Bismillahi r-Rahmani r-Rahim
NO ENVY FOR GOODNESS
Bismi Llāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm:
وَتَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْبِرِّ وَالتَّقْوَىٰ ۖ وَلَا تَعَاوَنُوا عَلَى الْإِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ
(Qur’ān 05:02). ‘Wa ta‘āwanū ‘ala l-birri wa t-taqwā wa la ta‘āwanū ‘ala l-lithmī wa l-‘udwān’, ‘And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression.’ Ṣadaqa Llāhu l-‘Aẓīm.
Help each other in goodness, says Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla. When you do goodness, everyone benefits from it. Therefore, help each other in doing goodness. Doing goodness is not easy for people. It is rather difficult. But do not help each other in doing badness, harming people, or doing anything bad. Help in doing goodness.
People nowadays are envious. There is no envy for goodness. When doing goodness, you feel admiration, not envy. “If only I could do so too. If only I was strong to help. If only I had money so that I could help and do goodness” – they admire each other by saying so. They won’t be envious. There is no envy for goodness.
Certainly, when you help each other in goodness, you both carry out the order of Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla and attain virtue and Barakah. There is strength to you and to Muslims. We need spiritual strength. Spiritual strength surely comes to those who help. As long as you help, Allah ﷻ helps His ﷻ servants. But if you don’t help each other, the situation of Muslims is clear. After the Ottomans, they neither help each other nor admire each other, but they envy each other. They say “If he’s not doing, I won’t do too. If I’m not doing, he should not do so too”. There is such an attitude after the Ottomans. This is the work of shaytan to make Muslims enemies to each other. All they do is according to their egos. Things done according to the ego brings no benefit. It has no use at all. Only when people help each other for the pleasure of Allah ﷻ on the way of Allah ﷻ, Allah ﷻ helps them too. We must know this.
There are many people who live by as scholars. They know much, but it doesn’t cross their minds to help each other. They don’t think like “We should help people so that Allah ﷻ helps us”. This is an important point. As we said, if you help, Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla is the biggest helper, He ﷻ will be with you. He ﷻ will help you too. If you don’t help, Allah ‘Azza wa-Jalla won’t help you.
Envy is not good. As we said, do not help each other in badness and harming. Always be in goodness. Compete with each other in doing goodness. Competing is nice when you want to do more and give more. There is no envy but admiration then, as we said. Envy and admiration are opposite to each other. Envy is when you say “If I don’t do, he shouldn’t do too”. Otherwise, admiration is when you say “He is doing. If only I could do so too. May Allah ﷻ give him more strength so that he helps more”. May Allah ﷻ give this beautiful attribute to all of us and let us help each other insha’Allah. When Muslims help each other, no one can stand in front of them. May Allah ﷻ help us all.
Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.
Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani
13 December 2023/ 29 Jumada al-Awwal 1445
Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah
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Sufi Qalam 
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