Discourse by Sidi Umar Vadillo , 24 May 2003, Ribat of Kuala Lumpur
Bismillahir rahmanir rahim.
Tonight I am saying something special about Sidi Idris. His death/passing away and the events surrounding it were a great opening to all of us. We ask Allah Taala to shower His bounty and mercy upon him. He has gone ahead of us.
He is a man of wisdom-hikmah and certainty. Things become clear to him and looks settled while for others it is wobbly. He went through life with everything (riches and status etc) and also everything was taken away from him (become poor and stripped away).
In tasawwuf, this process is called annihilation-fana of the slave attributes. He purifies the nafs until it becomes free and pure for the worship of Allah with knowledge.
Sidi Shaykh has conferred highest honor on him by appointing him as his khalifa-representative in the tariqa of Shadhili-Darqawiyya in the region of Nusantara-malay world ( after he had made a difficult trip to England and Spain to meet SAQ in Granada in the month of Ramadhan in the early 1980s. He was well versed in the teaching of malay classical texts-kitab and graduated with an economic degree from Belfast Queen University).
We confirmed him as the wali of Allah. Nobody knows the secrets of the wali as he is buried/ hidden among the community of murids. He takes away this gift with him to the presence of Allah Taala. We witness his great love for Allah and His Rasul sallallahu alaihi wasallam although he try to hide his tears and states in the dhikr session.
The Sufis rejoice whe a mumin dies because he had doine his job and pleased with Allah.
When a baby is born, they-sufis are grieved bcos he is going to face a test of his life. Those who remembers Allah is alive and those who forgot Him are already dead although outwardly they are alive.
Sayyidina Umar r.a. said : Die before you die. It means you must have the knowledge of death which is about the power, decree and secret of Allah’s action while we are alive before facing the real death and ready for Akhirah. Each person build a prison around him while living. The dunya can be a prison if we don’t see its power that masters over the self-nafs. By that we are veiled from the knowledge of Allah.
Tasawwuf is freeing the nafs from this prison which we build by our attachment, fears, love..etc. The awliya has no fear bcos they already went through this matter in the Path. (As instructed by SAQ, the fuqara in kuala Lumpur had recited the Wird, Suratul Yassin and three qasidah from the Diwan of Sh. Muhammad Ibn alHabib (SMH), for the last three days in his illness.
One day before he passed away, we recited the Lakal-Hamd, Counsel of Death and Asma ul-Husna for him in a special gathering. May Allah gave us the mercy, secrets and blessings
of that zikr only to remember His gifts to us in this short life sojourns.
The kafirun hides the news of death. They feel at loss. They don’t know what to do. They fear it and attributed it to worldly causality..this and that events. For the muslims, it is entirely a matter of the Decree of Allah, the Giver of Life and Taker of Death. It does not matter how things are going our way before we die if we accepted our destiny. To live, worship, obey and love Allah Taala. We are all journeying toward our own death and meeting with Him.
Sidi Idris will be remembred by us in the dhikr, dua’ and the knowledges or advice he given to us and his blessed company with us .
We ask Allah taala to give him a high place in the Garden
among the company of the Salihun.
We ask Allah Taala to protect and strengthen his family members
and make great openings for them.
We ask You, Oh Allah, by the rank of our compassionate guide
Sayyidina Muhammad, grant us sciences that will benefit us
in the Day of Rising, strengthen us with lights at every instant
and make us firm at the time of sealing,
the agony of death and in the grave.
Dua’ from the end of Asmaul-Husna Qasida of SMH :
Oh Allah, we beg You by Your Most Beautiful Names
seeking Your approval and lutf in this life and the grave.
And on the Day of Rising and Gathering at the Stopping Place
where creation will taken into account , Oh Knower of secrets !
When the book of actions are taken, and at the Arrival-Masyar
and when we pass over the Sirat.
Oh Vast Goodness-ya Wasial Birri
Give us health in our life transaction, and this world and mercy
in the Two Abodes by Your Overflowing Generosity.
We ask for a seal of goodness (husnul khatimah) at death, and
to be near the Prophet, the praise worthy station of gathering.
May the blessings of Allah be upon him and His peace without end
and on his family and glorious Companions.
Ribat of Sidi al-Banna Retreat
Bukit Keramat Hujung
Kuala Lumpur
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