Awliya Knowledge
Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
Thursday, Mar 01, 2007 | Oakland, CA US
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A`udhu billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem
Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa uli 'l-amri minkum -
Obey Allah, obey the Prohet and obey those in
authority among you. [4:59]
In the previous session we made an introduction and
speaking awliyaullah and about how Allah swt gave
awliyaullah what he did not give others and prepared
them so that they can guide the Ummah towards the Last
Days and through the Last Days to reach Judgment Day
in the best way, taking from what the Prophet (s) has
given them through the knowledge of realities, which
is knowledge of dhaahir and knowledge of the hidden.
When Abdul Wahhaab ash-Sha`rani was asked about ilm
al-baatin, he said that to us there is only one `ilm,
`ilm adh-dhaahir, because for us everything is not
hidden. For us is the knowledge of realties; already
these discoveries have been made so we know what has
been hidden. According to the level of the wali, what
is hidden from them he might know it. So to them,
there are not two different kinds of knowledge. There
is knowledge always appearing to them and this is the
knowledge of realities. We explained about that -
about the importance of awliyaullah. The session
yesterday was different… you were asking about the
essence, so it was the session before.
Awliyaullah: what is there job? What Grandshaykh said
has a very, very deep meaning. He said it in a way
that I feel shy to say it but we have to be more
polite, because a wali can say about himself whatever
he likes but a student cannot repeat as he says it; we
have to try to put it in a way that is acceptable to
us.
That awliyaullah …what am I going to say? Awliyaullah
are people who are cleaners; they clean what we make
dirty. They have been carrying that responsibility
which is a heavy responsibility. La yukallifullahu
nafsa illa wu`saha. According to their levels,
awliyaullah carry the dirtiness of their followers
(put in a polite way; he used another word). We dump
our dirtiness on them. That is why it is said that on
the Day of Judgment, from Allah's infinite mercy or
love to His servant, for ummat an-Nabi, that they
believed in him and didn't associate anyone with him,
Allah swt sends His mercy on them and because of that
we will be feeling shy and sweating because we were
running away and throwing our dirtiness everywhere and
in return Allah swt is sending His mercy on us.
Awliyaullah are inheriting from Muhammadun Rasulullah
the manifestation from the verse, "wa ma arsalanaaka
illa rahmatan lil-`alameen. - We have sent you not
except as a mercy to humanity." And how do we explain
that mercy? It is impossible to give the explanation
of that meaning in full; whatever we say, it falls
short.
When we say that Allah swt has mercy on me and my
family it means we have a good life; we're not sick,
we have healthy children, we have good parents, we are
eating well, we are breathing well; we are living
well, we are not in a difficulty. It means anything
that you can explain as a favor is a mercy that Allah
swt favored you with. Breathing is a mercy. If that
breathing stops, y'Allah swt goes away. So every
action, even the smallest one, is a mercy. And who is
that mercy? - It is Muhammad (s). Allah swt said, "We
sent you not except as mercy." So it means all these
mercies we are receiving are coming to us through the
Prophet (s).
It is not shirk. The Prophet (s) said, "ana
al-Haashir, wa ana al-Maahi, wa ana Abu'l-Qaasim, wa
ana Taha wa Yasin." – 'I am the one taking sins away
and on resurrection the one to whom all people run on
Judgment Day. And I am Taha and Yasin. And I am Abul
–Qaasim. Allah swt gave me the responsibility of
dividing that mercy on humanity.'
So that heavy burden that is on awliyaullah, from what
they inherit of the mercy of the Prophet (s) , they
carry our dirtiness. As we were explaining two
sessions before, Grandshaykh said, "The Prophet (s)
said to me in my seclusions, your job" (he said to
Grandshaykh, Shaykh Abdullah al-Faiz ad-Daghestani,
Sultan al-Awliya) "is that you have to carry the
dirtiness of everyone and you have to be able to take
responsibility for what they have done. You have to
purify them and clean them and you have to present
them to me and I present them to the Divine Presence."
That is big. That is two lines but it makes you
stunned. It makes us look into it carefully: that the
Prophet (s) is saying "your job" - it means he has
been assigned a job. It means he has been assigned an
authority from the Prophet (s) meaning from the
Prophet (s) to him and from Allah swt to the Prophet
(s) that he has to carry from everyone.
What does carry from someone mean? It means he has to
be in everyone's [all human beings] lives. He has to
be with everyone in every moment of his or her life or
how will he carry from everyone? How will he know what
they are doing? He has to carry them and carry their
difficulties and problems and then purify them and
then give them back to the Prophet (s) clean.
It is not an easy thing to be waliullah. It is not as
they say "O, everyone is a wali." It might be that
everyone is wali on a common level but there are
higher levels.
And he has to carry their burdens.
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Mathalu alladheena hummilo't-tawrata thumma lam
yahmilooha kamathali'l-himari yahmilu asfaaran b'isa
mathalu'l-qawmilladh
w'Allahu laa yahdee l-qawma'dh-dhalimeen
62:5 The similitude of those who were charged with the
(obligations of the) Mosaic Law, but who subsequently
failed in those (obligations) , is that of a donkey
which carries huge tomes (but understands them not).
Evil is the similitude of people who falsify the Signs
of Allah. and Allah guides not people who do wrong.
Al-Jumu'ah [62:5]
Allah swt is describing those going astray are like a
donkey carrying his dirtiness on his back. All of us,
unfortunately, (O, don't make us donkeys - I am
between all of you), can we say we have no sins? What
are we carrying then? Sins are what? They are
dirtiness. They are like a child who messed himself.
It is smelly. So what do you do? You go clean that
child. Ok, who cleans the child? - The one who is
responsible. Clean it, take the crap, wrap it up, and
throw it away. Today they are selling these pampers
these diapers. They are selling them. You must be
happy, young ones. In previous times when you were
child, and when I was child, think how they were
cleaning us. They take these diapers, it was like a
cloth; they clean it or wrap it, those who are
responsible or parents. They wash it. How much did
their hands become clean when they do that?
Can you do that now, to wash the young people? They
are very expensive, but Shaytan is making us to waste.
Cleaning them, boiling with soap, then rinse them, and
hang them to dry. Then clean the child every day as
well. Today you are cleaning 10-15 diapers. Show me
today one man or woman who can do that. That process
is being done by the one on authority. We are like
children. In the eyes of awliyaullah we are like
children; every moment we are falling into a trap of
shaytan, and falling into sins. Like a donkey carrying
a load himl, load of what? - A load of anything. So
what kind of load are we carrying, that breaks our
backs? If hasanaat, it doesn't break our backs. What
breaks our backs is what Allah swt doesn't like us to
do. So what are they doing, those responsible for us?
They are taking that dirtiness and cleaning us of that
dirtiness. That is the meaning of guide. That is their
duty, 24-7: to take and clean us.
Allah swt left the Prophet (s) fresh alive, in his
grave, present. If we cannot see, there are awliya who
can see him. If the Prophet (s) disappeared then
everything would fall down. Allah swt created the
heavens without any supports:
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Allahu alladhee rafa`a as-samawati bi-ghayri `amadin
tarawnaha thumma istawa `ala al-`arsh.
Allah is He Who raised the heavens without any pillars
that ye can see; is firmly established on the throne
(of authority); Ar-Ra'd [13:2]
Allah swt created the heavens, meaning what we are
seeing, without any pillar. Who is the pillar? There
is an abstract hidden pillar that we cannot see. If
that pillar will move everything will fall down. That
is Sayyidina Muhammad (s); he is the pillar of
creation. That is why He created first Sayyidina
Muhammad as he is the pillar. When you make the
infrastructure for a building, you must put first a
foundation. The Prophet (s) is the foundation; he is
the first, and cannot be last. He is the first and he
is the last. And all that is between.
So what Allah swt said, the Prophet (s) said: "What
Allah swt created first is my light and," he said, "I
was a prophet when Adam between clay and water. If the
Prophet (s) was not carrying, then everything would
fall down. Even human beings will fall down.
Why are human beings standing? What is it that keeps
them straight? It is the spine. If the spine is
crooked what will happen? You fall down. The one who
is the spine for the universe is Sayyidina Muhammad
(s). If that spine of the universe is taken away then
the universe will fall. The awliyaullah are the spine
after the Prophet (s) to guide the Ummah and take them
to right way.
If there was no dhikr tonight, that earthquake would
have been ten times worse than what happened. It would
have been an 8.2. It would have been so strong that
everything would move. From last night to Fajr I was
not well. I was seeing things that made me
uncomfortable. At 6:30 I went up, and as soon as I lay
down I slept. I was feeling very, very tired. When I
was sleeping, my body was completely shuddering like
an earthquake. I said there is going to be something
today. So when we were in dhikr that earthquake came
and that dhikr made it very, very mild.
There are among awliyaullah those who are carrying and
responsible and they present to Grand Shaykh and Grand
Grandshaykh through the line to the Prophet (s). So he
said, I am carrying; not only that, but I am cleaning
what I am seeing and I am purifying and uttahirra
purifying it completely and delivering those people to
the Prophet (s). Clean. Then the Prophet (s) is
delivering them to Allah swt . He said that everyone
that follows usul ash-Shariah, meaning he keeps the
Shariah very well and besides that, he keeps the
tariqah the reality of things, and the ma`rifatullah
will be given a mindhaar, binoculars. They will give
him one, in order that he will be able to use it; this
is a heavenly one, not like the earthly one with which
you can see in UV light. The heavenly one can see not
only UV light but if he looks inside the sun he can
see what is inside the sun even. Scientists cannot
look into the sun. What will happen? First we would go
blind, then
we would become vaporized, and then we would become
nothing; plasma.
So those awliyaullah are given binoculars that don't
let you go to plasma and evaporate. They can see in
any kind of conditions. Allah swt gave them this kind
of binoculars. They use it to guide their followers to
the right way.
Grandshaykh said I have been given one to be able to
use for my students and to prepare them and to make
them ready to be able to receive manifestations of
different knowledge that Allah swt will be sending to
the Ummah.
It means he is preparing everyone to be able to carry
a binocular smaller than that; it depends on the level
of the student who is progressing. So what is needed
from us? They keep usul ash-Shariah and usul
at-tariqah well. We will continue next time,
bi-hurmatil- Fatiha.
Dr. Nazeer: You know there is a square and oranges in
the courtyard [of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim in Cyprus]. I
ventured into the courtyard and broke an orange and no
one stopped me. I ate the sweetest orange I ever ate;
even the seeds were sweet and the skin was sweet. It
was so good I broke another, and another, and another
- four of them and I ate them and shared with another
brother. There is a brother who has store at the
entrance, and I took him along and told him he must
taste the orange. I took from the left side of tree,
so I told him you must take one or two oranges and
give them to him. He said, "What? This is the most
sour orange I ever tasted." I could not figure out why
one side was sour and the other was sweet. It was sour
for him and for us.
I kept asking who planted the tree, and then I asked
gentleman who helps Mawlana Shaykh. I was taking
another orange and he said, "Don't do it." I said,
"Why?" He said, "That tree is in the middle of the
courtyard it is for decoration and he sees it when he
comes out."
I looked at it and I figured out that when he comes
out his gaze falls on this side of the tree.
Shaykh Hisham:
This is one of the reasons. And the second reason is
that when he makes adhan in the morning that sweetness
goes on the field. The third reason is to show you
both sides of human beings; the sweet side and the
sour side. We were just describing that awliyaullah
clean the human being and that is one of the means to
clean humans. There are many that we don't know. Many
people have different experiences with Mawlana. Like
he asked a question and Mawlana shouted at him.
Wa min Allah at Tawfiq
wasalam, arief hamdani
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