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Audhu billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem Bismillah ir-rahman ir-raheem<\/i><\/p>\n
Nawaytul-arba`een, nawaytul \u2018itikaaf, nawaytul khalwa, nawaytul `uzla, nawaytus salook, nawaytul riyaada lillahi ta`ala al-`adheem fee hadhal masjid.<\/i><\/p>\n
It is an honor for me to come and listen to the advice, it is not a lecture, an advice from the Professor on the love of Sayyidina Muhammad (s). I really came to listen only. I am not feeling that I have to add anything, because when the love of the Prophet (s) comes, we must all feel burned in that love.<\/p>\n
\u201cYa Sayyidi ya Rasulullah!<\/i>\u201d Just now I was hearing that in the advice that was being presented by the Professor. On the necessity, Dr. Professor Muhammad Qadri, to love the Prophet (s). There is no need to say professor or doctor, Muhammad Ahmad is enough of an honor. Alhamdulillah.<\/p>\n
It is a\u00a0fakhr<\/i>\u00a0to be named after Sayiddina Muhammad (s). We are not Wahabi, happy with the diploma we take from the university. Who cares for that?<\/p>\n
I heard that at the beginning, when this gathering first started, there were two people coming and listening. Since then it has been continously improving and now we are seeing hundreds of people here.<\/p>\n
That shows you are on the right path. I was in Houston yesterday and I was giving an advice in Ghawth `Adham mosque. And\u00a0masha-Allah<\/i>, a lot of people from\u00a0Tariqat al-Qadiriyya\u00a0<\/i>invited me to that big event and you could feel there that same feeling of love for the Prophet (s).<\/p>\n
Now to love the Prophet (s) is something that we have to feel in our hearts. If we don\u2019t feel it and don\u2019t know it and don\u2019t learn it and don\u2019t practice it, then it is only by the tongue. That is why Shaykh Muhammad Ahmad Qadiri, mentioned a hadith of the Prophet (s), \u201cla yuminu ahadakum hatta akunu ahaba ilaykum min walidihi wa waalihi wa an-naasi ijma`een<\/i>.\u201d That means, \u201cYou will not achieve true belief until you love me; you have to love me more than you love your parents, yourself and your children and the whole of humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n
If we look at ourselves today, if our child is sick and you need to take him to a hospital, your life is disturbed. You cannot sleep one hour, without feeling, \u201cMy son\u201d or \u201cMy daughter.\u201d You keep saying to yourself, \u201cMy son,\u201d or \u201cMy daughter\u201d You have that feeling of taking care of that son or that daughter. That is the simple balance or scale that we can use to look at ourselves with. Is that love to the Prophet like the love of our children in our heart or not? If that does not exist, and I am sure it does not, then we have to improve it.<\/p>\n
That is what Shaykh Muhammad Ahmad also mentioned that verse:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cQul in kuntum tuhiboon Allaha fat-tabi`oonee yuhbibkumullah wa yaghfir lakum dhunubakum.\u201d
\u201cSay: \u2018If ye do love Allah, Follow me: Allah will love you and forgive you your sins: For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/i>[3:31]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nIt is not the Prophet (s) who said it \u2013 it is Allah who said: \u201cYa Muhammad, say to them, \u2018If you love Allah, then follow me, Allah loves you.\u2019\u201d Who is that verse for? For everyone; for the Sahaba. I love the Prophet I hope, and everyone loves the Prophet (s). And the Sahaba loved the Prophet (s). So how am I going to love the Prophet when I need to see him and to follow him? How do I follow him if I don\u2019t see his footsteps?<\/p>\n
So the Sahaba saw the footsteps of the Prophet (s) and he showed them the reality of how to follow. He took them by the hand and they moved, he was guiding them.<\/p>\n
But that verse of the Holy Qur\u2019an is for the whole Ummah, from its beginning to its end. That is giving a hidden meaning here. The Prophet (s) was with the Sahaba to guide them. That means the Prophet\u2019s presence must exist at all times for all the people, for mankind to follow.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWa`alamu anna feekum Rasulullah.\u201d
\u201cKnow that the Prophet is within you.\u201d\u00a0<\/i>[49:7]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nHe did not say he is \u201cbaynakum<\/i>\u201c, \u201camong you\u201d, but He swt said, \u201cfeekum<\/i>\u201d \u2013 \u201cin you.\u201d The Holy Qur\u2019an is delicate in every letter and every sentence. If the Prophet (s) is in us, so then Allah is saying to us here, \u201cwhere then is he now?\u201d<\/p>\n
I was hearing an example of this [taps mike]. Are you hearing this? [yes] Why are you hearing it?<\/p>\n
That is a voice. That tapping is creating a voice that has a wavelength and the wavelength moves all around space, throughout the universe, and never dies. Those who know physics, eng., know that. That wavelength is moving through space, so that when I tap, that wave moves through space \u2013 if you have a receiver you hear it and if you don\u2019t you do not hear it.<\/p>\n
We are hearing from billions of years, voices coming from the universe, because we have big receivers, we are hearing some thing and yet we are not able to hear something else, it is impossible. Every voice has to be heard if you have the right equipment, because waves move around the world.<\/p>\n
When Sayiddina Muhammad (s) read the Holy Qur\u2019an, that wave is ever-living and it does not end. If you want to take it from a Physics point of view. So if that voice is there, why can we not hear it? Because there is something wrong with our equipment.<\/p>\n
There is something wrong. What about the hadith, \u201cma zaala `abdee yataqaraba ilayya bin-nawaafil hatta uhibah. Fa idha ahbabtahu kuntu sama`ulladhee yasma`u bihi wa basarahulladhee yubsiru bihi, wa yadahulladhee yubtishu bihi wa lisanahulladhee yatakallama bih.<\/i>\u201d \u201cMy servant does not cease to approach Me through voluntary worship until I will love him. When I love him, I will become the ears with which he hears, the eyes with which he sees the hand with which he acts and the tongue with which he speaks.\u201d<\/p>\n
A servant approaches through voluntary worship until I love him, as Shaykh Muhammad Ahmad Mahmoud Qadiri, [add that] said that love of Sayiddina Muhammad is important. The Sahaba, from love of the Prophet, they did listened to the Prophet and said, \u201cYes, Ya Rasulullah, we accept whatever you said.\u201d The\u00a0munafiqeen<\/i>\u00a0(hypocrites) tried to create doubts. But the Sahaba said, \u201cna`m sadaqta ya Rasulullah<\/i>!\u201d on the night of Ascension. But that love is important. It comes about not through obligations, but He said, \u201cma zaala `abdee yataqaraba ilayya bi-nawaafil hatta uhibah<\/i>\u201d \u2013 through voluntary worship.<\/p>\n
Is that obligation in Qur\u2019an, came in heavens or the Prophet did it himself out of love. Out of love the Prophet (s) did it. The obligations, you have to do, you are forced, if not you go to\u00a0jahannam<\/i>. It is an obligation, you cannot reach to love of Allah through it. Voluntary worship, there is a way out of it, because if you don\u2019t do it you will still go to paradise. But you will not be in that situation mentioned in that hadith. That means if the servant loves Me through Muhammad, by means of\u00a0nawafil<\/i>, voluntary worship, then I will love him, it is a reciprocal relationship. It has to be from you first, because Allah already loves His servant. But you have to put your plug, your wire and make the connection from your side.<\/p>\n
Then what happens. The hadith \u201ckuntu sama`ulladhee yasma`u bih<\/i>\u201d That means, \u201cI will give him a special receiver to hear, that he will hear only what that\u00a0wali<\/i>\u00a0can hear.\u201d I am going to give him what people cannot hear? What can people not hear? You cannot hear, he cannot hear, . you will hear the voice that people cannot hear because they don\u2019t have that opening in their ears. He will give you from that attribute\u00a0as-Sam`ee<\/i>, as Sariya heard Sayyidina `Umar\u2019s voice from Sham. \u201cO Sariya! Keep to the mountain,\u201d from Madina to Sham.1<\/a><\/p>\n
Sariya was able to hear. Sayyidina `Umar (r) was able to hear and to see. So Sariya has an audio voice only. Sayyidina Umar has video and audio. That is technology from 1400 years ago, since the time of the Prophet (s). Then the hadith continues, \u201cI will give him sight that he can see with, I will be the eyes which he can see with.\u201d At that time you have audio, video and TV. Then you can see the Prophet (s) \u2013 how he is moving, how he is speaking, how he is acting, and then you can follow. If you cannot see that, then follow those who can. Not everyone can do that, only a few can do that, only awliya can do that, like Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani.<\/p>\n
Even though you mentioned Ibn Taymiyya, I don\u2019t like to mention him except to show the Wahabis that your \u201cmaster\u201d was a slave at the door of Sayyidina Abdul Qadir al-Jilani, and he praised him in the book\u00a0Fatawa ibn Taymiyya.<\/i><\/p>\n
Then you have audio, video, and that gives us the meaning that the prophet is always present, looking at you and seeing what you are doing. And if you are clever you will be able to see it. And if you are not, then follow one who is. That is an order in hadith, \u201cin kuntum thalathah, fa-ameeru ahadakum<\/i>\u201d \u2013 \u201cIf you are three, make one your leader.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u00a0ameer<\/i>\u00a0must not be blind, he must not be an unintellectual person. He must be a person who can see the footsteps of the Prophet (s).<\/p>\n
I heard this story from my Shaykh and his father and grandfather are from the Qadiri\u00a0tariqat<\/i>. He did a complete seclusion in the\u00a0maqam<\/i>\u00a0of Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani for one whole year.<\/p>\n
One lady brought her son to Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani and said, \u201cYa Sayiddi I know you are the\u00a0Ghawth<\/i>, and I know for the sake of the Prophet you give.\u201d She was a poor lady and she always attended the suhbat, and she would see all the mureeds, disciples, attending the\u00a0subhat<\/i>\u00a0(advice) and dhikr. And in front of each one was a big chicken and they were eating.<\/p>\n
She said to herself, \u201cAlhamdulillah, I am poor and Sayyidina Abdul Qadir is rich in both\u00a0dunya<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0akhira<\/i>. I will give my son to sit there. At least he will eat morning and evening.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said, \u201cI want my son to be your mureed.\u201d<\/p>\n
He accepted. He was a very good-sized child. He told one mureed, Muhammad Ahmad, \u201cSend him to the basement and give him the\u00a0awrad<\/i>\u00a0for seclusion. And give him one piece of breads and olives to eat each day.\u201d<\/p>\n
That lady came after one month and thought her son would be eating chicken. Then she saw the mureeds sitting and eating with perfect manners (adab)<\/i>; eating chicken.<\/p>\n
She asked the Shaykh about her son. He said, \u201cHe is in basement eating special food.\u201d She was happy, as she thought since the mureeds are eating chicken, then probably he was eating beef.<\/p>\n
She went down and saw her son \u2013 he had become very slim. But he was sitting reciting, and light was emitting from his face.<\/p>\n
She came to him and said, \u201cWhat is this?\u201d He said, \u201cThat is what I am eating \u2013 a piece of bread.\u201d She went to Sayyidina Abdul Qadir Jilani (q), \u201cI brought my son to be with you.\u201d As she spoke the Shaykh ordered his mureeds, \u201cEat.\u201d Each ate the chicken in front of him, not the pieces, but the entire chicken,\u00a0with the bones<\/b>. Then he said to her, \u201cIf you want your son to reach the level to eat the chicken\u00a0with<\/b>\u00a0the bones, then he must go through\u00a0tarbiyya<\/i>\u2013 training.\u201d That\u00a0tarbiyya<\/i>\u00a0is for raising and training the ego, which is the most difficult thing. That is what is needed.<\/p>\n
al-Fatiha.<\/i><\/p>\n
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Allahumma salli \u2018ala Sayyidina Muhammadin nabi al-ummi wa \u2018ala Alihi wa Sahbihi wa sallim. Jumu`ah Mubarak.<\/i><\/p>\n
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