(Mawlana Shaykh receives a most honored guest and dear friend, Shaykh al-Islam Tahir al-Qadiri of Pakistan. they are speaking in Arabic for some time, then Mawlana Shaykh gives suhbah in English.)
Shaykh Tahir al-Qadiri from Pakistan. Masha-Allah. Three days for right of guest. Ha. After three days, free to go or to stay, but three days. Sayyidina shaykh jai ziayaran min masafa ba`eeda lahu nur wa khidma lil ummah. Now, law khalaftu sayyidina ash-shaykh kaan nahnu nartah (if our master the Shaykh will take our place, we will relax) for one hour, yawmiyyan (daily)? Welcome to you! bi-himmatihi I like to be that meeting mubarak, blessed meeting.
(Mawlana Shaykh stands)
Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem. Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, la ilaha ill-Allah. Allahu akbar wa lillah al-hamd. Anta rabbun anta khaliquna, ya rabban ighfirlana ma mada bi barakat hadha shahur al-rahma. alfus-salaat alfus-saalm ala sayidna Rasulullah. ashfa` lana, bi sharafa for your honor, just created everything that should be created from pre-Eternal up to Eternal, everything just created for his (s) honor, raghman an al-wahaiyyeen, khazahumullah.
If Sayyidina Muhammad wasn't created nothing was in Creation, no. Therefore, tadheeman, I am standing up for saluting, for giving our last point of our respects and glory and majesty to Our Lord, Allah Almighty, as well as we are standing up for His most beloved servant, most glorious, most majestic one, that everything was created (for him). For his (s) honor I am standing up. O listeners! Hear and listen and do what the Lord of Heavens ordering to you, to everyone in Creation. Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem. For the baraka of Ustaz Shaykh Muhammad Tahir, our most well-known `alim in Islamic world, Shaykh Muhammad Tahir (is) giving honor to our meeting!
I am ashaming to speak in front of such a learned one, well-known one, and beloved one through awliyas also. But his tawadu` (modesty) tawadu` humbleness, he is not going to speak and saying to me, "speak and we may hear." And I am not a person claiming I know something, astaghfirullah, but we are living in a time (when) our masters (are) saying zamaan qaht ar-rijaal, as the Seal of Prophet (s) sa yaatee zamaanu la ybqa min ad-deen illa ismuh wa la min ?? illa rasmuh. So what can we do? We can't leave Ummati Muhammad, the nation of Muhammad; we must speak as much as we can do as a guest coming, and host, he may put if he is a rich one, may put a lamb for his guests; if not, may put ma taqadar, what is there.
And we are saying `audhu billahi min ash-shaytani 'r-rajeem. We must say, because Shaytan is a terrible and dangerous enemy for Mankind. You can't find through all Creation (a greater enemy) as its enmity and hasad (envy) he is the top of envy. The most envious one through Creation is Shaytan! Therefore we must say `audhu billahi min ash-shaytani 'r-rajeem.No one can be able to fight Shaytan by himself or by herself, no. Only they may ask from their Lord to protect him or her from Satan and to not fall down into Satan's tricks and traps.
Madad ya Sultan al-Awliya. You must ask a help from those people whom they are masters. "Masters" means (those who are) trying to follow the steps of the Seal of the Prophet Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam. And we are saying, we have been ordered also, to say Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem because that is a sword that we can use it against Satan and its follower and its soldiers. Therefore, we are beginning and saying, `audhu billahi min ash-shaytani 'r-rajeem, O Our Lord! Please put your weak servants under Your Divinely Shelter so that he can be in safety on that dangerous enemy, astaghfirullah. And holy order to say Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem, (is telling us) "O My servants! If you like to be sheltered, if you like a defense against your most terrible enemy, use My sword that I granted to you, to ummati Muhammad (s): say Bismillahi 'r-Rahmaani 'r-Raheem!"
We are saying and ask istimdad, heavenly suport from heavenly mastes, that means they are closer ones from Seal of Prophets (s). you must ask from them heavenly help and support. Therefore, say it, don't fear that some wrong people may blame you and saying you are making shirk. No! We are not making shirk, but we are following the ways of Sahaba, that they were always asking heavenly help from the Seal of Prophets (s) istimdad, talab al-madad, to ask heavenly help. Heavenly help you are not finding everywhere. If a person has a car and when benzine, petrol finishing, I don't think he is going to grocery shop and asking, "Fill my car." What is that? Putting in it olive oil or other oil what he may put. Do you think with olive oil a car is running? Can't be. It must be some idiot one to go and to ask from grocery shop, "Fill my car with something that I may continue on my way." No. It is written "Petrol Station"; you must go there.
Therefore, don't think if anyone making sulook--Ustaz Professor knowing that sulook is the way that taking people to the Holy Presence of the Seal of Prophets (s)--if you are not giong to his station, you can't be able to move to continue your way to reach to the Lord of Heavens. Therefore, people must know what they may be in need for, moving from the stage or from the level of their egos to move up. They are in need of someone's station to fill them with something that you may go up, or you are going to be like snakes, running. Snakes I am saying snakes because other animals have legs, running away. But that one, snake, dragon, snake has no feet, and you may be less than snake if you are not asking the way to heavens!
O people! You are invited or you have been called from heavenly level; you have been invited. O people! You have a heavenly invitation.
Eh! Everyone they like to have an invitation. It should be a big feast, or ghada they are saying, or Her Majesty the Queen's ihtifal, some celebration, everyone yatamana more than wishing, their hearts running to have an invitation from Her Majesty the Queen. Anxiously desiring. That is their desire to go there. But people now, subhanallah al-aliyy il-adheem, they are so ignorant, so foolish, so idiot ones! Because the Lord of Heavens sending heavenly invitation to His servants and saying, astaidh billah wallahu yad`u ila dar as-salaam sadaqallah, and it is free, saying, "Come to Me. Say, O my Prophet, call My servants to prepare to arrange themselves ornaments, making their as they are going to Queen's invitation, dressing excellent ones, written on invitation card the type of clothes you must dress in that you must come."
For everything there is, what you are saying, (formal dressing) protocol, tashreefan. Protocol is for other nations, but Arabic enough and more than enough for giving every meaning divine and earthly meanings, enough (is) Arabic for whole nations; no need for Arabic language to use another words, therefore, I am saying tashreefa, it is from Prophet (s) to the servants of the Lord of Heavens. OK? Yes. There is invitation, it is free for all Mankind! wallahu yadu` ila dar as-salaam. bidh-dhaat, He Almighty, through His glory and majesty saying, "O My servants, come! I am inviting you to be in My Divinely Presence, (giving) My divinely invitation to you. Tuh (spit) On those people who are not giving that honor for that invitation, and then they are running away!!
Subhanallah, Ya Rabbee, O our Lord, please forgive us! We are so sooooo ignorant ones, leaving, not taking, not accepting, not preparing ourselves for that Divinely Invitation, wallahu yadu` ila dar as-salaam. How we are running after this dirty life and its dirty ladhaat, pleasure?
Running after that and leaving Divinely Invitation? We have been invited! O people! O our Lord's servants! Look; use your mentality to make a measuring (take account); to where you are running? For what you are wasting your life, for nothing! And you are leaving that divinely invitation and you are not going to prepare yourself! And the way of reaching, the way of preparation for anyone who (is) asking to reach divinely feast (is by) beginning to be a follower from heavenly ones. They are masters. Heavenly ones (who) are living among people, you must look after them to teach you. (Allah Almighty is) saying, "Come to Me! I am preparing you; I am training you!"
That is sulook. People are running away from sulook. We are not created for dunya. They are not understanding this. Whole people they think they have been created for dunya. Dunya is only one spark of match. (Shaykh Tahir al-Qadiri says, "We were created in dunya, not for dunya.") And people running after dunya, not asking more than that, and after while saying, "This passed away and that passed away, and left underground; going to be dust." Their souls (are) untrained for the Last Day. That is important, for Man to ask, who is master? You must ask (from a) master. First masterhood for prophets, then their inheritors, masters. You must try to find them. One is enough. Who inheriting from the Seal of the Prophets (s) is enough, as the Seal of Prophets enough for whole Creation! It is enough for us to find an inheritor from the Seal of Prophets (s), to follow him and to reach your real position and level, here and Hereafter.
It is written, and Shaykh Tahiri he knows, but I am addressing to common people. The son of Sayyidina `Umar radi-Allahu `anhum was once with caravans going from Madinatul-Munawwara to Hajj in Mecca al-Mukarrama. And he was with people, qawafil, caravans and he was going and he reached to a place, the way was going one way, so many people all caravans going on that way. Only there was a munhani, curve way behind that, and they saw that the son of Sayyidina `Umar, Allah blessing them, he was taking that curving and going there and reaching to caravan (through a different route).
And people coming and saying, "O Sahib Rasulullah (s), O son of Sayyidina `Umar, why you did this? The way was going straight from here; why you are taking this curved way?" And he said, "O people! I just I saw my darling, habeebee, beloved one (s), I saw him that he reached this place and he did his na`qa ash-shareef, camel, taking this way and going like this; therefore, I love to do everything what I saw from that one."
Subhanallah. No place that the Seal of Prophets (s) put his foot on it and not coming a light. Where he passed, that light was coming, and that light (illuminates) up to Yawm al-Qiyamah must be, but faman kaan fee hadhihi `ama kaana fil akhirati `ama, not blind people can see that but (only) open-eyed people.
And the son of Sayyidina `Umar was saying (about) the nur, holy light, "I am looking there and how I can leave it and follow you in such a way?"
The Sahaba of the Seal of Prophets (s) were following him (s), Habeebullah! They take their shares from the Seal of Prophets (s) and that nur just astaqar, settled through their hearts. Therefore, (for) Sahaba is something else, radiyallahu `anhum wa radoo `anh, that honor cannot be for anyone else, and that honor there is not another honor above where Allah saying,
رَّضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ وَرَضُوا عَنْهُ (radiyAllahu `anhum wa radoo anh (well-pleased is Allah with them, and well-pleased are they with Him).
(Mawlana Shaykh looks to Shaykh Tahir al-Qadiri, who says, "He explained His pleasure on them first, only then they became pleased with Allah and because of His divine pleasure, they become pleased with Him.")
Look what Sahaba companions reaching such an honor, such a ranks, high ranks through heavens! There is heavenly station and there is over that Divinely Station. Divinely no one can enter it, ill ar-Rasool, Divinely Presence is only for one, ya Ustaz. But seven heavens. Heavenly Presence. Then when seven heavens finishing, Archangel Gabriel coming there and standing, and the Seal of Prophets (s) was saying, "Come with me, O Jibreel," and he is answering, "No way, ya Habeebullah, no way siwak to pass up to this point. If I move from here I am going to be nothing and never going to come in existence once again. Only for one."
O people! Leave Shaytan and its followers, but come and keep yourself with Prophet's inheritors; follow them. (They are) taking you through heavens and heavenly stations. O people! Live for Allah! O people! Don't occupy yourselves for being servants of Shaytan or nafs or dunya or hawa, the four dangerous enemies. Leave them and come!
Aba Yazid, Sultan al-Arifeen, Allah blesses him, was saying, "We reached to a station and asking more. I like to come to You, O Lord."
What was Allah Almighty's answer to him? Itruk nafsak wa ta`al, "Leave yourself; leave your dirty ego and come to Me, quddus muqaddas. Ya Musa."
فَاخْلَعْ نَعْلَيْكَ إِنَّكَ بِالْوَادِ الْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًى (fakhla` na`layka innaka bil-waadi 'l-muqaddasi tuwaa) Verily I am thy Lord! therefore (in My presence) put off thy shoes: thou art in the sacred valley Tuwa. [20:12]
Innaka bil Waadi al-muqadasi Tuwa. fakhla na`layk. innaka bil waadi al-muqadasi tuwa. Allahu akbar.
Allah was not happy that Moses coming with slippers to that maqam, but for Seal of Prophet (s) He said, "O my Beloved One, put your feet on My Divinely Throne, to take honor!"
The honor of Sayyidina Muhammad, saloo alayhi wa salimoo tasleema. Allahumma salli `ala Sayyidina Muhammadan nabee al-ummi wa `ala alihi wa sahbihi was sallam... kama yaleeq bi-kamaalihi (s). This (suhbah) is for honor of our precious guest coming here today. (Mawlana is radiant with happiness! Allah, Allah. Just no need to say Dumm, dumm, dumm, dumm, dumm, dumm... singing. Every day increased, baraka ustadh. (Mawlana Shaykh looks at Shaykh al-Islam Tahir al-Qadiri with fondness.) I like him too much!
(Private conversation ensues; both shaykhs speak with Shaykh Hisham on telephone.)
Lefke, 24.08.2009
about Grandsyaikh Abdullah Faiz ad-Daghestani Source :
http://mil2.multiply.com/Sebuah kisah nyata dari kehidupan seorang Wali Besar, Sultan dari para Wali shaykh Abdullah Faiz Daghestani (q) 1891M-1973M, Guru besar ke 39 dari tariqah sufi yang mulia Naqshbandi, semoga Allah memberkahi Beliau.
Seperti yang dituturkan oleh: Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani (q), chairman of Islamic Supreme Council of America.
Ulama yang Wali
Grandshaykh Abdullah, adalah seseorang yang luar biasa di masanya. Walaupun beliau adalah seorang yang buta huruf. Ketika beliau berbicara, para Ulama Besar, yang dipenuhi ilmu pengetahuan Huruf akan duduk di hadapan beliau seperti anak kecil, tanpa berkata sedikitpun. Beberapa ulama terkemuka di Damaskus biasanya akan mendatangi pertemuan beliau dengan sembunyi, duduk di belakang agar tidak diketahui oleh lingkaran para ulama lainnya.
Salah satu dari paman kami adalah presiden dari Asosiasi Ulama Muslim Lebanon. Paman kami adalah seorang yang sangat cerdas melampaui para ahli hukum Islam lainnya saat itu. Dia dikenal dengan julukan “ensklopedi berjalan” untuk ilmu fiqih, tafsir Qur’an, sirah dari Nabi Muhammad saw. Perpustakaan paman kami mempunyai 30.000 judul buku dan dia telah membaca semuanya.
Setiap saat seorang presiden atau perdana mentri dari Negara-negara Timur Tengah datang ke Lebanon, biasanya juga akan mengunjungi paman. Dia menulis banyak opini editorial untuk Koran-koran di Arab. Setiap orang mencari opini beliau untuk menetapkan permasalahan yang sulit dalam bidang Fiqih, bahkan para ulama dari Universitas Al-Azhar pun mencari beliau untuk masalah –masalah yang sulit.
Suatu hari saya dan abang saya mengajak paman untuk ikut bersama kami menemui Grandshaykh Abdullah. Dia berkata” Mengapa saya perlu bertemu guru lagi? Apakah dia membaca lebih banyak dari saya?” kami terus memaksanya, sampai akhirnya dia setuju dan tentunya bagi ulama sekaliber dia ini adalah keputusan yang tidak mudah.
Kami berangkat dari Beirut menuju Damaskus, dan tiba di rumah Grandshaykh yang penuh berkah tiga jam kemudian. Begitu kami tiba di depan pintu, beliau membukanya dan berkata ”Selamat datang, aku telah menantimu” tindakan tak terduga ini melumerkan paman kami, kami masuk ke dalam dan duduk. Shaykh Abdullah berkata kepada paman “Engkau adalah Ulama, dan aku harus mengakui bahwa engkau adalah seorang Ulama yang terkemuka, namun dalam suatu pertemuan, hanya satu orang yang boleh berbicara, engkau yang akan berbicara atau aku? Engkau yang memutuskan”.
Paman kami dengan salah tingkah,berkata ”Tidak, saya seorang tamu. Jika engkau yang menjadi tamu, maka aku yang akan bicara” Grandshaykh kemudian berkata kepadanya ”Baiklah kalau begitu, apakah engkau mau menggunakan kamar mandi sebelum saya mulai?” ini adalah cara beliau untuk berkata ”Begitu aku berbicara janganlah engkau potong” paman kami berkata “Ya. Saya perlu untuk memperbarui wudhu“ ini adalah keajaiban kedua bagi paman kami.
Grandshaykh mulai berbicara dengan membaca ayat,”Taatlah engkau kepada Allah, taatlah engkau kepada Rasul dan siapa saja yang mempunyai otoritas atas diri kamu” (4:59). Kemudian beliau berbicara terus tanpa henti. Kami mulai bergerak ke kiri dan ke kanan, mulai gelisah, tapi tetap saja Grand shaykh terus berbicara dan saya juga sambil tetap membuat catatan dengan rinci. Beliau selesai setelah berbicara empat jam. Paman kami, yang mendengarkan dengan perhatian penuh, tiba-tiba mencium tangan grandshaykh. Tidak pernah sekalipun saya melihat paman saya mencium tangan seseorang bahkan istrinya sekalipun, kami sangat terkejut. Setelah shalat magrib, grandshaykh menyiapkan makan malam. Setelah itu kami berangkat pulang menuju Libanon.
Begitu paman kami duduk di dalam mobil, paman kami mulai menangis. Ini kejutan lagi, karena saya tidak pernah melihat dia menangis. Dengan air mata yang mengalir dia berkata:
Jika aku akan menulis sebuah buku tentang apa saja yang Shaykh Abdullah katakan, maka aku akan menuliskan satu volume untuk setiap kalimat. Apa yang beliau bicarakan hari ini adalah hal yang telah lama menjadi pertanyaan yang pelik bagi pikiran para ulama, bukan ulama biasa, tetapi para Ulama Besar serta para filsuf, bahkan itu juga menjadi pertanyaan yang membingungkan pikiran para wali.
Ada tujuh pertanyaan yang menjadi teka-teki setiap orang dan sebelum kita berangkat dariBeirut, aku menyimpannya di pikiranku. Hingga hari ini tidak seorangpun yang mampu menjawab salah satu dari pertanyaan ini. Dan tanpa aku menyebutkan pertanyaan tersebut, Grandshaykh menjawab seluruh tujuh pertanyaan itu!
Grandshaykh membicarakan topik tentang hakikat manusia (haqiqat al-insan), dan manusia sempurna (insan kamil), apakah hakikatnya dan dan darimana hakikat ini berasal. Ini disebutkan dalam Hadist dari Rasulullah saw, bahwa setiap orang mempunyai tujuh nama surgawi di Hadirat Ilahi, setiap nama untuk setiap tingkatan di surga. Untuk setiap orang akan dinamai sesuai dengan tingkatan surga yang akan dicapai. Setiap nama dimulai dengan Abdul atau hamba dari-, contohnya abdul Karim atau abdur Razaq. Setiap nama berhubungan dengan setiap Asma Allah, dan setiap nama berbeda dengan lainnya. Di dunia ini, banyak orang yang mempunyai nama yang sama, tapi di Hadirat Ilahi, setiap nama adalah unik dan tidak mungkin ada yang sama terulang. Setiap nama dimulai dengan “abd” dan diakhiri dengan Asma Allah. Beberapa ulama berkata ada 99 nama Allah dan sifatnya, ini adalah nama yang essensial, tapi pada hakikatnya ada jumlah tak tak terhingga untuk Nama Allah, setiap nama berbeda dan memang Tuhan adalah Sumber tanpa batas dari seluruh sifatNya yang terwujud dalam ciptaannya yang tanpa batas. Ini merefleksikan Kebesaran dari Tuhan!
Yang lebih penting lagi, pertanyaan yang menjadi teka-teki para ulama dari zaman Nabi saw hingga sekarang adalah “Apakah nama Allah yang paling Agung (ismullah al-adham)?” semua Nabi bertanya tentang hal ini dan Tuhan hanya sedikit memberi petunjuk untuk menjawab mereka. Nabi Musa as pernah menanyakan nama ini.
Para ulama begitu ingin mengetahui nama ini. Paman kami melanjutkan “Aku juga mempunyai pertanyaan itu di pikiranku dan beliau mengungkapkannya seperti seseorang bercerita kepada anak kecil! Aku tidak melihat sedikitpun dari pengetahuan yang aku miliki mempunyai nilai lagi terhadap apapun yang Grandshaykh bicarakan kepadaku tentang nama dan bagaimana kita mengetahuinya.
Grandshaykh telah menerangkan bahwa Nama Allah TerAgung tersembunyi di dalam setiap manusia, al-insan. Ini artinya Tuhan telah menciptakan manusia sebagai penerima kehormatan yang besar, yang berada di dalam hatinya disitulah Nama tersebut ada. Jika seseorang menggali hatinya, maka akan menemukan Nama tersebut. Lebih dari itu tidak bisa disebutkan lagi dalam tulisan ini.
Sejak saat itu, paman kami tidak pernah henti berkata, “Saat yang paling berharga dalam hidupku adalah pertemuan dengan Shaykh Abdullah”.
