The Door to Forever

As-salāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmatullāhi wa barakātuh.

Aʿūdhu billāhi min ash-shayṭāni r-rajīm. Bismillāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Aṣ-ṣalātu wa s-salāmu ʿalā Rasūlinā Muḥammadin Sayyidi l-awwalīna wa l-ākhirīn. Madad yā RasūlAllāh, madad yā Sādāti Aṣḥābi Rasūlillāh, madad yā Mashāyikhinā, dastūr yā Shaykh ʿAbdullāh al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistānī, Shaykh Muḥammad Nāẓim al-Ḥaqqānī. Madad. Ṭarīqatunā aṣ-ṣuḥbah wa l-khayru fi l-jamʿiyyah.

This order of Allah happens to everyone. Everyone forgets about it – Death.

Bismillāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm,
كُلُّ نَفْسٍۢ ذَآئِقَةُ ٱلْمَوْتِ ۖ ثُمَّ إِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ
“Kullu nafsin dhāʾiqatu l-mawti thumma ilaynā turjaʿūn.”
“Everyone shall taste the death. Then unto Us you shall be returned.” (Qurʼān 29:57). ṢadaqAllāhu l-ʿAẓīm, says Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla.

Everyone will taste of it. It will happen to everyone. But while in life, people don’t think of it. Therefore, our Prophet said to Sayyidunā ‘Umar, the biggest lesson is death. Death is an advice to you because people remember Ākhirah when they see it. Ākhirah is our main place, they say Dāru l-Baqā’, Ākhirah is the permanent land. This world is temporary.

“Kun fī d-dunyā ka-annak ‘ābiru sabīl,” says our Prophet. Be like a passerby in this world. A person passing by a road doesn’t make buildings. He will continue on his way. He is busy with his destination and tries to make it prosperous wherever he goes. A person on the road by car or plane doesn’t stop somewhere and decide to do something there. But mankind tries to build their dunyā as if they are going to stay here forever. They forget Ākhirah.

This world… If you want to enrich your Ākhirah, you should send goodness to Ākhirah from dunyā. You should send good deeds and thawāb so that your Ākhirah is prosperous. The grave is our door. It is the door to reality, to eternal life which is real life. Death is not the end, it is the beginning. And that beginning, as our Prophet says, can either be a garden of Paradise that you enter; it will open as a garden of Paradise to you and you’ll be there until Qiyāmah, or it will be a hole of fire. Scorpions, snakes and all types of torture will be there. So a person should think about it and decide how to act in this world. He shouldn’t be cheated by shayāṭīn. They say the last regret is useless. Therefore…

There is a trend now. People arrogantly say they don’t believe. You know for yourself, if you don’t believe. You don’t have much. No matter if you live 50 or 100 years, you will fall into that hole. and if you don’t want that hole… They also burn the corpse now. They don’t bury but burn in fire. Then they will burn both in dunyā and more in Ākhirah. They think, “I am saved. I am ash now and nothing remains of me.” Who thinks he is safe then is so wrong. May Allah make our grave a garden from the gardens of Paradise, inshāAllah. That is our goal.

Since our childhood, shukr to Allah, we grew up with this belief. Ḥājjah Anne used to say, when we enter the grave, because a door opens there which leads to the garden of Paradise, by permission of Allah. It is not hard to reach it actually. To have īmān, to follow Allah’s orders is not difficult. But people don’t want to and make it seem complicated. Whereas when they do it, they are in peace. They are more peaceful and blessed. It brings benefit in every way. The other way is only harm, and the biggest harm is to their Ākhirah.

We are speaking about the most reality. Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla who… Human being they are forget this, the most reality it is death. Everybody will be have this test [taste]. Allah ‘Azza wa Jalla saying, Bismillāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm,

كُلُّ نَفْسٍۢ ذَآئِقَةُ ٱلْمَوْتِ ۖ ثُمَّ إِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ
“Kullu nafsin dhāʾiqatu l-mawti thumma ilaynā turjaʿūn.”
“Everyone shall taste the death. Then unto Us you shall be returned.” (Qurʼān 29:57).

Everyone he will taste this. Taste what it is. Some of them it will be bitter, some of them will be good. Taste their death. Nobody will be forever here. Forever it is – death it is beginning – door for forever.

It is not bad to die. To die, everyone die. Even if it was bad, some poem, poet he said, “It, if was bad to die, Prophet will not be, not die.” So it is not bad this. It is finishing this life, the lowest life, the place of test and after you will look in your grave. Grave, Prophet saying, “One it is either it will be nice garden from Paradise or hole of Hellfire,” snake, scorpion, every bad thing in this. There is two kind, no third one. Who look for his next life and looking must take example from people from who going because Prophet saying, “Kafāka bil-mawti wa-‘iẓan yā ‘Umar.” It is enough for you to take advice from death. Because when… maybe very strong people you thought will not die, he is die. Also very rich one also cannot live forever. They try now to make no death but it is craziness. Who believe on this, he will be crazy.

Door for forever – it is graveyard. It is that opening for next life, real life, who must make every preparation to get this Paradise from beginning of your death, from your graveyard to have this. And it is real not so difficult but people they are making, shayṭān showing people it is very difficult, very cannot be. But it is normal. We are living in normal life, everything normal. They can make tired to get money or to get thing what they want thousand times more difficult from worshipping. But also they are not accepting and only they are looking for their pleasure and pleasure take them to Hell not no another thing. Even this people they are now make people to be proud to say, “I am atheist. I am not believe in anything.” But it is not so long, maybe. If you find you will live even hundred year more, you will be also be coming to this door and this door it is real if it is hole of Hell – terrible it will be for them.

And even our… people they are not waiting for this Hell in for graveyard. They are giving will for their people “you burn me” and it will be, they thought it will be safe for them. But from beginning they are making for themself, burning themself, so it will be more deserve to burn in Ākhirah, in this graveyard and it will be this. For this we are advising people – Don’t gamble with next life. If you gamble, if you lose, forever you are losing. Here maybe you can make many… shoot yourself or kill yourself you thought you are finish but there is no finish. Forever you will be suffer in Hell and in fire. So it is very important to people, who have little bit thinking, to think about their life, the meaning of life and for everything. For this Prophet saying, “To think one hour, it is better than worship seventy years.” Maybe they worship in temple and other thing seventy year but nothing happen. But when thinking one hour and saying about who our Creator, what we are doing here, what is our…

We are chosen between all this creature and we have this mind and we have everything and what we will, why you are making this nonsense crazy thing about ourself? We must be careful. We must be believe because there is Creator, there is, they will be asked, ask about what we done, what we do, and why you not accept His order, not accept Him even.

Allah make us from people who open their grave for Paradise, for garden of Paradise, inshāAllah. This is our belief and it is from beginning, alḥamdulillāh, this belief. And it is the most real one. Other people what they are saying about their selves, they are have imagination and… Because nothing can be without Creator. Allah give hidayāh (guidance) for all people, inshāAllah.

Wa min Allahi t-tawfīq

al-Fātiḥah