Mirza Yawar Baig – HM Khatira #01
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The speaker discusses the disappearing nature of fasting, the importance of being a good Muslim, and the history and significance of the moon. They stress the need to be aware of the Sunbelt and cycle of the moon, and encourage people to not get caught up in arguments and disputes. The speaker also encourages people to focus on their beliefs and not get caught up in arguments and disputes.
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The
first thing
I want to say to you is
that
this month,
which is fast disappearing,
came for one reason only and that reason
was to connect us to Allah
Because we know what Allah
said.
All you who believe,
fasting has been prescribed upon you as it
was prescribed for those before you.
For what? So that you may become.
Who are?
Are those
for whom all the promises of Allah
in the Quran
starting from
2.
Allah said, this is Allah's book,
and in this there is idayat and there
is guidance for the muttaqo,
Not Muslim.
To be Muslim is to enter the door.
That's it.
If you want benefit, you have to do
more than that.
And 2,
and this is not Ibtih, I
am just speaking to vayat
from Surat Al Aq where Allah said,
For the Mu'takhi Allah
will extract him from his difficulties.
Allah will do that.
Allah did not say you make the effort
then I will do it, Allah said Allah
will extract him as long as he has
takwa?
Allah will extract him from his difficulties. Allah
will save him from difficulties.
He does not need to do anything.
Ibrahim alaihi wasalam was sitting trussed up completely
tied up in the
in the cup of the trebuchet
to save his life from the fire. What
effort did Ibrahim make?
Nothing. 0. He couldn't make it. He was
tied up and
what effort did he make?
Allah saved him.
So Allah is saying this, this is the
reason the month came. So we must become
utaqeen and therefore as the month is almost
disappearing,
as our chef said, it's almost gone. Today
is the
first
of the odd nights.
Tomorrow will be the 21st
fast.
If we have 29 days, it means another
8 days. If we have 30 days, it
means another 9 days
and it's gone.
Ramadan will come again until Allah keeps this
world,
But whether I will be there and you
will be there, we don't know.
So every Ramadan, the best thing to do
is to treat it as if this is
my lust.
Because one Ramadan, whether it is this one
or whether it is another one a 100
years from now or 10000 years from now,
depending on what life Allah gives you,
one Ramadan will be the last.
Yes,
but we don't know that.
So the safest
way of
addressing
and being in any Ramadan is as if
it is the last. Take full advantage of
every minute, every second
because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala opened the roads
of Jannah, he shut the roads of Jahannam,
the reward for far salah is 70 times
the reward in normal times, the reward for
for far the ibadah, not only salah, far
the ibadah, the the reward for nafir I
badaah is equal to that of far.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala changed the shayati.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala did not level the
playing field. He skewed the playing field in
our favor.
And despite that, if we cannot
take advantage of that and
if we cannot
get Allah forgiveness, then it is truly, truly
sad.
Right?
So effort has to be made.
Now this effort must be made, 1st and
foremost, condition of the effort is
the of the effort, The reason why you
make the effort.
This has to be pure. The intention must
be pure.
Right?
The
We know the hadith from
the Bukhari and Muslim both
agreed upon by narrated by
said the worth of the deed, the reward
of the deed is based on its intention.
One of the 3 major hadith in the
collection of hadith and the these these 3
are called 1 third of the entire,
treasure of knowledge.
And that is called the hadith of the
salas,
the hadith of the 3.
Hadith said, which
means
that on the day of judgment, 3 people
will be presented to Allah before everybody else.
The first of them will be a scholar,
will be an alim of Islam.
And he will be asked,
what did you do?
And he will say, You Rabb,
I studied your kitab, I studied your book,
I studied your your deen,
and I taught this deen to people
only to please you.
And it will be said to him, you
lied.
You are a liar
because you did all of this so that
you will be called a great a great
scholar and this was done.
Because in this world, you were known to
be people people give you names.
So you want all these names.
Here, there is nothing for you, and this
person will be thrown into the hellfire. The
first person to go into hellfire will be
a scholar of Islam.
The second one will be somebody
and same question will be asked to your
body to do, and of course Allah knows.
This is to establish the hudjah against the
slave.
Take it from your own mother. What did
you do? And now you are telling me
what I did. What was you did yourself.
And he will say, I
fought in your path until I gave my
life in your path. So I was shahid,
feezabid light. It was said to him, it
will be said to him, no, you
lied.
You did that so that you will be
called a great warrior. And people will say,
oh, what a brave man and so on
and so on. This was done.
You want all the awards and rewards and
whatnot.
Here, there's nothing for you and he will
be thrown into the hellfire. Who is this?
Somebody who the world sees
or saw or recognized as a shahid fe
samir lah.
And the third one will be somebody,
he will recall and ask what did you
do? He will say, Arab, you gave me
wealth and I spent it in your path.
I did this, I did that, I built
this budget, I built the hospital, and then,
you know, help this one.
And it will be said to him, you
lied.
You did all of that, so you will
be known as a
philanthropist, as a great generous person. This was
done in this world. Maybe you got, you
know, God knows.
Nobel Peace Prize or whatnot. Right?
Here, there's nothing for you, and he is
in the hellfire.
So
I remind myself that you continuously
check our intention,
why am I doing what I am doing.
Don't get involved in unnecessary
debates and arguments and so on and so
forth. Did we see the moon here? See
the moon there? I always say, Muslims don't
have moon sighting, they are moon fighting.
Clearly, I mean,
the hadith of Rasool was very clear. Nabi
said,
see the moon and start start fasting. See
the moon and stop fasting.
And he said if the sky if the
sky is cloudy, complete 30 days,
right, of the previous month
of Raja of Shawan or
30 complete.
Now people say, oh, no. No. You see,
those days they
please,
the Hindus have a lunar calendar which is
3000 years old.
They had a calendar 2000 years before Rasulullah
came to this world.
That calendar will give you all the moon
dates for another another 1000 years. It's not
new.
Whoever told you that moon calculation is new,
that is talking through his head.
It is the oldest thing in the world.
You see the moon was born now?
The moon.
So why did Nabi Sadat al Dinw say
this?
When I said to this in our interfaith
work, I said this to in one workshop,
and one of the rabbis, he literally had
tears in his eyes. He said, why can't
he say, because you people are keeping alive
a tradition that we lost long ago. He
said, this was part of our religion.
Part of the of the Judah part of
Judaism was
we were connected to the to the to
the environment, to the to the to nature.
We were we also had lunar calendar we
used to follow. Then somebody said, no, no,
it's very inconvenient. We don't know last minute.
Let's fix everything.
This desire to control everything which is not
in our control,
This is the problem.
What is the problem with going with what
Afghanistan said? No problem. It's a little bit
inconvenient for I agree with you. It's a
little bit inconvenient for us, so bear the
inconvenience.
The sign of love
is to do more.
The sign of love is to be to
take on inconvenience
for the one you love.
Right?
It's not to have everything in your no.
I will I will meet you when when
when it suits me. So then who do
you love? You or the one you're talking
to?
So don't fight with all this. Alhamdulillah,
we follow
the moon sighting for the barakah of the
sunnah of the word of Nabi alaihis salam,
not
because it is modern or or not modern.
No. Those reasons are that's nonsense. Whoever is
saying that has not understood the thing. We
follow it because it is the barakah of
the word of Rasool.
If anybody thinks that there is no barakah
in the word of the rabbi, then we
have nothing to to say to you. Do
what you want.
Don't get involved in all this.
Stay with religion.
Stay with connecting with Allah
reading the Quran, listening to the Quran, reflecting
on the Quran, reflecting on on our own
lives. Allah
where are you going?
Let's ask ourselves this question, where am I
going? Where is my life leading me?
Right?
Take this time, Take this. Alhamdulillah, Allah gave
us this time. Allah gave you this beautiful
masjid, this beautiful environment.
Take full advantage of that.
Don't get anybody ask you any of this
this disputing questions. Please, forgive me.
I don't know. Go ask somebody else.
Yes. Very simple. I don't know. Go go
ask somebody.
No
disputes.
We have one Allah.
We have 1 Rasool. We have 1 Kitab.
That's enough. We we don't need any disputes.
Right? Don't dispute.
In have ikhlas of near and let us
try to connect with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Allah made it easy and Allah will inshallah
make it happen for us.
We ask Allah
to accept our and
and so. We ask Allah to accept all
all our sadaqah. We ask Allah to enable
us and and encourage us to give more
and more and more and more make more
effort and we ask Allah to accept that
effort to make it mosaic and make it
more beautiful and to increase it and to
bring it to the level where it is
worthy of being accepted by him.