Mirza Yawar Baig – Biggest challenge #1
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The speaker discusses the danger of the industrial revolution on Islam, citing three major changes that occurred: war, cultural and political changes, and cultural and political changes. They emphasize the importance of learning to take care of animals, planting, repair tools, and do things like agricultural machinery. The schooling system is taught based on religion, manners, culture, traditions, systems, manners, and systems, and the importance of fulfillment and parents' permission to leave their workplace. The speaker emphasizes the need for children to have a clear understanding of fulfillment and the importance of parents' permission to leave their workplace.
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My brothers and sisters,
I have been doing the last few days
a series of on,
Islamic
culture, manners, and so on. Those of you
who listen to this, you will
you must have listened to them.
Those of you who don't listen to this,
maybe it's the time to start listening so
you can get some thread for understanding.
Now the reason I'm saying that is because
today I want to continue with that. And
what I want to ask you a very
simple question, and that is
what in your view
those of you who know history?
And if you don't know history, you should
read history. That's another
very important thing to do is to learn
history, read history.
What do you think
in your view which period or which
incident or which, time
was the
greatest
danger and the greatest harm
caused
to the Muslim world
and to Islam and the,
whole Islamic culture.
Anybody?
Which time?
Which time place? What yeah.
So one is,
time of warbirds and second is Mongolian.
Ojo, then Mongolia,
I've said present.
Present. Okay.
Let me, I I don't want to
respond to each because that will take a
long time too, but.
In my study of history, I would say
the greatest
danger to Islam, the greatest harm that caused
was caused to Islam
was the period 17/60
to 18/40.
What is this period? Anybody knows? 17/60
to 18/40?
Anyone?
World War. World War. No. They're not all.
Yeah. Industrial Revolution. Industrial Revolution. Exactly.
Industrial Revolution. 1760
to 18 40. Now you might say, well,
why is the industrial revolution a danger to
Islam?
Because our understanding of industrial revolution is instead
of people making things by with their hands,
individual
artisans,
you
got them to
make things collectively in factories.
That that industrial revolution is about factories.
So machinery,
factories,
working together, the assembly line system, and so
on.
So why is that a danger to Islam?
What does Islam have to do there?
I'll tell you why.
And I want to link it back to
what
our brother and elder Sheikh Abdullah said today.
It was the greatest danger because the industrial
revolution was not
I won't say it was not
and and with that, I say it was
not only because it was also about
manufacturing. No doubt about that. But it was
not only about manufacturing.
The much bigger part of the industrial revolution
was with
cultural
and intellectual
and moral
and ethical
change.
So it was not an industrial revolution, it
was a cultural revolution, it was an ethical
and moral revolution.
Now I'll tell you why.
There were 3 major changes that happened
with the industrial revolution, and none of them
have to do with machines.
The first change that happened with the industrial
revolution was that the time of day was
changed.
The time of day changed from
sunrise to sunset
to
the shift time.
Day began
at your shift time.
So if my shift was
2
AM to 10 AM,
then my day begins when?
2 AM,
which is the middle of the night.
And my night begins when? 10 AM, which
is bright sunlight.
I come home and go to sleep. When?
In the daytime.
And Allah said,
Allah did not
say.
Allah did not say
Allah said we created the night for us,
and we created the day for you to
work.
It changed the time of day, number 1.
And I tell you why that why all
this is important.
Number 2,
it changed
the teachers.
And by changing the teachers, it destroyed
the family
system.
It did the teachers in the sense
that the industrial revolution was the beginning was
the birth of schooling as we know it.
They didn't have schools before that.
You had children
who, until
they grew to a certain age,
their teachers were their parents.
The father was the teacher. The mother was
the teacher.
The mother usually taught the child, and I'm
looking at it from the Islamic perspective, but
it was common across the board. The mother
usually
taught the child religion, manners,
culture,
traditions,
systems,
you know, what happens where and so on
and so forth. And for the girls,
the mother taught
the girl
housekeeping.
The girl was taught
to take care of children, so mothering.
All of this was part of the training
of the girl that my mother didn't run
a class role. This happened because they were
in the house. There was a small child.
Here.
Look after your sister. Look after your brother.
So this little one
who is maybe
like we sometimes we see in the in
other house. Other the little one, mamba is
carried by his sisters.
The older one is is is, is bigger,
but the younger one is there. You know?
They're learning mother. This is very very important
skills they're learning. How to take care of
the young.
The mothers taught
the religion. My mother taught me to read
Quran
from the time I was 4 years old.
She would sit.
We had
a living room and there was a outside
door into the garter. So the door would
be open. She would never shut the door.
She'd leave it open.
And she would sit there on the carpet
with the and the and the Quran, and
she had,
a big mussaf, big writing,
black writing, or a green background. And she
used to say it's cool for the eyes
to read a on a green background instead
of a white background. So she would sit
there with a book open, and she would
come, say, come sit, and she would teach
me to read. And I was 4 years
old.
And I had, like,
you know, my energy was, like, you know,
if you touch me, you'll get a shock.
So
she would make me sit there, and then
I would read,
and I would read, like, maybe 2 lines.
And then I would get up, and I
would run out into the garden. She never
stopped me.
She never shut the door. She never told
me. She didn't intimidated me to come back,
but she would not leave that place.
And I knew that she is not going
to get up from there until I finish
dd 1 page,
even if we take the whole day.
She never told me that.
So I would go around and come back
because I know it has to be done.
So I would sit. Then I would read,
and she would say, read loudly.
Because the birds are hearing.
We had pigeons. He says the birds are
listening to you. The trees are listening to
you.
They will bear witness before
Allah on the day of judgement. The conversation
with a 4 year old kid talking about
day of judgement when you are dead.
This is what mothers did.
Fathers,
agrarian societies, agricultural societies, the children went to
the farm with the father.
Even today, we in in our countries,
the
they learn to take care of animals. They
learn when to plant,
what to do, how to irrigate,
how to plow the land,
which goes with what? All
things to do with agriculture, with repairing of
tools, repairing of of of, basic agricultural machinery,
and so on and so forth. The children
learned that on the parents.
Industrial revolution changed that because what happened in
the industrial revolution was the factory started. They
needed labor. They needed workers. So they got
all the men. That was the first cut.
The women still stayed at home, but then
they ran out of people. They they didn't
have people to order them. You need the
women out.
So the 3rd change
the third change that happened was
psychology
got changed.
This the the the the
the story was sold to the women that
your
fulfillment
is in working outside the house.
The role of the mother
was discounted.
This is not important. What is work? Raising
children?
I remember the conversation I had with one
of my friends, his wife,
many years ago
in Australia. He came to me very
in panic. He said my wife
wants to leave the house and go and
work in a full time job,
and we have small children.
And I don't know. She she just won't
listen to me.
So she came here. I said, bring her.
She she came. I said, what? I want.
She said she said, no. She said, I
you know, there is no fulfillment in this.
I will find fulfillment when I go out.
I said, yeah, but it is true. I
agree with it.
Go.
So my friend was shocked with what I
think. I brought her here to for you
to convince you you agree. I said, no.
Sir, but before you go, define for me
what is fulfillment.
That you want to get fulfillment. Right? So
what is it?
So is fulfillment
working in a call center,
8 hours, 10 hours answering some calls about
credit cards and god knows what?
Or is fulfillment
raising
another generation?
Which is a little bit
and I said not one generation. You are
actually raising 2 generation because if you raise
1 generation,
that generation raises the next one.
So your teaching is passed on
to at least 2 generations.
So we should fulfill.
She understood. She never went she never went
out,
but the mind got changed.
So the women were sold this story that
the fulfillment is to work outside the house.
Feminism
and your
your,
confidence
and,
your,
I don't know what you call it. Your
independence
is in not obeying your husband.
I won't obey you.
I don't need your permission to vote. Islam
is backward. Why should I need permission of
the husband? I don't I don't I don't
need anyone's permission.
But you say stop for a minute.
When you go to work,
do you need your boss's permission to take
leave?
Yes.
Do you need your boss's permission to leave
your workplace and go anywhere? Yes. Can you
go there and say, I don't need permission.
Is it? You
don't need permission to go, but we need
permission to come back. So
goodbye.
So when you don't want to obey your
husband, Allah makes you obey some strange man
with whom you have no connection.
Minds got changed, and therefore, the schooling system
happened.
And the schooling system was that instead of
parents
being the teachers of their children
and because we all had the joint family
systems when in one family,
there were multiple
elders.
I will show you a picture of my
family when I was growing up.
Multiple elders. You had grandparents.
You had grandparents,
siblings, or you had like, I had 2,
3 grandfathers. I mean, my direct grandfather, his
his brother is what? He's also my grandfather.
Right? So my grandmother, her sister is what?
She's also my grandmother.
So we have multiple grandparents.
We have multiple uncles and aunts who are
like our parents.
So we live together even though they individually
they had their own houses and teachers so
on. We live together, all the kids. Whoever
if I if I was in this uncle's
house, I would eat food there. Nobody. No.
No. No problem.
I didn't have to go back there. He
uncle did not say, go to your father.
No.
You are my child. Like, my like,
my own children.
And, also, if I did something wrong, this
uncle will correct me. If necessary, this uncle
will whack me on my behind
if needed. And if I went and complained
to my father, I would get a second
whack
Because was
everybody's job.
Today, we we have we only have the
words. It takes the whole village to raise
a child. You want the word? This. Right?
But what happens? What is the reality today?
If your child is corrected by somebody your
child comes to the masjid. That's some nonsense.
1 of the people in the masjid, one
of the brothers, he corrects your child. Usually,
what happens?
You will cover. Excuse me?
What did you say to my son?
I should say
thank you very much for correcting myself. No.
No. No. What? You talk to myself like
that?
The culture changed.
3 changes.
Change in the daylight hours, daytime.
Change in teachers.
And because of the change in teacher, the
whole complete cultural change, especially targeted at women
and change in
schooling system. So the parents were no longer
their teacher. The teacher was therefore, what they
did was they take the woman out of
the house. Man is already out of the
house. Put instead of
15 4 5 children having 2 parents, 2
teachers.
Now instead of 5 children with 2 teachers,
you had 30 children with 1 teacher.
And that one teacher was doing a job
for a salary that that, you know, emotional
connection with any of the any of the
children.
He's working for a for a salary. And
what did he bring? He brought or she
brought whatever they came with. So their own
culture, their own values, their own ethics, morals
came into the classroom, not yours.
And the final thing also connected with this
was the change in women's fashions,
clothing.
Just look at pictures of this country of
America, of Europe,
pre 1760
and see how women used to be dressed.
Their heads were covered. They used to wear
long skirts,
full sleeves.
Fashion change and not for any other reason.
This whole showing and body and stuff is
later. Fashion change for the reason of safety.
It was unsafe
for a woman or anybody to work next
to a machine in loose clothing.
To this day, you cannot. If you if
you are working
next to a machine, especially,
you know, with the with the chains and
and whatnot and wheels, to work next to
a machine with loose clothing meant that the
clothing got cut, you got killed.
They can't have that chained the clothing. So
the thing was put into the women's head,
your body,
my body is my body. If I want
to show it, I can show it.
Yeah?
And
what you call today influencers.
They didn't have the name, but they have
the people.
So billboards,
messages
in different ways,
the ideal woman,
the ideal man looked very different
from
the ideals
according to Islam.
Now why was this a challenge and why
was this
the greatest
danger that Islam faced, inshallah.
My next.
We ask Allah
to be pleased with us and to enable
us to do what is necessary
for him to be pleased with us.