Don’t Die Without a Will: Shaykh Mehmet Adil Al-Haqqani

Shaykh Mehmet Adil Al-Haqqani, Sohbet of the 16th of June, 2018.

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

Aṣ-ṣalātu wa s- Salāmu ‘alá Rasūlinā Muḥammadin Sayyidi l-awwalīn wa l-ākhirīn. Madad yā Rasūla Llāh, madad yā Sādāti Aṣḥābi Rasūli Llāh, madad yā Mashāyikhinā, 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.

Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla states in the Qu’rān: “In taraka khayrani l-waṣiyyah” (2:180). A will is an important matter. It is a sunnah to do it no matter how much a person has. It is not necessarily saying, “I’m leaving my possessions to such and such.” There is no such thing if you don’t have property you can’t leave a will. “O children, I ask that you don’t leave the right way. I leave you with the promise that you will get along, and do something for your country.” This can be a will. It can include a lot.

It is a sunnah for us to leave a will. There is no need to look whether you are young or old because a sunnah can be done whenever. You gain its rewards whenever you do it. What is more important for us in the matter of the will is for people not living in a Muslim country. If you are living in unbelieving lands and you have not made a will, Allāh جل جلاله forbid, if something happens to you, they can take you and do as they like with you. They can cut you up and other things. Then if they want, in the end the worst is they can burn you. We need to pay attention to this.

There is no burning in Islām. In Islām, there is respect for the human, for the Muslim, both dead and alive. There is respect for the bones and for the dirt. If they open the grave and the bones are still there, they move them aside. They do not take them out and throw them away. There is respect.

Therefore, since there are lots of émigrés, in the millions, people living abroad, it is important for them to leave a will so they cannot do with us as they wish in those countries in which we are momentarily living. We will do as our religion requires. If you write a will, then they cannot say anything. If you do not write a will, then they can do with you as they like.

For those who have newly become Muslim, their situation is more dire. Because if he does not leave a will that makes his family do as he wants, he is at their mercy. They can do according to their tradition and bury without washing, praying, and so on. What is worse than that, is burning and turning them into dust and ashes. That is why it is important.

When a person leaves a will, he gains rewards and he preserves himself, his body. He is not subject to that torture. Because when a person dies, most of the soul comes out but one-sixth remains, they say. So even when they wash a person, he feels whether it is cold or warm. Therefore, it is not good to keep the dead waiting for long in the cold morgue and such. These people are faithless. The more faithless they become, the more pitiless and ignorant they become. They think the person is dead now and he is unaware of anything. He can neither hear nor feel. He can hear, however. We remind him how to answer [talqīn] and he hears.

Allāh جل جلاله who created you tells you. Who created him, you or Allāh جل جلاله? “A-antum takhluqūnahu am naḥnu l-khāliqūn” (56:59), says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Is it you who creates ,جل جلاله You are Allāh .جل جلاله it, or are We the Creator? says Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla. Alā anta yā Allāh You are the Creator. You know our condition. Therefore, we need to be careful. A will is more important for those kinds of people.

Today, in shā’a Llāh, we saying about will because in this month many of our brothers they pass away. Some of them, their family, because they don’t have any will, not left any will behind them, some of them bury as without washing, without doing Islāmic procedure for dead people. Some of them they try to burn him. So Allāh ‘Azza wa Jalla saying in, “In taraka khayrani l-waṣiyyah” (2:180), to be, to leave behind you right will it is sunnah. Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم he say this sunnah. Everybody must do it.

For Muslim also they can left will behind them . If they don’t have money, even they can say, “I my will to be my children, my wife, to be in right way, to not go out of right way, not going to ḥarām, not going to be do bad thing.” This also. But if he has money, he can also make will for money.

And will cannot be for inheritors. Only one third of his what he left, can give for will. Now there are people they are making hundred percent and he can give for everybody even for inheritor. But in Islām inheritors they cannot be have anything from will. And not more than one third of inheritance. So this is important but more important for Muslim who are living in country, non-Muslim country.

There is millions of Muslims they are living there and now they giving, every day they making new law, law of shayṭān, law of bad thing. Only… as they destroy whole nature, also they want to destroy everything from human being from this world. Everyday they are making new law. So to protect from this law you must make will – “Don’t make this after, when I die. Don’t, I don’t want this to done for me and I don’t like this.” This is when you do this, they saying, “We are following law and this law it is our law.” Not for they not accept the Creator but they accept to what they done from law. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, they make law to be until now respected for will. Maybe after now, what we don’t know what it will be accepted, but until now it’s accepted. So who, especially for Muslim living in this outside of Muslim country, and especially for Muslim who not born Muslim, they become Muslim after. Allāh جل جلاله give them hidāyah and they are following good way.

And once, one from our brothers, also he is living in Lebanon, he is saying he is become Muslim. Last time he come he said, “I the most thing I worry about what it will be after my death, how it will bury.” So many of our brothers they not thinking about this. But this last month in Ramaḍān there was two cases. It is was one of our brothers pass away. Al-ḥamdu liLlāh, his family they want first to burn him but after they accept to bury him. But they bury him as without washing, without – in not like Islāmic procedure. But also, al-ḥamdu liLlāh, okay they can. Our brothers they pray janāzah for him and it is okay.

But now there is another case, they insist to burn him. And this is in Islām our body respected in life and after life also. And in Islām no burning at all. The most forbidden thing – to burn people. Even in war you not allowed to burn. You can, they can do anything else but not to burn. Because why this wisdom? Because Allāh جل جلاله He جل جلاله create us and He جل جلاله know the best and He جل جلاله saying when somebody pass away one of six, six, one-sixth of soul it is still in your body so you can feel hot and cold and even you hear. For this making for them so this people, materialist people, they not accept this. “It is he is just passed away, nothing affect him – burn him, crush his head after burn him.” No respect for any. After they said, “We are respecting. We are human being we have humanist,” and they are doing the worst for human.

So for this, very important to our brothers and sisters who are not born Muslim to declare this in will for them. After them, if anything happen to not be done like this, to following procedure of religion of Islām.

And it is who make will, Allāh جل جلاله reward him because he following also sunnah and he keep himself from this bad thing. Because people following their thought it is easy but it is not easy. It is very bad action they done, they are doing. Now the last days they are doing every bad thing but they are thinking they are doing good. Because they don’t have any belief – only belief for when people he alive is okay. After finish. Nothing after this. But real life after this and to go to other life also you must be done something for you, for yourself because nobody else can object. Even whole people saying, “No no we must do this,” they are not accepting. But if there is one piece of paper, everything easy.

Allāh جل جلاله help us from this dunyā full of shayṭān and his follower. Every day they are trying to destroy every good thing. Every good thing they want to destroy. Be careful. Be awake, in shā’a Llāh.

Wa min Allāhi t-tawfīq, al-Fātiḥah.

Author

Hajji Faycal

Sufi Center Rabbaniyya,
Sankt Margaretenstr 278 253 Eigeltingen, Germany