Mirza Yawar Baig – Ayah means sign
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The importance of understanding Islam's meaning and references various examples, including recitation and Greek translation. The speaker emphasizes the need to approach Islam in a different way, using the Quran as a reference for learning and clarifying questions. The importance of memorization and learning from the same source, especially in the context of driving and caring for one's life, is emphasized. Visiting Islam in a different way is key, not just financially.
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It.
So suppose if somebody is driving any the light go becomes red. He
say, Oh, wow, fantastic. Looks so nice. The red light and he keeps
driving.
What will happen? He'll either kill himself because some other
somebody will knock him, or he will get a ticket.
You have a stop sign. And we have on the corner here, the stop sign
has got all lights blinking on the on and all around it. It's a
wonderful, lovely, it looks like Christmas decoration. No nice stop
sign, blinking lights. But I am coming into the road. I just
drive. No problem. Stop sign. You get the
point. I'm saying a sign has a meaning. A sign is not decoration.
A sign has a meaning. When you look at a sign, what do you do?
You say, What is the meaning of this sign? And why are you
concerned? Because the meaning concerns you. If I don't
understand what is a four way stop sign, I am going to get into
trouble, because if I don't stop, the complete full stop to the car,
then I will get a ticket.
It's not a matter of beauty, or, you know, okay, this is a sign.
No, no, no. Sign has meaning. A sign points to something. A sign
is giving you direction to something. A sign is telling you
that if you follow this, if you obey the sign. This will happen if
you disobey the sign, that will happen,
right?
So now, when you look at the ayat of the Quran, you see these are
signs from Allah, subhana wa taala. Then you have, you are
bound to think. You start, you have to start thinking, What is
Allah telling me? It's not just some tune or some nice you know, I
think I heard al Wallahi Subhanallah share beautiful
recitation. Oh, that is true. But
when Shaykh Allah, when he decides he is not deciding for to please
you is not entertainment,
we have to listen and say, This is what Allah subhana wa Taala
saying.
How does it apply to me? What must I do?
No,
signs are Ayat. Are signs, not verses?
And think about, reflect on it and say, What is the importance of
that? As I told you, it's not a matter of semantics, not just
words, this word, that word, no, when Allah is using a word,
his Meaning, Allah said, so, if somebody wants
to translate, see even this, that same ayatili, Urial, Bab, take the
Greek translation there. They translated as signs.
Somewhere they say verse. So he said, I if this is you are saying
sign here. Why do you why do you call the other thing worse, I
mean, is one is the same, same word, ayah. How can the same word
have one meaning here or some other meaning somewhere else? No,
the whole thing to understand about Islam is that Islam is a way
of life our entire life, Alhamdulillah, from the time we
wake up, time we open our eyes when you are born, to the time we
die. Allah subhanaw taala has given us a complete framework of
reference.
If we follow the framework of reference inshaAllah, we get a
beautiful life in this world, and we get Jannah. This is the beauty
of Islam. Islam does not say, punish your body, starve yourself,
beat up yourself, do this, do that? Suffer and then you get
Jana. No, enjoy your life. Have a beautiful life.
Live comfortably, right? Eat good food. Nobody stops you,
not excess, but within limits, eat the best drive the best car, or
stay in the best house. No, it's rough, right? Don't, don't go
overboard. But at the same time,
within limits. And those limits are big limits. You're driving
$100,000
car, no problem, but
you won't drive a million dollar car that it means that you are
stupid, because you're taking a million dollars and putting it
into a depreciating asset.
No, it doesn't make sense,
not even financial sense.
So point being that
therefore we have to approach Islam and approach the Quran from
the perspective of Amal perspective of applying it in our
lives,
then, Inshallah, we get a lot of benefit. But if you just approach
the Quran as, okay, something to read. And this is the story of
usumali Salam, story of Ibrahim alaihi salam, story of this one,
that one. And then, you know, nice story. No, no. So I
remember myself when you let us think about this. Let us approach
the Quran in the way that the Sahaba of Rasulullah approached
the Quran. They took it, they read it. We know the famous story. I'll
end with that. So.
Story of Abdullah anuma, who memorized Urad Al Baqarah in 12
years.
So they asked him, Why do you take so long? He said, the way we used
to learn from rasa Salam, we would take 10 ayats. We would read them.
We would memorize them. We would reflect on them. We would think
about them. If you had questions, we were to clarify the questions.
If there were any akam, any orders, any rules in the in those
ayat, we would apply them in our lives. We would live our lives
according to them. Then when we were satisfied, we would go to
rasa salam for the next 10 ayat.
So the whole focus, even with memorization, is on application of
that. That's why we say, if there is a difference in if you talk to
the scholars, they say there is a huge difference between somebody
who memorizes, just anybody can memorize. You can pick up, pick up
the book and start reading, between that person and somebody
who is memorizing under a shaykh,
under supervision. There is a difference between the like, the
difference between the heavens and the earth.
Because when he is memorizing and learning under Ashe, he is
undergoing tarbia, he is understanding, he is reflecting.
He will be corrected. Not just correction, only in Tajweed, he is
the correction in terms of how he is behaving, in terms of how what
he understands.
And that's why it's very important if you want to memorize, do that
under Ashay, who knows what to do,
right? I'm not saying don't memorize by all we do that, but
under somebody who has the ability to guide you and to coach you,
we ask Allah to open our hearts to his Kalam and to open up and to
fill our lives with the khair and baraka of living by his Kalam. We
ask Allah Tala to open our hearts to the to the hub and the Muhammad
of rasulallah, so that we lead our lives as was led by Muhammad wa
Rasulullah, salallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam Kari Waal Ali, he
was savage Abu.