Mirza Yawar Baig – Build the Relationship
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The speakers emphasize the importance of fulfilling relationships with Jesus Christ's teachings and building strong relationships with um resource. They also discuss the benefits of their relationships and the importance of witnessing history. The conversation touches on the acceptance of Islam and the rise of the holy spirit, as well as the suicide rate among Muslims. The segment ends with a brief advertisement for a book and a statement about the acceptance of sad Has.
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My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders
and granted us Ramadan
with iman
and with
health and with time
to spend in his Ibadah,
in his worship.
And today, we have reached
the last Friday of this Ramadan.
Alhamdulillah, we still have 3, 4 days left.
So while we grieve the passing of Ramadan
and while we do not know whether we
will see another Ramadan or not, we ask
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
to grant us the best in this Ramadan.
I remind myself when you
to make whatever changes we wanted to make
or we should have made
and we have not made in these days
before the before this month ends
to make sure that the month come that
the month the purpose for which the month
came, which is to make us
that this purpose is is achieved.
I remind myself and you
that every
relationship
in this world has two things
associated with it.
A benefit that we derive from it
and a responsibility
that we owe to it.
Every relationship.
Any relationship that does not
benefit
ceases to exist
even if it began and carried on for
a while.
Very soon, any intelligent person will realize that
they are gaining nothing from that relationship
and will move away from it. On the
contrary,
a relationship that is beneficial
will attract you to itself
and will be constantly strengthened
and you happily
invest in it
continuously because you realize
how you are gaining from it.
Needless to say, the benefit or gain can
be
material. It can be money
or popularity
and name and fame
or nonmaterial,
which is spiritual
peace, enlightenment, commitment to the cause, and so
forth.
We have many examples in our lives.
For example, the relationship between parents and children.
Parents gain from the love love of their
children,
and children gain by being loved
by their parents
and from the tarbia,
the raising and upbringing
that the parents
do or are supposed to do
for their children.
You have relationships
with friends,
employee, employer,
marital relationship,
husband and wife,
relationships with, with the with the country that
you are a citizen of, relationship with communities,
and so on and so forth.
However, there is one truth
about all the relationships
of this life
and that is
that they
all end
either before
or finally
with our death.
Some end before we die for a variety
of reasons, which I'm sure I don't have
to elaborate.
But every one of them, no matter
how deep and strong,
no matter how powerful, no matter how beneficial,
no matter how much you love it or
hate it,
ends with death.
Death frees us
from all worldly
relationships
except 2.
There are 2 relationships that we have.
All human beings.
Muslim or not.
That we enter this world with
and which go with us when we leave
this life.
These two relationships are not of our own
making
though we have been given the choice
to accept them
and accept our responsibility towards them
or to reject that responsibility.
But the choice is not free.
It comes with consequences.
If we accept and fulfill our responsibility,
we earn reward.
If we don't,
the responsibility that we owe to them still
remains
because we continue to benefit from them
whether or not we accept them.
And that is why if we don't fulfill
our responsibility
towards them,
we would be culpable
and we would be liable for punishment on
the day
when we will all be gathered
in the place of gathering
in the hasher on the day of judgment.
These two relationships
are with Allah
And our relationship
with his messenger Muhammad
About our relationship with Allah
We owe our very existence to that,
as well as our continued well-being.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
O mankind,
worship your Rab
who created you and those who are before
you so that you may become Al Mutakoon.
I remind myself and you that as Muslims,
this relationship
is what makes us Muslim.
This relationship
is the meaning
of.
I bear witness that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
that there is no one worthy of worship
except Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
This relationship is the one
which we reiterate
over and over again
in every rakat
of every salah
irrespective
of that kind of salah. Whether it is
Farda, whether it's nafil or anything,
we reiterate this relationship
as a part, as a rukun,
as a pillar
of every rakat, of every salah
by saying what?
Is a statement of relationship.
You are saying, you Arab, I am yours
and you are mine.
I worship only you
And I seek help only from you.
You are not saying Arab, you are creator
of the universe and the heavens and No.
No. You're saying this is me. This is
between me and you.
This is between me and you.
And after that, when we see the hadith,
there is a long hadith, I will not
go into it here, but there is a
hadith that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala responds to
every
ayat of Surah of Surah Al Fatiha.
And that is why Rasoolullah used to recite
Surah Al Fatiha aya by aya. He didn't
combine the ayat and recite continuously.
And after the slave says,
Allah said, now it is between me and
the slave.
Whatever he asked me, I will give him.
And that is why Allah
taught us to ask after.
This is the relationship
which is the first question that we will
be asked when we are in our grave.
What is the first question?
Who is your Rab?
The Malaika not asking who's
the Rab of the universe? No. They know.
They say who's Europe?
Who did you worship?
Man Rabuk.
We enter with that relationship.
We live with that relationship.
We reiterate this relationship in every rakat or
every salah. When we go into our cover,
that is the first question. You answer it
right, InshaAllah. Allah
will give us naja.
Relationships.
That relationship is strengthened by 2 things.
1,
by reflecting
and reiterating
and repeating
the glory and magnificence of Allah
throughout our lives.
By reminding ourselves who we worship.
Who do we worship?
We worship the one who introduced himself
and he said,
This is Allah.
This is Allah introducing
himself.
We glorify Him
and we thank Him.
We thank Him for what He bestowed us
with.
And about that he said,
That's a question
which should be answered. And
we thank
Relationships.
We need to build our relationship, we need
to strengthen our relationship, and that is why
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala sent us Ramadan al
Kareem. We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
help us to build and strengthen and keep
that relationship
intact and ever more solid and strong until
the day we meet him.
The second relationship we have is a relationship
with Muhammad
And that relationship again
is a relationship
that will go with us
into our graves.
And that is the relationship
based on which we will be called
on the day of judgment
to come together
as the ummah of Muhammadur Rasoolallahu
alaihi
wa'alehi wasabi wasallam.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
You are nazu kajaaqumur
Rasoolu bilhaqqi mirminu
kajraalakum
Allah said, which means, O mankind,
verily there has come to you,
the messenger Muhammad
with truth from your Rabb.
So believe in him, it is better for
you. But if you disbelieve,
then certainly
to Allah
belongs all that is in the heavens and
the earth. And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala is
ever all knowing
and all wise.
I remind myself and you that when
we believe in Allah
and when we believe in Muhammad sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam,
there is
this is the truth and we we bear
witness to the truth.
And as I said, there is a benefit
and the benefit of believing in Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is that when we meet Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
we will see that what we believed
in was the truth and we hope for
the mercy and forgiveness of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
The benefit of believing in Muhammad
is that we will benefit from being
among his ummah, among the among the part
of his ummah that accepted him.
The ummah to Lijabat,
the ummah that accepted his call.
I mentioned the story of Yarmouk,
the battle of Yarmouk. Nobody understood the position
and the,
the benefit and
the power of
the relationship with Rasool
No one understood that better than the Sahaba.
I mentioned the story of the Battle of
Yarmouk the other day in my kathira.
And that is told
by Umar Abdulla ibn Umar
He
said we were in this Battle of Yarmouk
and when we faced the Byzantine forces,
which was the Ghassanid Arabs
and the Byzantine the the Romans,
He said
we were like a white
spot
on a black bull.
He said we were like a white spot
on a black bull.
In the comparison between
that army, the army of Heraclius,
and the army which was commanded by Khalid
bin Warid, Rabbi Alalan.
So he said, we raised our hands and
we called upon our and
see what they said.
They said, You
Help the Ummat of Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
And Abdullah ibn Nuhr radiAllahu
anhu, he says
that we saw the sky open
and we saw Jibreel
come down leading the forces that Allah sent
with him.
And he said,
I saw
the tail of the turban of Jibril
flying in the breeze,
and I saw
the sun shining
on the tip of the lance that Jibril
was holding.
Now
note,
they did not call You Rabbana.
They said You Rabba Muhammad.
They did not say, Surna.
They said, There is a power in the
relationship.
We do not worship Muhammad
We don't worship him.
We don't make him equal with Allah. We
don't make him a partner with Allah,
But we ask Allah
to help us
because we belong to him
and because we belong to Muhammad salallahu alaihi
wasalam.
We ask Allah to help us because
when Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam raised his hands
and made dua,
he made that dua for us.
We have the Hadith of Rasool
where he said he made dua and he
said, O Allah,
I wish I could meet my brothers and
sisters.
The sahabah said, You Rasulullah, we are your
brothers.
He said, You are my Sahaba.
You are my companions. Allah has given you
a special status.
He said my brothers are those and when
in the hadith when he says brothers, it's
not a gender specific statement, it means brother
and sister.
He said, my brothers are those
who will come
after me and they will believe in me
even though they have not seen me.
So I say to you,
Oh, brothers and sisters of Rasulullah,
understand who you are.
Understand
who you are.
You cannot benefit from a relationship that you
are not aware of.
You cannot benefit from a relationship
that you don't feel.
So feel that relationship.
You are the brother of Muhammad
I did not say it. He said it.
You are his sister. I did not say
it. He said it.
And in that context, you and I today,
we are witness
to history being made.
This is not a privilege granted to
generations.
It was granted to us.
We are seeing history being made,
and that history is being made. A history
of our relationship
being fulfilled,
a history of our relationship where they are
paying the price
to fulfill that relationship.
And the name of that place
where the history is being made is
Why do you and I know what is
the doors
of
Jannah
are
open.
Wasa is the sign of the greatest strength
of the Ummah.
Never weep tears
of pity.
You are not seeing you are not seeing
weakness.
You are seeing strength
like the strength of the who
stood in the battle of Adam.
You are seeing strength
once again.
You are seeing the signs
of the Quran,
the first generation.
You're not seeing you are seeing powerlessness.
You're not seeing helplessness. Never think about it
like that.
That is power you are seeing.
You're seeing power where all the powers of
shaitan and all the powers of evil of
this world are down on their knees.
All their force cannot help them.
Just think about this.
In this country,
which is the wealthiest country,
which is the greatest economy in the world,
it has the highest suicide rate.
Highest suicide rate.
Why?
Despair,
hopelessness.
I ask you a question.
In all the stuff that you are hearing
and seeing about Gaza, This is the first
time that a genocide has been livestreamed
in all of the stories.
Did you ever hear a one single man
or woman in Gaza who said I am
committing suicide because this is enough?
Did you hear that?
I am committing suicide because
I have no hope.
Not one.
Not one.
The reporter goes to the man and says,
how will you live?
There is no water, there is no food,
there is no medicine,
there is no bread, you have nothing.
The man smiles
and he says we have Allah.
He says, we have Allah.
We have power,
and Allah is witness.
And I can see
pointing to those people,
to the philosophy brothers and sisters,
and say, my rabbi, you rabbi,
This is my.
This is my.
And they are paying the price
on behalf of every single one of us
so that we continue to remain
in the Ummah.
I don't know about you, but I don't
have anything to say to my brother
that I did this for you.
Well, I can say
that when those people in Gaza
were dying
and when people here were protesting,
and may Allah bless all those Jews and
Christians and atheists
who came out in the street in the
cold.
And they walked 25 miles for us.
How many Muslims did I see in that
in that in that protestation? In the in
that march?
Why?
Why?
All you needed to do
was get off your sit up arm
and walk,
and you didn't do that.
You did not do that.
You sat on your sit upon
and you expect the world to change.
They are paying the price
in lives
and blood.
They are building
their relationship with Allah
where the welcomes
them every minute as I'm speaking here.
One of them is going into Jannah.
They are the ones about whom Rasulullah
is saying, you Rabbi,
look at my Humber today.
1400 years after I have gone,
when I am no longer with them.
They are still true to you.
They are still true to you.
They do not despair.
They write signs on the walls of
the Shefa hospital
and they say, oh, Arab,
help us.
But if this is what you have decreed
for us, alhamdulillah, all all praise to you.
Make sure you write your name with them.
Make sure you write your name with them.
As I said, may Allah bless all those
Jews and Christians and atheists and all those
who are coming out on the street for
this, millions of them.
In Norway,
minus 40
Celsius. 40 degrees below 0.
Thousands of people.
Vast majority. In Norway, how many Muslims are
there
on the street?
Millions of people, country after country after country.
The only countries they can't do that in
is our so called Muslim countries.
That in this country we can do it.
That you can stand out there and you
can say what you want to say and
nobody tear gasses you and nobody
* charges you and nobody
button charges you and and the cavalry does
not come after you?
Despite that,
if you don't get out there
and if you don't say what needs to
be said, if you don't call out and
if you don't write your name with those
people, Abhaza,
may Allah have mercy
on
you.
My
brothers and sisters,
write your name with them.
Ensure that we go into Jannah
And we can say to Allah, you're up,
I did what I could do.
And Allah will say, yes, you are right.
Do what you can do
to the best of your ability,
whether it's by donating
and definitely by joining protests wherever the protests
are happening,
by boycotting products.
Everything works.
Everything counts.
What doesn't work and doesn't count is simply
forwarding messages.
And to grant us Ramadan al kareem
and to grant us all the benefits of
Ramadan al kareem
to strengthen our relationship with Him, to strengthen
our relationship with Muhammadur Rasoolallahu
alaihi wa sallam. I ask Allah Subhanahu wa
ta'ala to help us and to forgive us
and to cover us with His mercy.
Ameenya balalmi.
One of the ways in which dua is
accepted is by
giving sadakah.
So make sure that you give sadaqah today.
Whatever it is,
before you go home, give sadaqah.
Whatever the amount is, Insha'Allah.
Yes?