As-Salaamu 'alaikum wa rahmatullah. I thank you all for joining Sayyid Ali Konati to provide such a reception and welcome for us. As I am enjoying this, thank you all. I advise you all and advise myself to have taqwa of Allah in private and public, busy yourselves with Him outwardly and inwardly, and occupy your outward with His outward and your inward with His inward— busying oneself with His outward means busying oneself with the Shariah Muhammadiyyah, and busying oneself with His inward means busying oneself with the Haqiqah Muhammadiyyah. I advise you to hold onto the Tijani Tariqah, which has three pillars: seeking forgiveness, sending prayers on the Prophet, and la ilaha illa Allah; three conditions: not rejecting it, not joining it with another tariqah, and not visiting awliya' who are not Tijani for ultimate spiritual benefit; and three etiquettes: having a good opinion of Allah, witnessing Allah's blessings, and giving up one's affair to Allah. So here we bid you farewell, while the hearts remain—all of our hearts and yours remain in Allah's essence. Read al-Fatihah with the intention of fulfilling all of your desires, material and immaterial, and say "alhamdu lillah." Was-salaam.
This speech was given in Talhaya, Mauritania, on 30 November, 1992
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