Rasul Suluki – Mawlid Talks Realization

We praise the Lord and ask his peace

and his blessings upon his servant and his

messenger, Mohammed, his descendants, and upon all the

righteous until the last day.

Last week.

There was a line of the

poetry

that was

caught my attention when

Sheik Ahia mentioned it again, and that was,

I have attained realization

through my incapacity,

my submission,

and my brokenness.

And I was

just thinking of how

opposite this was to the way

and the time that I was raised in.

You know, when you're coming up,

you're looking for recognition.

You're looking for stardom

in this country.

Being a star, being famous,

being known, having a renowned.

You know, as kids, you

saw entertainers, and you wanted to be one

of the temptations, or you wanted to be

one of these people that

when you stepped into a room, you everybody

stopped breathing.

So this really goes against

the way

the way we were raised,

and the emphasis in this society about

being something and being

known.

And so,

this humility

that is being called for in order to

have this realization

is something that can come through

not being known

and being insignificant,

which is even racial issues that are hard

for people

who

have been looked down on

to grasp this

because it goes against

wanting to be

accepted, wanting to be

seen as somebody.

When you've been told your whole life that

you're nobody,

there might be a tendency

to want to be something in the eyes

of other people.

Herein,

it prevents one from having this realization

because it can only come through humility.

And this humility

is the opposite of this recognition.

It's

the opposite of wanting

people

to know you're renowned and to know that

you deserve some kind of

special attention.

And so much now is

on

recognizing

me. I'm so important

that I have to have a page

that you

come to and know all of my doings

because I'm so famous. Everybody has a biography

now.

And you wonder what

what registered you to be even someone that

I would be interested in reading about?

But nonetheless, it is

it is through this humility.

And being low,

especially when you've had trauma in your life,

is something hard to grasp.

So for the one who has trauma,

it is that we recognize, and

discrimination and all the other things that come

with that, it is that we recognize

that Allah put us in this situation.

He doesn't burden us with more than we

can bear.

Therefore, he knew that we were strong enough

to bear the trauma that we had. Therefore,

we should think, Allah, and

think,

and,

Allah,

and, alhamdulillah,

that you made me strong enough to endure

this. It

might have killed somebody else, but it didn't

kill me.

It didn't cause me to go down.

It actually is a strength for me because

I know that you pulled me through this,

and you have some greater plan for me.

And for those who are high,

it is to get low.

And part of that is

I don't want to be known.

I don't want to be picked out. I

don't want to be seen.

And

in this way,

if you are seen, it's because Allah is

raising you to be seen and not. I'm

raising myself to be seen.

And there's a big difference in the 2.

One is that I'm focused on

other people

and the other one is I'm focused on

Allah.

And when I'm focused on Allah,

then I don't care what people think about

me. I don't care what they see.

I don't care what they hear from me.

I'm only concerned with what he sees and

hears.

And in this way,

we can get this beautiful thing called realization.

And we ask the Lord to give it

to us and have mercy on us and

pardon us

for our shortcomings and thinking that there's something

other than him.

And ask him to give us this realization

and make us the humble people.

That will be among

these followers

who you open the door for in this

realization.