Mirza Yawar Baig – Importance of the method
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As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem.
Alhamdulillahi Rabbil Alameen.
Wasalatu wassalamu ala sharafil anbiya wal mursaleen.
Muhammadur Rasulullahi sallallahu alaihi wa ala alihi wa
sahbihi wa sallam.
Tasliman kathiran kathiran.
Amma ba'du.
My brothers and sisters, alhamdulillah, we are here
for this Mubarak Majlis to learn about the
Seerah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
The word Seerah, as you know, is usually
meant as biography.
Seerah means the way, the path.
We learn about the path of the Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam because he was sent
by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala as a
guide for all of mankind until the last
day, so that people can have a life
in this world, which is successful, as well
as be successful when they meet Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala on the Day of Judgement.
And that is why we learn about the
Seerah.
The Seerah is extremely important and should be,
at least in my opinion, the Seerah should
be a fundamental course of learning, a fundamental
course of the raising of children of Tarbiyah
wa Tazkiyah from day one, because it's like
this.
The reason why we have the way is
the same reason why we have a recipe,
right?
The same reason why we have a recipe.
Now, say for example, my favourite food is
biryani.
So, if I ask you, tell me how
to cook biryani.
So, you give me a list of ingredients.
You must get the best mutton, you must
get the best basmati rice, you must get
these spices and so on and so on.
And then I take all the ingredients, correct
in that there's nothing wrong with the ingredients,
same correct ingredients.
If I take all of them, put them
into a pot, put some water and boil
it all up, I will get very nice
smelling dog food.
It will not be biryani, because rice cooked
with meat, with spices and smell is dog
food, right?
Dogs will love it.
It's not biryani.
So, what is biryani?
Biryani is to use the same ingredients, but
according to a pattern, according to a plan,
which tells you at what stage in the
cooking each thing should be put.
What do you start with?
What comes next?
And at what stage does the second one
come?
And then what comes after that?
And so on.
So, you have to follow a method.
Good ingredients alone will not give you a
tasty dish.
Good ingredients cooked according to a method gives
you a tasty dish.
And that's exactly the same thing as far
as Islam is concerned.
We have the best ingredients, I mean, nobody
can improve on the Quran and nobody can
improve on the hadiths of Rasulullah ﷺ.
But if that is approached without adab, without
respect, without the method, then it will not
give you the right result.
It creates arrogance, it creates people who have
no concern for others, it creates people who
have no respect for the teacher, no respect
for the kitab.
And we see signs of this everywhere.
We see people, for example, in our masjid
who will be reading the Quran and then
they put it on the floor.
We have people who sit in the masjid
with both their feet, legs extended, both the
feet pointed at the Qibla.
And if the imam, if the ustad is
teaching, both the feet are in the face
of the imam.
So, the point I'm making is that that
is the reason why we study the seerah,
that's the reason why the seerah is so
important, because the seerah of Rasulullah ﷺ is
the method by which Islam should be approached.
If Islam is approached in a method, in
a way which is different from the way
Rasulullah ﷺ approached Islam, then you will not
get the results that Nabi ﷺ got.
The best dalil for this I can give
you is the story of Abdullah ibn Umar,
the son of Umar ibn al-Khattab.
He memorised Surah al-Baqarah, which is two
and a half juz' in twelve years.
Now, those of you who are familiar with
our Badrasa system and Hif system, you know
that in our Hif system, a child memorises
the entire Quran, thirty juz' in two years.
And if the child takes longer than that,
maybe three years, then the ustadh will say,
this child is slow, his memory is not
that good.
And if he does not even complete in
three years, then at the end of three
years, generally they will tell him, salamu alaikum,
good, whatever you know is fine, forget it.
So here, on the other hand, was Abdullah
ibn Umar, radiyallahu anhuwar, who was Arab, who
was the son of Umar ibn al-Khattab,
radiyallahu anhuwar, who was a close and personal
student of Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam.
One of his favourite students, Sayyidah Aisha Siddiqui,
radiyallahu anhuwar, has a famous statement, she said,
I don't know anyone who follows the sunnah
of Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam, more than
Abdullah ibn Umar.
Abdullah ibn Umar, radiyallahu anhuwar, used to follow
the sunnah of Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
to such an extent that sometimes people said,
there's one story where he was mounted on
his animal, on his camel, and he's going
along a street, at one point he bends
down, like this, and then he straightens up,
and the camel is walking.
So people asked him, why did he bend
down?
He said, there used to be a tree
by the side of the street, and that
tree had a branch which extended across the
street, and when Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
would pass this way, he would bend down
to get under the branch.
So people said, now there is no tree,
now there is no branch.
But this was Abdullah ibn Umar, radiyallahu anhuwar.
He said, it doesn't matter, if there's no
tree, no branch, Nabi, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
used to bend there, I will bend there.
Another time, he goes to a place, he
makes his camel kneel, he dismounts, and he
prays to the Ghat of Salah.
So they said to him, why do you
do this?
What is the sanctity of this place?
He said, because, same thing.
I will meet Nabi, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
one day, and Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
dismounted from his camel, and he prayed to
the Ghat of Salah, so I prayed to
him.
Now, the reason I'm telling you this is
because this shows the intense love for Rasulullah,
salallahu alaihi wa sallam, that these Sahaba had.
It was their intense love for him, their
regard for him, their respect for him, and
the way they followed him in excellence.
Now, why is it important for us to
study this and follow Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa
sallam, in excellence in this way?
Because Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, said, As
-sabiqun al-awwaluna min al-muhajireena wal-ansari
wal-ladheena attaba'uhum bi ihsan, radiyallahu anhum
wa radwan.
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, said, the sabiqun
al-awwalun, those who won the race, those
who went ahead, from among the first of
the muhajireen and the ansar, from the people
from Makkah who came to Madinah, and the
people in Madinah who helped them, muhajireen wal
-ansar, wal-ladheena attaba'uhum bi ihsan.
Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, left the door
open, and Allah said, and those who followed
them in excellence, radiyallahu anhum wa radwan.
Allah is pleased with them and they are
pleased with Allah.
So, Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, said about
the Sahaba of Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wa sallam,
and that also, among the best of the
Sahaba, the sabiqun al-awwalun, the ones who
came, the first who came to Islam.
And Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, left the
door open for all those who want to
follow them.
Now, how will you follow if you don't
know what they did?
And that's the reason why it is so
important to study the Seerah of Rasulullah, salallahu
alaihi wa sallam.
And that is what we are doing here.
What we are going to do today, inshallah,
is a course that I created, and for
which I wrote a book, and the book
is called Seerah is the Answer.
And inshallah, to teach the book, I created
the course.
And this course we have taught in many
countries in the world, and we are doing
it here.
And inshallah, we ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta
'ala, to make it a source of khair
and barakah and benefit for us.
So the idea of learning is to practice.
And so, therefore, my suggestion is, whatever you
take away from here, focus on how will
you apply it.
We ask Allah, subhanahu wa ta'ala, to
help us to do that which is pleasing
to Him and to save us from that
which does not please Him.
Wa sallallahu ala nabiyyil kareem, wa ala alihi
wa sahbih.
Bi hurmati l-Habib, bi hurmati l-Fatiha.