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=Question: on the importance of the Dhikr and the Awrad and the “love for power”We have answered this question already in the beginning. The most important things are the Awrad. If one is diligent in Awrad we will accompany him. If he is hard working in his Awrad, he will always rise for the Morning Prayer, he will be very good in his relationship with his family, and he will fight the egos, the devil and desires. Mawlana says: “He rescues himself, and with his rescue, he rescues his family.” (Qasida)He spoke in his Qasa’id much about diligence in Awrad. The jinn touch the mad person, but the one who reads Awrad a lot drives the jinn to be mad. The house that such a person enters fills itself, after being empty. The Awrad clothes and decorates you, with beauty and majesty.They clothe you in acceptance, and people love you without you knowing the reason. The more Awrad you read, the more you will have people seeking your company, wanting to sit with you, listening to you, asking for your advice. When you read your Awrad, you are following Mawlana. You might be anxious, but simultaneously you receive the love, and all has to be measured on the scale of the Shari’a. The Awrad are power. They change a person totally. The Awrad are the cause.The responsible one must be wise and must surround himself with these characteristics. Just as Mawlana always did, although he knew his own opinion was right, one still should listen to another’s opinion. He did what the majority wanted, even if it made things more difficult. (I do not like to mention here the names of the participants.) Everyone has to be polished and patient, must always remain in dhikr, modest, and a servant for the Tariqa, and never act as a ruler.The presidency actually does not mean a lot. If it were different, my family would have applied itself to that. But we are not greedy for power. Our standards are normal, our life is normal, our characteristics and relationships with the brothers and sisters, and our love towards them is normal. That is the profit: the love. As you enter the Zawiya and find somebody from the east and another from the west, one from here and others from there; who accomplished this? Sidi Ibrahim gathered them all, and it could be that you would not find anybody in your family who takes as good care of you, and cares so much about you, as you find here.It could be that the young people drink alcohol, or do something else (against Shari’a law).He who drinks alcohol, or smokes hashish is not supposed to be thrown out of the Tariqa. We should let him heal in peace. We have the medicine. Don’t think it is difficult. We do everything to win somebody for the Tariqa, to enlarge our establishment, to lead him or her to the right path. If I find someone who is lost, with no more hope, sad and in despair, I should give him hope and love. I should show him that here he has a family he has not known until now. I should show him the way with the Awrad and with respect. You respect us; we respect you. If you won’t respect me, how should I respect you?What is the difference between the son of Adam who reads Awrad, and a street hustler? You see one is a Gamal Abdal Nasr, another Hitler, another a good for nothing. If he starts to speak, you see whether he is good or bad, whether or not he has a strong personality. Beyond all this, the Awrad and the Muraqaba can change a person internally.I feel that people are perhaps tired from the work of the day, between the evening and night prayers. However we must make Muraqaba. On the way home you could already start the introduction and the Fawatih, and when you go to bed you do the remainder of it, until you are snoring. This is accepted as Muraqaba. It is that which improves a person.The “ love for power”12 brings problems. One says to us: “Serve”. But do I get a reward, or gifts? – No! The more you serve, the more the Sheikhs love you. You will find the Sheikhs in your home, in your children, at your work and in the street. And they are welcoming you.And for the one who reads Awrad, it is like sitting in a room. If someone would try to attack him with stones from the outside, the walls will defend him. That is how the Awrad work.They protect against each threat.A small example for this – Al Hizbu-s-Saghir: the father of Sheikh Saleh (may Allah be satisfied with him) was Daifi [member of Tariqa Dayfiyya], but he read Al Hizbu-s-Saghir and called the angels. Once he left the house at three or four in the morning to go to the market to work. He rode along on his donkey on the path through the fields of grain.Suddenly a dog mad with rabies charged out of the field and tried to attack him. He recited the “yuljimuhu…” from Al Hizbu-s-Saghir and continued on his way. The dog stayed quiet.On the way home, he found the dog dead, on that exact same spot.Doctor Suhaib, the son of Ash-Shafia, was transferred to the district of Al-Obaid. I told him not to go to Kadujli, but that was exactly where they transferred him to. As he was traveling with his chauffeur through a dark forest, they spotted four glowing eyes. There were two wolves. The chauffeur reached for his gun and wanted to get out. Doctor Suhaib told him not to, but he did after all. The doctor recited the “yuljimuhu…” and the wolves cleared out of the way, before the chauffeur had the chance to fire his weapon.This shows to you the advantages of the Awrad. Our Awrad are not simple. They are very high, a very high permission. The permission to the Muraqaba is special, as well as Al Hizbus- Saifi, just as I have told you.Once there was in al Ta’if [a neighborhood in Khartoum] a high -rise that was occupied by jinn. The owners got a man named al Burai in order to drive out the jinn from there. Al Burai distributed papers with certain verses of the Quran in this building. The jinn came and burned the papers. The owners went and brought back Yakut from the mountain Jabal al-Awliya. He came into the house and recited something. However it still did not help. Thereupon the owners got a man from Falata [Nigerians, which earlier migrated into Sudan and worked with black magic]. He was not able to help either. Later a brother by the name of Adal Mahmud came, to report to us about this case. I said: “Go! Lawandi, and one more.” We brought salt and read on it. I told them to get a broom and wrap it up on the upper end with a cloth, moisten it with the brine and then spray the walls of the house with it. They did as they weretold.Can you believe it? Earlier the jinn had prevented the children from going to school, by causing them to have diarrhea, they caused the cars of inhabitants of the building to run without drivers in them. The jinn had also begun to burn apartments. They took mattresses and stuffed them into closets and then set them on fire. They filled water tanks and emptied them again, and burned the water-pumps. Yet after the brothers had sprayed everything with the saltwater the jinn burnt. I told the owners if you could see things, you would have seen a hand here, and an ear there and a head somewhere else. They were completely torn up. See, that is the advantage of Al Hizbu-s-Saifi. What black magic and al Yakut could not accomplish, the benefit of this little reading did.
