Mirza Yawar Baig – Do we believe
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The conversation is confrontational and touches on the importance of peace and blessings for one's bodies, as well as the need for evidence to support their beliefs. The speakers also emphasize the need for people to read history and apply it to their lives, rather than just their own lives. The conversation also touches on the danger of witnessing and the importance of studying their religion to reflect God's presence.
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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 most
honoured of Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad, the Messenger
of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him
and his family and companions.
My brothers and sisters, the part of our
Aqidah, our creed, that the Meccans, the Quraish
and the other people of Mecca, they had
the most trouble with was the idea of
resurrection.
That after you die, you will be resurrected
and called before Allah.
Allah Almighty mentioned this, وَقَالُوا أَيْذَا ذَلَلْنَا فِي
الْأَرْضِ أَإِنَّا فِي قَلْقٍ جَدِيدٍ And then Allah
said, بَلْهُم بِلِقَاءِ رَبِّهِمْ كَافِرُونَ Allah said, they
say that how is it possible after we
die and we become one with the earth,
we disintegrate, we decompose, are we going to
be resurrected again, brought back alive again?
And Allah is responding to that, Allah is
saying, بَلْهُم بِلِقَاءِ رَبِّهِمْ كَافِرُونَ Yes, indeed that
will happen and you are making kufr against
your Lord.
You are denying the meeting with your Lord.
And then Allah Almighty declared and said, قُلْ
يَتَوَفَّاكُمْ مَلَكُ الْمَوْتِ الَّذِي وُكِّلَ بِكُمْ ثُمَّ إِلَى
رَبِّكُمْ تُرْجَعُونَ Allah is saying, say to them,
you will die.
There is no doubt about this, you will
die.
قُلْ يَتَوَفَّاكُمْ And Malakul Maut has been set
upon you to take your soul and bring
you to Europe.
I remind myself when you that this problem
of Yaqeen, and I'm not talking about intellectual
understanding, I'm not talking about just drip service,
Yaqeen is in the belly, deep down.
The problem of this Yaqeen, may Allah have
mercy on us, continues to this day with
us.
إِلَّا مَاشَىٰ اللَّهِ Whoever Allah has given the
Yaqeen, may Allah give them Istighamah.
But others, this is the problem.
Do we truly believe in, that's why we
have to look at ourselves in the mirror
and ask ourselves, do I really believe that
I will stand before Allah?
Do I really believe that?
And if the answer is yes, then what
in my life, what in my actions, what
in my speech, what in my decisions, is
evidence of this, is proof of this.
Because Allah is not going to be satisfied
with our, in any case all this is
only for this dunya, all these nice words
and so on.
In the Khabar, there is no Yakityak.
اليوم نخطب على أفواهِم وتُكَلِّمُونَ أَيْدِهِم وتَشْهَدُ أَرْجُلُهُمْ
بِبَاكَ هَنْ وِأَكْسِبُهُمْ Allah says very clearly, this
will be sealed.
Hands will speak, feet will speak, eyes will
speak, ears will speak, the skin will speak.
In another place Allah mentioned that the people
will question their own skin.
How is it that you are speaking?
How is it that you are bearing witness
against me and the skin, the body will
say, Allah gave me the power to speak.
And this is one of the many reasons
for us to deeply and sincerely study our
Akhira, our creed.
What do you believe?
What do you believe?
What do I believe?
What keeps me in that belief?
What takes me out of that belief?
For example, today somebody sent me a video,
I won't mention the name because as long
as the man is alive, we have hope
for his Hidayah.
But one of our very famous, he calls
himself a lapsed Muslim, so I have to
use that word.
Lapsed Muslim film actors, very famous in India,
Muslim guy, with a Muslim name.
He says, and he said it in Urdu
which is even more, you know, impertinent, even
more, doesn't sound nice, I will not repeat
the Urdu, but I will translate it into
English.
He says, you know, I always find it
very strange that Allah is sitting on top
there and He is looking at everybody, what
is He doing, what should He do, and
then He is taking notes.
He must be very busy.
Inna lillahi unnal rajul.
Allah revealed the Quran and said that to
joke, joke, not even believe in it, just
joking about Allah and about Rasulullah s.a
.w., Allah said, qad kafartun baada imaniku.
Allah said, you have left faith after you
had brought faith.
Joking about Allah and about Rasulullah s.a
.w. and about Allah means about the Zaat
of Allah, about the promises of Allah, all
of this makes, takes us out of Islam,
it is as serious as that.
Today we live in a world and we
live in a society where everything is a
joke.
Everything is a joke.
In this society, supposed to be a Christian
country, people make jokes about Isa s.a
.w. or Jesus.
They make jokes about Musa s.a.w.
or Moses.
Not us, we cannot do that.
We cannot even make jokes about Isa s
.a.w. and Musa s.a.w., we
cannot make jokes about Muhammad s.a.w.
or Rasulullah s.a.w. and anybody who
jokes about Allah and his promises, any of
these things, exit from Islam.
So seriously, do you have yaqeen in the
Akhirah?
I'll give you a test, a musk that
my Sheikh used to tell us.
He would say, Allah had said he will
seal the lips and the hand will talk
and the feet will talk and so on.
So he said, look at your right hand.
Look at your right hand and imagine this
right hand is speaking.
What is it saying?
He used to make the right notes.
So look at your right hand, imagine this.
Because there's no imagination, this you are imagining
today.
That day it will happen.
So this right hand is going to speak.
Now what is this right hand saying about
you?
About what you made it do, right?
Write that down.
If that is good, Alhamdulillah, if it is
not good, then do something about it.
Make istighfar and tawba.
Then he would go the whole, then look
at the left hand.
Then ask your eyes.
Then my ears are speaking.
My whole body is speaking.
What is my body saying about me?
And the danger of this witness is that
you can deny anybody else, but you can't
deny your own body.
You cannot deny your own hands and feet
and eyes and ears.
Today we have situations where Muslims are living
lives.
May Allah have mercy.
Somebody sent me information saying Muslims have live
-in girlfriends, live-in boyfriends.
And they say, what is the point of
getting married?
I'm faithful to her, I'm faithful to him.
Allah created us in the best form.
Just imagine this, right?
Allah created us in the best form.
And Allah gave us the best deen.
And He gave us His Habib, His Rasul
to follow.
He sent on us His Kalam, His book,
His actual speech.
After getting all of this, we want to
trash it for a shahwa, which is
just lust and physical attraction, which we are
permitted to satisfy in a halal way.
Nobody stopped you.
Nobody stopped you.
Allah showed us the right way to do
that.
But no, I must do it in the
wrong way.
Inna lillahi wa inna lillahi.
Brothers and sisters, really, we are reaching a
time in this world where all of this
game-playing is not going to help.
The game-playing never helps anyway, but I'm
just saying right now we are in a
state where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
tightening the screws.
One after other, one after the other.
Just read, this is why I say, the
problem is people don't read.
I say, read history for God's sake.
And you don't have to read ancient history,
modern history.
Every single place where Muslims were under a
tyrant, when that tyrant fell, a worse tyrant
came in his place.
I'll give you name after name after name.
You thought that the tyranny is over.
You thought that this jabber is over.
You thought that this jabber is gone.
Yes, that jabber went.
A bigger jabber came in his place.
Every single instance.
You find the one instance where Muslims have
been relieved and they are living happily.
Not one day, not one place.
Every place is the same story.
When will we learn?
When are we going to learn?
Because we know, قُلِ اللَّهُمَّ مَالِكَ الْمُلْكَ تُوطِي
الْمُلْكَ مَنْ تَشَارُ وَتَنْزِيُ الْمُلْكَ مِمَّنْ تَشَارُ It's
not magic.
It's not happening by itself.
Allah has created, Allah is sending.
If Allah had sent a tyrant and then
Allah removed that tyrant and Allah sends the
worst tyrant, what is the message?
Or you say, no, Allah did not do
this.
Someone else will do it.
Inda lillahi wa inda lillahi.
No.
We have to correct ourselves.
And it begins with me, individual.
Learn the deen for God's sake.
Take time, take trouble, sit down with people.
Alhamdulillah, we have people.
Mawlana Jame, may Allah bless him.
Every other Friday he has dars in Bait
-ul-Salam on Akhidah.
Please, go there feeling that it is my
dire deed.
It is a need which is even more
necessary than life and death.
Because death will happen anyway, right?
Death is inevitable.
Jahannam is not inevitable.
Jahannam we earn.
No need to go there.
If we do not even study our basic
creed, what is it to believe?
Even that if we don't know where to
begin from.
You tell me.
Where should we begin?
So please, let us go, let us study.
Alhamdulillah, may Allah bless you.
They take the time and trouble to study
and to prepare.
They take the trouble, they prepare, they come,
they deliver and so on.
All we need to do is just take
ourselves and go sit there and listen with
attention.
Even that if we cannot do, either we
don't go or if we go, you are
sitting with your phone or you're talking to
your friend.
Then how will we learn?
If we make no effort to learn, believe
me that will not change the reality.
Ignorance is not a defense in law.
Either in worldly law or the law of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Ignorance is not defense.
It's not defense.
You can't say, I did not know.
Yes, you knew.
After Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wasallam came, after
the Quran came, you knew.
Period.
Alhamdulillah, Allah sent the Nabi alaihi salatu wasallam.
Allah is sending teacher after teacher.
Allah is sending dars after dars.
We cannot say, I did not know.
Then what are we going to do?
Let us study our religion.
It's a beautiful religion.
And then let us apply it in our
lives, not just to talk.
Apply it in our lives.
It must be visible in our speech, in
our actions, in our decisions, in our society,
in our environment, in our homes, in our
businesses.
And that is what attracts people to this
deen.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
give us the tawfiq to do this.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
bless those who are taking the time and
trouble to teach us.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
reward them with the best of the best
in dunya and akhirah.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
give us the tawfiq to take full advantage
of this and to ensure that we learn
and that we put that into practice.