Follow a guide

Tariqats orders and the four madhabs schools are based on adab and that is why shaitan is against them because they are against his school. His school is the fifth madhab, the school of batil = falsehood. So many people follow it.. May Allah not leave us in the hands of our bad ego; whoever is not asking that will be caught by shaitan. Your ego is telling you that you are number one, that nobody is like you; it is telling you that you don’t have to listen to anyone.. that you are strong and know everything, that you are your own Sheikh. And the ego is lying to us. What we are saying here is what they have put in our hearts, and we are ashamed in front of Allah and fearing Him because we are such ignorant ones, making so many mistakes and bad-mannered actions. Who is the Sheikh? He is that one who teaches you about Allah and His Prophet. How you can know by yourself? But they don’t want to accept a teacher, these wahabi people. And whoever doesn’t accept a Sheikh, a hodja, an imam, a guide, dalil/proof, his teacher is shaitan; he is telling them: 'Why do you need a Sheikh?'

Follow a pure guide that he may take you to purity because only pure ones will enter Paradise.. Allah knows best who the hypocrites are.. We are trying, working on it, asking to be clean. But: thumma amanu, thumma kafaru.. sometimes we believe and sometimes not, listening to our ego and shaitan. On the way of faith, Iman, you can be saved..

And the Angels of the grave will ask you if your face is turned to dunya/world or towards Maula, Allah. They will ask you what is your qibla, to where is your heart directed? If they find your face turned towards Allah, everything is good. But if they find your face turned away from Him, then Allah will also turn away from you. If in prayer you turn your eyes away from the place of sajda/prostration, looking left and right three times, then Allah is saying: 'My servant has turned away from Me. Leave him..' This is an important point in adab.. Don’t behave badly in the Presence of the Sultan.. May Allah forgive us and not throw us out of the Ummati Muhammadi/nation of muhmmad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam peace be upon him, Fatiha.

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil Haqqani
taken from On the bridge to Eternity