Mirza Yawar Baig – Build community
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The importance of unity and acceptance in Islam is crucial to achieve Islam's main goal, with commonalities between Muslims and non- Muslims. Forgiveness is essential for building community and avoiding future evil, while forgiveness is essential for building acceptance and working with others to avoid problems. A man who caused harm to himself and his family was forgiven, and forgiveness is crucial for building community and avoiding future evil. A former mentor who forgivened the man and provided blood money to them was also forgiven.
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My brothers and sisters, Allah
commanded us.
And he said, yeah, are you a Ladina
Amano?
Allah said,
hold fast
and together
through the rope of Allah
and do not divide among yourselves.
Allah did not say
He did not say, Do not have a
difference of opinion.
He said
He said, Don't form divisions.
Now obviously, the reason for this is clear.
I don't think I have to elaborate the
reason
because
the first thing that happens when you get
divided, whether it's
as Muslims, whether it's in a family,
whether it's in an organization
or wherever.
When you get divided, then you lose strength.
Right? There are so many
stories
of,
teaching stories in different cultures.
And the usual the usual story, one of
the most common ones is that his father
is dying
and he has
several sons
and daughters.
So he tells them each one
bring 1 arrow. So each one brings 1
arrow.
So the father then gives 1 arrow to
the person and says, break it. You break
it. Bricks.
Then he takes
all the arrows, puts them together, ties them
and then he says, now break it.
You can't break it.
So he said this is like you.
If you stay together
then nobody can break you.
But if you are
by yourself, if you are divided
then you will be broken.
Now question is,
today, if we see it's very, very peculiar,
paradoxical thing. Today, if you ask any Muslim,
what is the single biggest biggest need of
the Ummah? They will tell you unity.
That no matter what, anyone, anywhere,
this is the answer you will get. What
does this Ummah need the most? Unity.
But at the same time, we have
disunity and we have
reasons to differ and reasons to
divide.
And every day there is a new reason.
Right? It has to do with,
maybe maybe with culture, maybe with, Aqidah
or maybe, you know, this practice, that practice.
Something or the other. Reason
of Dubai.
Now how do you change that?
How do you change that? What do you
do?
The opposite of that is people say, well,
you know, if that is the case, should
we say that everything is okay?
So somebody somebody is committing ship, that is
also okay. Somebody is going and worshiping on
a grave, that's also okay. Somebody is making
top of the grave, that's also somebody is
asking the person in the grave. Yeah. Give
me just give me that. It's okay. How
can it be okay? It's not okay.
None of that is okay. All of this
is open shirk. If somebody is doing that,
we believe they have executed Islam. So there's
no question of okay.
Yet,
we have to live together with others.
And the thing I always remind myself is,
if you look at
places of conflict in the world where Muslims
are being persecuted, where Muslims are being killed,
the person who is coming to kill you
is not first asking you,
are you Hanafi or Shafi? Are you Shia
or Sunni?
Right. Are you Salafi or Sufi? He's not
asking. He doesn't care. You are a Muslim?
You look like a Muslim? Chop
your
neck. But with we with us ourselves no.
No. Hold on a second.
I do.
I raise my hand. Do you raise your
hand?
If you didn't, I said, I'm sorry. I,
you know, I can't be afraid. Go away.
That's why he's saying, well, I do.
So this is.
So what is the solution to this thing?
In my view, the solution to this is
very simple, which is
practice what you believe to be right based
on your evidence on your.
Don't change that.
But if somebody else is doing something
differently from you,
leave him alone.
Because he has his own dalil. Maybe his
dalil according to me is wrong, doesn't matter.
What
you look for is what are the common
areas that we have
that we still need to work together on.
For example,
issue of drugs.
Doesn't matter whether you are or or or
or
or or or this one or that one.
If your kid is into drugs, he's into
drugs. We have to sit sit and say
how can we get this drug business out.
Yes. It doesn't matter. You you you pray
this way that way. Pray with your hands
in your pockets. I don't care. As far
as I'm concerned,
we have we both have children. There is
a drug problem. We have to sit together
and think together to get the children out
of this drug problem irrespective of how you
worship and whether you cover your head or
not.
So look for commonalities
where
we have common interest and common
needs.
Work with those. Where we do not have
common interest or or where we do not
have,
agreement or something. Leave it alone. No need
to fight about that.
Second very important thing is the willingness to
forgive.
Willingness to forgive each other.
I'll give you 2 instances
from
the. Take the instance of the man
who was a relative of
and who was also poor.
So used to support him financially. So here
is a man who is
one thing he is a relative. Secondly, he
is receiving money from.
So normally, what would we expect that the
person will be very grateful to him and
very loyal to him. Yes?
But, you know, I have seen this is
a amazing thing in, in life. One of
my very, very dear, mentors,
he told me I think maybe 50 years
ago. I was a little kid. He said
to me if you want to make an
enemy of somebody
help them when they need it. So I
thought this is a crazy thing. I mean,
no. So you're telling telling me don't no.
I said, no. You help but don't expect
that the person will become your friend. He
will not. He will he will probably be
the first one to criticize you or the
first one to go against you. So I
thought this is rubbish. The he's saying something.
Anyway, he He was much older than me.
He was a mentor. So I never said
I didn't sort of disagree with him. I
listened to that. But in my life, I
have seen this to be true multiple times.
The people who stab you in the back
are the people who
who you helped. Right?
And that is exactly what happened in this
particular case. This man who was related to
and
was receiving
funds from him. He was one of those
who slandered our mother
Right. Last person in the world. You will
expect this man to stand up against the
others. Instead of that, this man is the
is one who now.
His guilt is proven.
Punishment is awarded.
80 lashes.
He's all all this happens. There is no
doubt about the fact that he's guilty.
So quite rightly and justifiably, he says this
fellow now I'm get out. I I will
not help him anymore.
He is a traitor.
What does Allah what does Allah do? In
Surah Al Anur, Allah reveals.
So
Allah says,
don't you want Allah to forgive you? Forgive
them.
Don't you want Allah to forgive?
Now here is the matter. Because many times
people say, no. No. No. He did it.
That is why we have to forgive him.
If he never did anything, what are you
forgiving?
So here is a case where the person
did this yet
Allah subhanahu wa'ala. Allah is saying, Allah is
saying you forgive him. Allah says I have
given you more. I have blessed you more.
Forgive him.
2nd big and this is a combination of
many side. I would mention that as collectively
as one. Which is Rasool Allah
SWALLAM treatment of those who harmed him
himself.
Right?
And collectively,
what happened for
even before that?
People like
who who was a bigger enemy of Rasulullah
SAW Salam than Abu Sufyan.
Right?
So right to the time of Fatima, even
in Fatima,
he comes. He says,
I have no problem with Muhammad.
I
still have an issue with
that. So
who brought him there?
I take away my protection from you. You
are, you know, you are on your own.
Get killed. I don't care. I mean, I'm
I'm sick of you. I'm tired of you.
I don't know what what's the issue with
you.
Yet,
Rasool
is the first one to forgive Abu Sufyan.
And there are series of them. Hind,
his wife
who mutilated
Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Salam's uncle.
Al Washi
who killed Hamza
and so on and so on. Multiple people.
Now think about this. So
goes and forgives all these people, and he
is forgiving them when he it was in
his power and he would have been legally
justified
to execute them or to punish them. He
does not do that. He forgives
them. Free.
He does not even seek compensation from them.
He does not say, for example, to Vaishi,
you kill my uncle. I'm his relative. Now
pay me blood money.
No. Nothing.
Now what was the benefit of that? What
why why is that so important?
If you think about that, the biggest benefit
of this was
that at one stroke, it killed all
future vendettas,
all future revenges and everything else. One stroke
is gone.
So after this, after
said to the people, go, you are free.
He said go away, you are free.
After that, even if somebody wanted to
create some conspiracy or create some,
you know, ill feeling against the,
he would not get any traction because people
would say, look. What kind of a man?
I mean, he just forgave you and you
are now trying to, you know, backstab him.
Get out of here.
And one stroke, he completely removed all opposition
future opposition to Islam and to his mission
by forgiving people.
Now could it was it easy for him
to forgive? Just think about it. You must
put yourself in that position. Is it was
it easy for him to forgive? No. Of
course, it's not. It's very very difficult.
But he did it because by that one
stroke,
all future opposition is gone.
And he is now free to do his
work without anybody interfering and, you know, he
doesn't have to play politics. He doesn't have
to watch his back. He doesn't have to
nothing.
Is free.
So I remind myself with you
that this is a very very very important
thing to do. It's not easy And that's
why Allah said hold together firmly to the
rope of Allah.
It is not easy, but it is essential
and it is the most powerful thing that
we have
to build community.
We ask Allah
to help us to build community and to
make this a source of
for us and others.