Mirza Yawar Baig – One Ummah under Prophet Muhammad
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The concept of connections is the foundation of all connections, and it is crucial for success. The end result is to be completely removed from the body and to return to life. The speaker gives advice on gratitude and showing gratitude to others, emphasizing the importance of showing gratitude to oneself and others. The segment also discusses the importance of holding multiple opinions simultaneously, avoiding confusion and division, and holding a "branded" connection with Islam to avoid division.
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Alhamdulillah
My dear respected brothers, sisters, elders,
the topic of my Khutba is CTS connections.
CTS is a term we use in the
corporate world which means critical to success,
The connections which are critical to success.
The secret of success in this world and
the next
is
connections.
Who do you know
and who knows you?
The foundation of all connections
is gratitude
and its flower
is love.
The love of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
who alone we worship
because he is alone.
Just ask yourself.
Alhamdulillah.
May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala bless my brother
for the beautiful adhan.
What happened to us
when we heard
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar?
This is the point of reflection. This is
something to think about.
It's not about the lahann, it's not about
the tune of recitation. Alhamdulillah, beautiful.
Just when we hear the word Allahu Akbar,
what does it do? Does it do anything
at all?
If it does something, what does it do?
What is it supposed to do?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala asked,
This is a question Allah is asking a
question.
So when we recite this ayah,
imagine
you are sitting with your Ustad. He's teaching
you to recite Quran
and you are reciting,
And he says,
in this place,
there was the haraf of Ithar
and you made Onna, so that is wrong.
In the other place, there was the hearth
of Ikhfa and you did not make that
is wrong.
So repeat.
So I go again.
And maybe this happens 10 times and they
will start to say, okay, this is good.
Alhamdulillah.
My question is very simple.
Is that good?
Is that enough?
Why is it not enough?
Because Allah is asking a question.
What is the jabab? What is
the reply to this? It's a question, right?
Has the human being forgotten, has man forgotten
that there was a time when he was
not even mentioned?
Even when you are born,
until they give you a name, you have
no identity.
Who is born?
So and so's son.
Zayed had a son.
Okay.
May Allah give
all the children perfect health and good life?
But supposing 2 days, 3 days later, the
child dies.
What do you say? Who died?
Zayed son died. Yes?
Because he has no name.
Zayed son died.
When somebody dies, adult person dies
and you are praying salatuljanazah,
usually salatuljanazah
is after some salah by jamaah. So supposing
Salatul Janazah or
something. So what do they do with the
with the janazah when they bring it? Will
they put it in front of the imam?
No. They put it somewhere on the side
after this jama'at salat is over, then what
will they say?
Supposing my Jannah comes to this masjid
and say
So you put the somewhere there. Right? You
put me there.
So will you say bring shakhi over here?
No.
You say bring the
bring the mayid and supposing I say,
yeah, doctor,
this man is your friend.
He is your friend.
You know him all your life.
He has a name.
What is Mayat? What's his name? Mayat? Was
he Mr. Mayat? Was he Sheykh Mayat? No.
So, why do you say Mayat?
Because
This is the complete map of our life,
Complete map of our Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
is saying you did not exist, you are
dead.
Allah gave you life
And then remember when you have life,
don't try to live like you will live
forever because you will not live forever. Allah
will kill you.
Allah said, they ask, they say,
is it that after we become,
we disintegrate, we completely finish in the cover,
we are gone in the earth,
we will be
again brought back to life. Is it true?
Allah says, No, this is not a question.
This is the denial.
They are denying the meeting with the Arab.
My brothers and sisters, I remind myself in
you
that
every connection we have in this life
will end.
And this is what Allah is saying in
this ayah,
You did not exist.
You are my Yid. I gave you life
and I will take it away. So this
period between getting life and the life goes
away,
Live that life
according to how I have directed you.
Live that life according to my Kalam and
according to the sunnah of Muhammadu Rasoolullahi Sallallahu
Alaihi Wa'ala Alaihi Wasabi Yusar.
Be grateful to Allah, be thankful to Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And obey Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
Because one day, this life will be taken
away. And once it is taken away, then
you will return to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So let us think about the blessings that
Allah gave us.
The niamat that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala blessed
us with.
I want you each one of you to
do this as an exercise today when you
go home.
Actually do this. Wallahi, you will you will
see how your life will change. Do this.
Sit down with a pen and paper
and write down.
Don't do it on a computer and all
this. No. A pen and paper. There's a
There's a psychological logic to writing with your
hand.
Any language. Sit with your pen and paper
and write down
the blessings that Allah gave
you. For each of us, He gave us
different blessings.
List those down. All the blessings.
Material, non material, people,
wealth,
knowledge, whatever. Right?
List down the blessings that Allah
gave
you and then separate those blessings,
Make 2 columns.
Things I asked for and I got.
I asked for this and I received it.
And things that I got without asking.
Separate. Make 2 lists.
Make 2 lists. What I asked Allah for
and Allah gave me
and what I got
without
asking. Believe me,
you will be shocked.
You will be shocked
because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala challenged, Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala said,
If you want to even just count the
number of blessings which Allah has given you,
you cannot count.
Do this exercise insha Allah. May Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala open our hearts to His glory
and majesty and enable us to live our
lives in a way which pleases Him.
Alhamdulillah
My brothers and sisters, I remind myself and
you
that
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala
among the many, many
blessings that Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala gave us
and blessed us with
is
the connections that I mentioned.
Our connection in this life
starts with our parents
and then extends to whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala
caused to be in our lives.
Our teachers, our friends,
strangers,
whoever Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala caused us to
be connected with.
These connections we benefit from
told us to thank people.
He said in the hadith,
the one
he has not thanked Allah,
the one who has not thanked
the people.
He has not thanked Allah,
the one who has not thanked the people.
So therefore
thank people
because Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala caused those people
to be a means of khair and barakah
for us.
Thanking
produces gratitude. Thanking comes out of gratitude. It
produces love. It produces friendship. You thank somebody,
he feels nice
and he will do more for you.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala gave us this hokum
as a hokum
even with himself.
When Allah
said in Surat
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said
that if you thank me,
I will increase my blessings
and if you are ungrateful then beware that
my punishment is severe.
Even in that statement, there is the rahmah
of Allah. There is the mercy of Allah.
Allah did not say, I will punish you.
Allah said, remember the punishment is severe. We
ask Allah to save us from the punishment.
The reason I'm mentioning this ayatul kareema is
because many times people say, why should I
thank somebody? I see him every day, he
knows,
she knows.
Why should I thank my wife?
I've been married 40 years, she knows if
I'm thankful or not.
My question is,
who said
Who said this?
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
So if Allah is telling you thank me,
does he not know if you are thankful
or not?
So why is he ordering us?
If our argument is why should I thank
the other person because he knows or she
knows? Okay, sure. I accept your argument.
Then does Allah know?
Allah is telling you to thank him because
he does not know.
We thank because being thankful and showing gratitude
is about us.
It is not about the other.
It is not about the other person. It's
about us. When I am thanking you, I'm
showing
how I was raised.
I'm showing you my religion. I'm showing you
my culture. I'm showing you my manners, my
akhlaq. I'm showing you that I'm genuinely grateful
to you. Thank you for what you have
done for me. It is about me. It's
not about you.
In all the things that we need to
be thankful for, and I talked about connections,
and I want to close with that.
All the connections that I mentioned to
you will end one day when we die.
Every single one of them.
There is no connection on the surface of
this earth
either with human beings or with material or
with anything
that will remain
after we are dead.
Everything will end.
There are only 2 connections
which do not
end and which will go with us.
2. And that is our connection with Allah
and our connection with Rasool Allah
and therefore let us respect those connections
and let us honor those connections
And I want to link those 2 connections
with our connections, with our people, with us.
These 2 connections are beautifully linked
both in the Kitab of Allah
and in the sunnah of Rasool Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala
said,
And in another Surah He said,
Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is saying, this ummah
of yours,
this brotherhood of faith
of yours
is 1 brotherhood.
One brotherhood.
And Allah
honored us and He said, I am your
Rab.
Ram. Allah did not say you are one
brotherhood because you are all human beings. Allah
would have said that. Right?
You are 1 because you are all human
beings. You are all mammals. You are all
this and that. No. Allah said, you are
1 because I am 1 and I am
your Rab.
What is a bigger honour than that?
Who am I?
Abdullah.
Who are you?
Abdullah.
Our sisters, who are you? Amatullah.
Our connection with our
As the people who come from big families
and make Khabai and so on and so
forth, big names with people know.
We feel I am so and so.
My father was this grandfather was this one,
so and so was the prince, so and
so was the king, so and so, Halim,
so and so was, you know, Imam al
Haram or something.
This is a connection with Allah
Allah
is ta'ala allah will tell, we are not
giving the mitzel of Allah with anybody but
I am your Rab, so
worship me alone
And the other Ayah said,
Obey me, have concern
for my pleasure in every action of yours,
which is.
Abadah
covers our aqida
and
covers our Amal.
This is the beauty of the Quran.
One little liar,
whole life encapsulated.
In that connection, therefore,
tell me,
is there a space in this term, umbatanwahida
of separating ourselves and saying,
I am arab.
You are Bengali.
You are African American.
You are Pakistani.
You are full. You are full. Is there
a space?
Tell me, is there a space for this?
Wallahi
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
Allah is the witness,
the one who says this,
he is speaking Haram
because he is creating divisions in something which
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said there is no
division. I am your Rabb.
There is no place.
Please,
this is what has been destroying us for
1400 years practically.
Just take out the life of mister sallam.
This is what Rasool sallam fought against and
he succeeded and he created 1 Ummah. What
was the 1 Ummah?
It was the destruction of all Kabaili relations.
It was the destruction of all Nationalistic relations.
It was the destruction of all relations based
on race and culture and language and this
and
that. We come together as brothers and sisters
on the basis of what?
Allahu Rabunah.
Allahu Rabunah.
That is why anybody
ever in your life
starts talking about differences
immediately
either shut him up or get up and
walk away.
So sorry, I'm not in this conversation.
Anybody? I don't care who it is.
If somebody is talking about differences between Muslims
because of race and because of culture and
because of this,
nationality
or that what not,
walk away.
Walk
away!
Because that person who is saying that is
excluding himself and he wants to exclude you
from who Allah called 1 Ummah.
You want to get excluded? Go ahead. Listen
to them.
But if you say, no, no, no, no,
no,
I am from the Ummat Muhammad
I am from the Ummat about whom Allah
said,
So for you and your
so called logic and your argument,
no place in my heart. Sorry.
So either stop talking this time or
I'm gone.
Please.
This is my wasiath to you. If I
never say anything again in my life, if
I drop dead now, this is what I
would like to live with.
Stay together.
Stay together.
Keep the hearts together.
Don't let anybody
come between you and your brother.
Nobody.
Does it mean we will not have Iqtala
Fath? Of course, we will have Iqtala Fath.
Allah
said,
To have a difference of opinion,
no problem.
You have an opinion, I have an opinion.
We can sit down. We can talk together,
drink some tea and this and that. We
disagree. We don't even need to agree finally.
We can disagree and we can part as
friends with 2 different opinions. This is a
sign of intelligence.
The sign of intelligence is to be able
to hold 2 opposing opinions in your mind
simultaneously.
The sign of hypocrisy
is to be able to hold 2 opposing
beliefs in your heart simultaneously.
Don't divide.
By all means, have a opinion, have discussion,
have debate. No problem. But when you get
up from there,
we are together. Our hearts are together.
Who is the one I disagree with? He
is my brother.
Inshallah, if Allah permits me, one day I
will do a presentation on and
I will give you examples
of our
and how they disagreed
on major major matters
and how they parted from there.
We need to remember and we need to
revive that in our lives.
No divisions.
No divisions. Anytime
anybody opens his mouth and says any
word which defines
and separates
1 Muslim or one group or another group.
Sorry.
We don't accept
because Allah told us not to accept.
Rasoolullah
told us not to accept.