My Friday sermon is addressed to members of the
Jamaat Ul Sahih Al Islam and also to everyone.
Each one of you must exhort to
mutual love, generosity, the practice of Islam and the knowledge of oneself.
The Paradoxes in the 'Muslim'Condition
The one for whom the word Allah was a viaticum
(that is, the Muslim) is now under the control of attachment to material goods
and the fear of death. Drunkenness (in favour of Spirituality/ to lose oneself
in Spirituality), fervour and joy have deserted him: His religion is found in
the book, and he is himself in the grave. The soul has left the body of fasting and
prayer and other pillars of Islam; And as the soul has left prayer and fasting,
the individual is without harmony and people without discipline, hearts being
empty of the warmth of the Quran. How can we hope for an improvement from such
men?
O Allah! The Muslim has abandoned the self, hold out Your hand to him, for
the water covers him higher than the head. The prostration (in Salaat) that makes
the earth tremble has the power to make the sun and the moon turn according to its
desire. If it were to seek the meaning of this prostration, the stone would
vanish in the air like smoke! But now the Muslim no longer knows humility,
there is nothing else in him but the weakness of old age. Who still realizes
the majesty of the words spoken during the prostration: "My Lord (Allah) is Most High" (Allahu
Akbar)? Is all this due to our fault, or is it believed that there is some
weakness (may Allah preserve us from this thought) in these words?
Everyone
moves quickly on his own path. Only our mount is without bridle and roams endlessly
without a goal. Possessing the Quran and having no ardour for research is a
very strange thing. If the Lord has endowed you with vision, look at the coming
times: rash reasons and hearts without ardour, eyes without shame and drowned
in illusion, science and art, religion and politics, intelligence and sensibility,
everything revolves around material things. Young people have thirsty lips, but their cup
is empty; The faces are well washed, but the soul is black; The intelligence is
luminous but has only a weak vision, it is devoid of certainty and hope. The
young people's eyes have seen nothing in the world: They are poor beings,
denying themselves, believing others.
Acquire Knowledge of the Self
O my disciples, be always sincere in all your
actions; Free yourself from the fear of kings, so-called superpowers and
potentates. Do not renounce justice in anger or contentment; Keep moderation,
whether you are rich or poor. The precept is difficult, do not ingeniously try
to interpret it.
Do not look for a torch except in your own hearts. The support
of the souls is the Zikr and the Fikr, and as for the support of
the bodies, it is in the respect of oneself during youth. In this world as in
the other, power is acquired only by the maintenance of the soul and the body.
The purpose of the journey is the joy of contemplation (i.e. contemplation of
Allah as the Unique Creator). The secret of religion consists in saying
truthful words and abstaining from forbidden food. Solitude and companionship
is to contemplate the Divine Beauty. In the way of religion, be unbreakable
like the diamond. Bind your hearts to Allah, and live without vain scruples.
Cultivate Good Morals
The whole religion is to burn in research
(seeking Allah); Its end is love and its beginning courtesy. The honour of the
rose is its colour and its perfume; He who is ignorant of courtesy is without honour,
like a rose without colour and without perfume. When I see an adolescent
lacking in good manners, my day darkens, my breast fills with impatience and
anger; I remember the time of my beloved prophet, the most perfect of all the
prophets, Muhammad (pbuh), I am sorry for the epoch which I am living in (but
Allah knows better why He raised me in such an epoch), and would have wish to
retreat in the vanished (good) centuries.
The safeguarding of the woman is her
husband (and vice-versa), or the dust of the tomb; The safeguarding of men is
to avoid bad companions. To pronounce wicked words is a sin: the wicked (and
disbeliever) and the believer are both creatures of Allah. Humanity is the
respect of man: therefore know his dignity. It is human solidarity that makes
you a man; So walk in the path of friendship and Islamic brotherhood.
Embrace Piety for Divine Illuminations
The servant of love receives from God the
indication of his way; He becomes an affectionate friend to the impious as well
as to the believer. Get rid of impiety and embrace piety and drink at the
Divine Source as a thirsty one for divine love. Although the heart is a
prisoner of terrestrial contingencies, all its horizons are the horizons of the
heart. Even if you are a lord (that is, someone of high status and wealthy), do
not renounce the detachment, do not give it up! Its flame may be drowsy without
your souls; This old wine exists since your forefathers. Seek in this world
only the passion of the heart, that is to say, Allah, for it is to Allah alone
that we must ask prosperity, not to the Sultan/ King or to anyone else!
Oh how
the man fearing Allah and endowed with vision is blinded by the abundance of
goods! The abundance of (material) goods
removes warmth from the heart, it brings prosperity but carries away the
thirst of the heart. During the journeys that Allah has allowed me to undertake
in the last few years in the world, I have seen few tears in the eyes of the
rich.
Oh how much I would like to give my life in the
manner of my Holy Master, Muhammad (pbuh), the Chosen Par Excellence of God.
He, of noble rank, but tender of heart fought with the satans of the world and
of the self in order to allow the flight of his soul towards THE BELOVED (Allah). He wore the garment of
(material) poverty in order to reach the stage of beloved of God. Woe to him
who does not follow the path of the Chosen One (pbuh) and who is alien to
Allah. Do not seek in the present Muslims this spiritual taste, this ardent
desire of old. Do not seek that conviction, that colour, that perfume, that
thirst and fervour of yore! Now, scholars do not need Quranic science. They
rely on their own interpretation of the religion of Allah. They are like
ferocious wolves and shaggy beings.
Then it is your duty O my disciples, and those
who will listen to me to break the material barriers and vain desires that
separate man from his Creator. Satan is an impious creature who is burning with
jealousy. He cannot look at the Creator's love which He has for you. So drive
away the jealous and come even closer with Him who gave you everything. He
alone (Allah) is the salvation of your soul and the paradise of your heart.
Trust in Him and build your future in obedience to His commandments and
messengers. Insha-Allah, Ameen.
---Friday Sermon of February 03, 2017 (05 Jamad'ul Awwal 1438 AH) delivered by Khalifatullah Hadhrat Munir Ahmad Azim Saheb (atba) of Mauritius