Bismillahi Rahmani Raheem Assalamu Alaikum.
Revelation 1:11- 3:13, on the Greek island of Patmos, Jesus (as) instructs John of Patmos (as) to:
“Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches (communities): to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamum, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.” The Seven communities are all located in the Asia Minor, present-day Turkey.
The term Church here does not mean Church it is a metaphor because no church existed in the time of Jesus (as) or shortly after, rather because Jesus (saws) is addressing the Angels it means the religious community under your care, you will see this from the advice and warnings Jesus (as) is giving to these Angels who are falling short in their end of matters regarding people and what those people deserve from Ghayb and the Angels looking after them.
You should understand this is how the prophets administer the affairs of Ghayb (the unseen) by instructing the Angels responsible for it and guiding them, today the highest Awliyah of Allah do the same once they reach that capacity. Allah asks the prophets to raise these Awliyah spiritually to these places and teach them.
In our life we have had a few prophets guide us some openly by speaking to us some from a distance not wishing to manifest their image in the world because of fitnah, our writings on the Angels and our experience with them in life, it is a sunnah we took from Sayyidinah Isa (as) and it is very similar to what you see here.
If it has not dawned on you yet what our work is, it is to show you the complete path of the Awliayh like the Awliyah before us, Rasul Allah (saws) once said to some Jinn wishing to help us, “you will not find anyone else in this world besides us” who is responsible like this, there is only one other Ghawth and Qutb in the world who could but their work is elsewhere.
To the Church (People) in Ephesus
“To the Malach (Angel) of the church (people) in Ephesus write”:
“These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands. (Jesus (as) explains elsewhere; The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lamp stands (pillars of light, of religion) are the seven churches (religious communities in these lands).)
2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked people, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.”
“4 Yet I hold this against you (Angel): You have forsaken the love you had at first. 5 Consider how far you have fallen! (from your station, rank, safa in the Quran) Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand (light of your community) from its place. 6 But you have this in your favor: You hate the practices of the Nicolaitans (a heretical group), which I also hate.”
“7 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit (Jesus) says to the churches (Communities). To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life (The lote tree of furthest limit), which is in the paradise of God.” (Revelation 2:1-7)
To the Church (People) in Smyrna
8 “To the Malach (Angel) of the church in Smyrna write:
These are the words of him who is the First and the Last… 9 I know your afflictions and your poverty—yet you are rich! I know about the slander of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan (People pretending to be followers of Allah in order to corrupt what religion says, this is testimony that people during this distorted Christianity). 10 Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful,even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown.
11 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who is victorious will not be hurt at all by the second death (Death of evil souls in the grave). (Revelation 2:8-11)
(“They say: Our Lord! Twice hast Thou made us die, and twice hast Thou made us live. Now we confess our sins. Is there any way to get out (of this)?” (40:11), “(They say) i.e. the disbelievers will say in the Fire: (Our Lord!) O our Lord! (Twice hast Thou made us die) once when You took away our souls [in the life of the world] and once after Munkar and Nakir questioned us in the graves, (and twice hast Thou made us live) once before we were questioned by Munkar and Nakir in the graves and once for the resurrection. (Now we confess) we acknowledge (our sins) our idolatry and denial. (Is there any way to go out) is there any way we can go back to the life of the world so that we believe in You?” (Tafsir Al Jalalayn))
To the Church (People) in Pergamum
12 “To the Malach (Angel) of the church in Pergamum write:
These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.13 I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas (King Herod), my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives (Satan had his throne here in Turkey, then He moved it to the Ocean by the time of Rasul Allah (saws), most likely because of increasing population density).
14 Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam (a diviner in the Torah), who taught Balak (King Balak of Moab) to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality. 15 Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16 Repent therefore! (of what spiritual support you are giving them) Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth (my Knowledge).
17 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious (over these evils), I will give some of the hidden manna (new spiritual life from the one corrupted by proximity to Satan. “[perhaps alluding to a Jewish tradition that the manna placed in the ark is hidden until the messianic age; ultimately referring to the spiritual life Christ provides; John 6:32–35]”). I will also give that person a white stone with a new name (reality) written on it, known only to the one who receives it (the person will gain new qualities from Allah, like Allah’s 99 names or attributes, the stone is simply a medium of Baraka for the person). (Revelation 2:12-17)
To the Church (People) in Thyatira
18 “To the Malach (Angel) of the church in Thyatira write:
These are the words of the Son of God (Inheritor of Allah), whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze (Polished Steel). 19 I know your deeds,your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first.
20 Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols. 21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. 22 So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. 23 I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches (communities) will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds (intentions).
24 Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets, ‘I will not impose any other burden on you, 25 except to hold on to what you have until I come (Hold on until the hour, because the truth does not change).’
26 To the one who is victorious and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— 27 that one ‘will rule them with an iron scepter and will dash them to pieces like pottery’—just as I have received authority from my Father. 28 I will also give that one the morning star. 29 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches (Communities). (Revelation 2:18-29)
To the Church (People) in Sardis
3 “To the Malach (Angel) of the church in Sardis write:
These are the words of him who holds the seven spirits of God and the seven stars (“The Spirit of the LORD (reaching Allah’s reality in your self, here this means the heart reaching the Arsh, the height of sainthood) shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD, and He will delight in the fear of the Lord.” (Isaiah 11:2–3)). I know your deeds; you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. 2 Wake up! Strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have found your deeds unfinished in the sight of my God. 3 Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; hold it fast, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief (to take without your consent), and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
4 Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes.They will walk with me, dressed in white, for they are worthy. 5 The one who is victorious will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life (Their hearts will not die), but will acknowledge that name before my Father and his angels. 6 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches (Communities). (Revelation 3:1-6)
(This is Jesus’s (as) reality with Allah, His closeness, He is the Spirit of Allah (Ruh Allah) and you will find this terminology in the Quran, its meaning is that He (as) has reached the reality of the verse ‘Allah blew of His own spirit into man’, “So We breathed into him (his soul) of Our spirit” (66:12).)
To the Church (People) in Philadelphia
7 “To the Malach (Angel) of the church in Philadelphia write:
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David (Isaiah 22:22 And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open). What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. 9 I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. 10 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently, I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come on the whole world to test the inhabitants of the earth.
11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown. 12 The one who is victorious I will make a pillar (of light, Imam) in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new (reality of) Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name. 13 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches (communities). (Revelation 3:7-13)
To the Church (People) in Laodicea
14 “To the Malach (Angel) of the church in Laodicea write:
These are the words of the Amen (Yaqeen), the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. 15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold (unmoving, in terms of Angels He is not distant so as to have wisdom, to see from above, or close so as to have a heart, unmoving also means doing nothing with reality)—I am about to spit you out of my mouth (remove your remembrance from myself). 17 You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18 I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire (wisdom gained from experience), so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear (light), so you can cover your shameful nakedness (darkness); and salve to put on your eyes (focus), so you can see.
19 Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent. 20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person (share my reality with them), and they with me (take from me).
21 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne (in my reality), just as I was victorious and sat down with my Father on his throne (His reality). 22 Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches (communities).” (Revelation 3:14-22)
Here ends the advice of Jesus (as), Isa (as), Ruh Allah (as), Ruh al Qudus (as), to the seven Angels in charge of the communities in Turkey.
The Awliyah and This World
Rasul Allah (saws) has informed us that the Muslim Ummah will not accept this deeper view of the Mala’ikah as a community from us because in Islam all Mala’ikah are perfect and do not make mistakes, that is the general view among the uneducated at least while the scholars who know them have said different, that is fine we are not speaking to people here but to the Angels of this world, just keep in mind that in Ahadith Angels have fallen short and when ever they get to close to this world, to physical existence, they loose their way, this is the essence of what is behind our words to the Angels.
We are not addressing all of the Angels only those of this world, what has happened to this world is that it has gone insane and forced the Mala’ikah to walk these paths with it, now the world of Jinn that the occult used up has lost its power and is just doing anything, therefore it is now the Mala’ikah of this world that are driving the Jinn and the occult world like slaves into the spiritual paths they created.
The Angels have gotten to close to this world and lost their way, this is by degrees of closeness, they have hearts like any other creature and are affected by the forces of this universe and its laws, so that the end result is if they lived in this world as men the same things will happen to them as us.
Understand, the Fitnah of the Dajjal is a fitnah of Mala’ikah in Ahadith, Allah will send two Angels from Him to stand besides the Dajjal to fool people into thinking he is god, that is the future in response to what is happening now in the world, those who have hikmah can understand why Allah will do this from the rest of what we are saying.
Our Hikmah To The Mala’ikah
“To the Malach (Angels) of the churches of this world we write;”
“By those [angels] ranged in ranks,” (37:1) You have left the ranks Allah created you in, and mixed with the people and creatures of this world so that you have forgotten yourself and the purpose Allah created you for. It is not your place to make decisions for Allah’s creatures or to force their hand into anything, assuming their life for them, this is the folly of Jinn and the mistake of the Dajjal (Allah’s curse be upon him) in life.
Allah has not placed with you the hikmah and wisdom of this world, so you do not know how to rule it or its people, this is only for the Khalifah Allah has placed here, today this is His Awliyah, in the future it will be Isa (as).
Return to your ranks and stay there, if you do not achieve this by the time of Imam Mahdi (as) and Isa (as), if we do not see order returning to this world, by Allah we will strike you on Qiyamah with the swords you know Allah has given to us for this purpose.
You will have the blood of this world and every human Allah created on your hands; “Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land – it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one (soul) – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the land, were transgressors.” (5:32)
This is the Mizan of responsibility upon everything, this is the weight of one human soul, Ya Mala’iklah, you know the place of mankind with Allah, you will be made to pay for the destruction of this universe if you do not return.
Shaykh Rami Al Rifai.
“O you who have believed, obey Allah and obey the Messenger and those in authority among you.” (4:59)