Mirza Yawar Baig – Four steps to learn Islam – 3
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I'm now
walking through another part of,
Ashaya's wire, which is
a little,
walk through,
part of the forest.
This is by no means any rainforest or
anything like that but this is just lots
of trees and with
all kinds of vines going up them. The
the most
interesting thing about this is how all this
stuff will change color in fall in autumn
and,
become an absolute riot of colors
and that's suharma.
We come to the 3rd part of the
things we were talking about.
The the 4 part,
role that was given to Muhammad
Allah said recite
for them my revelation,
purify them,
and
then teach them the book, the third one,
to teach them the book.
Now this is very, very important that this
is the essence of the sunnah
of Rasool al Salih. This one and
the next which is,
one hikma.
Now the teaching is very interesting. It it's,
something that should really
raise a question in the minds of people,
especially those who say that the sunnah is
not important,
who reject the sunnah,
who say we don't need.
They say we don't need the Rasool.
We they say that Rasool was a was
a messenger, so therefore, he was like a
postman.
He brought a letter and gave it away
and gave it to the
to the one to whom the letter was
written.
So,
of course, this is not just first of
all, it is kufr. Anyone who,
actually believes that has left Islam. Let me
be very clear about this. Anyone who believes
that and says that has left Islam is
no longer a Muslim. But apart from that,
the issue is,
there's a huge difference
Even linguistically between
a Rasul
as a Rasul of Allah
and just somebody who is a messenger. A
postman
does not know
what is in
the letter which has been written. He does
not know the message, the mover. Number 2,
the postman's job is just to
drop the letter in the letterbox
and walk away.
Now these are 2 completely
different things
from the role of the Rasul. Because that's
the reason why we have to go go
to the Quran to understand
who the Rasool is, alayhis salaam.
And this is what never ceases to amaze
me, the level of ignorance of those who
say the Quran is enough for us. And
I said to them, absolutely correct.
The Quran is
enough a for us, and the Quran
is what tells us
the position
and the
importance
of the Rasool.
It is the Quran.
Where do we get this from? We we're
not looking at poetry. We're not looking at,
you know, an ashid and people singing
about, the beauty of
the and so on and so forth. We
are not even looking at, for example,
may Allah bless these
scholars who express their
beautiful love for by
describing
by collecting all the hadith
which,
described his beauty and his and his, you
know, his.
Literally,
the the the detail of description of the
person of the prophet,
what did his head look like,
What did his beard look like?
How many
quite literally, how many,
gray hair in his beard and his head?
To that extent what what were the
what what were the bottoms of his feet,
the sole of his feet?
What were they like?
You know, I sometimes say this as a
challenge to people and say that name for
me the person you would love the most.
And you might say it's my husband, my
wife.
Usually, you don't get husband, but anyway,
and then their parents,
my father, my mother, my children. And I
said to them, even if you are
a a mother who's has a little baby,
so obviously, your whole life is in that.
And if I tell you, just like that
randomly,
describe
the souls
of your baby.
Believe me, you can't do that. You would
never be able to do that adequately. You
might make some general statements.
You know, oh, they're so soft and so
lovely and blah blah. I'm not I'm I'm
saying specific
reference to the souls.
We have that about Rasool.
So which means that there was this Sahaba,
there were these wonderful, wonderful people who
loved the prophet so much that they
recorded and this is Abdul Abdul Abiabak of
the land who's buried,
who recorded what the soul of his feet
look like. And I might you might say,
well, you know, how did he get that?
He wasn't obviously going to say, yeah, so
can I please see the sole of your
feet because I want to write about it?
No. He is talking about
seeing the soles
of the feet of the sun when he
was praying, and usually that was in in
the houses.
So, you know, this shows the levels have.
Anyway, so the point I'm making here is
that Allah says,
So the difference between the Rasul and the
and any ordinary,
modern messenger is that the messenger is not
really concerned with the message. His job is
to convey it point to point,
But the job that Rasool is a lot
more than that. And I mentioned this. And
I said, you are not just a messenger.
Your job
is to first tell them what it is,
then prepare them to receive it, purify them,
and then teach it to them. Now think
about this.
What was the need?
Or what could have been the need to
teach
people for whom the languages of
Quran was their language.
The language of the Quran was their language.
So
today, we
feel nothing hesitant. We should be feeling hugely
hesitant,
to translate the Quran or to,
you know, explain the Quran or teach the
Quran,
using translations
because we don't know the language. Right? We
have reached a stage of such
tremendous ignorance that it doesn't even bother us.
But here were people
who were the masters of the language
to the extent that the Arabs were very
arrogant about
their knowledge of Arabic,
and they called anyone who did not do
Arabic as.
So the,
and to these people, Allah's saying, teach them
the book.
Which book? Teach them the the the Ayat.
Which are which have already been recited to
them.
Now
this is the Quran.
This is the Quran
telling us
what Allah
said to his Nabi
So when you say that
the Quran is enough for you,
I say to you, yes, I agree with
you, but listen to yourself.
Listen to your own words
because your words
will become
witness
in your favor
or against you. And whether they're in your
favor or against you depends on you.
Depends on what you do with those
words. If you ever use those words
and then you do the opposite, you say
the Quran is enough for us and therefore
we don't need the rasul,
that means that
you are going against the Quran.
We're actually contradicting
what the Quran is saying.
Because the Quran is saying, when the Quran
is enough for you, therefore,
follow the Nabi, alayhis salam.
Now I'm not going into
the details of the many, many.
Not one. Many of them
specifically mentioned and ordered and commanded
that his rasul salaam is to be
followed and obeyed
without question,
not because we
believe
blindly,
but because
we do not need to question
that which we have completed. Faith
in, and our faith is based on reason,
on evidence, on
proof. And that faith is that Muhammad
Now let me give you an example.
Allah
established
the salah. Right? Allah did not say,
read the prayer, do the prayer, say the
prayer.
He said establish
the prayer.
What is the meaning of establish? It means
pray at the right time,
establish,
houses of prayer, places of prayer,
support,
all activities
leading to that and so on and so
on. Now
what is so difficult about understanding
this ayah?
Established prayer.
Akim Musallah.
So what was there to teach?
But obviously there was something to teach, and
that is what Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
saying to Rasool Salam.
He is saying,
teach them.
So let's take this as a beautiful way
of illustrating
this, which
is, he would have said, Allah has said,
Allah said, establish the prayer.
And then,
Allah is saying,
here are a bunch of mallard chicks.
I think these people have been fed. The
mother is there at the back,
and these have come up here
expecting me to feed them.
Except that I didn't know they were here.
Or I would have brought something for them,
but I don't have anything.
So maybe next time I come, I'm gonna
bring something for them. So
So here you said,
establish the prayer, and you said, okay, I'm
ready. What
must I do?
So obviously, when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
establish the prayer, there has to be a
method for the prayer. Right? I mean,
what is prayer? You might tell her what
is prayer?
What is it what is it consist of?
Do I sing a song? Do I beat
a drum?
What do I do?
There is something you do.
Where do I get that?
Because
as we all know very well, I don't
say you don't have this is not news
to anybody who knows the Quran even
cursorily,
that there's no detailed description of salah, of
prayer in the Quran.
None at all.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala just said, establish the
prayer.
He did not say the prayer means that
you start with the taguirtahrimah,
raise your hands to your ears,
and then bring your hands down and fold
them or put them by your sides and,
you know, then do this and this and
ruku and sujood and 1 ruku and 2
sajdas and then
you must do cycles of 2 rakat each
and,
then you finish with your with your salaam.
None of that. Allah
So how do you learn?
And this is where
the issue of teaching comes, where
how was taught to Rasool al Naida sun.
The Quran tells us what to do.
The Rasul tells us how to do it,
and if somebody is telling me
that
all I need to know is what to
do. I do not need to know how
to do it, then I would say that
would be a very, very ignorant statement,
to put it politely.
It would be a completely ignorant statement.
And if you are saying that if you're
a Muslim and you're saying that,
believing that to be true, then I would
say that this is
This
is denial, this is
apostasy, this is leaving of,
the religion.
So Rasool Rasool was taught how to pray
and he taught us how to pray. There's
a beautiful hadith
of these,
young men who came
and spent 2 or 3 weeks with Rasool,
and,
they
learned how to pray.
So we say, how do you pray. So
as I said, these young boys came and
they spent,
2 to 3 weeks with the Rasulullah
Imagine this is the the power of the
Surah of the Rasool and Islam. Right? This
power of Surah. Today we go and be
Allah grant us the,
opportunity to spend time in the,
in the in the company of,
of scholars,
people who are worthy of learning from and
and emulating.
But,
you know, who can come close to the,
to the position of the Rasool alaihi salaam.
So, Nabi Salam, he had these
youngsters. They came, they were his guests. They
stayed in the masjid. Nabi was Sharif.
They were the guests of the prophet and,
after about 2 or 3 weeks,
the writer of the Hadith says that, Rasool,
he
was very very sensitive to,
to the people around him. So he said
he realized that, we were,
missing
our homes.
So they loved the Dobbs also very much,
but, you know, they are young kids,
so they're missing their homes, their parents, and
so on. So he's this, writer of the
of the hadith, he says recorded. He says,
he said, are you missing your homes?
Do you want to go back?
And he said that puts us in a
in a spot because, you know, how do
you say to the Rasul,
yes, I want to go back. Meaning, I
we we don't want to say and we
it's not true that, we don't want his
company.
And we don't we are not in a
position or place where we don't want to
be sort of comparing between,
the position Rasool alayhi salaam and anybody else.
But, you know, this is,
the nature of the person. So this they
said they said we remain silent. We didn't
say yes, we didn't say no. This is
the other again. This is the adav again.
Now think about that. They they can say
yes, sir. He's asking them a question.
They can say yes, yes. So now you're
missing our parents. They don't have to that
it doesn't mean we don't like you or
anything. None of that. They just remain silent.
And Rasulullah
said, okay.
So you can go home, I will give
you permission.
And then he said, remember to pray and
remember how I taught you to pray. And
he
said, the oldest among you,
lead the prayer,
meaning the oldest as in age, oldest also
means of course as in knowledge. And,
he said, one of you called the other.
And then he said,
He said, pray as you have seen me
pray.
He did not say pray as the Quran
is telling you to pray. Pray as you
read it, pray as you understand it, pray
ever is in your heart. No. He says
pray as you have seen me pray.
This is the most beautiful
illustration of.
So
the which
these
students and of course, all the
underwent, which is purification of the body and
purification of the of the heart.
And then,
how is this to be done? So as
I said, the what, the command, the is
in the Quran. The method
is in the Sunnah. The Quran and the
sunnah are complimentary
to each other. They support each other. And
without the sunnah, the Quran becomes
impossible
to actually implement in our lives. And it
is with this,
understanding
that Imam Al Auzai
he said, the book
needs the sunnah
more than the sunnah needs the book.
Now quite obviously, he's not being disrespectful in
the Quran. He is
from his understanding,
he is talking about this aspect
that the book came to be implemented.
The book came to be practiced.
The book came so that we learn
what to do.
But the book is a book of orders.
It's a book of commands.
And unless these orders are interpreted, unless these
orders are explained,
unless this whole thing is demonstrated and shown,
we will go wrong.
We can't just
implement or
obey the orders any way we like. So
therefore,
the
field book is essential
for the main book,
and therefore, the main book needs the field
book
more than the field book needs the main
book. Obviously, both are interdependent.
Both are necessary.
And in terms of actual
status, the Quran is the actual word of
Allah.
And the sunnah is the explanation
of that word. So the status of the
word of Allah remains intact,
but we have to understand this in context.
Inshallah, there's 3 out of 4. We'll go
to the 4th and the next
one.