Mirza Yawar Baig – Be One
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the most
honoured of the prophets and messengers, Muhammad, the
Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon
him and upon his family and companions.
Peace and blessings be upon him and upon
his family and companions.
Next, my brothers and sisters, Alhamdulillah, there is
a lot of rush today in the mosques.
A lot of people, Mashallah, good population.
So, when we came in, when we drove
in here, I had gone, I was out
the whole day today.
We had an interfaith meeting and after that
we went to, there was a program in
Amherst College, I was speaking there, we finished
all that.
When we drove in here, we see lots
of cars and so on in the mosque.
I said, Mashallah, lot of round off.
So, my friend who was, drove me here,
he said, somebody must have died.
Inna lillahi wa inna lillahi rajeem.
How true is that?
And that is the reason why we have
so much round off, because somebody died.
My brothers and sisters, please, wake up.
Wake up.
Because the person who passed away, Sultana Mahzabir
Ahmadullah Ali, may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la fill his heart with Noor and
forgive his sins and give him Jannatul Firdaus
and give support to his family.
Today, that is three days after he died,
today, his wife's brother, he lost one son,
two daughters, one son-in-law, all at
the same time.
In Karachi, they went to the beach to
swim, and they all got washed away.
There was some high tide or something, God
knows, they didn't know or whatever happened, Allah
A'lam.
Four people, three children and one son-in
-law, four children of the same family, dead
in the same day today.
Along with some other people also who died,
then they tried to rescue and so on.
The son-in-law's body, they still haven't
found.
Inna lillahi wa inna lillahi rajeem.
We made dua for them in Maghrib.
When are we going to wake up?
I remind myself and you, when are we
going to wake up?
Please put a date.
Right?
Put a date.
I'm going to wake up on this day.
At this time, and we'll make dua all
of us together, then may Allah keep you
alive until that day and that time.
And then wake up.
But if you really believe what Rasulullah s
.a.w. said, that we cannot be sure
when we make salaam on the right side,
that you will actually make salaam on the
left.
If you really believe that, then that day
and that time is now, right now, not
even today, right now.
Every time, when his brother is praying now,
people are asking.
When I came to Maghrib, he came and
told me, I was shocked.
Four children, I mean imagine, may Allah have
mercy on those people.
May Allah give them sabr.
Four children, jawaan ladke, chaar.
Four youths, young adults, and at the same
time gone.
What must be the state of the heart
of those parents?
May Allah have mercy on them.
Subhanallah.
So when is the date of waking up?
When are we going to stop our internal
quarrels and fights and, you know, and think
of focus of something, something for the Ummah.
The Ummah became the Ummah when the Muhajirun
went from Makkah to Madinah.
Right?
Some came from Hibachan, some...
Think about this.
We use, I'm the love, we should and
we use honorable terms, we say Muhajirin, we
say emigrants, but actually they were refugees.
No?
The sahaba who came, they were refugees because
they got thrown out of their home.
They didn't come there, they didn't say, you
know what, Madinah looks like a nice place,
let me go and see.
They've got nice jobs there, I'll get a
job.
They came because they had no alternative.
They got chucked out of Makkah, they grabbed
everything, they took everything, they threw them out,
some of them escaped with their lives and
they came.
So when they came to Madinah, what did
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam do?
Did he say to the people of Madinah,
my brothers and sisters of Madinah, let us
set aside a place, we will have this
refugee camp, all these people will be there
and please give me donations and let us
look after them, put a tent there and
so on, give them nice food, right?
Did he say that?
He would have done that, no, refugee camps.
Everyone please donate your old clothes, bring them
to the bajaj or somewhere, we distribute the
old clothes.
He pointed to one person, you and you,
our brothers.
Now these two have nothing in common, nothing
in common.
One is a Persian slave, Salman al-Farsi.
Social order, lowest of the low.
Foreigner from some other land.
Doesn't speak the language, nothing.
He has met the brother of who?
Abu Dard al-Ansari, among the shurafa of
Madinah.
Arab, I mean the Arabs were racist like
nobody's business.
I won't say how they are now but
those days they were.
They became brothers and this is only one
story.
There are any number of them, the same
stories.
They became brothers to the extent where one
day Salman al-Farsi comes home, and he
sees the wife of Abu Dard al-Ansari
in a kind of disabled state, like maybe
her hair is not covered or something.
So he said to her, why are you
looking like this?
So she said, because your brother is not
interested in me anymore.
He said, why do you say that?
She said because he prays all night, he
fasts all day, there's no time for me.
So Salman al-Farsi said, okay, I'll take
care of it.
So lunchtime, Abu Dard al-Ansari came over,
he brought out the food, he put the
food.
Salman al-Farsi said, sit down and eat
with me.
He said, no, I'm fasting.
He said, why are you fasting?
This is not Ramadan, this is not any
particular day.
He said, nothing fast, break the fast.
He said, yeah, I'm fasting.
He said, sit here and eat, break the
fast, or I won't eat.
So Abu Dard al-Ansari sat down and
he broke his fast and he ate with
him.
Obviously, he was very unhappy, but he did
it.
Then in the night, they lied down to
sleep.
Abu Dard al-Ansari was not sleeping, so
Salman al-Farsi said, what happened to you?
He said, no, I'm going to pray.
He said, pray what?
He finished Salat ul-Isha.
He said, no Qiyam al-Lail.
He said, no Qiyam al-Lail, last third
of the night, now sleep.
So Abu Dard al-Ansari laid down for
a little while, he thought Salman al-Farsi
was sleeping.
He got up, he said, where are you
going?
Abu Dard al-Ansari said, what is this?
You are doing jabber on me, this is
zulm.
He said, no, no zulm.
He said, Allah has a right on you,
your body has a right on you, and
your family, your wife has a right on
you.
Give each one their rights.
You can't say, I will worship Allah all
night and I will fast all day and
then nobody will know.
Anyway, last third of the night, they both
got up, prayed Tajuk, went to Salat ul
-Fajr for Majlis Nabawi Sharif.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam had this practice, after
Salat ul-Fajr, after all the Salat, he
would turn around and sit.
But after Salat ul-Fajr, especially, he would
turn around and sit, and then he would
ask people, has anyone seen any dream?
If somebody had a dream, he would interpret.
Otherwise, he would do a short khatira kind
of thing, reminder, whatnot.
So that day, when he turned around and
sat, Abu Darda Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, he
said, Ya Rasulullah, I have a complaint against
my brother.
He said, what complaint?
He said, this is what he's doing.
I was fasting, he made me, forced me
to break my fast.
I wanted to.
Day and night, he's not letting me pray.
He makes me, he makes me sleep and
so on.
And this is zulm.
So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, what did
your brother tell you?
Why did he do that?
He said, he told me that Allah has
a right on me, and I have, my
body has a right on me, and my
family has a right on me, and therefore
I must give everyone their rights.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, yes, your brother
is correct.
Now think about this.
I have a brother.
He loves me very much.
I love him very much.
But do you think I will tell him
this kind of stuff?
I don't know, if you have a brother
like this, if you think you can talk
to your brother, go try it.
They did it.
They accepted it.
Bilal bin Rabah Radhiallahu.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam makes him the brother
of, the name is not coming into my
head, but again, one of the big Ansari
Sahaba.
Young man, wealthy Arab.
Bilal bin Rabah, African slave.
Okay.
But Bilal bin Rabah, African slave, but he
had enormous, you know, respect in the community
and so on.
So his Arab brother, one day he tells
him, I want to get married to this
girl, the daughter of so and so.
I want you to come and recommend me.
Because, you know, if you say something, they
will, you are highly respected and so on.
So the father will agree.
So Bilal said, okay, let's go.
So they go there.
Bilal bin Rabah says to the father of
this girl, he said, my brother here, he's
a very good man, mashallah.
He's a good Muslim, he practices, he's a
very good man, but he has a very
short temper.
So he gets angry very fast.
So his brother looking at him, he said,
I brought you to recommend me or to
do damage to me.
I mean, you are supposed to be my
vakil.
What kind of vakil is this?
He said, no, I have to speak the
truth.
You've got a short temper, so I've got
to tell them.
I can't, I'm coming here, I can't tell
them, you know, you don't have a…
They have to tell the truth.
Love for each other.
Now to do that, I'm going to end
with this.
Two very critical requirements.
Number one, don't demand conformity with your brother.
Don't demand that he must believe exactly what
I believe, he must follow exactly what I
follow.
My share should be his share, my this
should be his.
No, no.
Allah is the same God for him and
for me.
Right?
He is worshipping Allah, he is not worshipping
me.
So whether he worships Allah in this way
or that way is none of my business.
If he asks me, tell him, tell him.
If he doesn't ask, you keep quiet, you
decide.
Is my salah so perfect that I have
now time to look at somebody else's salah
and say your salah is imperfect?
Look at your own salah, boss.
Let the other one's salah be perfect, imperfect,
who cares?
Who cares?
He has his hands here, let him have
his hands in his pocket, let him have
his hands on top of his head, what
is your problem?
Right?
You pray the way you believe is correct,
stay with that.
So accept difference.
My point is we have friends who are
not Muslim.
You are willing to accept the fact that
somebody is worshipping a stone, no problem.
You are willing to accept the fact that
somebody says Jesus, Isa A.S. is God,
no problem.
But you got a Muslim who has Shia
belief, who has some Barelvi belief or who
has some other belief.
La hawla wa la quwwata ibn astaghfirullah.
Inna lillahi wa inna lillahi rajim.
What's your problem, ya Habib?
Let him have any belief he wants one,
that's not your business.
Right?
You straighten your connection with Allah, that's the
only thing which matters.
Your connection with Allah is the only thing
which matters, not somebody else's.
Leave them alone.
Let him eat halal, haram, whatever.
That's not your problem, you don't need it.
You eat what you consider to be correct,
let them do what they want.
Then you will say, well, what about Amar
bin Maru, right?
Amar bin Maru, alhamdulillah, very good.
Nahi al-munkar?
To the extent that when it is done
in front of you, you can say one
time, my brother, please, and very nicely.
Please, look, this is incorrect.
After that, your job is over.
If he still says, thank you very much,
I will still do it, no problem, go
ahead.
Not my problem.
So accept difference, number one.
Number two, forgive each other.
Forgive each other.
Don't carry garbage in your heart.
Right?
Don't carry garbage in your heart.
People, we are all human.
There is nobody here who is perfect.
There will be a time, I can give
it to you, with me, I will give
it to you in writing.
There will be a time and probably many
times when I will say things you won't
like.
This I can guarantee you.
If you don't forgive me, then I cannot
do it.
So also, each for us.
We will say things, we will do things
which somebody else won't like because we are
human.
We do that with Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, we ask Allah to forgive us.
Right?
Do we say, ya Allah, don't worry about
forgiveness, I am perfect.
No.
See, Allah, I make mistakes, ya Allah, please.
So we expect Allah to forgive us and
you don't want to forgive somebody else?
What is this?
The Prophet said, the one who forgives his
brother, Allah will forgive him.
Rasulullah s.a.w. said, the one who
hides his brother's faults, Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala will hide his faults.
Even if you know something negative about your
brother, keep your mouth shut.
Cover.
Become the cover of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala for your brothers.
People come and tell me, for me, people
come and tell me things every day, believe
me.
This one is doing that, it goes inside
me and nothing comes out.
Not my job.
Don't.
Cover each other's faults.
Forgive each other.
Then we will have an Ummah.
Believe me, today we need, desperately we need
to be together.
We need to have unity.
Tomorrow I'll talk more about unity and so
on and so on, but we need this.
We do not need division.
We have enough divisions.
We do not need more divisions.
Be together.
Be one.
If somebody is doing something different, leave them
alone.
Forgive each other.
Inshallah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will forgive
us.
And we have the best example, the example
of Rasulullah s.a.w. and the Sahaba.
I just told you two stories.
There are many, many, many stories like this.
Alhamdulillah.
So let us try to emulate these people,
not simply tell stories.
We must try to emulate that in our
lives.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
join our hearts together, keep our hearts together,
fill our hearts with Sair and Barka and
Noor.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
be pleased with all of us and to
forgive all those who passed away.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
fill their forehead with Noor.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
give Sabr to the parents of the family
of those people, all of those young people
who passed away.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
be pleased with them and to give them
Sabr and Khayr.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
protect all of us here and all your
children.
May Allah give them safety and make them
the coolness of your eyes, Inshallah.