Mirza Yawar Baig – Is Jannah on my list
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The speakers discuss the importance of knowing the creator's mode of existence, the death of oneself, and the state of one's life. They provide examples and reminders for the audience to consider, and emphasize the need to stay within 10 hours to avoid overwhelming the brain and focus on the Qamar. The speakers also emphasize the importance of not being on a list and not waste one's time, and offer suggestions for improving one's life.
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In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the
Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
all 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 be upon you all.
Brothers and sisters, I am doing a series
of these reminders on different topics.
I have done one on the topic of
knowing Allah, our approach to the Qur'an
Al-Kareem and the next one on the
Seerah of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Today I want to talk about another thing
which is, we are talking about monitoring our
level of knowledge and understanding.
And the question I want to ask myself
and you is, what do we know about
the Akhirah?
What do we know about the Akhirah?
If you think about it, the only thing
which is certain, the only thing which is
absolutely certain in which there is no doubt,
that is our death and the Akhirah, what
happens thereafter.
Everything else in life is a matter of
doubt, we don't know.
If a child is born, you don't know
how long it will live.
If I am alive, I don't know how
many years, months, weeks, ten seconds, whatever I
have.
I don't know whether I will be healthy
or sick.
I don't know whether I will be wealthy
or poor.
I don't know if I will be powerful
or powerless, educated or uneducated.
I don't know anything about myself with certainty.
I know some things, but I can't be
absolutely certain.
A simple thing, just think about this.
A simple thing like, do I know whether
I will wake up tomorrow morning?
I know this sounds like a dumb question.
It's very real question because we know this,
we can think about it.
But is it something that hits us in
the heart?
Do we really really believe this?
I do not know whether I will wake
up tomorrow morning.
Now if I concentrate on this question and
I really feel it, how will my life
change from this minute onwards?
Because if I say like, maybe I will
not wake up tomorrow morning, which means that
from now, now is what, 8 o'clock,
8pm, what is morning?
Even if you take it at 6am, so
I've got roughly, not even 12 hours, 10
hours.
So what do I want to do in
that 10 hours?
10 hours is a lot of time.
10 hours is a lot of time if
I use it in the right place, in
the right way, right?
10 hours is a lot of time.
But that 10 hours will pass like that.
All I need to do is open my
Instagram or something and 10 hours is gone.
I turn on the TV and it's gone,
right?
So what is my knowledge of the Akhira?
Somebody asked one of the Shia, he said,
how can I get concentration in Salah?
I think this is a question we all
have, how can I get concentration in Salah?
He has such a simple, beautiful answer, try
it.
He said when you stand for Salah before
you say Allahu Akbar, in a few seconds,
right?
When you stand for Salah, you don't just
walk in and say Allahu Akbar, you come
and stand for Salah and then maybe you
are reading, you are saying, Inni wajahatu wajahal
ilayhi, and so on and so forth.
He said before you say Allahu Akbar, in
a few seconds, remind yourself that I will
die.
And when I die, I will be called
before Allah.
And Allah will call me by name.
And I will stand before Allah.
And the first question that Allah will ask
me is what is the state of your
Salah?
That is what I'm doing here, I'm standing
in Salah.
He said start with this.
Before you say Allahu Akbar, bring this thought
consciously into your mind that this is what
is going to happen before Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, I will be called and I
will be asked what was the state of
your Salah?
What am I going to answer?
So the question to ask ourselves is what
do I know about my Akhirah?
What do I know about the questions that
I will be asked in my Qamar?
What do I know about the questions that
I will be asked on the Day of
Judgement where Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam hadith,
he said, the feet of Bani Adam, the
children of Adam a.s. will not move
from before their Rabb until they answer four
questions.
What do I know about these questions?
I've written a book, the book is called
Questions, But What Will We Answer?
Read the book.
Questions, But What Will We Answer?
I may have also done a series of
classes on this, I'm not sure, but...
Questions, But What Will We Answer?
We need to know because every single one
of us will be asked these questions.
There is no doubt about this because this
is what Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam has
informed us.
It's not a matter of doubt.
So what do I know, do about my,
what do I know about the Akhirah?
And final question to ask ourselves, which is
something a very, very dear friend of mine
once, years ago, I was talking to him
about the Akhirah and so on and he
said something amazing.
He said to me, he told me, Uncle
Yawar, you know, this thing is not even
on my list.
I think the list of goals, what I
want to achieve in life, He said this
Akhirah, Jannah, is not even on my list.
So forget about is it in the top
three, top 10, top 10,000.
He said it is not even there on
my list.
And the man is not an atheist, he's
a Mashallah person, a good Muslim who prays
five times a day and everything else.
This is our state.
This is the, I mean, he was honest
enough to say it, but Walla Halam, this
is our state.
For a lot of us, if not most
of us, Akhirah, death, Jannah is not even
on our list.
We are living life.
As life is going, we are living it.
May Allah have mercy on us.
Akhirah is not even on our list.
As life is going on, we are living
it.
And we know that if the thing is
not even on the list, then we can't
be working for it.
I can't say I'm working for it because
I'm not even counting it.
So what to do?
That is the reason why at minimum we
should know the questions.
If somebody says, tell me what are the
questions in the grave, how many are there?
What are they?
What are the questions on the Day of
Judgment?
How many are there?
What are they?
At least we should be able to say
that, list it.
Then we work towards it.
Then we work towards those questions, right?
So I remind myself and you, let us
focus on ourselves.
Forget about everybody else.
This is one of the greatest traps of
shaitan, where shaitan has focused us on everyone
else.
See what this one is doing, see what
that one is doing, see this happening, that
happening.
Social media, the whole social media is geared
towards what people are doing.
And we are consciously and unconsciously encouraged to
share our private data, private details with people,
including apparently harmless things.
You are sitting down to eat a meal,
you take a picture.
You have seen this, right?
You take a photo and you put it
on Instagram.
For what?
For what?
Please understand, not everybody in the world is
your friend.
You think you are very happy with something,
you post a photo, somebody sees it, that
person becomes jealous.
That person starts wishing ill for you.
Of course, nothing happens without the will of
Allah.
Why do you want to invite all this?
For what?
Live your life quietly, be happy.
If something good happens, enjoy it, keep your
mouth shut.
Don't take photographs.
If you are eating a good meal, eat
a good meal, thank Allah.
Allah gave you the meal, eat it, thank
Allah.
What is the photo?
Did it come out of the phone?
You are sending the photo to someone for
what?
To do what?
I am eating this meal.
So what?
What shall I do about this?
You are eating the meal, so eat it.
Right?
I mean, it is strange.
Please, don't do this to yourself.
Focus on yourself because the only one who
will matter to you on the Day of
Judgment is yourself.
The only one who will matter to me
on the Day of Judgment is myself.
Allah says, the day when a person will
run away from his own brother, from his
mother and from his father, and from his
friends and from his children, he will run
away.
So, let us remember that.
Focus on yourself.
Allah says, Allah says, Allah did
not say, No.
Save yourself and your family.
That's it.
Save yourself and your family.
Focus on that.
Focus on yourself.
Focus on your immediate circle.
Your spouses, your children.
If your parents are alive, may Allah give
them good and healthy lives.
Your parents, don't go, your siblings, don't go
beyond that.
Stay with that.
If we can keep ourselves out of the
fire, believe me, we are doing good.
And if all of us do it, everybody
is out of the fire.
But instead of that, we look at other
people, what is he doing, what is she
doing, for what?
Don't waste your time.
I remind myself and you, let's not waste
our time.
Let us focus on that which benefits us.
We ask Allah to help us to focus.
We ask Allah to help us to put
barakah in our work.
We ask Allah to make it easy for
us.
We ask Allah to save us from the
tests.
We ask Allah to help us in ways
that we cannot imagine, and to accept our
Ibadat and our good actions, and to forgive
us, forgive our sins.