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Plant The Seed
Plant The Seed
Mirahmadi.
A’udhu Billahi Minash Shaitanir Rajeem
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
I seek refuge in Allah from Satan, the rejected one
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.
Alhamdulillahi rabbil aalameen as-salaatu was-salaamu alaa ashraf al-
mursaleen Sayyidina wa Mawlana Muhammad al-Mustafa ﷺ. Madad yaa
Sayyidi yaa Rasul al-Kareem, yaa Habeeb al-Azheem, unzur halana wa
ishfalana abina bi madadakum wa nazarakum, madad yaa Sayyidi Sultan
al-Awliya Mawlana Shaykh Abd Allah Fa’iz ad-Daghestani, madad yaa
Sayyidi Sultan al-Awliya Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-
Haqqani, madad ya Shaykh al-Quloobina Mawlana Shaykh Hisham
Kabbani. Madad al-haqq hujjat-Allahi al-mukhlis
Audhu billahi min-ash shaytani rajeem. Bismillah ar-Rahmaan ar-
Raheem, “Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil amre minkum“.
﴾…٥٩﴿ …َأطِ يعُوهَّللا َوَأطِ يعُوٱلرَّ سُو َل َوُأ ْولِي اَأْلم ِْر ِم ْن ُك ْم
4:59 – “…Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil amre minkum…” (Surat An-
Nisa)
“… Obey Allah, Obey the Messenger, and those in authority among you…”
(The Women, 4:59)
Plant the Seed of Faith in Rajab
Alhamdulilah, always a reminder for myself and wa ana abdukal ‘ajeez,
wa dayeef, wa miskin, wa zhalim, wa jahl. If not by the Grace of Allah
(AJ), we are non-existent. Then who can claim to be anything in the Might
and Majesty of Allah (AJ)? And always a reminder for myself and only to
talk to myself, to remind myself of Mawlana Shaykh’s teaching for us and
if anybody find a benefit, alhamdulilah, that our life in this holy month
opening up.
They give the analogy of
Rajab, subhana huwa man khalaq an-nur, is a month of Allah (AJ) in
which there’s a seed, the seed of life, the seed of faith. And the holy
month of Shaban, they say is like the soil and the watering. That that
seed that Allah (AJ) brought from Rajab, places it within the month of
Shaban and begin to water it with the love of Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.
And its manifestation is the month of Ramadan. With that seed, now
begins to manifest.
ْان َمنْ ه َُو ْال َخال َِق ال ُّنور
َ ُسب َْح
Subhana man huwal Khaliq an Nur.
Glory to Him who is the Creator, the Light.
We Are Seeds With Immense Potential
the seeds, s
ubhanAllah, that there are so many different seeds and so many of them,
you look alike. You can take handfuls of seeds and they all look alike, but
its product is immensely different. You can have a seed this big [Shaykh
makes a small circle with his thumb and index finger] and it can mature
into a tree that is immense and can produce millions of fruits through its
lifetime. Some may be 100, 150 years old, the tree, and continuously
producing fruits from one seed.
Did We Accomplish What Allah (AJ) Wants For Us?
And awliya (saints) come into our life and begin to make a teaching from
Prophet’s ﷺteachings always; that’s why “Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa
Ulil amre minkum.“
﴾٥٩﴿…ِين آ َم ُنوا َأطِ يعُوهَّللا َوَأطِ يعُوٱلرَّ سُو َل َوُأ ْولِي اَأْلم ِْر ِم ْن ُك ْم
َ ياَأ ُّي َها الَّذ
4:59 – “Ya ayyu hal latheena amanoo Atiullaha wa atiur Rasula wa Ulil
amre minkum…” (Surat An-Nisa)
“O You who have believed, Obey Allah, Obey the Messenger, and those in
authority among you…” (The Women, 4:59)
َ ف َن ْف َسهْ َف َق ْد َع َر
ف َر َّب ُه َ َمنْ َع َر
“Man ‘arafa nafsahu faqad ‘arafa Rabbahu”
“Who knows himself, knows his Lord.” Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
We Will Return to Allah’s (AJ) Ocean of Annihilation
It means these are ithikaf. These are
the khalwa and seclusion of Prophet’s ﷺteaching; seclude yourself, for
the name that people call you is of no relevance. What they know of you is
a walking dead. What Allah (AJ) want from you is a completely different
reality. So, it means that hadith is an isharat (sign) for us. Take a path in
which to know yourself, not by asking other people, but isolating yourself
and finding your own soil because there’s a soil coming for all of us. You
take your last breath, you walk out the door. That may be your last breath
and Allah (AJ) throw you into the Ocean of Annihilation which is
the qabr (grave), which is the dirt.
They throw you into the dirt and put the shovels of dirt upon you and now
you’re in Allah’s (AJ) Oceans of Annihilation. That earth will eat you.
Everything inside that earth will be sent to eat you and to destroy you and
from sifat al-Qahar, to make nothing of you to be in existence anymore.
This is the oceans of understanding of fana. When you want to
understand, ‘Why, ya Rabbi, why are, from ahlul haqaiq (people of
realities) are talking about annihilation, annihilation?’ And Allah (AJ) says,
‘Don’t you see it all around you? Don’t you see that every beauty you
have on this earth was from a seed that was thrown into an ocean of
annihilation?’
The Soil Brings Out the True Reality of the Seed
As soon as it went into
the dirt and isolated itself from people and began to water it with
a rahmahand a mercy. What power that dirt has? What power does it
have that it breaks down and brings out the reality of the seed? It’s Allah’s
(AJ) Izzahand Allah’s (AJ) Miracle in our life.
And a deeper understanding is that when that seed begins to be crushed
and be crushed and be crushed, and you come back 30 days, 40 days,
however it takes, you see something growing from the dirt. But if you dig,
there’s no more seed. Allah (AJ) transposed and changed something. The
seed that was before, once it annihilated into the oceans of annihilation,
something new came out. That which appears now is a manifestation from
the soil. That which is appearing is a manifestation from what was
annihilated in the soil. The seed is no more.
We Can Crack Our Seed in This Life or in the Grave
This means that, that is a very deep reality because they are teaching us
that all these beautiful flowers, they are not from the seed. They are
manifesting from that soil. They are a manifestations of Allah’s (AJ)
Annihilations. That He annihilated them, that, ‘You are no longer a seed
and I’ll bring out a completely different reality. And for everything, I
created in pairs. The first one went into the dirt, the second one is now
appearing from this teen‘.
If ahlul haqaiq (people of realities) and ahlul tafakkur (people of
contemplation) understand that when they go into seclusion, there’s no
different for insan (human being) or for a seed. Allah (AJ) said, ‘Which one
is harder – the seed or your insan? No difference, that what I created you
for is not what you’re running for’. But as soon as you take a path of
seclusion, of khalwa and isolation; and that can even be 10 minutes every
day, that as soon as you make your salah, put your Qur’an and say, ‘Ya
Rabbi, before my grave, I’m intending to seclude myself’. Because the
grave can be very harsh if that seed is very hard. If the seed
accomplished nothing in this world from what Allah (AJ) wants, it has a lot
of cracking to do.
And why Allah (AJ)
inspired people towards ‘build yourself.’ Why? So that you can do most of
that cracking in your physical world. Every day, just a few minutes of
cracking the seed, cracking, ‘Who knows himself will know his Lord.’
َ ف َن ْف َس ْه َف َق ْد َع َر
ف َر َّب ُه َ َمنْ َع َر
“Man ‘arafa nafsahu faqad ‘arafa Rabbahu”
“Who knows himself, knows his Lord.” Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
You’re now cracking the seed. All the layers of this seed are its bad
characteristics. But there’s a flower within the heart that Allah (AJ) wants
to bloom, says, ‘Get rid of the outside. Get rid of all that garbage’. There’s
something special, the kernel, the precious force inside that Allah (AJ)
wanted to grow. If that grows in that ocean of annihilation, it now is a
manifestation of that soil. Manifestation of that soil – so when you see the
tree with all its fruits, it’s no longer a seed. You can’t say, ‘Oh, this was a
seed’. Say, ‘No, that seed. It died a long time ago. What you are seeing is
a tree manifesting from this soil and giving you fruits’.
Through Seclusion Awliya Become Manifestations of Prophet
Muhammad ﷺ
Now
imagine insan (human being). Insan, if they live a life in which they
continuously secluding themselves. And the greatest soil is the light of
Prophet ﷺbecause this dirt, this whole creation is all from the light
of Muhammadun RasulAllah ﷺ. It can never be from la ilaha illallah. There
is no sharik; there is no partnership with Allah (AJ). All of this is a
manifestation of Muhammadun RasulAllah ﷺ.
So when you go for seclusion and khalwah, and say, ‘Ya Rabbi, I don’t
want to be a seed. I’m not waiting for the qabr (grave) to rip everything
apart. I want now to seclude myself.’ And as soon as you go into that
isolation and they begin to train you; keep making durood sharif, keep
praising upon Prophet ﷺ. When awliyaullah (saints) go into seclusion, 40
days, 40 days, 40 days, their seed died in that seclusion. Just like Allah
(AJ) put you 40 days a seed in this soil; if you look, there is no more seed.
If that one goes into seclusion and is taught and trained in an authorized
seclusion, their seed died and what you see of them is a manifestation of
Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ. You understand?
Be Like the Tree Whose Seed No Longer Exists
ْال َمرْ ُء َم َع َمنْ َأ َحب :َقا َل َرسُول هَّللا ِ صلى هللا عليه و سلم
Qala Rasulullah (saws): “Almar o, ma’a man ahab.”
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: “One is with those whom he loves.”
If they annihilated themselves in the light of Prophet ﷺ, in the love of
Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ, because you cannot be annihilated with Allah
(AJ). Don’t confuse yourself thinking shirk (polytheism). There is no shirk.
The mind is not even capable of understanding. This has to do not with
worshipness and worshipping Allah (AJ). This has to do with annihilating.
And many times we taught, but you have to have an open heart to
understand.
We Are Just Drops in the Ocean of Light
If I take an ocean of
water and come to me and said but, ‘Here, I’m, this is me [holds up a
glass of tea] and this is my form and this is who I am’. And they come and
teach you, no, no, this glass is nothing to do with you. It’s merely a body
Allah (AJ) gave to you. Why, why Allah (AJ) want you to be buried? Why
do we have death? It’s the great annihilation. Those who didn’t want to
annihilate themself willfully will be forcefully annihilated by throwing them
in the qabr (grave).
So what happens if this body is lost and you go into the qabr? Where does
your light go? Your drop of light, it goes back as a drop [takes drops of tea
and puts in a glass of water]. 1 drop, 2 drops, 3 drops, 5 drops – how
many oceans do you have? One. There is no two. In malakut (heavenly
realm), there is only tawhid, oneness. Multiplicity is in the world of form.
Singularity is with Allah (AJ). Multiple is the world of form. When a drop of
water goes into a drop of water into a drop of water, it’s but one drop of
water.
Seclusion Trains Us to Focus on Our Soul, Not Our Body