Messengers and the Mercy to the Worlds. And shuyookh have no partners! Everyone has his place. So interfering in the will of awliya--changing the one whom you like, putting the one you like, taking out the one you like--that is not correct, that is wrong! That will take you... in the presence of the Prophet (s), your shaykh has to take all of us to the presence of the Prophet (s) every day, so don't make him ashamed!

If you do a sin between you and Allah (swt), Allah will forgive, you can repent and Allah will forgive, but if you do something against the rights of your brother, you took his rights away so then Allah will not forgive unless the oppressor gives back the oppressed his rights. We don’t want to fall into this problem, this hegemony of Shaytan, because you are holding it, but we are allowed to go (public with it) according to the hadith of the Prophet (s), and for sure everyone has heard that hadith.

Tariqah is not only spirituality. Be careful! Be careful! Be careful! Mashaa-Allah, be careful, there are too many representatives of Mawlana making mistakes. Tariqah is not only spirituality, tariqah is also Shari`ah. The Shari`ah is the highway, the bridge, the tunnel. Tariqah is how to be guided through the tunnel in order not to have an accident. So you need to have a structure in order to move from one side to the other; if there is no tunnel, no bridge, no highway, you cannot. Shari`ah is that. Tariqah is the light that will guide you through that tunnel and through the highway, not to let you exit to Shaytan, but to keep you on the highway. 

الإمام مالك بن أنس قال: من تفقه ولم يتصوف فقد تفسق، ومن تصوف ولم يتفقه فقد تزندق، ومن جمع بينهما فقد تحقق

What did Imam Malik (r) say? Man tasawwafa wa lam yatafaqqah faqad tazandaq, “Whoever learned tasawwuf without learning Shari`ah becomes a heretic,” because he might do things that Shari`ah does not accept, so what is the benefit of tariqah then? It doesn't work. (They say), “Come and make whirling!” They are making whirling with women and they are broadcasting it everywhere and putting pictures on the Internet. Is that accepted in Shari`ah? How your tariqah will grow up when you are rejecting the Shari`ah of the Prophet (s)? We are not living in a jungle, where everyone has his own Shari`ah. This is a disciplined tariqah! The mureeds are making it undisciplined, but the shuyookh make it disciplined.

So Imam Malik, who is one of the biggest imams, said, Man tasawwafa wa lam yatafaqqah faqad tazandaq, “The one who studied Tasawwuf without Shari`ah will be a heretic,” wa man tafaqqaha wa lam yatasawwaf faqad tafassaqa, “and the one who does not study Tasawwuf and only keeps on Shari`ah, that person is tafassaqa, corrupted,” because Shari`ah polishes you, Shari`ah gives you the structure. Tariqah, Sufism builds you up with nice characters, such as how to be diplomatic between people, how to speak nicely with people. It gives you the taste of Islam.

Why do converts come to Islam? Why do many people through Tasawwuf come to Islam? It is a taste, as Ibn `Ajeeba (q), one of great scholars of Egypt and Sufis of North Africa, said, Al-`ilmu `ilmaan, “Knowledge consists of two: `Ilm al-Awraaq wa `Ilm al-Adhwaaq, Knowledge of Papers, and Knowledge of Taste.” You need both of them. You need the Shari`ah, the books, and you need the Tariqah, Maqaam al-Ihsan, the Level of Moral Excellence. So we said if you studied Tasawwuf without the Shari`ah you will be a heretic, and if you studied Shari`ah without Sufism you will be corrupted. (Continuing the statement,) Wa man jama` baynahima faqad tahaqqaq, “Whoever mixed them both together (he studied Shari`ah and Tasawwuf), that person will reach realities.” So do we want to reach realities or do we want to build our building on a cliff, as Allah said in the Holy Qur'an (9:109), that it will continuously fall down, you and the cliff. 

So Imam Malik, one of the greatest imams, do you know how many teachers he had? They counted his teachers, all 900: 300 on Shari`ah and 600 on Tasawwuf.

Sayyidina `Umar (r) used to be afraid to make a fatwa, because it is a responsibility. Imam Malik rarely in his life made fatwa. Today everyone is making fatwa through the Internet, every Muslim is making a fatwa and everyone in tariqah is making fatwa, and when you ask them, “From where is this?” they say, “Mawlana told me.” (Laughter.) 

I will tell you a story that is from yesterday. It happened here. One person who can go upstairs to see Mawlana, because not everyone can go upstairs to see Mawlana Shaykh, I won’t mention their name. There is a fitna in one country between two people who they make dhikr. One of them, everyone knows he is appointed by Mawlana Shaykh and the other one claimed that he is appointed by Mawlana Shaykh, because someone told him, “You have permission from Mawlana to do dhikrullah.” In the same city! In the same city and a big confusion was coming up. So then someone who can go upstairs asked Mawlana, “Yaa Sayyidee, did you give that other one permission?” and Mawlana said, “No, I didn’t. Everyone does what I say, everyone does their job, I am the one who gives and I am the one who takes. I didn’t give him.”

What did they say? They said, “Mawlana gave him permission,” and Mawlana did not give him permission. That is why when they say, “Mawlana gave permission,” it is not true, because it is very difficult to speak with Mawlana Shaykh. So what happened is that they began to have problems in the same city, in Berlin, and that person went to Mawlana asking him, “Did you give that permission?” He said, “No I did not, I only gave it to one.” I am not mentioning their names. Alhamdulillah, I am so happy that this subject came up, because now you can build on it (regarding) what is happening in other countries. Who is the one who went up? It was Shaykh Muhammad, Mawlana’s son. He went up and asked his father, “Did you give that other one ijaazah?” and Mawlana said, “No.”

So that is a sickness going around, everyone claims he is responsible. Okay, responsible people take permission and it has to be announced, it has to be cleared. If you have authority to do dhikr, you cannot go there and say, “I am appointing this one to represent me.” Who are you to appoint someone to represent you? One representative or a deputy doing dhikr goes and appoints another one in another country, like what happened in Berlin. Who allowed you or appointed you to give responsibility to people in different areas? Mawlana didn’t. You can be there, yes, no problem, you are a representative, but you cannot appoint someone else.

SubhaanAllah, out of love they appoint someone else and then that someone else who has been appointed, after a while he becomes a big shaykh and calling people to himself and then he forgets about the one who appointed him even! It’s a sickness, contagious, like the flu going from one to another, when you cough it goes from one to another. This is going from one to another: “Why he is going to be shaykh, I want to be a shaykh! I have some people, I am going to be shaykh!”

So Imam Malik said, “O! If you want tariqah, you must first learn Shari`ah.” Yes, Mawlana speaks Tasawwuf, but that doesn’t mean you take all these books and don’t want to study them, saying, “We want to study by ourselves, we don’t need books.” Why does Mawlana have all these books? Go there in that room, this warehouse is full of manuscripts, hundreds of them in that room! Why is Mawlana keeping them and why did Mawlana read them all? Go upstairs to his room, by his chair, many people on the Internet can see that when we record him there, a big bookshelf of books that he reads daily. Why? How people are saying there is no need to read books, we only teach Tasawwuf? That is not correct, then they come to accuse the others.

Look, how do you make wudoo? With what do you do wudoo? With water or tayyamum with dust, sand or stone. Is there anything else? Nothing. That one is accusing us that we make wudoo with air. That is on the Internet, that this group makes wudoo with air. That is nice, that is easy. (Laughter.) How they dare to say that? From where are they bring that? That is not nice to accuse some Muslims of something not correct.

So let us go back to what we started. The Prophet (s) said:

أفضل الجهاد كلمة عدل عند سلطان جائر        

Afdal al-jihad kalimatu `adlin `inda sultaanin jaa'ir (in another version, aw kalimat al-haqq).

The best jihad is a word of justice (or a word of truth) before a tyrannical king.

( Related by Abi Sa`eed al-Khudree)

The best jihad--not to explode this one and that one and kill this one and that one and kill innocent people--no the best of struggles is “kalimat al-haqq” and in some narrations, “kalimatu `adil,” the word of truth or word of justice in front of a tyrant. You cannot hide or keep quiet when there is a sultan (ruler) who is a tyrant and doing all kinds (of wrong), accusing you and defaming you with all kinds of garbage. That is haraam, so you have to stand up and try to correct it.

عن أنس رضي الله عنه قال: قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم: انصر أخاك ظالماً أو مظلوماً، فقال رجل يا رسول الله أنصره إذ كان مظلوماً، أفرأيت إذا كان ظالماً كيف أنصره؟! قال: تحجزه أو تمنعه من الظلم، فإن ذلك نصره.

Qaala rasoolullahi unsur akhaaqan zhaaliman aw mazhlooma. Faqaala rajulun: ya rasoolullah ansurhu idhaa kaana mazhlooman afa-ra’aaita idha kaana zhaaliman kayfa ansurhu? Qaala: tahjazhu aw tamna`uhu min azh-zhulm. Fa inna dhaalika nasruhu.

The Prophet (s) said, “Help your brother, support him, oppressed or oppressor.” A man said, “Yaa Rasoolullah, if he is oppressed we understand how to help him, but how do we help the oppressor?” The Prophet (s) said, “Prevent or forbid his oppression of others. Then you have helped him.”

Tell him, “O my brother, O my lover, O my friend, O my beloved, O my best friend, O my khaleel, O my shafeeq,” whatever you want to say to him, “please stop doing that.” By this you are helping him and stopping him from doing that, but if no one wants to speak and address the issues, there are so many issues among the mureeds of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Tariqah, if you don’t want to stand up and correct them, it is said:

الساكت عن الحق شيطان أخرس

As-saakitu `an al-haqq shaytaanun akhras.

The one who is keeping quiet in front of truth is a deaf devil. (A saying of Abu `Ali ad-Daqqaaq an-Nisapuriyy)

The one who does not stand up for truth is a deaf Shaytan! If you are on truth, stand up and if you cannot stand up, then send it to your shaykh and to the Prophet (s), they stand up for you!

What did Allah (swt) say in Holy Qur'an?

إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُدَافِعُ عَنِ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ خَوَّانٍ كَفُورٍ

Inna-Llaaha yudaafi`u `ani ’Lladheena aamanoo.

Verily, Allah will defend those who believe. (Surat al-Hajj, 22:38)

“Allah defends the believers.” May Allah defend us! With our love, we love all of you, Mawlana loves everyone, oppressor or oppressed, and the oppressed he loves for sure, the oppressor he loves by telling him the advice not to accuse others with his oppression. We love you and respect you. Let us come back to normal, let us forget the past, everyone. If you have a problem or a difficulty, may Allah forgive everyone and bless everyone and bring everyone back to unity, together inshaa-Allah.

Wa min Allah at-tawfeeq bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.

Tariqah is not to make this one against that one and this one against that one, a confusion soup, no! Tariqah is protocol. Protocol. When you are elected to be a high-level diplomat, they teach you protocol, they teach you diplomacy and you must go take a course on how to speak as you cannot say whatever is in your heart without thinking as it might affect others and hurt other people.

May Allah forgive us, bi hurmati 'l-Fatihah.

Taqabbal-Allah.

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Do Not Accept News without Investigating

Do Not Accept News without Investigating

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani

20 August 2013     Lefke, Cyprus

Zhuhr Suhbah

As-salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuh.

A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem.

أَطِيعُواْ اللّهَ وَأَطِيعُواْ الرَّسُولَ وَأُوْلِي الأَمْرِ مِنكُمْ

Atee`oollaha wa atee`oo 'r-Rasoola wa ooli 'l-amri minkum.

Obey Allah, obey the Prophet, and obey those in authority among you. (Surat an-Nisa, 4:59)

And I say again, “A`oodhu billahi min ash-Shaytaani 'r-rajeem. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem” another time to get rid of our egos and to get rid of our Shaytan. And I say, “As-salaam `alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh” to those who are watching on the Internet and to those who are here.

I am speaking from Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Muhammad `Adil al-Haqqani, Sultan al-Awliya, in spite of the noses of anyone--is that correct English?

This is Mawlana Grandshaykh’s second helper (Shaykh `Abdu 's-Salaam), Grandshaykh `AbdAllah al-Fa’iz ad-Daghestani’s (q) helper. I was with Grandshaykh 37 years and he is more (in service than me) five years. There was another helper who died at the age of 107 years, Sayyid Abu Bakr. Grandshaykh (q), may Allah bless his soul, said about Shaykh `Abdu 's-Salaam, and I was there, “He is from the Five Qutbs.” You heard that before? He might not say it as he feels shy, but he is from the Five Qutbs.

If someone has any question come and ask it, I will clarify it, related to that subject or another subject. But before we begin, (let me say) today I wear professional and formal (dress), with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim's stick. I intentionally took it from Mawlana’s room in order to come here professional and formal, not informal, formal.

Allah (swt) said in Holy Qur'an:

لاَّ يُحِبُّ اللّهُ الْجَهْرَ بِالسُّوَءِ مِنَ الْقَوْلِ إِلاَّ مَن ظُلِمَ وَكَانَ اللّهُ سَمِيعًا عَلِيمًا

Laa yuhibbu ’Llaahu ’l-jahra bi ’s-sooi mina ’l-qawli illa man zhulima wa kaana Allaahu samee`an `aleema.

Allah loves not that evil should be voiced in public except where injustice has been done, for Allah is All-Hearing and All-Knowing. (Surat an-Nisa, 4:148)

I hope there is an Arab person who can translate to English, but I will translate: Allah does not like to bring something out, something bad that passed before, except by someone who has been oppressed by an oppressor. Laa yuhibbu ’Llaahu ’l-jahra bi ’s-sooi, “Allah does not like to expose the badness, except, He gave the condition, where yes you can if you have been oppressed.

We have not only been oppressed, but we have been slaughtered and barbecued! We are what? Slaughtered and barbecued from some people, and also from some people who have authority in this tariqah. Not by Shaykh Muhammad and not Shaykh Bahauddin and not from the family (of Mawlana Shaykh), but by some other people who know themselves and this is making confusion everywhere.

And the Prophet (s) asked the Sahaabah (r), “Who is the bankrupt one?” They said, “He who has no money.” The Prophet (s) said, “No, the one who has no `amal (good deeds), because he backbites his sisters, his brothers, his uncles, his family, and his brothers in tariqat.” They said, “Even if he prays and fasts?” The Prophet (s) said, “Yes, even he prays and fasts.” Allah said in Holy Qur’an:

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن جَاءكُمْ فَاسِقٌ بِنَبَأٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا أَن تُصِيبُوا قَوْمًا بِجَهَالَةٍ فَتُصْبِحُوا عَلَى مَا فَعَلْتُمْ نَادِمِينَ

Yaa ayyuha ’Lladheena aamanoo in ja’akum faasiqun bi naba'in fa-tabayyinoo an tuseeboo qawman bi-jahaalatin fatusbihoo `alaa maa fa`ltum naadimeen.

O you who believe! If a corrupt person comes to you with something wrong, ascertain the truth unless you harm people unwittingly and afterwards become full of repentance for what you have done.

(Surat al-Hujuraat, 49:6)

“O Believers! If a hypocrite or wrongdoer comes to you with news in public,” and all of us, with Mawlana's barakah we hope Allah (swt) will write us in the presence of the Prophet (s) as believers. Allah is giving a general khitaab, a general message, a general declaration in Holy Qur’an, “O Believers! If someone corrupted came with fabricated news, fa tabayyinoo, look into it, check it in case it is wrong.” He (swt) didn’t say “believe it without checking it,” He said “check it.”

And I am saying to everyone, and this is Holy Qur’an and Holy Hadith, we don’t say, “We don’t want Shari`ah,” no, we want Shari`ah! That is the order, that Shari`ah is within the tariqah. Tariqah does not teach us to lie and make confusion. So if someone mu’min comes to you and wants to make a wrong declaration, because if he makes wrong declarations that person is a faasiq (a cursed one who violates Shari`ah)! Fa tabayyinoo, check it! Don’t check it from the one who said it because he will lie, so check it from your friends and your brothers, is it correct or not? Wa tusbihoo `alaa maa fa`altum naadimeen, because you might believe it and make an enemy of your brother who is innocent.

Shaykh Salim, is my English correct? He is my teacher. We are all friends in tariqah, we are all Mawlana’s children from different backgrounds, different races, different beautiful faces; all like flowers in a garden, different flowers. The verse continues:

وَلَا تَجَسَّسُوا وَلَا يَغْتَب بَّعْضُكُم بَعْضًا أَيُحِبُّ أَحَدُكُمْ أَن يَأْكُلَ لَحْمَ أَخِيهِ مَيْتًا فَكَرِهْتُمُوهُ

Wa laa tajasassoo wa laa yaghtab b`adakum b`adakum ayyuhibbu ahadukum an yaakulu lahma akhihi maytan fa-karihtumooh.

And spy not on each other behind their backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? No, you would abhor it. (Surat al-Hujurat, 49:12)

Do you like to eat the raw flesh of your brother? You will be disgusted to hear such nonsense, such false declarations; some false argument; some false news, so check it! Don’t eat the flesh of your innocent brother by believing the faasiq. Is it correct, Dr. Munir?

We are still on the right page and speaking Qur`an and hadith, to clarify first about one important issue, which those who are listening here and watching and seeing each other, they can see the feelings, how it is flowing in the air, but those who are on the Internet, if they are reading a transcript they don’t feel the feelings, but if they see something they feel more than the ones who read transcripts.

First of all, I want to mention that there are many students of Mawlana Shaykh from different parts of the world. Is that correct, Dr. Salim? [Correct] From all parts of the world, is there any doubt? [No.] From all kinds of backgrounds, is there any doubt? [No.] Like flowers of different colors in a garden, how nice is it? Every flower has a nice smell and some flowers have no smell, but they are there; still they can smell from the ones that have a nice smell. Is it wrong? So everyone has a different culture in his country, is it correct? Shaykh Salim? I am looking at you because I take from your heart, you reflect to me. I love him, in front of everyone: I love him. Say you love me; I love you.

So everyone is from a different background: you go to far Far West, let’s say Chile or Argentina, or America or Canada or Panama or Mexico or El Salvador, and they have different cultures. South America has a different culture than North America and North America has different culture from Canada and there are mureeds there. There you put your name and if you are `alim, scholar, put “Shaykh” in front and everyone knows that. If you put something else, they don’t understand it, they will be mistaken. At the end (after their name) some people say (titles such as) “Professor” or “Dr.” There are too many ‘doctors’ that are not medical doctors; before we didn’t know there were other (types of) doctors. Now there are doctors in plumbing even! [Really?] Yeah, in plumbing they have to study plumbing engineering, electrical engineering; they are doctors. And scholars in Shari`ah have now become Doctors of Shari`ah, they changed. Muslims in Middle East countries don’t say anymore...if you look on the TV and you see an `alim coming from Azhar they say, “Dr so-and-so”, they don’t say “Shaykh” anymore or “Mawlana” or “Sayyidina”, because in Egypt any `alim they call him “Mawlana” or “Sayyidina” and let them bring someone who can deny that.

In the Far East, in the Indian sub-continent, every scholar is (known as) “Mawlana”, every `alim is “Mawlana”, and every one who cleans the masjid is “Mawlana”! You cannot say, “There is only one Mawlana” because they (mureeds) don’t know as the culture is different. Out of respect they might call him “Mawlana.” For example, if Dr. Professor Salim Spohr goes to Pakistan or India, or to North Africa, Tunisia, Algeria they will call him “Mawlana Salim, Mawlana Shaykh Salim, Mawla al-Hasan, Mawla al-Husayn, Mawlana...this shaykh, that shaykh.” You say that they are taking “Mawlana” out, they call him Grandshaykh and they say that I am taking “Mawlana” out (from Mawlana Shaykh’s title) and I am putting that for myself. They accuse me of that and I want to clear it up: anyone who is saying that, I am going in front of Allah on the Day of Judgment not forgiving him, I want my right on the Day of Judgment. Those who claim we took (the title) “Mawlana” out and Mawlana (Shaykh Nazim) is more than ‘Mawlana’, he is Sultan al-Awliya! If we believe more, he is the Ghawth as ‘Sultan al-Awliya’ and ‘al-Ghawth’ is the same name but “Gawth”means more, it means that is “the one who gives support.”

He is an inheritor from Allah (swt) and from the Prophet (s), that dressed him, it is not possible to become Ghawth without Allah dressing him to become Ghawth, no! We say Ghawth al-`Azham, Sayyidina Shah Naqshband (q) is Ghawth, Sayyidina `Abdul-Qadir al-Jilani (q) is Ghawth, and Sultan al-Awliya is equal to the Ghawth; that is higher than to say only, “Mawlana.” “Mawlana” is a normal title for any scholar around the world.

Yesterday, `Abdullah from France, whom I know very well, this poor guy, Masan, when you said to him (referred to me as) “Mawlana Shaykh Hisham,” what did he say? (Say) “Shaykh Hisham” or “Mawlana,” but you cannot say, “Mawlana Shaykh Hisham,” and this poor Pakistani guy from Nelson doesn’t know. Everyone in Pakistan, living in UK even, they say “Mawlana” to anyone, to the one cleaning the masjid even. You, `Abdullah, professor, no need to say that. Who put this in your mind, this false accusation against us? And this needs to be clarified, so I am clarifying it!

[Dr. Salim: I am not sure, I am not sure: anta mawlana f ’ansurnaa `alaa al-qawmi ‘l-kaafireen, in Qur’an you will see that Allah is attributed with this.]

أَنتَ مَوْلاَنَا فَانصُرْنَا عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْكَافِرِينَ

Anta mawlana f 'ansurnaa `alaa al-qawmi ‘l-kaafireen.

Thou art our Protector, and give us victory over the disbelieving folk. (Surat al-Baqara, 2:286)

That is correct, that is what we were saying! You cannot say to anyone (address them as) “Mawlana” because Allah is Mawla al-Jami` and this is the literal translation of that ayah. But in some backgRounds, (for example) now in Lebanon you cannot say “Mawlana,” no one can call someone “Mawlana”. But there are different cultures around the world where it’s normal to them. You can teach them? Go around the world and teach them, then we will be happy, but if you cannot reach them and teach them, what will you do? They say it and you don’t like it. Anyone saying, “Mawlana Shaykh Nazim,” did Mawlana stop him saying “Mawlana Shaykh Nazim.” No, so the highest authority is not preventing people to say “Mawlana” to him! Some Pakistanis might say to anyone, “Mawlana.” In Egypt they say “Mawlana.” We don’t want to be like Salafi and Wahhabi, who say literally that if you say “Mawlana” you are kaafir! But the title Mawla al-`alamayn al-muhtaramayn, Sayyidina Abi ’l-Qaasim Muhammad, that (title) is evidence from the sunnah! Prophet (s) is Mawla al-Mu’mineen, Mawlana of Muslims and the inheritors from Prophet (s) are Mawlanas.

That is the evidence from the sunnah. When the tribes came to the Prophet (s), they said, “This is ‘Mawla Bani Asad’, this is ‘Mawla Bani Quraysh’, this is head of the tribe of Quraysh, ‘al-mawalee’, they are the heads, you can say that and you are not meaning “Allah”! You cannot jump so high, keep down. Some people use it, some people don’t use it. We are not living on an island, on Cyprus alone as Mawlana is everywhere! He spread the tariqah west and east! He has mureeds everywhere! They call each other “Mawlana” and “Shaykh.” So that is the first point. We don’t like anyone to call us “Mawlana” or to call me or someone else “Mawlana”, but culturally we can’t do more other than doing (explaining this) on the Internet. If someone has the power go and spread it, but don’t spread it to accuse some people of raising their level by saying, “Mawlana.” No, we are not raising our levels!

Second, Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, said that the mufti of Islam in his country came to Sayyidina `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (q) and said, “Yaa Sayyidee, I want to be your mureed.” He was Shaykhu ’l-Islam. Shaykhu ’l-Islam. When you say “Shaykhu ’l-Islam,” what does that mean? The highest level of Muslims in the country. He was coming to Sayyidina Khawaja `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (q) saying, “I want to become your mureed.” Does that lower his level? No, it doesn’t lower his level, but in the eyes of people it does. In the eyes of shuyookh it doesn’t lower his level as he is coming, accepting a mureed to be a mureed, not to be Shaykhu ’l-Islam, although that was his title.

So the shaykh said, “Okay, you want to be mureed to me, I am looking where to put you.” Look at the organized structure in tariqah, he is looking for a place to put him in, not like us here with everyone in the same garden. He is looking for a place to put him in. So he said, “We need wood, because it is very cold in winter. We need wood for fire, so I give you a donkey, a rope and an axe. Go to the mountain, cut the wood, put it on the donkey and bring it.”

So he is Shaykhu 'l-Islam and what can he say? He is coming to be a mureed and for mureeds it is like that. He went in the alley and the people began to see him, saying, “He is Shaykhu 'l-Islam?”

“Yeah! That is Shaykhu 'l-Islam.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, Shaykhu 'l-Islam!”

They didn’t understand it, their level they cannot take it, but the shaykh is looking forward, he is looking far, seeing far, and he wants to polish the people by seeing that Shaykhu 'l-Islam is doing this, he wants the people to understand by seeing this from Shaykhu 'l-Islam, humbling himself, not only humbling, but humiliating, because you have to humiliate the ego, not only humbling as the ego is never going to be humble. Even if you make a gesture of humbleness, still the ego will say, “No, don’t do it!” You have to humiliate it, you have to break it with an axe. So when he gave him the axe and the wood and the rope, it means he was saying, “Go and cut your ego with that axe; humiliate yourself in front of everyone, and I am seeing forward to your future.”

So he went half the way and came back and said, “Yaa Sayyidee, can you give me better job? People are humiliating me.” And it is a humiliation, but he is Shaykhu 'l-Islam and was not seeing in front of him. The shaykh is seeing, the teacher is seeing, the Ghawth is seeing, the Sultan is seeing, Aqtaab are seeing! Whomever the shaykh gave the title of Qutb, if the shaykh gives something he doesn’t take it back. He might give it to you now, before or after. It is up to him, but he dressed you with that title and no one can take it. When Allah gives you something He will not take it back as Allah is Generous, why He has to take it back when He gives it to you? For those who are inheritors:

أَلا إِنَّ أَوْلِيَاء اللّهِ لاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ

Alaa inna awliyaaullaahi laa khawfun `alayhim wa laa hum yahzanoon.

Behold! Verily on the Friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve. (Surah Yunus, 10:62)

The Inheritors of prophets, the awliya sitting upstairs here, they give and that is it, they don’t take it back. A generous person gives you a book and they don’t say, “Give it back.” If they give, they give, and even if you run away they don’t take it back!

So the shaykh, Sayyidina Khawaja `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (q), knows where he is taking him, but Shaykhu 'l-Islam cannot see that as he has no kashf, no vision. So Shaykhu 'l-Islam said, “Yaa Sayyidee, can you give me a better job? All these people here are humiliating me.”

He said, “Yes, no problem, I give you now instead of this, I give you another job. Go and collect stones and put them in the bathrooms in the city, downtown, because that will be...” before when they want to take wudu they used stones to clean themselves where today they clean with toilet paper. “Go and collect these stones and put them in the bathroom, then go in evening and collect the dirty ones and throw them. That is a better job for you.”

This story is from Daghestan, it is Grandshaykh’s (q) story.

And he said, “Yaa Sayyidee, the first job was better!”

Shaykh `Abdul-Khaliq said, “No, I gave you the option to do the first job, but you didn’t want to take it. Now you have to do this.”

So he went to the city taking the bucket, going to the ocean bringing some stones and taking them there, and the children saw Shaykhu 'l-Islam and said, “Oh! He is going crazy.” So he went back to Sayyidina Khawaja `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (q) and said, “O Sayyidee, that is too much humiliation for me. Can you give me something better?  And he said, “Yes,” and this is Grandshaykh’s (q) story, “because you said that, now you go and collect the stones, clean them and make sure they are clean, and then put them back in the bathroom.” He recognized now that there is no way to ask and that he must go and surrender. Children were throwing stones at him and cursing him saying, “Shaykhu 'l-Islam lost his mind.” He went back to Khawaja `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (q) and the story continues, but we want this part of the story: He said to him, “Yaa Waladee, I was dressing you. I cannot dress you with something that is not clean. I want to clean you first, to polish your ego and to bring your inner side up. I want to bring out that enlightenment, the noor that is in your heart. I have to cut your ego down, as you cannot come to me with your ego,” at that moment he submitted and he dressed him and he sent him out to the world, to spread tariqah. That’s why the tariqah moved from Daghestan all the way to India, to Central Asia, the Middle East and all over the world with the barakah of Sayyidina Khawaja `Abdul-Khaliq al-Ghujdawani (q). There are many other stories like that, which I will not mention here. This is part one of the lecture.

But I want to say that those who understood that, what I did two days ago, was humiliation for me, must know this is not a humiliation. Your eyes saw it as humiliation, but in reality there is something hidden there, a big treasure. When you look for the treasure you don’t mind for the dunya. Humiliate yourself. What happened to Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami (q)? When Allah said to him, “Go and humiliate yourself to be a dump for My servants,” do you know that story or not? When he was approaching and approaching and knocking at the door to see a vision, to be nearer to the Beautiful Names and Attributes, nearer to the Divine Presence, he heard a voice from an angel saying: “You want to be in the Divine Presence? Go and make yourself a dump to My servants.” That means “Let them throw on you all kinds of accusations. Let them throw on you all kinds of garbage and be patient. That is where you will get  the treasures.” Then Allah dressed him with a dress that is from Allah’s Beautiful Names and Attributes which you are never going to see, if we are going to speak about “this is humiliation or not, this is honor or not.” We can claim that what we see or don’t see...

I am claiming in the masjid of Mawlana, Allah give him long life, that what I see, you don’t see, and I am seeing with the power that Mawlana dressed me with, the name Qutb al-Mutasarrif. If you don't want to believe it go to Mawlana Shaykh and tell him to pull that name out. You cannot take names out. What Mawlana gave of the name Qutb al-Mutasarrif is there. If you don't like it go and hit your head with the wall. I am not claiming. He said it many times, and I will tell you what he said. He said it to me and it is well known everywhere, and it is taped. We don't need to tape even, but these ignorant people are like Salafis of tariqah today, or Wahabis of the tariqah, they want everything literal. Awliyaullah don't put things literally. When he says something that is it. He said, “Qutb al-Mutasarrif,” then it is Qutb al-Mutasarrif. He said, “You are from ar-Rijaal al-Ishraaqiyoon,” those who are going to be ready for things that are going to happen to change the world from fighting to peace. And he said, “Your name is Madad al-Haqq, Hujjatullahi ’l-Mukhlis.” That is the first name of ar-Rijaal al-Ishraaqiyoon. If you cannot accept it, go tell Mawlana to take it out, I am surrendering. He said it, he said it.

Grandshaykh (q) gave me two names from wazirs of Mahdi (a): Thaamir al-Haqq Zayn ul-`Abideen and Muraad-Allah adh-Dhaakir from al-A’immat al-mudabiroon. If you don't like it, what can I do for you? Nothing. It is not my problem. So if awliyaullah want to give, they give. So my look was forward and your look was limited. You can say what you want to say, but I want to tell you more: my baya` is from two, not from one only. It is from two grandshaykhs. Don’t say, “O he said ‘Mawlana is Grandshaykh.’” Shut up! Mawlana Shaykh Nazim is Mawlana Shaykh Nazim; he is Grandshaykh, he is Sultan al-Awliya, He is Ghawth. He is grandshaykh above every shuyookh in this dunya. He is sultan over every person on this dunya. He he is al-Ghawth and he can support anyone. I believe that. If you don't believe it, it is up to you.

I have to say that, which may Allah save us from saying “I”, and anyone who wants to sit on this chair, can come and sit. I can claim, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that I have one original baya` that no one has, in 1958, even before Shaykh `Abdu ’s-Salaam came to Mawlana Shaykh when his first khaadim, helper, was living, Shaykh Abu Bakr, living untill he was 107. I was young and I came to Grandshaykh (q) with my father and my brothers and we took baya` directly from Grandshaykh that no one has taken; even Shaykh Muhammad and Shaykh Bahauddin. And then after that we took baya` from Mawlana Shaykh Nazim directly, may Allah grant him long life.

And one baya` took place in a vision. Grandshaykh (q) had a book that Grandshaykh Shaykh Sharafuddin (q) had written. It has all the names of awliyaullah, the names of Sayyidina al-Mahdi and his ministers, the khulafah of Mahdi (a) and his deputies and ar-Rijaal al-Ishraaqiyoon, A’immat al-Mudabiroon, and Shuyookh al-Islam, and 313 walis that are on the footsteps of 313 messengers. Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul, gave me the book and said, “Write it and make copies from it.” There was no copying machine at the time. I copied the book and duplicated it making five copies. Then I gave it back to Grandshaykh, may Allah bless his soul. When I was writing the book, suddenly I felt Grandshaykh appear as I am writing, and he said, “Extend your hand.” I put my hand on his hand and then I saw Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and he put his hand, then I saw 40 grandshaykhs of the Naqshbandi Order and that was in Ghaar Thawr in Mecca. I put my hand and these 40 shaykhs appeared, then I saw 124,000 Sahaabah, then 124,000 prophets, and then the hand of the Prophet (s) was on top of them reciting, “Allahu Allahu, Allahu Haqq. Allahu Allahu Allahu Haqq. Allahu Allahu, Allahu Haqq.”  And he said, “This is a gift for you.” No one got it like that.

Allah knows best, if I am lying I will be responsible on the Day of Judgment. If I am not lying then you are happy, because you heard it. I am proud of my baya` to Grandshaykh and from Mawlana Shaykh the two sources, that is Dhu’n-Janahayn. And I saw Mawlana Shaykh Nazim many times when we go to visit some Shadhili shuyookh and Mawlana Shaykh put his hand tabarrakan and he told us to go and visit other shuyookh for barakah. When I put my hand to Shaykh Muhammad, that is for barakah, for him and for me. If they understand they understand, because I am seeing more than them. That is a boost for Shaykh Muhammad, as Mawlana ordered me to look after him and support him.

Like today a shaykh comes, he is Shadhili, or Ba-Alawi and and says, “Take baya`,” that is for barakah, not for changing shaykhs. I do not need to change my shaykh to Shaykh Muhammad, my baya` is for Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, not with Shaykh Muhammad. Mawlana is alive. All baya` has to be to Shaykh Nazim; all baya` that is being done, from any deputy, from any representative, for any son, that baya` is to Mawlana Shaykh. No baya` can be accepted except to Mawlana Shaykh. Even if you put the hand of a young one and recite the ayah of baya`, it is to Mawlana, not for him. When I made the baya` it is not for Muhammad. If I do it for Muhammad it is wrong. I don’t need to do it, I have the baya` directly with Mawlana and Grandshaykh (q). If you don’t want to do it it is up to you, but you have it with Mawlana Shaykh, you have it with the source! I don’t understand. Do you go to the source of water or you go to the tap? I don't understand, but you want to put your ego down, you have to step on it with hard feelings, because there is something there waiting and you need the key. Humiliate yourself; anyone can be humble for a certain reason, to be taken up to Mawlana Shaykh. You humble yourself to any doorman, if he tells you, “Take baya` with me and I’ll take you up,” what do you do? Ten baya` take and go up.

My baya` is to Mawlana Shaykh directly, my baya` is to Grandshaykh directly, from Sayyidina al-Mahdi (a) directly, I don’t need to renew my baya` with anyone, you want to renew, you renew, it’s up to you, but I did that to unite, to make people happy, because the fitna is too much: “Oh! He made himself shaykh.” Yes! I am shaykh, do you want anything? I am not only shaykh, I am, as Mawlana said, Qutb al-Mutasarrif, you want anything from me? And not only that, as Grandshaykh (q) said, Madad ul-Haqq Hujjatullahi ’l-Mukhlis, Thaamir ul-Haqq Zayn ul-`Abideen Muraad-Allah adh-Dhaakir. You want anything? You want? Say. You are happy with your toys, you go play with them: websites, Facebook, Twitter, go play with it. I am happy with a Heavenly Twitter, I am happy with Heavenly  baya`, I am happy with heavenly visions, I am happy with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and with Grandshaykh, I am happy with Sayyidina Mahdi (a). I saw Sayyidina Mahdi (a), you didn't see Mahdi (a) and it is time to say it in public! I saw the Prophet (s) and you didn’t see the Prophet (s), and I have the Holy Hair of the Prophet (s), the long hair of the Prophet (s) that you don’t have. I have some amaanah from Prophet (s) that you don’t have, not to make me proud, no I am not, you saw me I humiliated myself. I have baya` with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, why do I have to take baya` through Shaykh Muhammad. You know why? To give him power, to boost him, to make people to unite, that’s why. If you don't understand the meaning of baya`, you are so retarded, sorry to say that. To those who don’t understand. May Allah not question us, because the Prophet (s) said to Sayyida `Ayesha (r), “Pray that you don't be questioned.” That is Sayyida `Ayesha (r), Ummhat al-Mumineen, the Mother of Mu’mins! Prophet (s) is telling her, “Please ask Allah not to question you,” because what did he say in the hadith?

Sayyidah `Ayesha (r ) related from the Prophet (s) :

من حوسب عذب

Man hoosiba `udhdhib.

Who will be judged will be punished for sure. (Bukhari)

Man hoosib `uadhdhib, “If anyone is questioned he will be punished,” he is even telling Sayyida `Ayesha (r), to the beautiful lady, his lovely wife, that Allah made her love in the heart of Prophet (s) and he said to her, “Anyone who is asked will be punished!”

What about us if he is telling Sayyida `Ayesha that? How do you make fitna when you know you are going to be punished? Anyone who is making fitna, don’t be confused by asking, “Who is that person Shaykh Hisham is speaking about?” “Leave Shaykh, that Hisham is speaking about,” no person, that is in general, too many sicknesses with everyone. I am proud of what Mawlana gave me, but not proud of my achievements. No, we have to do better. We brought Mawlana to speak at the highest level, to speak at the White House, in Congress, we put conferences, we brought him seven times to America, he was on CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News and broadcast everywhere. Did you do that? The first application to be registered in Malaysia for a charity, may Allah bless her soul, with Hanim, she is a lawyer, 107 centres in Indonesia, in Uzbekistan, in Tajikistan. I brought Mawlana from the top in private jets, private planes, for the honor of Mawlana. I was able to do that for myself, but I brought Mawlana Shaykh. I wrote over forty different books, the life of awliya. Why are you upset? You must support me, because you love Mawlana Shaykh! I accept to be a donkey, even to carry you! A donkey carries loads. Awliyaullah make their best mureeds donkeys in the spiritual meaning, which means to carry the loads of others. Carry my load, I carry your load, it will be easier, we carry. I carry your load and if you carry your load it will be easier.

So my baya`, I repeat, will never be taken away, it is with Grandshaykh (q) and Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. I am not taking baya` to anyone. Mawlana is alive, so what are you speaking about baya`? May Allah (swt) forgive us. If you have more questions, there are too many we have! We are a small group, why do we have to fight with each other? Although we are considered a big group around the world. And do you know who was writing the suhbah  of Grandshaykh (q), every word, when he opened his mouth? I was that one and I taped all of Mawlana Grandshaykh’s (q) suhbah, all of them are on tape. And in 1985, one person appeared from Germany called Mustafa, I don't know him. He had a turban and jubba. Mawlana Shaykh Nazim was with us in Beirut and he spoke with him in Turkish.

Mawlana said, “Where are the tapes? He said give all of them to him.”

I said, “They are there.” This is not 1985, it was 1987.

Mawlana said, “Give it to him. All of them”

I said, “Mawlana! This is Grandshaykh’s teachings! I cannot give.”

He said, “No, give all of them.”

I said, “Can’t we keep some of them?”

He said, “No everything all of them, he will fix them.”

What did he want to fix with them? Nothing! They are tapes, the old style tapes, this big, reel to reel. The machine we used to record is in Grandshaykh’s house in Damascus. That is what happened. My hands were shaking, I didn’t want to give them to him, but Mawlana insisted. He never showed up, the tapes are gone, all of Grandshaykh (q) tapes with all kinds of knowledge. Why Mawlana did that? If I had doubt then I would say, “Why he did that? He didn’t see what he was doing.” I don't doubt Mawlana Shaykh, I know there is a wisdom. He wants to tell me something spiritually, to focus on me now, focus on me now: “You cannot connect to Grandshaykh in the grave. I can, so you focus on me. When you focus on me I take you there. If you keep the tapes now, it might become a distraction to the mureeds. Focus on one windmill.”

There used to be a water wheel that brings the water up, and Grandshaykh `AbdAllah used to say--and I don't want them to make a mistake sitting in the mosque of Mawlana, and they say I am calling him Grandshaykh--Grandshaykh used to say, “Don't try to water two fields with one water wheel,” neither will be watered well.  

Mawlana said, “Since Grandshaykh left dunya I can reach him, you cannot reach him, focus on me. That person came to show you what you want take, but we have the knowledge directly.” I didn't want to do it. I had to step on my ego to do it because it is rare to have Grandshaykh’s tapes; 500 tapes of the large tapes, and in each one there might be ten lectures. I stepped on my ego, but there was compensation coming in the future. It is not easy to give the name (title) of “Madad al-Haqq” or “Qutb al-Mutasarrif”. It is not promoting myself.  

Salim Spohr is so welcome, so beloved to Mawlana, Mawlana gives to his heart, is it not? We cannot say, “No.” He speaks on behalf of Mawlana Shaykh, we cannot say, “No.” Then he is khalifah of Mawlana Shaykh. We cannot say, “No.” Sayyidina Khalid al-Baghdadi, one of the greatest shaykhs of the Naqshbandi Order had 299 khalifas and everyone went with his own branch now, they don’t all of them unite, now too many khalifas, but they are all supported according to their capacity.

May Allah make our capacity strong enough to carry Mawlana Shaykh’s knowledge in order to let that pipe be connected, his pipe is ready, it needs only our pipe to connect with it. May Allah connect our pipes...we cannot connect it, it is difficult. May Allah, with the barakah of these beautiful people here, connect our hearts together and connect our hearts to Mawlana Shaykh directly, inshaa-Allah. And our baya` is with Grandshaykh Shaykh `AbdAllah ad-Daghestani (q), is with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, and we renew our baya` all of us together by extending my hand, and it is to Mawlana Shaykh Nazim, inshaa-Allah: Ash-hadu an laa ilaaha illa-Llah wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadu ‘r-Rasoolullah...Allahu Allahu Allahu Haqq. Allahu Allahu Allahu Haqq. Allahu Allahu Allahu Haqq…al-Fatihah.

(Someone kisses Shaykh Hisham’s feet.) You see? Can I stop him? Did I tell them to do that? No. That is the problem, that is what Wahabis say and they put pictures on their website, the picture of Mawlana Shaykh standing and they say it is “a mureed making sajda to the shaykh, they are making kufr.” You have to answer, but our people are not answering, they are only fighting amongst themselves! I answered, “Mawlana is old, then he needed someone to put on his shoes.”

Salim Spohr: Sometimes there is no need to answer.

That’s the other philosophy, mashaa-Allah, that is good, correct, that’s what they say, “If you leave the dog to bark, he will die by himself from barking.” That’s correct, but sometimes when you see too much division within the same group then you have to clarify things. When I am seeing around the world in the travels and I see the fitna and differences, here and there, you have to give an answer.  Salafis-Wahabis, I used to answer them too much, now I don’t care. Y’Allah, as-salaamu `alaykum.

Baya` is for Mawlana Shaykh Nazim only! For no one else. We don’t change our baya`, from everyone it goes to him and my baya` is from three sides. As-salaamu `alaykum.

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