A Day In Which You Do Not Improve Is Wasted

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

Maulana Sheikh Nazimق’s Suhbah

01 March 1994

We must try to follow the ways of the Prophet ﷺ. He was created to be the best example for all of mankind. He is the praised servant of Allah Almighty. His servanthood has been accepted. Every one of mankind must treat him ﷺ as the first teacher, from whom we can learn according to our capacity. No one can be a complete servant; we can only do our best according to our level. For every level, there is another standard of worship.

For 23 years, our Prophet ﷺ taught his companions every level of servanthood. His message was for all of mankind, covering space and time. He was the best teacher. We must try to reach the perfection of our level, and be able to give the utmost respect in glorifying our Lord, Allah Almighty.

Even an ant gives its respect and glorification to its Lord, according to its level. O mankind, you must give your glorification to your Lord according to your level. Maybe your level requires much more from you, but you don’t give it. Maybe you are lazy. Try to give it completely, in its perfection.

Our Prophet ﷺ said, that someone who keeps the same level for two days, is a loser. You must be better today than yesterday. Tomorrow, you must progress further. Your worship must improve daily. This can mean in quantity or in quality. You must not remain on the same level as you were previously.

For example, with your business, you must also be a step further. Maybe some clever ones among us will say, “Oh Sheikh, there is a crisis! How can we, in an economic crisis, have an opportunity to improve? We are happy if we can just keep what we have and not lose that too.” I tell them this is because their business has been established by their ego and not founded on Allah ﷻ.

If you build it for Allah ﷻ, Allah ﷻ will support your business. Even if the whole world is in crisis, Allah ﷻ may send you from His secret servants to buy and sell for you. They will order one million of this and one million of that. They will come, pick it up, pay for it, and then disappear. Where to, no one knows. 

If you do it for Allah ﷻ, there is no economic crisis. Don’t worry. Nothing can affect you if you are doing for Allah ﷻ. But most of you are doing it for yourselves. You think you are very clever people, doing everything for yourselves, never considering Allah ﷻ. At least make it between Allah Almighty and yourself.

Our lives are so easy, if only we knew how to open the treasures. But there are so many keys… Yes, our Prophet ﷺ told us that we should not stay on the same level. This one sentence, if people were truly listening, could take the whole world to the highest level. When it comes to worship, we do not speak about quantity because it is impossible to increase it every day. But when it comes to obedience and the quality of the prayer, you must make it better and better.

What makes it better? If you were to put two raka’ats of the Prophet ﷺ on the scale on the Day of Resurrection, and all the raka’ats of all the believers in the world on the other side, his two raka’ats would outweigh them all. This includes the angels and the jinn!

Look at this ring, it has a stone in it, but it is imitation, maybe only worth £5. There are rings of Sultans and Kings that are as valuable as treasure. You wouldn’t be able to pay their price. One is a ring, and so is the other. It is like the praying of the Prophet ﷺ. His prayer was according to his immense respect towards his Lord, Allah Almighty. 

Everyone gives their respect to the Lord according to their knowledge. The more you know Him ﷻ, the more you will respect Him ﷻ. No one can reach the level of knowledge that the Seal of the Prophets ﷺ was granted by his Lord. So when he prayed his two raka’ats, it was so lovely to Allah Almighty. So we should try to improve our quality. Don’t let the two raka’ats we pray today be the same as the ones we prayed yesterday.

We need much more Divine Knowledge. We must look to learn much more Divine Knowledge from Divine People, those who belong to the Divine Presence. You must look for them. There is a sign. You must ask for Divine Knowledge. If you ask, and you know there is someone, even in China, teaching Divine Knowledge, then run to him to ask and to learn from him. But nowadays, people only run after worldly things, so how can their prayers improve?

What does knowledge give you? It gives you love. The more you know about the perfection of someone, the more your heart will run in that direction. Love comes to your heart and takes away everything, except the love of your Lord. You become full of Divine Love, and your prayers will be liked by Allah ﷻ. Allah ﷻ likes to be praised with love, full love. You cannot buy love at Harrods. There, you can find everything, except love. Harrods gives you the love of this world, not of the next.

O people, we must try to increase our Divine Love from day to day. You must think that our life is fixed to a limit, and that today, we are one day closer to that limit. From day to day, you must feel and fill yourself with more love, and anticipation of getting closer to the Presence of the Lord. That will fill you up with more and more love from day to day.

Try to fill your prayers with more love. That will make them sweet, and your life sweet. Most people don’t know this. They are asking for a sweet life, not knowing that it comes from sweet worship, and that comes from loving Allah Almighty. If you put one spoon of sugar into a teacup, it will be sweet. If you put two, it will be sweeter… Put more love, and your worship will be sweeter!

Someone came and complained to me today, saying they are praying Dhuha, Awwabin, Sunnah, and that they are not happy with it. So I told them, “Leave it!” They said, “No, but I’m not happy!” I said, “Leave it!” They said, “No!” So what can we do? You must ask for more love from Allah Almighty. 

And we hope that He ﷻ will grant us, for the sake of His Holy Prophet ﷺ, that love may reach us.

May Allah forgive us.

Al-Fatiha.

• Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqaniق

01 March 1994 / 18 Ramadhan 1414 AH

Originally taken from ‘2,000+ Sohbats of Maulana Sheikh Nazim’ by Sufimus Online.

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