Hold Tight to the Rope of Allah

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani www.NurMuhammad.com So when you are ending up in that giving that remembrance and reaching that reality in the 6th level, then you don’t want to leave anymore. ·                    You want to hold tight to what Allah said in the holy Qur’an, w`atasimu bi-hablillahi jami`yyan. ·                    That is the reality there, `ilm al-yaqeen, `ayn al-yaqeen,  haqq al-yaqeen. ·                    They move in parallel, with mahabat ash-shaykh, mahabat al-nabi, mahabat-allah. ·                    In parallel to it is ilm al-yaqeen. You are hearing about your shaykh you are hearing too much about he Prophet (s), you are hearing too much about Allah. ·                    When you keep hearing, hearing, hearing the shaykhs take you to a higher level, which is when you have established the full love of the Shaykh, the Prophet (s) and Allah, you will become like in their presence, you will feel them. When you love someone too much always he is in your mind. When this gentleman loved his wife too much he was not seeing except his wife. Going left seeing his wife. Going right, seeing his wife. Going forward, seeing his wife. What do you think when that love is for innocent love for the Prophet (s) and the Shaykh? When you have that it will take you to hudur Allah hudur al-habib, hudur ash-Shaykh. That will take you in parallel, to seeing. Ayn. What happens when you love Allah love Prophet (s) and love your Shaykh. What will happen you will begin to see them, though you don’t see them but you feel their presence. ·                    That will take you to the reality of vision and reality of hearing. ·                    Haqq al-yaqeen. That will lead you to reality of reality, the real reality where there are no changes anymore. ·                    At that time you want to “hold tight to the rope of Allah and not separate.” ·                    Not to people, as they literally translate today, which is ok, to hold tight and not to have divisions. But the spiritual meaning is to hold tight to the real reality and don’t separate from Allah presence from the Prophet's presence and from the presence of Awliya-ullah. Hold to them and keep in their presence leave the whole dunya and keep in their presence. That is the good tiding for the one who was able to enter that reality and ride over his ego and reach the peaceful and tranquil self, which will take him forward, that will be able to being with him the people who are his followers, into that presence That looks like a dream, a beautiful dream but it is not a dream. For those were seeking that journey. Those who are not seeking that are like a child who try to climb the first step and cannot, try and cannot try and cannot. Those who really try, they will reach a level they can see and the shaykhs treasures will be open to you, the Prophet (s) treasures will be opened to you Allah’s treasures will be opened to you.  ·                    So holding the rope of Allah swt is like a tree, that tree is a strong tree. ·                    Very huge. And you are climbing on it. And that tree when you are climbing on it, reaching its top, at that place you can see everything under you down, like a mountain. And nothing can move that tree. ·                    Fall comes leaves are gone. Spring comes and new leaves come. When you reach that tree and become a tree, it means every cycle of your life, there is a spiritual cycle in that realty that allah swt has given it in the divine presence, those who are seeking the divine presence and want to enter in, will regenerate like leaves, old knowledge goes and new knowledge comes, just like old leaves go and new leaves come. ·                    As much as you are climbing you will be given more and more. ·                    Wa fawqa kulli dhi `ilmin `Aleem. ·                    Above every knower is a knower and you can go up and go up until you reach Sa`adat, that happiness. ·                    Then you will reach awliya and reach the presences of Muhammad. The association of awliya and don’t separate from them because if you separate from them you are separating form those alladheena an`am Allahu `alayhim min al-anbiya, was-siddiqeen, wash-shuhada'i was-saliheen wa hasuna ula'ika rafeeqa. Don’t separate us and you will be in their association and you will never be separated from them. By this way when you hold tight and don’t separate from the association of awliya, never you will be falling. Because when you are falling they pull you out and since they don’t let you to fall they give you the level of muridiyya. That is al-maqam al-`itisam. That means `itisam, in a mosque, like `itikaaf. `Itisam means you try to hold yourself from falling into sins and mistakes. When you hold tight to the association of awliya then you will reach the next level.