The Key to a Sweet Life: 18th October 2010Dont let strangers into your home: 19th October 2010

Posted on 21 October, 2010 by Khan Summary of Maulana Shaykh Nazims Daily Suhbah 19th October 2010 Dont let strangers into your home Auzubillah himinsh shaitan nirrajeem Bismillahir Rahman-nir Raheem Assalamualaikum wrh wbkt Maulana began with a prayer in which he asked for power for believers to fix their steps on the right way. Maulana then asked attenders if they were happy? To thos e who were unhappy, he asked, if they believed they would have been happier if A llah had created them in the form of another animal? Or if they would have been happier if they earned more, in line of what they believed they were worth? Thou gh some would deny that money is what really makes them happy, when it really is , Allah looks into their hearts and knows what they hide. Maulana asked if Allah was happy with us or not, as that is far more important ma tter than if we were happy with Him. Is He happy with us? Do you know what makes Allah unhappy with us? It is when He looks into our hearts, and finds something /someone there, besides Himself! Allah is unhappy with a human being, who puts o r welcomes, other than Him, into his heart. What is your intention in life? Mans intention is very important, for it is that t hing which you place before you, and you chase its fulfillment all your lives. I t is very important that, what we say and what is in our hearts (intention) is t he same, for if it differs, that is called hypocrisy! So if we say that there is none, but Allah, in our hearts, we must really be in that state Spiritually. It is very important to know what our Prophet (saw) brought, concerning our hearts . Maulana then directed this next question towards the Jews, the Children of Israel . Why do they doubt the Prophethood of Rasulullah (saw)? The first people to rai se their swords against Rasulullah (saw) when he began preaching were the Jews. Why? Did Rasulullah (saw) ask them for their worldly possessions, their gold and silver? No. Did Rasulullah(saw) invite them to a different destination from whi ch Moses (as) invited them to? No. Did Rasulullah (saw) invite them to dunia or to Maula (Master)? Every Prophet invited mankind to Allah, their Lord, Lord of the Heavens! Not one Prophet invited humans to dunia! The Prophet of the Children of Israel, Moses (a s), walked the true path, he called people to Allah Almighty. When Prophet Moses (as), was invited to a Divine Conversation at Mount Sinai, what was the first C ommandment that Allah had given him? O Moses! Lo! Verily, am Allah, the Lord of the Worlds; (Surah Al-Qasas 28:30) Rasulullah (saw) also brought the same message, he said, I am inviting you to La ila ha illallah, Muhammadun Rasulullah. When the Jews drew their swords on Rasulullah (saw), Allah revealed this Ayat: O Messenger! Make known that which hath been revealed unto thee from thy Lord, f or if thou do it not, thou wilt not have conveyed His message. Allah will protec

t thee from mankind. Lo! Allah guideth not the disbelieving folk. (Surah Al-Ma i dah 5:67) Allah said, Oh My Beloved, I will protect you! No one could touch him in his 23 yea rs of preaching. Yet fifteen centuries later, the unbelievers are still denying the Prophethood of Muhammad (saw), and they have been trying to take away his Pr ophethood, they have been trying to take away the message that he brought but as in the Ayat above, Allah will protect Rasulullahs (saw) honour, and his honourab le message, from being tarnished by his opponents, till Judgement Day. Have the unbelievers not seen how Allah has protected and spread this message of Islam, from its humble beginnings in the deserts of Arabia? The teachings of Jud aism, which existed from before Rasulullah (saw), is practised by a mere handful of Jews today, and they are concentrated mostly in Palestine, the Haram Shareef of Al-Aqsa. Yet Islam, from its weak and helpless beginnings, have spread to th e four corners of the globe, the cry of La ila ha illallah reverberates from Eas t to West, and from North to South! Oh Children of Israel, come and witness the Prophethood of Rasulullah (saw)! If i ndeed Rasulullah (saw) was inviting you to an opposite destination (compared to what Moses (as) brought you to), you have the right to deny him. Yet Rasulullah (saw) said, The most valuable utterance of the Children of Adam, that is brought by me, and all previous Prophets is, La ila ha illallah. He was inviting you on t he same way as Moses (as) did. The Jews are a proud Nation, the chosen Nation from which thousands of Prophets h ad hailed from in the past. They viewed their cousins, the Arabs from the progen y of Prophet Ismail (as) with disdain, as no Prophet has even been raised from a mongst them. But when an Arab was chosen as the Seal of Prophets, the Crown Jewe l, it made them bitterly jealous! One must not be jealous of Rasulullah (saw)! O ne must understand the wisdom of Prophecy, why Prophets were sent and what was t heir missions. One must understand, Who chose him, and Who is addressing the Nat ion through the Chosen Prophet! Maulana advised all, especially the Children of Israel, not to just blindly follo w the teachings that were handed down to them (as these may have been tainted wi th shaitanic ideas, imagination, declarations and lies), but to search for the t ruth with a sincere heart and an open mind. Dont be misled by those who feed you teachings without having your true interest at heart. One who is true, will alwa ys guide you to Allah, not to dunia. Every Prophet was a true one, we must all f ollow their ways. Be true ones, for only those will be saved! One can never defeat the truth! So many people have tried to stop the spread of I slam through the centuries, it has never been ever close to being wiped out! The Flag of Islam will always fly high, it will never fall! The Flag of the unbelie vers will be trampled on, forever. That is an indisputable fact. So live without fear of unbelievers. Dont fear humans or shaitan! Maulana prayed for firmness an d resolve to uphold truth, and he prayed for those who insisted on upholding fal sehood, to be shown guidance. (During his Suhbahs, Maulana stands in respect, when he mentions the name of Alla h or Rasulullah (saw). He said that even in the graves, when Allahs Holy name is mentioned, the inhabitants of the graves stand in awe and respect for His name.) Fatihah

Commentary When Maulana asked if the unhappy ones would have been happier, to have been crea ted as some other creature or if they would be happier to be receiving higher sa laries, there is a deep message behind his seemingly light-hearted comments. We have been honoured to be created as humans, and we are given a stunning array of nikmat (pleasures) and benefits. From that question, Maulana is asking us, if w e had thought how different our lives would be if Allah had created us some othe r creature, such as an ant or a frog? Or a tomato plant? How much more goodness

have we been given, in this world and the hereafter, than the other creatures, a nd yet we are still unhappy? In a Hadees Qudsi, Allah said, He who is unhappy wit h Me, can find another sky beneath which to seek shelter, and another earth to s tand on, and another Lord to serve. A desire for higher salaries, is often fueled by thought that I am worth more than this, and this is how humans place themselve s on a pedestal, admiring their God-given gifts, and demanding recognition and b efitting compensation. If only our hearts were at peace accepting His Will, then Allah would be sufficient for us. If only they had been content with what Allah and His Messenger gave them, and h ad said sufficient for us is Allah! Allah and His Messenger will soon give us of His Bounty: to Allah do we turn our hopes! (That would have been the right course ). (Surah At-Taubah 9:59) Allah is displeased with humans who have someone, other than Him, in his heart. T his is a very deep Ocean of knowledge! How would we feel, if we found a stranger loitering in our homes? How would we react if we returned home to find a donkey , muddy and smelly, living in our house, as if it were his? The heart is Baitull ah, the House of Allah. If it is His House, He is the only One allowed there. Ho w is it that we are allowing this dirty worldly life and our filthy egos, to ent er His House? If we are unhappy with unwelcome guests in our home, would the Lor d of Universes accept a partner to share His House? No partner hath He: this am I commanded, and I am the first of those who bow to His Will. (Surah Al-An am 6:163) And it is His Will, is that you share you heart (His House) with no one else!

Allah has not made for any man two hearts in his (one) body. (Surah Al-Ahzab 33: 4) You cannot have two masters in One heart. Choose Your Lord over dunia! Have you ever seen a horse that trots after a carrot dangled before him? That hor se is our ride (ego) and the carrot is our intention all our lives, we run in th e direction set by our intentions. If our intention is to seek Allahs Pleasure, all our lives, we run towards it. Bu t once the carrot is moved in a different direction, the horse changes course. H ence the hadees, Every deed, is by its intention. Keep our intention firmly on cou rse to seek His Pleasure, to make Him pleased with us. Hypocrisy is dangerous to be a munafiq means going to the deepest of Hells! The Hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire: no helper wilt thou fin d for them. (Surah An-Nisa 4:145) What would happen in a marriage, if a man proclaims his love for his wife, yet h as a secret lover who he has an affair with? What is on his tongue and in his he art is different. That is hypocrisy. Once the wife finds out, a divorce is very likely to occur. Oh believers, you cannot afford to be divorced from Allah, which is why Rasulullah (saw) taught Fatimah (ra) this famous doa, Oh Allah, do not lea ve me to my ego/desires, even for the blink of an eye! We cannot afford to be awa y from Allah even for an instant. But if we are having an affair with our ego, we

are at that instant, away from Allah. Be sincere, and leave hypocrisy. The Proph et (saw) said, The signs of a hypocrite are three. When he speaks, he lies. When he makes a promise, he breaks it. And when he is given a responsibility, he does nt fulfill it. Take a good, hard look at yourselves. The spread of Islam itself is a miracle for every unbiased observer. How does a s ingle, orphaned, and weak man in the deserts of an obscure and backward civilisa tion, transform that community into a superpower and spread the teachings till t oday, there are 2 billion believers across the globe. The Muslim Empire ruled the world for so many years. The Quran remains the only preserved Book in history. Not one contradiction has been found in it with moder n Science, in fact, on the contrary, it contains so much that Scientists are lea rning from. The Prophets behaviour, as documented in Traditions, is spotless and perfect. He is an example in every aspect of his life. Not one scandal or contra diction has ever been seen in the Hadees, every prediction has been spot on. On to p of that, the ideology and teachings bring Man to the pinnacle of perfection lo ve, tolerance and patience. All this from one man in the desert, who had little human support and help and n o technology to depend on? Oh people of all faiths, open your eyes, remove the b ias that has blinded you thus far (from the imagery and stereotyping and propaga nda in the media), and ask yourself is it possible that this miraculous man with a miraculous message, has something for me too? Sayyidina Muhammad (saw) was sent to all of Mankind, and that includes you. At least give yourself a chance to li sten to the message he brings, you have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.