Different Levels of Life

Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani  -  Suhbat 12-12-2004 Jakarta zawiya

Audhu billahi min ash-shaytan ir-rajeem bismillah ir-rahman ir-raheem

Nawaytu al-arba`een, nawaytul-`itikaaf, nawaytul-khalwah nawaytur-riyada,
nawaytus-salook lillah ta`ala al-`adheem fee hadha al-masjid



Ati` Allah wa ati` ar-rasula wa ulil-amri minkum.

Obey Allah, obey the Prophet (s) and those in authority among you. [4:59]



Everything in this universe looks to us from Allah’s greatness as if it is a
circle. Everything seems to us as a circle in this universe.



Look at the start at night you see it round, look at the Moon, you see it
round. Look at the Sun you see it round. Bring a telescope and look at Mars,
Venus and any planet or any of its moons, you see them round. And all of
them are in constant movement non-stopping.

And their movements are also in circles. You cannot see anything moving
straightforward. Everything is circumambulating, making tawaaf. All of them
are moving in a round direction, even the smallest possible atom, electrons
inside the atoms are also in constant movement around the mass in a round
circular situation.

Allah said, “wal-arda madadnaaha” – “And the earth - We have spread it
out...” [50:7]

Was-samaa banaynaahaa bi-aydin wa innaa la moosi`oona – “With power and
skill did We construct the Firmament: for it is We Who are expanding it.”
[51:47]

Madadnaaha means if you have a bread, making it, you mold it with the
roller, as much as you roll it, it will continue stretching, expanding. And
Allah is saying He is always expanding this universe and expanding the
earth. Earth cannot be expanded, but to expand something means for it to be
circular, it does not have a beginning and an end like a square, but when it
is circular it keeps continuing.

Allah said in the holy Qur’an, wa kullun fee falakin yasbahoon. -
“Everything is swimming in its orbit” [36:40] or “in its Ocean.” Every
planet is swimming in its orbit. So all that you are seeing of stars and
moons and sun, in these galaxies are moving in their orbits. The stars are
moving in their orbits, the moons are moving in their orbits and the sun is
moving in its orbits, and galaxies are moving in their orbits. And the
scientist say they found 6 billion galaxies and each one contains 80 billion
stars and each one moving and all circumambulating – what is this?
Subhana-Allah!

If this what we can express and explain, which is the knowledge that Mawlana
gave to us, it is a drop of his Ocean. And Mawlana’s knowledge is a drop of
Grand Shaykh’s Ocean and similarly to Prophet’s Ocean, from the chain of
Grandshaykhs. What do you think Sahaba will say? What do you think the
Prophet (s) will say? What do you think of Allah what He is hiding from us,
from His greatness, `adheem ash-shaan.

There is, as you know the bahr of lahoot, Ocean of Lordship, bahr
al-malakoot, the Ocean of Kingship, bahr al-jabaroot, the Ocean of Majesty
and many other Oceans of Attributes that Allah has. There is one called bahr
al-`adhamoot, that is the Ocean of Greatness. That is the Greatness of Allah
swt, that is an Attribute, not the Essence. Allah is describing one
Attribute of His Essence by that Ocean - one of the infinite number of
Attributes that Allah has. The Ocean of Greatness, if you dump all these
universes that Allah created, because all these universes are in continuous
creation from pre-eternal to post-eternal, from when there was no beginning
to no end, what Allah was creating, if you put all that in the Ocean of
`adhamoot it is only a drop of what He is creating more.

Look at Allah’s Greatness. The earth is turning around its axis, by itself.
It is moving like that in a circle. Making day and night. So Allah made the
earth to turn about itself to do what: to create a day and night. Then Allah
made the moon to turn around the earth to create what? The months. Then
Allah made the moon and the earth, to turn, although both are turning around
their axes, and the moon as well, then the two together are turning around
the sun to make the years.

That is just what we see among the earth, moon and sun, what then do you
think about the 6 billion galaxies and all the stars that are there?

For us Allah ordered us to pray towards Ka`aba. All our prayers have to be
facing that house of Allah swt. But this is when we are far away. When we
are near, the Ka`aba, we have no right to pray there immediately before
making tawaaf al-qudoom. You have to make the tawaaf around the Ka`aba, then
you are allowed to do your prayers and you `umrah or Hajj. But as soon as
you enter Makkah and want to enter the Haram al-makki, you have no right to
do anything until you make tawaaf. Turning around the Ka`aba in an
anticlockwise direction. Similar to the turning of the earth, turning
anti-clockwise. Similar to the moon turning anti-clockwise around the earth.
Similar to the earth and the moon in anti-clockwise around the sun. So
everything is in tawaaf. The earth is in tawaaf, the moon is in tawaaf
around the earth and the earth and moon are in tawaaf around the sun.

What is that power that Allah gave to these objects to turn around? Do they
have a life like us? Do they have a soul that makes them to move, as we have
a spirit that makes us to move? Is there a difference or is it the same?

Of course they differ in the energy that Allah has put in them. It is a
different power of motion, and that which Allah put in human being is a
different power of motion. You can see that when earth is moving today,
scientists innovated a new machine that can detect the movement around
itself and on the needle it makes a vibration, and it gives a sine wave.
Even an earthquake happens it makes a sine wave.

The moon also makes sine waves. Similarly the sun we are getting these
vibrations, the electromagnetic waves, are all waves. Everything is showing
a wave, a wavelength, different wavelengths. And all these wavelengths have
been coded. You need to decode them. Even human beings when he speaks, he
makes wavelengths. Sometimes a wavelength that a human being is generating
might coincide with a wavelength that earth or moon or sun, might resemble.
So if there are intellectual scientists then they can understand the
language of that computer together with the language of the computer they
can find a software to determine the language and find the answer.

The human being is like a computer, giving sine waves from every different
part. That is why doctors do electrocardiogram, MRI, and test for
rheumatology, and blood tests they look into wavelengths. And the human
being’s wavelengths, they have machine to check someone’s voice against a
tape in which a person is speaking and they can determine if it resembles.
They know the sound of each letter, the ‘alif,’ the ‘ba’ and so on. That is
why they can take sounds and cut and paste words to make someone say
something that he did not say.

Similarly they can produce they can develop a software to understand what
the earth is speaking what the moon is speaking and what the sun is speaking
and what these 6 billion galaxies are saying. That is in the hands of
awliyaullah, that is no in the hands of scientists.

That is why Allah said, Innaa `aaradnaa al-amaanata `ala as-samaawaati
wal-ardi wal-jibali fa abayna an yahmilnahaa wa ashfaqnaa minhaa wahamalahaa
al-insaanu innahu kaana dhalooman jahoola - “We did indeed offer the Trust
to the Heavens and the Earth and the Mountains; but they refused to
undertake it, being afraid thereof: but man undertook it;- He was indeed
unjust and foolish.” [33:72]

Allah gave that secret. How do they speak if they do not have a language. It
means they were able to give sound, a voice. And that is why Allah  said, wa
in min shayyin illa yusabihu bi hamdhii wa laakin laa tafqahoona
tasbeehahum. - “There is not a thing but celebrates His praise; And yet ye
understand not how they declare His glory!” [17:44]

Everything in this universe praises Allah but you cannot understand their
praising. It means everything is in continuous vibration, motion, talking.
You cannot what hey are saying why you don’t have the software. That is why
awliyaullah can understand everything. That is why ordinary people want to
put their opinion, and they cannot understand what the wali is seeing or
hearing.

Awliyaullah can see millions of years. Normal people can go as far as their
nose. One second. But awliya can go as far as Allah granted them from
Rasulullah (s). That is why normal people interfere in what awliyaullah are
saying.

That is why there is a big difference between people. There are today
hundreds of different languages among the computers today. And they produce
software that can decode between all of them. And that is what an engineer
is doing. What do you think awliyaullah can do. We still are defaming
awliyaullah by pushing our opinion and pushing our mind as if to say I know
something you know nothing.

When you took baya` from Mawlana Shaykh it means we listen and we obey. Wa
qaalu sami`na wa ata`na. “and they said, we listen and we obeyed.” [2:285]

How much is it happiness and enjoyment for us, can you imagine with this
greatness of the world and the movement and all that they are creating of
wavelengths. You see yourself now so small. Less than an ant. Sometimes
there are spiders on the wall. What do people do, they crush them. You are
not even a spider on a wall, you are less than a spider on a wall. You know
the smallest bacteria, the virus, that is running here and there, and how
much it is small, yet how very poisonous it is.  And they say they cannot
stop the virus. They can stop the bacteria by antibiotics.

We are a virus. We are poison; all of us. Our mind, our body our heart, our
legs our feet, our blood, it is all poisoned, it has to be rejuvenated. You
have to take everything and clean it in a washing machine and then also do
dry cleaning to be sure you are pure from all viruses. If you don’t use dry
cleaning, which is extremely hot, to kill and purify all of them, they will
not be clean. You must use sterilization. That is why they say you must wash
your dishes in a dishwasher to sterilize them from bacteria.

You need a guide to sterilize you, you are a virus. That can be crushed.
With that poisonous virus that we are with, so proud of ourselves, so
arrogant, we want everything according to what we think. We are virus and
the other is a virus. The viruses fight, they poison each other.

That is why awliyaullah are hidden now. It is the time of ignorance, as
Prophet (s) said, ignorance everywhere. Don’t think there is one perfect,
only awliyaullah and even they  are at different levels of understanding.

Don’t be a virus. Be at least a bacteria. If you raise yourself from virus
to bacteria and from that to sterilization, at that time you will be able to
understand that meaning of the movement of these celestial objects, the
stars, moving in different ways, you can understand their language. When
they move they produce a language, not music but in fact an angelic source
of enlightenment that awliyaullah can understand those secrets and Allah
will dress them with that beautiful dress because of the angelic movements
of the constellations around each other.

May Allah make us a the feet of awliya to learn from them and not to be
bacteria or virus, but to be sterilized and to receive what they are
understanding of these secrets.….