Mirza Yawar Baig – Dunya and Aakhira
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The speaker discusses the potential danger of capitalism and the new world based on socialism. They note the success of the current system and the importance of people making changes to their future lives. The speaker discusses the goal of achieving a change in the world and the difficulty of achieving success in the past. They emphasize the importance of investing in the future and giving up one's duniya for the profit of others.AI: Transcript ©
He asked me a question. I I had
an article about
the dangers of, predatory capitalism,
which is the
system that we have currently in the world
globally.
Right?
We
have
countries
which
are ruled by
autocrats. We have countries which are ruled
by billionaires,
and
the world also seems to
be going towards that, meaning that
that seems to be what the world wants,
to be ruled by by billionaires.
So his question was,
I wonder how capitalism
would dismantle
or create a
type of economy which is,
which is compassionate, which is which takes care
of the poor, which takes care of those
who,
who need care.
And since we were talking in the Islamic
context, basically, we're talking about,
a the ideal Islamic
economy,
which
is not socialism
but which is, something that
first of all resembles socialism more than capitalism
and also it is something which
brings in
the virtues and benefits
of free enterprise
and
a free market
with the benefits of social responsibility.
Now that seems like, in today's world and
capitalism as we know it that's like an
almost like an anarchonism.
Looks like something which is
completely impossible
but it is not
it is eminently possible.
The world has seen that for
pretty long time
after the advent of Islam
in the 7th century.
So it is not something which is
impossible
or, you know, it's not a pipe dream.
But it takes 2 weeks. So now question
was,
how do you how do you think that
will happen?
So what I
want to say is, a few things. 1
is,
it's more a question of how will it
happen rather than,
what will the new,
world look like.
The question before that is how will you
get to that new world?
What is the map? What is the plan?
What's the roadmap?
Before we say what will the new world
look like?
The
reason I'm saying that is because no existing
system
will ever
dismantle itself voluntarily.
To give you an idea,
the world lived
in a system of dynasties
and, empire
for
1800
years out of the 2000 counting from Augustus
Caesar
to today.
I'm saying Augustus Caesar not because that's where
history began but because,
that's where we usually count from when we
say BC, AD, and so on. And he
was the first Roman emperor after the Roman
Republic got demolished.
Caesar, Julius Caesar was
actually murdered
in order to preserve the Republic but the
opposite happened and Augustus came to power, when
he came to power he became the
emperor. So,
going counting from there to today,
we are looking at about roughly 2,000 plus
years
and out of that
1800
years was spent in empire
and
spent
people living under diasties, different diasties
and that was global.
The current
situation of,
the nation state and
democracy in whichever form we know it, no
matter how
faulty it might look,
is less than 200 years old.
How did that happen?
It happened because of,
attrition of
people
supporting
monarchies
and
dictatorships
which is another word for monarchy
and trying to find
some systems
which
gave the common person
greater participation
in
decision making and government.
That didn't come easy.
Cromwell's,
the the attempt
at
overturning the British monarchy is again a case
in point,
where it went back to the, to the
monarchy after
they tried it and it failed
and so forth. So this took
centuries, not 1 or 2 years or decades
even.
And it took
untold numbers of lives.
The question is after that what happened?
The way the process works is that,
as I said, no system
dismantle it dismantles itself voluntarily,
never happened in history. Those who benefit from
the system,
as I mentioned, in this case, the monarchies,
they will fight tooth and nail to keep
it going and they have the power so
they will succeed. Initially,
and and Crumble's
revolution, if I want to call it that,
is or rebellion,
depending on who's writing the story,
is a classic example of that. So,
people will pay with their lives
and, but the establishment will succeed because they
have the power. They have the gun. They
have the weapons. They have the money.
But opposition will continue. Right? People
will continue to pay with their
lives, their energy and their wealth and emotion
for the future of their children
which can be better than their present.
Now if you take even the Seerah of
Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
there everything was telescoped and happened in a
short
span of time because Allah wanted to show
that success is possible.
But we even there we see
that
right after the 8th year of Hijra,
it was difficulty
after difficulty after difficulty. The 13 years of
Makkah
were a series
of difficulties succeeding each other. Each one
more difficult than the previous one until Rasool
was actually forced to to leave his
hometown and his place of birth.
All the Sahaba who were martyred,
who died
until Fath Hammakkah did not see victory.
Every single one of them died
without seeing victory. Yet they invested
themselves in it.
In the change.
Because they believed in the change.
Now the same thing will happen
that those who,
that eventually success will come.
How long that process will take
is not a given.
There's no timeline on that. It will take
as long as it needs to take,
and that depends on who invested how much.
Now at the end, what
will happen in the end depends on who
invested how much.
Those who invested the most will get the
future they invested for. And now in this
case, we are talking about today,
will there be Muslims? I don't know. Can
it be Muslims? Yes. It can. But
because it can be anyone.
But one thing for sure, it will be
those who have a clear goal
and a clear
invested.
Until it is achieved, it's not invested.
So those who have a clear goal and
strategy and who are willing to invest
until the goal is achieved, which means
by definition
that many of them, and in the
initial years,
all of them,
except the last,
that last line which will literally invest
the fort, the fort, which will literally go
over the, over the,
the battlements.
Except them, everyone else will not
see
success. This is a given.
Yet, they will have to invest
because
someone who goes over the battlements will be
standing on the shoulders of someone who did
not see success.
But if that someone was not there
with their shoulders to stand on,
he would never have gone over the battlements.
So the goal the investment in the goal
has to be done until it is achieved.
In that process, there will be many who
will come and invest and pay with their
lives and go and wealth and
and,
time and energy and effort and emotion
hoping to achieve,
what
was their dream, hoping to achieve their dreams.
But
the truth is
that what
the achievement of the goal
belongs to those who had a strategy.
People who have a strategy will benefit not
only from their own investment
but also from the investment of others
whose goals may have been quite different.
Now if you want examples,
that is what happened, for example, in the
formation of Palestine and Israel.
The Palestinians gave their lives and they continue
to give their lives,
but who benefits?
Certainly not the Palestinians.
The same thing happened in Pakistan.
The people who gave their lives and the
people who came to power and who remain
in power are 2 different people.
Same thing happened in Egypt.
The people who gave their lives
were not the people who are currently
in power
or who were in power when Muslim Mubarak
was there or who were in power when
commander of the Nasser was there and so
on.
Same thing in Libya.
Omar Muhtar and those people were the people
who gave their lives,
who came into power.
Yemen,
same story.
And other places.
Those who gave their lives, they actually helped
the others to come to power
because they did not have a clear strategy
of their own.
And I'm sorry. I'm I'm sorry to say
that
simply saying that I am doing this only
for Allah's,
only for Allah's reward is not enough
because Allah's reward will come anywhere. That's a
given
and Allah did not say I will give
more reward to the one who fights without
a plan than to the one who fights
with a plan. Right? So that's a very
stupid way of thinking and this is the
way that the people who have a plan
want others to think so that the others
don't interfere with their plans.
Getting a victory
in the Akhara
at the expense of dunya, Alhamdulillah,
this is good.
But getting a victory in the akhirah with
a victory in the dunya, is better.
And what we learn from the seerah is
this. We don't learn from the seerah that
we have to give up the duniya to
get the akhara. We learn from the seerah
how to get the duniya and the akhara.
And I think this is a very big
disservice that
a lot of people have done, a lot
of scholars have done. May Allah forgive us
where they have sold a story to people
to say that give up the duniya for
the akhara. Giving up the duniya for the
akhara is the way of Hindu,
and Chris Hindu and Christian monks.
Is not the way of Muslims. It's not
the way of Rasool Islam. Islam did not
come for us to renounce
this worldly life in order to get success
in the akhla. Islam came to teach us
how to live this worldly life in a
way that we get success here as well
as there.
I don't know when or if this message
ever gets through, but anyway, Insha'Allah.
May
Allah
grant us hope and may Allah grant us
the,
ability
and the rigor
to work
to achieve those goals.
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