Mirza Yawar Baig – Old fashioned way
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My brothers and sisters,
Alhamdulillah
Allah has said something about
our Deen, Islam.
And Allah Subhana Wa Ta'la said,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said in the ayah
which was revealed on 9th of Dhul Hijjah,
when Rasool
was in
Al Arafah,
Allah said, Today I have completed
my favour upon you and completed my blessing
upon you and I have chosen Islam as
your deen.
We understand
from this
that Islam
is complete,
was complete
in the life of Rasool
Allah himself.
He does not need any addition, subtraction,
alteration,
modification,
modernization.
He does not need anything.
Complete. Total.
There's nothing that Islam needs from us
except
and even that Islam does not need
that. It is our need that we should
follow it,
number 1.
Number
2,
as far as the way in which to
follow Islam is concerned, you might say, well,
okay. I accept Islam is complete. I want
to follow. How should I do that? Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
Allah
SWT has given you
the best example for you is
the life of Muhammad
of wazir Rasool
alaihi salaam.
For whom?
The 1 who looks forward to meeting with
Allah.
Looks forward to the day of judgement
and remembers Allah
SWA a great deal.
Now,
2 points I want to make in this.
Number 1,
please note Allah
did not say
the example
of the life of Rasool
with respect to his time in the masjid
or with respect to his Ibadat
or with respect to
this part of his life or that
part. No. Complete.
Every aspect
is
a example for us to follow. And I
said, this is the best example for you.
Number 1. Number 2 point is,
Allah is saying,
this is for the 1 who looks forward.
Looks forward meaning anticipation.
Now
what do you anticipate?
What does anybody anticipate?
Something which is pleasant. Right?
Oh, I look forward to a holiday. I
look forward to the weekend. I look forward
to meeting my friend. I look forward to
going to meet my parents. I look for
do you look forward to pleasant,
nice things
which you would like to have, right? Now,
think about
the descriptions
of which Allah
made in the Quran.
What are they like?
Things which are
terrible, which are calamities, which are, you know,
enormous.
Why would you look forward to that?
Why will anyone look forward to that? I
look forward to a great earthquake. Why are
you crazy?
You will look forward to that
only for 1 reason.
And that reason is if you know that
whatever is happening there won't touch me.
I will be free.
I will be protected.
Who is that? The 1 who follows Muhammad
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam.
Because Allah
will give them
the shade
of His
meeting with Allah.
What is the meeting with
Allah? The meeting with Allah
is a meeting of Hisan,
of giving
account.
You look forward to that.
You will look forward to that if you
follow Muhammad
because
you know
that Insha Allah,
the 1 who believed in Allah
and was steadfast on
it.
For them, there is no and there is
no. There is no fear and there is
no sadness.
I want to say this to you because
today,
many of us live under this
very,
you know,
kind of,
it's actually a deception that comes out of
our own lack of confidence in what we
have.
We are not sure of Islam.
We really don't like it.
We really feel this is a border. Somehow
I become a Muslim.
So what must I do?
I try to distance myself from it in
whichever way I like.
So the man will shave his beard first.
The woman will take off her hijab.
We don't want to show the identity clearly.
Try to hide it somehow.
In this country, change your name. Your name
Mohammed is in a.
Hi, How are you doing?
Have you ever heard of
changing his name?
Because it is difficult for people to pronounce.
Have you heard this thing?
Did he change his name?
Did he change his name?
He didn't say call me Joe.
No. My name is Arnold Schwarzenegger.
You want to call me? Call me Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
You don't call me Joe.
My name is Muhammad.
You don't call me moe.
What moe?
Moe is what you do to the lawn,
man.
You mow the lawn.
Muhammad is my name.
Because we want
to distance ourselves,
modernize.
Who is this Mohammed?
Who is it?
People want to study Islam in an academic
way.
I tell people before you speak English, learn
English.
Really?
You know what is the what is the
the the in grammar? What does it mean
by academic?
I have an academic interest in
biology. What does it mean? It means I'm
not really interested. I have an academic and
overall interest.
Am I disinterested?
No. No. But academic interest.
You want to have an academic interest in
Islam?
So academically, I want to study Islam academically.
Islam didn't come to study it academically.
Islam came to be practised.
Who is Muhammad SAWS?
1 day,
say the Aisha SAW.
Our mother, may Allah,
grant her the best of the best. Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala revealed Quran about her. What
more do you want?
1 day she said to Rasuulullah,
you know, he used to help her in
in the house and so on. So she
was making bread. She was making rotis.
So she said to me, let us do
a company. Let's see who can make them
faster, me or you.
So he said
okay.
So now she started making. She made 1.
She made 2. She made 3. She made
4, and he's still on the first 1.
He's what he doesn't cook. It is not
not
nothing nothing is happening.
So she said, you are lost.
I made more than you.
He said, Yash.
He said, Yash,
what can I do?
The thing that my hand touches,
the fire will not burn.
He says, what my hand touches?
The fire will not burn.
Your parents
were good enough to give you the name
Muhammad.
You want to call yourself Moh?
Go call yourself Moh.
The Deen came to be learnt.
The Deen came to be practised.
We have the famous Hadith
of
Ibn Omar Radi Al Anumah.
Sayida Aisha Siddiqah, Radiala said about him.
She says, nobody I know among the Sahaba.
Nobody that I know among the Sahaba
follows the sunnah as closely as Abdullah ibn
Nawar.
Yeah.
This
is
the
testimony
from
Nobody.
The most
obedient and the most
correct of the sunnah is Abdullah.
He is mounted on his camel. He is
going down the road.
In 1 place, he bends down,
then he straightens up.
People ask me, why did he bend down?
What happened?
There is no reason to bend down.
He said,
in the time of Rasulullah Salaam, there was
a tree by the side of the road,
and there was a branch which used to
go over the road. And when Nabi was
mounted on his camel, it could not go
directly, so he used to bend out.
Now
there is no tree. There is no branch.
Okay. He did that.
Doesn't make sense. No?
Doesn't make sense?
Another time,
in 1 place, he stops his camel, kneels
down.
He no. Before he stop, he makes the
camel
make a full turn
before he stop the he makes it completely
turn
down. He stops he stops the camel,
sits down,
then he breaks to the Kafta.
Listen, what happened?
Why are you praying Salah here?
He said
1 day, Nabi was here. His camel took
a turn
and sat down and he prayed Raghat of
Salah.
Rasulullah
prayed Rasha' Rasulullah his camel
took a turn. What does God do with
you?
Makes
sense? No.
It will never make sense
because this is not to be understood here
in the head.
This is to be understood here in the
heart.
This is to be understood with love, with
the hope of Muhammad.
Not with your uncle,
with your heart.
The actions
of
the 1 who is
who loves somebody don't make sense to anyone
who does not understand his love.
This Abdullah ibn Omar, Abdulla Anumar,
I am talking about how Islam was
studied and learned by those
who learned it directly
from Rasool
So Abdulay ibn Umar
gives a waliman. He may give a big
party. He started a camel.
Called all the people who were there.
So they asked him this what he was
for?
He said because today I completed memorization of
Surah Al Baqarah.
Surah Al Baqarah, 2a half Jews.
So they
said, fine.
They asked him how many years did it
take? How much time did it take to
memorize this? He said 12 years.
12
years to memorize 2 and a half Jews?
In our time today,
if you go to any Hinduism
in India, I can tell you, I think
probably the same thing in Pakistan also
to memorize the entire Quran
2 years.
All 30 Jews. Not we're not talking about
1st all 30 Jews, 2 years.
If the child takes 2 and a half
years, the teacher will say he's kind of
slow.
If it takes 3 years, it's anymore.
He's
not capable of doing it anymore.
For the whole Quran.
Here in the Umar, it takes 12 years
for 1.
Who is it now?
He's not Pakistani.
He's not Sudan. He is Arab.
He is Quresh.
He heard the Quran
from whose voice? Who is the first voice
that came into his ear with the Kalam
of Allah? Whose voice?
Muhammadur Rasool Allah.
So here is a man who is Sahibul
Kalam,
Sahibulullah.
Learning directly from the Rasul Islam, he takes
12 years.
Whereas a Indian or a Pakistani
or whoever does not even speak the language,
he memorizes the entire Quran. He does not
know what he is reciting, but he memorizes
all Quran in 2 years.
They asked him, why does it take you
12 years? He said, because
this is the way we learned. He said,
we would go to Rasulullah,
we would take 10 ayats from him. Then
those 10 ayaats we would memorize,
we would practice,
We would reflect.
If he had questions, we would ask him
questions and get clarification.
If there were any hackam in that, we
would practice all that, and this would take
whatever time it took until we were satisfied
that we had done it and Rasulullah
was satisfied,
then we would go for the next 10
ayaat.
Right?
This is the method of teaching of Rasulullah.
And if anyone today think that their method
is better than that, I don't I have
no nothing more to say to them.
That is between you and your.
Now what is the result of this?
What is the result of this and what
is the result of our way of learning
and teaching?
The result of this is
in the battle of your
the sahaba said,
we
compared to the Romans,
were like
a white dot
on a black bull.
The Romans had 200, 000 soldiers.
He said, we compared to the Romans, were
like a white dot on a blackboard.
Meaning,
no hope of victory.
He says, we raised our hands
and we called Allah.
And we said,
Nobody is denying that. But this
is.
And he says, The sky
parted
and we saw the Malaika
coming down on their horses
And we saw the sun shining on the
tips of the lances of the malaika.
Allah is
He is the owner of the armies of
the heavens and the earth.
Allah sent
And the battle of Yermuk broke the back
of the Byzantine
Empire.
Last battle after that no more battles
destroyed the destroyed the
Byzantines.
Brothers and sisters,
This deen is not a game.
This deen is not politics.
This deen is not for fun.
This is what will help you and me
when we are 6 feet in the earth.
Remember that.
Play all the games you want here. No
problem.
You will see what will happen when you
are 6 feet down.
None of these games will help here down
there. When you are down there, only 1
thing will help, which is you are a
class.
The purity of your heart. Allah
said this.
Nothing will help you except.
Focus on that. Focus on the task of
your own self.
Focus on learning Islam the way it was
learned by the Sahaba.
Because there is no better example.
And don't worry about the world.
Let the world call you old fashioned, let
the world call you, let the world say,
oh, these are all orthodox.
We will need more modern people. No problem,
Oshey.
Please remember,
on the day of judgement,
the 1 who will have Shafa'at
is Muhammad
We ask Allah SWA to make us worthy
of the shafa'at of the ravioli salah. We
ask Allah to make us worthy of His
forgiveness. We ask Allah
to fill our hearts with His kashia, with
his with his
and we ask Allah to fill our hearts
with the hope of Muhammad Rasoolallah.
We ask Allah
to enable us to approach this deen in
the right way which is through humility
and humbleness and and
completely
submitting ourselves before Allah
so that we ask Allah then to open
our hearts and to open the doors of
knowledge for us and to open the doors
of of Hidayah for us and to open
the doors of all the niyamas of those.