Mirza Yawar Baig – Expect the best from Allah
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The speakers discuss the importance of avoiding missing anything and not missing anything in a mental process. They emphasize the need to be mindful of what comes next and not to miss anything. They also discuss the mental tendency of working in certain industries and the importance of avoiding mental health negative consequences. The speakers remind the audience of their usual behavior and emphasize the importance of finding the right way.
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Peace and blessings of Allah be upon you.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the Messengers
and Prophets.
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and
blessings be upon him and his family and
his companions.
And peace be upon him and his family
and his companions.
My brothers and sisters, Allah Almighty said in
the Hadith of Qudsi, I am for my
slave as he expects me to be.
Now the Ulema tell us that obviously if
I expect Allah to forgive me, then I
will not deliberately commit haram.
Of course, without saying that I will do
my best to stay on the right track,
do the right things.
But I don't lose hope in Allah.
This is very, very important to keep in
mind because what happens, especially today, only bad
news sells.
So, almost everything you hear, whether it's on
television, whether it's on social media, whether it's
on newspaper, is all negative, it's all negative.
So many people died, this happened, that happened,
demolished war, this, that.
So, our whole mind, the mind and the
body gets affected, heart and mind gets affected
by what we see.
That's the reason why it is so important
to make sure that you see the right
things.
And I have a principle that I try
to follow, which is that I don't look
at anything that I cannot control.
So, for example, I don't watch any of
the Palestine videos and stuff because what is
good about watching a child being killed, tell
me?
What is good about seeing a building being
demolished and mothers crying their guts out because
their children have died in front of their
eyes?
What's the good of that?
I can't control it, I can't stop it.
I would gladly do anything to stop it,
but it's not in my control.
So, by looking at it again and again
and again and again, all that it does
is it drags me down.
What I can do is to make dua
to Allah, which I do constantly, alhamdulillah.
What I can do is, you know, if
there is any relief, things going on or
whatnot, I can donate to that, which I
try to do to the best of my
ability.
But other than that, I don't watch all
this stuff.
And that's why I tell people, don't even
have a TV in the house.
We don't have, we have never had, we
haven't had a TV in our house for
the last 35 years.
It's probably the only house in America which
has no TV, no TV, we never had.
Last 35 years, alhamdulillah, you don't miss anything.
Because there's nothing great about consuming content which
is created by somebody else for their reasons.
And you are consuming, all you can do
is consume, because in front of the TV,
you have no control.
You're just consuming that content and it's damaging
your life, it's damaging your heart, damaging your
mind, and nothing you can do about it.
So, throughout the televisions, they'd make a record
of a video, smashing the television, and then
post it on YouTube, you probably get some
money for it.
Only bad deals.
The reason I'm saying this is because what
then happens is, a friend of mine tells
me, I'm working for this company, but I
won't know what will happen in the future.
I said, of course, nobody knows.
He said, no, no, no, but you see,
one man in this company was sacked just
overnight, even though he had been working there
for 25 years, just like that.
So, I don't know what will happen to
me.
So, I asked him, I said, how many
employees does the company have?
He says, 5,000.
I said, how many got sacked?
One.
Now, you want to look at that one
person who got sacked, or you want to
look at the 4,999 people who did
not get sacked, and where do you link
yourself?
What can happen to me?
What is the likelihood?
Law of averages says that what happens to
the most is more likely to happen, right?
So, what is likely to happen to you?
Nothing.
You will be happy, like 4,999.
One man got sacked, we don't even know
why he got sacked.
God knows what happened to him, right?
Allah knows best.
But the tendency, the mental tendency, it drags
you to the negative.
So, I remind myself, don't get into this
spin.
Allah said, I am for you what you
expect me to be.
Expect the best from Allah.
My Sheikh used to say, in this country
you don't see that, because there are not
enough poor people, I suppose, or at least
not where we live.
But in my country, we have, on Eid
days and so on, so on we have,
Taam Aam.
So, you cook a lot of food, usually
it's biryani, so you cook biryani, and then
there is Sufra, Dastarkhan, and anybody can come
and sit and eat.
Anybody, from the street, anywhere.
People know that this is happening here, they
come from all over the place.
Hundreds of people, they come and they sit
and eat.
Now, my Sheikh used to say, supposing, if
I am doing this in my house, I
am having this Aam Dawat.
So, there are big Dastarkhans and food is
there, and people from all the villages, everybody
is coming, and they are sitting and they
are eating.
And he used to say, supposing I, he
said, if you come and you also go
and sit down there.
And as you sit down there, and the
servers, they are dishing out the food, but
as the server comes close to you, your
friend who owns this thing, who is giving
this Aam, he sees you.
So, what will he do?
He will come, he will catch you by
your hand, he will pull you up from
the place where you are sitting, and he
will take you away.
Right?
Now, if that happens, what is the thought
in your mind?
If you are thinking, if that happens and
you are thinking that my friend has deprived
me of my food, I am going to
be hungry today, my friend has taken away,
then you are not a friend.
Then you are insulting that person, you are
insulting your friend.
Why did he lift you up from there?
Because he says, you are my friend, you
don't eat with all these people, you come
here, you and I will eat together.
We will eat at the Khas Sufra, Khas
Dastarkhan, Khas table, meant only for the close
family and friends of the owner, and we
will also probably have better quality food than
what is happening here.
You know, more things and God knows what.
Right?
So, when you are lifted up from this,
what do you observe?
You observe that there is one zariya, one
place of rizq which has been closed for
you.
Lifted up.
Our usual tendency is what?
Despair.
Oh, what will I do?
How will I feed my family?
How will I eat?
But the one who knows his friend, what
will he say?
He will say, Alhamdulillah.
He will say, Alhamdulillah.
My friend recognised me.
Ready?
My friend recognised me.
Alhamdulillah.
Exceptions are made.
Exceptions are made.
So, I remind myself in you, the key
thing is to keep this connection with Allah,
subhanahu wa ta'ala, alive.
Allah has no friends, as in there is
no masawat between Allah, between the Rabb and
the abd.
But about the awliya of Allah, Allah said,
La khawfun alayhim wala hum yahsanun.
And who are His awliya?
Walladhina amanu wakanu yattaqu.
Allah said, they are the people who have
iman and who have taqwa.
And if you have iman and taqwa, we
ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, for iman
and taqwa.
And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, in His
great mercy, did not specify a certain amount,
not just so much iman.
Iman equal to the iman of Hasan Basri.
Iman equal to the iman of Ahmad bin
Hanbal.
Iman equal to the iman of Abu Bakr
as-Siddiq.
No, Allah did not say this.
Iman and taqwa.
How much iman?
As long as we are not committing shirk
and kufr, inshallah, that's the boundary line.
And taqwa, as much as possible.
To whatever extent is possible.
For those people, Allah said, La khawfun alayhim
wala hum yahsanun.
For them, there is no khawf and no
khuzr.
No fear and no sadness.
Fear is about the future, what will happen
tomorrow.
And sadness is about the past.
Oh, what did I do?
Why is that not there for the muttaqun?
Because a muttaqi is one who does his
best to stay on the right path.
So for the future, he is not worried
because he is trying his best to do
the right thing.
And for the past, a muttaqi is the
one who immediately makes tawbah and istighfar.
As soon as something happens, immediately he turns
towards Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Rujoo ilallah.
He asks Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, for
His forgiveness.
And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, promises to
forgive.
Alhamdulillah.
So when a person tries his best to
do his best and he immediately makes istighfar
for whatever mistakes he makes, inshallah, this person
is among the muttaqun.
And we ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala,
to make us among the muttaqun.
For them, there is no fear, there is
no sadness.
And therefore, always have the best opinion.
The Prophet said, have the best opinion about
Allah.
Think the best about Allah.
Don't ever think, what will happen to me?
I will get destroyed, this will...
Nothing.
Even, like I said, I told you yesterday,
even if everything is going wrong, for you,
it will not go wrong.
Allah will save you.
Allah will remove you from the difficulty.
Because Allah mentioned this, وَمَن يَتَّقِ اللَّهَ يَجْعَلْ
لَهُ مَا خَرَجَ اللَّهِ Allah did not say,
they will not have difficulty.
Allah says, I will remove it.
I will take them out of the difficulty.
وَيَرْضُخُ مِنْ هَيْسُ الْعَيَاةَ سِبْحَانَهُ And I will
provide for them from sources they cannot imagine.
You see?
وَمَن يَتَّقِ اللَّهِ فَهُوْ عَذْبُوا The one who
has tawakkul on Allah, Allah will become sufficient
for him.
See the beautiful Bayan of the Quran.
Allah did not say, Allah will give him
whatever he needs.
No, Allah said, Allah will become sufficient for
him.
Allah will give him what he needs.
Allah will give him what he desires.
Allah will fulfill his hajat.
Allah will fulfill his khwahishat.
Everybody, everything.
We ask Allah to enable us to work.
We ask Allah to enable us to work
to reach his rida.
We ask Allah to be pleased with us.
We ask Allah to forgive us.
We ask Allah always to keep our spirits
positive.
And we ask Allah to give us in
keeping with his majesty and grace and to
forgive us as he forgives those who transgress
against him.
We ask Allah not to keep us among
those who transgress against him.
We ask Allah to help us in ways
that we cannot imagine, from places we cannot
imagine.
And peace be upon the Prophet and his
family and companions.