Worship in Rajab by Hjh Rukiye

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm

Madad Ya Sayyidi Ya Rasul Allah ﷺ, wa Mashayikhina Sheikh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqaniق, Sheikh Muhammad Ar-Rabbaniق

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatuLlahi wa barakatuhu

Tariqatuna as-sohbah, wa-l khayru fi-l jam‘iyyah.
Our Way is through sohbah, and all goodness is in gathering.

Alhamdulillah, we meet again. Mubarak the month of Rajab.

اللُهَّم بَارِكْ لَنَا فِي رَجَبَ وَشَعْبَانَ وَبَلِّغْنَا رَمَضَان

(Allah, bless us in Rajab and Sha‘ban, and let us reach Ramadan.)

Mubarak for all of you.

Alhamdulillah, we reached these three holy months. It is a season for worshipping, and the rewards are multiplied to the most in these months.

In the month of Rajab, in sha’ Allah, try to fast Mondays, Thursdays, and the days after the holy nights too. At least fast one day, or three days, five days, seven days, ten days. It is like you are fasting the whole month of Rajab.

If you owe days to fast, you can also make the niyyah, the intention, for fasting these days. You will have double the thawab: the reward for fasting the holy days from Rajab and also the reward from the fasting that you are owing from the days before. So don’t miss the days that you owe from before.

If you have the strength and can fast and it is not difficult for you, you must make up for what you owe from the days before. Try to fast them in these holy months. You may fast in other months too, but to fast in these months is much better.

You must make a lot of Istighfar, repentance, in this month of Rajab, at least 100 times a day. You make astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, astaghfirullah, up to 1,000 times.

Also make Khatm of Ya Lateef every day. As they say, Khatm Ya Lateefiyyah, 500 times: ya Lateef, ya Lateef, ya Lateef. This is a holy and very powerful dhikr. Also in these days we are so much in need of this dhikr, so make this for the month of Rajab.

Try to wake up for Tahajjud time. Now it is nearly the 10th of Rajab, so we missed it, but you know from before that you can make part-time seclusion.

Make intention from Tahajjud time till Ishraq, or from Asr to Maghrib, or from Maghrib to Isha. A few hours, three hours in the morning, or three hours from Asr to Maghrib in the afternoon.

Take wudu and make khalwah. The intention is: “We are making intention for seclusion.”

Also in the month of Sha‘ban, try to fast Mondays and Thursdays. It is very rewarded.

In Tariqa it is ordered that each murid must make one time seclusion in their lifetime, but nowadays Mawlana Sheikh Mehmet does not give permission for full seclusion. But every year, from the 1st of Rajab till the 10th of Sha‘ban, he gives permission for part-time seclusion.

If you make it, it is counted as if you made seclusion as a murid in Tariqa, that you also fulfilled this order.

How to make this seclusion?

Wake up one hour before morning prayer. Take wudu. Pray Tahajjud. Pray Shukr. Pray Salat of Tasabih if you know it.

Read Qur’an and make tasbih of Astaghfirullah, La Ilaha Illa’Llah, and lots of Salawat, maybe 1000 times of each one, and Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim until the morning prayer, as much as you can do.

Continue your tasbih, tahlil, Salawat Sharifah after morning prayer till Ishraq, sunrise.

Fifteen minutes after sunrise is the time for Ishraq prayer. Until that time, you may make your daily wird, Allah, Allah, and make it more.

At the time of Ishraq, pray two rak‘ats of Ishraq, and then you may sleep. You have now finished your seclusion.

The time is nearly two and a half hours.

If possible, do not talk to anybody and be with yourself in one place, continuously worshipping, only making the intention for the seclusion.

Do it in your room. But also, if there is somebody there, you do not talk to this person. You just make your ibadah and worship.

Also, if you cannot do it in the early morning, do it from Asr time till Maghrib, or from Maghrib to Isha.

This also is two and a half or nearly three hours part-time seclusion.

It is liked in Tariqa that each murid should do it once in their lifetime. If you cannot do it, next year in sha’ Allah you make the intention.

At least every time you go to pray or read Qur’an say:
“Nawaitu l-Khalwah, nawaitu l-Uzlah, nawaitu r-Riyadah.”

This is the intention for the seclusion in this month of Rajab till the 10th of Sha‘ban. If you can do it, it is very good.

Now it is the 10th day, but you can also start from today till the 15th of Sha‘ban. You can continuously do this, in sha’ Allah.

May Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla help us and improve us spiritually, and help us also to deal with our life in our Tariqa, to go on the way to Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla and to the Prophet ﷺ, to the right path, in sha’ Allah.

Al-Fatiha.

• Hjh Rukiye Sultan

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