Mirza Yawar Baig – Life advice
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Muhammad
my brothers and sisters, I want to share
with you today a very simple
but very powerful advice.
Actually, one of my aunts,
my uncle passed away. She
was alone. Just 2 children.
All grown children.
So she said to them,
All of you
are more educated than I am.
All of you have more world experience than
I have.
And
so I don't interfere with your lives.
But I want to give you
a piece of advice.
To follow that advice and InshaAllah, you will
never go wrong.
And she said
focus
on 3 things.
3 things.
Sugar,
Tawba,
and Forgiveness.
She said, Make shukr of Allah SWT. Thank
Allah SWT
in every
situation that you are in.
Whatever it might be.
Whether it is good or
it
is not good.
There is a teaching story
of this
Prime Minister of this King
who had this habit of saying Alhamdulillahi
rabbilahi.
For everything,
whatever happened,
he would say Alhamdulillahi.
So if something good happened, good harvest, he
would say Alhamdulillahi.
Next year, there is a drought and crop
loss, he will say, Alhamdulillah.
Sickness, health, wealth, poverty, everything. Alhamdulillah.
So people say, It's very strange. For everything,
even when there is pain, even when there
is death, I have no life.
So one day, the king,
he
was doing,
you know,
with
his exercising every morning with a sword and
so on. And
his finger got chopped.
So
in the swordplay, one finger got
chopped.
As soon as the prime minister heard, he
said,
So the king got angry. So they went
and told him. He said, See, your Prime
Minister is saying Alhamdulillahi. You chopped your finger.
So the king got very angry. He said,
Put him in jail.
So the prime minister put him in jail.
He said, Alhamdulillahi.
They say, you are a mad man. You
put you in jail. You say, Alhamdulillah.
So after that some days passed,
Once again, they were gone, so they wrapped
it up and so on.
Then the king decided to go hunting.
They used to go hunting in those days.
He is now on his mouth, on his
horse.
He is charging to find a deer. He
is chasing this deer.
In the process, he loses the
his bodyguard. They get separated
and he reaches a deep end of the
forest
and he is caught by
a tribe
of cannibals.
So, these people,
they
sacrifice
human beings to their Gods and then they
cook the rice and eat them.
So they caught this man.
Now he is all dressed up and tied
up and everything else. They are taking him
to
sacrifice him.
And as they
lay him down, their priest said, 1st check
him.
He has to be whole, complete.
There should not be any
there should not be any fault with him.
No.
So when they check him, one figure is
missing.
So they say, we can't sacrifice this man.
He's got you know, one finger is missing.
So they let him go.
So he thanks Allah,
he comes home.
And as soon as he comes home, he
releases
the prime minister from his prison.
And he says to the prime minister, Tell
me something.
My life is saved. I came back home.
I said, Alhamdulillah.
Why did you say alhamdulillah when you were
put in jail?
The prime minister said, At that time, I
said alhamdulillah
because this is my habit. I thank Allah
for everything.
He said, now I understand why I said
Alhamdulillah. He said, why? He said, because I
am your closest companion.
Right? On that day, I would have been
with you.
They would have left you because you had
no figure. They would have sacrificed me.
So Alhamdulillah, I was in jail safely.
I was not with you. If I was
with you, I would have died.
So Alhamdulillah.
So thank Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Every situation.
Alhamdulillah.
The reason I'm saying is today
Nowadays, you know, America is hot. It is
35 degrees Celsius. Today it was 33 or
34 degrees Celsius.
In India and Pakistan it is 49 degrees
Celsius.
People are here 35 degrees. The heatwave is
that. Oh my
God. Always thank Allah.
And the second piece of advice was
tawbah.
Make Istighfar to Allah
Subhanahu
Wa
Ta'ala
This is the basharat of
Allah will not give adaab to them
as long as you are with them
And Allah will not punish them
as long as they are making Istefar.
So, Istefar,
repentance to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
Ta'va
keeps away the punishment of Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Extracts you from difficulties.
Istefar opens the doors of difficulties.
The famous story of the baker and Imam
Ahmed bin Ambar Ravutul Lali. I have mentioned
this many times, but Ambar Alali is a
good story.
Imam Ahmed was travelling alone by himself. He
was very old at that time. He must
have been in his eighties. He was traveling
alone. He had he had his, you know,
whatever he's carrying is good with him.
He reached this place, small little
town or village
alone. Nobody is there. Late in the night,
he found a Masjid.
He went and he put his stuff there.
He prayed
Salah
and the Masjid or the Masjid was there,
so he asked the man, he said, can
you permit me to sleep here because I
have nowhere to go. And he did not
tell him who he is and so on.
This is Ahmed bin Hambal. He is the
the khativa and imam of mercy, the naba
was sharif.
If he had told his name, the man
immediately would have. But he didn't say his
name. These are the people. These are the
true scholars of his staff. They don't go
and, you know, make tantamount all over
the
place. So he asked, can I sleep here?
The man said, no.
Very strange because, you know, alhamdulillah,
Muslims are hospitable people.
He said, No, you can't sleep.
He said, no. You got it. I'm an
old man. I'm alone. I'm nothing. I can't
just go in the corner. I'll sleep. So
he said, no.
Go.
So
then he asked him, you know, in our
country we have the masjid which is the
covered area which is the masala, then there
is usually a small
courtyard.
He said, can I sleep there outside in
the courtyard just inside the so that I'm
not on the street? He said, no.
And to the extent, the man picked up
Imam Ahmed's
things and he dumped them on the street
outside the bus
and he pushed
outside.
Now opposite the Masjid, there was a bakery.
And the baker, you know, bakers work in
the right. So the baker was baking this
bread and he heard this sound and people
shouting.
He looked at it and said, what is
happening? He went he went there. He picked
up the the things. He said, you come
with me. Then he brought Imam Ahmed to
his bakery. He laid down his
his wedding and he said, no problem. You
stay here.
You stay here in my bakery.
Alhamdulillah, he thanked him and so on and
so forth. And he
lay down there making zikr and so on.
He spent the whole night in the bakery
of this man and he noticed that this
baker
continuously
would make Istafa.
That is a true story told by Mohammed
himself.
So this man
continuously
makes istighfar while he's working. So he's making
his bread
throughout the night.
In the morning, Mohammed called him. He said,
look,
he told him,
he said,
I saw you in the right the whole
night, you make a sufa.
Right now, this is a great blessing from
Allah.
So I am sure Allah
has blessed you and given you some karam.
Allah has given you some
greatness, some new thing,
some blessing.
Tell me what is it?
The man said, Alhamdulillah,
every dua I ask
Allah
has granted me except 1.
He said all my duas.
Every duas I ask Allah
gives me except one duas.
This is very intriguing, interesting kind of twist
to the tail.
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said to him,
what God did Allah not give you?
The man said, Sheikh,
I'm a poor man. I'm here.
It's my greatest
desire to meet Imam Mohammed bin Hambal.
But Imam Mohammed is in Madinah. I can't
leave my bakery. I can't go to Madinah.
And I am asking, Allah, you Allah, I
want to meet my Mohammed bin humble. Please
make some arrangement for me to go and
meet him.
That's the only dua Allah has not accepted.
Muhammad got tears in his eyes. The man
said, why are you crying?
He said, because I am Ahmad Beharamal.
He said, now I understand why Allah did
not even allow me to stay in his
house.
He said, Allah
sent me out from his house because of
your God.
Allah sent me to you.
Turn towards Allah
And the final piece of advice is forgiveness.
Because
everybody
without exception
needs forgiveness.
We need Allah's forgiveness
and we need the forgiveness of people.
One of the salamu alayhi, he said, it
is better to meet Allah
with 10 sins
rather than meeting him with one thing against
another person.
Because Abhishek said Allah will not forgive you
until the person forgives you. Whoever you transgress
against,
You spoke something against somebody. You attack their
honor. You attack their hijrah. You attack themselves
physically,
whatever it was, right?
You did hiba or slander or whatnot.
Seek forgiveness and forgive people.
Whoever does something, they forgive them and sincerely
forgive them. I always say don't forget the
lesser. In every every interaction, there is a
lesser. When we say forgive, we don't say,
you know, forget
forget the lesson. If you forget the lesson,
you are stupid because you make the same
mistake. Don't do that. Remember the lesson. But
in the heart,
keep the heart clean.
Forgive you.
So 3 pieces of advice.
What are they? 1st one,
sugar.
Always thank God. Number 2,
See forgiveness of Allah. And number 3,
forgive people.
We ask Allah
to help us to live
to accept our duas and to grant us
from his grace and majesty.