Mirza Yawar Baig – Criterion of success
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Allah
Allah
said, verily
all of humankind.
All of humankind
is in loss.
The lamb there is the
lamb of emphasis.
All of
mankind is in
loss.
And then Allah mentioned
4 points.
Except those who have believed.
And those who do good deeds.
And who invite towards
And who advise or invite
people to be to have sabar.
Now if you look at these four things,
you can call them 4 steps. You can
call them 4, stages.
You can say you can even say 4
kinds of people, but I don't say 4
kinds of people because all these 4 qualities
are required. It's not, somebody who has either
iman or does good deeds. No.
It is, these are all connected. So
because that's that's one issue. Sometimes you might
say, well, somebody is not a Muslim, but
he's doing a lot of good deeds. So
what about him? Of course, Allah
will also reward that person. But in the,
there is no place for that because in
the, there is place only for. Well,
is only for the people of and people
of are people of iman.
So these are not 4 independent things. These
are 4 connected things.
So having iman what is the meaning of
having iman? It means to believe in Allah
and not to make shirk with Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, not to join anyone as a
partner
with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala either in
worship or in asking for help in ulubhiyat
or rubhiyat.
Second1
is
to express this iman
in terms of action.
What is a good deed?
What is a good deed? A good deed
is that deed which is done for the
pleasure of Allah
with that intention
that Allah
should be pleased with me.
So, automatically,
if you have this intention for any
action,
then automatically that action will be halal.
That be does not mean that you take
a haram action and with this intention, it
becomes halal. No. I don't mean that. I
mean that the intention is the filter.
The intention is the filter. So if you
say that I want Allah to be pleased,
and then I'm thinking of doing. Then will
I do or I will not?
You will not because you will
not be pleased with this. How can I
do how can I bad talk somebody? I
cannot do that. Right? So the intention that
Allah
must be pleased with me
becomes the filter for us to decide which
actions are good. I want to go somewhere.
I want to do something.
I say, will Allah be pleased with this?
No.
Or there might be 2 separate things to
do. Will Allah be pleased more with this
or more with that?
Right? So different different kinds of
actions also, this becomes a filter, which is
the better action.
So. Then third one is.
Invite towards or advise towards that which is
truth.
Advise towards the truth, invite towards the truth.
Why? Because this is also a natural human
tendency that we
like to share goodness.
You know, if you look at one of
the
prime examples,
it happens here also, also in the west.
If you are driving and if there is
a,
speed trap,
you got these cops who sit behind bushes
and whatnot with, radar
guns and they will catch you. So you
will find on the opposite side when the
when the traffic is coming,
people flash their lights.
It means that there is a speed trap
ahead. So slow down your speed.
Now here is some stranger. He's going somewhere.
Why should he why why is he bothered?
But this is natural human tendency
where you want to do good to somebody.
Even if you don't know the person, it
doesn't matter. You never see them again, it
doesn't matter.
Some good you do. You try to help
people. You try it is a any normal
human being will do that. So how much
more important for a Muslim
to be focused towards doing good for people?
From a Muslim,
you must always have only good that comes
out for all of
creation, all of humankind, all of creation.
A Muslim must never be the source of
harm to anybody.
Whether it's physical harm, whether it is any
other kind of harm, a Muslim must never
be the source of harm to it. This
is Allah did not create us for that.
Allah did not create us to create problems
for people. Allah created us for to solve
people's problems.
Right? So what the was
invite towards Al Haq. So
if Allah created us to solve people's worldly
problems, how much more important it is to
invite to our people towards something which is
everlasting. So everlasting good.
So if if you feed somebody one meal,
you say, oh, good person. No. He fed
somebody one meal. Now how about somebody who
tries to save another person from the hellfire?
Because that one meal he can find somewhere,
but if he gets
if he dies without iman, then what happens
to him? So, therefore,
to invite towards Haqq
and to do all anything which is
haqq, which is truth, which is good, which
is, which has hide in it. And then
what the was
Allah is advising us and and and reminding
us
that when you invite towards Haqq,
usually, you will get resistance.
It's a strange,
strange thing in life that, you know, you're
inviting people towards something which is good, but
people will resist you, people will oppose you,
people will try to,
you know, in some cases, they might even
try to harm you. And if you ask
them, why are you harming this person? Why
are you bad talking to this person? What
how how has this person harmed you?
What has he done?
He's already told you that something like typically
happens with somebody. You know, you give a
and you say that interest is haram, for
example.
If you will get really offended.
How can you say that?
Otherwise, he did not say it is haram
said it. Allah said it in the Quran,
interest is haram. He's only reminding you interest
is haram. Why? Because you don't want to
meet Allah
with that interest in your pocket.
You do not want to. Today, you have
a great job. You are the, you know,
president of the bank and whatnot whatnot. You
feel great,
but your your income is haram.
You are in a job where Allah
declared war against somebody like you.
And this is the Quran. This is not
I didn't invent it. This is the column
of Allah
Go read Suratul Baqarah, See what Allah said
about dealing with interest.
So now if somebody reminds you and you
get offended,
then you're crazy. Yeah. Somebody is inviting you
towards something good and you are getting offended.
But this is what happens. So what is
telling
us?
If it happens, have.
Don't fight with the guy.
Don't get, you know, upset.
You keep doing your work
because you will find that unless we have,
unless we have patience,
unless we put our best into the job,
at some point, you will get discouraged.
You'll say, what's the use of saying people
are, you know, getting offended, so on so
on. Leave it. I'm not going to say
it.
Why do I keep talking about the beard?
Not because I want to offend anybody.
I don't want you to be lying in
your harbor,
And the farista, the malak,
the angel comes,
and the angel shows you the face of
Nabi sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
and he says to you, what do you
say about this man?
And you say, this man is my Nabi
and I followed him. And your face is
telling the telling saying that you are a
liar.
Because if you followed the Nabi, then how
come your face is different from the face
of the Nabi?
So I keep on saying this again and
again. I mean, some people like it, some
people don't like it. It's okay. I'm not
trying to offend you. I'm saying this for
your own good. When you are lying in
your cover,
you will remember my words either with
happiness and
or you will remember my words with regret,
that is your choice.
So I keep on saying it. Many people
told me, why do you say this so
many times?
So sabat, very important. Don't get offended. Don't
stop the work. Keep doing the work. Allah
did not put this is the raham of
Allah. Allah did not make you mukallaf.
Allah did not give you control, and Allah
did not make you responsible for results.
Allah
made you and me responsible for the effort.
If Allah had made us responsible for the
results, then see what kind of trouble we
would have been. Supposing Allah had said, you
cannot enter Jannah unless
one other person comes into Islam.
How many of how many of us would
have got there?
You spend your whole life trying to invite
people towards Islam. Not one person comes.
That is the story of most of us.
Those who Allah has given,
you know,
the the ability or Allah has
made
somebody accept Islam on someone. That's for Allah.
But for most of us,
we live and die without a single person
entering Islam because of us. Then what will
happen? We will go to Jannah? No. That's
why
Allah
said, your job is to make the effort.
You make the effort. The results are in
the hand of Allah
will give
the Hidayat to Sirata Mustaqim, whoever
he wishes.
And that's why
is.
So.
I remind myself and you let us constantly
remember this
and assess ourselves
on this to say this is the framework
criterion that has been given by Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala, how do I fit into this?
And if there is anything which is lacking,
then we should make the effort to
fulfill it. And we ask Allah
to make it easy for us and to
be pleased with us and never to be
displeased.