Mirza Yawar Baig – One day I will die

My brothers and sisters,

I want to

tell you two stories,

two true stories. One is a story from the time of sadhana khatava

radhalaan, whose time,

say, then Ava Rahu used to patrol in the night

to check on the well being of the people of madhira.

So one day he and his servant was with him.

They were passing through

a part of Madina, which was populated by

poor people,

very poor people,

and they

heard a conversation

from a house

so sadhana stopped there and he listened to what was being said.

It was a conversation between two women turned out to be a mother

and daughter.

The mother was telling the daughter to

dilute milk with water, meaning to put some water in the milk to

increase the volume, as is done in many places.

And the daughter refused.

The daughter said,

when the mother pushed her again and again to put to mix water in

the milk, the daughter said that the Khalifa, Omar khattav Raja

Ramu, has ordered that milk must not be adulterated.

This is dishonest, and therefore should not be done, and therefore

we should not do it. So the mother said, raw is not here.

He is not seeing. The daughter said, but the rub of Amar is

saying,

radhilam

sadhana heard this conversation, and then he said to his servant,

make a note of this house, and tomorrow morning, come and buy

milk from this house and bring the milk to me

and let us see what

actually happens. So the servant man next morning, he bought,

bought some milk from them, and he brought it, and they found the

milk was pure, no adulteration, no water in it, which means that the

daughter prevailed

and did not have the milk to be mixed. Did not allow water to be

mixed.

Say, the raw Delano then sound. The mother and daughter, they came

to the court.

Allah Basma Radha radhiranu was also there.

Say, then our Delano told them the story of what happened in the

night. And he asked, said, an ambassador

to rule. And he said, Tell me, what shall we do in this case?

Sadhana said the mother should be punished

because she is,

you know, misleading her daughter.

Sadhana said, No, I don't want to punish her because she may have

tried to mislead, but she didn't actually succeed in misleading.

And Inshallah, she learnt a lesson, so there is no need to

Parishad.

And then he asked the mother. He said, Is your daughter married? So

the mother said, No, she is not married. We are very, very poor

people. Nobody wants to marry my daughter because we are nothing.

Sadhana, called his sons, and he said, does any one of you want to

marry this girl?

So the eldest one, Abdullah, Anubha, he said, I have already

married. I do not want to have another wife. But the second son,

I asked him, radhila Anu Asim, never Khattab, radhiranu. He said,

I am not married. I would like to marry this girl. And this girl was

married to the son of the king. Literally,

they say that it is from her progeny that Umar vibhulaziz

rahulari, the famous Khalifa one over here, was from this

from the progeny of these two people.

Now,

keep the story in mind.

Fast forward to today's times. I remember reading this report in, I

think, in one of the Saudi papers

of

a Sudanese shepherd

who was grazing sheep in Saudi Arabia, and two Saudi men they

were passing by. So they just

for the fun of it, they drove up to the shepherd and they said to.

Shepherd, give us one of Your sheep.

The shepherd said, I don't own the sheep. They don't belong to me,

and I cannot give you. They said, we'll pay you.

He said, doesn't matter if you pay me or don't pay me. I cannot sell

you the ship, because I don't have this already to sell the sheep

belong to my master, and he's not here. If you want to buy the

sheep, you have to go talk to a master.

So they said, your master is not here. He cannot see we'll pay you.

And they started bidding. They said, we'll pay you 100 real, we

pay you 1000 real, we pay you 10,000 real, we pay you 100,000

real.

The man said, even if you pay me a million real, I will not sell you

the sheep, because it is not in my authority to sell the sheep, and I

will not do something which is dishonest.

So these men said your your master is not even here. So what are you

worried about?

He cannot see what you are doing. The shepherd says, My master is

not here, but the love of my master is here, and he can see and

I will not do it. I will not do it.

The men went away.

They took his name and so on. They went away. They reported the

matter to whoever they need report to. And a few days later, the

ambassador of Sudan flew into Saudi Arabia specifically to meet

the shepherd and to give him an award of 200,000 real

Salas Maratha rewarded his honesty in this life itself.

The point I want to make here is that

today, the biggest problem that we have as an ummah, as Muslims, is

with respect to our mama, lats, with respect to our dealings.

Mahavila Maharaj, three things, mahavilat is dealings. Mahashara

is our society, and akhlaq is our manners. These are our three

biggest problems at a individual level, as well as at a collective

level. Now the reason I told you these two stories is because from

both the stories, you can see that the people who are taking that

decision

in the first case that girl, poor girl from a poor family. In the

second case is shrudani Shepherd.

These are not great scholars of Islam. These are not muftis. These

are not the shuyukha of the haram. These are ordinary people, more

than likely, without any education whatsoever.

People who Allah knows how much of Quran they knew, Allah knows, you

know, obviously they're not even educated means, meaning that they

didn't have any great, exclusive, great knowledge of fiqh or the

wasa and so on. But people with a sense of awareness of Allah,

subhanaw, taala, in their lives, they knew that Allah is watching

me.

Now think about our Hadith, the urael, which is mentioned in

in Muslim Sharif, as well as in the Arbaeen and awavia, is 40

Hadith collection of 40 Hadith

where Rasulullah sallam was asked by Jibreel assalam,

malah he asked, he said, What is Ad and Rasul assalam said, Anta

Abdullah, kannaka, Tala, Fay, lamtarag,

he said to worship Allah as if you can see him, and if you cannot see

Him, know that he sees you.

Now we know that the

the words of this hadith refer to Salah but

or to worship of any kind, but the meaning of the Hadith extends to

every action and every interaction in our lives. So it means that I

walk and talk and I deal and I bear witness, and I do whatever I

do, as if I can see Allah, as if Allah is right there with me. And

even though I do not see Allah subhanahu wa Tada, I know that

Allah subhanaw taala is seeing me.

And Allah, this is borne out also by the Quran itself, where Allah

subhana said, I am. He is with you wherever you are.

VAWA, vacuum, ay, Nava, Kuntum, he is with you wherever you are,

which means that ALLAH SubhanA is watching, looking, seeing,

hearing, knowing.

So therefore the ultimate thing which is desired, what is

required, is to have this sense of the.

Presence of Allah, subhanaw taala in our lives. We don't need a lot

of knowledge. We don't need a lot of lectures. We don't need books

to read. We don't need anything. We just need to know I am a

Muslim, and therefore I know that my RAB is watching me.

The second important thing to understand here also is the

importance of remembering that one day I will die

this deen is a very simple, straightforward, easy to

understand. Deen,

this is not complicated. We don't have to have all kinds of

convoluted reasoning. We don't need great theories and theology,

very simple.

One day I will die, and I will stand before Allah, and then I

will answer for every single thing that I chose to do or chose not to

do, because nothing is hidden from Allah. Subhanaw taala,

nothing is in bhavanaswara. He knows what is visible. He knows

what is not visible. He knows what is hidden. He knows what is

apparent.

Therefore, if we have this sense of the Presence of Allah subhanaw

taala in our lives, then our lives, then decision making become

very easy, because then we will not take a wrong decision, because

we know that Allah subhanaw taala is watching me. If I take a wrong

decision, where will I go? Where will I go? There's nowhere to go.

I I know Allah is watching me, therefore I must make sure that I

take the right decision, and the right decision is that which will

please Allah subhanho.

I remind myself, when you let us focus on this, let us not get lost

in

this. Is one of the

my calls, is one of the Dima. Is one of the diseases of people who

suddenly become aware of Islam, and you suddenly realize that I'm

a Muslim. So the first thing they do like yesterday, if somebody

came to me, and with him was his son, who must have been maybe 10

years old or 10 years old,

and he says, I want to make him a speaker, great speaker. So how can

I?

How can I do that? So I said to him, first, make him a great

actor, not actor as in on a stage, but actor as somebody who is

focused on action, somebody who is focused on Amal as it first make

you somebody who is focused on Amal, because unless he has the

Amal, What's he going to speak?

Speaking about Islam is a huge responsibility, because the moment

you become a speaker, the moment you become somebody who is a wise,

somebody who is advising people, then Allah, subhanaw taala will

judge you by a different standard.

So it is much better to keep your mouth shut instead of talking and

then putting yourself in trouble. Because if you are reminding

people, the automatic understanding is that you

are operating on that reminder, and you are completely aware of

that reminder.

Otherwise, how come and why come you are telling others to do it.

Allah said, Yeah, you were lazy. Why do you say that which you

don't do? Kaura makna in the light and malata follow. Allah. Said,

with Allah, this is a great sin. It's a very serious matter that

you say something which you don't do. So it is much better to keep

you all shut and focus on your own awl, your own action. And if

somebody tells you, please advise me, say, give them the advice that

Abu Sala Salam give people. And he said, Remember that one day you

will die,

and that is the best advice that I can give you, and that's the best

advice I give myself to remember and remind myself that one day I

will die and I will stand before Allah. And that's why I told you

the two stories. Because these two stories are of people who

inshaAllah, Allah, subhanaw taala, has guided, not by making them

into professors, but by giving them awareness of his presence in

their lives. Masala beer, Kara Ali. He was sabar mein Bira Maha.