Mirza Yawar Baig – Islam is a practice
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The speaker discusses the practice of the Deen of Islam, emphasizing the importance of knowing what to do and practicing it. They also share stories about a man who had a bad brain and was given a bullet to leave the room, and a person who had a bad brain and was given a bullet to leave the room. The transcript describes a conversation between an unknown individual and their son's statement that Islam is a creation, and the son's son called the "so called" who believed in the superiority of the human mind and logic. The son's son said that if people understood the Quran, it would lead to a change in the way the man thinks about the world. The transcript describes a scene where a king led troops to a village to obtain the Quran, and the son's son said that if people understood the Quran, it would lead to a change in the way the man thinks about the world. The situation escalates to the point where the king's troops were punished andAI: Transcript ©
Brothers and sisters.
As I mentioned to you in the last
Kathirah,
the Deen of Islam is a practice.
It is not a theory, it is not
a philosophy. It is not a theology.
It is a practice.
It is a practice like judo or karate
or
bodybuilding or whatever.
You can know. I can know all
about the right diet. I can know all
about different kinds of muscle groups. I can
know all about what exercises to do and
so on and so on.
But I will still look like a dried
prawn or a pregnant cow unless I actually
go into the gym and do something.
Right?
Unless I practice that. Just knowing
won't help.
Knowing is important. Now you might say that
means knowledge is not important.
You should know what to do. Once you
go to the gym, you don't want to
be completely
black.
But unless you put in those hours, until
you go and sweat some blood,
It won't happen.
I remember in my gym in India, there
was a huge big poster.
I don't know who the man was but
some massive guy
And the tagline said, shut up and
train. And I said, well, that is the
part of shut up and train. Stop going.
Just do your work. And this is Islam
is to shut up and train. Islam is
to the practice of it.
To give you a couple of examples, Imam
al Ghazari Ramtul Ali,
1 of the great he is called Hujatul
Islam.
The author of Adiha
Ulluddin,
1 of the greatest scholars
of this Ummah.
He was a professor in Zamia which was
the university in Baghdad
at a very early age. He must have
been in his 30 or something to be
a professor. He was very very famous.
He was famous everywhere and everything else.
And suddenly
he 1 day disappeared.
Obviously he made arrangements for his family and
so on, but the point being that people
said, Where is the father? And
they didn't see him for the next 10
years. 10 years.
He
was travelling the world. He was meeting different
olamas,
scholars and so on. And
among completely incognito.
Nobody knew who he was. 1 famous story
from that time was that
in
the,
Umawiya
Mosque
in Baghdad,
he was
he became a cleaner.
So he used to clean the mosque and
sweep the floor and whatnot. Nobody knew who
he was.
So 1 day,
there was a sister practice there that the
scholars,
especially the Muftis and so on, they would
have
a. They would sit together,
and they would discuss different
issues and different questions of Islam.
And,
people who had questions, they would come at
the time and they would ask them and
they would get fatwas.
So 1 man came, and he asked them
a question. Now this group is here. They
are sitting, and they are having a discussion.
And there is a cleaner there. He is
sweeping the floor or whatever he's doing, big
mosque.
So this man came, and he asked a
question. And they
looked at each other's faces. They debated that
question. They spent a long time on that.
And they said to the man, sorry, we
have no answer.
We do not have an answer to your
question.
So I said, okay. I mean, you know,
this is this is the
the the creme de la creme of the
of the, scholars of Islam. They have no
answer. They have no answer.
As he's going away, that cleaner called him.
The man the cleaner said to him, what
did they tell you?
The man said whatever they told me, I
didn't tell you what will you know. You
are a cleaner.
Right? So he said, no. No. Just tell
me what was your question and what was
the answer.
He said this was my question, and they
had no answer.
So the cleaner says to him, this is
the answer.
So the man then went back to those
scholars,
and he said, you did not know the
answer, but this is the answer.
And he said, well, I asked you.
Who told you? So he turned around that
cleaner. There's no cleaner.
He's gone.
Now they asked him
when he came back after 10 years and
he went back into
the New South Wales.
They asked him, why did you leave? And,
you know, why did you go away? And
so on. He said,
When I was in the university, he said,
I love
studying. So obviously he didn't get there by
doing that. He said, I love studying.
I'm very good at it. Allah has given
me a good brain.
And,
I loved debating and discussing,
you know, academic issues and and, religious issues
and so on and so on. And it
was fantastic. And I was getting a lot
of praise and a lot of, you know,
boost.
He said, but if I had died during
that period, I would have gone to Jahanam.
Who is saying this? Mohammad Hazar I Haqqar.
He says, If I had died during that
period, I would have gone to Jahanam.
He said, Alhamdulillah Allah
did not allow me to die. He gave
me the tawfi to leave that and to
do whatever else I had to do. So
he said, Alhamdulillah,
I feel that I am now in a
much better situation.
We go
back some more to the time of Imam
Ahmed bin Humber
the great
jurist,
the founder of the humble I Badab.
Imam Ahmad used to make du'a for a
particular man
who was a very
well known
and famous, or I should say, notorious bandit.
So he was a highway robber and a
bandit.
And Imam Ahmed used to make, you
know, forgive him.
Be good to him. Have mercy on him
and so on. So our son said to
him, why do you make dua for this
scoundrel? This man we know is
a absolute
3rd rate fellow. He's a scoundrel. He's a
high. You're making the offer of so and
so many times. Oh, for what?
Imam Ahmed says that
there was a at that time, Ibrahim's time,
Harun Raji's son was the,
was the was the Khalifa. He was the
Abbasi Khalifa.
And he had come under the influence of
a group of people
called the. The
were the so called,
people who believed in
the superiority of the human mind and logic
and so on in
coming to any conclusion, and therefore, the superiority
of the human intellect even over
the Kalam of Allah.
Many of the Muawthulillah
completely denied hadithulillah.
They said not required.
Here is the book.
Here is the book of Allah. If you
understand something, you will understand. If you understand
that thing, we will do it. If you
don't understand it, forget
it. That was it. Now they became extremely
powerful.
And
to the extent that they became a huge
influence on the king himself, on the ruler
himself.
So they came up with
a very,
you know, very powerful if it had succeeded,
Alhamdulillah, did not succeed.
A very powerful idea. And the idea was
that
Allah
created the human being, and he called the
human being the best of his creation.
Right?
Is the best of the of the of
the.
So
they has this plot, and they said that
if we can get people to understand or
rather
agree,
that the Quran
is a creation,
then the human being is a superior creation.
So, therefore, the Quran can be changed if
you want.
And this is the parts of the Quran
which, you know,
modern times they don't apply. Imagine they're saying
that they're saying that almost 1000 years ago.
What about today? Right? So he said he,
the things that need to be changed, so
we can change them.
Obviously, because of
their
official
support, because of the royal sanction and so
on and so forth,
nobody raised the voice.
All the
and all the scholars and so forth, everyone
said, yes. This is you know, let it
go. Let it happen.
But somebody said to the king and somebody
said to the to the wazir,
they said, there is 1 man in this
whole kingdom.
Unless he says it, this will stick
because the whole Muslim world looks up to
that 1 man.
You get that 1 man to agree,
this will stick. If there are 1 man
who does not agree, this whole thing will
go away.
So
who is the right? He said, Ahmed bin
Humber.
Now
Ahmed bin Humber.
Was the
imam and the and the share in Masjid
and Abu Shaikh
in Madina.
So the king sent
for him, summoned him.
So soldiers came to take him.
They asked him first to give a to
say that the Quran is. He said, no.
It's Quran. No. His Quran is. It is
the speech of Allah. Therefore, it is a
attribute of Allah
It is not a created thing.
So that is our aqidah. This is the
aqidah of the hallucin of JAMA'at. This is
the Quran. It
is not a created thing. It is. So
it is the,
sifat of Allah,
nahat of Allah, and therefore it is not
a clear thing.
So Muhammad said this.
So there's
someone that gets bringing here.
Mohammed says,
now we're talking about why was he making
the offer of this bandit. Right?
So he said that he was as he
was going, going, meaning with the he was
practically under arrest. So he was with his
troops.
He said, as we were going through the
desert, we were passing a small village. And
a man came out. And he got hold
of the bridle of my camel and he
stopped me
and he said, Yeah, Imam, ittaq Allah.
He said, Oh, Imam, fear Allah.
So Imam Ahmed started he said, I started
crying because I said, you know, this man
is telling me to fear Allah.
He said, you don't know how much I
fear Allah. He said, he started crying. He
said, you know, I fear Allah.
But I'm afraid of pain of being tortured
because I know why they are taking me
there. They will probably torture me. They will
whip me, lash me,
and I'm afraid of the pain of that.
Said that this man
turned around and lifted up his shirt.
And he said, I have never seen a
back like that in my life.
He said his back like his back was
like a mesh
of lacerations
of the number of times this man got
whipped.
He said his whole back was like a
mesh,
old healed wounds and, you know, the
lacerations and the marks of the whip.
Then the man turned around and said, Yeah,
ma'am.
With all of these whipping,
they could not make me leave. With
all this,
they could not make me meaning meaning they
they could not stop me from doing my
work. So he said with all of this
whipping, they could not make believe.
You are telling me that you will live
Allah.
You are telling me that you will live
Allah.
Then he said, the man laughed and he
said, Yeah, Ma'am, only the first round hurts.
After that, you will not feel the pain.
Mahabhar said, that is why I may go
for it.
He was taken there to Baghdad.
The Khalifa
ordered him to give the fatwa to say
that the Quran is bakluk.
Imam Ahmad
refused. They imprisoned him. They tortured him.
They lashed him
until a piece of flesh
fell out of his back
because of the lashing. And they said later
that when they used to dress the wound,
the man's whole hand would go inside that
that that
whole in his back.
And it stopped only because the people, the
the the the the,
the, the,
ministers, they can they still told the king,
if he dies here on your rack,
you will lose your stone because the whole
Beowam Unnasty everybody will revolt with our revolution.
Don't do that. Let the man go.
So they took him down from there. They
put him in prison.
And when he was in prison, they should
dress.
Somebody would come and dress his wound and
so on.
And the chief
Mufti
of the country,
who was related to him,
He was a relative of Mohammed and he
had given this fatwa to say that he
has the Quran in the book. He came
and he told Mohammed just do it
because they will kill you otherwise. Just do
it. Go back to Madinah, then you can
withdraw your fatwa.
Mohammed said,
if I do that,
he said, look out of this window. The
window of the outside
people camped on the ground. Thousands upon thousands
of people, they just camped all around the
prison.
Days on
end. He said, If I give that fatwa,
he said, Every 1 of these
will be a witness against
me.
The reason I am saying this to you,
other than siddhis,
is that
this Deen did not come to us easily.
It wasn't downloaded from somewhere or you didn't
buy it from Walmart.
This Deen came to us
because of the struggles and the sacrifice and
the pain and the suffering and the duas
and the tears
of people
who were each 1 of them was so
superior
to somebody like me,
that I say that I
am not even at the level of the
shoes that they wore.
And they gave their lives.
So that today I may sit in this
place
and tell you the story.
So if I compromise this deed,
if I give it to some pressure by
somebody somewhere,
I don't mean me alone. I mean all
of you.
If you give it to pressure
to change this Deen because somebody says this
is not logical, this is not modern, this
will not fly here. Today the political environment
is different.
Whatever it is, if you compromise the Deen,
on the day of judgment
the witnesses against you and me
will be Ahmad Bihanban.
And all of them the Sahaba of the
Prophet Muhammad and Abdullah ibn Abbas and Abdullah
ibn Umar and all of them the Sahaba
of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and
all the tabi tabi tabi tabi in the
eye of His love, these will be the
witnesses against us.
What face will we then show Rasoolullah
when he will ask us?
All of these people,
they refused to bed.
They stood for me. They stood for my
Deen.
They stood for the Kitab of Allah. They
stood for the teachings that I brought into
this world
and you collapsed
because you loved your job or because you
loved something or you loved some money or
somebody was putting some pressure on you and
you wanted to be popular and you did
not want to be unpopular. Some
garbage you gave in
when all of these people did not give
in. What is the reply?
What is the reply?
Prussia will always be there. Let me tell
you this.
There is no
final achieved state in this duniya.
That is in the.
This duniya Allah created this for us to
struggle.
So don't let this struggle
deceive you. Don't let this struggle intimidate you.
Don't be afraid of the struggle. He said,
Because there is struggle, there is reward.
Because there is struggle there is reward. He
went for Hajj. May Allah
accept Hajj and accept Hajj of all the
Hujjaj who went and went last year.
They struggled.
They went there in the heat and the
thirst and the inconvenience
and
no place to sleep properly and
no, you know, great meals to have and
this and that and all of that.
So they got the reward
of having all their sins wiped out clean
and they are like they were born today.
We did not do the struggle Hamdida. Not
that we did something haram but we were
here. We did not go for Hajj. We
sat in a nice air conditioned masjid. We
went from here to a nice air conditioned
home. We drove around nice air conditioned cars
and we went and had this food here,
and that food there, and so on and
so on. We
did not get this reward.
We did not get this reward.
There is a reward
associated with the struggle.
Focus on the reward.
Don't focus on the pain.
And like the man said, after the first
1 nothing hurts.
Don't focus on the pain. The pain is
good because the pain brings misery what? No
pain, no gain.
Same principle. Whether it's
calisthenics and lifting weights or whether it is
life. No pain. No gain. You don't make
the struggle, you don't get the gain.
We ask Allah SWANATHAN
to make it easy for us and to
help us and to provide
us some sources we cannot imagine. We ask
Allah SWANATHAN
to to, be pleased with us and enable
us to do that which makes him pleased
and never to be displeased with us.
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