Mirza Yawar Baig – Know the blessings of Allah

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The rainbow's history and characteristics are discussed, including the collision of the Earth with the iron and water, which is created by the rainbow's collision with the Earth. The rainbow is seen as beneficial for humans and has three states, creating a source of life and beneficial for humans. The speakers stress the importance of shaping people to become Masjids into places of worship and reflect on the greatness of Allah. They also discuss the use of Sir Alaihi wa sallam as a place for entertainment and hesitation to use the word "sallacts" to express desire to be in the presence of Allah's.
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I was saying to you that there are
two substances, two things that Allāh subḥāna wa
ta'ālá sent on the earth.
Of course with that we know about whatever
else Allāh sent.
And one of them is iron.
Allāh mentioned this in the story of Ḥadīth.
that we sent down iron.
And the second thing Allah sent was water.
This water which we use which is in
any form, you drink it, you wash with
it, you do whatever you want with it,
you sail your boats on it, hopefully you
don't waste it.
This water is at least four billion years
old.
Because that is when two things happened.
One was, there was a collision with a
planet called Theia, which was about the size
of the earth.
And subhanAllah, amazing how Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala caused this to happen before he created
us, otherwise nothing would have existed when that
collision happened, obviously.
So Theia collided with the earth and it
accreted into the mantle of the earth.
And Theia was iron.
So that's when iron came to the earth.
The second thing which happened was Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala sent water.
And this came as a, as the geologist
says, again these are educated guesses based on
evidence, but obviously nobody was there to see
it, in Allah.
So water came as massive thunderstorms or imagine
a whole portion coming and hitting.
So billions and billions and billions of gallons
of water came and it hit three planets
in our solar system.
It hit Mars, it hit Mercury, and it
hit the earth.
On Mercury it instantly evaporated because of the
proximity to the sun, it's too hot.
On Mars it froze.
So now when they go to Mars and
they do the mass probes and so on,
they're saying we're finding they are buried or
underground oceans in Mars.
Well, guess what?
That's what it is.
And the third place it came to was
the earth.
And thanks to the tilt of the axis
of the earth, earth had the kind of
climate required for this water, neither to evaporate
nor to freeze, but to be in its
liquid form.
Now water is also, very interestingly, as you
can see here, water is also the only
substance that can exist and does exist in
simultaneously in three states.
In a liquid state, in a solid state
as ice, and in a gaseous state as
steam and as water vapor.
No other substance can do this.
Now that's important also because, for example, a
lake like this has fish.
So if it gets cold, and if this
water froze all the way to the bottom,
froze solid, one big chunk of ice, then
all the fish would be dead.
All life forms in the lake would be
dead.
But that doesn't happen.
What happens is, the top three to four
feet will freeze.
Of course, that depends on the temperature.
But below that, the water remains liquid.
And the reason it remains liquid, and the
reason ice remains on top and doesn't go
to the bottom is because of what is
called a phenomenon called the anomalous expansion of
water when it freezes, or rather, you can
say it's anomalous expansion of ice, where when
water freezes, it expands in volume.
That's why if you fill a glass, and
don't try it, but you fill a glass
and cap it and put it in the
freezer, it will freeze and the glass will
break because the ice, the volume of ice
is more than the volume of water, it
expands.
The reason I'm saying this is because this
is unlike every other substance.
Every other substance, when it melts, it expands,
when it freezes, it contracts.
Everything freezes, contracts on freezing, volume decreases, except
water.
Water expands on freezing.
Now, the benefit of that is that because
it expands, it becomes lighter.
So it floats on top.
Now, when water floats on top, what it
does is, it becomes like a jacket.
It's an insulator for the water below the
ice, so the water below the ice does
not get to zero degrees Celsius.
It remains roughly around four degrees Celsius.
So it remains liquid, and therefore, life form,
which again, materially exists, move out, feed, and
so on.
See the nizam of how Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala created this world, and Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala created everything in it, and
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala then made all
of his subservient to his laws, and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala made these laws for
our benefit.
I said I want to give my point,
my separate argument, that the laws are for
our benefit, because so much, nothing can benefit
him, nothing can harm him, but he, he
is the madruh, he is illallah, nothing can
harm or benefit him except Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala created these
laws for the benefit of his creatures.
In this case, the creatures, the ocean, the
water.
So this is something that we need to
reflect on.
One of the things that I, that's why
I come out in these places, and may
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless, or reward
my great companion on these walks, because it
gives us a time to reflect.
That's what we talk about.
We don't talk about any, in any case,
we don't talk about, but you know, we
talk about the greatness of Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala, we talk about reflection, we talk
about khudrat of Allah, we talk about the
firamina of making masjids into places of worship
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and places
of worship, and there's always this pressure to
say masjids must have something entertaining to do.
Think about that.
Ask yourself, what is a YMCA?
Huh?
All YMCA's belong to the church.
How many, have you ever heard of a
service, a religious service happening in a YMCA?
So if you want to make your masjids
into YMCA's, do that.
But one masjid to be, masjid, place for
sakhay, place where people come for the love
of Allah.
They don't come to do anything else.
They come to listen, listen to and talk
about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
That is the place of masjid.
See the beautiful hadith, where Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam, he came to a group of
sahaba who were sitting together, and obviously, whatever
they were doing was being done silently, or
in a low tone.
It wasn't loud, so he didn't see, he
didn't hear what they were saying or doing.
And he came to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam and said, I will make dhikr of
Allah.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, I will
make dhikr of Allah.
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, when Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala inspired me, told me
to go and sit with you.
Meaning to give the barakah of my presence
in your gathering.
Because this is a gathering of dhikr of
Allah.
So they were not yelling and making zikr
and dancing, they were doing zikr in a
divided manner, in soft voice or in a
silent voice.
Then the doctor ordered the people to go
out of their houses and eat the paraka
of his blessed company Tosfi.
So what was the activity?
And this is a non-saladam activity, obviously,
because non-saladam activity was not some game,
but some zikr.
Their entertainment, I hesitate to use the word,
it's called this, because of the other issues,
but entertainment was difficult one.
Something in peace, coolest guys, the coolest guys,
we have, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
when you have difficulty, He said, take the
help of Sabr and Salah.
Now, you take help when?
When you need help, when you need help,
when there is trouble, when there are problems.
So Allah is saying, when you have problems,
take the help of Salah.
So Salah is what?
Salah is something which will give me comfort.
Salah is something which will help me.
Salah is something which I turn to for,
you know, to get out of my stress,
my depression, my whatever.
But we have made Salah into a cause
of stress.
Right?
May Allah have mercy on us.
I'm saying, many of those who pray, for
them, Salah is a musibat.
Finish it.
How do you finish Salah?
Salah is something you go to with love,
you go to with great anticipation.
You go to Salah with, you know, really
wanting to be there, to be in the
presence of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, to
be in the presence of the one that
you look forward to meeting, the presence of
the one that you love over and above
and more than anyone, anything else in the
world.
This is the thing for us to think
about and to cultivate in our lives.
How will we love Allah more than anyone
or anything else?
By being in the company of Allah.
How do you be in the company of
Allah?
By dhikr of Allah.
By reflecting about Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
by reflecting about his Qainat, by reflecting about
his creation, by reflecting about all the ni'mats,
all the blessings that Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala has bestowed on us.
Right?
That is the way.
Believe me, this is not rocket science.
I didn't discover this.
This is what, from day one, this is
what the Qur'an teaches us.
This is what Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam
taught us.
This is what we learn from the Salaf
as-Salehi, from all the teachers.
And this is the truth.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
help us to understand the truth, to live
by the truth and to die on the
truth.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
take us in a state when we are
on the truth.
Inshallah.