Everlasting Benefit of Mosque Builders

As-Salāmu ‘alaykum wa-raḥmatu Llāhi
wa-barakātuh.

A‘ūdhu bi-Llāhi mina sh-shayṭāni r-rajīm.
Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm.

Aṣ-ṣalātu wa-s-Salāmu ‘alá Rasūlinā
Muḥammadin Sayyidi l-awwalīna

wa-l-ākhirīn. Madad yā Rasūla Llāh,
madad yā Sādātī Aṣḥābi Rasūli Llāh,

madad yā Mashāyikhanā,
dastūr Mawlānā Shaykh ‘Abdu Llāh

al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistānī, Shaykh Muḥammad
Nāẓim al-Ḥaqqānī. Madad.

Ṭarīqatuna ṣ-ṣuḥbah,
wa-l-khayru fi l-jam’iyyah.

There are beautiful sayings of our Holy
Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam.

All of them are beautiful.

Each time, we hear some, we read some,
and some come to our minds.

One of those beautiful sayings is:

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm.

“Innamā ya‘muru masājida Llāhi man
āmana bi-Llāhi wal-yawmi l-ākhir” (9:18).

The ones who build the houses
of Allāh ﷻ, the mosques,

are those who believe in
Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla, in the Prophet ﷺ,

and in the ākhirah.

Those to whom this is granted

are very lucky people.

Their luck is that this
good deed continues.

It continues while they are alive,

and remains the same until Qiyāmah.

This is because many people built mosques.

A hundred years, fifty years,

sometimes two hundred years
after they passed away,

something happened and
the mosque was removed.

Something else was built in its place.

But Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla still gives them

the same reward as when it was built.

Therefore, building a mosque or a masjid

is a great blessing for
the one who does it.

Of course, not everyone can do it.

The one who builds it is
a lucky servant of Allāh ﷻ.

Everywhere, our Ottoman ancestors,

and those before and after them,

have built many mosques and masjids.

This island of ours is
indeed a blessed island –

blessed for those who
live upon it, let’s say.

As our Holy Prophet ṣallá
Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam said,

it is Jazīratu l-Khaḍrā’ –
the Green Island.

It is a blessed and sacred land.

Countless millions have
come and gone upon it.

The good came, the bad came.

All of them left.

What remains are righteous deeds.

They remain for those who performed them.

Otherwise, the value
of this island lies in

that which our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu
‘alayhi wa-sallam pointed to –

those mosques, dergahs, and houses built

for the remembrance
of Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla.

By their barakah, barakah
comes to those who visit.

No matter how many people
living on it now say,

“We believe,” or “We do not believe” –

believe if you want, or don’t.

When your time comes,

you’ll be swept away,
and others will take your place.

Allāh ﷻ places whomever He ﷻ wills,
and removes whomever He ﷻ wills.

Not everyone is granted that blessing.

Therefore, we must recognise its value.

Our people have become deprived of this.

They think the dunyā is something.

The dunyā is nothing. As we said,

millions of people have
come and gone here.

What remains are good deeds.

They are never lost
in the sight of Allāh ﷻ.

In shā’a Llāh, tomorrow again –

near Hala Sultan in Larnaca,

there is a blessed mosque
from the time of the Ottomans –

its reopening will take place,
in shā’a Llāh.

Even in the days it was not used

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla has granted
that reward to those who built it.

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla has given
the reward for that good deed.

May Allāh ﷻ grant all of us

the ability to build such mosques
and do good works.

May they benefit people, in shā’a Llāh.

May their barakah reach us all.

For reviving our ancestors’
legacy is a benefit for all of us.

When such a structure, a mosque
or a masjid, falls into ruin,

its reward still reaches its owner.

But when it is revived – with prayers,
dhikr, tasbīḥāt, and all such acts –

it brings barakah to that place.

It becomes a means for
guidance and light to descend.

May Allāh ﷻ increase them.

And may Allāh ﷻ soon reopen
the ruined ones as well.

Because sometimes obstacles arise.

There are obstacles we can control,
and those we cannot.

In shā’a Llāh, may Allāh ﷻ remove
those obstacles, in shā’a Llāh.

Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi
wa-sallam, his

every word is like

treasure, jewel. Precious

thing, what Prophet ṣallá Llāhu
‘alayhi wa-sallam saying.

One of them, he ﷺ said about

who, in Qur’ān also saying,

"Innamā yaʿmuru masājida l-lahi man
āmana bil-lahi wal-yawmi l-ākhir" (9:18).

Allāh ﷻ praise them, who build

mosque or prayer place for believer.

This people, they are believer. They
believe in Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla,

in Prophet ﷺ, and for next life.

Yawmu l-ākhir, meaning next life.

They build this to, according to Prophet
ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam saying:

when somebody die there is
good deed can be

given for him, if he build something

for benefit of Muslim, or

make some book or something knowledge
for people, or good generation.

So this, one of them, to build mosque.

When they build mosque,

Allāh ﷻ reward them. For
everybody they coming there,

Allāh ﷻ reward them for this also.

Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, there is
many in whole world,

many mosque, and many mosque what

some of them destroyed, some of them
collapsed, some of them

nobody know about them what happen.
But all this, what,

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla reward who build
this, until Qiyāmah,

until end of time,

as [if] it is people coming for this.

Because thousands of mosque, some

hundred, tens maybe.

When coming, some people,

they not like Islām, they destroy.

Or they don't love religions, they
destroy everything.

But this also, Allāh ﷻ reward
them as [if] it is there

and people they are worshipping inside.

Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this is big chance,
big luck,

for, lucky who done some mosque

or good for benefit of people.

Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, tomorrow,
in shā’a Llāh, also,

old people they was building –
small, big,

as much they can do – mosque.

And this is Island, Cyprus, which

Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi
wa-sallam praise this.

And since beginning of Islām,

it was Muslim, they,
Muslim, they conquered

here, and it was whole Muslim.
But after, of course,

sometimes Muslim, sometimes not. But
they was building

many mosques, many thing in this island.

And this giving barakah for

land, and the place where it is around it.

So one of them, al-ḥamdu liLlāh,
tomorrow, in shā’a Llāh,

they rebuild it.

It was old I think, maybe
more than, look like

two hundred, three hundred year old
small mosque in Larnaca.

In shā’a Llāh, tomorrow we will open it,

re-open it, in shā’a Llāh,
for worshipping.

Because, you know, it is difficult to

do what you like. "I will build mosque."

You cannot build if you, without
permission, without this.

Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, this one,
al-ḥamdu liLlāh, it will be

re-open for worshipping, in shā’a Llāh.

We attend for this occasion there,
in shā’a Llāh.

Thank for Allāh ﷻ to make it for us, to be

opening this, in shā’a Llāh, Allāh ﷻ
reward us.

And it is for barakah for

every place around it.

And this, one more mosque, more barakah,

more hidāyah, in shā’a Llāh, for people.

Because people, we see now, maybe people

they are seeing this people,

non-believer,

our Turkish side, worse than Greek side.

Greek side at least they are have church,

they are more believer than ours.

Ours, completely, no belief for our side.

But it is no problem, because this is,

they will be not... When Allāh ﷻ want,

they change them, bring better.

And again, the important,

the land to be for

believer, for Muslim, in shā’a Llāh.

And this is what our praying:

Allāh ﷻ make hidāyah for them also.

As much every more, mosque more

dargah, takyā' or good thing for

to make this people to thinking about

what they are living,

what the purpose of the living for them.

in shā’a Llāh, Allāh ﷻ give them hidāyah,
give them good thinking,

to come back to Islām, to come back to

humanity, to come to their root,

the good root they have.

Allāh ﷻ bless you and make us,
in shā’a Llāh, to,

can make, as Mawlānā Shaykh said,

we make forty thousand dargah.

Dargah meaning all,
everything with mosque,

with host for feeding, for helping people.

All this when we say dargah, it
is not only dargah.

Beginning, the first, it is
mosque and around it.

What for teaching people,
for helping people,

for spreading goodness, in shā’a Llāh.

Allāh ﷻ make it easy,

and to happen quickly, in shā’a Llāh.

Wa-min Allāhi t-tawfīq, al-Fātiḥah.