Rabi’ al-Awwal by Mawlana Sheikh Nazim

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

Maulana Sheikh Nazimق’s Suhbah

13 January 2013

As-Salamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.

May the month of Rabiʿu l-Awwal be mubarak, the month of the Milad an-Nabi ﷺ. May its barakah be upon us and may the heaviness on us be lifted. May the enemies of the nation of Muhammad ﷺ be expelled. May the Master, the Sultan who will serve the nation, come. This is what we ask.

As-Salamu Alaikum, O nations of the Beloved ﷺ. O Lord, O Lord… Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. “May we remember the Name of Allah ﷻ first. It is obligatory for the servant in every action. Whosoever remembers the Name of Allah ﷻ first, Allah ﷻ makes his every action easy for him”. The Holy Name of Allah ﷻ, Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. May we receive strength from it and may we receive power from it.

Allah Almighty created the Lawh al-Mahfuz, the Preserved Tablet. He created the Qalam al-ʿAla, the Holy Pen. When Allah ﷻ looked at it with His Glory and Majesty, the nib of the Pen cracked open. Ink came forth, not of the kind we know.

The Holy Pen said, “O my Lord, what should I write?” Allah ﷻ ordered, “Write Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim.” Until it wrote the Basmala al-Sharif, some narrations say, 700 years passed. Allah Almighty then said, “O Pen, whosoever recites My Holy Name Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim, I will order the reward of 700 years of worship to be written for him.”

How great it is, Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim. Blow upon yourself with the Basmala al-Sharif. May its barakah be upon us. Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim was sent down to our Prophet ﷺ, masha Allah. O Lord, for the honour of the Basmala al-Sharif, for the glory and barakah of Your Beloved ﷺ, may You grant us to say Basmala al-Sharif in every affair. With it every calamity is expelled and every goodness is opened.

For every matter, “May we remember the Name of Allah ﷻ first. It is obligatory for the servant in every action.” It says “Remember the Name of Allah ﷻ”. Reciting it is wajib, it is an order. Do not be without Basmala. Walk with Bismillah, do your every task with Bismillah, live with Bismillah and submit your life with Bismillah. Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar wa Lillahi l-Hamd.

Whosoever remembers the Name of Allah ﷻ first, his every doing is made easier. Whosoever says before his work the Name of Allah, Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim, whatever it is, it becomes easy. Even if it is not the work of one man but the work of a thousand, for the honour of that Basmala, Allah Almighty makes that work easy and complete.

Without Basmala, it has no khayr, it is rubbish. Whoever forgets Bismillah becomes forgotten. May Allah ﷻ make us from those who remember Bismillah al-Sharif. “May we remember the Name of Allah ﷻ first. It is obligatory for the servant in every action.” How beautiful, how beautiful.

So we entered the holy month of the Glorious Prophet ﷺ, Rabiʿu l-Awwal. It is the day and night that the inhabitants of the heavens and earth celebrate. We should show respect for it and recite much Salatu Salam. Do not be lazy.

Recite 1000 Salawat! Or 500, or 300, or even 100 times say “Allahumma Salli ala Muhammadin wa ala Ali Muhammadin wa Sallim.” Recite this, for Allah ﷻ grants ten rewards in return for one Salawat. The Master of Creation ﷺ was born in this holy month of Rabiʿu l-Awwal. May it be mubarak for all of you.

O Lord, may You let us reach many more years. May You gather us under the flag of Your Beloved ﷺ in dunya as well as in akhirah. May our hearts be pure and our faces radiant. May we be happy and joyful. Focus on Salawat al-Sharif and the troubles will be lifted. Recite 1000, recite 10,000 if you like. No matter how much you recite upon the Glorious Prophet ﷺ it is still little. He is the Glorious Prophet, the Great Prophet upon whom Allah ﷻ sends Salatu Salam.

Allah ﷻ and His angels, the Great Angels, send Salawat upon the Prophet ﷺ: “Inna Allaha wa mala’ikatahu yusalluna ‘ala an-Nabiyy” (33:56). Allah ﷻ and His angels send Salatu Salam on that Glorious Prophet ﷺ. “Ya ayyuhal-ladhina amanu sallu alayhi wa sallimu taslima”. O you who believe! Send Salawat upon him. Even if you have nothing else, say it and have no fear.

Unfortunately, the ignorant ones of this time are enemies of Salawat al-Sharif. Before, our mosques were adorned with Salawat. At the time of the Adhan al-Muhammadi, our Adhans were filled with joy and Salawat. The blessings of the Salawat al-Sharif would descend upon the earth, and the earth would shine with barakah.

O people, O Muslims! Recite Salawat in great numbers. No tornadoes will come upon you, no severe cold, snow or floods will reach you. Salawat al-Sharifa protects you. O Lord, may You make us from those servants who recite abundant Salawat upon the Prophet ﷺ whom You love. We are weak, very weak. Say it always, recite Salawat continuously.

If our people recite Salawat al-Sharif, no disasters will strike them. No snow, no blocked roads, no avalanches, no calamities. Recite Salawat. Recite it from the minarets. Let every village build minarets. They have built dirty places instead. Build minarets everywhere! Let Adhan al-Muhammadi be raised.

Then no snow will close the roads, no one will be lost or bewildered. O nation of Muhammad ﷺ, recite Salawat upon our Prophet ﷺ and every trouble will be lifted from you. Every closed door will open, every difficult work will be made easy, for the honour of the Glorious Prophet ﷺ.

O Lord, forgive us. Send us a Master, send us a Sultan. There is no taste in life without the Sultan. The world has fallen into sin and immorality, and Sultans have disappeared. The feet became the head and the head became the feet. This is a sign of Qiyamah: “The heads will become the feet and the feet will become the head”.

When they say “democracy”, the feet want to be in power. When they say Sultanate, the heads are in power. What is justice? To put everything in its place. This is what justice is. If you invite guests to a table and serve the food and soup in a chamber pot, would they accept it? Even if you say “It is brand new, no one used it yet”, would they accept it? No.

This is what they now call democracy. They prepare it in a chamber pot and put it in front of the people saying “Eat and drink”. It is filth. Sit at the table of the Sultan. He presents blessings in golden pots, he honours you and values you.

But they say “No, we will elect people from the streets”. You ruined it! What is left now? Pour it on your heads, the filth you prepared. Are you pleased with what you have done? They brought the people into this condition, and the whole world’s people poured into the streets.

They say “We are tired of this filth of yours, we are sick and tired of your tyranny and treachery. You treat us like animals and make us work. You eat the good food and throw us only bones. May Allah ﷻ drive you away from us.”

A Sultan would show favour to his people. These ones show favour only to themselves. Insha Allah, with the barakah of this holy month, the situation will change. The Sultans of the nations of the Beloved ﷺ will come and the flags of Islam will be raised. Everything not conformable with Islam is false, and all of it will be thrown into rubbish.

Look at how they make new year celebrations. What tables they prepare, how much food they spread. And so many creatures dressed as men come to those tables, they eat and drink until they throw up. It comes out from their mouths and from their stomachs. They become filthy and unclean, and they made the nations filthy with this democracy. They have no value left.

Those who valued people were the Sultans. May Allah ﷻ send them to us again. We sinned, yet may our Sultans come back. The people honoured their humanity, and the rulers honoured their rule. O Lord, You know. This is our prayer and our explanation. Whoever dislikes it may fall into the hole and remain there. Whoever accepts it will be saved, and their dunya and akhirah will be happy.

Ya Rabbi, tawba Ya Rabbi. Tawba, Astaghfirullah. Ashhadu an la ilaha illa Allah wa ashhadu anna Sayyidana Muhammad abduhu wa Habibuhu wa Rasuluhu ﷺ. May You not separate us from the nation of the Beloved ﷺ. Grant us health and wellness, O Lord.

You do not crush anyone, O Lord, but shaytan crushes mankind, and they are not aware. O Lord, we seek refuge in You from the evil of shaytan. We say “Audhu Billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajim”. “Fastaʿidh billahi mina ash-shaytan ir-rajim” (16:98). Seek refuge with Allah from the evil of shaytan, it says.

O people, distinguish the good from the bad. If you do not, they will hitch you to a cart instead of animals. They sit in the cart with a whip in their hands and make people pull it. This is democracy, they rule with a whip. They do not appreciate the value of people.

There is no ruler now who values his people. This filthy thing they call democracy reduced people to the level of animals. Ask for the Sultanate. If you do not, you will not be released from being treated as animals. They will ride on your backs and suck your blood.

May Allah repel them on this holy day, O Lord, for the honour of the Beloved’s ﷺ birthday. O Lord, send us a Sultan. The people are crushed in the hands of oppressors. May You ﷻ send us the Sultans, O Lord. May Sahib al-Zaman Mahdi (AS) come. May the glad tidings of the Beloved ﷺ come to pass. May we walk with him, may we raise the flags of Islam.

O Lord, You are al-Qadir, al-Muqtadir. You are Subhan, You are Sultan!

Allah Almighty said about the Sultan, “He is My shadow on earth”. As-Sultan dhillullahi fi l-ard. O scholars of Egypt, why do you not say this? Why do you not explain the attribute of the Sultan? You elect people from the markets and bazaars. Tawba Ya Rabbi, tawba Ya Rabbi. Send us Sultans, O Lord. Sultans who honour people and give them their value.

For the honour of Your Beloved ﷺ, may You ﷻ grant us to open our way in this holy month. May we grow stronger, more honourable, and defeat shaytan. May we live in Your ﷻ way and leave dunya in Your ﷻ way.

May we reach You ﷻ, O Lord. May You ﷻ not separate us from being under the flag of Your Beloved ﷺ. Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar wa Lillahi l-Hamd. Allahumma Salli wa Sallim wa Barik ala Sayyid al-Awwalin wa l-Akhirin, Habibullah, Shafiullah, Rasulullah ﷺ. For his honour, O Lord, grant us strength. Lift these troubles from us and send us Sultans.

Grant us to reach those happy days, O Lord. We ask cure for the ill, remedy for the troubled, and to be among those who await Your ﷻ favour that gives honour and strength. O Glorious Prophet ﷺ, alfu alfu Salat, alfu alfu Salam alaika wa ala Alika wa Ashabika wa Tabiʿina lahum bi ihsan ila yawm ad-Din. Walhamdulillahi Rabbil ʿAlamin. Al-Fatiha.

They ask, “Why does he cry?” How can I not cry? I am not crying for myself. May Allah ﷻ punish those who brought the nation of the Beloved ﷺ to this state. I cry because they crushed the nation and drew the Heavenly Wrath upon themselves. I cry as I wait for the Master, for the Sultan. My cry is for this.

For me, the meaning of living in dunya is to see the Master, to see the Sultans, to serve Islam, to be able to say, “I am Muslim.” The most honoured title. “Huwa sammaakumu al-Muslimina” (22:78). Allah Almighty named us Muslims, as Prophet Ibrahim (AS) said. Fatiha.

Allah Allah, Allah Allah. Al-ʿAzamatu li Allah, al-ʿAzamatu li Allah, al-Qudratu li Allah. You are Subhan, O Lord. You are Sultan, O Lord. Send us the Sultans whom You call “Your shadow on earth”. Fatiha.

We want to see those days, O Lord. Do not deprive us. I have been waiting all these years, and you are waiting too. The good days are with the Sultans. The Sultan respects Allah ﷻ and His Prophet ﷺ, glorifies Them, and keeps Their orders. He honours the nation and does not crush them. Those who crush are shaytan. Astaghfirullah.

Al-Fatiha.

• Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqaniق

13 January 2013 / 01 Rabi’ al-Awwal 1434 AH

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