Ask for the Real Awakening

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

Insha’Allah in this blessed night, Allāh ﷻ make His ﷻ Nur showering on us insha’Allah. Nur of Prophet ﷺ, Nur of Awliyā’ to shower us insha’Allah. You are, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, coming for the love of Allāh ﷻ, love of Prophet ﷺ. In shā’a Llāh, may Allāh ﷻ give you what you want. The most important thing is to be in His ﷻ way. This is the biggest wish for everybody: for him and his family, his relatives, his friends to be on this way.

AlhamduliLlah, tonight is holy blessed night which Allāh ﷻ praised in the Holy Qur’an in Surat ad-Dukhān, “فِيهَا يُفْرَقُ كُلُّ أَمْرٍ حَكِيمٍ”, “Fīhā Yufraqu Kullu ‘Amrin Ĥakīm”, “On that night is made distinct every precise matter.” (Qur’an 44:04). This night, Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla – every night He ﷻ accepts du’ā’. But this night is special because you know for the next year who will be, who will go, what we will be doing. SubhanAllah, everyone’s destiny will be written in this night.

For this, we are reading Sūrat Yāsīn three times between Maghrib and Ishā’, and asking for it to be a good year for us. Because it is said in this du’ā’ (that is read after Yāsīn), if you write us as not lucky – not lucky means to be outside of the way of Allāh ﷻ – or to have no rizq, or have any illness, anything, O our Lord, You can change this. Because this is what You said, everything is in His ﷻ Will, His ﷻ Hand. Allāh’s ﷻ Hand can change. He ﷻ does what He ﷻ likes. When somebody is asking from Allāh ﷻ to change, He ﷻ can change.

For this, don’t be hopeless. Ask from Allāh ﷻ to change. If what He ﷻ wrote for you is not good, He ﷻ can change it for a good thing. This is His ﷻ will and His ﷻ secret which we don’t know. What we only know is: everything is with Allāh ﷻ. He ﷻ knows everything and He ﷻ can change, or He ﷻ can leave it as it is. This Qadar, destiny is very secret in Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla’s knowledge. Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam also said, don’t ask for this. It is a secret. But there are some people who speak to show themselves, “This is like this” about destiny, Qadar. And they speak about what’s more dangerous than this: the Ruh, the soul. These two – there are many things that are forbidden to speak about. But the most dangerous thing is to speak about these things.

For this, we only ask from Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla. Because He ﷻ said that He ﷻ can change everything written, and He ﷻ can confirm it there; not changing. But when you ask Allāh ﷻ not to make it, with sincerity, He ﷻ will accept, in shā’a Llāh. By His ﷻ will, He ﷻ can surely change, in shā’a Llāh; no problem.

For this, this night is a very blessed night. And many people do not know about it. Masha’Allah, this mosque is full of people. By Mawlānā Shaykh’s barakah, ‘aa’la Allāh ﷻ darajātuhu dā’iman, these people are gathering here for his barakah, asking barakah from him. May Allāh ﷻ make his darajāt, his rank, by this Khidmah (service) he has done here and everywhere else, more and more higher. For this, we are asking Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla for people who are not knowing, to know and benefit from this night and other nights also, to be with Allāh ﷻ and to not lose the most precious thing Allāh ﷻ gave them.

Unfortunately, there is also a kind of people: they are Muslim but not mu’min. They do not accept this, even if it is written in Qur’an and in ḥadīth. So, they make people also not benefit from this jewel, from this light, from this reward which is showering from Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla for mu’mins, for believers who are worshipping Him ﷻ, asking Him ﷻ. Because Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla is saying, “Ask.” He ﷻ is saying to the angels, “Go. Look for My servants. What each one wants; he wants health, he wants īmān, he wants rizq, he wants a good life, he wants a wife, he wants to study opening his mind, whatever they are thinking. Go and look for these people who are asking, praying making du’ā’. Give them what they want and make their good deeds acceptable. This is a ḥadīth of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, and Qur’an is also saying this. Yet, these ones are cheating people.

Unfortunately, we are living in a time – everybody is now seeing what life in this time is. They say for the black, white and everybody believes. They say for the white, black, also everybody believes. They do everything and people must be happy with them. And they are happy also. If anything happens to them, all people get angry with them. This time is like this. So, people who are claiming against the ḥadīth of ‎Prophet ﷺ, against Awliyā’uLlah, against ṣaḥābah are normal. It is normal in this time. But what’s not normal is to follow them. But unfortunately, there are people like sheep. They can cheat them and take them to destroy themselves.

Once we saw – many times we hear about that, but we saw one sheep that went to the cliff and jumped. And after it, 300 sheep jumped. All of them died. And those are like this. If one goes, everybody goes. No, you mustn’t be listening, you must – The sheep, poor sheep. Allāh ﷻ didn’t give them a brain for thinking, only a brain for eating, drinking and walking. But for us, Allāh ﷻ gave us a brain to look, to not throw ourselves to danger.

The Sheep die and finish. But people, when they die, as Sayyidina ʿAlī raḍiya Llāhu ‘anhu, karrama Llāhu wajhahu, says: “النَّاسُ نِيَامٌ، إذَا مَاتُوا استفاقوا”, “The people are asleep, and only wake when they die.” The people are sleeping. “We are not sleeping; our eyes are open.” No, we are all sleeping. The real awakening is when you close your eyes, when ‘Azrail is taking your soul. That time, you will see everything clearly. And that time, those who are denying, saying “No shafa’ah, no Ahlu l-Bayt, no ṣaḥābah, no mashāyikh, no ṭarīqah, no madhhab,” will be awake, but a very bad awakening. He’ll say, “Oh, we were really asleep our whole life, following these people, shayṭān people.” But that time, there’s no benefit.

For this, you must be careful. You must take the chance every time you have a chance, like these nights, the last night, holy nights, to make ‘ibadah, to be with good people, to mention Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla and to make du’ā’, to be awakened here before ākhirah. For this, Sayyidina Abu Bakr says, “مُوتُوا قَبْلَ أَنْ تَمُوتُوا”, “Mootu Qabla an Tamootu”, “Die before you die.” What does it mean? Die means not only dying, but awake before you die. When you die, you awake; so, you must awake before dying.

May Allāh ﷻ bless you. May Allāh ﷻ make you with Mawlānā Shaykh. Allāh ﷻ is happy with us, alhamduliLlah. AlhamduliLlah, because this is Mawlānā Shaykh’s inheritance. You are loyal to Allāh ﷻ, to mashāyikh, to Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. You are in their way. Nothing can take you away. AlhamduliLlah, you and your whole family, generation, children and grandchildren insha’Allah.

Insha’Allah we hope – the world is, as we said, very bad. Everything is upside down. So don’t worry. Don’t listen to what this said, what that said. What Allāh ﷻ said will be. All of this must be, because Allāh ﷻ wants this. We don’t say anything. As we said, time is becoming very bad. Somebody must change it. There are people who think they can change the world, but they are only puppets. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla makes them move from here to there, speak something, do something. It must be like this for Sayyidina Al-Mahdi in shā’a Llāh to appear, to clean and to make people understand the reality to save them from this bad thinking and bad doing.

May Allāh ﷻ make us to be with him, in shā’a Llāh. May Allāh ﷻ save you. Don’t worry, in shā’a Llāh. We are safe with barakah of Mawlānā Shaykh. In shā’a Llāh, we meet Sayyidinā Al-Mahdī soon, in shā’a Llāh. Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq.

Al-Fatiha.

• Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 

13 February 2025/ 14 Sha’ban 1446

Peckham Mosque – Peckham, UK