Question:
As-Salaam aleikum,
It seems that the Divine Light (Nur) is slowly being removed from this world. Mawlana Shaykh also hinted at this in one of his sobhets when he declared that the Naqsibandi tarqiat is the only tariqat left who has Nur. All other spiritual movements are like “plastic cucumbers”.
Is it Allah’s will that the Divine Light is going away or is his Nur going away from the world because people believe less and less. In other words, can we as mere humans stop the disappearing of Nur or is this a futile exercise. I have heard that the Divine expands and subtracts his influence in this world and in his followers, so maybe the disappearing of Nur is just Allah ‘breathing in’.
Greetings
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
In Islam Allah and His Prophet has the last word so it does not matter how dark it gets, as foretold by the Prophet (upon him blessings and peace) in so many hadiths pertaining to the end of times (see Mawlana Shaykh Hisham’s book Armageddon). However, our task is to continue with dhikr and our individual responsibilities (whether of dunya or spiritual) and to plant the seed of goodness even if Resurrection is beginning the next minute.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
