Bismillahir Rahmaanir Raheem
It is said that we should
create a niche in the hearts of the Auliya Allah (The Friends of Allah Ta'ala) – that is, create a special place
in their hearts.
One is to say: “Make Dua…” –
and the person will make Dua when he thinks of you. ...When we would request our Shaykh, Hazrat Maulana Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar Saheb (Rahmatullahi ‘alayh) to make Dua, Alhamdulillah, Hazrat would immediately make
Dua.
However, that person who makes Khidmat, then Dua comes out from the
heart, without the person even asking. …Now this is an extra special Dua. This
is the Dua that is extremely special.
Khidmat
does not mean only serving the Shaykh by assisting him in various tasks and
work. No doubt, that is a kind of Khidmat and the Ahlullah appreciate that
as well because this is a world of means. However, the real Khidmat is for us
to become a Sadaqah-e-Jaariyah for them.
How do we
become ‘Sadaqah e jaariyah’? …By practising on their teachings.
A person
sits in the company of his Shaykh all his life, but there is no improvement in
his Salaah, no improvement in his fasting, no improvement in his character and
in his speech – he still swears and curses, cheats and deceives. Despite having
one body, he has two faces, and his heart is a container of greed and pride,
malice and miserliness, etc. …Will this person become Sadaqah-e-Jaariyah for
the Shaykh? What kind of
Sadaqah-e-Jaariyah will he be?
On the
other hand, another person came through a “rough life” – as they describe it.
He was caught up in various sins. There
are many who come through a rough life but then they keep the Suhbat of the
Shaykh, and they progress with the speed of Ruff-Ruff. …The Ruff-Ruff was a transport used during
the Mi’raj, taking Rasulullah (Sallallaahu ‘alayhi wasallam) from Sidratul
Muntaha onwards into the presence of Allah Ta’ala.
So although
this person came from a rough life, his speed is fast - in respect to his
reformation and change. Now this person
will be a Sadaqah-e-Jaariyah. This is
what the Mashaa’ik appreciate most: Seeing
their teachings being brought into practice and seeing positive changes and
improvement being made.
If a person
is blessed with both: There is Ittiba of the Shaykh and the person’s A’maal are
improving and increasing, and there is also Khidmat, then the Muhabbat
increases even more. A place is created
in the heart and due to that Muhabbat, the Shaykh makes Dua for the person.
Sometimes
the Shaykh has thousands of Mureeds. He
will not be able to remember the names of all his Mureeds and may not even know
who the persons are. In one big
gathering – there may be one hundred people, two hundred people, five hundred
people, who became Bay’at. …Who will you
remember every single person?
The one who makes positive changes and his Muhabbat is
expressed with Ittiba of the Shaykh, he is the one who wins the heart of the
Shaykh.
We are
living in times of corruption and there are so many bogus peers and even bogus mureeds. Peers have become bogus too and the mureeds
have become bogus too.
Those Mashaa’ik,
who are on Haq, have Istighnaa and Qana’at. Their gaze is not on Makhlooq and what the
creation will do for them. A Shaykh must not have his gaze on the pockets of
anyone. His gaze must be fully focused on
Allah Ta’ala – that Allah Ta’ala is the Provider and there is no shortage in
the treasures of Allah Ta’ala.
When a
Mureed is rendering some khidmat, the mureed too must not think: I’m doing a great favour. He must do Khidmat with Ikhlaas; then there
will be a lot of Barakah and benefit in that Bay’at.
As said,
the greatest Khidmat is to go through the process of Islaah sincerely –
rectifying one’s character, correcting one’s relationship with Allah Ta’ala and
the creation and improving in good deeds. That is the Khidmat that is most
appreciated. What is the purpose if
there are large crowds and nobody is changing his life? Then what happiness is there in this?
Those, who are fraudulent and bogus, are happy with large numbers
following them, and are happy so long as you pay their subscription fees and
you shower them with material gifts.
Those who are concerned about connecting us with Allah Ta’ala and his
Nabi (Sallallaahu ‘alayhi wasallam) will be happy when their mureeds bring
changes into their lives and into their Akhlaaq. …This
is the area that is most neglected and even if we talk the whole year round on Akhlaaq
(character), then it is worthy of being talked about.
You will notice in our discussions that we always come back to Akhlaaq.
This is what will build Muhabbat. If
there is no Akhlaaq, then as I have already mentioned many, many times, the
person who is your friend will become your enemy. If there is Akhlaaq then the enemy also will become your friend. Now it is left to us as to what we want.
If there is Akhlaaq, then the wife will become loving and caring. If
there is no Akhlaaq then the wife will distance herself from the husband. She will want out of the marriage. Some wives
write about their husbands – that they do not want to have their husbands in
Jannah also, because it is so burdensome living with them here in this world.
What kind of life is that?
…The reason for such a wish is that some
do not understand that Jannah will not be like the Dunya and every Jannati
will have beautiful character.
Or the children say: “We don’t
like to have our parents.”, or the parents say, “We don’t like to have our children.” …This is what happens when
there is deficiency in Akhlaaq from either side or both sides. Then there must
be problems. …If we create magnanimity
in our hearts, if we have big hearts, then we can win over our own families.
We cannot share wealth with everybody!
Can we share wealth with everybody?
How much of wealth can a person share and that too, with everyone?
Even if a king has to say: “I will
distribute my wealth to every person in the world”, his treasuries will
become empty.
Wealth can only be shared with a certain number of people: with
one’s wife, children, and some of the poor, needy and destitute; but not with
every single person in the world. On the
other hand, the wealth of Akhlaaq is something that can continuously be shared and
there will be no decrease in that wealth.
May Allah Ta’ala grant us the understanding, the concern and the reality
of all that is being conveyed.
Hazrat Maulana Yunus Patel Saheb (Rahmatullahi ‘alayh)
