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 words told by

our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu
‘alayhi wa-sallam.

All of them are beautiful.

We hear some of them,
we read some of them,

and we remember some of them.

One of those beautiful words is;

Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm.

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

People who build mosques,
the houses of Allāh ﷻ

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

our Holy Prophet ﷺ and ākhirah.

People who are given that

are very lucky people.

It is their luck, because
that goodness lasts.

It lasts while they live,

and it goes on the same until qiyāmah.

Many people built mosques.

100 years, 50 years,

sometimes 200 years
after they passed away,

something happened and
mosques were removed.

Other things were built in their places.

But Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla
gives their thawāb

the same way as they were built.

Therefore, building mosques and masjids

is a great luck for those who do.

Certainly, not everyone can do it.

Who can is a lucky servant of Allāh ﷻ.

Everywhere there are mosques

and masjids built by
our Ottoman ancestors,

by those before and after them.

This island of ours is a blessed island,

of those who live on it, let's say.

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

it is Jazīratu l-Khaḍrā’,
green island.

It is a blessed island full of barakah.

Millions of people have lived on it.

Good and bad ones have come and gone.

All of them are gone.

What is not gone is pious deeds.

That's it for those who did that.

Otherwise, the value of this island is

like our Holy Prophet ṣallá Llāhu
‘alayhi wa-sallam

showed. Those mosques,

dergahs, houses where Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla

is remembered, barakah comes to those

who come there for the honor
of those who built them.

Even though people above it

say they do or don't believe;

you may believe or not;

when your time comes,

you will be swept away.
And others will come.

Allāh ﷻ puts and takes
whomever He ﷻ wants.

That luck is not for everyone.

Therefore, we must appreciate it.

Our people are

deprived from it.

They think this dunyā is something.

Dunyā is nothing. As we said,

millions of people have come and gone.

What remains is good deeds.

They don't get lost near Allāh ﷻ.

In shā’a Llāh tomorrow...

There is a holy mosque remaining

from the Ottomans in Larnaca
close to Hala Sultan.

There will be its opening in shā’a Llāh.

Even on days when it wasn't used,

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla has
given that thawāb to those

who built it. Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla
has given the reward

for their good deed.
May Allāh ﷻ let all of us

build such mosques and do good things.

May they have benefit
to people in shā’a Llāh.

May their barakah be upon all of us.

Because reviving our ancestors
is beneficial to us.

When that structure,
that mosque is ruined,

certainly, its reward goes its owner.

But when it's renewed,
prayers, dhikr, tasbīḥāt,

everything brings barakah to that place.

It becomes the means
to guidance and light.

May Allāh ﷻ increase it.

And may Allāh ﷻ let
open the ruined ones soon.

Because some obstacles occur. There are

obstacles that we can and can't control.

In shā’a Llāh may Allāh ﷻ

remove those obstacles in shā’a Llāh.

Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi
wa-sallam he is

every word is like

treasure, jewel, precious

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

One of them he 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 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 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

all the people they was building
small, big,

as much they can do Mosque.

And this is Island, Cyprus

Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi
wa-sallam praise this.

And since beginning of Islām

it was Muslim, they call
Muslim they conquered

here and it was whole Muslim.
But after of course

sometimes, sometimes not. But
they was building

many Mosque, 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 Larnaka.

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 be 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 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.