Men

and Women in Islam

Shaykh Mohammad Nazim Al-Haqqani An-Naqshbandi, Sohbat March 21, 2010.

Aziz Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah La ilaha illa Allah, Karim Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah Allah Allah,
Subhan Allah Allah Allah, Allah Allah Allah Allah, Sultan Allah Alfu salat alfu salam ala Habibka'l Mustafa,
Ya Rabbi'l Izzati wa'l Azamati wa'l Jabarut
We are Your servants, grant mercy for our weaknesses, our trespasses, Ya Rabbi'l Izzati wa'l
Jabarut, grant us mercy and understanding.
Assalamu alaykum all attenders for this humble association. Sa`adatu'd-darayn, to be happy and
joyful and in pleasure, here and Hereafter. For those who are asking to hear heavenly
announcement, O Attenders, if you like to be beloved and honoured ones to your most glorious
Creator Allah Almighty, please try to give much more time for His divine service.
O Salaf as-Salihin ulamas! Anything wrong? You are servants, we are servants. Don't run after
imitated titles, no. Not giving any honour to you imitated titles, no. Audhu Billahi min as-shaytan
ar-rajim. Say! How many times you are saying daily or you are thinking that you have been
dressed with 'Infallibility', with heavenly protection. Protection from Heavens is granted to
Anbiya (as). Yes, do you think that you are 'Innocent ones'? Do you just have such an exception
that you are under Divine Protection? What do you think? Say! Don't fear. Don't fear if you are
innocent ones or protected by Heavens. Qul, hatoo burhanakum, bring your proofs. How many
times you are saying Audhu Billahi min as-shaytan ar-rajim?
Yes, you are not going out from your house? You are going. I think mostly you are also putting
on sunglasses, yes? Mostly I am looking and seeing that they are using shaded eye-glasses. Not
shaded, I am saying this in another meaning. Dark glasses, not to be seen where you are looking.
Who is Alim? The one who can be able to keep reins on their horses. Here horses, as we like to
say, reins on our egos. How many times, Salafi ulamas you are looking daily here and there? And
Allah Almighty saying, you must know,
YaAAlamu khainata alaAAyuni wama tukhfee alsuduru
Allah is aware of the most furtive glance and all that hearts conceal (40:19).
You may hide your eyes, perhaps you may put on dark eyeglasses and from inside you may look
but where you are looking, He knows. And He Almighty is saying, 'Keep your looking. Dont
look at forbidden aspects, forbidden places'. Yes, our egos like there to be more and more ladies

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through streets. Also, many ladies as secretary. Secretaries through your offices. Yes, you see
that? Yes. But the Lord of Heavens is looking. O Salafi ulamas, speak truth, how many times you
are looking daily? This is something, but we are asking to say something else. Now we are saying:
Audhu Billahi min as shaytan ar-rajim. How many times you are saying Audhu Billahi min as
shaytan ar-rajim. Say? Never coming to you shaytan? To make you to do this, to do that?

The Salafi ulama were 100% on True Ways. That is the reason through our times Islam is
coming down because those who are responsible for Islam are not giving enough advice. You are
not advising every Juma, perhaps you are going on minbars but you are not saying that Allah
Almighty is ordering, Keep your eyes not to look at haram, forbidden aspects. Say, how many
times you are looking daily and you are not saying Audhu Billahi in as-shaytan ar-rajim. Yes,
perhaps, perhaps you are riding sometimes cars, not latest, new model. Latest, new fashion cars.
You are riding in it and you are looking,
"Oh! You are driver?"
"Oh my shaykh, I am that one".
"Very good".
"Your holiness, where you are asking to go?"
"I was thinking where I am going but I lost my balance when I am looking at a lady like you, so
beautiful, being driver, I lost my whole mind".
Yes, We are ulamas". Why not giving a fatwa not to leave beautiful ladies to be driver. No, that
is fitna. Say that it is a Holy Order. You know Ayat-ul-Karima
Qul lilmumineena yaghuddoo min absarihum
[Prophet] tell believing men to lower their glances (24:30).
Allah Almighty is ordering the Seal of Prophets (s) to say to people to keep their eyes from
looking at forbidden aspects. Why you are not saying this on minbars? Or everytime you are
saying kullu muhdathin dalala, kullu dalalatin fi'n-nar, you know this, but why you are not saying that
is muhdath, but what about for Allah Almighty's order? He is saying to tell believing men to
lower their glances. I am not Arab but understanding something, but you are saying, 'We are
Salafi ulamas'. Yes, how was Islam? I am saying to you something. I am knowing nothing but
what is coming to me I must say.
Once upon a time there was a Qadi looking after every case. One day coming one woman with
jilbab, nothing was showing, to maqam al qadi, to court and the Qadi was sitting.
"For what you are coming, O Mu'minah?"
"O Qadi, O respected judge, I am coming to you to make my complaint in front of Shariatullah.
"Say,"
"O respected one, making judgement between two persons using Shariatullah, the ruling you are
giving is true and what must be done.

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"Say",
"O respected Qadi, I am coming to complain to you that my husband is asking to marry on me
therefore I am coming to complain".
"O Mu'minah, it is permitted in Islam."
What was her answer to Qadi? You listen O Salafi ulamas! You must listen, you must give an
answer, if it is true or not! Look, those claiming to be Salafi ulamas, you are claiming we are
followers of Salaf as-Saleh who passed away from good ones of the ulamas. Look at one of those
persons! And she was saying,
"O respected judge you are true but, if Shariatullah. Allah Almighty is giving His Order and
permission to marry a second, third and fourth but O respected judge, if Shariatullah giving to
me a permission to open my face you are not giving this judgement then. If you see my beauty,
you would not say this but blame my husband that you have been granted from Allah Almighty
such a beautiful one, like moon and you are asking to marry another, blame to you. Keep such a
beauty with you and be thankful to Allah Almighty".

Look so that you are understanding that is Islaah li'l Fiqh (reform in Islamic doctrine). What we
are saying now means real Shariat, never giving a permission for a lady to show from her body
anything. True or not? L`anatullahi ala 'l-kadhibeen (curse on liars). Say! If you are knowing Shariat,
we also know Shariat. And Sayyidina Muhammad (sas) is Rasul for Arab and non-Arabs, not
only for you. Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah. We are saying something that is not a
prepared summary but it is some reality about Shariatullah. Don't play with Shariatullah, don't
give rukhsah, permission beyond Allah Almighty's Shariah.
Sometimes they are making me a very weak one, sometimes I am becoming too hard because
they are making me speak to those who are claiming they are high, top ulamas. No! You are
saying this to people, look your people, in ard al-muqaddas, al-mamlakat, how they are going
around, hmm? They are even asking permission to be granted to them to drive cars What is that?
If you are astaidh Billah,
Alrrijalu qawwamoona AAala alnnisai
Men are maintainers and protectors of women (4:34).
Your tongue is Arabic, you understand or do not understand? What says Allah Almighty ar-rijalu
qawwamuna ala an-nisa? Where are the protectors over their ladies, say! You are going to be like
'biss'. What do they call a cat in Hijaz. Sinnowr. Sinnowr, yes. When your wife shouting on you
you are becoming sinnowr. Sinnowr, cat, biss.
Once upon a time a bedouin was coming from a desert. He found an animal following him and
he was saying "Oh, this is such a beautiful animal, I will keep this one". And taking it and putting
under his jubbah, his abaya, he was going, going. Then one person met him, looking and saying,

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"Oh such a beautiful beast". That person was giving a name and this one giving another name
for this creature. Till reaching that place where he was asking to be, perhaps 10 people were
speaking and giving different names for that creature.

The bedouin said, 'An excess of names implies more honour, more value. Because of many
names that someone is named, it gives a sign that that is famous or more honoured. This must be
too valuable. "Ish,ish,ish, I am so happy, so happy, so happy. Today ghanimat. Winning today,
oohhh". And going to the bazar, to souq. He went there and that cat going mrrr mrrr, mrrr
mrrr, going around. Everyone coming, looking, "Oh, such a beautiful cat. "Ohh! So beautiful
sinnowr, so beautiful cat." But no one was really looking. "Do you like to buy it?" "No we have
also", and going away. And at the end of the day no one remained in the market-place and he
was so angry with cat, saying, "Go away! So many names and no value for you, go away!" And it
ran away.
What we are saying? Cat. Why we are talking about this cat? Ar-rijalu qawwamuna ala an-nisa. The
clue? You must learn your lesson. Don't be cheated. You are now whole Ummah, the whole
Nation of the Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad (sas). Give your respect or no way! Now in
our times ladies coming. The Princes also are trembling at making them unhappy, and saying,
Mrrr, mrrr mrrr mrr.
As you like, O my beloved one, O my darling as you like, yes, doesn't matter, tomorrow".
"No, O my sayyidi, my master, now you can't find that but you will find, O my darling, O my
darling..."
Marhaban Salafi ulamas, I am 90, don't blame me. The pen has been lifted from me. She is
listening, you think on it. Everything written but this writes for you this and that. I am only right
hand, if doing something good, writing, something not good, my sins, Allah Almighty saying,
uttaqqau 'r-Rahman, asbahna uttaqa. Think about yourself, Salafi ulamas.
"O my darling".
"Why not bringing tonight?" Their wives crying, "Why you are not bringing some good
cosmetics?"
Sleeping! I am keeping them here O People, to correct my English they are making it worse.
What we shall do?
May Allah forgive us, O People. And now how is situation for Muslim ladies? Do you have such
courage to come up on minbar and say, "O People Allah Almighty ordering that you must keep
your eyes from looking at haram". Mu'min and Mu'mina, why not remind them? Allah Almighty
is ordering, that is Arabic or Turkish? Fa dhakkir, fa dhakkir. They may forget and you are the one
who reminds, the reminder. Tonight we are doing for you such things, from one side you may
laugh from that side Salafi ulamas are going to be angry. Anger, no good for Salafi ulamas, anger
eats Iman.

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Don't you know what Prophet (sas) is saying when one coming and asking "Ya Rasulullah, advise
me"? He said, "Don't be angry", "and another one", he said "Don't be angry" and "another one",
he said, "Don't be angry". Why you are getting angry? Don't be angry with me, be angry with
shaytan! I am not speaking on behalf of shaytan, but speaking on behalf of Seal of Prophets (sas).
May Allah forgive us and give us power to keep Islam, real Islam so that the whole world must
come, must run away from troubles and sufferings into Islam. Everything that is beneficial for
people they may find in Islam, here and Hereafter. As long as running away, they are falling in
Hell, here and Herafter. May Allah forgive us. Assalamu alaykum.
Fatiha.
My Arabic is scanty, don't mind me, ya ulama Salaf as Saleh, I am within manners of
blameworthiness, as my age is increasing, 90, don't mind me, but take what is necessary,
something, it is okay. I pray my end is in perfect Iman and for that, also I pray insha Allah for
your Iman to be perfect, that you attain Jannat al-Firdaws al-Aala. I am within the manners of
blameworthiness.
Fatiha
O Beautiful ones... O, you are burning our hearts. Keep value for your wives' honour. Your
women are priceless. They have a majestic manifestation. Look! In every one you can find that
manifestation. Don't be like wood, like a wall. No, be gentle for your ladies.
"Always, O my darling, O my darling".
"O my darling", saying one to her husband, one, 90 years, second one, 85 they were going to
showroom a clothing showroom, and both of them the 85 year old looking and saying,
"O my darling, that ones clothes would be suitable for me and it reminds me of when I was 15
years old, please can we buy it?"
"O my darling, which one?" And her husband, 90 years and more, He is carrying this old
monocle.
"Which one O my darling?"
"That one". Till signing for that one, passing 10 more,
"Which one?" (Yes sir!)
"Just passed it, but I think the second one would be okay for me".
(Yes sir!) I may buy for you but I think that only your clothes will be beautiful, because you lost
your beauty at the beauty centres!
Fatiha.

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