Question:
Assalamu alaikum,
I swear i pray for you and Mawalana Sh. Nazim r.a. to be blessed and to rest in peace.I heard in Lueneburg there are German sheikhs who are saying that they are willing to be godlike and they used to struggle to be alike is that halal?
Answer:
wa alaykum salam,
As Mawlana Shaykh Nazim said:
We are Rabbaniyoon, and Allah Almighty says, wa laakin koonoo Rabbaniyeen. That is mentioned in the Holy Qur’an. From where do you bring these beliefs and names, “We are Wahhabi, we are Salafi, we are this and that.” From where did Salafis and Wahhabis come? What honor do these names bring? Is it better to call yourself Wahhabi? Allah Almighty says:
وَلَـكِن كُونُواْ رَبَّانِيِّينَ
wa lakin koonoo rabbaniyyeen.
Become men of God. (Aali-`Imraan 3:79)
Why don’t they say, “We are Rabbaniyoon.” In a Hadeeth Qudsee, Al-Haqq, Allah Almighty says:
“O My servant! Obey Me and I will make you lordly so that if you say to anything ‘Be!’ it will be.”
The correct word is Rabbani, lordly, in the sense of devoutly obedient to the Lord as mentioned in the verse:
{It is not (possible) for any human being unto whom Allah had given the Scripture and wisdom and the Prophethood that he should afterwards have said unto mankind: Be slaves of me instead of Allah; but (what he said was): Be ye faithful servants of the Lord by virtue of your constant teaching of the Scripture and of your constant study thereof.} (Surat Ali `Imrah, 3:79
Taher Siddiqui
