Mirza Yawar Baig – Focus on the purpose
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The importance of Islam in the United States is discussed, including the difficulty of learning and the importance of personalizing one's life. The speakers emphasize the need for a complete understanding of life and a machine to achieve goals. Investing in one's life is crucial and practical, and practicing Islam is essential for achieving goals. The importance of measuring metrics and measuring time is emphasized, along with the need for a proper syllabus and a teacher named Michael Harry. The need for clarity and focus in learning Islam is emphasized, along with the importance of learning four steps of learning and measuring time.
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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 messengers
and prophets, Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah, peace
and blessings be upon him and his family
and companions.
Peace be upon you.
Alhamdulillah, it is a great pleasure and honour
to be here.
I have, as Mufsi Sahib said, the first
time I met them was, I think, almost
22 years ago, when they were studying in
the Alam Zakariya.
And Alhamdulillah, their father, Dr Mirza Bauddin, is
a friend of mine.
I am also from Hyderabad, so we go
back many years, Alhamdulillah.
And may Allah Almighty enable me and through
me, whoever this message reaches, to participate in
this work of this Deen.
Because this is, it's not a work for
anybody else, it's for ourselves.
And Alhamdulillah, Allah Almighty gives us this understanding
that it's for us, that inshallah we will
try and do it to the best of
our ability.
What I want to say, basically I am
reminding myself, I don't think any of you
need reminders from me.
I want to begin with a question.
My question to myself and to you is,
what is Islam?
How would you describe Islam?
If somebody comes to you who does not
know anything and says, what is Islam?
What's the answer?
What is Islam?
What is Islam?
It is the truth, Alhamdulillah, good answer.
Revealed way of leading one's life.
Revealed way of leading one's life.
Right?
It is the truth, of course, but this
is a way of leading your life.
Islam is not a philosophy, Islam is not
a theory, right?
Islam is a practice.
There is only one way of learning Islam,
by doing Islam.
Now, obviously, I am not saying don't read
the Kitab or don't read.
How do you read?
I mean, that's how, you know.
But, unless I practice.
The reason I am saying this is, Allah
says, Arabic So, my
question is, as an ustad or as myself,
I am reading Quran and I am teaching
Quran to the children, right?
What is my focus when I am teaching
the Quran?
What is the focus when I am reading
Quran?
My focus will be the Tajweed of the
student.
Arabic I mean, he is reciting it from
the correct place.
In terms of, if there is a, Arabic
Is that being, you know, is it visible,
meaning audible in the sound?
Arabic If I am teaching some Qirat, then
is it, you know, Warsh or is it
Hafs or whatever it, that Qirat.
But, for example, if the child is reciting,
Arabic So, as the ustad, I am
listening to that.
Did he say Rahman or did he say
Rahman?
Was it Ha or Ha?
Arabic But, did we stop for a second
and say, very good.
Now, tell me, when you recited this, what
happened to your heart?
Arabic Do we reflect on it ourselves?
I just recited Ayatul Kursi.
What was the effect on my heart?
Now, if you are not doing that, then
this Ayatul Surah Al-Anfal which I recited
for you, Arabic Arabic That doesn't mean Tajweed
is not important.
My point is, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is putting the emphasis and telling us what
is really important is that when Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala is mentioned, something must happen
to your heart.
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's Kalam is
recited and when you see the Ayatullah around
you, something must happen to your heart.
Arabic Is it happening or is it not
happening?
I'm saying that what we teach, the orientation
of that teaching, Arabic So, which is my
second question.
You are teaching here in this, may Allah
bless all of you and all those who
are associated with Dar-ul-Salam.
May Allah bless you.
My first visit here and Alhamdulillah, this is
for me in terms of what I've been
dreaming and talking for now literally 25 years
and seeing that here happening in action, Alhamdulillah.
So, all of you are here.
My question to you is very simple.
What describes for me your product?
The product of this comes out.
What is that product?
Quickly.
What are you making here?
I come from a corporate background.
I'm a corporate consultant.
I work with many multiple corporations.
The corporations of multinational corporations rule the world.
Not politicians, not Donald Trump.
It is the multinational corporations and the billionaires
who own them who run this world.
As we speak, eight men, eight, which will
fit into one Mayvan, right?
Eight men own collectively more wealth than 50
% of the population of the world.
The world population is roughly eight billion, give
or take a few million here and there.
Eight men own more wealth than four billion
other people.
And I can say very clearly that none
of you is that eight men because those
are eight white men.
They collectively own more wealth than 50%
of the world.
If I gave you this as a challenge,
I said, can you create a system where
eight men will own more wealth than 50
% of the world?
You will tell me, Sheikh, you have gone
mad.
It is impossible.
You are nuts.
I mean, what kind of a thing is
this?
We did it.
We created it.
You know why?
Because they work systematically.
Because their goals are clear.
Maybe an evil goal, but that evil goal
is very clear.
Evil goal?
Evil goal is clear, yeah.
Clear, absolutely clear.
They have the methodology of how to achieve
that goal.
So my question to you is, what are
you creating here?
What is your goal?
What do you call what you're creating?
Supposing I come to you and I say,
I come to you and say, I say,
Mufti sahib, pray for me.
For what?
No, I'm setting up a factory.
Okay, I'll do that for you.
Then I say, Mufti sahib, please tell me,
what machinery should I buy?
Should I buy the machinery from Germany or
should I buy it from...
What is the question you're asking?
What are you trying to produce?
What exactly?
What are you trying to produce?
How can I answer the question, should the
machinery come from Germany or France?
Are you making hats?
Are you making plastic bottles?
Are you making rocket ships?
What are you doing?
Then I can tell you, this is the
method, this is the machinery, blah, blah, blah.
But you have to define for me what
is the product.
Unless you define what is the product, how
do you know, in this case, it's not
machinery, it's your methodology and the content.
How do you know it works?
I'm not saying it's a waste of time.
It's the mercy of God.
It is the mercy of God.
If you just sit and recite Allah, Allah,
Allah, it won't work.
The issue is that...
So, that's why I've been sleeping all my
life.
I sleep and go to heaven.
But the point I'm saying is that...
The point is, but however, since, Alhamdulillah, there
is so much of effort and believe me,
here, to me, the investment is not the
buildings and the money.
The investment is the life.
The investment is your heart.
The investment is the intellectual investment.
That has no value.
Nobody can put all the value of that.
Whether it's the value of the building or
the land, it has no value.
So, Alhamdulillah, the...
I was telling one thing on a side
note.
I'm telling you straightly, Alhamdulillah, you've made it
clear.
Now, you see, one man, one single man,
Allah, Allah, he went to the jungle and
opened a madrasa.
I mean, can you imagine, in the middle
of the bandits...
Today, till today, in the night, trucks don't
drive on that road.
They form a convoy and they go with
the police escort.
That place, only one man, Allah, Allah.
I was there for...
Now, you see.
Maybe about 10,000 to 5,000, 6
,000, 7,000.
Exactly.
Imagine that kind of...
That's the story.
It starts with one single person, right?
That's what I'm saying.
So, Alhamdulillah, you all are here.
May Allah bless you and may Allah put
barakah in this.
What are you trying to create?
What is the name of this product?
The reason I'm saying that is, based on
that product, will be the effect of that
product in the environment.
If you say, I'm making a plane, then
this plane will fly.
If you say, I'm making a locomotive, I'm
making a train, that train will pull a
lot of load, but that train will never
fly.
I'm making Bugattis, no problem, fantastic car.
I mean, I hate the * thing because
it's too low.
But I was saying, it's...
But, you know, great car, very fast, but
it will never fly.
It will go 200 miles an hour, but
it will never fly.
But I'm making microlight aircraft, which run on
a fractional horsepower engine, but it flies.
So, what's the point?
Because if your purpose is flight, and you
say, I'm making this fabulous Bugatti gold plate,
I say, brother, it's a fabulous Bugatti, it's
never going to fly.
Guess what?
It'll never fly.
Right?
It's exactly like that.
What are you trying to create?
And what is that thing which comes out
of here that you're supposed to do outside?
What is its purpose?
What do you want to do?
Everyone wants to go to heaven.
That's a different issue.
Leave that out.
I'm talking about this world.
What do you want to do in this
world?
Right?
So, please, give this some thought.
If I am...
Do you get multiple answers?
Absolutely, multiple responses.
So, very, very important to keep this in
mind.
Number one, Islam is a complete way of
life.
It's a practice.
It's not only theory.
Number two is, what is your product?
The person who graduates out of here, what
are you expecting?
You must have a complete, clear definition in
your mind.
And what do you expect that person to
do in society?
What will he do outside?
Right?
Now, third thing.
And this question you don't need to answer,
but for you.
And ask this question to every teacher here.
Do you make dua for your students by
name?
In tahajjud, in sujood.
Do you do it or not?
You don't do it in the normal way.
Not by saying, O Allah, all my students.
By name.
That is the power of dua.
And I humbly request you that your children
have a right over you.
That they should get the dua of their
teacher.
If the teacher is not doing dua for
the child, then he has no right to
do so.
Not by saying, I am doing it.
By name.
Because every child has a different need.
You do that.
You must do that.
I am telling you, the day you start
doing that, you will see the effect of
it.
You will see the effect of it.
Next question I want to ask you is,
we said Islam is a practice.
We said Islam is a way of life.
In your institution, where is this practice done?
If you go to an institution teaching science,
physics, chemistry, there are labs.
They practice it.
What they learn, they practice it.
You go to a flying school.
Have you ever seen a flying school without
a training aircraft?
No.
Part of flying school is training.
Have you ever seen a medical school without
a residency program with a hospital?
You go to a flying school.
No.
Then how can, I am not saying you
have it, I am saying if there is
a madrasa which is teaching Islam and there
is no specific practical method where they can
practice what they are learning.
Where is the place of the masjid?
Namaz is what?
Namaz is a tool, right?
Inna salata dimaza tanha'anil fahsha'i wal
munkara.
Namaz is not for itself.
Namaz is for this.
So, what is the measurement of whether or
not you have a connection with Allah or
not?
We have taught prayer.
Is your prayer good or not?
We are teaching the Quran.
Did it enter your heart or not?
We are teaching Namaz.
What has changed in your life from Namaz?
Did it come or not?
Where is the practical area?
Where are the labs?
Where is the place where they can test
it out?
Two verses I want to share with you.
One, Allah says, Inna fi khalqis samawati wal
ardi wa ikhtilafil layli wal nahari la'ayatin
li ulil albaab.
And then Allah described who are these ulil
albaab.
Alladheena yazkooroon allaha qiyaman wa qu'udan wa
ala junoobihim wa yatafakkaroona fi khalqis samawati wal
ard.
Right?
The same thing, the same sentence, if I
substitute aw for the waw, grammatically it is
correct.
Right?
Alladheena yazkooroon allaha qiyaman wa qu'udan wa
ala junoobihim wa yatafakkaroona fi khalqis samawati wal
ard.
Grammatically the sentence is correct.
But is that the ayat of the Quran?
No.
In the ayat, Allah described two connected aspects
of ulil albaab.
Those who remember Allah standing, sitting and lying
down, which is the definition of the muttaqi.
Continuously connected with Allah, constantly aware and conscious
of and concerned about the pleasure of Allah
standing, sitting and lying down, meaning in every
aspect of his life.
Wa, waw, that is the key preposition in
this ayah which gives the whole thing meaning
is that one letter waw.
And yatafakkaroona fi khalqis samawati wal ard.
This is the beauty of the bayan of
the Quran.
In yatafakkaroona fi khalqis samawati wal ard, Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala collected every single conceivable
known part of science that exists or will
happen till the Day of Judgment is yatafakkaroona
fi khalqis samawati wal ard.
Is fikr fi samawati wal ard, aur kya
ayat doosra?
Somebody who is connected with Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala and who is knowledgeable about the
functioning of the universe and in this context
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala also described the
sequence of that which must happen first.
The reason why many scientists become atheists is
because the sequence is reversed.
Right?
They are seeing the...
They understand the kainat better than you and
me.
Certainly better than me, I don't know about
you.
They have seen the world far more closely
than you and me.
But...
Kabir unke jaban se subhanallah nahi nikla.
They never looked at it and said, subhanallah.
Kya Allah ye khudrat hai?
Unke Allah ka taaruk nahi hai.
He doesn't know who Allah is.
So we think this happened.
Reh chahiye pehle nahi milti binab banaye ke
woh kaise ho jati hai sari duniya.
So Allah showed us sequence.
And both are important.
Someday I'm saying that here in this bhagat,
may Allah bless you.
It's very important.
Otherwise normally, our normal system, we teach the
Quran as if there is no creation.
And you teach the creation in some other
school as if there is no God.
In this country it is actually illegal to
say the word God in a regular school.
Can you believe it?
Then you say we have depression, we are
mentally ill.
Abhi aur kya hoga?
So that is wrong.
Magar hum nahi karte hain.
We teach only the theory.
We teach the theory very well, alhamdulillah, but
there is no connection with the reality.
So the theory doesn't mean anything for me.
Phir parishan fir raha hai.
Uske haath sine mein Quran bhi hai, parishani
bhi hai.
Yeh kaise ho sakta hai?
Andhera bhi hai, ujala bhi hai.
Nahi ho sakta hai na?
It's not possible.
These are mutually exclusive, right?
Abhi salmein Quran hai, toh parishani kaise aage
hai bhai?
Yeh hai, toh wo nahi hai.
Toh alfaaz-e-Quran hai, sound of the
Quran, he is Hafiz of the sound of
the Quran, he is not Hafiz-e-Quran.
Wo samajh raha hai, Hafiz-e-Quran.
Hafiz-e-Quran nahi, Quran ke sound ka
Hafiz hai.
Samajhta toh kuch nahi.
Toh Quran ka Hafiz kaise ho gaye?
Sawaab mil jayega, sawaab ka masala koi nahi.
Main hi nahi kahta hai sawaab.
Baghar samjhe ke padega, tabhi sawaab milega.
Isme koi shag nahi hai.
Magar maqsad-e-nuzul-e-Quran yeh tha
kya?
Ke bina samjhe ke pado.
Yeh maqsad-e-nuzul-e-Quran yeh hai
ke pado, samjho, amal karo, duniya mein phailao.
Kaunsa maqsad-e-Allah ke?
Iski buniyati wajah, which I will finish my
talk with, is we have forgotten the methodology
of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Illa mashaAllah, main aapko koi ilza mein laga
rahe hoon.
Main bol raha hoon ek baad.
Kyunki Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala ne lafz
-e-ni'mat ko istiwal kiya sirf war sirf
Huzoor-e-Ikram Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam ki shaan
mein.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said, laqad manna
Allahu alal mu'mineena idh ba'asa fihim rasoolan
min anfusihim yataloo alayhim ayatihi wa yuzakkihim wa
yu'allimuhumul kitaba wal hikma wa in kaanu
min qawlu lafi dalali mubeen.
Right?
Laqad manna Allah.
Surely and truly and verily wa yaqeenan Allah
Ta'ala ne ni'mat nazil farmai.
Saree cheeze Allah ki ni'mat hai.
Koi cheeze aur saas lehe hawa se leke,
paani se leke, khaane se leke.
Har cheeze Allah ki ni'mat hai.
Kisme koi shag nahi hai.
Magar Allah Ta'ala ne un saree cheeze
ko ni'mat, ni'mat, ni'mat nahi.
Muhammadur Rasoolullahi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam ka Allah ne
kai meri ni'mat mera Rasool hai.
Aur meri ni'mat mera Rasool isti tarah se
hai ke do baar tum pe humne ikram
wa izad kiya ki ek to Rasool ko
bheja huwa Rasool tum hi mese hai.
Hum badi nasab badam hai.
Main toh inki auraz, main toh unki auraz,
main toh mirza hu, main toh moghal hu,
main falana hu, main dikana hu.
Yeh toh Rasool ki nizmat hai.
Aur Allah shaan se huwa ki meri ni'mat
tum pe hai.
Iska hisaas karo, idraag karo, iski khadar karo.
Aur phir Allah Ta'ala, Tabaruk Ta'ala
ne farmai hai ke chaar cheeze Allah ne
dekhe mei di.
Mere isaas se these are four steps of
learning.
Yatlu alaihim aayaateen.
Jo cheeze aap par bheji gayi inko ittila
farwa dijiye.
Dilawat e Quran.
Okay.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave four
steps.
I call these four steps.
Allah say, yatlu alaihim aayaateen.
What has been sent to you, recite to
them.
Inform them.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, aqeemun salaat,
aqeemun salaat al-idhikri.
Establish the salah for my dhikr.
Informed.
Then, wa yuzakkihim.
Purify them.
Internal purity, external purity.
At-tazkiyatun nas, wa tazbiyatul akhlaq.
Purification of the body, the clothing, the place
of worship and so on and so forth.
Purification of the heart.
Must be free from shirk and bidat.
Must be free from all kinds of, you
know, ghairullah.
This is an effort, has to be made.
It won't happen automatically.
To iska dhanta hona chahiye.
There has to be, in your timetable, a
point, a place for that.
It won't happen out of the air.
It's not an osmosis.
Tarbiyatul akhlaq.
That's, wa yuzakkihim.
Wa yu'allimumul kitab.
Teach them the book.
Which is all the uloom, alhamdulillah.
Wal hikmah.
And the wisdom behind it, the methodology.
That is why Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la said, aqibu s-salat, Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam said, sallu kamar ayitumuni, kamar ayitumuni,
usalli.
Pray as you have seen me pray.
He didn't say pray as Allah told, no.
Pray as you have seen me pray.
This is the connection between the kitab and
the sunnah.
The sunnah is the tafsir of the kitab.
The life of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam is
the practical application of the kitabullah.
Now, my submission to you is, illa mashallah,
out of these four things, Allah Subh'anaHu
Wa Ta-A'la gave four things.
All four are connected.
All four must be fulfilled if you want
the final result.
What we have done, illa mashallah, globally is,
we do the first and the third.
We don't do the second and the third
and the fourth.
First, jiratul quran, experts, global experts, right?
Different methodologies, ways and the works.
Tazkiyatun nafs, zero.
No focus.
Some person happens to be born in a
family of ulema, of scholars and people, you
know.
Maybe you get something.
Maybe there is some teacher, mil gaya tu
mil gaya.
My point is, just as we have a
proper syllabus, methodology, metrics, my greatest learning in
corporate consulting is the power of metrics.
If you don't measure it, you don't know.
One of the things which in my corporate
consulting I do is six sigma quality.
Six sigma quality.
The guy who invented six sigma quality is
a chap called Michael Harry from Motorola.
He had a beautiful quote.
He said, if you want to know what
somebody values, see what they measure.
If you want to see what somebody values,
you want to know what somebody values, see
what they measure.
And to know what a person values, you
have to see what he measures.
You know, we all say time is money,
right?
You heard this.
I don't want to do that.
We say time is money.
But if you lose $100, you will feel
the pain.
But people spend six hours on TikTok.
Average time spent on TikTok, on Face, on
social media in this country is six hours
a day.
Six hours per day.
Per day.
Six hours per day.
It's a full working day practically, right?
Anyway, let's go back to something.
So, Tilawatul Quran, Tazkiratul Nafs, no.
May happen accidentally.
Most of the time, it doesn't happen.
I am saying there has to be metrics
for that.
Just like you have metrics for Tilawatul Quran.
You test a student on Tilawatul Quran, you
pass him, you fail him.
Because of metrics.
How do you test somebody, including yourself, on
Tazkiratul Nafs?
Third thing.
Talim, Alhamdulillah, perfect.
Different methods, different fiqh, different hadith, sunnah, tafsir,
the works, right?
We've got thousands and thousands of books.
We've got big curricula.
We have examinations.
Salah time.
Wa hikmah, which is the sunnah of Rasulullah
s.a.w. How much sunnah is there
in my life?
That is visible.
But is the sunnah restricted to the beard?
So where is the metrics for sunnah?
No metrics for Tazkiratul Nafs and no metrics
for sunnah.
We have metrics for Tilawat, we have metrics
for Talim.
Which is why, Gustaq-e-Maaf karein, ulema
ke beech mein jitne fitre hain, the problems
and the difficulties and the conflict between the
ulema are a sign of this.
I'm being very simplistic, but I'm a fool.
If you are a scholar of Islam, how
do you have disrespectful disagreement with another scholar
of Islam?
The issue is not about disagreement.
The issue is about disrespect.
One of the things I teach is Adab
-ul-Ikhtilaf.
It's a seminar, a couple of hours.
We have acrimonious arguments and conflicts and splitting
of organizations because of Ikhtilaf bain-ul-A
'ib wa bain-ul-A'ib.
Why?
Because there's no work on Tazkiratul Nafs.
When there is no work on Tazkiratul Nafs,
ilm produces arrogance.
Ilm produces kibar.
The antidote to the poison of kibar is
Tazkiratul Nafs.
We don't do it, they should.
I want to close with this.
Alhamdulillah, may Allah bless you and bless this
beautiful effort.
May Allah grant acceptance with him, Jalla Jalaluhu,
and open the doors of khair and barak
as he promised.
May Allah make all of you and me
among those who are in the sight of
Allah.
So that our du'as are accepted and
Allah is pleased with us.
We ask Allah to never be displeased.
We ask Allah to protect this beautiful work.
May Allah bless all of you and your
father, founder of all this, Alhamdulillah.
May Allah take this from strength to strength
and spread the beauty of this methodology all
over the world.
And may Allah focus and help us to
focus on making this more and more perfect
by fulfilling all of these four beautiful steps
for teaching and learning of Islam that Allah
sent His Habib Muhammad Rasulullah with.
So we fulfil the full right of this
Deen.
That it must be taught with equal emphasis
on all of these four aspects which have
been delineated and specified by Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala Himself in His Kanan.