Ahmed Suleman Khatani – THE TRUE LOVE
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Rahim, you will become the Beloved of Allah. You will become the
Beloved of Allah. You will become sinless. Allah will forgive you.
Allah is very forgiving. Allah is very merciful. Dunya will be
yours. Kabar will be yours. Jannat will be yours. Akirat will be
yours. Allah will be yours. What is the condition that this love
must not just be a verbal declaration, it must translate
itself into it thought and obedience,
ajib incident. Very often I've mentioned it
because, like
we have to understand, my respected brothers, if you want to
know what is ish, if you want to know what is muhabbat, if you want
to know what is Fana Phila or rasulallahu alayhi wa sallam, then
it is impossible to understand this concept unless we turn The
clock. Turn the clock back 14 centuries ago, ashabu, Muhammad,
sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, ikhtara humullah, that Jamaat and
that group that was hand picked, selected, chosen by Allah to be in
the companionship of Muhammad Rasulullah, SallAllahu, alayhi wa
sallam, our mother, Ayesha radi Allah,
Abu Ruka fama asvir Hatay, she says, a Sahabi comes to
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallallah, what is his purpose?
What is his objective, to declare His love Wallahi by the Qassam of
Allah, una be of Allah. You are more beloved to me than my
children. You are more beloved to me than my wealth and my family
and Ya Rasulullah, you are more beloved to me than my own life.
Wahi nila akunu, Phil beid, sometimes I am sitting at home.
Kuroka, Fama, asbir, Hata, ati, kafandura, Elek, sometimes I am
sitting at home, the thought of you enters my heart. Ya
rasulallah. When that happens, I become restless. My sleep becomes
haram. My food becomes haram. There is nothing that is
pleasurable for me. I am restless. I am not at ease. Hata ATI ka
pandura, Elek, until I do not come and cool my heart by looking at
your noble countenance.
Today, a troubling thought occurred to me what taught the
reality of life. This is an ephemeral existence, temporary
life. I'm going to die, ya rasulallah, you also going to
leave this dunya, ya rasulallah, you will get the highest echelons
of Jannah in paradise. In me is daal tol, Jannah, khashi, to Allah
Arak. The thought that worried me is that if I gain entry into
Jannah, I can never reach your makam and status. Ya rasulallah,
you will be right up. I will be right down. In Jannah, I fear that
in Jannat I will be deprived of your mahiyat, of your
companionship. I fear in Jannat, I will not be able to cool my heart
by looking at you. What is he saying? Translate this. Understand
the veracity of what he is saying. He says, ya rasulallah, Jannat is
not Jannat, unless I can be with you.
The horrors of Jannat, the khman of Jannat, the kusur of Jannah,
the beautiful descriptions of Jannah are meaningless to me, ya
rasulallah, if I am deprived of your sahabat and your
companionship, we want to know what is love. This is love. We
want to know what is Ishq and muhabbat. This is Ishq and
muhabbat. Lam, you read in Nabi you Ali salAllahu alayhi wa
sallam. This What? What? What was he trying to what was the
objective of this entire exercise, Ya Rasulullah, when I am at home
and I think of you, all I have to do is leave my house and come and
look at you. Ya Rasulullah, show me a nuskha. Show me a
prescription that in Jannat. Also, I will be with you in Jannat.
Also, I will be able to see you in Jannat. Also, I will have your
companionship. What is the nuskha? What is the prescription? Lam you
read in Nabi you Alisal, Allahu, alaihi, wasallam, Allah's Rasul
did not respond to this.
This call reached Allah's ash, this declaration of Muhammad and
love was true, was sincere. The whole heaven started shading,
shaking, if you want to talk of it in in abstract concept, Allah's
Arish. This reaches Jibreel is dispatch. Jibril is dispatch to
understand the importance of that verse that was revealed and what
his meaning is, go to another incident, youngster. One is the
youth of today.
Day. One is the youth of today. One is the youth of that time. One
is the youth that today says, I love Allah in His Rasam. What is
his Allah mad Masha, Allah is ready to march today. He is ready
to chant slogans in the defense of Islam. He wears a t shirt
emblazoned on it. Recently, there was one Islamic conference. Allah,
forgive us. This is not a fairy tale. This is hakikkad. There was
an Islamic conference in a first world country, and there was a
young teenage girl. She had a t shirt on on. It was written, if
you think that I am hot, then the fire of * is hotter.
A T shirt on when nothing is left to the imagination. This has
become our understanding of Deen, this has become under our
understanding of declaration for love for Allah and His rasal,
Allahu, alayhi wa sallam, where we are decrepit, morally bankrupt,
zero, from head to toe of sunnah, the youngster today. He's got his
Ray Bans. On the other day, I gave a lift to one youngster. This is
not a story. This is hakikka.
I gave a lift to one youngster. He's got Ray Bans on. He's got
jeans on. He's got a t shirt on from head to toe. It's Shouting,
shouting that in my life, there is no sunnah. There is the way of the
kufar, of the Yahoo, of the Nasara. And he says, Maulana, I
got one question for you. I said, Bhai, what is your question? He
says, that, aren't we showing our support for the Jews if we buy
Coca Cola? I'm
sitting on a member of the Masjid. I'm not making this up. This is
Haki Kat. This is reality. This is what our understanding of Deen has
become.
You got no problem with the t shirt and the jeans and the Ray
Bans and head to toe, no sunnah. But you want to know whether it is
okay to buy Coke and drink Coke because you're showing support for
the Jews in Palestine, in in Israel, or you're not showing your
your you're not showing your solidarity for the Palestinian
brothers. The youngster today wants to march. He's he's got the
flag in his hand, I am the warrior of Islam. I said this very often
by warrior of Islam tomorrow morning, at the time of Fajr, look
at our Masjid. Cry, tears of blood.
Cry, tears of blood. When you see the condition of the masjid, what
Fajr is too early,
if that football match or that musical show or something. We had
interest why in was a was going on at one, two in the morning, then
it's easy to stay away.
What worry of Islam are you that you can hold the flag today,
shouting your shouting your solidarity for Islam, but you
can't lift the 50 ounce blanket of your body and come for Fajr, Salah
to the masjid? Are you Aashi Kabbalah and his rasala Ali Salam,
it's not our job to run anybody down by respected brothers. But
what have we understood muhabbat to be? What have you understood
love to be? December is coming. This is the crunch test. This is
the crunch test because what happens under the under the banner
of vacation, under the banner of a holiday, under the banner of
relaxation time,
Allah, forgive you, Allah, forgive myself. Allah, forgive us. Under
that banner, we will destroy and emasculate the Sunnah of
Rasulullah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam, Shaya Shay, modesty
becomes an unknown concept.
Shariat and deen is trampled underneath the feed under this
banner that now it's vacation time, it's December, it's free
time do whatever you want.
Then where is the love
has Malakal moth? Have we got some sort of a contract with him that
listen during this period you're not going to visit.
Have you got some sort of contract, some
sort of an agreement love has to try land to Allah, Hata tohiba
taatahu. These words of Imam Hassan basi, Rahim Allah, are
worth writing down in gold. He says, It is impossible that you
love Allah and His Rasul, if you do not love their obedience,
your love is not true. It can never be true. Anna Kalan to Allah
Who bathila, they say that our Salafi, sali hin, they say da
Allahu, batih. This claim is batili. It's a lie. It can never
be true.
Talha bin Bara Radi Allahu Taala and who presents himself before
Rasulullah, sallallahu alayhi, youngster, I said, one is our
youth. One is the youth of that time. Such is his love, such is
his emotion. Is not able to contain himself. He grabs the body
of Rasulullah. Starts kissing nabiya paksha Assam, profusely,
from head to toe comes in the rewired he kisses the Mubarak feet
of Rasulullah Salem inni or heb book in ne, or heb book in ne or
heb book Ya Rasulullah, I love you. I love you. I love you. And
then
they and.
Stood this verbal declaration is not sufficient, that is why. What
does this youngster do? Inni, oh. Heb book, I love you. Murni Bhima,
akbab, fala sila, kaamra Ya Rasulullah, command me with what
is beloved to you. I love you. So command me with what is beloved to
you, because my love for you, my devotion to you, will never allow
me to be disobedient to anything that you have commanded. This is
love. Translates itself into obedience, translates itself into
sunnah, that miswaaq is not something to be ridiculed. The
dressing of sunnah, the hair of sunnah, the appearance of sunnah,
this has to become beloved.
Practicing upon sunnah has to become beloved.
That is true. Love,
the same youngster. What is the samarah? What is the return? What
will Allah give you? In that verse of the Quran, Allah says, I will
love you. Follow My Habib. I will love you. Follow My Habib. I will
forgive you. Follow My Habib. Salah. You are a jannathi. In this
incident, this youngster becomes sick, terminally ill. Allah rasam
goes to visit him late one night, he is unconscious, the Habib of
allah sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam says to his family people, I fear
he will not last the night. If he passes away, send for me. I will
perform his Jala Salah saying this. Navies, Lawson goes away,
understand, this is Sahib a wahi in Naka, vamah, Yan te Quan, el
Hawa in Hua, ILA, wahi U ha. This is Sahib a wahi. This is Sahib a
wahi. Alla Maka, malam, takun, talam, la Inna, Akbar, the Beloved
of Allah. When he says, I fear he will not last the night is not
going to be an empty statement. Talha passes away on the same
night, but before he passes away. After Rasulullah sassam has left,
he regains consciousness. Such is the connection. Such is the
connection between Habib and Mahbub.
Call it a Sikh sense. He says, I sense My Habib SallAllahu sallam
was here. They said, Yes, Rasulullah paksha Assam came to
visit you. What did he say? Next question, what did he say? He said
that if you pass away, must send for him. He will perform your
Janaza in that weak, pitiable condition, in the last throes of
life. Still, the concern for nabiya paksalami says, No, don't
do that. Don't do that. They are enemies of Rasulullah this
vicinity, I fear, in the cloak of darkness, they may harm him if I
pass away, bury me and inform him. The next day, when Rasulullah
paksha hears about the demise of Talha bin Bara, he rushes Saha
like the wind rushes to the grave side of Tal habibin bara of the
Allahu Taala Anhu stands in front of the grave, and he raises his
hand. He raises his hand standing at the grave of the sahabi Samara
of muhabbat, return of muhabbat. What will Allah give you when the
love is sincere? What will Allah give you when the love is true?
Allah, humma, il katalha. Il katalha. Tad Haku ileka, wah
wahta, yad Haku Ilahi, OMA Allah, Om ayalah, I beg you, I entreat
you. I supplicate before you that tomorrow on the Day of Judgment,
Ya Allah, when you meet this young Sahabi of mine, let it be that you
are smiling at him and he is smiling at you. Let it be that you
are smiling at him and he is smiling This is dua. But this is
not just dua. This is prophecy that my life and your life can be
given on this absolute reality that tomorrow, when this Sahabi
meets Allah, He will be smiling at Allah, and Allah will be smiling
at him. You.
Samara of muhabbat, samarah of muhabbat. Obviously, when we talk
of Allah smiling, ulama, give interpretation of them, not going
to go into the details, so don't misunderstand. But nevertheless,
coming back to this incident of the sahabis declaration of love.
Ya rasulallah, I love you. I want to be with you. I want to be with
you. Lam, you read Ali inabi You SallAllahu, alayhi, wasallam, the
Habib of Allah. SallAllahu, sallam, Aisha says, didn't answer
this. He was silent. Hata nezal, Jibril, bihariel ayah, until
Jibril comes down with this verse of the Quran. Wamesu, faula,
ikama, maladina, Anam, Allah, Wale, him in nabigina was siddhi,
Tina, WashU, hada, he was salihin. Wahasu, na ULA ika, Rafi ka I love
you. I want to be with you. What does Quran?
Say, What does my Allah say that can only happen. It can only
happen if the muhabbat translates itself into ibq, if the love
translates itself into obedience. Wamey, utilah, our Rasul, the one
who will obey Allah and His Rasul, salaam, Allah promises you. Ola
ika maladin, you will be with those whom you love. You will be
with them. We will resurrect you with them. If your life is on
sunnah, if your life is on itad, if your life is on obedience, if
this declaration of love, Allah. Forgive me for using the crude
term. Is not hypocritical that the name is Gulam Mohammed and the
actions are the Dushman of Muhammad Sallallahu. The name is
Gulam Muhammad, but the weddings have no no similarity. His
business, no similarity. Dressing, no similarity. Condition of his
home, no similarity, values in his life, no similarity ambitions and
goals, no similarity with what Allah in His Rasul, Sala Alaihi,
Salam one, Allah, forgive me. Allah, forgive you. If that is the
case, then the love is not sincere. The love is not sincere.
Understand we are talking about love for such a Habib, such a
Nabi, such a personality who finished himself for us, finished
himself more than your mother, more than your father. There is no
mother and father that cried for their children as much as Muhammad
Salam cried for you and I. There is no parents that sacrificed as
much as Muhammad, sallall Islam sacrificed for you and I. He will
be restless. He will be restless. He will be he will finish himself
until the last ummati. The last ummati, even that person with an
ayo tower of vestige of iman in his heart does not enter into
Jannah. The Habib of Allah, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam will
not be at ease. Lanterda Muhammad wa wahidum in ummatihi, finar
Abdullah bin abbasidi Allah, who declares this, My Habib Salah
Islam will never be satisfied. He will never be happy. He will never
be at ease. As long as one ummati is in Jahannam, this kind of ish,
this kind of love, this kind of devotion he had for you and I,
authorities, authorities of sunnah, authorities of Ahadith, of
the maqam, of the status of the caliber of Allama, Noah, Allah Ibn
Kathir Rahima, Allah. They narrate this incident that once a Bedouin
comes in front of the graveside Rodham Mubarak of Rasulullah wa
alayhi wa sallam presents himself. He makes haziri in front of Nabi
APA SallAllahu. Alayhi wa sallam stands in front of the grave, and
then he says, recites this verse of the Quran wala, uvalamu, an
Fusa, Hum ja
ook ja uka, fasaolah, bar Rahima. Allah say? Il valla mu and Fusa
hum, il Vala mu and Fusa hum. What does this mean? It means that
there wasn't a moment of obedience.
Sharabi kababi Put whatever label the what this man blackened his
existence. Yaar, Allah says, if they blackened their existence,
their life was a life of total, complete disobedience. Ja then
they come to you, My Habib, salaam, first of for Allah, they
ask Allah to forgive them. You My Habib, seek forgiveness on their
behalf. Lava Jadu, laha, towa, bar Rahima, they will find Allah very
forgiving, very merciful. Jeuka Muki, Rambi, dunubi, musta, firan,
ILA, Rabbi, Mustafi an bika. Ila rabbi, he says, ya Rasul I've come
to you with a Dastan and a legacy of Allah's disobedience, a soul
that is drowning in sin that has been blackened with Allah's
disobedience. Ya rasulallah, ay Muk Rambi, DUNU be I declare I
openly admit my weakness, my wrongs, I openly admit that I am
full of sins. Ya Rasulullah, I'm asking Allah to forgive me, and I
am begging you to intercede on my behalf, and you also ask my Allah
to forgive me.
And then he recites a few couplets. Up till today, we find
that of the four couplets that he recites, the first two are written
on either side of the Roda, on either side of the pillars in
front of the grave of Rasulullah sallallahu, alayhi wa sallam. The
last two are not there, but it is there in the rewired of Allah and
Allah Ya
that
personality when he walked above the ground, there was no one
better than him, he beautified and fragrance the entire universe. Now
that he has gone beneath the ground, underneath the ground has
become beautiful. It
has become fragranced. Sakinu Hu May my life be sacrificed, may my
life be sacrificed upon that grave in which you are residing.
For with you is your generosity and with you is your kindness.
Anta Shafi uladi. Anta Shafi uladi turjah, shafa atu ala sarati, dama
a
referring to that day, that moment that is going to come, waiming
Doha kanala, rakahatma Ali Mina,
fiha
Ji Rahim,
Abdullah
bin rawadi, Allahu taala, and who is lying with his head in the lap
of his wife, he starts crying. She looks at him crying. She also
cries. He addresses Hama, you keep Why are you crying? She says, I
saw you crying. I started crying also. He said, Dakar to call Allah
AJ.
I remember this verse of the Quran
where Allah says, hatmam maktiya, this is going to happen. It is
decreed by Allah, the heavens and earth can come to an end, but this
is going to happen. Immen Kum illallah,
every one of you will have to cross the bridge over jahannam.
Siraat, is there over jahannam. Every one of you, without
exception, will have to cross that bridge. Every person of iman will
have to cross that bridge. Muhammad, Rasulullah, sallAllahu,
alayhi wa sallam will
be standing,
oh May Allah be merciful. Oh May Allah be merciful.
He will be begging Allah. His hands will be raised and 1111,
will have to go hatma. This Allah has decreed you will have to cross
it. There is no getting away
from manuna Taco another,
only those of Taqwa will cross. They will get Najat and the
zaliween will fall head headlong into Jahannam Abdullah bin rawaha
sahabia Rasul is crying, crying. His wife starts sobbing,
or ham so much the hai ke me hum ke henge me to Aashi ke Rasul tam
Jan ke takedad bu
we feel we just gonna say, I love Allah and His rasoo, Salaman,
Jannat is guaranteed.
The Love has to translate itself into obedience, coming back to
this. Antar, Shafi, oladi, turija, shafa, tu hula, serati na Mazal,
latil, kadamu, AA wazaad. Aa pewazaa, are
that being without whose intercession I will never be able
to cross the Sarath was sahibaka and let Lan sahuma, Abu DHA let me
not forget the two companions that are resting next to you. Ya Rasul,
Allah my nabislam enters the masjid, right hand side, Abu Bakr,
left hand side, Omar of the Allah one Huma Allah Habib, saw some,
holds the hands of both of them, raises it up like this and says,
haka no sharu yom Kiyama, exactly like this. Allah is going to raise
us on the Day of Judgment. So.
Said, let me not forget your two companions. Was Sahiba, kalaan,
sahua, abada, what a beautiful analogy. Min ni Salamu, Alaikum,
kalamu, as long as the pens will write in other words, for
eternity, may my salams descend upon you and Abu Bakr and Umar of
the Allahu, Taala and Huma saying this, he goes away atabhi. Rahim
Allah is sitting nearby. He dozes off. Manrani Fill Manami,
fakaraani, finally, surati, Rasulullah sasam says the one who
sees me in a dream has definitely seen me because shaitan cannot
take my form. Atabi sees Rasulullah kill
Arab when fine find that Bedouin and tell him that Allah has made
his maqfarat.
Sacha inabi, such muhabbat, such devotion, my respected brothers,
Let us at least reciprocate that reciprocate that devotion that
ish, that muhabbat, at least on this level, many, many times
before I've said this, at least on this level, at least this much, at
least this much, two things, if we take nothing else away, take two
things away from the heart. Third Wave, fourth wave, Fifth Wave,
sixth way, whatever it is, Allah knows best from the heart. Each
one make this intention. We are not going to abandon the masjid
five times a day with Salah in the masjid. That is the starting point
of love for Allah and His Rasul Sala Islam on this Allah and His
habif Asmaa promised Jannah. And the second thing let us take away,
my respected brothers, is like I've given this analogy many
times, a policeman, a person in uniform, whatever he belongs to,
he doesn't have to introduce himself. You look at him, and
automatically you know who he is, identifying himself with at least
this much love, even if it is not sincere, let the outside, even if
it is outside, never mind what people say, Never mind even if it
is for show, at least come on to this much level, this much
preference, this much taba dari, this much wafadari that wherever
we go, we don't have to introduce ourselves. Person just looks at
him, looks at us and knows this is Gulam and Muhammad. This is a
follower of Muhammad, sallAllahu, alayhi wa sallam ah,