Mirza Yawar Baig – Discipline
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The speakers discuss the importance of discipline and trustworthiness in life, rather than rushing after de cycles. They stress the importance of not delaying prayer or fasting, not being in a hurry, and not being in a position to do what is not a good deed. A recent incident where someone hit him with a hammer and was unable to leave their house is also mentioned. The speakers emphasize the importance of discipline and becoming productive in life, rather than rushing after de cycles.
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My brothers and sisters, if there is one
word
that
can be said to spell
the difference
between success and failure, that word that word
is discipline.
One word between success and failure.
That word is
discipline.
People who are disciplined succeed, people who are
not disciplined fail.
And it's a blanket statement that can be
made across the board, whether it is
in student life, whether it's in careers,
whether it is farming, whether it
is working
in the religious field, whether it is working
in politics,
everywhere.
People who are disciplined succeed. People who are
not disciplined fail.
What is the meaning of discipline?
Discipline is
a mark of self respect.
It's a mark of being true to your
word. It's a mark of being true to
yourself.
When you are disciplined,
you produce
consistent results.
Not flash in a pan. Suddenly
you got lucky, something good happened.
Next day you did not get lucky, you
failed. You don't know why you succeeded. You
don't know why you failed. No.
You are disciplined. You have a system. You
know why you succeeded. If you fail, you
know why you fail. You make the correction.
You don't fail the second time. This is
the meaning of discipline.
So
when you are disciplined,
you are exhibiting
self respect. It shows that you respect yourself.
Number 1. Number 2,
you produce consistent results.
Consistency
results
in
trustworthiness.
If you are consistent
you are trusted.
If
I am
sure that if I tell you something, it
will be done, then I trust you.
So discipline produces consistency.
Consistency
produces trustworthiness.
Trustworthiness
to be trusted
is the foundation
of leadership.
It's the foundation of influence. If you are
not trusted,
you have no influence. If you are not
trusted, nobody will follow you.
It doesn't matter if you have money or
this or that. If you are not trusted,
people will not follow you.
And that is why Rasool Sallallahu alaihi Wasallam's
title even before
he announced his love is
trustworthy.
The truthful and the trustworthy
comes from discipline.
Now discipline, another word for discipline is structure
is structure.
Take our religion.
This whole religion is based on discipline.
It's based on obedience. Islam means submission.
What is submission? Allah said, do this.
We say, We hear, we obey. No argument,
no
running around here and there.
The worship in this religion, what is the
most important
part of this religion after shahadah somebody enters
the religion is
salah.
And what did Allah say about salah? In
the salah
Not whenever you feel like, oh, just now
I feel very holy. I want to pray.
Then time for father comes, I'm not feeling
very holy. I'm feeling lazy. It's okay. No.
No. No. No. No.
No. Specific time. Whether you are feeling holy,
not holy, whether you're feeling like worshipping, you
don't feel like worshipping, you are tired, you
are not tired.
Tired.
Allah said, wow, woe to the to the
people who pray who delay their salah.
And let's not say who miss their salah,
who delay their salah.
They asked themselves, what is the best deed?
He said,
The best deed is the first salah at
its time
without delay.
One minute before the salah time starts, your
salah is not valid.
Yes. You can't pray before time.
One minute after the time is over, it
is.
You can say, oh, you know what? I
will wait so on so I'm praying. No.
You can pray, but it's not the other,
it's not the actual salah, it's the challah.
We fast,
We make suhoor.
We stop eating 1 minute before the time
for salatul fajr comes. You eat 1 minute
after the time for comes, your fast is
invalid.
Breaking the fast as soon as the time
comes, you break the fast. If you delay
that, it is it won't spoil your fast,
but it is it is not it is
not something which is good.
They go for Hajj.
There is a date.
There is a time.
Right?
If I go to, to Arafa
and say it is convenient for me to
go on the first of and I I'm
standing there all day, what will happen? Nothing
will happen.
I'm supposed to be there when? For Hajj?
9th of village. You might say, what is
the big deal? 9th, 10, 5th. It's the
same.
No. No. No. No. This is not the
deen. The deen is to do what Rasool
Allah
did as he did it, when he did
it, at the place he did it exactly
as he did it.
Discipline.
There is a there is a day on
which you are supposed to be in Mina.
There's a day on which you are supposed
to be in Arafa. There is a time
from this time to this time you are
supposed to be in Arafah. Then you leave
Arafah, come back to Musa Rifa from this
time to this time. From Musa Rifa you
come back to Mina this time to Everything
is
structured.
Everything is structured.
This is our need.
You go for, salatul Eid, the rasul rasulam
said, the the
kurbani, the sacrifice must be done after
the salah. If you slaughter the animal, same
animal, same day, you slaughter the animal before
you pray. He said this is a you
slaughtered the animal for yourself. This is not.
This is not. This does not fulfill the
it has to be done after the salah.
When do you give the fitra, before or
after?
Before.
After you give it charity, you have not
completed the requirement for the salatulid.
Discipline.
Before the salah or after?
Before the
salah. Before or after after.
Abdul Malibin Warwar, when he was the Khalifa,
Abu Sayed al Khudr was
there in the in the congregation.
So Abdul Malik bin comes,
and he sets up the member before
the salatul Eid, he gets on the member,
he's going to give a.
So Abu Saeed al Khudriya al Anu caught
his his his Mishla. He pulled him down.
He said, what are you doing? This is
not the sunnah. He said, no. The sunnah
has changed.
This is how it will be done. I
will say the query said no, this is
not correct. This is this is
Rasulullah said the Khudbah of Eid is after
the salah, not before. Now why did Malik
bin Barwon? Because nobody wants to listen to
him.
Right? Jabber.
So he said, you put the people in
the position now. For salatul lead, you will
say, so I will talk to you.
But after Eid, Khutba is
Khutba is
So
people say, okay, I have to go, I
go.
He didn't want to do that. He's changing
it. No, you can't change it.
Discipline.
But what have we done?
We had an incident here recently, I think
by like
3, 4 days back.
Somebody came here and said to me, I
want to have Abdul nikka. So when shall
I come? I said to him, come at
545.
He said I will come. 545, I'm here.
Sheikh Abdullah is here.
Everything finished waiting for the mat. No sign.
So, okay, maybe he changed the mind. He
doesn't want to who knows? That's his life.
I went home, sir. Abdullah went home, Sheikh
Abdullah has to go somewhere.
Suddenly on his door hammering. He
got his wife got worried. What happened suddenly?
The man is standing there.
This is crazy. I mean, you first of
all, told you come at 5:45. You come
late. He comes at 6:6:30.
And then you come to my house, which
is not the masjid, which is not the
office. It is my house. It is out
of bounds official work in the masjid. That
is my private place. You are not supposed
to come here. Then you are hammering on
the door. You know what he says? He's
a shirk.
Out of time.
Arab time.
Who was Abhishekala Salam? Arab or non Arab?
Arab time.
You want to insult the prophet, sir, salallahu
alayhi salallam?
Clearly, seriously. I mean, he was Arab. No?
Was he Palestinian or something or or Indonesia?
No. He was Arab. So you are saying
Arab time meaning his time. So you're insulting
the and what was his own
commitment every day? Rasool
was so committed to time. They they used
to say you can tell the time of
the day by looking at him.
One day a man meets him. He says,
I want to see he has some question.
Rabbi Sarwar said, Tim, come tomorrow. He said,
I will meet you in such such and
such a place.
Now next day, Ravishara goes there. He stands
there. He's waiting. His man is not too
soon. Ravishara
waits there for maybe half an hour, 45
minutes, then he comes back. Next day, he
goes on his own, same place, stands and
waits. 3rd day, the man comes.
I'm very sorry. I'm very sorry. I forgot.
You your job, you ask the
to come. He is waiting for you. You
forgot.
So I remind myself, when you please.
If you want success in life, get disciplined.
Make a structure for your day.
Don't just live like, you know, we live
like animals. We are just breathing, eating, sleeping.
No. Make a structure for your day.
What will you do? What time will you
wake up? What will you do? What will
you do? Wake up 1 hour before the
time for Salatul Fajr starts.
Pray the Hajjut,
read 1 Jews of Quran,
and pray
and then start your day. If you need
some sleep, go sleep after that for a
while. Then get up and do the rest
of your day.
I tell the people when you get out
of your bed, make the bed.
Clean. Neat. It should look nice.
Because if you go out and then you
maybe you had a bad day. Right? At
least you come back home, the bed is
nice.
Looks nice. It doesn't look like a, you
know, garbage dump or something.
Sometimes some people's homes, you go into their
bed. I never go. But if you go
into the bedroom, it looks like
what happened in this bedroom?
Everything crumbled and thrown like you know.
Very very bad.
Clean neat As soon as you get
Do that.
Your shoes always polished, always put in a
particular place. Clothes are hung up in a
in a certain place.
These things remember,
this looks like a burden.
But if you think discipline is a burden,
believe me,
an indiscipline an indiscipline life which results in
failure is a much bigger burden.
Much much bigger burden. You have no clue.
Much bigger burden.
If you discipline yourself, you will become enormously
productive.
Enormously productive.
Discipline. If you discipline yourself, you become enormously
productive.
If you don't discipline yourself,
time will pass. Believe me, nobody has more
than 24 hours in their life. Everybody from
Rasool Allah to whoever.
Everyone had only 24 hours. Nobody has 24
hours in 1 minute.
It's what we do with that 24 hours.
People say time management. No. No. It's life
management.
You can't manage time. Time is time.
Life how do you manage your life in
that time? That's the main thing.
So I remind myself, let's do that. Let's
we are Muslims. Let's be like Muslims. Let
us be disciplined. Let us structure our lives.
Let us become productive so that our lives
are a means of for ourselves and fathers.
We ask Allah to be pleased with us
and never to be displeased.