Mirza Yawar Baig – Akhlaaq before Ibaadah
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The speaker discusses their personal approach to Islam and their social life, including a disturbing incident where a man named J causes people to ask one question to ask another if they have a problem. They also discuss the importance of following the logic of Allah's advice and practicing them in a way that is meant to be practiced. The transcript also touches on the use of logic and the influence of Islam on one's behavior.
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You know, many people come to me asking
questions about Islam,
And they have been asking me now for
over 20 years.
But one interesting thing
is almost everything,
every question, almost not not all, almost every
question has to do with some
issue, some.
So my standard answer, I tell them I'm
not a. I don't give.
So I say, ask once to ask once.
So I send them to the.
Allah is witness till today.
Almost nobody came to me to say,
I think there is something wrong with my
heart.
How do I
clean my heart?
I hate people.
I am greedy.
I have.
I am jealous of people.
I don't like to see somebody else doing
well.
I find that even though I know
including I know the I know the
about the problem of of backbiting.
But I find that my whole social life
is only this.
Talk about this one. Talk about that one.
Talk about that one.
How can I cure this? What shall I
do? Nobody.
So my conclusion is that we are living
in a society which is comprised of Awliya
Allah.
Who have achieved.
They don't need it.
Nobody comes to ask, for example,
that I pray 2 rakat of salah,
but from the time I make
to the time I say
my attention
will not stay on Allah
The whole time my mind is
growing the world.
What shall I do? How to cure this?
Nobody asks.
But what is
Allah saying?
Allah said the believers have succeeded. Who are
they? They are those who have concentration
in their prayer.
Allah did not say they are those who
know
the Hanafi, Maliki,
Shafi'i,
you know, humbly position on sighting of the
moon.
The successful believers are those who know.
Right?
This matala, that matala, this thing. No. Allah
said those who have concentration
in their prayer, they're standing before Allah and
they are aware that they're standing before Allah.
They're not standing before Allah as if they're
standing before anybody else.
Allah did not tell us to bring our
body and place it here, and the mind
and the heart can be anywhere. No.
Nobody has.
Because we have
unfortunately
put ourselves into this
very this shaitan has convinced us that
knowledge
and being deindar
and being,
you know, religious consists of
this accumulation of random bits and pieces and
that. So we listen to this video, that
video,
this,
TikTok, that TikTok, and we feel, oh,
I'm all there.
Now let me give you an example from
the seerah.
When our mother
when Rasool
first received Raheem, when he first received the
revelation in the Gaar of Hera, in the
cave of Hera. That we all know the
story.
He saw Jibreel alaihi salam. Jibreel alaihi salam
hugged him. He said,
a kola.
Read. He said, I am not
I cannot read. And this happened in the
whole incident.
And he came imagine what must be his
state. Right? This is a human being.
The first time he's seeing I mean, he
saw Jibid alaihis salam twice before that, but
that was, you know, like like he he
said I saw him sitting on a throne
and his wings stretched from the east to
the west, the entire horizon.
Now that
being comes and he has this very close
encounter
with another extraterrestrial
being.
So he comes home to his wife. He
is terrified. He says,
cover me up, power me up. He's shivering
as if he has eye fever.
And he says, I fear that I will
be destroyed.
What does she tell him?
She tells him no.
She said you will not be destroyed. Allah
by Allah, Allah will never disgrace you.
Allah will never disgrace you. She just received
this as good tidings, as good news.
By Allah, Allah will never disgrace you
and then see what she says. Why does
she say that? She's giving you reasons.
She's not saying because I love you. No.
Reasons. What are the reasons?
Does she say because you pray so much,
because you make so much of zikr, because
you go and sit in the cave in
for 3 weeks, 2, 4 weeks, what not?
Because you have a topia on your head,
because your beard is long.
Is she saying that? No.
What is she saying? Reason. What is the
reason? Why is she saying? And with some
complete certainty
by Allah.
Allah will not displace you. Why?
She says because you keep good relations with
your kith and kin.
Because you
keep good relations with your family.
Because you speak the truth.
Because you help the poor and the destitute,
and because you entertain
your guests
generously,
and because you assist those
who are stricken
with calamities.
What is she talking about?
Is she talking about or
is she talking about?
Is she talking about worship?
Or is she talking about his manners and
his culture
and his treatment of people and his behavior?
Which one?
What about the one who had knowledge?
There was one who had
so much knowledge
that Allah
elevated him to a level where he was
now with the malaika, with the angels.
But he was not from the angels.
He was from
another form.
Terrestrial form. Allah
elevated him to the level where he was
now among the angels.
He knew Allah
He could see Allah
He was in the presence of Allah
He talked to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala talked to him.
But this knowledge,
what did it do for him?
This knowledge took him into the hellfire forever
and ever.
Because
there was no there was no
there was no
understanding, there was no
in the Kalb. There was no understanding of
the glory and majesty of Allah.
There was no obedience to Allah
So when Allah said to him, make sajdah
to
Adam,
he countered it with logic.
Now think about that. That logic is logical.
He's saying, why should I bow to anyone
other than you?
I believe I'm talking about shaitar, about Satan.
Did he refuse to did he did he
did he refuse to make sense of Allah?
No.
May Allah protect us. We don't we do
this. We live salah.
This salah,
which is so important
that it stops the tawaf of the Kaaba
5 times a day every day.
The salah which stops the tawaf of the
Kaaba, not with 5 times a day.
This cannot stop us from our healings.
My work is more important. My meeting is
more important.
My game I am watching, that is more
important.
Yeah. Sure.
Iblis did not refuse to do sujood to
Allah.
He says to Allah, the effect of which
he says, this instruction is illogical. You are
telling me to make salza to something else,
to a creature.
And then
I
am better than him.
You can you made me from fire. You
made him from clay. So his logic that
fire is superior to clay. Is it superior?
Is it even is there even a comparison?
You light a fire. You throw sand on
it. What happens? Fire dies.
Using of logic
where obedience should have been there.
You tell me, you are telling me. I
am when I am doing sujood to Adam,
effectively, what am I doing? I am doing
sajdah to Allah.
Not to other.
Not to other. Did did the malaika worship
other? No. Aleks Aleks no. The malaika obeyed.
Look, what do you see in your heart?
He says,
do what you have been commanded to do.
Insha'Allah you will find, I will I will
have Sabar. I will be with the Sabar.
Did he say to him,
My father.
What kind of thing is this?
I'm a little kid.
You were never there from the beginning. Now
you come.
And the next thing you know, you want
to slaughter me. What what is this?
Where is the logic for this?
Does it make sense to you? Yeah, Abati.
Does it make sense to you?
No.
Do what you have been commanded.
Obedience.
What did Allah what did Rasool Rasool Rasool
the first thing when he went to Madi
Radi and the the beautiful Hadith in Ibrahim
are narrated by Abdullah bin Salam, the Jewish
rabbi who became Muslim.
He narrated the hadith of husband. Nabi Shah
Salam first came to Adena. He said people
all were were rejoicing and sowing and say
he has come. He has come and so
on. And he was giving them advice. And
first of all, Abdullah bin Salam said, I
looked at his face and I know that
this is not the face of a liar.
And Abdullah bin Salam is not simply saying
it. Abdullah bin Salam was trained in that.
As part of his training as a rabbi,
he was the senior most
the most respected rabbi of the Baran Adir,
who were
a group of Jews who were known for
their knowledge.
So he said, I saw his face. This
is not the face of a lion. And
then he says, see what he says and
see what he says.
It is narrated. He said, O people
spread salaam,
spread the greeting of peace.
Feed others.
Uphold the ties of kinship,
of relationship.
And then only then
pray in the night when people are sleeping
and you will enter Jannah
with Salah.
So even
in where he is talking about
prayer
that is coming at the end of spend
the whole day in being good to people.
Pray in the night. He's talking about the
Hajjuk.
Daytime, what must I do? Be good to
people.
Many of us live away from our parents.
My question is how many people
phone their parents and talk to them?
Them. Today, Allah believe me, this technology
will become witness against us.
Because nobody today can say
it cost too much. A telephone call from,
America to Somalia or to Pakistan or to
Syria or something cost so much money. No.
It's free.
On any chat or WhatsApp or Telegram on
this and that and the other, It is
free. Not only is it free, you can
do a video chat where your parents can
see you.
I know the situation of parents. There are
people who are who have money, who have
a house, who have a car, who have
a driver, who have a cook, who have
who have servants, everything else. They are simply
dying of loneliness.
Not because they have got anything wrong with
them. Not because they got no money. They
are they are they are begging for to
see their children.
Children don't care.
You ask the sir, No. No. I'm sending
money.
Of course, you're somebody, but is that enough?
No. I can't get leave. I can't go.
Okay. So you can't get leave. You can't
go. No problem. Phone.
Let your mother let your father see your
face.
So Nabi said, Spirit salah,
ties of kinship.
Right? Be good to people.
Feed people.
And then in the night,
stand before Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta.
And Allah will make your path to Jannah
easy. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta that
there is a rule to enable us to
understand this deen and to learn the priorities
of this deen and to learn to practice
this deen in the way that it is
meant to be practiced.
We ask Allah to be pleased with us
and never to be displeased.