Mirza Yawar Baig – Good business
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The speakers discuss the importance of good business, including selling things at a lower price and losing money if a business person buys something. They criticize the media's portrayal of Islam and the media's portrayal of young people. The speakers emphasize the importance of physical fitness and exercise in achieving better health and fitness, as well as the need for physical fitness education and priority to learning the Quran and dehen to gain a sound foundation in the deed. They also emphasize the importance of sending children to religious schools for better education and prioritizing learning the Quran and dehen to gain a sound foundation in the deed.
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My brothers and sisters,
I remind myself and you
that a good business person, a good business
man, a businesswoman,
is somebody who
buys something for
a certain amount
and sells it
for a higher price.
Right? It's very basic fundamental.
Good business is to buy something at a
lower price and sell it at a higher
price and the difference is your margin, that's
your profit.
If somebody buys something
at a higher price
and sells it for a lower price, then
this is not a business person.
Right?
You might say nobody does it, but they
do it because usually
this happens with inheritance.
What people get as inheritance
from their parents and so on,
they don't have value for it.
So
they sell it cheap.
They sell it cheap, they lose it. Many
times they just lose it. They're not even
selling it.
And whoever gets it makes a packet.
So this is bad business.
Now, reason I'm mentioning that is because Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said the same thing with
regard to our dealing with the Duniya and
the Deen.
Things in the religion, things in the deen
which
we should give importance to, which we don't
and instead of that we give importance to
things of the dunya.
For example, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala said
In Surah Al
Jumah, Allah In Surah Al Jumah, Allah mentions
an incident where Rasulullah was
doing a Khutbatul Jumah
and a caravan came at that time. And
because of that caravan and people, you know,
all the
noise and the sound and so on of
the caravan,
people left the Khudba and ran to the
market
from the masjid.
And Rasool Rasool was left standing with only
a few people
there. The rest of them ran away.
So there is a case of the Rasool
alaihi salaam himself
giving
darsh, giving a khutba
and people left and went away.
Right? Imagine.
Imagine if that happens to you and me,
no problem. I'm telling you, it happened to
the Nabi alaihi salaam.
So who am I? Who are you?
So Allah
revealed Quran about this. Allah
said, they are leaving you standing, oh, Muhammad
and they are going away behind this. Behind
this, whatever they think some benefit they will
get out of this caravan
of buying and selling.
They are running behind that and they have
left you here
because he is speaking about the greatness of
Allah. He's speaking about the akira.
They left this and they went there.
Allah is saying, say to them
what is with Allah is far better
than this
this amusement, this games, this sports,
this fun activities
and the trade.
And Allah is the best provider.
Today, in this country, for example,
one of the things that I see
in so many in the case of so
many people,
good people,
people who are,
they are
people who
love Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. I mean, I
do not
deny that,
but we are so caught up in the
duniya
that we give importance to things of the
duniya in comparison to the akhara. For example,
there are many people I know,
families.
We have the maktab here.
The mother's
are the children don't come here.
Why don't you send the children? Oh, you
know, they have got this,
they're going for this game practice.
They're going for that game practice.
So basketball is more important than Quran.
Soccer is more important than Quran. Football is
more important than Quran.
And I will tell you. I I can
probably give it to you in writing
that not even 1 in a 1000 of
those children is ever going to make it
to the big leagues.
Not even 1.
So what's the big deal?
So you lost here, you lost there. Because
if you look at the game itself, who
are the people who make the millions?
The people in the you it's easy to
compare yourself with, Messi or with, you know,
Ronaldo.
But how many Ronaldo? Why is there only
1 Ronaldo? Think about it. How come there
is only 1 Ronaldo in this world till
now? How come there is only 1 Messi?
If it is so easy,
how come we don't have 10,000? We should
we should have. No. I mean, there are
so many people. There are thousands and millions
of people. So everybody should be. No. 1.
So they like we say,
So you want you go into sport and
you get neither the sports nor this. Now
I'm not against sports. Please understand. I'm very
much in favor of sports. I'm very much
in favor of exercise. We should do that.
Physical fitness is very important, but not at
the expense of Quran, not at the expense
of running your.
Find some other time.
Find some other time where you can do
that. Because really, I tell you it is
embarrassing. It is very embarrassing for me.
When I ask someone adults,
I ask somebody, please call the,
they do it wrong.
Now you are praying in the masjid everyday.
You are listening to the 5 times a
day and you still don't get it right.
What's the what is so complicated about Islam?
They cannot even say the correctly.
You ask them to lead salah, they make
a million mistakes.
Why?
Because no practice.
They learn the Quran. They can if you
give them the Quran, they can read it.
But they will read it like, you know,
by
letter by letter.
No practice.
So if you are going to give more
importance
to these things,
to games and sports and to
my business, my shop, this thing.
In comparison to the Quran,
then what will happen?
What will happen is what is happening in
this country and has been happening time after
time after time,
the same children will leave this deal and
go away.
Everyone, we all know these incidents where people
came to this country.
They were good Muslim when they came.
2nd generation, 3rd generation,
the
east.
No more Islam. No nothing.
How many times do we have here in
the masjid?
And in the, the people who come,
wallahi, it's the first time in my life
I've seen those people. 5 years, I've not
seen that person even one time, except for
the janaza. And after the janaza, I haven't
seen him again.
Why? I remind myself, can you please let
us not play games
with our own lives and with the lives
of our own children?
Because
your children are your.
That is one of the three things which
will be of benefit to us after we
are gone.
Children who are good.
Anything good that you teach to somebody and
that carry forward, and any
work of
any good work which continues.
So don't spoil that
because you are the one who will benefit.
Not not me, not anybody, yourself.
So don't spoil it.
Make sure that you give priority
to the learning of Quran and
deen. Priority, not just teaching. Not just teaching
in the spirit.
Between my football practice, I get some time.
I will say no. No. No. No.
Turn it the other way around.
When there is time, I will send for
that. But priority to the deen, priority to
the dus of Quran, dus of of the
sharia.
It is absolutely
critical and essential
that children get a sound, solid
foundation
in the deed.
And
here in our, we are not making them
into
and and this is basic fundamental knowledge. How
to do salah, how to make
and so on. Right?
How to read Quran, Nazirah, then if whatever
you can memorize a little bit of that.
It's not some
complicated,
stuff they are teaching them. Very simple basic,
but that simple basic stuff is very, very
important. That is the foundation.
So please, I remind myself and you and
tell others,
send the children to the. Send them to
send the children to the
school here.
And if you don't want to send them
to this school, send them to the to.
Has got also has a in this place.
There are 2 places with the Maktab. I
don't care. As long as you send them
to a religious school where they are getting
proper religious education
and give precedence to the knowledge of the
deen over everything else.
We ask Allah to
help us to take advantage of all the
opportunity that he presents for us and to
benefit from that.