Mirza Yawar Baig – Be just
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My brothers and sisters,
the
definition of justice
is to give
to each what is due to them.
The definition of justice is to give to
each
what is due to them.
So
in terms of our human relations, for example,
in the family the justice
is to give
to the wife what is due to her,
to the husband what is due to him,
to children what is due to them.
For example, to the wife
that the husband should take care of her,
should honor her, should comfort her, should should
keep her in a state where she is
comfortable and happy.
What is due to the husband is that
she should be faithful to him, she should
be faithful to her, she should be she
should serve him, she should obey him,
she should not
allow or invite anybody that he does not
like into the house.
What is due to the children is that
they must get the benefit of from their
parents,
not just toys,
but actual raising.
They must learn akhlaq, they must learn other,
they must learn the knowledge of Islam. They
should be introduced to Allah
and to their duties as Muslims
and so on and so on. Duties of
employees, employers,
right? Duties,
for example, what is due to the masjid?
Must come to the masjid. What is due
to the home? Should come to the home.
When you're driving on the road, what is
due to the road? Must go to the
road. Right? If you are living in a
country what is due to the nation must
go to the nation and so on.
What then
should be our
attitude
about what is due to Allah?
Because the justice is to be practiced in
our relationships with each other,
the source of justice.
Allah
Truth is Allah. Justice is Allah.
Come from Allah. He is this fountain of
justice.
So what about
what we owe to Allah
So the first thing we owe to Allah
is to acknowledge
Allah as our
creator, sustainer,
maintainer,
protector.
And to worship only and only Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala and nobody else.
As part of this acknowledgement
is also
to remember
that everything we have
and by everything here I mean
absolutely everything
without any reservation.
Everything that I have as an individual,
every faculty, every strength,
every
piece of intelligence, every knowledge, every piece of
information, whatever I have internally to me
as a person.
Whatever I have in my environment in terms
of whatever
love of others,
power, authority,
influence,
wealth,
health and the opposite of all that. What
ever Allah has given
belongs to Allah.
All of this
belongs
to Allah
Now
I want to reflect and I want to
remind myself to reflect and I want you
also to reflect on this.
Just go home and think and sit down
and do this as an exercise
which
is
in your mind
list
1 by 1 by 1 by 1
All the things that are associated with you.
Everything.
List it and say,
Not mine.
Allah's.
Not my Allah's.
Not my Allah's.
My eyesight,
not my Allah's.
My hearing, not my Allah's.
My tongue, not my Allah's. My heart, not
my Allah's.
My strength,
not my Allah's.
My wife, my children, my parents, my my
associates, my friends,
my business, my whatever. You make a list.
Do this as an exercise.
This is part of learning iman.
What is iman? This is iman.
1 by 1 by 1.
List
specifically.
Not mine, Allah's.
Now when you do that, again this is
not just like this is something to be
done. Until you get it
completely and in your heart you are content,
Alhamdulillah.
InshaAllah,
I am giving
this to Allah
SWT as is His right. We will never
reach there, but we will try.
There are 2
major benefits of this. Major benefits.
Huge benefits.
The first major benefit of this is that
this keeps us on the right track
because if I acknowledge that this car is
not mine, then when I'm driving the car,
I'm extra careful. It's not my car.
I can't go and knock it anywhere. I
can't park it somewhere and get a ticket
with ticket.
You know? The person, I can't
leave it somewhere. It gets stolen. It's not
even my car.
So when I am acknowledging this eyesight is
not mine, then it keeps you on the
am I going to look at something which
Allah prohibited using his
niyama?
If it was mine, it's okay. It's my
car. It's my, you know, whatever. Okay. If
I knock it, I knock it. I mean,
I will still drive carefully, but even if
something happens, it is my money. It is
my thing. If it is lost, okay. I
am the only one involved. I don't have
to show my face to anybody else. Right?
But if I'm using somebody else's thing,
so
keeps us on track.
When you have made,
when you acknowledge this is not mine,
then I
am even more responsible for that because I
have to answer to the owner.
I'm using it with his permission.
This is a trust with me. He has
given it to me to use. I have
to return it.
So therefore I have to be
even more careful. So it keeps us on
track.
If my business is not mine, then I
have to return this to Allah
then I must make sure that this business
is halal. I cannot take to Allah
my business full of haram stuff which he
prohibited me from using and selling and buying.
No. Clean it up.
Clean it up. You don't want to die
in a state where your shop is selling
and buying haram stuff. Believe me.
You don't want to die in a state
where our homes, our eyesight, our tongue, our
hearing
is filled with things that Allah has prohibited.
We don't want this.
So it keeps us on track.
2nd big benefit actually, there are 3. 2nd
big benefit is
that it produces
a sense of shukr in the heart.
Thankfulness to Allah. Salhamdulillah.
How would it be if I was blind?
And believe me, it over here, I asked
Doctor. Ahmed, how long does it take?
One little knock on the optic nerve inside
is gone. Your eyes will be perfectly fine.
These eyes of yours can actually be transplant
can be taken out and transplanted into somebody.
They will he will see with those eyes.
But because your optic nerve is affected, you
will not see them. Your eyes will be
perfectly fine as organs,
but you will be blind.
One knock on the optic nerve is all
it takes.
Allah
keeps it.
And one knock on the optic nerve is
one knock to the head. That's enough.
Alhamdulillah
Allah keeps it safe.
So it produces a sense of gratitude. Alhamdulillah,
Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.
Allah has given us iman.
What
is the value of this iman? This value
of this iman is one
line
of 2 parts.
Is the difference between jannah and jannah. The
difference
between everlasting
happiness and goodness and everlasting grief.
Keeps us safe.
Number 1,
keeps us on track. Number 2, puts gratitude
in our heart. And number 3,
you don't feel the pain if you lose
it.
It takes care this is the biggest
safety net for
bereavement.
You will feel some pain because after all
for example, if if you know if if
your parent or your child or your or
your somebody close to you dies,
obviously, you will feel some pain.
But you will not go completely. There are
people who go completely insane because somebody died.
You won't.
Belong to Allah and I took it back.
I have lost it so therefore I have
some
attachment to that but
3 very major benefits
of
this being just.
That is why
this person
a great scholar
and a sheikh
of Aseem Shah Sabah Abdul Ali in Hyderabad.
And, he wrote an adzam
about this.
I will recite for you but let me
translate the Urdu into English first.
He said he he he listed
our faculties.
He said, My nature, he said, I am
dead.
Allah
said, You were dead. Allah gave you life.
So he says, I
was dead.
I was jahil.
I was ignorant.
I had no Iraadah. I was completely confused.
Bilistairab.
Aji's.
He said, I was helpless.
He said, I'm blind.
I'm deaf.
I'm dumb mute.
From the beginning, Azar said.
Meaning,
this is my nature.
My nature is I'm dead.
I have no I am confused. I have
no knowledge.
I am helpless.
I am blind.
I am deaf. I am dumb.
And then he says, you are
you live
and you are kaim.
You are established.
You have irada.
You take decisions, you have knowledge
and you have Qudrat,
You have control.
You are sami. You are basir. You are
the one who hears. You are the one
who sees.
You are kalim.
You are the one who speaks.
And on you I sacrifice myself.
And then he says, Whatever is in me
is not mine.
He is the one
who has
created me and
beautified me
from head to toe.
So this is the
English translation of the Nazam, and I will
recite for you in Urdu for,
those of you who know Urdu. How many
of you know Urdu here anyway? 1, 2.
Okay. We have got enough.
This is the Urdu of it.
We ask Allah
to help us to
understand what He has given us
and to do justice to it and use
it only and only for his riddha, inshallah.
We ask Allah to be pleased with us
and never to be displeased.