Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Ramadn 22nd Late Night Majlis TazkirayiMashayikhiChisht Khaja Sultan Ibrahim b Adham 06172017
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Today, by Allah Ta'ala's Fadl, we've reached the
22nd night of Ramadan.
Whoever is
able to
put in any
amount
of him and courage
and and struggle against themselves
for their own betterment and for the betterment
of the Ummah of Saydna Muhammad
Now is the time for your prayers, and
now is the time for your duas. Allah
change
all of our destiny for the better in
this world and hereafter.
Today, we read about sultan Ibrahim bin Adham
bin Mansur,
who
was
the
link in the
blessed and Mubarik chain in Silsah
after
the Sheikh Fuday bin Ayaab Rahimahullah
Tabarakata'ala
who we talked about yesterday.
His ancestry through the medium of 5 predecessors
links up with Sayyidina
Umar
Although some people claim that he was a
Sayyid and a Sharif from the line of
Sayyid Hussain, may Allah be pleased with him.
He was born in the city of Balkh,
which is in modern day Afghanistan, a great
city of Central Asia, a center of learning
and culture,
which was destroyed by the Mongols. It, obviously,
the city still exists and it was built
again, but, it never re regained its former
glory,
that it had from before the the the
destruction in the sack at the hands of
the Mongols.
May Allah have mercy on those who
perished in that difficulty.
Balchi was,
believe it or not, at one time, a
great center of the Hanbali Med Heb
as was
the the Central Asian
lands of what are now Afghanistan.
And,
there's a really
long and interesting and beautiful, history,
in those places. Allah ta'ala Insha'Allah
give us all the to be acquainted with
with, his oliyan with our spiritual and our
intellectual tradition.
His
or honorific title was Abu Ishaq.
The Sheikh Fuday bin Ayadur Rahim Muawata'ala
conferred to him the mantle of his successorship
besides being the Khalifa of
Haja Fudayl,
he was also the Khadi Khalifa of Haja
Imran bin Musa,
Haja al Imam Muhammad al Bakr who we
spoke about in the entry regarding the Imams
of Tassowah from the Ahlulbayt of the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Khaja Sheikh Mansour salam sulami
and,
that last
successorship having been granted through supernatural means.
And,
this is something
that, you know, this is a ummah of
Isnat,
of of of connection
and of having unbroken chains.
But amongst the sufia,
there is,
this idea that,
that a person has connection with
others through the spiritual realm and it's not
really a Sufi idea. In fact, it's an
idea of
Islam
and, that connection is called Uwaisif.
Obviously, Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had
connection with the other MBIA alaihi mussalam.
He met them,
when he was in the physical state and
they were the spiritual state,
and also,
perhaps also in the dream state.
But may claim that, well, that was the
messenger of Allah,
it wasn't an average person from Ummah.
But, again, we also see,
that
the successor in Tabi'i
who inshallah one day we can talk about
him.
He
also, had communion with Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
through the medium of dreams
and through the medium of supernatural means.
And he
heard of Rasulullah salahu alaihi wa sallam and
believed in Rasulullah salahu alaihi wa sallam
and would speak to him through
the supernatural medium and he asked Rasool Allah
salaihi wa sallam for permission to make hijra,
to him. And Rasool Allah salaihi
wa sallam he told him that
the only thing that holds me back is
I have an aged mother and there's nobody
to take care of her. And
Rasulullah alaihis salatu wasalam he
he he told him stay and take care
of your mother don't come to me. And
like that Rasulullah alaihis salatu wasalam passed from
this world and said no SAWHIMHUH
was never able to see him,
was never able to see him physically.
That after I leave the people from Qara'an
will come to you,
in Hajj. And when they do
send my salams to a person amongst them
named Uwais
whose piety will be so great that Allah
Ta'ala will at his hands
make Shafa'a and intercession
and accepted intercession
for
such a great number of people
on the day of judgment that that number
more than the sheep of the tribe of
Kinda
which was a an expression of a large
number
and so what happened was during the reign
of Sayyidina Umar alaihala and who those people
from Qalam they came to,
they came to Hajj and
and,
they were sought out by Sayidna Umar and
Sayidna and
and they they delivered the salams of the
Messenger of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and
say no waste. His
secret
state
with Rasool Allah alaihi wa sallam and his
maqam was exposed and so people started to
crowd him and so he disappeared he left
and he was not to be seen again
until,
the Wakhratul Jammal the battle of the camel
where he showed up
in order to
take the side of Sayidna Ali radiAllahu ta'ala
on that day.
So this is something that does happen
and in the in the discourse of the
Sufis when a person has
some sort of supernatural communion with some with
another soul,
through the spirit world, through the spirit medium,
or just supernatural medium.
As a genus this type of connection is
referred to as a taluk Uesi as an
Uesi connection.
And not necessarily meaning that it has to
be directly with Uysekarni Rahimu Allah Ta'ala
himself rather it is the type of connection
like Sayna Uysekarni had with the messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wa Salam.
And,
in this case,
Hazrat Sheikh Zakaria
ascribes to
Ibrahim bin Adham Rahimahullah
a Uyse connection to Uyse al Kani,
himself.
May Allah Ta'ala have mercy on both of
them and sanctify their their spirits. But these
things happen.
The problem with, people who make claims about
this Uesi type connection is that it's completely
unverifiable.
So somebody may be really that pious
or somebody may be, you know, cooking an
imaginary biryani in his mind or in the
minds of
unsuspecting people.
That's
why having a,
you know, having an ijazah and a chain
of nourish narration that connects through the living
is so important
because
Ibrahim bin Adham is not someone who just
woke up in the morning and said
said that, hey. You know, I have
the the khilafa and the successor
ship for Uyghi al Khani, so you guys
just believe me.
Rather the outward chain that's
connected and unbroken to Rasool Allah SAWAllahu Alaihi
Wasallam through
the Sheikh Fudayl bin Ayyab
which is through the Sheikh Abdulwahed bin Zayed
which is through the Sheikh
Al Hassan al Basri which is through Saidna
Ali radiAllahu anhu to their messenger of Allah
Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. That chain is in
place
and that's the one that confers the legitimacy
on
on the Sheikh.
And then afterward
because that chain is there and it's,
you know, it checks out then one
can also lend a little bit of belief
to the fact that these people,
had these other experiences as well. But we
don't base anything only on those other experiences.
So you have people for example, they'll, you
know, I mean, the in the in the
in the,
in
the outward sciences, they'll claim that they narrate
hadith from or or, you know, stuff like
that or
just some sort of supernatural
means.
And, we don't accept those things as,
as as proof that the hadith is Sahih.
We outwardly will not accept them. But if
someone makes a claim like that someone who's
known to be truthful
and somebody who
has the outwardly
verifiable chain already in place and they make
a claim like that on top of it,
unless we have a reason to suspect that
such people are liars, it's okay to
accept that perhaps this claim may be true.
And it's like it's like other things. It's
like the claims of people's other miracles or
or,
you know,
their, you know, dreams about the prophet
or whatever,
which is that you don't have to
accept every single instance of someone saying something
like that to you. But in general,
it is part of our Aqdida that miracles
do happen and that these things do happen.
And so it is possible, until and unless
you find out that the person is a
liar or whatnot. But at any rate these
things don't alter the din in any way
shape or form. The outwardly transmitted Sharia is,
is not transmutable
and it is solid so whoever's claim comes
and it buttresses and supports the claim of
the outward
law and Sharia
that person is
somebody who we
you know that has the right that they
should be believed
or or should be believed And the person
whose claims,
somehow are at odds or loggerheads with the
outward Sharia even if they come with an
outwardly verifiable chain of narration
for what they do or what they say.
We have grounds and reason to suspect them
if not dismiss their claims outright.
Ibrahim bin Adham
was his regular practice to remain hungry for
4 to 5 days at a time like
the practice of his Sheikh.
Again these are all things that are like
kids don't try them at home.
These are people who built up capacities to
perform
very, very difficult
and and very difficult struggles against their nufus
over time. And they had great aid in
doing what they did.
If someone tries to do these types of
things without the direction of their shaykh and
without having to build up their capacities,
they will end up harming themselves in a
way which will be sinful and it will
put them in a position of sin. Yom
Qiyama and it will put their nafs into
so much duress that it will cause them
to
have a bad opinion of Allah ta'ala when
they have to deal with an amount of
pain that they're not ready to deal with,
or or it may even cause them to
leave Islam.
So these are definitely kids don't try that
this at home type things.
In the beginning he was the ruler of
Balkh.
First he was adopted as a son by
the ruler of Balkh and then afterward he
became the ruler himself.
Allah's special grace was on him hence the
circumstances for adopting the path of renunciation
of the world went on unfolding
for, Sheikh Ibrahim bin Adham.
Once while his court was in full session,
a man of considerable
reverence, awe, and dignity entered.
The awe inspiring countenance of the man was
so overwhelming that no one had the courage
to question his identity.
When he was close to the throne,
the ruler asked, who are you? And he
replied a traveler searching for an inn.
The ruler said this is not an inn,
this is my palace.
The traveler said,
who was here before you?
The king says, the ruler says, the king
before me.
The traveler says before him,
the ruler says his father,
but never was this an inn. The traveler
said all are gone. That means that this
is nothing more than an inn
like a hotel.
This conversation had a profound effect on the
King who now developed a yearning for the
search for Allah Ta'ala.
Once while sleeping at night he heard footsteps
on the roof of the Palace when he
asked who is there.
A voice replied, I am searching for my
camel.
The ruler asked who could be more ignorant
than you searching for the camel on a
palace roof.
The person replied or the voice replied, the
person who searches for Allah while sitting on
a royal throne is more ignorant.
Allah ta'ala
Allah ta'ala forgive us and give us what
we need from this world.
What we need for the day of judgment
which will be a day of ahuwal and
afat
and calamities and tragedies.
He asked who can be more ignorant than
the man searching for his lost camel on
the roof?
And the voice replied
the person who is searching for Allah Ta'ala
in the royal throne.
Which means what? And someone might say well
okay I'm not a king of anything so
hamdulillah it doesn't apply to me. It double
and triple applies to us. We live in
types of comfort
and types of laziness that even the kings
in the past, did not know.
We have running water in our houses and
we sit watching TV and checking
stuff for Allah Allah forgive us all, checking
social media
and checking, you know,
YouTube videos and this and that the whole
day. And,
the fact of the matter is is that
you won't find Allah in comfort and in
pleasure.
And I I wanna make a little side
note whoever's listening to these majalis,
you know, you might, you know, the thought
might rightfully cross your mind that, yo, man.
This dude is really judgmental. He's like hyper
judgmental about every everyone. I hate religious people
because they're so judgmental. Why does he have
to be judgmental all the time about everybody?
Look.
When I say things like this about like
you know,
deprecating the comfort that we live in and
deprecating
you know this obsession about social media anyone
who's gonna like check my Twitter account knows
that, you know I'm up there with everybody
else
and it's from the hikma of our elders
may Allah Ta'ala have mercy on them they're
people of Taqwa and people of inward and
outward purity.
Allah Ta'ala
give us at least if nothing
else from the the fact that we love
them give us some chance on the day
of judgment.
Hazrat Tannui Rahimullah Ta'ala,
it was his wasi and his bequest to
the ulama and to the people of the
people of knowledge and the students of knowledge
that when they go and preach the dean
in front of other people, if they see
any sort of weakness in themselves
that they should,
then preach about it again and again and
again. The idea is if the person preaches
such with sincerity
that eventually a sort of shame will overtake
them,
and it will cause them to out of
nothing else just because of their shame
rectify themselves. And the condition is only if
the person has iman.
Allah ta'ala his messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam he
said from the first teachings of Nabuwa or
of prophethood
are that if you don't have any shame
then say whatever you want, do whatever you
want.
The idea is that if there's no Haya
and there's no shame left in you
that that's a sign that Iman has completely
abandoned you. May Allah to Allah be our
protection.
So we're all in this together.
Don't feel like I'm you know
judging other people trust me I'm in this
boat with everybody else
and
you know this entire
you know series
of talks
you know, people ask where is the the
talk happening you know, where is the Majlis
happening?
Which Masjid is it in, oh my god,
you talk you say the s word all
the sufism all the time and which Masjid
tolerates it. The fact of the matter is
there's no Masjid I know that that's going
to give an open,
an open invite for this or even for
basic matters of the dean without getting up
on you and, you know, throwing you out
or giving you a hard time. And, unfortunately,
that's a that's that's just a fact that
I've had the bitter experience of
eating the lash out again and again. The
fact of the matter is is most of
the time,
almost all the time I sit and record
these things in a room alone in my
house.
The only reason the only reason I wanted
to share
this material in this way
was that if we waited for a Hanqa
to open
then I would have waited my whole life
and it would never would have opened or
the possibilities it never would have opened.
Rather
I myself feared
that these things that that I heard from
my mashaikh and from my elders
as time goes on. It's now been 10
years since I've come back from Madrasah,
which was a very honorable and very blessed
experience, Mubarak experience literally from out of this
world.
It's been 10 years now and I'm starting
to forget all of these things. I'm starting
to forget the things that I was told
by my mashaikh
and forget the things that I was told
by my elders and the experiences that I
had with them. And I thought this is
something that if you know if we have
a chance let's just share it however we
share it and if someone benefits they benefit
and once it's gone, it's gone.
So there is no pretense or looking down
on anybody
Rather we're all we're all in the struggle
together
but I just submit humbly for everybody's consideration
following
which is that
we know what the path to success is
and we know what the path to achieving
what our forefathers
achieved.
We know as an Ummah collectively this knowledge
is alive in Ummah even though most individuals
don't know even very well intentioned people and
even people who have very significant commitments to
Islam don't know but as an Ummah collectively
this knowledge is still alive amongst the Ummah
of Saydah Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
And by pretending
that
not doing those things that you need to
do in order to be successful will make
you successful doesn't help at all.
So it's not judgmentalism
on other people. It's just the idea that
look we're reading the Tabakat from different books
of these masha'if again and again and again.
And a constant theme is what is that
you are not going to live comfortably and
achieve the spiritual rank with Allah ta'ala.
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that that that
that sometimes Allah Ta'ala will even use a
a profligate sinner in order to serve this
deen. And,
Mustipaalan
Puhi the the sheikhul Hadith of Dehoban Allata
give him a long life and protect him
from
anything that that that that disturbs him or
or gives him difficulty in this world or
in the hereafter.
He wrote something which undoubtedly,
you know thousands of masha'if may have wrote
before him. That what's the point of you
being the president of the Masjid, the fundraising
for the Masjid, the president of MSA,
president of this organization,
board member, committee member,
you know,
elected this, elected that, you know, all of
this political action,
social justice, all of these things. What is
the point of view being the vehicle
for
expediting and
affecting all of this good change in the
world?
Such change perhaps a 1000000 people will enter
into Islam because of you and all of
them will be in Jannah forever and you
yourself are burning in the fire. What's the
point of that? Where's the hikmah in that?
That's not what the sunnah of the prophet
salallahu alaihi wa sallam is and that's not
what the commandment of Allah ta'ala is. Allah
ta'ala says what?
It says
protect yourself
and protect your your families from some, such
a fire the fuel of which is men
and stones.
And so the idea is that by by
playing around and and and and kind
of dancing around and skirting and circumventing the
fact that that there are certain things that
are known
through the collective experience of the Ummah and
the collective knowledge of the Ummah that are
necessities toward some sort of spiritual achievement for
the self,
much less for the rest of the people
by circumventing them or pretending they don't exist
we're not doing ourselves a favor nor are
we doing anyone else a favor.
Feel good about it. So this is not
what this path is all about. So what
happened is Ibrahim bin Adham
he is himself sitting on the throne of
Balch
and,
he he hears a person looking for a
camel on the roof and the person says
I lost my camel. He says what kind
of a fool looks for a camel on
the roof? And,
how how how how stupid is it to
look for a camel on the roof? And
the voice says to him it's even dumber
to look for Allah Ta'ala in the comfort
of a royal palace. And so if you're
looking for Allah Ta'ala and you're sitting in
comfort right now,
know that that, you know, something's something's going
on here that you're not putting 22 together
you're not connecting the dots.
Leave your home.
Leave your home. I'm not saying give up
your money or
give up your house or give up your
job or give up your degrees or any
of those things. One day those things will
come in great service to you spiritually and
they will come in great service to Islam
as well. Rasool Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam,
he had his Medina and this the Khalafar
Rashidun they rule the world.
Right? Those things will be put into the
service of Islam but only after your own
rectification, after my own rectification.
Leave your home. Go out in the path
of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Go and visit
the mashaikh,
go to sit in the hamkaz and fast
and make the thikr even though you're sleepy,
even though it's cold, even though it's hot,
even though you're sick, even though you don't
get the food you want to eat, even
though you're not able to sleep on the
the hard woven straw mats, even though you're
in a foreign country, even though the the
the other,
people are treating you badly, even though the
Sheikh is treating you badly, even though all
of these things are happening when your nafs
is getting getting pressed like that in a
in a in a measured way,
and receiving its training, it's like a sword
that's put into the into the into the
forge
and its
iron is glowing red and is being struck
again and again by the the hammer of
the blacksmith
and then when it's plunged into the water
and cooled, it will be forged and it
will be much more powerful than it was
before.
Before if it was taken into battle it
would have bent bent or broken.
Now when it's taken into battle it will
break other swords.
But until you have that that that process
happening to you, sitting in in in in
your home, sitting in comfort, and thinking you're
gonna learn the din from conferences or from
YouTube channels or from home courses
or from, you know,
reading books. A book will never tell you
point to you your your own deficiency. A
book will never tell you something that will
hurt your nafs. A book will never, you
know, do these things to you. And those
are the things that are necessary in order
to what? In order to be from the
Ahlulah. Why do you think Ibrahim bin Adam
has a maqam,
ifooday bin Ayyad has a maqam,
in the beginning of their saluk that none
of us will will will attain at the
end of it?
Why is it that they're putting their own
lufus through so much hardship,
not eating 5 days at a time and
things like that and going through all the
hardships that that are described?
Why why is it that they're doing that?
Right? Are these masochistic
people who are like weirdos who love pain
and wallahi they're more human than you and
I. Their were more adjusted than you and
I. They loved beauty more than you and
I love beauty and they they felt hurt
from pain more than you and I do
because we live in this weird, numbed out
society where we were just numb to everything.
We don't feel human feelings anymore except for
very few people who Allah to have some
sort of special khasrama
on. Why were they doing these things? They
were doing these things. Why? Because this was
a necessary step in order for you to
build the capacity to know Allah Ta'ala and
love Allah Ta'ala and to be loved by
Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala as well. And, the
person who doesn't understand that and thinks that
they're gonna just get, you know, take a
weekend course or take like, you know, 1
month like part time or 1, you know,
1 month full time course and then give
Khutbas and now I'm going to Jannah. I'm
doing a big service to
Islam. That's not that's not the way these
things worked ever and it's still not the
way it's gonna work and it's not the
way it's gonna work in the future.
You
won't find a change in the sunnah of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and you sure as
heck won't find a change in the sunnah
of his messenger Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Hazrashair Zakaria Rahimullah Ta'ala continues the arrow of
divine love pierced
Ibrahim bin Adham's heart.
All of a sudden he renounced the throne
and set out into the wilderness.
He took up residence on a mountain.
On Thursdays, he would descend from the mountain
gather firewood and sell it.
Whatever he acquired from the sale of the
wood, half would be spent in the path
of Allah Ta'ala and the other half would
be used to buy food for the following
7 days.
And imagine that your one were one day's
worth of day laboring in the old days
is not gonna buy you like
it's not gonna buy you food that's like
super tasty or wonderful. It's gonna buy you
barely enough to get by. After spending a
considerable amount of time in the wilderness use
he felt the divine call to go to
Makkamukarama
where he entered into
the spiritual companionship
and suhbah of Haja Fuday bin
Riyad as a result Khajafood Ibrahim bin Adam
gained spiritual distinction and spiritual heights
the Sheikh Junaid Baghdadi Rahimu Allah Ta'ala observed
the key to spiritual knowledge which is bestowed
to the Oliya is Ibrahim.
He he he said what he said the
key to spiritual knowledge which is bestowed to
Allah's friends
is Ibrahim bin Adham.
After he abandoned the throne, the leaders and
rulers of Balkhu repeatedly appealed to him to
return.
However, Khaja Ibrahim bin Adham never again accepted
the throne.
Once along the riverbank, Khaja Ibrahim was sewing
his tattered shawl.
He was doing what are you sewing his
tattered shawl? By the way, if your clothing
rips the sunnah of the prophet
is that you take a piece of cloth
and you sew a patch. You don't throw
it away.
It's that what? That you take a a
a
a piece of cloth and sew a patch
over where it's ripped.
And, there's no shame in this. There's a
great honor in it. It said that Sayna
Umar
had a cloak which had more than 40
patches in it and someone says well I
don't want to look ghetto or hood in
front of other people.
2 things. 1 is that nobody who resembles
Rassoula salallahu alaihi wa sallam inwardly or outwardly,
is anything except for beautiful. And if you
don't believe that you have a problem.
And one might say, okay. Fine. Other people
have to deal with them and, you know,
it's fine. But, you know, if other people
all, you know, shun me, then I can't
go to work anymore than what am I
supposed to do.
Okay. It's it's
Rasool Allahu alaihi wa sallam, he didn't make
these things wajib,
or far out of fear for difficulty on
his ummah like many other things. However, I
would submit to you for your consideration
that if you take a patch that's from
the same cloth that the the piece of
clothing that's ripped is from, oftentimes from outside
out of a pocket or from from from
a similar color cloth,
and you cut the the patch in a
perfect square and you sew it in a
perfect square which is in line with the
grain of the the clothing item,
most people will never realize that you have
a patch. And this is actually the adab
of many of the masha'ayef of the tarepa
is that they would instruct the their disciples
that when they sew the patches into their
clothes
to do so in a a a refined
way that doesn't make a person,
look like a beggar.
And I believe it's a quote attributed to,
Shah
Abul Hasan Shaburi
that
that that what that that someone once came
to him because he used to wear nice
clothes. And someone who was a faqir, who
was who was who was a daresh, a
person who,
claimed the spiritual path, and he was
dressed in very tattered clothing.
He came to to to Abu Hassan al
Shali and said something to the effect of
chastising him for for wearing nice clothes,
you know, and trying to say, like, you
know, what are you, you know, what kind
of like a are you that you're in
toward
the path of Allah ta'ala are you that
you have these
nice clothes? And Abu Hazen al Shaddali replied
to him he said what he says
my clothing say my clothing if they could
speak my clothing if it could speak it
would say, Alhamdulillah
and give shukr to Allah Ta'ala for His
blessings. Your clothing if it could speak it
would say can you give me a dollar?
Can you give me some money? It it
would be begging other people for money. So
that's fine. You don't have to make yourself
look like a beggar, but there are ways
to do both that you can follow the
sunnah and not waste your clothing or throw
them away, and sew the patch in it
in a way that is almost
undetectable by other people
and
it's something that, you know, recycling and all
this other stuff, you know, people who don't
believe in Allah and his will
say, oh, you know, you know, reduce, recycle,
reuse because you have to save the earth.
Allah created the earth from nothing, and there's
no way human beings will be able to
destroy it. Even if we nuke each other,
into smithereens,
the earth will be fine again. It will
take some years, but it will be just
fine without us afterward.
This is not because of the earth. This
is because one day we have to face
Allah and he'll ask us about what what
we did with what he gave us every
single thing
big or small.
Once along the river banks,
Hajj Ibrahim bin Adam was sewing his tattered
shawl. If nothing else, the fact that these
people did it, the fact that Sayedna Omar
did it, the fact that the prophet sallallahu
alaihi wasallam did it, the fact that people
like,
Khadai Ibrahim did it. Wallahi, I don't know
about you, but to me it just makes
it look good.
He was sowing his tattered shawl when some
royal courtiers appeared and appealed to him to
come back to rule.
They were saddened by his forlorn and tattered
state and wondered what he had gained by
having sacrificed the throne of Balch.
Hazrat Ibrahim threw his needle into the river
and said, you are ministers
of a country and you are rulers go
retrieve my needle. When they were obviously unable
to do so he addressed the fish of
the river and commanded them to bring him
his needle.
Innumerable
fish simultaneously
appeared on the surface of the water each
with a needle of gold in its mouth.
None of the fish had his original needle.
He commanded that his original needle be retrieved.
A tiny fish
surfaced with the needle in its mouth. Khaja
Ibrahim took the needle and said my kingdom
now extends over the entire world. What can
I do with your insignificant kingdom?
Allah to Allah forgive us.
In our stupidity, we've been
obsessed with and happy with
petty things
when he prepared for us at the hands
of his Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
such a kingdom that extends over the entire
world rather it extends over this universe and
the next one.
Once while sitting on Jabal Abu Khoo base
as a mountain Makkamukarama
with a companion,
he said that there are some servants of
Allah whose command causes a mountain to move.
As he said, the mountain shook.
Khaja Ibrahim commanded be stationary. I was narrating
an episode, not issuing an issuing an instruction,
and the mountain ceased to move.
Once he asked Buzorg an elder
who was a master of miracles,
what profession have you adopted for your livelihood?
The elder said I eat whatever comes my
way. If there's nothing, I adopt patience.
Khaja Ibrahim said to him so this is
a man of spiritual stature as well. Khaja
Ibrahim said to him, this is what the
city dogs do. The proper attitude is sacrifice
what you obtain and then to adopt patience.
That what that you impose your you impose
your struggle and your mujahadaat on yourself
voluntarily
and you accept the patience with it as
well
rather than only having patience when you absolutely
have to.
Once someone asked Haja Ibrahim
whose worshipper are you? On hearing this
he shattered and fell down unconscious.
When he regained consciousness, he recited the Ayat.
Indeed everything in the heavens and the earth
will come to the most merciful
as a slave.
When the man asked why he did not
an answer in the beginning,
Khaja Ibrahim said, if I said that I'm
Allah's slave, I fear because of my inability
to fulfill the rights of serving him. I
feared because of my inability to fulfill the
rights of serving him. How can I then
claim to be his slave? If I say
that I'm not his slave, I then fear,
that I would be cast into disbelief by
saying that.
This is what this is the, this is
the
humility of our elders. That this is a
person of wilayah.
This is a person of Allah's friendship.
And even these small things, they're sensitive because
they knew no Allah is watching them. So
their own mistakes even though they may be
insignificant in the eyes of the people, they're
huge in their own eyes. And they have
shame in front of Allah ta'ala because they
know Allah sees and hears everything they do
and they say. So they have some in
front of Allah ta'ala in making claims.
Nowadays
we introduce ourselves and we put on business
cards on the chairman of this committee or
that committee and I'm this and I'm that
and I'm the other thing. People ask me,
should I write on your poster,
Maulana or Sheikh or,
you know, Ustad or this or that? I
tell them I I myself feel embarrassed even
to call myself Hamza.
Allah Ta'ala forgive us. Allah Ta'ala forgive us.
Allah Ta'ala forgive us.
For many years he lived in the wilderness
and for 9 years he lived in a
cave of Nishapur
engaging himself in rigorous spiritual training.
He ate always from his own earnings. Sometimes
he sold firewood and sometimes he would work
as a gardener in someone's orchard.
Once a,
police,
officer approached him while he was employed in
an orchard demanding a fruit. Khaja Ibrahim refused.
The policeman struck him with a lash on
the head. Khaja Ibrahim lowered his head and
said, the head which has disobeyed Allah to
Allah deserves to be thrashed.
Protect us.
We bear witness that his head deserves to
be kissed.
The thing that makes me afraid is that
our heads that disobeyed Allah indeed deserve to
be thrashed.
Hearing this expression, the policeman apologized.
Khaja Ibrahim said,
the head for which
apologies would be offered has been left in
Bargh.
Meaning, even that he wouldn't he wouldn't give
him his own nafs that much. He was
so hard on himself. He wouldn't even give
his own nafs that much that he would
accept the apology
because he felt himself unworthy of it.
Once at the time of Tawaf while giving
Nasihah to a man, he said,
you know,
these things, I I find them more amazing
than the miracles and stuff like that. If
fish are gonna come out of the, you
know, river with needles of gold and stuff,
that's great. I mean, who knows if those
things happened or not. I believe that they
happened, but, you know, if someone doesn't believe
in it, I don't really think it's that
big of a deal. You know, as a
point,
a person believes that the Karamat of the
Olia are true whether the specific incident happened
or didn't. Allah knows best, and it doesn't
really affect your your dean all that much.
But, these things,
these things, how a person has sabr and
how a person shows what's inside of their
heart when tested and tried by other people,
These things are are are
you know,
fakir
type person like myself. Khaja
Fudail
once at
Khaja Fudail once at the time of Tawafah
giving,
Nasiha or sincere advice to a man he
said
sorry, Khaja Ibrahim.
Until 5 valleys have not been traversed, the
rank of the righteous cannot be attained.
1st, close the door of nama, of the
soft
and good feeling gifts and open the door
soft and good feeling gifts from Allah. Close
that door and open the door of hardship.
2nd, close the door of respect and open
the door of disgrace.
Someone will say what what what is that
supposed to mean?
You've walked the path of righteousness and say
the truth to people and they will try
to humiliate you like they tried to do
the rasul
And
if he's not exempted from this, then who
are you and I to,
believe that somehow we're, some sort of ballerina
swan who's gonna ice skate through life like
a special snowflake?
3rd, close the door of comfort and open
the door of difficulty.
4th, close the door of sleep and open
the door of wakefulness.
5th, close the door of wealth and open
the door of poverty. May Allah
protect us and not test us more than
we're able to bear and give us help
in every test that he gives us so
that we can pass
rather than failing abysmally and falling on our
faces
and losing our iman in the process.
Some people came and complained that a lion
was blocking the road. Khaja Ibrahim went to
the lion and said,
O Abu Harith, if you have been commanded
by Allah then act accordingly otherwise clear the
way. The lion went away.
Once after the Isha prayer, the Imam ordered
Haja Ibrahim out of the masjid as he
wanted to close-up.
Since it was extremely cold outside, Haja Ibrahim
requested permission to spend the night inside the
masjid.
However, the imam refused permission
saying that travelers steal the masjid items. By
the way, Masha'allah, this is an experience that
anyone who's a serious student of knowledge and
probably had in several different masadas in different
countries of the world.
This is not something that's
that's that's, you know, that the Ummas has
stopped doing at any time, since then.
He said the imam refused permission saying that
the travelers steal the Masjid items.
When Khaja Ibrahim insisted, the imam said even
if Ibrahim bin Adham comes, he too will
not be allowed to sleep in the masjid.
When Khaja Ibrahim said I am Ibrahim bin
Adham, the Imam became furious
accusing him of speaking lies. The Imam dragged
him and pushed him out of the masjid.
Haja Ibrahim then went to the Hammam. Hammam
is the public bathhouse. They still have them.
They're not as,
interesting or at times lurid as the western
imagination seems to them. It's just a place
where you can go and take a shower
and change your clothes,
and, you know, whatever,
groom yourself.
There was a hammam in the village by
my madrassa. Sometimes I would go there to
take a shower when the lines were too
long in madrassa.
So he said a man was lighting a
lantern at the hammam.
Haja Ibrahim greeted the man but he didn't
reply.
The man was so engrossed in his work
and was glancing fearfully in all directions.
After having done his work, he replied to
the salam. When Khaja Ibrahim asked for the
reason of delay in answering, he said, I'm
working for someone. I thought that I will
be abusing his trust if I had become
involved in replying to you as his work
would be delayed.
Khadija Ibrahim asked about his glancing this way
and that he said, I fear the angel
of death may come.
After a short discussion, he said, for the
past 20 years I'm making dua. Oh, Allah,
do not let me die before meeting Ibrahim
bin Adham. This wish has not been yet
fulfilled.
Khaja Ibrahim then revealed himself saying I've been
sent to you rolling on my head. This
was a reference to the Imam having pushed
him out violently from the Masjid.
The man side with relief and said, Alhamdulillah,
my wish has been granted.
He embraced Khaja Ibrahim and said, now I
have no more wishes oh Allah
grant me union with you. Allah most high
accepted his wish and the man died.
These stories are really strange subhanAllah.
One of the things that that a person
should appreciate is the fact
that
they only take place for a person who
is out of their home
and traveling in the path of Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala.
I guess you don't get these experiences when
you take the course online or listen to
you know, stories of the hamant on SoundCloud
but, you know, I guess we take what
we can get. Allah to Allah, the one
who gives to that person will do much
more than the one who doesn't have to.
People asked why does Allah not accept our
dua? Khaja Ibrahim responded
you know Allah but you don't worship him.
You know his Rasul salallahu alaihi wasallam in
the Quran but you do not obey.
You eat from his bounties but you are
not grateful. You do not make preparations
to acquire Jannah nor abstain from those acts
that will take you to the hellfire.
You know Shaitan is your enemy, but you
do not hate him. You know death will
be coming but you are not concerned.
You bury your parents in their graves but
derive no lesson therefrom.
You know that you have defects yet you
search for the faults of others. How else
how how will then your duas be accepted?
He said, R'haimo'oah,
the people of the world pursue peace and
comfort on earth but failed to find these.
If they knew the kingdom that we have,
they would have fought us with swords to
acquire it.
Once someone presented 10,000
silver dirhams to Khaja Ibrahim.
Refusing it he said, do you wish me
to accept this money and have my name
struck off the role of the poor with
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala never shall I do
so.
Once Haja Ibrahim saw an intoxicated man lying
unconscious
in the road, his mouth was frothing.
Khaja Ibrahim washed his mouth and tongue and
commented, this tongue should engage in the dhikr
of Allah. Alas, calamity
has befallen it.
When the man came to his senses, people
told him what had happened.
He was greatly ashamed of himself and repented
and promised never to again consume liquor.
After this incident, Khaja Ibrahim heard in a
dream someone saying, you have purified his tongue
for my sake.
So I purified your heart
so I purified his heart for your sake.
It's sufficient for us to
have a lesson to be
humble to know that there's nobody who has
any rank with Allah Subhanu wa Ta'ala except
for it's from his father and his grace
and his blessings. We don't know which of
our elders or which of the mashaikh or
the ulema or sahaba radiallahu anhu
or the Rasul sallallahu alaihi wa sallam whose
duas because of which we've entered into La
ilaha illallah Muhammadur Rasool Allah in the honor
of his obedience as little or slight as
it may be.
It should leave a person
feeling all the more indebted to Allah ta'ala.
Said you have purified his tongue for my
sake. I've purified his heart for your sake.
Someone wanted to know at what time people
should come,
to Haja Ibrahim and hear his talks.
He said I am engrossed in 4 activities
when I have completed them you may come.
In eternity when Allah Ta'ala took a pledge
from all of us he divided mankind into
2 groups
1 for paradise and one for the hellfire.
At all times, I'm occupied with this worry
because I do not know which group I
belong to.
2, when the baby is formed in his
mother's womb, an angel asks Allah ta'ala, should
I write him as one of the fortunate
or one of the unfortunate?
My constant worry is that I have been
recorded,
amongst the unfortunate and not the fortunate.
3,
when the angel takes possession of a man's
spirit, he asks, should I assign the soul
to the group of the Muslim souls or
the group of the Kafir souls? I do
not know what answer the angel will be
receiving regarding my spirit and this is my
constant fear.
4, it will be commanded on the day
of judgment.
Become separated opius once today from the transgressors.
I constantly worry in this regard because I
do not with know which group I will
be assigned in.
He said the heaviest deal deed in the
scale on the day of judgment will be
the deed which was most difficult on earth
for those of us who are looking for
the easy way out.
The blessed and Mubarak
people of Allah
are the ones that know that the
the the the the weightiest scale is the
one that's most difficult.
And in fact, in that sense, the most
difficult one is the most easy because this
dunya in this world is perishing and the
next one is forever and ever. Allah ta'ala
give us and give us power and give
us give us courage in him to face
those deeds that that that make men shudder.
Once a man stayed for some time in
the company of Hajj Ibrahim.
When the man was about to depart, he
said, if there's any fault in me, tell
me. Haja Ibrahim said I do not see
any fault in you because I had always
viewed you with love. You should therefore put
the question to someone else.
Allah to Allah fill our hearts with love.
And Alem once requested him some advice. Hajar
Ibrahim said stay like a tail, Don't be
like a head. The head is cut off
but the tail is left.
This is again a
in Nasihah with regards to the love of
leadership amongst other
things.
A man complained of inability to rise for
tahajjud
to wake up in the night and pray.
Haja Ibrahim said,
do not disobey Allah during the day to
stand in the presence of Allah
at night is a great honor a disobedient
man does not qualify for this honor. And
this is again a a a theme that's
repeated again and again
with a great number of the sufia
that,
and a great number of the Ahlulah from
the Ummah of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wa
Salam that the person who sins in the
day, allata will not allow them to wake
up for tahajjud.
And one of the ways of of being
this
greatest vehicle of Allah's wilayah after the 5
pillars and the the fara'id and obligations Allah
Ta' has made incumbent upon every slave is
this the Hajjud. And there's nobody who reached
that high Maqamic suffer through it. It's only
going to be, through what? Through the
abstention of Allah Ta'ala's,
sacred law being violated.
May Allah Ta'ala give us tawfiq. May Allah
Ta'ala change our condition for the better and
give us tawfiq.
Ibrahim bin Adham's passing from this world.
There are different views regarding the year of
his death according to Hafiz bin Hajar.
Ibn Hajar Askalani,
the authoritative and canonical commentator on Sahih Bukhari.
And so it's interesting, by the way, Hafiz
ibn Hajar, why is he talking about
this person? Because these people are the heroes
of the
They agreed. This is not some sort of
obscure cult of Sufism or whatever that we're
talking about. These people were the heroes and
remain the heroes of the Ummah.
No matter how blind to this fact some
people from our contemporaries may may be.
Hafiz bin Hajar.
According to him Haja Ibrahim passed away in
the year 162 after Hijra
according to Samani in 161.
From this it appears that he died in
Sham
25 or 26 years before his Sheikh,
Khazafudal Bin Eyad. He was, at the time
of death, a 102 years of age.
On occasion of his passing from this world,
a voice was heard exclaiming Al Ana,
Now that the now the leader of the
people of the world has died. His grave
is said to be in Sham, although some
say it's in Madin al Munawwara.
It's famous that it's in Sham,
and Allah knows best.
Hazar Sheikh
Ibrahim bin Adam had 2 well known,
Khalifa,
Khulafa
and Khaja Khudafa Al Na'arashi.
Uh-uh, Allah
have mercy on them all and
write for us in this Mubadik night of
Ramadan that we'd be freed from the fire
because of the love of his oliya
and give us the Imdad and the help
that we need in order to get through
this world with those