Mirza Yawar Baig – Educate or perish
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The importance of worshipping Allah's teachings and rebuilding one's mind is emphasized, along with the need for a new way of thinking to avoid mistakes and rebuilding one's mind. Multiple stages of Islam are discussed, including individual worship, collective worship, and collective worship, with the goal of achieving the final boss of Islam. The importance of healthy eating and staying in a good environment is emphasized, along with the need for education and a culture of faith to avoid confusion and misunderstandings. The importance of learning the fail of the Bible, reading the Quran, and speaking the fundamentals of their mother is emphasized, along with avoiding shame in learning the fail of their mother. The need for parents to teach children how to recite the Bible and lead their faith is emphasized, as well as avoiding shame in learning the fail of their mother. The segment concludes with a call to attend a demonstration of the masail of the Fudba.
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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honourable
Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah,
peace and blessings be upon him, and upon
his family and companions, peace and blessings be
upon them all.
My dear brothers and sisters, Allah mentioned and
He told us why He created us.
The purpose of our creation.
Allah said, we have not created the jinn
and the insan, the humans, for anything other
than our worship.
And then Allah said, Allah said, we don't
ask them to feed us.
We don't ask them to feed our preachers.
We feed them.
Allah said, Allah said, verily and truly and
certainly, He is Al-Razzaq.
He is the one who provides all rizq
through His power.
Rizq is not only food.
Rizq is every need of the human, that
the human needs in every state of his
life.
In every state of his life.
The reason I'm saying this is because, as
you know, everything has a purpose.
This light has a purpose.
The purpose of that tube light is to
illuminate.
The chair has a purpose.
So that we can sit.
The mic has a purpose.
So that the voice can be amplified.
When the thing stops fulfilling its purpose, what
do you do?
You first try to repair it.
And then if it is not repairable, you
throw it away.
You replace it.
Repair and replace.
We do this with everything.
And that is the logical thing to do.
Our phones, this phone has a purpose.
And the purpose of the phone is to
help us to communicate.
So if this phone stops doing that, completely
ceases, becomes a brick.
It happens, it happened to one of my
Android phones.
Just one day, it just became a brick.
Did nothing.
You can't turn it on, you can't turn
it off.
I mean, if you can't turn it on,
you can't turn it off.
Nothing, you can't do anything with it.
So now do you think, when that happens,
supposing I tell you, you know, this poor
phone, it served me well for so many
years.
It's a nice phone, decent phone.
Never troubled me.
So I'm going to put a chair and
hang it on my neck, out of respect
for the phone.
What would you say?
You would say, sure, you should.
You don't.
Get your head examined, because if the thing
has no use, if it is not doing
what it's supposed to do, get another phone.
Don't hang it on your neck out of
respect for the phone.
What respect?
The thing is dead, throw it away.
I'm saying this to remind myself and you,
that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created us
for a purpose, and Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala stated what is that purpose.
It's not left for us to guess and,
you know.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, therefore, Allah
will also apply the same principle, the same
logic.
Which is, that if we stop fulfilling our
purpose, then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
give us some chance to repair ourselves.
And if we don't repair ourselves, then Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala will replace us.
We have this example of the people before
us, who were also sent in the world,
in their time, with the same job, of
worshipping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
When they stopped doing that, Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala gave them a chance to correct
themselves.
And when they did not do that, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala replaced them.
Allah brought us, brought the Muslims.
Our issue is, Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
is saying, There is no prophet after me,
and there is no Ummah after you.
He said, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, There is
no prophet after me, and there is no
Ummah after you.
So, we are the last of the people.
After us, there is only the Day of
Judgment.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, he held
up his hand, like this, with his two
fingers, the index finger and the middle finger
together, and he said, Me and the Day
of Judgment is like this.
Too close.
So, no one will replace us.
We are the last.
And that is the reason why we need
to get our act together and start doing
our job.
And what is that job?
That job is twofold.
One, at an individual level, to worship Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Alone.
Because only He is worthy of being worshipped.
And the second job we have, at a
collective level, is where Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala said, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala said in Surah Al
-A'raf, You are the best of people.
You have been selected for the benefit of
mankind.
Your job is to adjoin good and forbid
evil, and you have faith in Allah.
So, we have an individual purpose, and we
have a collective purpose.
That's why we exist.
The fact that we have businesses, we have
jobs, we have families, we have this, we
have that, we build houses, all of this
is part of it.
If you are travelling, supposing from here you
are going for a walk, and I ask
you, What is the purpose of this journey?
You say, I'm going for a walk.
Alhamdulillah.
Do you put on clothes or do you
go for a walk without clothes?
You put on clothes.
Do you take your change of clothes, something,
a suitcase, some luggage, or no?
Take a luggage.
On the way you get hungry, do you
buy food or you don't buy food?
Do you buy food?
Maybe you have to spend overnight somewhere, do
you stay in a hotel or you don't
stay in a hotel?
You stay in a hotel.
But none of those things is the purpose.
The purpose is to go for Umrah, is
to go make Umrah.
Right?
We wear clothes, we buy a plane ticket,
we get on the plane, we get off
the plane, we check into a hotel, we
stay in the hotel, maybe there is another
flight to catch, we catch another flight, whatever,
to fulfill the purpose which is to make
Umrah.
Even though we are doing all this, none
of this is the purpose.
So also in this life, the purpose is
individually to worship Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
collectively to spread this word of the worship
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, spread the
word about the Deen of Islam, spread the
word about justice, spread the word about ethics
and morals and values to the whole world
and bring about change in the world.
That is the purpose.
While we do this purpose, we also need
to eat food.
So you want to do a job or
you have a business, you also need to
stay somewhere, so you buy a house or
you rent a house and so on and
so on.
You need transportation, so you buy a car.
But none of that is the purpose.
To build a great big house is not
the purpose.
To eat food is not the purpose.
These are all things which help us to
achieve our purpose.
Now, obviously, if I want to achieve my
purpose, I need some knowledge.
Because if you say my purpose is to
worship Allah, how do I worship Allah?
What's the way?
I should know.
If I say, Enjoying good and forbidding evil.
What is good?
What is evil?
I must know.
Because there are many things which seem to
be good.
For example, Brother Fadil and I were talking,
one of the, I call this one of
the modern diseases, spiritual illnesses of our times
is that we treat the masjid like an
entertainment center.
People come to the masjid if there is
a barbecue.
People come to the masjid if there is
some basketball game happening or some soccer happening
or some other, you know, entertainment happening.
So what's the difference between the masjid and
some entertainment center, some community center or something?
What is the meaning of masjid?
Masjid is what?
In the Arabic language anything which comes with
the meme, the ma before it, means the
place.
Maktabak, kitchen, place for tabak.
Makan, place where you stay.
Masjid, place for sajda.
Not place for soccer, not place for basketball,
not place for barbecue.
So is it hard to have a barbecue?
No, it's not hard.
Please.
No problem.
Some occasion, something, we have a party.
But if people are coming only when you
have this, then you got a problem.
The purpose of the masjid is salaat.
So barbecue, you have the masjid is full.
Next bar is salaat, same three people.
Then we have a big problem.
But this is the state, if you look
at it today, in most places, this is
the issue.
Ramadan, you can literally, you can put a
date on it.
First three days, masjid will be full.
Fourth day onwards, it will start degreasing.
It will go on degreasing until the beginning
of the last ten days.
Salaat is salaat, taawee is taawee.
There is no difference between the taawee on
the 15th of Ramadan and the 20th of
Ramadan.
Is there a difference?
Same taawee.
So if we want to fulfill this purpose
of worshipping Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in
a way that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
likes and will reward us, and of enjoying
good and forbidding evil, then we have to
learn how to worship Allah.
How will I worship Allah in the first
place?
My own salaat will be wrong.
And then how will I teach anybody else
because I don't know myself.
So I need to learn.
I need to learn to worship Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
I need to, you know, be clear in
my mind about what I am doing and
do it properly and I can teach others.
And that is the reason why the tarbiyah
of children is the number one responsibility of
parents.
Now the responsibility of parents is number one
and it's in two parts.
One is to do your own tarbiyah first
because, very simple, you cannot give what you
don't have.
You can't teach what you don't know.
So how can the father or the mother
teach the child how to pray when their
own salaat is wrong?
So today this is the, I mentioned to
you one biwari, one spiritual illness, which is
masjids have become entertainment centers.
The second biwari is that parents are under
some misconception that my children need education.
My children need education.
I am saying misconception not because that statement
is wrong.
Your children do need education.
No doubt about that.
But you need education also and you need
education before your children.
But somewhere parents seem to have this, I
don't know where this thing comes from, parents
seem to have this you know, thing in
the mind to say that I am good.
I don't need anything.
I am going to be running around morning
till night, day shift, night shift, what not.
And I will shunt off my children to
Sunday school, Monday school, Tuesday school, waqtaf, this,
that, what not.
I am good.
Please, don't fool yourself.
Do not fool yourself.
You are not good.
You are in serious trouble.
In this duniya as well as with Allah.
Just think about this.
We live in a place, these cities, this
in the north east.
You are out on the street, you are
driving everyday.
One of the things that you see here
is huge churches, right?
Huge big buildings, stone buildings, fantastic buildings, big
cathedrals, all this.
Have you ever been inside one?
Go.
Go on a Sunday to a service.
Go sit in the back.
Count the number of people.
In most of them if you can find
10 or 15 people, you are lucky.
The church is built for 3,000 people.
I have been to churches, I have been
to interfaith programs.
In one church the priest tells me, if
you want to use the church for any
of your meetings, most welcome.
We have all this space.
Please.
You know and I know how many churches
in this country are bought by Muslims to
make, to make massage.
Do you think that those people who built
the church, just imagine, put yourself back again,
that church, some of these are over 100
years old, right?
So do you think these people who built
the church, do you think they had a
meeting of their vote and said, you know,
let us build it correctly because one day
we have to sell this to Muslims.
So we want to build it in a
way where Muslims will buy it.
Do you think they had this conversation?
Didn't they build the churches to sell them
to Muslims?
So why are they selling it?
Because they can't, they can't afford, they can't
maintain it.
Because people are gone.
Have they all died?
No, they are there.
They are there, their children are there, their
grandchildren, great-grandchildren, everybody is there, they are
just not interested in the church.
They are just not interested in the religion.
So why do you imagine that this will
not happen to you and me?
May Allah protect us, this can happen, this
will happen, unless we make effort.
And that is why the importance of our
Deen-e-Madharis, our religious educational institutions.
Whether it is Sunday schools, whether it is
Makathir, whether it is Darul Ulum's, whatever, call
it by any name you like, the importance
of religious education, Deen-e-education, very, very
critical.
That is what we need to do.
Right?
And as I told you, twofold, the children,
send them to the Sunday schools, send them
to the Maktab, whatever is happening in your
place, and you also go.
Parents must go.
Go and sit, tell your Imam, tell the
people running the school, while our children are
in the school, those two hours, we the
parents will sit here, do a class for
us, teach us something, teach us to read
the Quran, start with the Quran.
How many people can recite Quran correctly?
Simple Surat-ul-Fatiha, you stand here and
lead Salah, how many people can do that?
Why is it that in most Masajid, you
have your Imam or you have somebody who
comes for Juba, if that person doesn't come,
the Masajid will have a hundred people in
it, not one of them can give the
Khutbah for Juba.
Why?
It is shameful, no?
Tell me.
We have no priesthood, there is no Pope,
there is no Bishop, and there is no
parish priest, and there is no Cardinal and
so on, we don't have a priesthood.
Whose job is it to lead Salah?
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la honoured
all Muslims.
Any Muslim man who is Asir and Wali,
who has, who is not insane, who has
a, his brain is functioning and if he
is, has reached the age of maturity, is
technically capable of leading Salah.
I have always said this in many, many
places.
There are four things that every single Muslim
male must know, must be taught, must learn.
No matter which age you are, if you
don't know these four things, then start learning
now.
Number one, Salah.
To lead Salah.
Meaning, you should be able to recite Quran
correctly, you should have enough Quran to be
able to lead Salah.
It's not enough if I say I have
first Taqaf, Inna Ata'ina, second Taqaf, then
that's all I know.
No.
You don't have to be Hafiz of the
Quran, but you have to know at least
something so that for Sa'atul Fajr, for
example, you are able to recite at least
20 ayat or 15 ayat or 30 ayat.
I used to recite even if you don't
do 30, at least do 20.
You should be able to know how to
recite Quran correctly and know enough Quran, do
some Hifz.
Secondly, you must know the Masahil.
As the Imam, what is the Niya you
are making?
As the Imam, what happens if you make
a mistake?
What about Sadr Sa'ud?
What happens if your Uzo goes as an
Imam?
What must you do?
People must know and so on.
All the Masahil with regard to Salah.
So the first thing is Salah.
Second thing every Muslim man should be able
to do is the Fudba for Juman.
I'm not talking about giving a big bayan.
No.
I'm not talking about giving a speech and
this and that and you know speaking skills.
I'm talking about the Fudba which is the
Masahil of the Fudba.
What must it have?
Two parts of the Fudba.
How do you start and how do you
end it?
What do you say in between and the
Arabic of it?
This every Muslim man should be able to
do.
You can have an Imam, you can have
a Khateeb but if the Khateeb does not
come simply I can shut my eyes I
can point like this and whoever I'm pointing
to please come here and do the Fudba
you should be able to do it.
You should be able to do it.
Right?
Second one.
Third one.
The Masahil of Janaza.
If somebody if a Muslim dies what must
you do?
How do you give the Ghusl of Janaza?
How do you put the Kafa?
How do you do Salatul Janaza?
Right?
Today we are in a state where your
parents your mother gave birth to you your
mother and father spent their whole life raising
you they worked so hard they did everything
and then the mother or the father dies
you cannot even perform their last rites.
That last service you are not able to
give to somebody who spent his whole life
for you because you don't have ten minutes
to spare it takes only ten minutes to
learn nothing else but you don't have ten
minutes so some strange Imam has to do
it for you.
How shameful is that?
Tell me.
How shameful is that?
Three things.
Fourth thing which actually I should have told
you the first one which is the masail
of tahara purification ghusl and wudu people don't
know we have women who have five children
they do not know how to make ghusl
your entire life you don't know masail of
highs you don't know masail of the periods
your entire life is in a state of
impurity so also the men you don't know
the masail of ghusl so the whole life
is going without without purifying yourself if
you are in need of ghusl and you
are not in need of ghusl just making
wudu and doing salah is not valid how
long does it take to learn the masail
of ghusl three minutes three minutes literally you
can time it but you don't have the
three minutes you want to spend your whole
life in a state of impurity so please
understand this masail of tahara purification salah khutba
jama and jama these four things must be
for every single Muslim man and woman they
must know even the women teach them that
so that they can teach their children we
don't expect the woman to lead salah it
is hara she cannot lead salah she can
lead salah for other women when no other
wife is present she can lead salah by
standing in the middle of the saft if
she needs to but she cannot do she
cannot lead a big gathering or she cannot
lead men and she cannot stand in front
and lead salah but she must know because
she can teach her children and obviously the
masail of tahara and masail of janaza and
so on they should know because the women
will give usal to the women and so
on we know the drama we have every
time every time somebody death four call this
one call that person not dead why are
you like this why are you chasing people
this whatever is there i have read it
mashallah no problem because we don't know our
sisters it is very very it is high
time we wake up remember we are living
in a world which is a world of
deception what appears
is not what it is and as life
goes forward as technology develops from we are
going from here to a and the world
is a world of deception and the deception
is getting more and more real more and
more powerful and the thing that will save
us from deception is the then our eyes
will open that is why we have the
dua allahumma show
me the truth as truth meaning show me
the truth behind the falsehood i'm seeing and
enable me and help me to follow that
show me the falsehood as falsehood let the
let the falsehood not deceive me and grant
for me that i should be able to
stay away from the falsehood so i remind
myself with you this is very very important
we must focus on this education you are
starting i believe sunday school send your children
and you go also right invite the parents
and then the parents come and run the
class for the parents also there is no
shame in learning there is shame in ignorance
if you go to the teacher and say
i do not know the masayal of tahara
of purification please teach me there is no
shame in that that is very good to
simply be and live without knowing is shame
that is the shameful thing to ask a
question and not don't be ashamed for that
unless you ask how will you be
the purification you is the of masyala