Mirza Yawar Baig – Appearances are deceptive
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The speakers discuss the transformation of their culture and the use of signs to guide them. The danger of massion radiation leads to cancer and painful endings, and animals need to keep their bodies safe. The speakers advise people to be aware of the potential harm of massion radiation, to be aware of the protection of their bodies, and to make themselves aware of the potential harm of materialism and extremism. They also advise people to keep making themselves aware of the danger of massion radiation and to make themselves aware of the potential harm of materialism and extremism.
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Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
We are, Munir and I are walking in,
in, actually there's a wire.
Those of you who have seen these pictures
in the summer and the fall, this is
what it looks like in the winter.
As you can see, it's all completely frozen.
We had a bit of a snowstorm, not
too much of it, but there was some
snow last night.
So, Munir, show your face.
That is Munir.
Assalamualaikum.
So, there were, so it's all, it's got
snow on top.
I don't think it is frozen solid, but
don't ask me to prove it.
Alhamdulillah.
Brothers and sisters, Alhamdulillah, I remind myself and
you that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
in the Quran, that He brings the earth
alive after it has died.
Subhanallah, if you want to truly see the
picture of that, you have to come to
these latitudes, northern hemisphere, where in the winter,
it completely dies.
And things are, you know, as if there
is no life.
And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala brings
it back alive and absolutely amazing, how the
transformation takes place.
We ask Allah to continue to show us
His signs and to help us to see
His signs.
The thing is not just a matter of
seeing, because as I say all the time,
seeing is different from looking.
Good morning.
Seeing is different from looking.
Looking is a function of the eyes, whereas
seeing is with the heart and with the
knowledge.
Because when you say I have seen, it
means that you have recognized the reality of
what you are seeing.
So I remind myself to see, not just
to look.
And when I see this, the sight of
snow covering the land is so beautiful.
Looks so absolutely pure, everything.
Reminds me of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
as a Sattar, the one who covers the
faults of His slaves.
And as Imam al-Shafi'i said, if
somebody praises you, don't take it to heart,
don't start believing it.
Because the person is praising the Sattari of
Allah.
He's praising the cloak that Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala placed over you.
The people cannot see what's under the cloak.
And when I see these scenes, this absolutely
beautiful scenery, I'm reminded of that.
Yes, it is very beautiful.
Looks so peaceful, harmonious, smooth, level.
No dips in it, no bumps in it,
no holes in it for anyone to fall
into and so on.
But it's far from reality.
If you walk across that field, then you
really know the depth of the snow, you
know what's under it and so on.
With this phone, it's not so easy to
see just now, but there is water there
which is not yet melted.
So Alhamdulillah, that water is not yet
frozen.
On top here, it's frozen.
In this ice and snow, one of the
most important things to make absolutely sure is
that it can take your weight.
Because if you fall into a lake, which
is because the snow was not enough to
take your weight, then it's almost sure death
with hypothermia and with drowning because it's not
the same as swimming in warm water.
So, talking about this, oh, there is a
flock of, hmm, there are some birds coming
this way, I think.
No, they're going the other way.
There is a hawk flying on top, that's
why they took off the birds.
And they're coming this way.
They are, oh, they seem to be terns.
Yes, they seem to be terns.
You can probably see them closer up.
And the hawk came up so they, and
this is also the signs for us to
see and think.
No, these are gulls.
These are gulls of some kind, small gulls.
And it shows us this, you know, Allah
SWT teaches us through his creation, through his
Khutbaat.
And one of the things we learn is
that the thing that animals do is they
don't take chances.
As soon as they sense possible danger, they
don't even know whether it's dangerous or not.
In this particular case, I don't think that
hawk was any danger to them.
But as soon as they sense possible danger,
they take evasive action.
They fly away, they seek shelter.
If it's an animal, it seeks shelter.
If it's a bird, it flies away.
Which tells us to think about what do
we do when we sense danger.
But the problem is that we have got
used to a lifestyle where we have got
used to danger.
Not in any sense of being capable of
handling it, but we have got used to
not getting alarmed and not panicking when we
really should be panicking.
The example I gave the other day, I
was reading somewhere, the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster
in Russia.
So when the fire happened in Chernobyl, in
the nuclear reactor, firefighters went in there obviously.
So people rushed in there to put it
out, to do whatever they could do.
And they did whatever they could do and
then they came away.
And then over the months and years, they
realized that they had been massively radiated.
And it resulted in almost certain deaths.
For them, it resulted in cancer, it resulted
in all kinds of bad and painful endings
for them.
Now that radiation when it was happening to
them, they couldn't feel it.
Because you can't feel radiation.
They were not going around with tickers which
were blaring or something, nothing.
They didn't know it was happening.
But it happened.
So the message for us is that just
because we don't know something is happening, it
does not mean it's not happening.
It is happening and we better believe it.
And if it is something which has the
potential of harming us, then we had better
be prepared for it.
Good morning.
So if we are…
And the same thing here, if we look
at our lives today, the danger of our
lifestyle, the danger of society.
And again, this society, I wish I could
say, go to Syria and you will be
safe or go to Saudi Arabia and you
will be safe.
Or go to India or Pakistan or Iraq
or somewhere.
But the truth is that you will be
safe only if you keep yourself safe and
if you know how to keep yourself safe.
Because there is no such place as a
safe country anymore.
This culture of materialism, this culture of promiscuity,
the culture of wokeism, liberalism, and on the
other hand, the culture of extremism, all of
these are now global cultures.
And if one doesn't catch you, something else
will catch you.
So the way is to protect yourself, is
not to try to run away from that
because you can't.
But to protect yourself and keep yourself in
a state where it doesn't matter what it
is, it won't get you.
And that's what I advise myself and I
advise you.
Therefore, if you say, well, how should I
protect myself?
That protection is constant istighfar and tawbah.
Because it does two things.
One is, when I'm making istighfar and tawbah,
I'm conscious of Allah SWT.
Because I'm making istighfar to Him and I
want to turn towards Him.
So that's the first one.
The second one is that istighfar and tawbah
is protection by itself.
The one who makes istighfar and tawbah frequently,
Allah SWT takes care of him, protects him,
solves his difficulties and problems in life and
provides him from sources that he cannot imagine.
So it's something which I advise myself to
do and I advise you to do.
Constantly keep making istighfar and tawbah.
And like all aksar, don't make it routine,
don't make it, you know, just keep on
saying, Astaghfirullah, Astaghfirullah, why are you doing something
else?
No.
Be conscious of that and say, I'm seeking
protection of Allah SWT.
I'm turning to Allah SWT from this, from
this, from this.
And think of the sins, think of what
you have done, think of what you have
made tawbah about and inshallah with full confidence
that Allah has forgiven because we make tawbah
with this consciousness, with this trust that Allah
has forgiven us.
But at the same time we continue to
turn towards Allah SWT and keep doing that
inshallah.
This is the shield, that's the protection.
We ask Allah SWT to protect us and
to keep us in His special care and
keep us safe.
Bi hurmati l-Habib, bi hurmati l-Fatiha.