Rasulullah S.A.W teaches a glimpse of his prayer when performing silent prayer at night after his shalat tahajjud.
Assalamu'alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh,
All Praise be to Allah Almighty, The Sustainer of the World and Sky, The Supreme Being, the Only God, The Eternal. Calling into existence, each soul to the peak of nobility, inviting His servants to always be within happiness in the world and beyond, with the guidance of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. All Praise be to Allah The Almighty in the whole world, who spreads the whole the skies from zilch, who creates the widest sky and earth and makes them chant tasbih glorifying the name of Allah.
Ladies and gentlemen, as explained by the scientists that in fact the planets in this realm of nature are not only sun, moon and stars but the earth is one part of Milky Galaxy. This galaxy is a cluster of stars and planets which consist of more than 200 billion stars. The earth is one of the 200 billion other planets. And in fact, ladies and gentlemen, galaxy is not the only thing on the sky, there is another galaxy or a group of stars which is close from our galaxy (galaksi bimasakti) which is called Andromeda Galaxy.
Andromeda galaxy has its length from a cluster of billion planets in it, and its width reaches 220.000 years of light. If we go through the 220.000 years of light, it goes from one edge of andromeda to the other edge. This show how broad the millions of planet in the andromeda galaxy is, until its width reaches 220.000 years of light while the speed of light is 300.000km/second. 300.000km/second of speed light, while the distance between the earth and the andromeda galaxy is 2.000.000 years of light. Hence 2.000.000 (2 million) years of light is equal to (300.000 km/second X 60/minute, which means X 60/hour or X 24 hours X 365 days X 2.000.000 years).
Hence the shape of andromeda that we see tonight, right now is the shape of andromeda 2.000.000 years a go, because the shape of light would only reach the earth after 2.000.000 years and in fact there are not only one galaxy, there are andromeda and millions of other galaxies have been found by our scientists and this is only on the first level of sky.
Ladies and gentlemen, He is Allah Jalla Wa Alla, The Greatest Creator of the outer space with all His light. But the centre of all nobility and all of such greatest creations is the earth. And from all that had been created by Allah, such creatures including trillions of planets in this world and on the first sky, the noblest creature is Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. Not in andromeda, not in other places but on earth of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. As written in Shahih Bukhari, when he S.A.W passed through the first sky, the angels said "marhaban bihi wa ni'mal majii'u Jaa'a.." welcome to him, the most dignified one has come. This is the most dignified mankind who passed through the first sky, reached the second sky, the third until the seventh sky and up to sidratul muntaha. Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W is my guru and the guru of all of you, my idol and the idol of all of you, the brightest soul with the light of Allah. If the light needs time as long as 2.000.000 years to reach from one galaxy to another, the light of prayer and silent prayer in a wink of an eye goes through the seven skies until Hadratullah Jalla Wa Alla. This is the speed of prayer, much faster than the speed of light. The speed of light needs millions of years from one galaxy to another, and still on the first sky. While the speed of silent prayer, the speed of calls, calling the Name of Allah, is way much faster than the speed of light.
The Prophet S.A.W in his silent prayer, recited "Allahumma lakal hamdu anta nurussamawati wal ard wa lakal hamdu anta qayyimussamawati wal ard wa lakal hamdu anta rabbussamawati wal ard wa man fiihinna" O' Allah for You all the praise, and You are the One who shines the whole world and sky, O' Allah for You all the praise, You are the One who builds and raises the whole world and sky, O' Allah for You all the praise, You are the One who manages and takes care of the whole world and sky, He is (Allah S.W.T) who shines the whole world, shines the skies, creates the light and makes it and builds it from nothing and takes care of it until the end of the world.
Ladies and gentlemen, He is The Supreme Being in the sky and earth, The God Almighty. How small and worthless we are on this earth, in the middle of a wide ocean of stars in the sky, the earth is like a dust in the midst of ocean. Ladies and gentlemen, The Owner of the ocean of sky and earth is Allah Jalla Wa Alla and such noble gathering like this is glorified by The Supreme Being of the world. This is the gathering for those long for Allah, this is the gathering being very much loved by God Almighty in the world and sky because within this gathering many of His servants return to Him and leave their sins in the hand of His and within this gathering has been assigned the angels especially to take notes and witness the audience and pray for them with this prayer "allahumma shalli a'laihi allahummarhamhu" O' Allah kindly pour shalawat for those who attend, O' Allah kindly love them. This is written in Shahih Bukhari, on those who attend Mosque.
Ladies and gentlemen being glorified by Allah,
The Owner of the noblest authority, The Owner of Power and The One who can change any situation who becomes the guidance of all The Prophets and the shalihin and faithful people. They count on the power of Illahiyah (God) which cannot be predicted or cannot be surpassed by the power of any creatures. As the last sentence said by Nabiyullah Ibrahim alaihis salam when the fire of namrud was about to lit, hence Ibrahim alahis salam said "hasbiyallahu wani'mal wakiil" enough for me Allah. And He is the noblest and the best place to run for help from all problems. Problems that cannot be handled by any creatures, the problem with fire is that it always burn and it always happens as long as this world still exists and the nature of fire is to burn. But when this sentence is read, "hasbiyallahu wani'mal wakiil" enough for me Allah, and the most dignified place for tawakkal (trust in God) hence Allah commands the fire "kuuniy bardan wa salaaman ala ibrahim", O' fire, be cool and tame and bring safety towards Ibrahim a.s. QS. Al Anbiya 69. Hence that fire becomes cold, why? Because the power of Illahiyyah that comes from the soul and generates from the Light of Allah S.W.T will conquest all kind of power in the world, turning the state of fire that burns into the fire that is cold. There is never a cold fire unless the fire of Nabiyullah Ibrahim alaihissalam. Allah who creates fire and its characteristic, Allah makes that fire hot and burn, Allah is also able to make it cold with His decision. This is Jalallahu my God and the God of all of you, who loves me and loves you all and the proof of His love is our attendance tonight as one of the proofs of the love of Allah towards all of us.
A Moslem understands that he is one of the people being loved by Allah. If Allah hates him then Allah might turn him so that Allah doesn't want him to bow down for Him. If Allah hates us then we are not able to bow down for Allah, will not able to call the Name of Allah, if Allah hates His servant, how that servant could move his own lips to call the Name of Allah? But Allah still allows us, in order that we can be even closer towards Him with the love of Allah S.W.T towards us. Answer the love of Allah.
As written in Shahih Bukhari, Sayyidatuna Sarah alaiha salam (the wife of Nabiyullah Ibrahim a.s), when Allah ordered Nabiyullah Ibrahim alaihis salam to test his wife (Sayyidatuna Sarah) to be left in one tyrannical country. A country where there was no Moslems, and ruled by a cruel king and authority. "Leave your wife there", Prophet Ibrahim said "sami'na wa athana ala amri Rabbiy" I hear it and I obey the command of my God. "O' my beloved wife Sarah, I was ordered to leave you here alone". Why? Because Allah wants his wife to have her own faith, doesn't always depend on her husband, instead she should always trust in Allah. Hence his wife replied "O' Ibrahim, am I here alone?, this is the tyrannical country..!, the king is a tyrant.!". Prophet Ibrahim said, "this is the order from Allah", hence he (Prophet Ibrahim) left his wife. Not long after, the king saw Sayyidatuna Sarah, a beautiful woman and he wanted her to be taken to the palace. "Take her to my palace", she was taken by the troops. Indeed Sayyidatuna Sarah was a weak woman, couldn't defend herself, thus she was taken to that king.
And indeed she has known the bad intention of that tyrant king, in which if she refused his will, it means she will risk her life, what if she died while her husband Nabiyullah Ibrahim alaihissalam hasn't returned?. Then what did Sayyidatuna Sarah do?, while taking wudhu (ritual washing) she prayed, "O" Allah if indeed You trust and You know that I am faithful to You O' Rabb hence don't give power to that tyrant king, if my faith is true, You admit that I am a Moslem that never be hypocritical about You and admit Prophet Ibrahim is Your messenger (because of that era) hence don't make that king overpower me". Hence when she met with that king, suddenly that king saw Sayyidatuna Sarah and with trembled knees, that king fell down with no reasons whatsoever, because he was subdued by the power of Allah S.W.T. The king said "take out this woman, release her…release her!!". When I faced her, I felt like facing the powerful lion that would tear me down. As if tens of lions protected her, take her out from my presence, I couldn't face her anymore. A tyrannical king was subdued, while the fragile woman has the power of Illahi. Where is your power, all subdued with the power of Rabbul Alamin. The God Almighty in the world and sky, He is Allah S.W.T.
Allah declared, "sari'u ilaa maghfiratin min rabbikum wa jannatin ardhuhaassamawati wal ard" rush you all towards forgiveness from your God, reach His forgiveness soon, reach and get all His Love and heaven that is wider than the whole sky and world. QS. Ali Imran: 133. Reach it after you all receive My forgiveness, reach the heaven, said Allah.
Just now we learnt how wide this world is, how wide the sky is, and it is only the first sky, and only as far as human knowledge can reach. Perhaps it is 1000X or even 1.000.000X much bigger than what has been known by human at this time, the width of the sky as we have yet to find the sky's edge. As long as they still study all kind of possibilities and not yet find the edge of the sky, either go up or down to the left or right, they will keep finding space which is even further, and this is the extension of Allah on the first sky. And the heaven is even wider than the whole sky and earth. Allah offers it to all of us, the true valley of happiness and pleasure, here we can find the palaces of God' Blessings in which Allah built especially for His servants the followers of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W.
Ladies and gentlemen being glorified by Allah,
Rasul S.A.W is the most perfect mankind and his teachings are the gentlest guidance. As written in Shahih Bukhari, when a young man came to Rasul S.A.W to tell about his sins, Rasul S.A.W didn't answer it, but Allah is the one who answered, as declared by Allah "innal hasanaat yudzhibnassayyi'at" that the merits (of good deeds) will wipe out the sins.
For those who are filled with sins, hence increase the merits. I have unfortunately committed many sins, thus multiply the good deeds because those who increase his good deeds will be forgiven all his sins and be guided towards dignity. My tongue has many times talked about or hurt people's feeling, how could I make my tongue stop from talking about others? Increase your time to recite Alqur'anulkarim, heal your lips with the kalamullah Jalla Wa Alla, multiply dzikrullah. This is how to mend sharp tongue.
"I have committed many sins with my hands," hence increase good deeds with your hands. If you make sins with eyes thus increase good deeds with eyes. "innal hasanaat yudzhibnassayyi'at" indeed the merits (of good deeds) wipe out sins. Mend our sins with merits. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the magnificence of guidance from Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. This shows how magnificent Allah is.
As written in Shahih Bukhari, Rasul S.A.W noticed Nuaiman radiyallahu anhum drank alcohol. It was when the verse on prohibition of drinking alcohol (khamr) was released, hence those who still drink alcohol would be punished. Nuaiman drank alcohol, he was punished. Not long after, he got drunk again, and punished again, and just few days after that, he would drink alcohol again, until the comrades said, "alaihi la'natullah" the curse of Allah. kept on drinking alcohol, kept on going drunk. Rasul S.A.W declared "indeed all of you, don't curse Nuaiman because I know, in the name of Allah he loves Allah and His Rasul". To a drunkard, Rasul said "in the name of Allah he loves Allah and His Rasul". This news was delivered to Nuaiman, "you keep on drinking, just now Rasulullah said that in the name of Allah you love Allah and Rasul". Upon hearing this, Nuaiman radiyallahu anhum cried, "Rasul said I was loved by Allah and Rasul?" hence I repented towards Allah S.W.T. How magnificent it is, the guidance of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W. Saying 1,2 sentences that shivered the stubborn soul which was not cured by laws, but surrendered with 1,2 beautiful sentences coming out from the most magnificent soul, from the light of Allah The Most Magnificent. This is the guidance from Muhammad Rasulullah S.A.W.
The comrades of Rasul S.A.W said "kunna nasma' tasbihuttha'am wa nahnu na'kul" as written in Shahih Bukhari. When we were eating, if Rasulullah was eating together with us, we often heard the voice of tasbih (praise of God) from the food being touched by the fingers of The Prophet S.A.W, we could hear the tasbih and dzikir when that food was touched by the hand of Muhammad Rasulullah S.A.W. Those foods recite tasbih and we heard it. This is how Allah made the magnificent of The Prophet S.A.W and things around The Prophet S.A.W. And those who love The Prophet S.A.W is the ones with the most perfect faith.
As written in Shahih Bukhari that on the Judgment Day, on that time, when people are in trouble, everyone is asked his or her responsibilities towards each of letter he has once said, when all humankind is interrogated on each of his breath, when each dust stepped by him becomes the witness, on that time, being lifted maqam mahmudah (the praised degree) for Nabiyyuna Muhammad S.A.W. All in the mahsyar field praises the magnificent degree of Sayyidina Muhammad S.A.W at that time.
We perform silent prayer towards Allah S.W.T, may Allah S.W.T make our days filled with the light of longing for Allah S.W.T, O' The Most Magnificent, O' The God Almighty who built the kingdom of sky and earth from nothing to something, O' The Sustainer of The World who takes care of the whole world, kindly take care of our bad behaviors and change them all, replace them with noble behaviors, kindly change our bad actions with the light of Your beauty, and our days which are filled with problems, kindly replace them with happiness. O' The Supreme Being, The Possessor of all situation, O' The Cherisher who poured down happiness from era to era, O' The Most Gracious who gives pleasures towards each kind of life, O' The Possessor of each of His servants' breath, O' God Almighty who sees all souls of Your servants, we gather tonight and You Are The Witness each of our intentions, all of our problems, all of our difficulties, all of our sins and mistakes, we run towards Your door of merciful The God Almighty, we run towards Your door of generosity The Cherisher, we run towards Your door of magnificence The Most Magnificent, O' Allah The Most Gracious who gives Happiness in the ocean of prosperity that is never ending, call His Name, call the Name of Allah Jalla Wa Alla, call the Name of Allah, shiver your lips to call His Name The God Almighty, may these lips can always move to call His Name in the calls of longing for Him. O' Rabbiy shine our souls with Your light, shine each of our breath with Your light, we understand this whole world belongs to You, we know that this earth You are the owner, we understand that You are the owner, hence kindly straighten Your servants from all kind of humiliation, reorganize Your servants from all kind of destruction, clear up Your servants from all troubles and problems.
Faquuluuu jamii'an (recite this together) Ya Allah, Ya Allah..Ya Allah..
Faquuluuu jamii'an (recite this together) Laillahailallah Laillahailallah Laillahailallah Muhammadurrasulullah
Not to forget, we pray for our guests. Our beloved father Habib Musthofa Al Aththas and Habib Musthofa, may being blessed by the Blessing from Allah and to other habaib who come together with us tonight. KH. Djamaludin from Pengadegan, KH. Abdul Khair from Pengadegan and Mr. H. Yusuf and H. Ashraf Ali and all of our guests may they all are blessed in dhahiran wa bathinan. And for all of us who come, Rabbiy Rabbiy kindly make all of our face to be seeing the beauty of Your Essence, Rabbiy. And our days will always be in longing for You and make our days beautiful always an always long for Your magnificence. Ya Rahman Ya Rahim. We continue with praying together, praying for all Moslems with our prayer Ya Arhamar Rahimin Farij A'lal Muslimin, as written in Shahih Muslim, Rasul S.A.W declared "to those who pray for his Moslem brother/sister, the angels will recite "amin walaka mitsluh", if we pray one good thing for our Moslem brothers, thus the angles say "amin dan untukmu kebaikan itu". If we ask for help for all Moslems, countless the number of Moslems in this world who are in trouble, who are sad, who are in difficulties, all will be touched by our return back to us.
Washollallahu ala Sayyidina Muhammad Nabiyyil Ummiy wa Shohbihi wa Sallam.
Wassalamu'alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
(Majelis Rasulullah)
