Mirza Yawar Baig – Live the Sunnah
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The importance of following others and following the direction of others is crucial for Islam. The importance of reading and teaching the Bible is also emphasized. The importance of living by blocking and transformation of one's life is also emphasized. The speaker uses virtual examples to illustrate their point about sharing love for loved ones and sharing a vision for future events. They emphasize the importance of sharing a vision and hoping for something to happen in the future.
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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the
Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the most
honoured of Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad, the Messenger
of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him
and upon his family and companions, and peace
and blessings be upon him.
And Allah, the Exalted, said, Indeed, Allah and
His angels send blessings upon the Prophet.
O you who have believed, send blessings upon
him and give him peace.
O Allah, send blessings upon our Master Muhammad
and upon the family of Muhammad, as You
have sent blessings upon Ibrahim and upon the
family of Ibrahim.
Indeed, You are the Praiseworthy, the Glorious.
O Allah, bless Muhammad and the family of
Muhammad, as You have blessed Ibrahim and upon
the family of Ibrahim.
Indeed, You are the Praiseworthy, the Glorious.
My dear respected ulema, my brothers, sisters, I
am going to be very brief.
First point I want to make for you
is this, that with respect to Rasulallah, salallahu
alayhi wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam,
there are three critical things that we need
to do.
Every Muslim must satisfy these three critical conditions.
Number one is to believe in him.
The one is to believe in him.
To believe that he, salallahu alayhi wa alihi
wa sallam, was the Nabi of Allah, was
the Rasul of Allah and was the final
Rasul after whom there is nobody.
To believe in him.
Number two is to believe him.
Meaning that whatever he told us, whether we
so-called understand it or not, is haq.
There is no conditional belief in that.
We believe in him and we believe him.
And the third one is to follow him.
Which is two parts, itaat and ittibar.
Itaat is to obey his hukum.
Itaat is dependent on the order.
There has to be a hukum for you
to do itaat.
To obey then there is the necessity for
an order.
So when there is an order, we obey.
With Rasul wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam we
must do this.
Ittibar is a sign of love.
Because ittibar is emulation.
Ittibar is imitation.
There is no hukum that is required for
ittibar.
There is no hukum required for ittibar.
So three conditions.
If any one of these three conditions or
more than one of these three conditions is
missing, then the person is not a Muslim.
If a person does not believe in Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he is not a
Muslim.
If a person says I believe in him
but I don't believe what he says.
Some I believe, some I don't believe.
Then there is a big problem.
And the third one is he says I
believe in him and I believe what he
said, but I will not follow him.
I will not do his ittibar.
Then there is also a big problem.
The reason I am saying this to you
is because a day will come when we
will be lying in our graves.
And the walaika will come.
And they will ask the questions.
And the question they will ask about Hussain
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is, they will say
what do you say about the man who
was sent among you.
And what will we say?
What are we supposed to say?
That I believe in him.
That I followed him.
And the walaika will look at our faces.
At the smooth cheeks.
Where every morning we stand up in front
of the mirror.
A day begins with removing the sunnah of
Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam from our faces.
Please think about it.
A day begins with removing the sunnah of
Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam from our faces.
A day will come when we will be
alone.
And we will say I used to follow
him and the walaika will say no.
It doesn't look like that.
Because this beard is not about facial hair.
I don't have a hairdressing saloon for the
reason I am telling you this.
This is about itaat and ittibar.
Both.
He gave this hukum and this was his
way.
The reason I am beginning with this and
this is an uncomfortable topic and this is
my style, whoever knows me.
I love making you uncomfortable.
The reason I am saying this is because
this has become the tarz of this ummah
of Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
And our tarz is, our tradition, our way
is that there is a difference between what
we say and what we do.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, Ya
ayyuha alladhina amanu liba taquluna ma la taqaloon.
Kabura maqtan indallah.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, O you
who believe, do you say something that you
don't do and this is the big problem
with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
We recite Quran and the Quran is giving
a hukum but our life, in our life
we go against the hukum.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala sent the Kalam
of Allah where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
prohibited interest based dealings.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala prohibited interest based
dealings.
Not only did He prohibit them, He said,
if you do not leave this, fa illam
taf'aloo fa'adhanoo bi harbi minna Allahi
wa Rasulihi.
Then take a declaration of war from Allah
and His Rasul.
We read this ayah.
We read this ayah with perfect tajweed.
We read this ayah in warsh and in
hafs and in this riwayah and that riwayah.
And all the while we have a shop
in which we have a business which is
running on interest based dealings.
We are living in a house on which
we are paying an interest based mortgage.
And like Mufti Sahib says, our excuse is,
this is America.
My brothers and sisters, remember a day will
come when we have to answer.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us a
mi'ar.
He gave us a criterion of judgement.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, think about this.
When we are talking about reading and teaching
the Quran and making hafs of the Quran
and tajweed of the Quran and qirat of
the Quran, what is our focus on all
of these things?
But what did Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,
what did He tell us to focus on
and how did Rasulallah ﷺ teach the Quran?
We have the famous story which all of
you have heard and the number of years
is different narratives in Musnad Imam Ahmad than
in the Muwatta, Imam Malik and other places
of the number of years that Abdullah ibn
Umar Abdullah Anwar took to memorize not the
whole Quran but simply Suratul Baqarah which is
two and a half Juz.
And the period differs.
Somebody said four years, somebody said two years,
somebody said eight years.
So this is a special student of Rasulallah
ﷺ about whom our mother Sayyida Aisha Siddiqa
radhiyallahu anha said that among all the Sahaba,
the one who followed the Sunnah of Rasulallah
ﷺ the most was Abdullah ibn Umar.
So very special student of Rasulallah ﷺ.
Sahibul Kalam, Arabic was his language.
His father is Umar ibn al-Khattab radhiyallahu
anhu.
He takes four years, eight years to memorize
only one Surah.
Two and a half Juz.
I don't know about this mother Sayyida.
May Allah bless all of you.
This is one of the best news that
I have ever heard.
The starting of this mother Sayyida.
Alhamdulillah may Allah bless you and protect you
and enable you to produce true Huffaz of
the Qur'an for whom the Qur'an
is in their hearts not only on the
tongue.
In our system, in my country and most
other countries, a child is supposed to make
Hifz of the entire Qur'an in two
years.
If he takes three years we say he
is a bit slow.
And if he doesn't complete in three years
then we generally send him out.
He says he can't do it.
But here is a sahabi of Rasulallah ﷺ,
not just any sahabi, very special sahabi.
So they asked him.
At the end of that period, whatever the
period was, as I said that is not
so important.
The fact is it was several years.
At the end of that period to celebrate
he gave a wali bhai, he gave a
party.
He slaughtered a camel.
So they asked him, they said why did
you take so long?
And his answer is the manhaj of how
Rasulallah ﷺ taught the Qur'an.
He said we used to go to the
Nabi ﷺ and we would take ten ayat
from him.
Then we would memorize those ten ayat.
We would reflect on them.
If we had any doubts we would clarify
them.
We would ask for explanations, all of that.
And if there were any ahkam, if there
were any orders of Allah ﷻ mentioned in
those ayats, we would follow them.
And when we were satisfied with that, then
we would go and ask for the next
ten.
Now this was not only Abdullah ibn Umar
ﷺ, this was the way of the sahaba.
So where is the focus?
Is the focus on the tune of recitation?
Is the focus on the makharij and so
on and so on?
All of which is important obviously.
There is nothing nice about reciting the Qur
'an badly.
Somebody says he recites the Qur'an with
tajweed.
Now what other way is there?
Is there some other way?
So the point is that these are the
boundary conditions.
You don't have to talk about that.
But what is the focus of the sahaba?
Is to live by the Qur'an.
So when I read a passage of the
Qur'an, when I read a surah, when
I read an ayah, when I read a
few ayat, then this must come into my
life.
This must come into my life.
And because they did that, their lives changed.
Completely transformed.
Because the mind changed.
Rasulullah ﷺ when he came and he said,
what was, tell me one thing that he
changed.
Or the most important thing that he changed
ﷺ.
I would say the most important thing that
he changed, the one thing that he changed,
the fundamental thing that he changed was in
the mind.
He changed the focus of the people.
From the dunya to the dunya wal akhirah.
Not from the dunya to akhirah.
From the dunya to the dunya wal akhirah.
Nabi Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam did not tell
us to leave the dunya.
He told us to use the dunya.
To build the akhirah.
He told us to use the dunya to
build the akhirah.
He didn't say leave the dunya.
Use the dunya to build the akhirah.
And that is why one of the ulama
of the time who pretended to be a
fool was a man called Bahlul.
In Urdu his name was Bahlul Dana.
Dana is very intelligent.
So Bahlul was in the time of Harun
Rashid.
Tabazi Khalifa Harun Rashid.
So one day Harun Rashid, he used to
kind of joke and so on.
He played the role of court jester sort
of thing.
So Harun Rashid one day said to Bahlul,
you are the biggest fool in my kingdom.
He said yes you are.
So Harun Rashid gave him a stick.
He said take the stick and if you
find a fool bigger than you, give it
to him.
So he took it.
And he went away.
Some years passed and Bahlul heard that Harun
Rashid was very ill, he was dying.
So he came to see him.
And he asked him how are you and
so on.
He said no I am not in a
good state.
And he said to him, he said Bahlul,
I am very afraid.
I am very worried.
I am very afraid.
So Bahlul said why?
He said because I am going.
I think I am leaving.
I am going.
So Bahlul said so when are you coming
back?
For how long is the trip?
Harun Rashid said Bahlul you don't understand.
You are a fool.
I am going.
There is no trip.
I am not coming back.
He said oh is it?
You are going?
You are not coming back?
So Bahlul said then where you are going
must be a beautiful place and you must
have your palace there and you must have
your armies there and you must have all
your court there.
Harun Rashid said Bahlul what are you talking
about?
Which court, which army, which palace?
There is nothing.
That's why I am afraid.
So Bahlul said Your Majesty then here is
the stick.
You told me to give it to the
man who is a bigger fool than me.
You deserve it.
Next.
The Sahaba understood this and that is why
I will close with one story.
The story is that one day Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam was in the masjid and a
little boy came, a little orphan came to
him and he was crying.
So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam we know his
rahma in any case but with orphans even
more.
So when this orphan came and he was
crying, Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam asked him what
happened?
He said Ya Rasulullah I have got a
problem and my problem is that my father
left me a small date garden and I
want to put a wall around it but
there is a tree, there is a date
palm tree there which is in the way
of that wall.
And my neighbor who was Abu Lubab, he
was not one of the murafiq or anything,
he was actually a companion of Nabi Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam on one of the ghazwat.
He shared a mount with him.
So he said Abu Lubab he is not
allowing me to build the wall.
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said what did he
say?
He said I asked him this tree is
here in the way, can I go around
the tree?
He said no.
So he said then I asked him can
you sell me the tree or give me
the tree so then I will cut the
tree and I will put the wall.
He said no.
I won't give it to you.
He said can you sell it to me?
He said no I won't sell it.
So he said now I am stuck I
don't know what to do.
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said don't worry he
said call Abu Lubab.
Abu Lubab came.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said to him Ya
Abu Lubab this is a small boy he
is Yathim he's got nobody there.
Help him.
Give him the tree.
He said no Rasulullah this is my tree.
So he said to him Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam said give it to him.
He said no.
So he said then sell it to him
some price.
He said I won't sell it to him
my tree my wish.
So Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said to him
Ya Abu Lubab sell me the tree and
I will give you a price.
And the price I will give you for
this tree is a tree in Jannah.
I will give you a dead tree in
Jannah.
Now think about that.
Dead tree in Jannah does not mean that
Abu Lubab is sitting in the hellfire and
he's saying you know what I got a
tree in the other place.
No.
Dead tree in Jannah is Basharabad Jannah.
May Allah protect us from ourselves.
Even good people something happens.
And Abu Lubab said Ya Rasulullah I don't
want the tree I will not sell it.
And he left.
Now there was another Sahabi who was sitting
there.
And there was Abu Darda.
Ansari.
Not Abu Darda.
Abu Darda.
Abu Darda was witness to this whole story.
He saw this whole thing happening.
So as soon as Abu Lubab left Abu
Darda went to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam and
said Ya Rasulullah what if I get this
tree for you?
Will you give me the same thing?
That is tree in Jannah.
I'm talking about the switch that Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam made in the hearts and minds
of the Sahaba of changing from the Duniya
not from Duniya to Akhira but from Duniya
to Duniya wal Akhira.
Use the Duniya to gain the Akhira.
So he said will you give me the
same thing.
Same deal.
Get that tree and you get a tree
in Jannah.
Abu Darda Ansari went behind Abu Lubab.
He found him.
By the time he had gone into the
market he found him in the market.
He said to him.
He stopped him.
And he said to him I heard this
whole thing.
Sell me the tree.
So Abu Lubab said I did not sell
the tree to Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Why will I sell it to you?
So Abu Darda said hold on a second.
You know me.
He said of course I know you.
He said what do you know about me?
Abu Lubab said I know about you what
everyone knows about you.
That you have a date palm garden which
is the most valuable piece of real estate
in Madinah.
It has 650 bearing date trees.
It has a well of sweet water.
It has a wall all around it.
And your house is in that where you
live.
He said yes.
That's correct.
So it's what?
He said I'm giving you a deal.
And my deal is sell me that one
tree in exchange for my whole garden, all
those trees, house, well, the works.
Sell me that one tree.
I give you this entire thing as the
price of that one tree.
Abu Lubab said you're crazy or what?
What kind of thing is this?
You're joking.
He said no I'm not joking.
I'm serious.
I'm giving you a deal and now imagine
this conversation is happening in the middle of
the market.
The whole bunch of people surrounded.
They are watching to see what's going to
happen here.
So Abu Lubab said you are sure about
this?
He said I'm sure about this.
You won't backtrack and you will say no
no I didn't mean this.
No it's nothing.
He said all these people have witnessed.
They all witnessed.
He said okay done.
The tree is yours.
The deal is done.
So Abu Dada, Radhe Allah know, then goes
to the, goes to now his house which
he just sold.
Now think about this.
This is not just one person.
He goes there, he stands outside.
He doesn't even go inside.
He stands outside and he calls his wife.
He says Ya Abu Dada.
So she comes out of the house.
He says bring the kids, bring the children,
bring our stuff, we are going.
He says where?
He said I just sold this garden.
He said to whom?
She said to whom?
He said to Rasulullah ﷺ.
She said for how much?
He said for one tree in Jannah.
What do you think she said?
What do you think she said?
I won't, I won't, I'm not doing any
drama here.
If I was doing a drama I could
tell you all the different things she could
have said.
She didn't say that.
She said Alhamdulillah, what a bargain.
She said Alhamdulillah, what a bargain.
The man just sold the roof from the
top of her head.
He just converted her from being a satani
in our language, owner of this fantastic piece
of real estate.
She's got a house and everything else, to
a homeless person.
One stroke.
And what she's saying?
She says Alhamdulillah, what a bargain.
They went.
As they were coming out, one of the
small kids, he picks up a date to
eat it.
He isn't a date gardener, what's he going
to eat?
The mother puts her fingers in his mouth,
takes the date out and throws it and
says, this is not how we sold it
to Rasulullah ﷺ.
Don't eat it.
They go to Rasulullah ﷺ.
And Abu Dhaa Dara Dela says, Ya Rasulullah,
I got the tree for you.
I got the tree for you.
This boy can go, can go cut the
tree, do what you want.
That kid has a big smile on his
face now, that Yatim.
Now Rasulullah ﷺ has a smile on his
face.
Abu Dhaa Dara Dela, I know.
At the end of the day, we are
all humans, right?
He says, Ya Rasulullah, I have that tree,
no?
You promised me the tree.
I have the tree.
Now Rasulullah ﷺ says to him, Ya Abu
Dhaa Dara, I promised you one tree.
I promised you one tree.
But your Rab showed me your Jannah.
And your Rab Jalla Jalaluhu has filled the
Jannah with trees.
Allah has filled it with trees.
He said, I promised you one tree.
Your Rab has filled it with trees.
Same Rab, same Nabi, same Kitab.
What has changed?
What has changed?
Why do we believe that we have to
earn Haram to feed our family?
Why do we believe that the Sunnah of
the Nabi ﷺ is not important enough to
keep it?
I said in my khutbah today, Allah SWT
put better words.
The Sahaba used to follow the Sunnah because
it was Sunnah.
Today we leave the Sunnah because it is
Sunnah.
You go to the Mufti and you say,
He said, Farooz, haiya Sunnah hai?
Somebody came to Sayyidabad Khalsa Rahatullah Ali in
Vadheera, in the matter, and when Sayyidabad Khalsa
Rahatullah Ali said to him, Sunnah hai?
He said, haiya Sunnati hai na?
He said, oh, this is only a Sunnah.
Sayyidabad Khalsa Rahatullah Ali said to him, tumhari
baas sahi hai, magar tumhara lahja kufur hai.
He said, what you have said is correct,
but your lahja, your tone is kufur.
You take the Sunnah of the Nabi ﷺ
and you trash it.
Sunnati chahiye.
The Sahaba used to follow because it is
Sunnah.
We leave it because it is Sunnah.
We raise our hand in the three heavens.
The Sahaba raised their hands, and the heavens
opened, and Allah sent the Junod.
He sent the armies.
The Sahaba raised their hands, and Allah swt
said, and the Sahaba made the horses run
and cross the gulf, and the horses ran
on the water, and the Sahaba said the
water didn't come above the roof.
Same Allah.
Same Khudrat of Allah.
Same Nabi ﷺ.
What has changed?
I fear the day.
I fear the day when Allah will ask
this question.
What changed?
When we will stand before Rasulullah ﷺ.
We know the Hadith.
He said to Rasulullah ﷺ, I will be
on my house.
I ask Allah swt to make us among
those who will receive the Jaab-e-Kursar
from his pressed hand.
He said I will be on my house
and I will see my Ummatis, my people
coming towards me, and I will recognize them
by the shining faces and the shining hands
and feet which is the signs of the
Wudu.
So he is talking about people who pray.
He is talking about people who go to
the Masjid.
He said but the Malaika will come in
between and they will drive them away, and
I will say why are you driving them
away, they are my people.
They said oh ya Rasulullah, they are not
your people.
You don't know what they did with your
Deen after you left it.
I ask Allah not to make us among
those who will be driven away from the
house of Rasulullah ﷺ.
I ask Allah swt to bless all of
you.
I ask Allah swt to bless this Masjid,
to bless this effort of Deen that is
happening here, to bless this Madrasa.
I ask Allah swt to bless my very,
very dear friend and my Ustad.
He knows I am not exaggerating or being
polite.
He is my Ustad.
I ask Allah swt to bless all of
you.
I ask Allah swt to accept your Duas.
I ask Allah swt to keep us all,
to put the love of Muhammad ﷺ in
our hearts.
And the love of Muhammad ﷺ in the
heart is not singing Nasheed.
It is to follow his Sunnah.
Follow the Sunnah.
The hope of the Nabi ﷺ has to
be visible in our appearance, in our action,
in our speech, in our dealings, in our
muamilat, in our muashara, in our akhlaq.
This is the hope of the Nabi ﷺ.
I ask Allah to fill our hearts with
the hope of Rasulullah ﷺ.
I ask Allah swt to fill our hearts
with his Khashiyah, with his Kibriyay, with his
Jalal, with his Jawal.
We ask Allah swt when we meet him
to meet us with his Rahba, with his
Maghfirah.
I ask Allah swt to give us the
shade of his throne on the day when
there will be no shade except with shade.
I ask Allah swt to raise us with
Rasulullah ﷺ and his Sahaba.
I ask Allah swt to grant us the
water of the house of Kawsar by the
blessed hand of Muhammad ﷺ.
I ask Allah swt to enable us to
cross the Sirat behind Rasulullah ﷺ and to
enter us into Jannatul Firdawsil A'lam with
Rasulullah ﷺ.
I ask Allah swt finally to give us
the greatest of his Ni'mat, which is his
own Didar, to see him as he wishes
to be seen.
I ask Allah swt to grant us the
shade of his throne on the day when
there will be no shade except with shade.