What is the real meaning of hijrah?
The real hijrah that spiritual people and what the Prophet (s) gave to his sahaba, the real hijrah is his teachings. His teachings are the highest level of understanding of hijrah, of migration. Because the Prophet (s) gave us the best and perfect principles of hijrah. And these principles if we do them, or if we observe them, experience them and act on them, we will achieve the real hijrah that everyone is longing for. Not hijrah from earth to mars. Not hijrah from earth to the moon. This still a dunya hijrah. What the Prophet (s) gave to us is the hijrah, migration from al-akhlaq al-dhameema to al-akhlaq al-hameeda, from the worst manners and desires to the best desires and to achieve moral values and by doing this and achieving this we achieve rida-ullah, Allah’s satisfaction or happiness from us.
Then they carry you to the real hijrah when you achieve these principles, migrating from bad desires and chars, to good chars and manners you will achieve the highest level of moral values, then you will achieve the power of spiritual ascension and self-realization of the ego, where it stands and knows its limits, then when you know your limits, if they will open the eyes of your heart and the vision that you can see with it you will not pretend like a blind person, that oh this is mine, when it is really from Allah, and it has been opened to you because you achieved that. And you will be rendering everything back to its reality and it source which is something from Allah’s divine names and attributes. At that time the real hijrah will open for you the highest level of understanding thru meditation; meditation that people are longing for it and people are trying today to practice it in every possible way and they might achieve they might think that they have achieved a spiritual ascension thru meditation wherever they are trying to reach and think that they have achieved there is still higher and higher. Because meditation is something that people say, “we are meditation” meditation on what.
We are trying to connect with energy, with the highest of the universal energy, which is the cosmos. We are trying to reach the divine presence. Meditation is not something that you hold. Meditation is something like a dua, like a prayer. It is thru meditation, Muraqabah, is equal to what you are doing, you are requesting something, istalab, asking something from someone. So realty meditation has no structure. Meditation has no form. Meditation is universal. Because everyone is asking something. Because everyone is thinking and meditation is a thought, it is not more than a thought. It might be you are thinking, and the thought came to you to be a bus. Or to be an engineer that is a mediation; or to study medicine that is a mediation; or to study carpentry that is a meditation; or to study philosophy that is a meditation; or to study spirituality that is a meditation.
So it is an asking request. It is not something that you have acquired. So when you are asking, it means you are asking something to get it. When you get it it is no more meditation, it is something else. At that time you own something. So meditation is only a step, one step toward enabling you, when you put that step, to reach like a ladder. The ladder is a ladder. If you take it away you fall down. But if you take a ladder and go to the roof, then take the ladder away you have achieved something. So meditation is a spiritual step that you are stepping and reaching thru it something that you will own it later.
And that is why the Prophet (s)said, tafakarru sa`atin khayrun min `ibadati sabaeen sannah. “To meditate/ponder for an hour is better than 70 years of worship.
70 years{ [70years x24= 1680 yrs of perfect worship, 30 days times 1680 47000 years of Heavenly worship ness.] x 365 per days = 630,000 years of Divine worship in One Years}.
See how much importance the Prophet (s) gave to meditation but it is only to reach a certain level. And when you reach that there is no more need for that kind of meditation. It becomes something different. Today the word might not like it. The meaning of that word, people might say, what is that word. But that is the reality of that word and it is in the holy Quran, when you meditate and meditate and leave good chars and go to good chars when you decide to leave and begin to leave, then mediation like climbing a ladder, going to a higher and higher position, you will become, as Allah said, alladheena jaahadoo feena lanahdiyanahum subula.
Those who have struggled in us we will guide them in our ways. It means to what they are longing for. Here jihad, many people speak of jihad an nafs. Jihad al-akbar is jihad an nafs. The Prophet (s) told the sahaba now we are returning from the greater jihad, jihad an nafs And Allah said, those who struggle in our ways we will guide them . what is Allah’s ways/| Jihad is by coming against that desire doesn’t like. Ti means coming struggling with the ego, whatever your ego ask, do differently. So in meditation you are still happy with what you are doing, because in meditation it makes you to feel happy because the ego is relaxed. That is still not struggle, because that is not jihad. That is not the higher level.
Muraqabah it gives you sweetness. When he does it he is happy. It gives you, it makes your ego proud. That you are doing muraqabah I am meditation and achieving. When you think of achievement and reward that is not a pure way or a pure meditation to Allah swt. You are still asking something in return AwliyAllah never asked anything in return. Why? Because they understood that Allah created them with his will, brought them in dunya with his will so whatever they have to do, it is up to his will where he takes them. They are not asking paradise or asking, give us divine presence then as if trading. You give us this and we give you that. That is trading.
That is not accepted in the higher level of spirituality. In higher level of sp. You are like a leaf in fall the wind takes it right or left. The leaf does not say why are you throwing me right or left. Like a sailing ship in the ocean wherever the wind takes it, it goes. Don’t think everything you like to get you will get. The vessels in the ocean sail according to the wind. The wind is not in your hand it is in Allah’s hand. So anything that you expect out of your meditation that ladder will never end. It means steps are endless. But when you say, O Allah, |I am coming to you, asking nothing.
Then meditation takes less time when you are not asking anything. Whatever you want to do with me you do ya rabb. Ad-deenu deen al-hubbi. My religion is the religion of love. That is my religion. To love you. You sent your messenger say. Muhammad and so I love you I follow. It is as in western world unconditional love. What is unconditional love. Universal love. You see everyone in your eyes is equal because they are human beings, Allah created them the same. You have ears they have ears, you have eyes, you have eyes, they have mouth they have mouth. They are not different. They are the same. Seven layers [holds up both hands one finger pointing up]. Allah gave us 7 focal points that we have to realize and observe and Allah gave us 4 important point also and nine important points.
So it is 4 and 7 and 9. these 4, 7 and 9 will give you the real arithmetic of the body. And the real composition of your body.
If we keep these 4 points, 7 points and 9 points always clean then we achieve something.
These 4 levels are been given to us as the Prophet (s) said, ‘as long as my servant approaches me thru voluntary worship I will love him, if I love him I will be his ears that he can see with and I will be his eyes that he can see with. These are four points. Then what|: he said then I will be his tongue with and I will be his hand that he can sense with and I will be his feet that he can walk with; these are seven.
This will lead you to walking at the end. Begin with ears, eyes, tongue and hand. Then when you establish this, when you hear and see what people do not hear and see, you will get a guidance, then you can speak. Then you will be given a power in the hand that you can change power in dunya. You can change whatever you like Whoever sees something wrong, he should try to change it with his hands. If you sign a paper it changes everything. When you sign a paper and change everything then you will be walking on the sirat al-mustaqeem. These 7 points are very important to us.
Awareness & Repentance
It is a long journey because it is full of obstacles, whenever you see something as long it is because it is full of difficulties; whereas sometimes you see something short because time is passing quickly because you are entertaining yourself and you are happy.
While someone busy with his work sees it as a long time to reach his vacation. Also in this journey of self-realization that it is a long journey but when you reach you begin to entertain and to feel the pleasure of dhikrullah. But until you reach, then you feel the pleasure. But it is a long go. When you do dhikr you feel pleasure an you feel the tie is running. But until you reach there you have to be aware that there are obstacles that will face you in your life. So we said, that when you want to make tawbah you will be taken away from the group of oppressors, as Allah said, fa man lam yatub fa ula’ika hum adh-dhaalimoon. 49:11
So it means if you ask for repentance, they will take you out of that dhulm that group; you will no longer be called dhaalim, oppressor.
So when you decide to repent and you are asking Allah swt to repent, as Allah said in the holy quran, he said to the prophet to say: qul ya `ibadee alladheena asrafoo ala anfusihim. Dont despair of what – of Allah’s mercy. Allah will forgive. Allahu akbar. That is something we were not paying attention before now mawlana is opening. He said, la taqnatoo min rahmatillah. Don’t lose hope in Allah’s mercy. He is saying qul, ya Muhammad. To my servants who were oppressors to themselves, don’t lose hope of my mercy. And what does Allah say in another verse. Wa law annahum idh dhalamoo anfusahum… And what did he say la taqnatoo min rahmatillh And in another verse ma arsalnaaka ill rahmatan lil alameen. Don’t lose hope because Muhammad is with and he is going to intercede for you. Don’t lose hope for Allah’s Mercy, because of Muhammad Allah will forgive all sins. You put these three verses together from three surahs, you realize that Muhammad is that rahmat, and he is addressing the oppressors, don’t lose hope. So when you decide to go to the door of the Prophet (s), and ask intercession, and ask Allah’s forgiveness.
It means they are willing to audit themselves, to make an account. So they come to ask forgiveness. How do you do it. You say I did this wrong, istaghfirullah. Then the Prophet (s) is obliged to ask forgiveness for them. Then they will find Allah forgiving merciful.
That is the 2nd level you have to have Tawba and you cannot have tawbah without going to the Prophet.
3 verses: ya ayyuhalldheean dhalamu… la taqnatu min rahmatillah wa ma arsalnaaka… when you realize you are a sinner and you have problems, you realize you need an intercessor. You need someone who Is more sincere to take by the hand. who is the most sincere, the best one. Sayyidina Muhammad. Also you cannot go directly. You need someone who is an inheritor that will know the obstacles that will face you and he will take you by the hand. You know when you have bushes, they have different kind of instruments to cut grass and bushers, mowers. If the grass is not thick you have a cheap mower. If it is thicker and the bushes are deeper you need what – a rototiller. It turns heavily in the dirt. Now you find this is the easy ones. You go into the jungle in Africa or Malaysia or Indonesia. You cannot enter with a mower or rototiller. What do you need at that time, you need a bulldozer. Sometimes they even need dynamite to clean everything. If your guide is a mower he will clean in front of you a little a bit. If he is a rototiller he will clean deeper. If your guide is a bulldozer he will clear space. I f you guide is dynamite then he can open road for you to reach your destination. That means you need an inheritor that went thru that journey, went through that way, he looks at you and guides you thru your heart and you have to do what: to audit yourself. How do you audit yourself.
Ya ayyuhalladheena amanaoo ittaqullah wal tandhur nafsun ma qadamat li-ghad.
Fear Allah and let every soul look to what the provision he has sent forth for the morrow. It means what every soul has prepared of provision for tomorrow. Not the body - the soul has to prepare provision. When the Bedouin came and asked when is judgment day. And it is long hadith. The Prophet (s) did not answer he was giving Jummah. He asked 2nd time. The prophet did not answer. Then he asked again, mata as-sa`at ya rasulullah, but he asked with compassion, with passion. So Jibreel came and said, tell him something, he is sincere. He said, It is a long way, a long ride, a long way to the day of judgment. But why are you asking. What kind of provision have you put for that day. That way is full of difficulties, full of problems. Every step you take you are stepping with your ego. You are stepping with full confidence of your shaytan, trusting him. wherever he tells you, with your bad desires you are walking. This is what happens to us. What are you expecting what are you preparing. Fal-tandhur nafsun ma qadamat li-ghad. Auditing, muhasabah in Arabic.
After you decide to repent and after you begin to audit yourself and what are the bad desires, then is the real journey. Is your repentance real or it is not real.
Audit Before Auditing of the Grave Starts:
Are you going to say I made the auditing and this is what I did wrong.
Then you have to repent from everything that you have written counted in your journal.
That is the day to put every forbidden you have committed, are you going to go back to it another time or you are going to move forward.
So he said to the bedouin what have you prepared? What are we gong to prepare? We need bulldozer and dynamite to get there to clear the way. But the Bedouin was a sincere one, a pure one, a lover. He was someone that understands wisdom. What did he say? Mahabatik Ya rasulullah. I don’t have anything. What am I gong to find. How am I going to solve my problem.
How am I going to go on my journey without your love.
Your love is my beacon, my flashlight my spotlight, my sun my moon, all the stars in this universe, guiding me like the north pole star, guiding everyone to the direction of north.
Where is the north? Always we say north and point up is it not? How do you say north. The direction is up. You never direct north down, although it is a circle north might be down. Why is south down not north down. It is the earth, round. But always the direction of the highest level, when you want to say something high you say north. Always north is standing up. So when you are moving you always have to make sure that you are gong higher. And what is the symbol of the highest when you are going at night. It is the north. The Prophet (s) is the North. It means he is the guide. Because the north pole, or the north star is the guide for all navigation. The entire navigation system for cars for ships, for satellites, for gps is north. They say north. South is down And who is the highest? It is the Prophet (s). So he is the north. It means he is the guide for everything, as the pole star is. The pole star can be seen from every part of the world. And what happened? They will be guided. So what did he say? Your love ya Muhammad. You are that star that we can relay on. So you need these heavyweight commercial bulldozers. Here are commercial, industrial, and residential. There are type of awliya; residential awliya and industrial awliya. Industrial awliya, with heavy equipment, heavy pistons Residential, every three or four months you have to change. Industrial you don't have to change. When you take his hand you never have to change because you signed a contract with him. But the residential after some time it breaks and you have to go and say, I have a warranty. But commercial, it goes for hundreds, thousands. Waste of money to buy warranty for that machine. The normal Shaykh is like residential, quickly they break down they cannot move three feet in the jungle and it might be that one lion comes and they are gone. But how many are there, fake. But industrial, never fake, always standing up. Like the north pole, like the pine tree, always standing up. Summer green, winter green, standing up. Residential Awliya, not industrial Awliya, but shaykhs are like bushes. A mower will eat it. But a pine tree, how will a mower eat it - it is impossible. Fal-tandhur nafsun ma qadamat li-ghad so let every soul have to look to what you have provide for tomorrow Then what will happen. At that time you will fear Allah swt. If you have done something wrong and not provided for tomorrow, then you have nothing. If you don’t fear him you will not provide anything for the future. That is why the Prophet (s) was proud of seven, whom Allah will shade on judgment day.
One of them is a girl or boy raised in Allah’s obedience. That means if you kept the covenant that you promised Allah on the day of promises and kept what Allah asked you to do in your lifetime then you will be saved. Else you are a loser. So what do you have to do now?
Now that you know you have to repent you must provide for your soul. You repent of what your body has done of sins, you ask for fear of Allah. It is not fear, it is taqwa. It mean sincerity, piety. When you have sincerity and piety, then Allah says I will teach you.
wattaqullah wa yu`allimakumullah.
When you have love to Muhammad and you are moving with your guide thru that big jungle to that love of Muhammad and you show that love, then Allah will tell you that is enough. That is enough sincerity for Me. I know you are weak. If know Iblees is after you I know he was after adam, is he not going to be after you? But I need that love. Before you come to my love you have to come to love of the Prophet (s). As the Bedouin said, Your love ya rasulullah. He didn’t go in the masjid even, he went. He was so happy so overwhelmed that the prophet spoke to him. as when you are walking and the king speaks to you. You see the president on tv. Sometimes he says hello or salaams if he is muslim. to someone in the crowd, that person will be very happy. The best of creation telling him it is enough. It overwhelmed he didn’t know what to do. He left. He was an innocent person, no impurities in his heart, it is clean. So when the Prophet said it is enough he left. Alhamdulillah, that is nice.
So when you love me that is a sign of sincerity. There are many people who don’t love Allah swt. They are falling into so many, they don’t know. But there are some people who love Allah and
Allah said, wattaqullah wa yu`allimakumullah. What will he teach us. And he said, wa fawqa kulli dhi `ilmin` aleem.
It means he will keep raising you in Gnostic levels. Knowledge after knowledge, infinite. Wattaqullah wa yu`allimakumullah. When he teaches you never you have HEARD When he teaches thru the heart, thru inspiration, never you can learn thru books it is impossible that is why traditional scholars,
Allah gave to their hearts. Like imam ghazzali, like ibn Arabi, like shah naqshband, like ahmad al faruqi, like jani-janan. Like … sahaba. The four imams were able to write and explain. how? because Allah inspired their hearts. That ilm coming from top, from higher level to down. Or he said wattaqullah wa yu`allaimakumulah. Then you can learn more and more. Or else you will still be in that jungle. Not able to cross. Sometimes the jungle is very close together you will not be able to move. That way is a very difficult way, the cross section in their life. People take their beads and they do dhikr.
They do dhikr. It is not to do dhikr first.
It is to eliminate the mistakes first.
You do 5000 Allah Allah it takes 15 minutes.
To do 1000 la ilaha illa Allah takes seven minutes.
That is simple but not to look on forbidden is difficult.
Grandshaykh said, if you saw something wrong, it is not written against him. 2nd look is forbidden. He says ya Rabbee that is prohibited to look on it, it is far better than if he does 500 obligations but leaving one forbidden is more valuable to Allah swt because he is stepping on his ego and leaving it for Allahs’ sake. It is very tough to leave something that you desire and the ego wants it. That is what we need to do. Not to leave the dhikr, but you have to daily eliminate what you have counted, from your decision to repent. For each one that you have done, you have to say istaghfirullah for that. I am repenting and not gong back to it.
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