Mirza Yawar Baig – How to keep yourself safe from challenges of society
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The speaker reminds oneself of the importance of staying safe and discusses the difficulty of avoiding harm in society. They emphasize their belief in the concept offitna and emphasize the need for everyone to practice Islam and receive the bounty of Islam. They also discuss the importance of praying for Allah's benefit and respecting people. The framework of "med strict" is emphasized as a way to achieve one's goals.
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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
companions.
Peace and blessings be upon him.
My brothers and sisters, I remind myself of
you.
Many times people ask me, for example with
the children, some youth, young people ask me,
old people ask me, we have this challenge
in this society, that challenge in the society,
there is this temptation, this fitna, that fitna,
and so on and so on.
And what shall I do?
How can I keep myself safe from the
different fitna, different tests, different temptations in this
society?
So, I remind myself of you, to keep
yourself safe is very simple.
It is not difficult.
So, first of all, stop saying it is
difficult.
It is not difficult, right?
You hear this all the time, oh, it
is so tough, so difficult.
No, it is not difficult.
Who told you it is difficult?
Very easy.
It is very easy as long as I
remember and remind myself that one day, if
I live in this place, Rockford, and I
die here, then they will bring my body
to this masjid and Sheikh Ara, he will
read my janaza.
Yes?
If I am not here, if I am
somewhere, some masjid somewhere or some place, somebody
will read my salatul janaza and I will
be in my cover.
And I will be alone before Allah.
If I remember that, then there is no
fitna which is so difficult that I cannot
overcome.
Which fitna?
I have to ask myself.
See, that is why Allah mentioned something in
Surah Al-Alaq at the end.
One small ayah.
Alam ya'lam bi'anallaha yara.
The asbaab and nuzul of this ayah, this
ayah came for Abu Jahl.
Allah said, does he not know that Allah
is watching?
Alam ya'lam bi'anallaha yara.
Does he not know that Allah is seeing?
But we know the kalamullah, asbaab an-nuzul,
is, alhamdulillah, it comes for a reason there,
but that applies to all of humanity till
the end of time.
So, alam ya'lam bi'anallaha yara is
not only for Abu Jahl, it's for me,
it's for you, for everybody.
I must remember myself.
Am I not aware that Allah is watching?
So, if I'm doing something good, I'm doing
tilawatul qur'an, am I aware that Allah
is watching?
Yes, Allah is watching, alhamdulillah.
But if I'm committing some sin, may Allah
protect us from committing sin, but if I'm
committing some sin, I'm doing some ghiwa, I'm
doing some namimah, I'm doing something, whatever it
is.
Alam ya'lam bi'anallaha yara.
Am I not aware that my Lord is
watching Jalla Jalaluhu?
Then how can I do ghiwa about my
brother?
How can I play some politics and try
to put this one down and that one
up?
How can I do that when my Lord
is watching Jalla Jalaluhu?
This religion of ours, the Islam, this is
not the name of a philosophy.
This is not hadi, laisa falsafa, wa laisa
nazariya, hu ad-din, at-tariqa, tariqatul Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa
sallam.
This is not a philosophy, this is not
something...
And that is why this deen is about
practice, amal.
Like I gave you the example yesterday, I
think, there is somebody who knows about judo.
He knows everything, how judo started, who was
the first, and so on, and so on.
And maybe he has a whole book of
judo which he memorised completely.
Then he goes on the street, somebody holds
him up, gets into some fight, and he's
flat on the floor, gone.
You say, you know so much about judo.
That is the problem.
He knows about judo, he does not know
judo.
He does not know how to fight, he
knows about it.
Same thing, if I know about Islam.
But I never practice Islam, I never pray.
But you ask me about salah, I will
give you a three-hour khatira, three-hour
lecture on salah.
All the usool, all the arqan, and mustahabat,
and sunan, and the fadail, and everything else.
If you leave it, this happens there.
Alhamdulillah, mashaAllah, you know all this about salah.
But the muazzin says, hayyala salah, hayyala falah,
I'm going this way.
Where are you going?
No, I've got some work, my shop.
La hawla wa la quwwata illa billah.
You know all this about salah, but you
don't pray.
So what is going to happen?
Is Allah going to say, when I stand
before Maharaj, Jalla Jalaluhu, and Allah says, see,
salah, I say, no, it doesn't matter.
For this guy, he wrote a book on
salah, so this has been finished.
No problem.
You need not pray, no problem.
Is it going to happen?
Islam is not about something.
Another one, example.
What is the name of this book?
In Arabic, what is the name of the
book?
Hathib.
Hathib, right?
I don't know how to read it.
I don't know how to read it.
What do you call this in English?
Phone.
Phone.
And so on and so forth, right?
Different names.
So if I say I know the word
Hathib, so very good, fantastic.
Now please call Sheikh.
There is a difference between knowing the name
and knowing.
We know the name Allah.
We know the name Ar-Rahman.
We know the name Ar-Rahim.
But do you know Allah?
Do you know Ar-Rahman?
Do you know Ar-Rahim?
What is the difference?
The difference is, if I say child, so,
we have the word, C-H-I-L
-D.
But if you have a child, for example,
if I say to Sheikh, in your mind,
are you seeing Wa-O-Lam-Dal or
are you seeing the face of your child?
He is not saying Wa-O-Lam-Dal.
He is not saying C-H-I-L
-D.
No, he sees the face of his child.
MashaAllah, may Allah bless his child and give
him, make the Qur'an for him, inshaAllah.
And everyone.
And everyone, inshaAllah.
I mean, because there is a taluq.
The moment you say child is my child,
you don't have to say your child.
Child is my child.
If I say father, I'm not saying F
-A-D-A-G, no.
If you tell me father, immediately, I remember
my father.
I remember for my entire memory.
Maybe 40 years, Allah A'lam.
Two o'clock in the night, I would
hear the sound of the bucket in the
bathroom.
Those days, no hot and cold running water.
This is the world before plastics.
There were no plastics.
The buckets were metal buckets.
So you heard the handle of the bucket.
My father would put the bucket on the
ground or tank, and then the handle would
drop.
Clang.
And I'm sleeping, and I know he has
woken up for tahajjud.
He would make wudu.
He would pray tahajjud.
Then he would sit, and he would recite
Quran.
He would not wake us up.
Children are sleeping.
He won't say.
He would recite Quran.
Then time for Salatul Fajr.
Then he would come into the room.
He would put on the light.
He would pull out the blanket.
As-salatu khairu minan-naum.
May Allah forgive me.
We used to hate it.
But there is no exception.
Nothing to say, no, no, you know, I
worked very hard, and my examiner told me,
no, you Salatul Fajr, you have to pray.
If you are alive, you will stand here
before Allah.
No exceptions.
Nothing.
Even if you are sick, get up and
pray two rakat of Salat.
Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for shifa.
Now he died.
I remember it.
Every day I make dua for him in
sujood.
And I ask Allah, Ya Rabb, the effect,
knowing your Rabb.
That is why the first quest in the
Qabar is a question of ta'aluk.
It is not a question of ilm.
They will not ask, wa ma rabbul alameen?
They will say, man rabbuka?
Who is your Rabb?
The malaika know who is Rabbul alameen.
They don't have to ask you for it.
They ask me, man rabbuk?
Who is your Rabb?
Rabbi Allah.
And this is not something that we memorize
now when you go in the Qabar.
No, no.
This is, if my life is according to
Rabbi Allah, I will say Rabbi Allah.
If my life is according to Rabbi something
else, then I will not say Rabbi Allah.
So I remind myself and you, and Sheikh
said I will give a short khatr also.
It has to be short.
So I remind myself and you, let us
work on this ta'aluk ma'allah.
Our Rabb jalla jalaluhu, everything we have belongs
to him.
We love him.
Ashadduhubbalillah.
Walladheena amanu ashadduhubbalillah.
So let us make sure ta'aluk ma
'allah.
Reflect and focus on the blessings of Allah.
Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah.
Imagine we are sitting in this country here
in peace, in comfort, alhamdulillah, safety, nobody bothering
us.
We have beautiful masajid.
We have mashallah beautiful shuyukh to teach us.
We come and sit here.
We learn from the best of the best.
Alhamdulillah.
We should thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Right?
Sure, there are difficulties in the world.
There are different things happening in the world.
We make dua for them, but alhamdulillah what
Allah has given us, we should thank.
Alhamdulillah, ya Rabb, this is from you.
Alhamdulillah.
And then try to use this for the
benefit and help of where it is needed.
Ta'aluk.
Four can focus on ta'aluk with Allah.
And the way to make ta'aluk with
Allah is through obedience to Allah.
The way of expressing the love for Allah
is by obudiyat.
Right?
People sometimes have this thing.
They will sing beautiful nasheed.
Right?
And you will sing beautiful nasheed in praise
of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Alhamdulillah, very nice.
But you look in the life, you don't
pray, you eat haram, you earn haram.
Then where is this nasheed?
You sing a beautiful nasheed in the praise
of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Alhamdulillah.
Mashallah, very nice.
But in the life, there is not one
sunnah.
Not one sunnah in the life.
Then what is the point of this nasheed?
Tell me.
So alhamdulillah, nasheed is good.
You sing, no problem.
But let us bring that ta'aluk with
Allah and the ta'aluk with Rasulullah sallallahu
alaihi wa sallam into our lives.
And like I said yesterday, the best example
is Salah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Afeemus Salah.
And Nabi Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, Sallu
kama ra'aitumuni usalli.
So we pray, Afeemus Salah, alhamdulillah.
Ya Rabb, I'm ready.
How to do that?
The way of Muhammadur Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
This principle, this format applies to everything in
life.
This is what we should remember.
I pray like Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
prayed.
I will do business like he did business.
I will treat my family the way he
treated his family.
I will raise my children the way he
raised his children.
I will walk in the street the way
he walked in the street.
I will deal with my neighbors, Muslim, non
-Muslim, the way he dealt with neighbors.
I will do my politics the way he
did his politics.
If I'm a ruler, I will rule the
way he ruled.
If I work for somebody, I will work
the way he worked.
Everything.
The Salah is like a framework.
Everything, this framework must apply to everything in
life.
Alhamdulillah.
Then inshallah, we are free.
Inshallah, we ask Allah for forgiveness.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala Jalla
Jalaluhu to help us to benefit from the
ni'mat that he has given us.
The biggest of the ni'mat is the Elm
of Deen, Islam.
And therefore, respect and value the people of
their knowledge.
And respect is not simply to say, As
-salamu alaykum.
No, no, no.
Respect is to sit and learn.
That is respect.
Respect is to sit in the company and
learn.
So spend that time.
Don't come and then say, no, no, speak
only for 10 minutes.
No.
Sit and learn.
This is value.
Alhamdulillah.
And I can tell you, and inshallah Sheikh
will agree with me, what comes out of
your heart is brought out, is taken out
by the audience.
The Ishtiaq of the audience takes it out
from your heart.
Pleasure?
Of course.
No doubt.
Knowledge is there.
It is there.
It will be there with people.
But people don't ask.
And not because we don't want to, but
because there is no shaukh.
The person sitting there is like a dead
body.
He is not interested.
He is waiting to go.
He looks at his phone.
He looks at his watch.
He looks at what happened over 10 minutes,
5 minutes.
Go.
Go.
But when there is Ishtiaq, when there is
shaukh, when there is this talab from the
audience, from the people, then Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala makes what is in the heart
to come out.
To take it and draw it and value
it and learn.
Nobody is there forever.
So when the person is there, make use
of it, Inshallah.
Right?
So ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
enable us to appreciate what He has given
us, to thank.
We thank Allah for this.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
make it a source of khair and barakah
for all of us.
Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to bless
the Sheikh, to bless all of you, to
bless this beautiful masjid and to keep all
of you and this masjid and everyone associated
with it in its special care and its
special protection.
Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to keep
this masjid free from every kind of fitnah.
Ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to join
the hearts of the brothers and sisters together
and to any ikhtilaf, alhamdulillah, we deal with
the ikhtilaf with the adab ul ikhtilaf of
the Nabi a.s. So the ikhtilaf does
not become a means of breaking up.
It becomes a means of joining together, Inshallah.
There will be ikhtilaf.
Believe me, there was ikhtilaf among the Sahaba.
Ridwanullahi alaihi wasalam.
But nobody pronounced takfir on the other person
and nobody fought the other person and nobody
insulted the other person.
They dealt with the ikhtilaf in the way
of the Rasul a.s. Alhamdulillah, this is
possible.
We know what to do.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala keep us
free from this.
Keep our hearts together.
May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give you
children and the children you have, may Allah
make them a source of grace and mercy
and Sadaqah Jariyat for all of you.