Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Hakm Tirmidh & Wilyat 13 1444 Ramadan Late Night Majlis
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Muhammad
We reached this Mubarak 13th, night of Ramadan.
Passing the halfway mark in the recitation of
the Quran and Tarawi.
It's a great blessing.
God saved for us that we could finish
this first half.
Also
give us the top peak to finish the
second half and like that the rest of
our lives. I mean,
so we, then continue now to the
the the next archetype and the next
model for Saluk the 7th in the series
that we were talking about,
which is the,
the archetype that,
the sheikh refers to as the Hakimis.
He says they're the followers of Abu Abdulahi,
Mohammed bin Ali al Hakim at Tirmidi,
who was one of the
imams of Deen in his time and an
author on,
many works on every branch of exoteric and
esoteric sciences.
So Al Hakim al Tirmidhi
is,
obviously,
the.
I had the the honor of
about a year ago visiting,
Tiramiz Sharif,
And what happened was our plan was that
we were gonna
fly to Tiramiz in the morning and then
take a flight back in the evening.
And because the airport is closer to the
city
than it is to the mazar of Imam
Tiramizi.
So we said we'll go visit Imam Tiramizi,
then we'll go to the city, visit Hakim
Tiramizi, and and, like, maybe have some kebab
or whatever, which is excellent in Central Asia
always.
And, then we'll fly back.
And while we were visiting,
Imam Tirmidiy,
the flight back was canceled. And the excuse
we were given was that some diplomat
some diplomatic,
like, whatever
attachment from Moscow had to
come. And so they took the the plane
from Tiramisu to to Moscow, and that was
it. So we actually had to from the
Mazar Imam Tiramisu, which is in the direction
of Tashkent because we had a tour group
that was gonna come, and we had to
receive them from the airport. So we basically
had to hire a private diver in gold.
So we couldn't go and visit Hakim Tirmizi.
But if anyone goes over there,
Hakim Tirmizi's Mazar is by the city. It's
on the Amudaria.
It overlooks the border with Afghanistan. You can,
like, literally see the Mazar al Sharif on
the other side.
And,
we were obviously not able to cross that
short geographical distance.
Bring Amen and Amen to the Ummah Sayed
and Muhammad
so that these, you know, these,
kind of artificial barriers that have been put
up, they they come down. But,
yeah, if anyone wants to visit the Hakim
Tirmaziz
Mazar, it's close to the close it's in
the city, and it overlooks the Amudaria,
which in that place is the border between
Afghanistan and Uzbekistan.
And,
Imam Tirmaziz,
the hadith Abu'risa,
his mazar is in a village called Sharabad,
which is a little bit north of it's
a little bit north. It's a little bit
of a drive, like, half an hour drive
north of
the, of the airport or maybe a little
bit more than that. So,
we continue.
He says that the the followers of Abu
Abdullah, Mohammed bin Ali and Hakim at Tirmidhi,
who was one of the leaders of Deen
in his time. People have some issues with
some of his
only,
positions, but we're not gonna talk about those
right now.
We're gonna talk about his his,
model for saluk.
His doctrine was based on saintship, on literally
the friendship of Allah.
Is interesting because it's one of those things.
Right? Allah to Allah is the of the
those who believe, and then the people who
believe are the of Allah.
So it's the same
it's the same
word that
denotes both sides of what is a hierarchical
relationship.
Allah is the of the believers, and the
believers are the of Allah, but not in
the same way.
It's a hierarchical relationship.
This is a interesting word that's like that.
The both opposites are referred to by the
same word. This is one thing stupid. They
see people who, like I'm I'm not talking
about
all they see people are stupid. But, no,
they see people who also happen to be
stupid.
And there's a particular class of stupid desi
people.
Desi people who happen to be stupid, not
that old. Many desi people are very intelligent,
good, pious, upright people.
But there's an interesting
cast of stupid Desi people,
which we refer to in Urdu as
People who
are educated ignoramuses.
Okay? So one of the things that educated
ignoramuses will often
say, is that this is shirk you call
your scholars Molana stuff for
from Sunnah. See, it says in the Quran,
Allah is the only
This is a type of stupidity. If anyone
knew
Arabic, they would know that Molab both means
the master and it also means the slave.
And Wali has the same
the same root, And so it's used in
both in both,
antonyms, the two words of opposite complementary opposite
meanings. It's used for both of them. So
at any rate, the doctrine is that this
is the the relationship that the the the
Abdu has with the Rav Tabarak
It's called.
And he used this to explain the true
nature of,
of of of and the degrees of the
and
the observance of the proper arrangements of their
ranks.
At the first step toward understanding,
his doctrine, you must know that Allah has
who he has chosen out of mankind
and, whose thoughts he has withdrawn from worldly
ties and delivered from sensual temptations.
And he has stationed each of them, in
a particular degree
and has opened unto them the doors of
these mysteries.
Must much might be, set on this
first of capital importance.
So before before,
continuing with his
points of capital importance, I have to mention
a couple of points before that of capital
importance, which is first that
as a point of that you guys have
read the. If you haven't, you should.
You can listen to it online for free
if you, you know, are to, are not
able to make it to Darce Inshallah,
in person, which is where all the Barakah
is at. But
and,
the the the,
the ones that have the highest
or the highest degree of
are,
the ones who are at the qahum.
The
ones who are,
have the most taqwa, that fear Allah the
most, and that follow, the commandment of the
Quran, the closest.
And then the how we also then
defines who is
a movement.
Anyone who meets any bare minimum definition of
being a Muslim, even if they're a drunkard,
even if they're a sinner, ins and outs
in sadaqah.
Right? The hadith of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam that everybody will go to Janno
and says, like, he would say, no Abu
Zarr al Rifari
hardcore saluk, masha'Allah, like to, you know, Saliq,
like dyed in the wool.
And he's like, even if they commit zuna,
even if they they fornicate and even if
they steal, the Rasool said, even if they
fornicate, even if they steal. So
second time he said the same thing, second
time he get the same answer. 3rd time
he said the same thing, 3rd time he
got
the same answers.
That if even if he commits fornication, even
if he steals it, even if Abu Dhar
really doesn't like it.
So this is
if someone says, well, how does this have
to do with what we're reading about? Because
civilizationally, like, it's folklore in our civilization. The
word like, the oliya is like
like it means, like, somebody who, like, flies
in the air and sees dreams about the
future, and, like,
you know, like, shoots, light nur out of
their fingertips, and, like, you know, you know,
smells like, you know, a perfume when they
open the cuff of the the palm of
their hand, and things like that. Right? And
it has been all of those things at
some point or another.
But that's not those are all like ancillary
things. Those are all like the, like, the
the the box of the cake. The actual
cake is what? Is that a person who's
has
iman? Everybody who has iman is a wali,
and in that sense, even this this this
paragraph that he just mentioned right now. He
says that as a first step toward understanding
this doctrine, you must know that God has
who
he has chosen out from mankind, whose thoughts
he has withdrawn from worldly ties and delivered
from sensual
temptation, and he has stationed each of them
in a particular degree and opened upon them
these mysteries. This applies to every believer. It
even applies to the drunkard and the fornicator
who has inside of their hearts. In as
much as they're the ones who can see
that there's no god except for Allah, there's
enough inside of them too.
At least believe.
Maybe some of them don't even say it.
They may not may not even be Muslims.
But at least they're they have enough inside
of them to at least believe it inside
their heart in some degree or another. This
is a mystery. It's been opened up for
them. The rest of them Kalana'am.
The rest of them are like livestock. They
eat and drink. They say, you know, like,
they they they they say, well, my Rahman.
Who who is this Rahman you talk about?
And they're literally blind to it. They're entirely,
like, nations of the earth in in which
like
every single person. Like if you talk to
them about the concept of God, they're like,
what in the world is going on? What
does this have to do with anything?
Like, it's not even that that they're atheists.
Like, they'll be like, I think I can
understand that some sort of, like, weird river
elf, like, if I bow to it and
burn incense and, like, sacrifice, like, a pack
of cigarettes to it, that it'll give me
luck. But this this god thing you're talking
about abstract and, like, you
know, they're like, they're completely blind to it.
It's a mystery Allah opened up in every
one of your hearts and in my heart
as well. The problem is
what
very few people realize the of this realization
inside of them. If they do, they would
value it a little bit more.
This is also a
So in that sense in that sense, just
like I say to our,
our our oftentimes,
insufferably,
loud mouthed brothers
who are still our brothers, but insufferable at
times,
from the who talk about Khalafah, Khalafah.
The Khalafah is there.
No. This is your Khalafah, go fix it.
Stop and go fix it.
It's there. You got it.
Go do something about it. This is also
the thing. You guys wanted to you guys
came to, you know,
and nobody left after 8. Right? Because you
wanna be,
you're,
and now start acting like it because Allah
opened up just like.
Who would have thought? And it's all the
book of don't try this at home. It
certified you as some sort of divine mystery
opened up in your heart. Now you have
it. Now you have to make for
that and, like, you know, kind of try
to not
give us all to figure. We should try
to not screw it up. And, you know,
the more the more I think about it,
the more we just need to ask Allah
to offer his help. Yeah. So it's a
discourse on the affirmation of.
When you know this is another one thing
I wanted to say before this discourse.
I remember I was talking to somebody
who,
he was one of our again, one of
our brothers. They're our brothers. We love them.
That happened to follow
an approach to the Sharia that, I don't
really I don't really find much to agree
with,
one of our Salafi brothers. So he's talking
about one of his sheiks, and he says,
he says to me, he says, you know,
this sheikh of mine, he was what you
guys would call like a Walehi of Allah.
Like, what are you talking about? What you
guys would call a of Allah?
That's you know, so this is not like
some tall tales or whatever. You know? People
treat these things these are genuine parts of
deen. Do some people abuse them? Yeah. Sure.
Absolutely. There's some guy right
now for 1995. He's, like, the greatest of
the saints, and he'll make dua for you,
and you don't have to he'll, like, you
know, you don't have to pray for the
next 20 years because of his dua or
whatever. Right? He'll go straight to Jannah for
easy pay for even easy payments of 29.95.
If you call now, they'll cut it down
to 3.
So, yeah, obviously, people, when they see that
again and again and again, it becomes kind
of a joke to them. Right? So we're
not talking about that.
But this is actually a part of the
din. And the fact that there are some
fakers out there, you know, if red touches
yellow, you're a dead fellow, red touches black.
This is something even animals do this, you
know, like, they they fake like the one
animal fakes like it's the other, and these
these things happen. Right? You have to it
doesn't mean just because all of them are
fakers that one of them is not gonna
kill you when you touch it. So just
be careful.
There are a lot of fakers out there,
but be careful. Sometimes it's the real thing,
and you don't wanna run afoul of that
system.
Discourse on the affirmation of wilayat, you must
know that the principle and foundation of the
and the knowledge of God rests on wilayat.
And the reality of which is unanimously affirmed
by all shaykhs, though everyone has expressed himself
in a different,
idiom.
The peculiarity of Mohammed bin Ali Al Hakim,
lies in the fact that he applied, this
term to the complete theory of Tasawwuf.
Etymologically
means the power to dispose, Tasaruf.
And,
means possession of command,
leadership.
Wilaat also like because Wali is like its
word for governor, as well. Right?
Also means lordship.
Hence,
god has said,
in in this case, the lordship belongs to
Allah who is the the truth.
Because the unbelievers seek his protection and turn
to him,
and turn unto him and renounce their idols.
And wilayat,
also means, love, Mahabbat.
Wali may be,
the form of fa'il
with the meaning of maf'ul.
Like we said from before, it can mean
either either the the the up the the
upper, of the hierarchical relation or the lower.
God has said, and he takes charge.
Right? The
words of the
book of
Allah They're powerful words. There's a lot of
there's there's a lot of power in them.
A person repeats them. There are a lot
of there's a lot of
mystery in them, and there's a lot of
wrapped up in them for the person who
understands how to, say them and benefit from
them.
This is and and he takes charge.
Say, indeed my is Allah and he, takes
charge. He makes the he makes of the
righteous.
For god does not leave his servant to
his own actions and attributes, but keeps him
under his protection.
And while he may be the form of
file, equivalent to file, the active participant with
intensive force because a man takes care
to
obey God and constantly fulfill the obligation that
he owes him.
Thus, in the active meaning is the one
who desires the
while in the passive meanings, meaning it denotes
the one who is the object of god's
desire, the.
So these can both be they're they're both
meanings for, the slave. How is a slave
of Walehi of Allah? He's the one who
desires Allah and he's the one who is
desired by Allah.
All of these meanings, whether they signify the
relation of god to man or man to
god, are allowable for god. May the may
be the protector of his friends in as
much as he promised his protection to the
companions of the apostle
and declared that the unbelievers had no protection.
And moreover, he may distinguish them in an
exclusive way by his friendship.
As he has said, he loves them and
they love him, and so that they turn
away from the favor of mankind.
He is their friend, their and they are
his friends,
And he may confer on 1 a friendship,
that enables him to persevere
in obedience to him and keeps him free
from sin. And on another, a friendship, a
that empowers him to
loosen and bind. Meaning to make things happen
in the creation.
And makes his prayers answered and his aspirations
effectual.
Person might say, well, you know, like,
why like, what is the is the point
of me being Allah's so I can do
what I want?
The answer to these things, like all other
questions with regards to predestination
and free will, they're wrapped up in a
divine mystery.
You don't desire something, suffer that you wanted.
The person who
taps into the well of the secret, then
what they want is going to be what
Allah wants. And Allah wants that thing, and
Allah
brought you to want that thing because that's
the way that he wants that thing, and
that's the the road map of how this
thing is going to be affected according to
his divine will. And as much as the
instrument of higher things
is higher than the instrument of lower things,
just like a plunger is a tool that
you unclog a toilet with. And perhaps like
a Rolex is a a really fine tool
that a person tells that the king will
tell his the time with.
Both of them are tools. Both of them,
it's they're used by the the the user
in order to get the,
to get the whatever they desire out of
it. But Allah will use such a person
in order to prosecute his command. It's not
like we believe that this person now all
of a sudden becomes a god with Allah
which seems to be a misunderstanding. Some people
have both,
misguided advocates of the doctrine and misguided people
who have misunderstood the doctrine,
alike. The
Rasul
says there is many of 1,
with dirty hair, dust stained, clad in 2
garments,
whom, men never take heed.
But if you were to swear by God,
God would verify his oath. Meaning, god, Allah
that if they swore an oath, Allah would
take it upon himself to make sure that
that oath came true.
It is well known that in the of
of Umar bin Khattab who denied in accordance
to his usual habits ceased to flow. For
in the time of paganism, they used to
annually annually adorn a maiden and throw her
into the river to make it flow again.
Right? Oh, the wicked goddess people, this is
your
girl power. You go girl.
They used to throw adorn a maiden and
throw her into the river to make it
flow again. Umar, radiAllahu ta'ala, who therefore,
wrote on a piece of paper,
oh, river, if you have stopped of your
own will, you do wrong. And if by
the command of God, then Umar
commands you to flow.
When this paper was thrown in, the Nile,
resumed its annual flood.
This was a a miracle that happened in
the shortly after the fat of the companions
that the annual flood was delayed.
And the was written dictated at the command
of Said Na'amr and thrown into the river
and it flooded again.
This is what we mean by the salraf.
One very fun fact, actually, cultural.
Not an ill me thing at all, but
just my, like, humsian, like, observance. You know?
Just, like, kinda looking at
some smart people and some less smart people
and how they interact with each other. For
whatever reason, if you say the miracles of
anybody,
our Salafi brothers will say it's shit. But
if you say the miracles of Sayna Umar,
they're like, yeah. Amazing.
They'll accept it.
It's like it doesn't even occur to them
that this is somehow you know? So that's
the
he's what what people like you would call
a of Allah.
My purpose in discussing Walaat and affirming its
reality is to show you that the name
of the Wali is properly applied to those
who have the above mentioned qualities,
are that are actually present in Hal and
not merely reputed.
They actually do it. They don't they don't
it's just not empty talk. Certain sheiks formerly
composed books on the subject, but they became
rare and soon disappeared. Now I will commend
to you the explanation given,
by,
that venerable spiritual director who is the author
of the doctrine,
meaning Hakim Tiramidi, for my own belief in
it is greater in order that, much instruction
may be gained not only by yourself, but
also by every seeker of Tasawwuf who may
have the good fortune of reading this book.
So we'll continue with this,
tomorrow.