Mirza Yawar Baig – Choose your hard

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The speakers emphasize the importance of physical, mental, and emotional wellness in achieving success in various areas of life. They stress the need for a plan to achieve success, including physical, mental, and emotional wellness. The speakers also emphasize the importance of learning and spending time in these areas to achieve success in various areas of life. They give a book to their father and encourage people to choose their heart and pursue their spiritual projects.
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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 Messengers
and Prophets.
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and
blessings be upon him and his family and
companions.
Peace and blessings be upon him and his
family and companions.
Brothers and sisters, normally in America if you
ask somebody, how are you?
What is the answer you get?
Let me ask you, how are you?
Good.
He says good.
First of all, good or bad is an
assessment of you by somebody else.
You don't decide I am good.
Somebody else decides if you are good.
Allah will decide if you are good.
Right?
So, this is the American culture in which
things are upside down.
So, good.
Wrong answer.
Like you say, Alhamdulillah, that is the correct
answer for a Muslim.
And then you be polite and ask the
other person, how are you?
After all, somebody asked you a question, how
are you?
So, they deserve to have a polite answer,
right?
So, Alhamdulillah, I am well, how are you?
But that's not the point.
My point is, what I want to say
here is, when you say I am well,
what is wellness?
It's very important to understand, very, very important
to understand, what is wellness?
Wellness comprises of many things.
Physical wellness, mental wellness, emotional wellness, spiritual wellness,
financial wellness, wellness with regard to your relationships.
If you are married, then wellness in your
family, wellness with regard to your children, your
relationship with your children, how your children are
growing and so on and so forth, right?
Many aspects of wellness.
Now, why is it important to think about
this?
Because in this world, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala made this world, Allah said, for the
human being is only that which he works
for.
This is a world of cause and effect.
So, if I want to be well, and
by well, what does that mean?
It means I want to be well in
all these aspects.
I want to be physically well, mentally well,
emotionally well, spiritually well, well in my relationships,
well in my finances and so on and
so on.
Then I must have a game plan for
all of that, because it won't happen.
Unless I work for it, it's not going
to happen.
So, if you take your day, and I'm
suggesting that you do this as an exercise,
right?
I'm teaching a course on life goal planning
on the 15th in Hampshire Mosque.
Anyone interested, come to that course.
So, if you are interested in being well,
then you must have a plan.
And if I look at your day, from
the time you wake up in the morning
to the time you go to sleep, you
must have a plan which is targeted at
physical wellness.
How do you get physical wellness?
What determines that?
What you eat and drink?
How much exercise do you do?
How much sleep do you get?
And how do you take care of your
body?
Hygiene.
There are four aspects to that.
You must have an answer for all of
this.
Mental wellness.
Comprises of what knowledge do I have?
What knowledge do I need?
What am I doing to gain that knowledge?
Emotional wellness.
How do I deal with my emotions?
Sad, glad, mad, mad, how do I deal
with that?
If I get angry, what do I do?
If I feel disappointed, what do I do?
If I feel depressed, what do I do?
Spiritual wellness.
My connection with Allah.
How much time in a day do I
spend in my connection with Allah?
And I'm not talking about the first Salawat.
The first Salawat is the first Salawat.
This has to be done.
In addition to that, how much Quran I'm
reading, do I understand that?
How much Zikr do I do?
Do I focus on that Zikr, what happens
to me?
Sheikh Jadadul Khair, in his last Khatrah, he
talked about this.
Allah said, the believers are those who when
Allah's Zikr is mentioned, their hearts shiver with
the awe and majesty of Allah.
Does it happen to me?
Spiritual wellness.
Financial wellness.
How much money do you need?
What's your game plan going forward?
What's your career looking like?
What are your career goals and aspirations?
We've got a lot of young people sitting
here.
Do you have a career plan?
Where do you see yourself 10 years from
now?
It's not just a dream.
10 years from now, I'm going to be
the chairman of General Electric.
What tells me that it will happen?
Do you have that plan?
Do you have ambition?
In business, you're running a business.
What's your plan in the business going forward?
Five years from now, 10 years from now,
what's the plan?
Do you understand markets?
Do you understand finance?
Do you understand inflation?
Everything has to be learnt.
And therefore, how much time do you want
to spend learning these things?
Then, relationships.
Marital relationships with your wife and your husband.
Relationship with your parents, relationship with your children.
How are those going?
A simple question I ask people.
Do you have a conversation with your children?
Go get this, go get that, it's not
a conversation.
Conversation is when you sit and you talk
about things which have mutual interest, mutual value
for both people.
Do you have that conversation?
My father used to give me books to
read.
Random books.
He would come and say, do this.
He would come back maybe a day later
or two days later because he expected me
to finish it first.
Then he would say, what did you learn
from this?
Only one time I did it.
So I said, this is what the author
is saying.
He said, no, I don't want to know
what the author is saying.
I know what the author is saying.
Before I gave you the book, I read
it.
I want to know what you are saying.
And he gave me Ayn Rand's book called
Atlas Shrugged.
Read it.
He's not talking about some storybook, no.
Books on philosophy, books which stretch your mind,
stretch your imagination.
What did you learn from this book?
And we would have a conversation.
Then I agree with something, he disagrees with
something, he would agree, he disagrees and so
on, so we would have a conversation.
Do you have this with your children?
If you have it, alhamdulillah, all power to
you.
If you don't have it, why not?
What are you waiting for?
Are you waiting for them to grow up
and go away and nothing else?
So, what's the plan?
Right?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made this world
a place of Darul Amal, place for Amal,
spiritual Zikr, Tahajjud, fasting, connection with Allah, what
happens to me when I read the Quran
al-Karim?
What happens to me when I come into
the Masjid?
Most of us are so disconnected with ourselves
that what happens to me is like a,
I don't know what to say, because I
never thought of what should happen to me.
There's no effect, it was never supposed to
happen.
My submission to my brothers and sisters is
time doesn't, we don't know how much time
we have, right?
Nobody knows.
Don't wait for it to run out.
Do something before the time runs out.
Do something with yourself, do something with your
children, do something with your friends.
Surround yourselves with friends who will push you
to do the things that you should do.
Simple question, right?
Ask yourself, ask one of your friends, what
books did you read this year?
If your friend cannot answer that question, if
they didn't read the books, find another friend.
Seriously, I'm not joking.
What books did you read?
What kind of friend is that?
The thing is, if you surround yourself with
friends who are one way, you become like
that.
It's simple as that.
Don't be in this imagination that you are
going to change everybody.
You will not, you will change.
You will be like, as they say, you
are the sum total of five of your
friends.
If your friends are people who go regularly
to the gym, if your friends are people
who get up in the morning, after Salatul
Fajr, they run for 10 miles.
Believe me, you will start doing that.
You will become physically very fit because those
friends are doing it.
You surround yourself with friends who are only
sitting and eating, that's what you will become.
So I say to people, it's not my
quote, somebody else, I read it somewhere, but
beautiful quote.
They say, choose your heart.
Choose your heart.
Being physically unfit is hard.
Being physically fit is also hard.
Being ignorant is hard.
Learning and reading is also hard.
Being a fool is hard.
Being wise is also hard.
Choose your heart.
Being disconnected from Allah is hard.
Connecting to Allah is also hard, not easy.
So choose your heart.
Choose which heart you want.
This life is not easy.
This life was never meant to be easy,
Allah did not make it easy.
Life is hard, it is supposed to be
hard.
Choose your heart.
Because if you don't choose the right heart,
the other one will happen to you automatically.
If I do not do physical exercise, I
will become unfit.
And it comes with all kinds of ailments
and problems and you know.
If I don't choose the spiritual heart, I
will get disconnected with Allah and that comes
with its own problems.
If I don't choose the heart of good
communication, being nice to people and so on
and so forth, then I will end up
with our friends, problems in the family and
so on and so forth, that's also hard.
So surround yourself with friends who will push
you to do the right things.
Assess your friends.
Is this person somebody that I should be
friends with?
And also say, what am I contributing to
that friendship?
I have friends who regularly, the moment he
sees my face, I've got some friends, check
which book are you reading?
What is your latest book which you are
writing?
Because I write, so they know this.
Which is the latest book that you are
writing?
We ask Allah to forgive us and to
open our eyes to what He has given
us and to allow us to appreciate it
and to take benefit from it and to
use it for the benefit of the world
and the hereafter.
And peace and blessings be upon the Prophet
and his family and companions.