Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 13 Ramadan Late Night Majlis Connect With The Khatim Through His Khulafa Addison 04142022
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We've reached this,
Mubarak,
13th night of Ramadan. May Allah
give us from its and from its blessings
and make us from the of this night.
Amin.
I wanted
to go back to a book that we
read more frequently from in years past.
Hazar Sheikh Zakaria
and,
go back to the
beginning of the book.
And
this is something if you read the of
the Sheikh Uthman,
If you read his book, which was the
book that we first, I think, started, these
nightly readings from, and it's one of the
early books
written, on the topic,
of, tasov
as a strict discipline.
We see that, it's very plain and very
clear from reading that book and from other
early books like, the Risala Kosheria
that Tasawwuf
is a unique
and special gift and fruit of the,
the dean of Islam in general and in
specific, the methodology of the Ahlus Sunnal Jama'ah.
That the early Sufis were Sunnis.
They were people who kept the Sunni creed.
They were people of the Sunnah and of
the Jamah. They, endorsed
the idea that the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
was the
authorized
and official,
entity that spoke on behalf of Allah Ta'ala,
in this Ummah and that the companions were
the Allah Ta'ala and whom were the official
representatives
of the messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
to this Ummah,
meaning the way they interpreted the sunnah, the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam is the,
authoritative
interpretation
and the way that the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam
represented Allah to Allah was the correct representation
of what Allah's,
commandments and prohibitions
and,
desire from the creation.
It's a correct representation
of that.
And
then thereafter, you see this entire,
blossoming of different academic, intellectual, and spiritual disciplines,
like the
discipline of hadith,
which again,
people try to play catch up and copy
later on from the Ahlus Sunnah. But the
were the ones who,
formulated the system to preserve
the teachings of the prophet
And,
like the,
methodology of the qira'at,
whether they be 7 or 10 or the
shawad,
again, it's a unique
fruit of the, preservation of the book of
Allah Ta'ala from the Ahlissunawal Jama'ah.
Whether it be, the Madahib Afiqh.
Again,
there's hardly any heterodox group that can speak
about Fikh except for they have to talk
about it through the framework
of the Madahib of the Ahlison or Jama'ah,
whether they be the 4 Madahib that survive
in our extent to us to this day
or the other Madahib of the Sunni or
Lama,
of yore.
And just like that, the Soulf is a
unique gift of the Sunni Aqidah.
Now because the brand is successful,
you have a number of coffee cats and
rip offs.
So you know, just like
perhaps when we were younger, we went to
the swap meet and bought a set of
what looked like Oakleys but really were Jokeleys.
Or, maybe,
bought a Gucci bag from, you know,
a park in a questionable part of, Los
Angeles County,
Lynnwood or Compton,
or something like that, at somewhat of a
significant,
discount to one. One would expect to pay
for such things, and perhaps the quality of
said, purchases was not very high,
nor would they,
stand the light of day. A person only
buys cheap quality goods with a nice name
on it. Why? Because the name was already
built by somebody else. The brand was built
by somebody else.
Afterward, theft, plagiarism,
misappropriation,
and,
just downright deception
seems
to be the only route toward viability,
for those who have nothing original or nothing
of quality
to put forth for themselves. So we see
a number of jokers afterward will
violate
the
methodology
and understanding and the practice of the Ahlissanoa
Jama'a while
still
trying to claim that they somehow represent the
soul for the Sufis.
And,
you know, it's basically the spiritual equivalent of,
you know,
those questionable people selling, Jokleys at the at
the swap meet or at the flea market
or, selling a Gucci bag for $15,
in
a park
in Lynnwood. It's
not really what it claims to be, nor
is it really what it purports to be.
And in the light of any authority,
it would get shut down.
One of the foundational
and most important, if not practically the most
important,
link
between a person and their deen, according to
the Ahlul Sunaw al
Jama'ah is the
connection with the companions
Because if a person doesn't have connection with
companions,
they have no connection with the messenger of
Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And by the Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's
own declaration,
the companions were the allahu on whom were
the most embarked generation of this Ummah.
And, from amongst the companions,
the hadith of the prophet clearly indicates that
the most,
Mubarak of,
the companions
in terms of what we're gonna get from
them,
from our deen are the,
And all of them there's in them, all
of them there's in
them. May Allah be pleased with them.
And so
Hazrat Sheikh Zakaria
Sheikh
reward him and raise his rank. He arranged
his book, this Taliskira,
according to this kind of Sunni outlay. That
the actual
sheikh of the tariqa,
toward Allah ta'ala is the messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And then he names
who his khalafa are. His Khulafa Rashidun. And
the difference between the Khulafa and the tariqah
of later times in the Khulafa of the
prophet sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
That that you're responsible to hold fast to
my sunnah and the sunnah of my rightly
guided,
successors.
Hold fast to it and bite onto it
with your molar teeth. That those Khalafa,
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam were not
only his successors in the tariq, meaning they
were
authorized by the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam to,
bring people into the spiritual path,
but they were also
authorized by the messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam to teach the Quran, to teach
the hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, to teach the Sharia,
to rule over the ummah in their temporal
matters.
And in all ways,
that a Nabi can give Khilafa,
they received that, Khilafa,
and always that a Nabi can give Khilafa.
Meaning what? That they didn't
perform the prophetic functions of
nabua that are special to the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam,
namely
receiving revelation.
And even then the messenger of Allah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, it's narrated that he said,
it would have been Umar,
as if to indicate that the capacity was
there in him. May Allah Ta'ala be pleased
with him. And then, bit tariq ola
that,
it was known that the Maqam of Abu
Bakr Siddiq
was higher than that of,
Said Naamr
And so that means that he
prepared a number of people that were they
tested by Allah Ta'ala with having to carry
the burdens of revelation.
They would have they would have been able
to. However, the Rasool SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam is
the seal of the prophets, the Khatamun Nabiyin.
There's no Nabi that comes after him. With
Hatimun Hatimun Nabiyin, the one who finishes
prophethood,
and it finishes with him and it doesn't,
it doesn't
go to anybody else after him. And so
this is an interesting,
you know, this is an interesting
issue in the Aqidah and the creed of
the Ahlussanullah Jama'a is that, first of all,
we don't believe that the Nabi sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam nor the MBIA alaihi wa sallam
are dead in that sense.
Rather, the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam maintains a
link with this Ummah,
and that link is
manifest itself in a number of ways in
the Dhahir
through, intellectual and practical,
means, through the connection to
his city, through the connection to his family,
etcetera. But even in the spiritual world, that
connection is alive and well that the messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that, there
are
46 different branches of prophethood,
All of them are will be closed with
me except for the true dream that a
righteous person of this Ummah sees. And that
the messenger of Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam also mentioned
that whoever sees me in a dream has
truly seen me because Shaitan cannot take my
form.
The Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
said that whoever sends salat and salam upon
me,
that whenever that happens, Allah returns my spirit
to me and I respond to that salat
and salaam myself. And so this is this
is, I mean, this is important, right? Both
of those things, both seeing the Rasul Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam in a dream
and the response of the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam when you make salat and salaam, both
of these are living,
living connections with the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And you know
to understand, you know, just to digress for
a moment, to understand what the point of
the and the
prophet which I think a lot of people
miss when
they're not really engrossed in deen or they
don't sit with the people of vikr or
with the people of Ilm.
The point of saying salat and salam with
the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is not
that you worship him.
The point of it is that you make
2 relationships with it. One is your relationship
with Allah Ta'ala because Allah Ta'ala
himself, right, says in his book, he says,
That that that that Muhammad
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is not the father
of any of your men, rather he is
the messenger of Allah and the seal of
the prophets.
And so by validating the messenger, you validate
the message.
Indeed, Allah and his
angels,
they send invoke and send praises on the
Nabi
by sending the blessings and the angels by
seeking and invoking those blessings.
Oh, you who believe.
Invoke those blessings upon
him and send salaam to him,
emphatically.
And so it's a commandment of Allah Ta'ala,
and it's a very reasonable commandment of Allah
Ta'ala. Why? Because by validating the messenger, you're
validating the message. By accepting the messenger, it's
a rational necessity
that you have to validate the messenger in
order to validate the message. Without validating the
messenger, you have no connection to the message
whatsoever.
So,
that's
something that people forget is that the salat
and salam of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam is a dhikr of Allah.
And in fact, the majority of the seal,
the expressions of salat and salam, and the
most superior ones are what? Allahumma. They're addressed
to not the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
but they're addressed to Allah.
Oh Allah, Allah
send blessings down upon Muhammad and on the
folk of Muhammad, which means
his family
but in the narration, it also comes alu
Muhammadin kullutapiyin.
And it's possible that both of these meanings
are true, and that there's a hussusya with
the family of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam that especially means them, and there's a
mumiyah
that
al Muhammeden kullu takih and that the people
of Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is everyone
who fears Allah ta'ala.
And it's interesting because,
some of those who claim that they are
the lovers of the Ahlulbayt of the Prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, and Allah has witness
to the hypocrisy of their claim.
They say, oh, look at this. The Sunnis
are, you know, making up a Hadith in
order to,
in order to, you know,
decrease
the rank of the family of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam saying that Al Muhammed
is not the family of the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam. That's not what we're saying.
The Al Muhammed is the family of the
prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. However, this is a
hadith of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, you
cannot ignore a hadith of the prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam in order to show your love
for him or for his family Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, first of all.
2nd of all,
Allah himself in his book, he says
that he uses this expression,
the alafiraoun.
But does that mean, Firaoun's family? No. It
means those who are with him. Those who
are on the same page as him, those
who are on the same mission as him,
those who assisted him in his
work. And so this is something it's also
a very weak linguistical argument. At any rate,
the salat in salam and the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam, this most superior form of it
is the one that we say in
the salat, what we refer to as the
salat Ibrahimia or dourud Ibrahimi,
which is Allah Ola send blessings down on
Muhammad and on Muhammad's folk, alayhi musatuhasam.
Just like you sent blessing down blessings down
on Ibrahim and on his folk, with the
mbia of Banu Israel and Sayedna Ismail alayhi
salam, the building of the Kaaba, and all
of these things.
Indeed, you're the
most intensely praised and you're, the most magnificent.
Muhammad Baraka Allah Muhammad, you address it to
Allah to Allah, oh Allah, send Baraka and
blessings down on Muhammad and on the folk
of
Muhammad just like you sent down blessings
on Ibrahim and on the folk of Ibrahim
alaymus salam alaymus salam in Nakah Hamidu Majid.
It's a connection with Allah Ta'ala, and it's
a connection with the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So for a person who understands the this
science of tasawwuf,
of how a person,
increases in their rank, it should be very
clear why the salat and salam of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam is a really
important dhikr that a person should do,
and that that a person needs to do
in order to,
achieve any sort of rank and attain any
sort of rank in the deen.
And, indeed,
the Rasul, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam himself
emphasized this in a hadith
narrated,
in a number of books, and that's very
easily found in the rial de salihin. It's
not a hadith in which there's a whole
lot of serious discussion about its authenticity.
That,
a companion asked that should I not,
should I not make all of my all
of my,
devotion,
all of my optional devotion, sending salat and
salam upon you. And the prophet Sallallahu alaihi
wasallam,
he not only endorsed this idea,
but he mentioned a number of benefits
for the one who does such an idea
that Allah Ta'ala will through it take care
of all of your worries and concerns and
your anxieties and etc. He mentions a number
of things.
So,
the connection with the Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and the khatmun Abu of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam is understood
through that idea, that the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam isn't
dead. Because if
the Nabuah
was finished and it's over and it's gone,
then mankind is again left without guidance, which
is not true. Not in the vahir, not
in the in the external realm, nor in
the batin, nor in the spiritual realm.
And like that, the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam, his khulafa,
they they they come to us and they
reach us in an unbroken chain.
So just like in the Zahir,
in the in the apparent, in the extrinsic
branches of knowledge,
we narrate every Hadith from a companion RadiAllahu
Anhum, and if not from them, there are
there are more Muslim Hadiths that are narrated
by Tabi'in,
by the generation after the companions. Those hadiths
are only ratified or considered
to be authentic and beneficial
when the understanding is that they're narrated by
those
Tabi'in, those successors
who narrate it not only from one companion
who is trustworthy and reliable, but oftentimes several
of them. And the only reason that's accepted
is what? Is because it becomes something like
common knowledge that you don't need to quote
who you heard it from because all of
that generation heard it from those companions
So if you want to be in the
tariqa that is the tariqa to Allah ta'ala
and the tariqah of
the sheikh of whom is still the Prophet
and in
the
spiritual realm who still Allah Ta'ala
uses him as the instrument of the guidance
of people both through the
outward realm, the wahiri realm, and through the
inward realm.
That people have connection to him Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam, then you have to do it through
these companions Radhiallahu Anhum, and you have to
do it through these khulafa Rashidun. So it's
very beautiful that Hazrat Sheik, he mentions the
khulafa Rashidun in his,
in his Tasgira Mashaikhichisht
as Mashaeich of the Tariqa because they are
Mashaeich of the Tariqa.
And this goes in stark
contrast to
those haxsters, and those fakers, and those jokers,
and those freestylers
who are trying to rip off the copyright
of Islam, and rip off the copyright of
the Ahlus Sunnah, and try to rip off
the copyright of
the tariqa, the great tariqa
of the Sufis
that were on guidance. May Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
raise their rank and may Allah sanctify their
their souls. May Allah
make them the pride and the joy
of
the the the righteous of his creation on
the day of judgment.
That those people who are like, yeah, well,
you know, I'm more of a Sufi Muslim.
We we don't believe in rules, but we
believe more in like being a good person.
All those jokers, this flies in the face
of their their, their mockery.
You know, all those people, like, you know,
who post like fake Rumi quotes or,
post pictures of like musicians or
of,
you know, entertainers
who, you know,
post again fake quotes or quotes outside of
context or try to make the soul into
some sort of, like, Persian cultural movement, which
it absolutely was not. It absolutely was not.
Were
the Persian speakers some of the most
prolific of Sufis? Absolutely.
But their goal was not to write Persian
poetry,
rather when you're beautiful, everything about you is
beautiful.
And they were people who loved Allah and
Allah loved them
Insha'Allah.
And so if they wrote poetry in their
native tongue, of course, it's going to be
drenched in the Mahaba and the Marifa of
Allah ta'ala,
and is going to be drenched in that
beauty.
But that's not the reason for it. And
if a person ever loses track of that,
the beauty of every one of the poets,
of every Rumi, and of every Jami, and
every every Hafiz in Sadi.
The the the beauty of the munshidin that,
you know, sing the praise of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in Morocco and in
Egypt and
in Tunis and in,
Sudan and and the Indian subcontinent and Indonesia
and Central Asia and every other,
place. The beautiful buildings of of of of
the architecture of Islam and the beauty beauty
of the calligraphy of the calligraphers and the
you know, just all of these beautiful things
that our civilization
produced.
All of them, if you sum them up
and you see more beauty
in any of them, more beauty in any
of them, the one Mubarak hadith of the
prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, you've missed the
plot. You you're on a different you're on
a different tariqah going somewhere else.
If you see more beauty in any of
them than one ayah of the book of
Allah Ta'ala, then you have missed the plot
in a really severe and a really major
way.
And,
Allah, guide us all. Allah, guide us all.
And, yeah, I guess pretty things and shiny
things,
they distract monkeys like you and me, but,
we have to keep it together. Allah gave
us a a mind and a heart, through
which we can discern
a beauty that's greater than that of form,
which is a beauty of meaning.
And, that that beauty was there when the
prophet
was crouching
in the, what you can't even call as
a cave. It was such a small place,
crouching in that small space in the side
of the double floor.
And when he said to his companions,
the first khalifa of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam in the study,
don't don't grieve. Allah is with us. Allah
is with us. If you don't see more
beauty in that small amount of space where
they didn't even have the room to crouch
while Saidin Abu Bakr Siddiq was getting bit
by scorpions.
If you see if you don't see the
beauty all in there, more pure and more
unadulterated,
more undrenched,
and more beloved to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
that if it were to be visited in
in 1 percent or in a percent of
a percent on any normal heart, a person
would overwhelm them to the point of death.
That even the greatest of the oliya, if
that were just a drop of that ocean
were to be dropped on them, that they
would lose their lose their mind. They would
dance in ecstasy. Only Allata created very few
from his creation who were who would be
able to,
to to envelope and to carry,
the ecstatic state of that beauty inside of
their heart without breaking apart and without ripping
to pieces like,
you know, the the heat of the sun
bursting out from,
from from from from just a physical human
heart.
You know, if you're not able to see
that and you're not able to understand that,
if you're not able to believe believe that
and bring the iman in that, if you're
not able to conceptualize that, if you're not
able to even imagine that, then you've lost
the plot. May Allah, Ta'ala help us, and
yes, I agree calligraphy is really beautiful and,
like, buildings are nice and, you know,
poetry and stuff is pretty cool too. But,
if you don't see that that's the the
secret ingredient ingredient that made all of those
things beautiful, then then it's time to think
about it a little bit more, to get
together and think about it a little bit
more. So it seems that,
in my
own excited state
and in my own,
exuberant state, I have,
wrapped too long of an introduction
in order to meaningfully read from the book
and, masha'Allah, the last couple of madalas have
gone over time anyway. So I think this
is a a good time to leave off.
Insha'Allah,
one of the things I wanna remind everybody
because some people have a sheikh, some people
don't have a sheikh, some people are looking
for a sheikh, some people it's not practical
for them right now.
You don't need to be a Khalifa or
a sheikh or a a big moorid or
have a huge topi or a 3 foot
long beard,
in order to know that you should have
some,
amount of salat and salam and the prophet
sallallahu alaihi sallam as your daily as as
your daily,
as your daily prescription of recitation and dua
and dhikr of Allah
and you should do it as a remembrance
of Allah and you should fill your heart
with
thankfulness and with gratitude to Allah for sending
this greatest of,
created blessings that he sent in the person
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam both
in his,
life and after he passed from this world.
That you should have that present in your,
heart when saying it and that you should
also,
you should also feel the joy that the
Rasool, sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam, he's responding to your salat
and salaam,
that when you meet each other, you already
have known each other. When you visit Madinah
Munawara,
when you say the salat and salaam, when
you emulate
the beautiful sunnah of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam inwardly
by
treating people in a good way and doing
good by people. In fact, doing the best
by people, doing by people better than you
would like them to do by you.
And by forgiving them for their shortcomings and
being patient with them and always making du'a
for them whether you like them or you
don't or whether they grate on you or
whether they make you happy.
And also the other sunnahs, the outward sunnahs
of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, the
brothers by keeping a beard and the sisters
by keeping their hayah
and,
by, you know, sending food to your neighbors'
houses, whether they're Muslims or not, and checking
up on them, especially when they're old and
they're sick. And by,
you know, giving a word of condolences to
a person who's going through difficulty and all
of these other sunun that you can, you
know, read and learn about in the in
the majalis of hadith that the fake sufis
all say is dry. But it actually are
those high doses
those high doses, the prescription level doses of,
of this nur
that,
that need to be meted out by a
a true doctor,
and that shouldn't be just flung about,
by by by fakers and by jokers, by
freestylers, and by,
you know, the type of fake doctors that
we have back home that just opened their
their their quackery clinics and they reuse syringes
and whatnot,
that, you know, inshallah, you can make it
to those majalis as well, but that you
have all of this fervent
and exuberant and happy and thankful and grateful
feeling inside your heart that that Nabi
is saying,
to you. And that when you say salata
on the prophet
that Allah ta'ala who sent him is sending
that same blessing down back on you 10
times. Lord knows we need it so badly.
Lord knows we need it so badly. We
need the salaam of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, and we need those 10 salawat
back from Allah
very desperately,
then go ahead inshallah. If you can't do
a 100, you know, if you can't take
your and do a 100, then do, you
know, whatever 70, or do whatever number you
can. If you can't do anything else, just
do it 10 times. If you can't do
anything else, just remember from time to time
and do once. This is my weird, I'm
I'm on the junior Salek team. I'm on
the I'm on the amateur team, but be
on the team. You know, don't just completely
lose out from it,
and repeat with me.
It takes a long time. It's cumbersome to
get around the the sibha and say it
a 100 times when you're not accustomed to
it.
But once you
have it sit inside of your heart,
By the baraka and the tawfiq, even if
you're
a completely slack
jawed and slack tongued person like myself, one
day it will click and you'll get through
the entire tasbih and you'll do so with
shok, with longing,
and,
it won't be a burden anymore. It won't
be a burden anymore. Allah accept from all
of us.