Never Tolerate Badness

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

This is our way. AlhamduliLlah, Allāh ﷻ is gathering us for His ﷻ love, for the love of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. This is very important for human beings. They are asking “Why?” Many people don’t know why Allāh ﷻ created them. And many of them even don’t believe in the Creator. They thought they are clever, and that as much as they deny, they become more clever and more popular between people. And shayṭān encourages them to do this. Many times, we are or some people who are believers are asking themselves, “How can someone be like this: not afraid from Allāh ﷻ, not ashamed from people, to do something like this?” Anyone Allāh ﷻ gave mind to, thinks to know the truth.

What Sayyidina Ibrahim ‘alayhi s-salam said, when Allāh ﷻ first showed him; he saw a star, he said, “This is my Lord, I will worship him.” But after it disappeared. The moon came. It was a full moon. It was nice. And he also said, “I must worship this.” After that, it disappeared. The sun came. It’s bright and very big. Everywhere was lightened, all light. And he said, “This is my Lord.” But after, when the evening came, it also disappeared. He said “This cannot be the Creator. It cannot be a Lord for me.” Even without anything, Sayyidina Ibrahim ‘alayhi s-salam knew this.

Now, people have everything. If they just think a good thinking, they will accept and they will follow. But how are they cheated? I don’t know. They are not accepting. They are fighting against Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, fighting against believers, fighting against humans and humanity. These people cannot be clever. But now is a time when – Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam says, “يَجْعَلُ الحَلِيمَ حَيْرَاْنًا”, “It makes the forbearing one confused.” It makes the good people, the peaceful people to be astonished. How can people be like this! Like the lowest thing, lower than animal even, lower than everything. How can this be? There’s a saying, “How do you know others? From yourself.” If you cannot do this, you think other people cannot do it. But when they are doing this, you are astonished.

For this, we are asking people not to tolerate or pardon what you see from bad things; don’t accept. Even if you cannot change, but don’t say, “Okay.” Because this is what happened since – I realized this. This was beginning even for 40 years. Of course, what is happening now, what we are seeing from bad things has been there for more than 100 years. But it has appeared the most for the last 40 years. Beginning with small, small, small, small; and after that, they control everything. They are forcing people. Before, they weren’t forcing. Now, they are forcing people to be like them.

For this, we must – as Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam was saying, if you see something bad, you must change it. If you cannot change, say, “This is not good.” If you can’t even say it, say it by your heart. This is also a miracle of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. Because when they saw some bad thing in old times, they can change it. Nobody can keep a bad thing. People got angry and they changed it. They were not brave to do what they are doing these days. Even if not changing, but saying. But now, if you say something like this for these people, they will sue you and they will even make a problem for you. At least, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is saying, don’t accept this. In your heart, don’t accept. When you see something say, “I am not accepting this. This is not good for anybody. This is bad for everybody.” This is what we must say to not be used to it, [saying] “Okay.” After okay, coming worse and worse and worse.

For this, you must obey Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, what he ﷺ is saying about this situation. They only want to destroy humanity, destroy good people. They don’t want anyone from good people to be in the way of Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. The biggest enemy for them is Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, because Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is the biggest defender for humanity, the best example for humanity. They are following this and that. They said, “This one is from 2,000 years. This one is from 5,000 years. These people have wisdom.” They don’t have anything. People only take what they like and leave what they don’t like.

In our time, the only chance for humanity to follow Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam, and to save themselves. But of course, we are living in the end of times, what Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam told us by miracle also about this: It is impossible for people to follow Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. Only by miracle, when Sayyidina Al-Mahdi ‘alayhi s-salam comes. And he will be leading people to happiness, to justice, to all good things. And he will remove what is against humanity, against good people.

Because bad people cannot be with justice. They don’t like justice. They only like what they want. They force people to follow them. Slowly, slowly they are controlling. But it is with shayṭān, and shayṭān: “إِنَّ كَيْدَ الشَّيْطَانِ كَانَ ضَعِيفًا”, ‘Inna kayda l-shayṭāni kana dha‘īfā’, ‘Indeed, the plot of Satan has ever been weak.’ (Qur’ān 04:76). The shayṭān is weak. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla is Strong. And when the time is coming, He ﷻ will make change, in shā’a Llāh.

And we are with Mawlana Shaykh. His good tidings for us, he said that: time is not so far. It will be a good time after this bad time. After darkness, coming light. After night, coming day, sun; everywhere will be clear. In shā’a Llāh, we reach this time. We are happy with this good tidings. We must (Bashshirū – give good tidings.) Bashshirū, Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla is saying. Bashshirū, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam is saying. Bashshirū Awliyā’u Llāh are saying. They have good thoughts for people, for Islām, in shā’a Llāh. Don’t be sad. Don’t be afraid.

Many people say, “We have darkness in our inside. We are hopeless. We have stress. We have something.” Between Muslims also they have this. It is forbidden for Muslims to say this, because the order of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, “لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَّحْمَةِ اللَّهِ”, ‘Lā Taqnatū Min Raĥmati Allāhi’, ‘Do not despair of the mercy of Allah.’ (Qur’ān 39:53). Don’t be hopeless from Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla’s mercy. This is an order, the order of Allāh ﷻ. You are not living in paradise. We are living in this world. This world is the place of tests. It is a place for testing people. You are not in a holiday village, where you will find everything. You are in a test. And people only – the system, 100 years after the Khilafah (Caliphate) finished, are controlling everywhere and making every person think about himself only, not thinking about others at all.

The best example for this is, one month or two months ago, in Syria. You see these people who were in prison, some of them, Allāh ﷻ saved them. But he maybe liked to die before saving him, because he’s been for 40 years in jail. Can you imagine? And not a jail like England’s: they put everybody in [a room], they have library, they have television. They even don’t have a toilet. Every day, they beat them, they torture them. We know many of our friends from Damascus, maybe more than a hundred did not make it out of prison. Only some, Allāh ﷻ gave them life. Because everyone has a life and it must be finished. For some of them it finished from the first day of going to this prison; they kill him and throw him. Or sometimes, a hundred people come in, and one of them is still alive. Other hundred comes, and again they kill them all with torturing. And again.

You must think about these people: how they were living, how much difficulty they had. Don’t think only of you. You must be thankful for Allāh ﷻ. You are in a good place, going, coming, everything, but you say, “I am depressed. I am not happy.” This is not good. You must be thankful for each breath you have. This is what they have been doing for a hundred years, making people think as such. Because after that, there was no Khalifah also. Allāh ﷻ is not happy with Muslims, because they don’t put a Khalifah. For this, this was coming on them. And they are not thinking that this is the will of Allāh ﷻ. If you think that this is the will of Allāh ﷻ, you will be rewarded for every difficulty you have. You will be rewarded for this; not coming without reward. But if you are not accepting and so you will not be rewarded and you will be more depressed. May Allāh ﷻ save us from this thinking of shayṭān. They are pumping, pumping, pumping this for Muslims; especially for Muslim people. And they are making trouble for them.

This is what happened at the end of the Ottoman Caliphate, the Islamic Caliphate. They took people from Turkey. The Sultan sent them to learn to make machinery, to make something good for the Ottoman Empire. So, they went and these Europeans, masha’Allah, took them and gave them women, gave them drugs, gave them alcohol, and they came back to Turkey. They began to write bad newspapers, teaching people to make bad things, saying, “Look at Europe, how they are happy, how they are…” So, for this, they destroy. And with this idea, destroying also the happiness of people. Allāh ﷻ will finish this. There is time for everything and the time for this is, in shā’a Llāh, not far; to save people, to finish this shayṭān time, in shā’a Llāh. May Allāh ﷻ bless you. Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq.

Al-Fatiha.

• Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 

6 February 2025/ 7 Sha’ban 1446

Fajr Prayer, Noor Ul Islam Mosque; Bury, UK