Mirza Yawar Baig – Conditions depend on actions
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The speaker discusses the importance of return on investment and the safety of money in helping individuals achieve their goals. They emphasize the need for peace of mind and the value of money in helping individuals feel safe. The speaker uses personal examples to explain the concept of global and local political power and how it can be used to cushion against danger. They stress the importance of understanding and embracing reality to avoid becoming a police officer. The speaker also emphasizes the role of the budget in protecting the safety of the entire world and standing firm to avoid harming the people.
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Talking about various things, and,
2 things I want to remind myself and
you. 1 is
that
in life, we use this terminology usually in
business, but it applies in everything in life,
which is
return on investment.
So in business, we use it for business
reasons, but return on investment is a good
philosophy to think and keep in your mind
for everything.
So for example, if you say,
friendship,
I'm making a friend with this person. So
that's your investment, this this friend. What's the
return on that? I'm not saying be, you
know, very transactional with that, but point is
that end of the day,
there are some friendships which are beneficial, some
which are not beneficial.
And
so also everything else.
I my activities, what I'm doing, what's the
return on that?
For example, we spend type of social media.
What's the return on that?
What do I get? I am spending, god,
all 3 hours, 4 hours, 5 hours, 6
hours. People people spend 6 8 hours on
social media.
So I spent 8 hours of my life
on something.
What was my return on it?
Right? If it if the return is worth
it, go ahead. But if it's not worth
it, 8 hours of your life, which is
a nonrenewable asset,
went out the drain.
You start going back.
Now
if you think about this,
you can see
at the bottom line of everything,
why do you earn money? Why do you
why does everybody need power? Why do you
need authority? Why do you need political power?
And so so
I'm being a bit simplistic, but
in my view, there's only one reason why
we work for all of these things, and
that is peace of mind.
You want to feel safe.
Money has no value by itself.
The value of money is what can it
do for me. What money can do for
me is it can cushion me.
So money gives me
safe from
dangers, safe from starvation,
safe from,
you know, if I get sick, I have
money to pay for my hospital.
Whatever whatever whatever. Otherwise, money by itself is
what? It's
today is not even gold and silver. It's
paper money. That paper is worthless. You can't
eat it. You can't, you know, can't run
it with it.
But the value of the money is, at
the end of the day,
keeps you safe. Why do you want political
power? Because at the end of the day,
it keeps you safe. If I am the
biggest kid on the kid on the block,
nobody can threaten me.
Right?
Now think about that. Think about the
I had which,
she had resided in the first
of,
of of Maghrib.
See what Allah is saying with this. These
ayat, these
set of ayats,
2 thoughts.
One
thought
is global,
and the second thought is local, individual.
Allah
said,
Before we began,
before we had dinner, we were sitting and
talking about the 3rd World War and today's
political conditions. And,
are we in the war? Is the war
going to come? Will it happen? Will it
not happen?
Right? There's a lot of anxiety with the
with regard to all this. What will happen?
Election in this country, who will win? If
so and so wins, what happens? So and
so wins, what happens?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying,
Say
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is the owner
of everything.
And Allah gives it to who he wants
and he takes it away from who he
wants.
And what is the purpose of,
of sultan, of,
sultanate, of, authority and so on? Is it?
Yeah. Right. Is it what what else is
it? It is. Yes,
sir. This is it's not in your money.
Is not in the crown of your head.
Is not on the chair you are sitting.
Is not in the designation.
Is from Allah.
He
gives away what? And takes away. And takes
away. Because we have seen if you if
you just re if you just think about
recent history, we have seen people who are
in the most powerful chair on the face
of the earth, and they are laughing stock
for the whole world.
People laugh at them. People spit at them
and said, this man is the president of
the United States of America.
What kind of monkey is this? What kind
of joker is this?
The most powerful chair. I mean, nobody can
deny that. The most powerful
seat on the planet today is the presidency
of the United States of America.
Laughing stock.
Allah Allah did not take them off the
chair.
Keep them off the chair.
Whether the chair gives you a za or
Allah gives you a za.
Global situation across. Then Allah
talks about something very locally.
And Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala takes out the
dead from the living and the living from
the dead.
Allah is talking about 2 phenomena
which only Allah can control.
The movement of celestial bodies, what is happening?
What is day and night?
Can you control it? Can I control it?
Can you give me one second more to,
you know,
what is life and death? Can somebody control
that? Nobody control it. Time to time to
die die.
So Allah says that these Allah is explaining
to us. Allah is showing us example. Allah
is saying that
these things I control, and I am the
one who gives you
result.
What are you afraid of?
Why are you afraid?
What is the anxiety about? Why are you
eating haram?
Why are you doing haram business?
Who told you you will starve?
I'm the one who feeds you. I'm the
one who wants the bulk. I'm the one
who gives it to who he wants. I'm
the one who takes it away.
I'm the one who gives it. I'm the
one who gives honor. I'm the one who
who who can dishonor if I want.
I'm the one who
moves all the celestial bodies. They're under my
control. I'm the one who gives life. I'm
the one who gives death, and I am
the one who feeds you for god's sake.
Understand.
Why are you afraid?
Who are you frightened of?
Why do you do things deliberately knowing it
is haram?
What will happen?
Tell you, you will starve. This will happen.
Who stop? How will you stop?
How will you starve when the one feeding
you is saying that I control every single
thing
inside you and outside you? See the see
the ayat, what Allah is explaining. Why did
Allah mention all of these things? I'm not
saying I'm not saying I know why. I'm
not talking to God, but
see how Allah explain these things.
Existential,
global reality, and internal reality.
See the connection between the 2.
Allah's brother is saying because when I can
do all of this,
you think I can't give you 1 roti?
I can give you a piece of bread?
Well, I can do all of this.
I can take away kingdoms. I can give
kingdoms. I can do this. I can do
that.
I can't give you a piece of bread.
What is this fear?
Why over it? Who will come to power?
Who cares?
Who cares?
Only what Allah wants will happen.
Let anybody come to power.
But if we want the right things to
happen to us, we have to connect correct
our connection with Allah.
That is the key thing.
Let anybody come to bar. It makes no
difference. As long as my connection with Allah
is clear, I will be safe. My family
is safe. My my community is safe.
And this to me is the role of
our budget.
It's not just to provide a space for
people to pray. You know, Allah made the
whole earth a place of prayer. We don't
need a buzzard.
You can pray under 2. You can pray
anywhere
in your home.
The role of the masjid is this,
is to continuously
keep on with this message
to say fear no one
fear nobody
Nobody can harm and nobody can give except
Allah.
Everything
he gives. He will give you without measure.
And the PRs took date? Yeah.
And that is what I want to remind
myself when you
don't worry about all of this. By all
means, do what you need to do, but
don't worry about this 3rd World War or
the 4th World War and the who will
will which election makes no difference.
What Allah wants will happen,
and what Allah wants and all Allah will
do depends on us and our actions. Because
Allah
Allah said the cause of all this is
your actions.
So we need to correct ourselves.
We need to stand firm. We don't serve
up. Stand firm on tawhid. Stand firm away
from shirk. Stand firm away from bidaat. Stand
far
on obedience to Allah
not playing games, not spinning tails, not
we were doing all kind of magic. What
Allah said,
This is our job. We hear and we
obey.
And,
as long as we do that,
you can have complete and totally
that Allah
will not.
Allah does not go against his promises. Allah
will do what Allah said he will do,
which is that Allah
will protect us and keep us in his
special care. And I don't want to extend
the, but there are any number of examples
in the Quran
of all kinds of people and civilizations who
were destroyed, but the good people Allah
extracted them from there and they were saved.
Safe. So we ask Allah to keep us
and to keep this country and to keep
the whole world and to keep the Muslims
all over,
safe from all forms of harm, all forms
of difficulties. We ask Allah
to punish those who are oppressing. We ask
Allah to relieve the oppression of those who
are
being oppressed.