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Salam aleikum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatu.
Shaykh Abdul Majid!
It's nice to sit here as a Shaykh.
I was waiting so long for this chair to be de-occupied!
All the holy Shaykhs - so I have to be sitting beside all my viewers.
Masha'Allah I have a lot of good comments about this coffee talk.
Say this is our level so we are happy with this level, so
the other Shaykhs they are very high level. They try to understand but
unfortunately Nabil will translate.
And Al Hamdulillah that Mawlana Shaykh is good
& he is giving good tidings for all of us. And today we have very honoured
guests Al Hamdulillah! Reminding us of our
beloved brother Shaykh Raja Ashman.
That his son & his nephews, are here masha'Allah.
They honoured us & Al Hamdulillah that Mawlana Shaykh he saying
Subhana Allah! We are so... not deserving this honour from this
royalty to come & visit us & masha'Allah they are so humble & they're coming,
visiting us, honouring us masha'Allah! Al Hamdulillah that
the honour for us is to have you here & to
answer some question for you insha'Allah!
Because you have very nice question
that everyone is asking this question. How to be Sufi?
How to be Sufi, it is a very important question. Everyone, think about it!
How to be Sufi? And to be Sufi,
when you ask this question you already stepped in Sufism.
Everyone thinks when he say "when you become Sufi
so it has a long procedure, it has long things to do. No!
At the moment that you are asking how to be Sufi
you are already opening a door & entering Sufism.
This is the secret of how to be Sufi.
Al Hamdulillah, as long as you ask this question you are in.
Allah Almighty immediately He (swt) opens up the way for you to enter.
You are most welcome! When someone passing
and he is not interested in the palace going next to it
so nobody will welcome him & nobody will say "come & look what is inside."
But when you are passing through palace saying "Wow
very nice color, very nice design & you'll start to say "who
is living inside? What they are doing inside? How is their architecture?
So immediately you will be in, because your love, your heart is
just melting for that side.
Al Hamdulillah that I can give you good tiding
Shaykh Abdul Latif, that when you ask
this question, that means that your heart really wants
this. And don't occupy
yourself, or I am talking for the general, don't occupy yourself
with so many questions that you've been
only answering the question & not enjoying what will be given.
We have one good example for this one.
They say we have one murid he is from America, Dr.
works in NASA, Ahmad Ghayur.
He is Professor in NASA & he was making this - the Hubble telescope.
And he was the chief engineer. And he became Naqshbandi
& he is follower of Mawlana Shaykh.
Now he is retired, but he was saying very good things about this NASA. He say
the front line professors, they are Muslims.
The NASA they put the Muslim professor in the front line of NASA.
Why because they say the other professors
when they look for the planets or they look for
star or they look for the sun, say
"how this one came there? & what is the reason that put it there?& you know like
it is impossible to measure it."
They have a lot of question & answers & they occupy themselves
in every details, useless details!
But the Muslim professors they say "this Allah Almighty, He Create by His
power & it is there." So
the answer & the question is finished, because when you are knowing
who is the One (swt) doing all this, so you can go forward.
So the NASA they are so smart & clever
so they put Muslim professors in the front, just to say
"Yes the sun is being put by Allah Almighty here,
and the planets are being planted here & the design is done by Allah Almighty
so we don't have to think more about how it has come there
and what is the reason, and how many billion years,& how many this
& how many.. and calculating, calculating...so your
your life will finish while calculating why the sun is sitting there.
Allah Almighty He (swt) Create, finish! Muslims Al Hamdulillah we are believers
and we are more relaxed.
We are more relaxed with what Allah Almighty Created
because we don't think Allah Almighty is like us.
We are powerless. We are the most powerless
creatures. Any animal can be much faster than us,
more wild than us and more powerful -
maybe more smart in his way.
But Allah Almighty He (swt) make us so soft skin,
beautiful face Al Hamdulillah & He (swt) gave us the mind.
And that's why He (swt) asks us to be His
servants. And He (swt) ordered us to be His servants.
And He (swt) give all the rest in our order.
So even we are not powerful, but Allah Almighty He give us the much power.
And He (swt) supports us with the spirituality with the heart.
The brain is limited,
cannot go out. The brain is limited. So
what happened when it hit the boundary?
The brain start bum, bum...cannot go out, he hit the boundary. Say
"no, you are hitting the boundary." The heart is wide open.
There is no boundary. So that's why the Sufism is the heart, no boundary.
Al Hamdulillah the brain is making you to get everything done,
but with boundaries.
The coordination is very important, between the two of them.
When you coordinate you become
in the dunya wise, successful and
spiritual wise you will be successful.
Don't make the mind take over your spirituality.
And don't make the heart also taking all your
dunya things. Otherwise you will be dying from hunger.
We need to work, we need to breathe.
We need to look after our family & we need also to look after the people.
So this is the community. But the spiritual side, we need to be strong
in the way that makes us nearer to
Shaykh, our guru, and to make us... that he makes us nearer
to the Prophet (saws) and the Prophet (saws) he will
make us nearer to Allah Almighty. So this is it! How to be Sufi.
It is simple by talking, but
we need little bit to make it happen. So this is
the important part, to make it happen.
And when you ask how to be Sufi then it starts to happen.
So after that don't ask so many questions that make you
calculating, calculating, calculating Oh! Like
now I become grandfather.
Al Hamdulillah! I was calculating, calculating
finally I find myself as a grandfather.
It's very fast! It's very fast, the life is very fast.
You cannot imagine how fast, how speedy it is going.
Al Hamdulillah! But luckily I am not good in mathematics.
to make calculations. I am just following
my Shaykh calculation.
He is having the big computer that calculates everything.
So I am just sitting relaxing catching his robe and
we are going with him like this,
because is very speedy also.
Go like this, so that's why
to surrender for Murshid/guide,
it has a lot of advantage.
When we take baya' from Murshid/guide
that means we are surrendering; that we are giving our
everything to him. But
if we are in the right hand, Al Hamdulillah we are in the right hand,
that everything will be relaxed.
Here the question is, is my guru satisfying me?
My Murshid/guide is satisfying me? Yes!
If he is satisfying you, that means you are belonging to him.
But if you are coming looking
having pushed out, pushed out, so this is not yours.
There are so many people coming & saying,
"we've been in this Tariqa, we've been in this Tariqa...
finally we end up with Mawlana Shaykh.
We didn't take any Baya' from there.
We didn't give our self there." Say "because you've
been in Mawlana Shaykh's list. If some body is written in Mawlana Shaykh list
no doubt he has to come. He is written, he cannot run away."
This is how Allah Almighty is
planting, as He plant the sun, as He plant the moon, as He plant the earth.
All planted by His (swt) hand.
This is Allah Almighty, our mind cannot figure it, no way!
And this is the simple of what Allah Almighty
is writing in our life. Al Hamdulillah
we are the people that Allah Almighty
He (swt) grant us such a big gift.
He (swt) grant us such a big gift that
so many people they will ask for it but they will not find it.
Once we've been in Janaza prayer
for somebody & there was crowd, big crowd outside.
Standing outside, nobody coming to pray
with Jamaat inside. All they are coming for Janaza.
And Mawlana Shaykh he stand
and he say very nice few words.
I say "I am sorry for those people standing outside.
I feel sorry for them."
Say "you know why I feel sorry for them? Allah Almighty He didn't give them
this opportunity to put their head for Sajda."
This is also written, if you are for Sajda,Allah Almighty wrote you
to be for Sajda.
But I say "I am sorry for these people, I am really feeling sorry for them.
I feel that Allah Almighty didn't give them this opportunity"Al Hamdulillah say
"I am looking for my people here Al Hamdulillah.
Allah Almighty we have to be thankful for Allah Almighty
He give us this honour & this opportunity to make this Sajda.
This is how for somebody it is written & for somebody it is not."
Very important.It is the most important, things that Allah Almighty has written.
Al Hamdulillah I am saying all of us we have been
lucky people that Allah Almighty at least He (swt) gave us
the opportunity to make Sajda.
This must be Shukr for this. But now
you've been more & going more, because this
field is so open.
If you make ishtihad/effort you can reach, but
you have to have guidance,you have to have teacher you have to have Murshid.
He is the one really make you to fly. By their own nobody can fly.
It is very important you look for the plane captain.
Can anybody chose to be the plane captain? No way he has
to make his education, have to have his teacher, practising
& then they will give him a small plane, bigger plane & then they go for
big plane. So this is, it will be like me
becoming grandfather. Then they will give him big plane.
They never able to give him when 18 years old or 16 years,
the airbus 380 & fly with it.
Looks very simple but it is not. Al Hamdulillah so that is why
to be with Mawlana Shaykh it is more than enough to be Sufi.
And he will be taking you, he will be flying you
and you will be in the passenger seat very comfortable
and because they have this power. If they don't have this power
then you have to think, "O what am I
riding the donkey as passanger, or in plane as
passenger? So this is also.. Al Hamdulillah
we know that we are in safe hands & in very comfortable passenger seat.
By saying we are accepting you as our Master as our Murshid/guide &
we are accepting to be Sufi, and we are accepting to be in the way that
it leads us to Allah Almighty & Rasulullah (saws) & big Shaykhs.
Wa Min Allah Al Tawfiq, Bi Hurmat Al Habib Bi Hurmat Al Fatiha.
Al Fatiha.