Mirza Yawar Baig – How long do I have in Barzakh
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The speakers discuss the benefits of spending money on long periods of time and the importance of praying for health and productivity for a long and healthy life. They also touch on the Saudi Arabia government's actions that have impacted the harvest of soybean and the importance of praying for the end of the period. The speakers also discuss the history of Islam and how it has affected their personal lives, including a busy day in the army's army, where they search for boats, use Islam to protect against major sin, and have physical problems with their bodies.
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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 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, we normally utilise or
we apply two kinds of criteria to deciding
whether any of our spending is better or
worse, which is a better place to spend.
Right, two questions.
I am not talking about any financial planning.
Generally speaking, if you want to spend money,
then one criterion is we say we compare
between something which can give you pleasure, so
short-term pleasure, versus something which has a
long-term benefit, right.
So, which is the better one to spend?
Short-term pleasure, of course.
You have a party, you do something, you
go to, you have a holiday, you spend
money on that, you buy something temporarily.
But the same money, if you spend to
buy in an investment, right, to buy gold,
to buy long-term investment, to invest in
a house and so on, then between the
two, anybody will say the second option is
the better option because you put your money
where it is going to give you long
-term benefit.
If somebody takes even time for that matter.
For example, our children, they go to school,
college, they will want to go and play,
go for a game or something with their
friends and so forth, right.
There is nothing wrong with that.
But if they are doing it, and the
cost of their studies, so if they have
to go study, there is an exam, they
leave the exam, they go play cricket or
they play soccer or something, what will you
say?
It is not a question of is it
halal or halal.
The question is what are you doing with
the time?
This time you should have been spending, studying
for the exam, which has a long-term
benefit on your life.
Instead of that, you are playing a game.
The game you can play anytime.
You don't have to play the game just
then.
And even if you don't play the game,
so what?
Whereas if you fail the exam, then it
is likely to have a long-term negative
effect on your life.
So this is how we compare.
Where am I going to spend more time?
I should spend more on that, compared to
where I'm going to spend less time, right?
That's the basic principle.
Sayyidana Usman bin Affan Udayl Anhu died in
the year 656.
Today we are in 2025.
So 2025 minus 656 is 1369, right?
1369, do the math.
2025 minus 656 is 1369.
Sayyidana Usman bin Affan Udayl Anhu has been
in the Barzakh and he continues to be
in Barzakh for 1,369 years.
So how many years in the Barzakh am
I planning to spend?
How many years are you planning to spend?
You are going there, believe me.
We will go there.
The day we see Malakul Maut, the door
opens.
And we will remain there until Allah calls
us.
Until the Surah is blown, Israfil, peace be
upon him, Rasulullah said, Israfil has the trumpet
to his lips and his eyes are fixed
on Allah.
He is in that position.
Allah knows time has no meaning in that
context.
Thousands of years, millions of years, Allah knows
best.
So that instantly he will blow the Surah.
Then we will come out of our graves.
That period is Barzakh.
So how many years have we got?
The reason I'm asking is because we spend
money.
We work hard.
We make dua for this life.
This life is Allah.
50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100.
The Friendly Brothers, Friendly Ice Cream, because we
are giving you local examples.
Friendly's Ice Cream was started in 1935 by
two Blake brothers.
One of them died at the age of
102.
And the other one, Priestley Blake, who built
a house just after Longmeadow in Summers.
When you're driving from here, you cross into
Summers.
On the left, you see a house called
Monticello.
The name is written on the wall.
It is the exact replica of Thomas Jefferson's
house.
Priestley Blake built it at a cost of
$7 million, exact replica, to celebrate his 100th
birthday.
And he had his birthday party and he
sold it.
He never lived in the house.
He sold it at a loss because the
problem with big-ticket properties is you can
never sell them.
Who's going to pay $7 million to buy
their house?
So he sold it at a loss and
then he bought it back again at another
loss.
Eventually, he died at the age of 106.
So we spend money for this life.
What is our spend for the barzakh?
I gave you the example of Sayyidina Uthman
ibn Affan r.a. because Sayyidina Uthman r
.a. made waqf of one of his date
gardens.
And that date garden is there till today
in Madinah.
The Saudi government took charge of it.
It's still a waqf.
And every year, the harvest is donated, sadaqa,
for 1,369 years.
And of course, as we know, Allah knows
it will continue until Allah keeps it.
And then we also know the rahmah of
Allah and that is the benefit of doing
good things regularly.
Because we know in the hadith, as Rasulullah
s.a.w. said, when a person does
something regularly, you pray tahajjud every day.
You give some sadaqa every day.
You go for Jummah every Jummah.
You read so much of Quran every day
and you read so much more in Ramadan
and so on.
Whatever you do on a regular basis, Nabi
s.a.w. said, if for some reason,
the Qadr of Allah, may Allah give all
of us long and healthy lives and a
khatimah bil khair, inshallah.
But for some reason, when something happens and
you are unable to continue that action, Allah
s.w.t. will cause that action to
be continued, to be written in your book
until you die.
Because the Malaikah will say, because these are
accountants, so they will say, but he has
not done it.
Allah s.w.t. says, he did not
do it because of the affliction I gave
him.
If that was not there, he would have
done it.
So my question to myself and you is,
what is our investment for the barzakh?
I'm not even talking about the akhira forever,
barzakh is not forever.
Barzakh is a specific period, we don't know
how much period, but it's a specific period,
it's not forever.
It is until the Day of Judgment, when
the Surah is blown, Yawm ul Qiyamah is
established, end of barzakh.
For some people it is thousands of years,
for some people it might be one day.
The man dies today, tomorrow, Yawm ul Qiyamah,
it is one day.
Who knows?
But it's a specific period.
So I'm talking only about that.
Akhira, alhamdulillah, inshallah, we ask Allah for His
mercy.
What is our preparation for that?
Final point, let me ask you this.
Think about this, this thought came to me
the other day.
When we make dua, how much of our
dua is for the akhira?
How much of the dua is for the
barzakh?
And how much of the dua is for
this dunya?
There's no problem, you can make dua for
dunya, absolutely nothing wrong.
You make dua for the dunya, make dua
for your business, make dua for your family,
make dua for you, no problem, alhamdulillah.
But the same question, if I'm going to
spend 20, 30, 40 years in one place
and I'm going to spend 2,000, 4
,000, 5,000, Allah knows how many thousand
years in the other place, how much of
my dua is for the 30, 40, 50,
70 years and how much of my dua
is for the 2,000 years?
Just the dua.
Just think about this.
Because our actions define us.
We can talk, everybody can talk, forget about
the talking.
Our actions define us.
So if I take my actions and say,
my actions in terms of the yield for
this dunya versus my actions in terms of
the yield for the barzakh and for akhira.
What is the proportion?
10%, 15%, 20%, 50%, 99.9% for
this life, 0.1%. Alhamdulillah, we ask Allah
for barakah.
But I'm saying, really, we have to analyse.
You know, the biggest problem that we have,
and I want to end with that, the
biggest problem we have is that we have
taken Islam and put it in a place
as a ritual, right?
Good to do, nice to do, we dress
up for the masjid, we come, we listen
to some beautiful recitation of Quran, we pray,
we feel good, we go home.
We don't treat Islam as a tool to
live in this life and to use it
as a tool to live in this life.
This is the difference between us and the
Sahaba.
For the Sahaba, Islam was a tool for
this life.
They had a problem in their life, they
went to salah.
There was some issue, they went to salah.
They had some problem, they made dua.
Al-Aala Al-Hadrami, r.a., commander of
the army, which Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam sent
to Bahrain.
And between Bahrain and Damam, we know the
area, so what is now Damam, when Bahrain
is across the bridge, now there's a big
bridge.
So, obviously, those days there was no bridge.
So, they go there, they see there's a
sea, they can see the island of Bahrain
is on the other side, but how do
you get there?
And Bahrain was under the Persians.
So, the Persians said the simplest thing is
take away all the boats, put the boats
on our side of the thing, the Arabs
have no boats, they can't talk to us.
So, when the army reaches there, no boats.
What is the first thing that Abdullah Al
-Hadrami says to the people?
He says, go search for boats, find boats.
How can we get boats?
Can somebody swim across?
No.
He says, is there anybody here who has
committed a major sin?
Just think of this, these things are blowing
my mind.
So, what's the matter?
This man is a general, he's an army
general, I've got a physical problem, brother, I
don't have boats.
You are talking about sin?
What sin God do?
I mean, I need a boat.
I have a physical problem, I have a
resource issue.
He says, is there anyone in this army
who has committed a major sin?
Telling a lie is a major sin.
Riba is a major sin.
You are not talking about murder and, you
know, zina.
Deliberately leaving a salah is a major sin,
can be kufr, depending on what kind of
niya you did it with.
Has anybody committed a major sin?
They said, no.
He said, make istighfa anyway, get off the
horses, pray two rakaat of salah.
They prayed two rakaat of salah.
He said, mount, and he said, ride.
Ride where?
In the sea?
He said, ride.
And they have said, they have written, that
the horses ran on the water, and the
water did not come above the hoof of
the horse.
They didn't swim, they rode.
The water did not come above the hoof
of the horse.
The Persians saw them and they ran away.
They said, these are jinn, these are not
human beings.
These are jinn, we cannot fight them, they
ran away.
The Sahaba used Islam in their daily lives,
and that's what gave them the power.
You did not need to convince people to
spend years, do this, do that, they do.
They used to do it every day.
For us, we made it into a ritual.
We finish the ritual, alhamdulillah, now I am
on my own, now I do my business,
I do halal, I do haram, I talk,
I do hiba, I do nawima, I do
whatever I like, until the next time I
come for salah, then I come make wudu,
sometimes I stand here very holy.
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah.
That is why there is no barakah in
life, that is why the heart is full
of fear.
What will happen?
What will happen?
What will happen?
What can happen?
When nothing can happen without the hukm and
amr of Allah, what will happen?
Only what Allah wills will happen.
What is the question?
What will happen?
As a Muslim, how can you ask the
question, what will happen?
What will happen?
Only what Allah wants will happen.
And what Allah wants depends on my connection
with Allah.
Depends on my connection with Allah.
My Sheikh used to say, it will be
raining but you will not get wet.
There will be accidents on the road but
you will go safely.
The whole market will collapse but your business
will succeed.
Because Allah is not dependent on these things.
Have your connection with Allah correct, nothing will
affect you.
Nothing will affect you.
Allah did not put out the fire to
save Ibrahim A.S. No, the fire was
burning.
Allah said, Ya Naar, kuni bardan wa salaman
ala Ibrahim.
Become cold and a means of safety for
Ibrahim A.S. We are stuck in the
conditions.
What will happen?
What will happen?
I remind myself and you, let us repair
our connection with Allah.
Let us focus on the place where we
will spend most of our time.
This life, we don't know how much we
have left.
For most of us, what we spent already,
that much we will not spend.
That much more we will not spend.
But let us focus on what is sure,
which is that in the Akhira, once we
die, in the Barzakh, after that, is a
very long time.
Let us focus on that and say, what
am I sending ahead?
What am I doing?
We ask Allah to be pleased with us
and never to be displeased.
We ask Allah to protect us from all
that we know and all that we don't
know.
We ask Allah to help us in ways
and from sources that we cannot imagine.
We ask Allah to fill our hearts with
His Khashiyah and His Nur and with the
hope for His Habib Muhammad S.A.W.
We ask Allah to make it easy for
us to do that which pleases Him and
to protect us from that which does not
please Him.
We ask Allah to protect us and to
protect our children, to protect our families and
to protect our entire Nasal, to make sure
that we all are on Islam, we remain
on Islam and become strong on Islam, Inshallah.
May the peace and blessings of Allah be
upon the Prophet, his family and companions.