Mirza Yawar Baig – Only certain

Mirza Yawar Baig
Share Page

AI: Summary ©

The speakers discuss the importance of knowing that death is not possible and the need for everyone to know it. They touch on the books' concept of a full-sized tree and a woman named Insha'rowala who talks to a cloud. The speakers emphasize the importance of reading and pasasting exams to gain success in life and learning and studying to become confident.

AI: Summary ©

00:00:16 --> 00:00:19
			My brothers and sisters, we make dua for
		
00:00:19 --> 00:00:19
			our brother
		
00:00:24 --> 00:00:26
			Allah grant him
		
00:00:28 --> 00:00:29
			may Allah
		
00:00:29 --> 00:00:31
			fear his cover with noor. May Allah give
		
00:00:31 --> 00:00:33
			to his family. I
		
00:00:34 --> 00:00:36
			saw him in the hospital also and
		
00:00:37 --> 00:00:41
			this is the only certainty in life
		
00:00:42 --> 00:00:43
			which is death.
		
00:00:44 --> 00:00:46
			Everything else is uncertain.
		
00:00:47 --> 00:00:49
			When we are born, whether we will be
		
00:00:49 --> 00:00:51
			healthy or wealthy, we don't know. Whether we
		
00:00:51 --> 00:00:53
			will be educated or ignorant, we don't know.
		
00:00:53 --> 00:00:54
			Whether we will be happy or sad, we
		
00:00:54 --> 00:00:56
			don't know. Whether we get married
		
00:00:56 --> 00:00:58
			or not, we don't know. Whether the marriage
		
00:00:58 --> 00:01:00
			will be good or bad, we don't know.
		
00:01:01 --> 00:01:02
			Nothing we know.
		
00:01:03 --> 00:01:04
			The only thing we know is
		
00:01:20 --> 00:01:21
			Every
		
00:01:21 --> 00:01:25
			single thing which has life will die.
		
00:01:26 --> 00:01:29
			And Allah said, And your real rewards, the
		
00:01:29 --> 00:01:31
			true rewards, the complete rewards you will get.
		
00:01:33 --> 00:01:35
			We ask that for our brother Abu
		
00:01:36 --> 00:01:39
			Radib. We ask that for all our elders
		
00:01:39 --> 00:01:41
			and youngsters who have passed away, and we
		
00:01:41 --> 00:01:43
			ask this for ourselves also. When we go
		
00:01:43 --> 00:01:43
			to Allah,
		
00:01:44 --> 00:01:47
			we ask Allah to reward us in keeping
		
00:01:47 --> 00:01:49
			with his majesty and grace and in keeping
		
00:01:49 --> 00:01:50
			with his forgiveness,
		
00:01:50 --> 00:01:52
			not in keeping with our actions.
		
00:01:54 --> 00:01:56
			Because if we cannot stand before Allah with
		
00:01:56 --> 00:01:57
			our action, nobody.
		
00:01:58 --> 00:02:02
			Rasool Allah himself, he said, we will enter
		
00:02:02 --> 00:02:05
			Jannah by the Rahma of Allah, by the
		
00:02:05 --> 00:02:06
			Makfirah of Allah.
		
00:02:06 --> 00:02:08
			They asked him, Rasulullah, even you, he said,
		
00:02:08 --> 00:02:09
			even I.
		
00:02:12 --> 00:02:14
			I remind myself of you.
		
00:02:16 --> 00:02:18
			Alexander the great.
		
00:02:19 --> 00:02:21
			Four four names. I will tell you Alexander,
		
00:02:21 --> 00:02:22
			the great
		
00:02:23 --> 00:02:25
			rule over a kingdom, which was 1,100,000
		
00:02:26 --> 00:02:27
			square miles.
		
00:02:30 --> 00:02:32
			The Roman Empire at its peak
		
00:02:34 --> 00:02:36
			had an area of 3,500,000
		
00:02:37 --> 00:02:38
			square miles.
		
00:02:39 --> 00:02:40
			So we call Alexander the Great, but the
		
00:02:40 --> 00:02:42
			Roman Empire was 3 times that size.
		
00:02:44 --> 00:02:45
			The Man Umayyad
		
00:02:46 --> 00:02:48
			ruled over an empire
		
00:02:48 --> 00:02:51
			at their peak which was 5,500,000
		
00:02:52 --> 00:02:53
			square miles
		
00:02:55 --> 00:02:58
			Almost double the size of the Roman Empire.
		
00:02:59 --> 00:03:01
			In the Vanuvar's time, there was no expansion.
		
00:03:01 --> 00:03:03
			There was a lot of,
		
00:03:04 --> 00:03:07
			knowledge and learning and strategy development, but
		
00:03:07 --> 00:03:09
			territorial expansion was in the time of.
		
00:03:12 --> 00:03:13
			But Genghis Khan
		
00:03:15 --> 00:03:18
			alone ruled over an empire of 13,500,000
		
00:03:19 --> 00:03:20
			square miles.
		
00:03:20 --> 00:03:22
			The empire of Chengis was
		
00:03:24 --> 00:03:26
			4 times 5 times the size of the
		
00:03:26 --> 00:03:27
			Roman empire.
		
00:03:29 --> 00:03:31
			Almost 3 times the size of the Muslim
		
00:03:31 --> 00:03:32
			empire.
		
00:03:32 --> 00:03:34
			It was 12 times the size of
		
00:03:36 --> 00:03:37
			the empire of Alexander the Great.
		
00:03:39 --> 00:03:40
			But think about this.
		
00:03:41 --> 00:03:43
			There's a man called John Mann. His name
		
00:03:43 --> 00:03:44
			is John Mann. Amen.
		
00:03:46 --> 00:03:47
			Read his book. His book is called Genghis.
		
00:03:49 --> 00:03:51
			When he was writing the book, he wrote
		
00:03:51 --> 00:03:53
			a biography of Genghis Khan. Many people wrote,
		
00:03:53 --> 00:03:54
			but this is a very nice one.
		
00:03:55 --> 00:03:57
			He also wrote incidentally one of Saladin
		
00:03:58 --> 00:03:58
			Ayubi.
		
00:03:59 --> 00:04:01
			Very interesting. Very, very good book.
		
00:04:02 --> 00:04:05
			So John Mann wrote his book. The biography
		
00:04:05 --> 00:04:06
			of Genghis Khan. He's called it Genghis.
		
00:04:09 --> 00:04:11
			He says he went to settle Mongolia, which
		
00:04:11 --> 00:04:12
			was where
		
00:04:13 --> 00:04:14
			Karakoram,
		
00:04:14 --> 00:04:16
			which was the city that was built by
		
00:04:16 --> 00:04:17
			the son of Genghis Khan, which was the
		
00:04:17 --> 00:04:19
			center, the capital
		
00:04:19 --> 00:04:20
			of
		
00:04:20 --> 00:04:21
			the Mongol
		
00:04:22 --> 00:04:22
			Kingdom
		
00:04:24 --> 00:04:26
			and the palace of the king there
		
00:04:26 --> 00:04:29
			had a tree, a full sized tree
		
00:04:30 --> 00:04:32
			made of silver with fruit of gold.
		
00:04:38 --> 00:04:40
			This kingdom of 13,500,000
		
00:04:42 --> 00:04:42
			square miles,
		
00:04:43 --> 00:04:46
			which had wealth which we cannot even imagine
		
00:04:46 --> 00:04:48
			today. I mean, it's simply not possible. You
		
00:04:48 --> 00:04:51
			can't possibly imagine the kind of wealth that
		
00:04:51 --> 00:04:53
			Zhengiz and his and his family had.
		
00:04:54 --> 00:04:56
			When John Mann went to investigate and he
		
00:04:56 --> 00:04:59
			said, let me find some artifacts and so
		
00:04:59 --> 00:05:00
			on and so forth.
		
00:05:00 --> 00:05:02
			Guess what he found? Out of this entire
		
00:05:02 --> 00:05:04
			city of Karakoram, this is a Karakoram highway,
		
00:05:05 --> 00:05:05
			across
		
00:05:06 --> 00:05:07
			the top of Asia.
		
00:05:08 --> 00:05:10
			Guess what he found? He found 1
		
00:05:11 --> 00:05:12
			pillar base
		
00:05:14 --> 00:05:15
			shaped like a turtle.
		
00:05:16 --> 00:05:17
			That's it.
		
00:05:18 --> 00:05:19
			One piece of stone.
		
00:05:21 --> 00:05:22
			One pillar base.
		
00:05:30 --> 00:05:31
			Where are the kings?
		
00:05:34 --> 00:05:36
			That is why Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala, a
		
00:05:36 --> 00:05:37
			day will come when He will say
		
00:05:39 --> 00:05:40
			What did Allah say?
		
00:05:45 --> 00:05:46
			Who does this long
		
00:05:47 --> 00:05:48
			day belong to?
		
00:05:51 --> 00:05:52
			And what is the answer to that?
		
00:05:52 --> 00:05:54
			Which Allah will give because at that time
		
00:05:54 --> 00:05:56
			nothing will be alive.
		
00:06:03 --> 00:06:04
			The only certainty
		
00:06:05 --> 00:06:05
			is death.
		
00:06:08 --> 00:06:10
			So I remind myself I knew and I
		
00:06:10 --> 00:06:12
			suggest this is an exercise. Do it.
		
00:06:13 --> 00:06:15
			Somebody asked me a question this morning. They
		
00:06:15 --> 00:06:17
			said they sent a question. They said,
		
00:06:18 --> 00:06:21
			how can I get rid of all the
		
00:06:23 --> 00:06:24
			false attachments
		
00:06:25 --> 00:06:26
			that I have in my heart?
		
00:06:27 --> 00:06:29
			I'm attached to power and money and friends
		
00:06:29 --> 00:06:29
			and
		
00:06:30 --> 00:06:32
			family and this and that. So good. So
		
00:06:32 --> 00:06:33
			are not good. If you are attached to
		
00:06:33 --> 00:06:34
			your family, then so good.
		
00:06:35 --> 00:06:36
			But it's an attachment.
		
00:06:37 --> 00:06:38
			Then how can I get rid of all
		
00:06:38 --> 00:06:40
			this? I said, Think of
		
00:06:42 --> 00:06:44
			death. Because whether you like it or not,
		
00:06:44 --> 00:06:45
			when you die,
		
00:06:50 --> 00:06:52
			We are making du'a for our Burathe.
		
00:06:53 --> 00:06:55
			We ask Allah to help him.
		
00:06:55 --> 00:06:57
			But we are sitting here.
		
00:06:58 --> 00:06:59
			In comfort,
		
00:07:01 --> 00:07:03
			in a nice environment, or a nice chair,
		
00:07:03 --> 00:07:04
			or a nice carpet.
		
00:07:05 --> 00:07:07
			You ask Allah to make the
		
00:07:08 --> 00:07:10
			better than this and make it among like
		
00:07:10 --> 00:07:12
			David said, Allah will send
		
00:07:13 --> 00:07:14
			Insha'Allah.
		
00:07:15 --> 00:07:16
			We ask Allah for this, Insha'Allah. We ask
		
00:07:16 --> 00:07:18
			him to make this the cover of our
		
00:07:18 --> 00:07:19
			brother
		
00:07:20 --> 00:07:22
			and all the Khour of all the Muslim
		
00:07:22 --> 00:07:24
			into the garden of Jannah.
		
00:07:26 --> 00:07:29
			We ask Allah and we make full insha'allah
		
00:07:29 --> 00:07:32
			Allah will give. But the reality is
		
00:07:32 --> 00:07:33
			he
		
00:07:33 --> 00:07:36
			and my father and whoever of yours is
		
00:07:36 --> 00:07:38
			my mother and who are They are in
		
00:07:38 --> 00:07:41
			6 feet of earth in the hole in
		
00:07:41 --> 00:07:41
			the ground.
		
00:07:43 --> 00:07:44
			We are sitting here.
		
00:07:46 --> 00:07:47
			This will happen to everybody.
		
00:07:49 --> 00:07:50
			Harun Nasheed,
		
00:07:50 --> 00:07:52
			the great Abbasid Khalifa,
		
00:07:52 --> 00:07:54
			the famous story about him. He stood on
		
00:07:54 --> 00:07:56
			his on his balcony of his palace one
		
00:07:56 --> 00:07:58
			day and there was a cloud and he
		
00:07:58 --> 00:08:00
			addressed the cloud. He talked to the cloud.
		
00:08:00 --> 00:08:02
			And was a very pious man, much a
		
00:08:02 --> 00:08:03
			good man, but, you know, when you get
		
00:08:03 --> 00:08:05
			that much of wealth, sometimes it's
		
00:08:06 --> 00:08:07
			plays games in your head.
		
00:08:07 --> 00:08:09
			He's talking to the cloud. He says to
		
00:08:09 --> 00:08:10
			this cloud,
		
00:08:11 --> 00:08:12
			go and rain
		
00:08:13 --> 00:08:13
			anywhere
		
00:08:14 --> 00:08:14
			you want
		
00:08:15 --> 00:08:18
			The crops that will go grow from that,
		
00:08:19 --> 00:08:20
			the revenue will come to me.
		
00:08:24 --> 00:08:27
			Cuba is a very dangerous thing. Very
		
00:08:28 --> 00:08:29
			dangerous. Today, we have bought you bought a
		
00:08:29 --> 00:08:32
			nice car. My car. Your car?
		
00:08:33 --> 00:08:34
			What's your car?
		
00:08:35 --> 00:08:37
			Your car is not even worth what would
		
00:08:37 --> 00:08:39
			would pay to to feed 1 of his
		
00:08:39 --> 00:08:40
			dogs.
		
00:08:42 --> 00:08:44
			Wealth like you can't believe. Power like you
		
00:08:44 --> 00:08:46
			can't believe. The man stands there and says
		
00:08:46 --> 00:08:48
			to the cloud, go and rain anywhere you
		
00:08:48 --> 00:08:49
			want. It's coming to me.
		
00:08:54 --> 00:08:54
			Insha'Allah,
		
00:09:04 --> 00:09:07
			I remind myself, brothers and sisters, always, always.
		
00:09:07 --> 00:09:09
			Let us remind ourselves of death. Let us
		
00:09:09 --> 00:09:11
			remind ourselves that one day we will go
		
00:09:11 --> 00:09:12
			from here.
		
00:09:12 --> 00:09:15
			So So don't get attached to stuff. Stuff
		
00:09:15 --> 00:09:16
			will not go with us. Stuff will stay
		
00:09:16 --> 00:09:18
			here. What goes with us?
		
00:09:18 --> 00:09:19
			What?
		
00:09:20 --> 00:09:20
			Amal.
		
00:09:22 --> 00:09:25
			Amal goes with us. Let us collect Amal.
		
00:09:26 --> 00:09:27
			What can I do which is good? What
		
00:09:27 --> 00:09:29
			can I do which will go with me?
		
00:09:29 --> 00:09:30
			Alhamdulillah.
		
00:09:30 --> 00:09:32
			I'm happy because in the cover,
		
00:09:35 --> 00:09:37
			you know, there are a lot of students
		
00:09:37 --> 00:09:39
			here. Let me ask you this question. Today,
		
00:09:39 --> 00:09:39
			when you are studying,
		
00:09:40 --> 00:09:42
			you've got a history book and you have
		
00:09:42 --> 00:09:44
			geography book and you have maths book and
		
00:09:44 --> 00:09:47
			you have a sociology book and this book
		
00:09:47 --> 00:09:48
			and that book. Right? And those books are
		
00:09:48 --> 00:09:51
			important. So you you read all those books,
		
00:09:51 --> 00:09:52
			and then you go to medical school. You
		
00:09:52 --> 00:09:54
			got all those medical books. You go to
		
00:09:54 --> 00:09:56
			engineering. You are engineering or whatever. Right? So
		
00:09:56 --> 00:09:57
			So you read those books, you take care
		
00:09:57 --> 00:09:59
			of those books and so on. You pass
		
00:09:59 --> 00:10:01
			the exam inshallah. May Allah give you a
		
00:10:01 --> 00:10:03
			success. You pass the exam. What happens to
		
00:10:03 --> 00:10:06
			those books on that day after the exam?
		
00:10:08 --> 00:10:10
			1 of 2 things. Either you give it
		
00:10:10 --> 00:10:10
			to somebody
		
00:10:11 --> 00:10:12
			or you sell it.
		
00:10:13 --> 00:10:14
			Go on. Finish challah. You don't say, oh,
		
00:10:14 --> 00:10:16
			you know, I studied this book for 5
		
00:10:16 --> 00:10:18
			years. I'm done. Finish.
		
00:10:18 --> 00:10:19
			Exam over.
		
00:10:21 --> 00:10:22
			But there is one book.
		
00:10:23 --> 00:10:25
			There is one book
		
00:10:25 --> 00:10:28
			which is older than your physics book and
		
00:10:28 --> 00:10:29
			older than your chemistry book and older than
		
00:10:29 --> 00:10:32
			older than your geography book and your biology
		
00:10:32 --> 00:10:32
			book.
		
00:10:36 --> 00:10:37
			Hold that book.
		
00:10:38 --> 00:10:40
			That's because that book never gets old.
		
00:10:42 --> 00:10:44
			Keep that book close to your heart.
		
00:10:45 --> 00:10:46
			Love that book.
		
00:10:46 --> 00:10:48
			Read that book. Understand that book and live
		
00:10:48 --> 00:10:50
			your life according to that book
		
00:10:51 --> 00:10:53
			As shown by the one who brought that
		
00:10:53 --> 00:10:56
			book and who is he? Muhammad
		
00:11:00 --> 00:11:01
			Because that book,
		
00:11:02 --> 00:11:04
			not not in a physical form, but the
		
00:11:04 --> 00:11:04
			Quran
		
00:11:05 --> 00:11:06
			will go with us.
		
00:11:07 --> 00:11:09
			And will be the Ravi said the one
		
00:11:09 --> 00:11:10
			who resides
		
00:11:11 --> 00:11:12
			before he goes to sleep,
		
00:11:13 --> 00:11:15
			will make shafa for that person in the
		
00:11:15 --> 00:11:17
			cover and on the day of judgement.
		
00:11:19 --> 00:11:21
			The kitab of Allah will make shafa'at for
		
00:11:21 --> 00:11:22
			the person on the day of judgement. But
		
00:11:22 --> 00:11:24
			if the the book of Allah will say,
		
00:11:24 --> 00:11:26
			he stayed awake all night, You Rabb, you
		
00:11:26 --> 00:11:28
			Rabb, he used to pray and he used
		
00:11:28 --> 00:11:30
			to make tahajjud and he used to worship
		
00:11:30 --> 00:11:32
			and he used to read me. Now, I
		
00:11:32 --> 00:11:34
			make shafa'at. There is no shafa'at which is
		
00:11:34 --> 00:11:37
			superior to the shafa'at of the kalamullah because
		
00:11:37 --> 00:11:38
			the kalam of Allah is the sifat of
		
00:11:38 --> 00:11:39
			Allah's
		
00:11:42 --> 00:11:44
			Hold that book close. Let us get our
		
00:11:44 --> 00:11:47
			priorities right. This dunya, no matter what it
		
00:11:47 --> 00:11:48
			is, that's why I tell people, do this
		
00:11:48 --> 00:11:49
			as an exercise.
		
00:11:51 --> 00:11:54
			Look at the people you love and say,
		
00:11:54 --> 00:11:56
			you will not be here tomorrow.
		
00:11:56 --> 00:11:58
			You will not be here tomorrow. You will
		
00:11:58 --> 00:11:59
			not be here tomorrow.
		
00:12:00 --> 00:12:01
			You will not be here. I will be
		
00:12:01 --> 00:12:01
			alone.
		
00:12:03 --> 00:12:05
			I will be alone before Allah. In my
		
00:12:05 --> 00:12:07
			grave I will be alone.
		
00:12:08 --> 00:12:09
			If in that grave if I do not
		
00:12:09 --> 00:12:11
			have the mercy of Allah, if I do
		
00:12:11 --> 00:12:13
			not have the kitab of Allah, if I
		
00:12:13 --> 00:12:14
			do not have my salah, if I do
		
00:12:14 --> 00:12:16
			not have my sauwah and my zakat,
		
00:12:17 --> 00:12:18
			if I, if my earning is haram, if
		
00:12:18 --> 00:12:21
			my food is haram, then you cannot help
		
00:12:21 --> 00:12:22
			me. You cannot help me. You cannot, nobody
		
00:12:22 --> 00:12:23
			can help me.
		
00:12:24 --> 00:12:25
			I'm alone.
		
00:12:26 --> 00:12:27
			Nobody can
		
00:12:29 --> 00:12:31
			today if something happens to me, you are
		
00:12:31 --> 00:12:34
			here and help me. Somebody will do something
		
00:12:34 --> 00:12:35
			in the cover. Nothing.
		
00:12:36 --> 00:12:38
			Let us prepare for that.
		
00:12:38 --> 00:12:41
			Let us prepare for that because that is
		
00:12:41 --> 00:12:42
			the only certainty
		
00:12:42 --> 00:12:43
			in our life.
		
00:12:44 --> 00:12:46
			Everything else is uncertain, but that is certain.
		
00:12:46 --> 00:12:48
			Let's prepare for that. We ask Allah
		
00:12:49 --> 00:12:51
			to help us to live this life in
		
00:12:51 --> 00:12:53
			a way where our will become
		
00:12:53 --> 00:12:55
			gardens of Jannah. We ask Allah to live
		
00:12:55 --> 00:12:56
			help us to live this life in a
		
00:12:56 --> 00:12:58
			way where he's pleased with us, where he
		
00:12:58 --> 00:13:00
			forgives us, where he covers us with his
		
00:13:00 --> 00:13:01
			mercy. We ask
		
00:13:02 --> 00:13:04
			Allah to make us enable us to live
		
00:13:04 --> 00:13:06
			our lives according to the blessed sunnah of
		
00:13:06 --> 00:13:07
			Muhammad
		
00:13:09 --> 00:13:11
			So that when we meet him inshaAllah, we
		
00:13:11 --> 00:13:14
			will have the company of of Rasool Allah
		
00:13:14 --> 00:13:15
			sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and the ambiya and
		
00:13:15 --> 00:13:17
			the sahaba rizwan like alayhi wa sallam.