Mirza Yawar Baig – Balancing Deen and College
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The speakers discuss various historical events and their significance, including the significance of the Bible and the Milky Way, as well as the importance of the Sun and the Earth being the largest galaxy in the universe. They stress the importance of understanding the meaning of balance and balancing personal opinions and values, particularly in achieving a balance in life. The dean of the religion is the most important person in the world, and individuals should pursue spiritual health and fulfill spiritual goals. Prayer and eating foods are also discussed, along with the importance of following rules and avoiding negative behavior.
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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem, Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
Wasalatu wasalamu ala sharafil anbiya wal mursaleen, Muhammadur
Rasulullahi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Tasneemun kathiran kathiran.
Do you know the meaning of all this,
what I say?
Okay.
So, Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
We begin in the name of Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala, who is the most beneficent,
the most merciful.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
All thanks and all praise is to Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala who is the creator,
the sustainer, the maintainer, the protector, the provider
of the entire universe.
Every living being, small, big, large, from the
smallest virus to the biggest blue whale on
this planet, as well as the entire universe.
Because let's not forget that Allah is not
the creator only of the earth.
Allah is the creator of Rabbil Alameen, of
all that we know and all that we
don't know.
Because what we don't know is far more
than what we know.
The very fact that we don't know means
that we don't know the extent of it.
When people say, we only know 1%
of creation.
My question is, how do you know it's
1%?
Because if you don't know, then logically it
means you don't know.
So you can't say, if I know the
whole 100%, when I say I know only
1% of the 100, it means what?
I know that there is a 100, at
least extent.
I don't know the details of that, but
extent.
But in the case of the creation of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, we don't even
know the extent.
All the stars, all the galaxies, there are
billions.
Just to get an idea, I'll send you
guys a wonderful video which somebody made about
the size of the universe.
Have you seen that?
Yes.
That is one.
There's another one.
That's also a very nice one.
Starts off with the girls on the grass.
There's another absolutely wonderful one where this guy
is standing.
In England, I've been to a cathedral.
He's standing in front of the cathedral and
he's got a grain of sand, literally one
grain of sand on the tip of his
finger.
He holds it out like that.
He says, close one eye and look at
the grain of sand.
You can do this as an experiment.
Look at it like this.
There is a little bit of space that
is blocked by that grain of sand.
That's the way of getting perspective.
He talks about that.
He says, what is in that blocked space?
It's incredible.
I'll send you the video when we are
finished.
Take a look at it.
Just to give you a very small idea,
we are on Earth, which is a planet
that is part of a solar system that
revolves around our Sun.
This is the basic fundamental thing.
The Sun is a bunch of planets and
this is our solar system.
Sun is a star, basically.
Such stars in our galaxy, which we call
the Milky Way, is one among billions.
They are saying billions because, effectively, they haven't
counted.
Maybe after one billion, some people gave up.
We don't know how many billions.
One Sun, and that's why when people worship
the Sun, they say, what are you worshipping?
It's one star among billions.
What is it you are worshipping?
The star is one Sun, which is one
star among billions in this galaxy.
And this galaxy, the Milky Way, is one
of the billions of galaxies in the visible
universe.
Visible universe means what we are actually able
to see using our current telescopes.
Obviously, we are not talking about our telescope
you might have at home.
We are talking about the big ones.
But that visible universe itself has billions of
galaxies like our galaxy.
And our galaxy has billions of Suns like
our Sun, which is one which has around
that a set of planets, which is our
solar system.
And one of those planets, and not the
biggest one by any stretch of the imagination,
is the Earth.
And on this Earth, we are living.
And on this Earth is a country called
America.
So what is the power of America?
So think about that.
Everybody, when people get power, they think, oh
my God, this is big.
The world is going to be...
Many like you came, many like you went,
you will also go one day.
That's true.
And that's why we read history.
That's why the Quran has so many historical
stories.
Stories of the pharaoh.
The pharaoh of Moses was Ramesses II, and
so on and so forth.
So these were...
Every one of them is...
Sometimes I read...
History is my major plus, also a deep
interest of mine.
So every time I love reading history, I
love reading biographies.
But every time I read history about people
like this, I ask myself, what is new?
There's nothing new.
The same stuff which today maybe Donald Trump
is saying, or Elon Musk is saying, people
said this before.
And people with much more than them, they
said it.
But today we don't even know their names.
Just think about this.
Let me ask you.
How many of you know the name of
your great-grandmother?
Either side.
I'm not saying great-grandfather, great-grandmother.
You know the name?
Sorry?
Great-grandmother.
Very nice.
Anybody else?
You don't know?
You know?
Eh?
You might know, but you're not sure.
Okay, no problem.
Anybody else knows?
Yeah, exactly.
Actual name.
I'm not saying the nickname was.
No.
Actual name.
Great-grandmother.
Now great-grandmother means, so you are here.
It's your mother or father.
Their mother or father.
So you got now from you, there are
two.
And from these two, there are four.
Right?
Mother-father of your mother, mother-father of
your father, and then the great-grandparents is
eight.
Yes?
So two of these two.
Out of this, you know the name of
one of them.
Can we go back one more generation?
Do you know the name?
So the point I'm saying is, and believe
me, nothing to feel bad about.
This is the reality.
This is the reality.
100 years from now.
This is 2024.
So 100 years from now, it will be
which year?
2024 is this year.
So 100 years, we'll go on.
2124.
In 2124, one thing I can say with
complete certainty probably, Allah only knows best, is
that none of us will be here.
Right?
100 years from today, none of us will
be here.
We don't know whether this building will be
here.
But even if the building is here, there
will be a new bunch of people sitting
here.
Nobody.
And you can make this statement.
I can do that in the mosque.
We can go to some wedding party.
Don't say it there.
They'll jump on your head if you say
that.
But the point is that 100 years from
now, none of the people alive here will
be alive.
Now if we go back 100 years, can
you name who were around?
Hardly.
Right?
I'm talking about our own families and so
on.
Hardly.
Maybe one or two people who are super
famous.
I can name a couple because of our
lineage and so on.
But other than that, we don't know.
So we don't even know the names of
who were there.
Now, when we don't even know the names
of who were there, how important do you
think their fears and their hopes and aspirations
and what they liked and disliked and who
they liked and disliked and who was there?
Does that have any meaning?
Forget about which car they were driving.
100 years ago, there was no car.
What kind of a house did they have?
Who knows?
What kind of a house they had?
The house probably has fallen down.
Even if it is there, like my ancestral
house is more than 100 years old.
But so what?
The reason I'm saying that is because to
put things in perspective, today when we are
sitting here, for us, we say, Oh my
God!
I've got this exam.
Oh my God!
I've got this relationship which seems to be
collapsing around my neck or something.
I have this thing happening.
Everything looks like this huge thing.
It's going to kill me.
Believe me, nothing will happen.
Nothing will happen.
And the example I give people is, may
Allah keep you safe, if a small speck
of dust gets into your eye.
So now it's got into my eye and
I'm like, this is hurting me.
My eyes are shut.
And then they say, just look at this
beautiful view.
What view?
Forget the view.
I mean, this thing, get this thing out
of my eye.
But what is the size of that thing?
It's a speck of dust, little bit thick.
But because it is light in the eye,
it assumes this huge importance.
As if nothing in the world is more
important than that speck of dust.
Because it's not even important.
But that's what we do with our energy.
So when we are talking about a balance
between Deen and a traveling life and Godly
life, first and foremost, ensure that you keep
things in the right perspective.
So what is perspective?
Perspective is the ability to simultaneously hold two
pictures in your mind.
A picture of where you are and a
picture of where you want to be.
That's my definition of perspective.
To give you an example, supposing you are
trekking.
You've gone off on a trek.
Now, you don't really have a map or
something.
You are going somewhere, some path.
You decide to take the path.
And you walk and walk and walk.
And suddenly you find yourself in this place.
You have no clue where you are.
You are lost.
So what do you do?
How will you find your way?
I don't have Google Maps or whatnot.
Any normal person gets stuck somewhere.
The thing you do if you are stuck
like that, especially if you are stuck in
a flat kind of place, find a high
spot.
So maybe if there is a hillock or
a tree or something, climb on top.
It gives you a much bigger field of
view.
And there is a light there.
Like Musa A.S. Allah SWT said when
he was going from Madinah back to Egypt
with his wife, and we don't know who
else was with him, but obviously not a
big number of people, a couple of people.
And then Allah SWT says in the Quran
that Musa A.S., it was dark, it
was a night and he was lost.
And then he, He said, I see a
light, looks like a fire in the distance.
So now he's got perspective.
So sitting on top now, on the top
of the tree, he didn't climb a tree,
so when you see, there is a light.
Oh, that is the highway.
I can see the car moving.
So now I know where the highway is,
so now in relation to the highway, I
know where I am.
That is the river, or that is the
railway track.
So let me just get to the railway
track and if I just walk along the
railway track, at some point I will come
to a railway station, whichever direction, it's going
somewhere.
If I'm on the road, let me just
keep walking along the road, I will meet
somebody, some car, I can stop at the
right direction.
So it gives you perspective.
Perspective is to hold simultaneously two pictures in
your mind, where I am and where I
want to be.
In terms of life, also we need this
perspective.
Where I am now and where I want
to be.
Without perspective, you cannot get directions.
Right?
If somebody calls you and says, I want
to come to your halakha, give me directions.
What will you say?
Okay, forget about the technology part of it.
Let's say you are speaking.
Which road?
Western Ave. But the guy says, but I'm
in New York.
Then what happens?
So what is the first question to ask
him?
Where are you exactly?
If you say, give me directions, the first
question to ask him is, where are you?
Because the directions to here depends on where
they are.
If somebody is calling from East Hampton, the
direction to come here is different from somebody
who is calling from Springfield.
No?
Obviously, different area.
So first question, where are you?
So if I know where I am, and
I know where I want to be, then
I can have directions.
But if I say, no, I don't know
where I am, but I want to get
here.
So the next best thing you do is,
okay, you don't know where you are, but
what you do is, get yourself to such
and such a place, and from there, this
is the direction.
So how you get to that place, you
figure it out.
But you get yourself to that place, say,
this is the park, get yourself to the
park, it's a well-known landmark, and from
that park, this is the road.
So it's important.
So in life also, so you've got your
family, you've got your school, your college, you've
got your relationships, you've got friends, and so
on and so forth.
You have the dean.
So what is the balance?
The mistake that many people make when they
think balance is, they think balance means little
bit of haram, no, that's not balance.
That's crazy.
That's not balance.
Balance is to use the dean as a
map.
Dean is what gives you direction.
Because in any situation, if you say, what
must I do, how must I behave, where
is the answer?
In the dean.
Because if I behave in that situation the
way Allah wants me to behave, the way
the Prophet Muhammad SAW behaved, then I won't.
I won't know that unless I know the
dean.
So that's why the importance of knowing the
dean.
Now you might say, I would like to
know the dean, but I'm not an expert,
I'm not an alim.
What must I do?
Okay, do two things.
One is, the fundamentals of it, get them
clear.
Because that's very important.
Every single Muslim must know the fundamentals.
And the next step is, wherever there is
a doubt, check with somebody who knows.
Go to Asia, go to whoever, may not
be Asia, go to somebody who knows and
check with them.
Don't invent.
Don't say what you see in my opinion.
No, no, no opinion.
There is something which Allah has told us.
There is something which Rasulullah SAW has told
us.
We follow that.
We don't follow personal opinions.
Personal opinions are the biggest trap of shaitan
because what is my opinion?
My opinion is whatever suits me.
No, I mean for anybody.
Opinion means, within words, make sense.
What is the meaning of make sense?
It means I like it.
My like and dislike cannot be a usul
in deen.
So Allah has made the religion, there is
a reason for it.
Some of that reason we understand, some we
don't understand, but we take it because Allah
told us.
Allah SWT made five times prayer followed on
us.
So whether you like it, you don't like
it, you think it is convenient, you might
say it would be nice if I had
only one salah.
You might say it would be nice if
I had ten salah.
Somebody might say, I think five is too
little.
I would like to pray more.
Good for you.
But how many is for five?
You can pray ten if you like.
No problem.
And somebody says, five is too much.
No, not too much.
This is what Allah has told us.
But in my opinion, why do I need?
No, there is no opinion.
Allah has said five.
Someone says, why must I fast only in
Ramadan?
Because Ramadan will come sometimes in the summer,
fast is long.
Why don't we have fasting only in winter?
So the fast is shorter.
No, people can say all this.
Why don't we fast only in winter?
More convenient.
It is more convenient.
No doubt about that.
It is more convenient to have a shorter
period of fasting.
But that is not the point.
The point is, we fast in Ramadan because
Allah made that point.
Somebody says, why must I have the Jumu
'ah?
Why must that be on Friday?
The communicational prayer.
Let's have it on Sunday.
Sunday is alright anyway.
Friday we have complications.
Take time off, go to the masjid.
Sunday I am home, I am free.
Let's do it on Sunday.
Can we do that?
No.
Even though it is like in this country.
Sunday is not necessary.
Meaning whatever is the holiday for that culture,
for that country.
Let's have it on that day.
Maybe holidays on Tuesday, let's do it on
Tuesday.
No.
Jumu'ah is Jumu'ah.
Jumu'ah is not only because it is
Friday.
Jumu'ah is the Salatul Jumu'ah.
So we obey Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
because Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said so.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said Allah said
Allah has made trade, has made business halal
and has made interest-based dealing halal.
So if you read all those ayats together
in Surah Al-Baqarah, Allah does not tell
us, you see, don't deal in interest because
it decreases wealth, because it does this, because
it puts you in the debt trap, because
that is the root of all poverty.
All of this is true but Allah does
not show that.
What is the reason Allah has given?
Why is interest halal?
Allah says because I said so.
Why is trade and business halal?
Because I said so.
For Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to say
because I said so is dalil as far
as we are concerned.
That's enough for us.
As Muslims, Alhamdulillah.
Because Allah knows best and Allah loves us
and Allah wants for us that which is
best.
Alhamdulillah.
Somebody comes along and says, no, no, no,
you know, this is America, right?
So don't worry about this.
Okay, those days, 7th century Arabia, this is
America.
Everybody takes interest, man.
I mean, you have to say only you.
Everyone takes.
It's in the system.
You can't escape it.
It's like the air you're breathing in.
What is the answer?
How will you answer this?
Anyone?
These questions get asked, no?
So you must know the answer.
Tell me, no, right and right.
I'm not punishing anybody here.
Okay.
What's the answer?
Not true.
So why not true?
Because Allah said so.
For us.
Who knows more?
Simple question.
Who knows more?
You or Allah?
If he says, I know more.
Then it's okay.
Goodbye.
If Allah knows more, then why are you
putting your opinion into this thing and saying,
do this, do this?
You obey Allah because Allah said so.
And I gave you so many examples.
For all of these, there's only one answer.
Why five Salah?
Because Allah said so.
Why Juma on Friday?
Because Allah said so.
Why Ramadan in Ramadan?
Why fasting in Ramadan?
Because Allah said so.
And so on.
What's so great about life?
It's a night like a night.
Oh, is it?
Is it special?
Yes.
What makes it special?
Allah.
Allah is the one who created everything and
He chooses.
He chooses.
Why is Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam the best
of all human beings and the best of
the prophets and the Imam of the Prophets
and Sayyidul Mursaleen?
Why?
Because Allah picked him.
Otherwise, he is like anybody else.
Allah said, Say to them, I am a
human being like you.
But I get Wahi.
That is what makes him special.
Because Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam has picked him.
Otherwise, he says, I am like you.
I am a human being.
So who Allah picks?
And that is why this Deen is special
because Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, Allah
said, Today I have completed your religion for
you and I have completed my blessing on
you and I have chosen for you Islam
as your Deen.
So this Deen is not something we chose.
It is not something that is chosen or
prescribed by Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam or
by some great and wonderful and wise person.
This is something that Allah chose for us.
I am pleased for you to have this
Deen.
The gift of Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
So the Deen is a road map.
So anytime there is a question, we come
back to it.
That is the meaning of balance.
Balance is to use the Deen as a
road map which is what Deen is.
It is a road map on the road
which is called our life.
This life is a journey.
This life is a journey.
It started in this world.
It started when we were born.
Otherwise our existence is before this world and
our existence will continue after this world.
But in this world, our life starts.
This peace of life starts when we are
born and it ends when we die.
And nobody knows when that end is going
to come.
May Allah give you a long and healthy
life with Iman and Yaqeel and make it
easy for all of you.
But we all, one day, there is no
doubt about this.
Some go early, some go late but everyone
goes.
And the key is to keep ourselves on
the right track until we get off.
Once we get off at the right exit,
then we are good.
Home and drive.
He used to get off at the right
exit.
Like on the highway.
You take the right exit, it takes you
home.
But you get misled somewhere in between and
you lose some money and stuff.
Now, then what happens?
Now when we say balancing this with family
life and college.
So in college, the biggest and please join
in this.
In my own college life and so on,
and I'm not talking about the ancient history.
My last encounter in college was last year.
I was in Bennington College for two months,
my immersion course.
I was following the regular college schedule.
I was staying in the hostel and so
on and so forth.
What happens in college life is that to
a great extent, your time is not in
your hands.
You have classes, you have then assignments, then
you have tests and so forth.
Now in a regular college, the amount of
classes is not that much.
Maybe three or four hours a day or
some such thing.
But the rest of the time is supposed
to be free, but it's not free because
you've got all kinds of assignments and classes
and this and that.
So how do you manage all that?
With the Deen.
So the secret is make sure that you
fulfill whatever Allah has made for you.
So what is the first part to fulfill?
Pray.
Salat.
So make sure you pray the five prayers
on time.
In the five prayers, the morning Fajr and
Isha is not a problem because you are
back wherever you are, either in your room
in the hospital or you are back home.
So Fajr and Isha should not be a
hassle.
For the guys, go to the Masjid for
both of these because it's good for you.
It's good for you.
I see you every day.
May Allah bless you.
So go to the Masjid.
You will get the benefit of the Jama
'at plus usually after Fajr and Isha there
is some program, most Masjids have some reading
of the Quran or some Khatir or something.
Sit and listen to that.
It's always good to get some good stuff
from there.
So those two are taken care of.
Now you've got the other three.
Zohr, Asr, Maghrib.
So one or two of them will come
during your actual college working hours.
Maybe one will be back again home or
maybe you are in transit somewhere.
Just manage to do that.
Just the Fardh.
At least just pray only the Fardh.
Try and pray the Sunnah because this is
another mistaken impression we have to think that
the Sunnah is only Sunnah.
Sunnah is very important.
Especially Sunnah Muhaqqadah which is the Sunnah which
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam always prayed.
So for the Salah which is the Sunnah
which he always prayed in Fardh in Fajr,
how many are there?
Two Rakat.
Before the Fardh two Rakat of Sunnah.
This is Muhaqqadah.
In Zohr, how many?
Four.
And then two.
So four and two.
In Isha you pray two and two also.
It's acceptable but four and two is better.
Asr, there is no Sunnah.
Maghrib, two.
After Isha, two.
And then there is Wujud.
So these, make sure you pray them.
Now you can pray them straight away.
Ideally pray them straight away because then you
are done with that.
But for whatever reason, if you can't pray
them straight away, make sure you pray them
before the time of that Salah is over.
So the Sunnah for Zohr must be prayed
before the Asr time comes in.
So whether you pray right there or you
go home and pray or you go to
your office and pray, that's okay.
But that's why I say the most convenient
is now you are there at the Musallah,
finish it.
And then go.
But if you are praying in the Masjid,
it is more rewardable to pray the Sunnah
at home.
Don't convert your home into cemeteries.
Meaning, in the cemetery you are not supposed
to do any Salah in the cemetery.
Don't make the house into a graveyard where
you are not praying anything in there.
So pray in the house also.
So pray some Sunnah in the house, pray
the Hajj, wake up right before the time
for Salatul Fajr starts.
Wake up, pray at least two Aqaf of
Fajr.
All this is good.
Good for the house also.
So make sure you do that.
So Fardh.
This is very important.
Second thing as far as the Fardh is
concerned is of course in Ramadan, fasting and
so on, which you will do InshaAllah.
Fardh also in terms of what Allah has
made halal for us in terms of our
relationships, in terms of our behaviour, in terms
of our clothing.
All of this must be make sure you
fulfil those things.
Other than that, and eating food.
Make sure you eat halal.
If there is a doubt, don't touch it.
Don't touch anything in which there is a
doubt.
What is halal?
Eat it.
If there is a doubt, clarify it.
In terms of meat, what is halal?
Something with a halal stamp or something which
is Zabiha and slaughtered.
Which one?
And slaughtered Zabiha.
I sent a detailed khatir on this.
If it is not hand slaughtered, it is
not halal, no matter how many stamps are
on it.
Machine slaughter is haram.
And it is your job to find out
what it is.
So do not hesitate whether you are eating
in somebody's house or you are eating in
a restaurant.
Ask them, is it hand slaughtered?
People say, no, it's haram.
No, no, I'm not asking.
That's not my question.
My question is, is it hand slaughtered?
Is it Zabiha?
If it is Zabiha, they will say, yes,
it is Zabiha.
If somebody is playing this game, no, no,
it is halal.
It means that there is some doubt in
this thing.
No problem.
I won't eat the meat.
You eat the veggies.
You ask for eggs.
You ask for fish.
You ask for shrimp.
There are many options.
One meal, if you don't eat a chicken
or you don't eat some meat, you won't
die.
It's not a life-saving drug.
It's a matter of play.
A life-saving drug is chicken.
Oh, my God, chicken, chicken, chicken.
No.
Don't eat it.
I mean, I have Hindu friends who don't
eat meat their whole life.
Not one chicken.
They never eat meat.
So what's so difficult?
Nothing is difficult.
It's a matter of saying what is important.
It's Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala's, how come
important for me or not.
So that's it.
As long as we follow these things, fulfill
the farhad, stay away from whatever is hard.
Now, this is not difficult in any college,
anywhere in the world.
What's so difficult?
So balancing in the sense of following our
Deen is the easiest thing in the world.
It's not difficult at all.
So don't fall into this.
Some of the psychological stuff which we have
been conditioned, oh, why not follow it?
It's so difficult.
Who told you it's difficult?
Tell me, what is difficult?
It's not difficult.
It's very easy.
And not just easy, remember this, whatever you
are doing, there is a benefit for it.
In Islam, we understand this, that every action
has two reactions.
One in this world, one in the other
world.
If you smile at somebody, what is the
reaction in this world?
The other person smiles back, good for relationship,
so on, so on.
But that smile is also sadaka.
So you are getting a good deed for
that.
Right?
If you give somebody charity, if you help
someone out financially, benefit in this world is
good for you.
Good for you, good for the relationship, you
help somebody, you feel nice, and so on,
so on.
But this is also on your scale of
buddhism.
So every action that we take has a
worldly benefit and has a other worldly benefit
in the akhira.
So do it with this niya.
And ask Allah to help you.
May Allah help me.
How can I succeed in this?
Put Allah first and you will find that
Allah will make it easy for you.
Many, many years ago, almost 25 years ago,
I was in Chicago and I was at
my cousin's place and her son, so my
nephew, he used to work for I can't
remember now, Motorola or one of these big
companies.
So we were talking about salah.
So I said, you pray.
He said, no, you know, Zohar and Asr,
two prayers, I can't pray because I'm at
work.
So I said, if you're at work, why
can't you pray?
What's the problem?
This is America.
And it is your right, your constitutional right
in this country to practice your religion.
Nobody can stop you.
Nobody.
Not only Islam, whatever your religion.
You have a constitutional right to practice your
religion.
And nobody can stop you by law.
And my experience of America is that people
are nice, they will not stop you.
They will actually help you.
So I said to him, I said, do
me a favor.
I said, I'll tell you one hadith and
after listening to the hadith, go and ask
your boss.
You say, I would like to have time
to pray.
He said, Zohar and Asr, two prayers.
I want time to pray.
How long does it take?
Five minutes.
Four prayers.
It doesn't take more than five minutes.
The hadith I told him is, Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says, He says, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
says, The one who prays the five prayers
which I have made on time, on the
Day of Judgment, it is my responsibility.
Whose responsibility?
Allah's responsibility.
Allah says, it is my responsibility to forgive
that person and enter him or her into
Jannah.
And if they do not pray those five
prayers, then it is not my responsibility.
I may do it, I may not do
it.
Just the five prayers.
Five prayers on time.
Just the first prayers.
Sholay you pray, Alhamdulillah, good for you, you
should pray Sholay.
But just the first prayers if you pray,
the five first prayers on time.
The key is that, not making Khada and
so on.
No, on time.
Allah says, it is my responsibility.
I take on the responsibility.
Nobody can force Allah to do that.
Allah says, I take on the responsibility to
forgive that individual and put them in Jannah.
So I said, ok.
Then from there I was going to University
in Champaign.
So when I reached there, I get a
call the next day.
It was my nephew.
He said, you know, I went to the
office and I said to my boss, I
need five minutes to pray and so on.
His boss said, absolutely no problem.
He said, where can I visit?
He said, in my office.
Please come and pray here, in my office.
He said, I didn't realize that you know
my boss...
I said, of course, man.
You never asked him, how do you know?
You never asked him, right?
When you ask, Allah opens doors.
But if I don't even ask, then how
do you blame somebody else?
They don't know that you need this thing.
You just ask.
Can I have time to pray?
Alhamdulillah.
So it's easy.
It's not difficult.
It's very easy.
And Allah makes it easy.
You make the need, I want to obey
Allah.
Make dua, I say Allah, I want to
obey Him.
Here is the situation.
Please make it easy for me to obey
Him.
Allah will make it easy.