Ṭarīqah is the Way of Īmān

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.

Bismillāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm: ‎وَقُلِ ٱعْمَلُوا۟ فَسَيَرَى ٱللَّهُ عَمَلَكُمْ وَرَسُولُهُۥ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ ۖ وَسَتُرَدُّونَ إِلَىٰ عَـٰلِمِ ٱلْغَيْبِ وَٱلشَّهَـٰدَةِ فَيُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ “Wa quli ʿmalū fasayarā l-Lāhu ʿamalakum wa rasūluhu wa l-mu’minūn. Wa saturaddūna ilā ʿālimi l-ghaybi wa sh-shahādati fayunabbi’ukum bimā kuntum taʿmalūn” “And say (O Muḥammad SAW) ‘Do deeds! Allah will see your deeds, and (so will) His Messenger and the believers. And you will be brought back to the All-Knower of the unseen and the seen. Then He will inform you of what you used to do.’” (Qur’ān 9:105). ṢadaqAllahu l-ʿAẓīm.

Allah ʿAzza wa Jalla says, “Do good deeds in this world, do righteous deeds.” Allah ʿAzza wa Jalla and our Prophet ṣallAllahu ʿalayhi wa-sallam and believers will see the good deeds and good actions you do. After that, you will go to the realm of the witnessed, the realm of the unseen. There, everything you have done will be revealed.

The world of the unseen refers to the time after death. People cannot see it while they are alive. Since it will only become visible after death, that’s what īmān in the unseen means; īmān in what cannot be seen. Then, whatever you have done; if it was good, you will earn its reward. If it was bad, you will suffer its punishment.

Therefore, it is necessary to believe and have īmān in the unseen while you are alive. Īmān is very important. Many people become Muslims but cannot become believers. Īmān is to surrender to Allah, to submit to Allah ʿAzza wa Jalla and to be content with everything that comes from Him. That is īmān.

Nowadays, many Muslims lack īmān. Why? Because they have no Murshid (guide), no one to show them the way. Everyone says, according to their own minds, “I am a Muslim, this is what I know, this is what I have read, or this is what they told me.” That is not īmān. Īmān comes through the way of the ṭarīqah. Ṭarīqah is the way of īmān. It is the way of our Prophet ṣallAllahu ʿalayhi wa-sallam, the beautiful way he showed, what’s beneficial to people. It is what’s important.

There are many people in this time who, despite being Muslim, say, “There is no ṭarīqah. There is no need for a ṭarīqah. Ṭarīqah is unnecessary.” What is the harm of the ṭarīqah? Ṭarīqah has a great harm. It is harmful against shayṭān. It is harmful to those who are on shayṭān’s way. Because they want disbelief; ṭarīqah strengthens īmān, with the permission of Allah.

May Allah help us. May we remain on the right way, inshā’Allah. May Allah not separate us from His way.

Wa min Allahi t-Tawfīq.

Al-Fātiḥa.