‘Āshūrā’ – A Gift from Allāh ﷻ

As-Salāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmatu
Llāhi wa barakātuh.

A'ūdhu biLlāhi mina sh-shayṭāni r-rajīm.
Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm.

Aṣ-ṣalātu wa s-Salāmu ʿalá Rasūlinā
Muḥammadin Sayyidi l-awwalīn

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

madad yā Mashāyikhanā, dastūr yā Shaykh
Abdu Llāh al-Fā'iz ad-Dāghistānī,

Shaykh Muḥammad Nāẓim al-Ḥaqqānī. Madad.

Ṭarīqatunā ṣ-ṣuḥbah wa
l-khayru fi l-jam'iyyah.

We are in the blessed
month of Muḥarram.

May its virtues be upon us.

Its virtues are great. Our Prophet
ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam

says, a person

who fasts one day in Muḥarram,

each day is equal

to thirty days.

Of course, it is good to fast from

the first till the tenth.
Who can’t fast them,

can fast either the ninth
and tenth of Muḥarram,

or the tenth and eleventh of Muḥarram.

Both include the day of ‘Āshūrā’

which is a great day.

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla has
granted it to people as a gift.

Whoever wants can take; for all people.

How will one take? If
he believes in Allāh ﷻ,

he will benefit from that day.

No one is preventing

people from benefiting.

It is beneficial for everyone.

This is a means by believing in Allāh ﷻ

and living as He ﷻ commands.

Every day a person lives is filled

with virtue, thawāb and beauty.

He who does not do so

loses a lot. And every day

is of no benefit; he gains
nothing but harm.

That’s why, this month of Muḥarram

is a blessed month. Before fasting

became obligatory in Ramaḍān,

they used to fast in the month
of Muḥarram. After that,

when it became obligatory,

they began to fast in Ramaḍān.

The fasting obligation became

in the month of Ramaḍān.

As we said, in the month of
Muḥarram, Prophets

reached their ranks or Prophethood

was granted to them. Similarly,

the ‘awliyā’ were given
the ranks of sainthood

on the day of ‘Āshūrā’, on
the tenth of Muḥarram.

On that day,

there were many incidents:

The forgiveness of ‘Adam
‘alayhi s-salām.

The ship of Nūh ‘alayhi s-salām:

the end of the flood and its
descent to the earth.

The salvation of Musa ‘alayhi s-salām.

The ascent of ‘Idrīs ‘alayhi s-salām
to the sky.

The most events have
happened on this day;

very beautiful events have happened.
That’s why,

this is a blessed day.
Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu

‘alayhi wa-sallam used to fast it.

When he ﷺ arrived to
Madinah after that,

because the Jews fasted
that day, he ﷺ said,

“I am more deserving of this day.”

In order to oppose them,
he ﷺ ordered to fast either

the ninth and tenth or the
tenth and eleventh.

As we said, it is a blessed day.
It has great spiritual benefits,

and also physical benefits.

On that day, our Prophet ṣallá
Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam

would shower with the intention of
spending the whole year in health.

Those who put kohl on their eyes
on that day will not suffer from eye pain.

The one who gives sadaqah
will have abundance.

For the one who buys for
his home, for his family,

buys gifts for his children,

or gives more gifts

as they wish, that year

will pass with barakah for
them, Allāh ﷻ willing.

In addition to the spiritual,

there are also apparent barakahs.
There is definitely benefit in the

commands of Islām. And there
is harm in its prohibitions.

A person’s ego wants what is ḥarām.

Both his ego gets

more and more rebellious

and his body is harmed. Therefore,

the things Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla
gifted in Islām

will certainly be beneficial

and beautiful both externally
and internally.

Today, of course, the blessed grandson of
our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi

wa-sallam was also martyred
along with his ﷺ ṣaḥābah.

In Islām, martyrdom

for any Muslim

is a great blessing.
And he is Sayyid ul-Shuhada’,

the master of martyrs. He is
the greatest master of martyrs.

That’s why, he attained
that rank. With that rank,

he is in the highest levels
next to his grandfather.

Sadness

happens if there is

no rank, if there is nothing.

Our Prophet ṣallá Llāhu
‘alayhi wa-sallam says,

the pain that a martyr feels

is not even like a prick

of a needle. So when the

apple of his ﷺ blessed eye, his ﷺ
beloved grandson was martyred,

he felt pleasure with
the most beautiful states.

He ﷺ felt a beautiful pleasure
when he was martyred;

Hussein ‘alayhi s-salām,

the grandson of our ‎Prophet ﷺ.
Therefore,

some of these things that are

not in accordance with the way shown

by our Prophet ﷺ and Islām

are not acceptable. Whoever
resorts to them

does so in vain. He does not
benefit at all.

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla has
raised him

to the most beautiful ranks.
May Allāh ﷻ

settle us in Paradise near him,
in shā’a Llāh.

That’s what we say. May their ranks

and barakah be upon us. Martyrdom

is a very great rank.

May he be our intercessor, in shā’a Llāh.
May Allāh ﷻ

bless this day of ours; not today.

Today is the ninth. Tomorrow is the tenth.

We are saying them now so
that we can do those duties tomorrow.

There is also a four-rak’āt
prayer tomorrow.

You can pray it whenever you want.
Of course,

it has to be before Asr prayer.
After Asr prayer,

no voluntary prayers must be performed.

That prayer is four rak’āt;

you will recite eleven ikhlās
in each rak’āt.

After it is finished, recite 70 times,

“HasbunAllah wa Ni’mal Wakīl,
Ni’mal Mawla wa Ni’mal Nasīr,

Ghufrānaka Rabbana w Ilayka l-Masīr.”

Then, there is a du’ā’. That du’ā’

will be read seven times,
in shā’a Llāh.

With that du’ā’, this day’s
barakah will be

upon us, in shā’a Llāh.
May Allāh ﷻ make it blessed.

May their blessings be upon us.

May those ranks be

of benefit to us, in shā’a Llāh.

May the ranks of those Prophets, ‘awliyā’,

the righteous and the martyrs

be high, in shā’a Llāh.

Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, we are again
saying for this month,

month of Muḥarram, it is very
blessed month

which it was before Ramaḍān

they was fasting.

It was in Muḥarram, Ashūrā' or this days.

But it was not obligatory of course.

When coming obligatory, coming
change to Ramaḍān.

Ramaḍān thirty days obligatory and
Qur’ān also they said.

But before they was used to

fast in this month, month of Muḥarram,

which Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi
wa-sallam saying in ḥadīth.

One day of fasting in Muḥarram
it's equal to thirty day fasting.

So it is very blessed, very

must benefit from this.

Al-ḥamdu liLlāh we are with same,

In shā'a Llāh same with what they
done in this days.

Allāh ‘Azza wa-Jalla gave,
He ﷻ gave the Prophets,

Prophecy many of them,

and help them, save them, or
open for them what

victory and blessed.

Since Ādam,‘alayhi s-salām, he was,

Allāh ﷻ forgive him when in this days.

And Idrīs, ‘alayhi s-salām, He ﷻ take him,

he went to heaven.

Nūḥ, ‘alayhi s-salām, save from flood.

Musa, ‘alayhi s-salām, save from Fir‘awn.

Like this many occasion it was in this day

and many awliyā’u Llāh, many mashāyikh,

they become, Allāh ﷻ open for
them in this day,

day of ‘Āshūrā’, ten of Muḥarram.

So it is very blessed day. We must benefit

because everything Allāh ﷻ gave us,
gave the

order to do, giving you benefit

spiritually and physically.

When you do this, you be strong
physically also and

spiritually of course. But when

opposite of this, who do

ḥarām or sin, not get any benefit –

no spiritually, no physically.

It is opposite, become worse

physically and spiritually,
worse and worse.

Every time he do sin,

become burden on him, burden on him.

And he not taking any

happiness from what he done.

But when you do what Allāh ﷻ order,
He ﷻ give you happiness

for dunyā, for your physical
body and for spiritual.

And this is, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, one day of

this big days, ten of ‘Āshūrā’.

In this day, Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi
wa-sallam saying also,

who he can make shower, who make
shower in this day,

he will be healthy in this year.

And who put kohl in his eyes,

his eyes it will be strong

and no illness, in shā’a Llāh.

And who give for charity,

Allāh ﷻ give barakah for him.
Who give for his

family also make them happy,

Allāh ﷻ give him barakah also.

Many thing in this days,
everything you do,

Allāh ﷻ make it better and

more better, in shā’a Llāh.

In this day, of course,

it is many thing happen

but there is one thing this some people

they are very angry.

Of course, Allāh ﷻ He is Justice

but what happen?

What Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi
wa-sallam grandson,

Sayyidinā Husayn, ‘alayhi s-salām,

he become shahīd.

Shahīd it is the biggest

level of Islām

and he is Sayyidu l-Shuhādā'

meaning the top of shuhādā'.

So it is big.

He is already honoured

and become more honoured
with this shahādā'.

Because he is like whole Muslim,

no different between Muslim, any Muslim.

Prophet ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi
wa-sallam his uncle also,

Sayyidinā Ḥamzā also become shahīd.

All no different, not making

to not, even Sayyidinā ʿAlī,
Sayyidinā Umar

all become shahīd.
Sayyidinā Uthman shahīd.

All this grand ṣaḥābah

they become shahīd. But what Prophet
ṣallá Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam saying

here very important.

When shahīd he

some sword or bullet or anything else

make him shahīd, he feel this
like only very small nails.

This is for normal shahīd,

for Sayyidinā Ḥusayn it was like

pleasure, like happy, not even like this.

Allāh ﷻ make him as he is
drinking very nice thing.

This is for him.

So this is a big honour for all of us

because he is make shafā‘ah for,
in shā’a Llāh.

Not, no need to make

what some people they are crying.

Crying ok, you can cry but not

killing himself or hitting
each other or doing,

swearing to ṣaḥābah or other.

This is no benefit for this. Benefit only

to ask shafā‘ah from Shuhadā'

and Sayyidu l-Shuhadā'
Sayyidinā Ḥusayn and his

friends, his companion. This
is very important

because everybody they thought,

oh he was very

difficult and doing this, doing that.

It is nothing affect him. Every,

every sword or every arrow

coming to him, he was
feeling very pleasure.

No any pain, no any harm for him.

Only everyone, Allāh ﷻ make
him for more and more

higher level. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, he is,
this is

what we know, what Prophet ṣallá
Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam

happy with us if we

be like this, ask for him, shafā‘ah
from him, in shā’a Llāh.

One shahīd giving shafā‘ah
for seventy people.

So Sayyidinā Ḥusayn make shafā‘ah for

seventy million, in shā’a Llāh, with him,
in shā’a Llāh.

For in Jannah to, in shā’a Llāh, make us

to be neighbour for him, in shā’a Llāh,

forever, in shā’a Llāh.

Wa-min Allāhi t-tawfīq, al-Fātiḥah.