Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Miracles of the Awliy 19 Ramadn 1444 Late Night Majlis
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Brought
us to this Mubarak 19th
night of Ramadan.
This
Asharah of malefira
of
forgiveness
is one
that,
we're in sore need of
and that as long as this,
hijab is there between us
and between
the understanding of the day of judgment,
people will be heedless.
One of the fun things when I teach
the
the the Hawiya that I mentioned
is that what we believe as a matter
of creed
that Allah Allah forgives
whoever he wishes to,
and any and every sin
that a person makes Tawba
sincerely for
before their death. He forgives for the believers.
And if he wishes to,
he can forgive any sin that a person
doesn't repent
for. And he will also eventually forgive any
sin also that he takes a person to
task for.
As long as they have iman, that that
person
will not be punished eternally for it as
long as they have iman.
And so many people have so many objections,
and it's so
befitting that this
necessary interjection occurs in the
discourse on
that
Taha'i himself,
Rahim mentions
that the reason for this is what
is that Allah
will never in either world, neither in this
world or the hereafter,
treat his
the people who said
Muhammad even if they weren't good at it,
but they tried.
He will never treat them
like
Those people who fell short of his guidance
and never partook in his friendship.
And then he makes a dua in there.
He says,
that make us from the people
who hold fast
to Islam
until we meet you with it. Amen.
Amen. Right? There's a story of the
the is a very hard Surah.
And it's a story in which the
is given
by Allah Ta'ala
for very hard times, consolation for having to
go through very hard and difficult times.
But through the contextualization
of the day of judgment,
it puts,
all of those things into perspective.
We pass by the ayat of the Quran.
We don't pay attention to him. Who am
I gonna, like, yell at other people about
it? I'm worse than anyone else. So but
it is sad sometimes. The the thought crosses
someone's head that we don't pay attention, and
it's kind of a sad thing. We should
pay more attention to it. The reason I'm
saying this right now in particular
is that
we see now in the world,
Muslims are
we're doing a lot better than we wanna
admit,
but in some ways it's not looking so
good.
So you see things happening
against Muslims in different places. A person would
be
very
diluted to not notice that sometimes Muslims will
get treated fairly with other people, even though
they seem to have been the first and
the most avid and,
excited drinkers of Kool Aid
that's provided to them by, modernity,
with regards to all of this, like, you
know, human rights and international law and this
law and that law. Even America nobody wants
to leave the law over here. The law
everywhere that's made up by people, they make
it for their own benefit.
The law that can have justice and it
is the law of Allah and his
Right? So is
that Allah
this is only something that can can come
from
from Wahi. It can only come from Wahi.
It can only come from revelation.
That the worst of people, the people in
which you see no
saving grace whatsoever, not even a worthy enemy,
that don't let them make you people who,
give up justice.
This only can come from,
that a person should not lose sight through
all of these things, that the forgiveness, the
marafah of Allah,
the reason that we believe that others are
able to get it, and the reason we
believe that scumbags are able to get it.
It's not out of love of scumbags.
It's out of the realization that I myself
am a scumbag.
And so if the other guy gets it,
it only comes in my favor.
And if I'm not a scumbag, if I'm
better than that person,
then whatever he gets necessarily the just the
the the grace of Allah Ta'ala above his
justice will mean that my maqam will be
higher than him. So it's a very self
serving
understanding, in fact, for the person who keeps
the of Allah Ta'ala, the person who keeps
the of Allah Ta'ala, and the person who
thinks that the point of
crime and punishment and law and all of
these things in this world or in the
hereafter is for justice, bad news for them
is this, is that if justice was implemented
in this world, then an eye for an
eye would make the whole world blind.
And if justice were implemented in this world,
you and me wouldn't be the ones who
can implement it. Only can implement it.
Otherwise, you have a justice system
in which they have the statue outside with
the blind lady justice with the scales like
some weird
pagan god with the scales and blindfolded. This
looks like some sort of, like, mental illness.
It doesn't look like justice, actually, to be
honest with you. And then in real life,
what ends up happening? It just so happens
randomly that black people get, like, double the
sentences for that white people do. And I'm
not saying this, like, just to make it
up, to be, like, woke Moana. You know
what I mean? And when I was when
I was in the University of Washington, the
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,
he's a PhD in sociology, professor of sociology.
His name is George Bridges.
He was very kind to me.
Mhmm. He, he was very kind to me
when I was there.
And that was He said that was my
PhD dissertation was to remove
all identifying
information
about people from cases and
to see how is it that people fared
in judgments for the same crimes,
for the same circumstances, ages, demographic, always every
single time black people get, like, a hardest
this is the way it's gonna be. How
could it be any other way?
So the Sharia doesn't establish justice in this
world.
The Sharia is a mercy and it's a
zajar. It's a deterrent for people from behaving
more badly than than than they absolutely minimally
need to,
so that they don't screw up their. And
in the if justice is established, then everybody
gets, you know, everybody gets tickets to the
barbecue with and that's not a it's not
a good thing. And only a person who
knows Allah,
only a person who's a friend of Allah,
understand that.
So we should remember that ourselves and not
let our anger with people take us beyond
a certain point. We should also share this
message as well that this is not something
that we do because
we love everybody.
Rabbit that wants to give everybody a hug,
but we're the first ones in need of
it ourselves. Allah to give us from his
mouth. So
the discourse regarding, the miracles of the
the reality of miracles having been established by
logical argument,
you must now become acquainted with the evidence
of the Quran and the genuine traditions of
the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Both the Quran and the Hadith proclaimed the
reality of
miracles
and extraordinary acts wrought by the oliya.
To deny this is to deny the authority
of sacred text. One example in the text
is, and we caused the clouds to overshadow
you,
and the manna and quail to descend upon
you. When Allah Ta'ala is talking about the.
Right? There's so many pieces in the talk
about it's not a very long section. He's
gonna talk about the miracles mentioned in the
Quran. There have been some attempts
in the later times to somehow,
quote, unquote, rationally and logically explain these things
away.
One of the
more impactful
attempts to do so
was by a gentleman by the name of
Sayd Ahmad Khan from the Indian subcontinent.
He established
Aligarh
Muslim University.
Before that everyone, every Muslim who got an
education would learn
the book of Allah and their messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and the sacred Sharia,
its principles, its philosophy,
all of these other things. They'll get a
classical education. He he jettisoned that in order
to
bring the Muslims into the same lane with
the idol worshipers,
in order to have a materialist education,
replace
an Ulsuly education, a principled one.
And, you know,
fun fact, a lot of the people who
are the first immigrants here are products of
that that,
institution, and this man is actually a hero,
to many people in,
in,
in the subcontinent.
I won't make takfirah of the man. Allah
knows best. They're a great that were
contemporaneous with him that didn't. For that reason,
I hold my tongue. But many of the
things he says, if they're not Kufr, I
don't know what Kufr is.
They're tantamount to Kufr
very simply because their denial of very obvious
things from the book of Allah.
I remember once my mother-in-law,
who,
comes from the same home as this as
this person.
Once
there's in Pakistan, when I was in Madrasa,
they they announced the opening of the SARSID
Express train,
and,
she said, oh, you should come home. When
you when you come from back from Lahore,
you should take this train. I was like,
I would never take that train. And she
says, what? It's just because he's not Punjabi.
Right? I was like, what? He's not Punjabi
either? No. I'm definitely not taking it.
But, yeah. But really, it has nothing to
do with a person's
calm.
Rather, this was kind of defeated people's way
of trying to cope with their defeat. But
if you examine what's happening with the Umma,
the Umma is not defeated because our enemies
are some sort of superhuman mutant x men.
Rather, we 100% do it to ourselves. We
100% do it to ourselves. We have a
leg up in every single thing in life
if you think about it. We 100% do
it to ourselves. And, may Allah make our
with and with and save us from,
save us from a bad faith in the
day of judgment.
So, actually, we caused on the clouds to
overshadow you, you, and the man and quail
to descend upon you. Right? And what happened?
What did they ask for after they asked
me for, like, cucumber and dal? Right?
That's which is kind of how we are
too as well. Masha Allah gave us so
much and then we
but where's the dal?
So if any skeptic should assert that this
was an evidentiary
miracle
of Musa Alaihi Salam, I raise no objection
because all the miracles of the saints are
an evidentiary miracle of the prophet sallallahu alaihi
wasallam. And if he says that this miracle
was wrought in the absence of Musa alaihi
wasallam, although it occurred in his time, and
that therefore it was not necessarily wrought by
him, I reply the same principle holds good
in the case of Musa alayhi salam when
he acquitted his people and went to Mount
Sinai and in the case of the messenger
of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Salam, for there's no
difference between being absent in time or being
absent in space. This is a comment that
he made from before, and he repeats it
appropriately over here. That if someone says this
is not a proof of the miracle of
the, this is a miracle of Sayedid Musa
Alaihi Salam.
He says that while all the karamat of
the Aliyah are themselves a miracle of their
the nevi who they're, corroborating. And if someone
says this is not a miracle of the
nevi, then he says that still, it's still
all of it makes sense.
We're also told the miracle of,
Asaf bin,
who brought the throne of Bilqis to Suleiman
in the twinkling of an eye. So the
the the the Surah to Namal.
Right? So the
the the jinn says like, before the majlis
is over, I'll bring you her her throne.
And so this, Asif who all of our
Desi Asif are named after is
what? He's the one who had the the
the knowledge of, the the the kitab.
Some say that he knew
that he could call upon it, the name
of Allah that if he's called by that
name, that he,
answers immediately,
upon the one who with the prayer of
the one who calls upon him. That he
brought the throne of Bilqis, the the the
the queen of Sabah,
to Soleiman alaihis salaam. This could not have
been a mer jizzah because Asaf was not
a prophet.
Had it been a mer jizzah, it would
have been wrought by Soleiman, alayhis salam, alayhis
salam himself.
Therefore, it was a karama. We are also
told, of Mariam, alayhis salam, that whenever Zakaria,
alayhis salam, went, into her chamber, he found
with her winter fruit in the summer and
summer fruit in the winter,
to the point that he said,
where, you know, from whence had Stew
procured this. She answered it is from God.
Everybody admits that, Mariam Alaihi Islam was an
apostle. Of course, like
small children, there's gonna be a bunch of
people said, oh, well, Iben Hazem said this
and
okay. Fine. Whatever. It doesn't change the point.
The point that he's trying to make over
here doesn't change it.
And I feel like the fixation on isolated
opinions because it makes a person feel better
about stuff
is kind of silly, and it's, it's not
a good sign. But, it is what it
is. If a person really studies and becomes
a and is per convinced that, you know,
say that Mariam Alaihi was a a prophet
or something like that. Good for you.
But,
it doesn't end in your end. It does
it detracts from the point,
to argue about it right now.
Furthermore, we have the story of the
and how their dog spoke to them and
how they slept and turned around in the
cave. All of these extraordinary acts, since they
were certainly not,
meaning they were not rocked by prophets, they
must have been,
Karamat.
Such miracles, the Karamat of the Olia, may
be, for example, answering the prayers,
through the accomplishment of the wishes
conceived by one who is subject to the
sacred law,
or traversing great distances in a short time,
or the appearance of food from an unaccustomed
place, or power to read the thoughts of
others, etcetera.
Amongst,
the genuine traditions of the prophet
is a story of the cave, the which
is told as as followed
as follows.
One day, the companions
of the messenger
begged him to relate to them some marvelous
tale of the ancient ones. He said
once 3 persons were going to a certain
place,
and at eventide, they took shelter in a
cave,
and while they're asleep, a rock fell from
the mountain and blocked the path of the
cave. They said to one another, we shall
never escape from here unless god makes our
disinterested actions plead for us before him.
So one of them began, I had a
father and mother, and I had no worldly
goods except for a goat whose milk I
used to give to them. Every day, I
used to gather a bundle of firewood and
sell it and spend the money in providing
food for them and for myself.
1 night, I came home rather late, and
before I milked the goat and, steeped their
food,
in the milk, they had fallen asleep. I
kept the bowl in my hand and stood
there without having eaten anything until morning when
they awoke and ate. Then I sat down.
Oh, lord, he continued. If I speak the
truth concerning this matter, send us deliverance and
come to our aid. The messenger of Allah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said there upon the
rock moved a little and a crevice appeared.
The next man said there was a beautiful
blind girl with whom I was deeply in
love, but she would not listen to my,
suit.
I managed to send her a 120 dinars
with the promise that she should keep the
money if she would be mine for 1
night. When she came, the fear of Allah
seized my heart, and I turned from her
and let her keep the money.
He added, oh Allah, if I speak, the
truth, deliver us. The
said that the rock moved a little further
and the crevice widened, but they could not
yet go forth. The third man said, I
had some laborers working for me.
When the work was done, all received their
wages except for one who disappeared.
With his wages, I bought a sheep. Next
year, there were 2. And in the year
after, there were 4, and soon after, a
large flock. After several several years, the laborer
returned and asked me for his wages. I
said to him, go and take all of
these sheep. They're all your property.
He thought I must be mocking him, but
I assured him it was true, and he
went off with the entire flock.
The narrator adder added,
that he said then, oh, lord, if I
speak the truth, deliver us.
He had scarcely finished, said the messenger of
Allah when the rock moved from the mouth
of the cave and allowed 3 men to
come forth.
Then he puts a a a rather lengthy
footnote. He says, here follow a tradition related
by Abu Rera
of 3 infants were miraculously endowed with speech,
Isa alaihis salam, the prophet. Which is very
interesting. I saw, some random post on social
media. Bad hamza for being on social media
in Ramadan. We should do better. But, it
was well, yeah, they'll be last you know,
some just, one of our less
even keel minded Christian friends and neighbors
who said, oh, Buddha is dead and this
person's dead and that person's dead. And then
they repeated the same thing about the prophet
but Christ has died and then he raised
up 3 days afterward and he lives. And
I'm like, hey. We don't believe that Christ
died, so this is kinda awkward.
B, Alaihi
Salam. B,
you just said that he died.
Anyhow, just had to get that out of
my system.
So 3 were infants were miraculously endowed with
speech.
1, Isa Alaihi Salam,
be the child who, exculpated the monk, Julej,
when he was falsely accused by a prostitute,
and, see, a child who divined,
the characters of a horseman and a woman.
2, the story of Zaida, the handmaid of
the Khalifa Omar, how a knight descended from
heaven and gave her a message from,
the keeper of paradise, to the prophet
and how she could not lift a bundle
of firework wood from a rock
which she had laid on it. The prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam bade the rock to
go with her and carry the firewood to
Omar's house. 3, the story of Alal Hadrami,
who had been sent on a warlike expedition
by the prophet
and walked dry shod across a riverbed with
his company.
And for,
a story of Abdullah bin Omar
who's at who's bidding a line decamped and
left the way open for a party of
travelers. 5, the story of a man who
was seen sitting in the air when Ibrahim
alayhi salam asked him by what means he
attained such power. He replied that he had
renounced the world and that God had bestowed
upon him an aerial dwelling place where he
was not disturbed by any thought of mankind.
6, in the story of Khalifa Umar
who on the point of being killed by
a Persian when two lions suddenly
appeared and caused, the assassin to desist. 7,
the story of Khalid bin Walid
who said Bismillah and drank
a, a deadly poison which did him no
harm. 8, the story related by Hassel Abbasid,
of 8, black man who turned the walls
of 8 tavern into gold.
9, the story related of about Ibrahim Ibbu
Adham, of a shepherd who smote a rock
with his staff and caused water to gush
forth. Tell him the story of a cup
which pronounced the words
upon hearing Abu Darda in,
Salman al Farsi
crams all of this into a footnote. He's
kind of a hater at times. Everything that
has to do with, like, the superiority of
Islam, like, from the I had the the
Aslaf in particular, the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam usually relegates it to a footnote. But
it's it's worth it's worth remembering.
And the, all of these is different. Some
of them are actually well corroborated, and some
of them are not. And the same thing
with the hadith The hadith about the rock
in the cave. This is like a hadith
of Bukhari. It's not like,
you know, tall tale. Although some of the
way that that that it's worded, perhaps it's
part of the translation from Persian into English
or the translator himself, but the wording may
be a little bit up or down. Effectively,
it's the same thing.
It is related that Abu Said Al Kharaz
said, for a long time, I used to
eat only once in 3 days. I was
journeying in the desert,
and on the 3rd day, I felt weak
through hunger. A voice from heaven cried to
me, do you prefer food that will quiet
your nuffs or an expedient that will enable
you to overcome, your weakness without food. I
replied, oh, god, give me strength.
Then I rose and traveled 12 stages without
meat or drink. It is well known, that
at the present day, the house of Sahib
bin Abdullah in Tustar is called the house
of wild beasts, Beit Usibah.
Wild predatory beasts, in fact. And the people
of Tostar are agreed that many wild beasts
used to come to him and that he
fed and tended to them. Abu Qasem of
Maruf tells the following story. As I was
walking on the seashore with Abu Sa'id Al
Kharaz, I saw a youth clad in a
patched frock carrying a bucket,
to which an ink bottle was fastened.
Haraz said,
when I look at this youth, it seems
to be that he's one of the adepts,
but when I look at his ink bottle,
I think he's a student. Let me question
him. So you accosted the youth and said,
what is the way to God? The youth
answered, there are 2 ways to God, the
way of the vulgar and the way of
the elect. You have no knowledge of the
latter, but the way of the vulgar which
you pursue is to regard your own actions
as the cause of attaining God and to
suppose that an ink bottle is one of
the things that interfere with attainment.
The Nudal mister
Raimo Allah Ta'ala said, once I embarked in
a ship voyaging from Egypt to Jeddah,
Amongst the passengers was a youth wearing a
patched frock.
I was
eager to be his companion. And so now
that people use fast fashion, if there's a
rip or something like that, they throw it
away. Or worse yet, if there's a rip
that's they actually like that, they get pre
ripped jeans or whatever.
But the the sunnah is what? That you
put a into your clothes when they that's
what he means by that. That they're they
they were past clothing. That there are people,
they were from the zuhab.
I was eager to be his companion, but
he inspired me with such awe that I
did not venture to address him for his
spiritual state seemed exalted, and he was constantly
engaged in devotion.
One day, a certain man,
lost a purse of jewels and suspicion fell
on the youth.
They're about to maltreat him, but I said,
let me question him courteously. I told him
that,
he was suspected of theft and that I
had saved him from maltreatment.
And now I said, what is to be
done? He looked toward the heavens and spoke
a few words. The fishes came to the
surface, each of them with a jewel in
his mouth. He took a jewel and gave
it to his accuser, and he set his
foot on the water and walked away.
Thereupon,
the real thief dropped the purse,
and the people of the ship repented.
Ibrahim.
This is here, Rakka, that that, the name
of Rakka has been now dragged through the
mud because of the
work of
these yahoos who created mischief in the backwaters
of shaman of,
Iraq. Allah destroy them wherever they go.
Allah
give
to those who fight them. Allah
destroy them and blot their name out from
the
memory and from the tongues of mankind. Uh-huh.
Amin.
Ibrahim
said that it's related that,
is related to I've said, in my,
novitiate, I set out to visit
Muslim Al Maghribi.
I found him in his mosque,
acting as
a presenter.
He pronounced Al Hamdah incorrectly, meaning the Fatiha.
I said to myself, my trouble has been
wasted. The next day, when I was going
back to the Bank of the Euphrates,
to perform some,
to perform ablution, to perform wudu, I saw
a lion asleep on the road. I turned
back and was faced by another lion which
had been following me. Hearing my cries of
despair, a Muslim came forth from his cell.
When the lion saw him, they humbled themselves
before him.
He took the ear of each one and
rubbed them and said, oh, dogs of God,
have I not told you that you must
not interfere with my guests?
Then he said,
you have busied yourself with correcting your exterior
for the sake of god's creatures.
Hence, you are afraid of them. But it
has been my business to correct my interior
for god's sake. Hence, his creatures have been
afraid of me.
One day, my sheikh set out from Betel
Jin, to Damascus.
A heavy rain had begun to fall, and
I was walking with
difficulty in the mire. I noticed that the
Sheikh's shoes and clothes had been perfectly dry.
On my pointing this out to him, he
said, yes. God has preserved me from the
mud ever since I put unquestioning trust in
him and guarded my interior from the desolation
of cupidity.
Once an experience occurred to me, which I
could not unravel, I set out to visit
Sheikh Abdulqasim Gorgani in Tuz.
I found him alone in his chamber in
the Masjid,
and he was expounding precisely. Tuz, by the
way, is the city of Imam Ghazali
free it from its occupation.
He said, I found him alone in his
chamber in the mosque, and he was expounding,
precisely the same difficulty to a pillar.
So that I was answered without having asked
having to ask the question.
O Sheik, I cried to him,
to whom are you saying this? He said,
oh, my son, God just caused this pillar
to speak and ask me this question.
In Farhana,
Farhana is Tashkent is the line from Tashkent
to Ash. So,
Margalon, the Sahibul Hidaya is from there as
well.
Andejan,
Nam and Gan.
All of these places are in that that
that
valley.
He said in Farhana, there to this day,
they're still the people of Uzbekistan are pretty
pious people in general, but the, you know,
the people of that area are renowned even
amongst the the people of Central Asia for
their piety.
He said in Farhana, at a village called
the,
Ashlatak,
there was an old man from the.
He his name was Bab Omar.
And,
his entry is there
in the He said his name was Bab
Omar, and all the dervishes in the country,
could give the title of Bab Omar to
their great chef,
and he had an old wife called Fatima.
So I'm sorry. All the dervishes in that
country gave the title of Bab to their
great sheikhs, and he had a wife called
Fatima. I went from Uzkan to go see
him.
When I entered his, presence, he said,
why have you come? I replied in order
that I might see the Sheikh in person
and that he might look upon me with
kindness.
He said, I have been seeing you continuously
since such and such day, and I wish,
to see you as long as you are
not removed from my sight. I computed the
day and the year, and it was the
very day,
on which my, conversate and on on which
day my conversion began. My,
my toba
to changed my life. The sheikh said to
traverse distance,
is child's play.
Henceforth, pay visits by means of your thoughts,
your himma.
It is not worthwhile to visit any person,
and there's no virtue in bodily presence. He
bade Fatima to bring something to eat. She
brought a dish of new grapes, although it
was not the season for them, and some
fresh rye dates, which cannot be easily procured
in
Farana. Farana is not a place where a
palm tree will grow, or anywhere near anywhere
where a palm tree will grow.
On another occasion, while I was sitting alone,
as is my custom behind the or beside
the
mazar of Abu Sa'id,
in Minha,
I saw a white pigeon flying under the
cloth,
covering the sepulcher.
I supposed that the bird had escaped from
its owner, but when I looked under the
cloth, nothing was to be seen.
This happened again the next day and on
the 3rd day. Was at a loss to
understand it until one night I dreamed of
the saint of the Wali, and I asked
him about my experience. He answered that the
pigeon is my good conduct, Safayi
Muamalat, which comes every day to my tomb
to feast with me.
I might adduce, many more of these tales
without exhausting them, but my purpose in this
book is to establish the principles of tasawaf.
As regards to derivatives and matters of conduct,
books have been compiled by the,
Naqbalan, by the,
and these topics are disseminated from the pulpit
in preachers. So this is the same stuff
that people take for granted when they hear,
in the masjid, then everybody says I've been
unmasked, and this is all dry and all
this other stuff. This is the of following
those things is that you get to this
stuff which
pulls in the donations and, puts the, brainless
donor marieza into a hypnotism.
He said that,
these are all the topics that are disseminated
from the pulpits.
Now I'll give in 1 or 2 sections
an adequate account of certain points bearing on
the present discussion in order that I may
not have to return to it again.
It's a good place to stop.
Allah give us from that good conduct and
give us from the of these things, whether
we see these parlor tricks,
manifested in our own hands or in those,
of those around us or not. The person
who has the Johar Pach, the the pure
and secret inside of their heart,
whether or not they see these things
is immaterial.
That person, the day that they meet their
lord, that will be the real Eid Mubarak.
Allah, God forbid for us all.