Mirza Yawar Baig – Prepare for success

AI: Summary ©
The speaker discusses the negative impact of young people's education systems on society and how they have caused drop in growth. They stress the importance of learning and taking responsibility for one's own lives, rather than trying to convince them to do something. The speaker gives a checklist for parents to measure success and encourages them to focus on their own success rather than their generation. They also emphasize the need to practice setting goals and metrics to monitor success and to focus on their own success.
AI: Summary ©
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم.
الحمد لله رب العالمين.
والصلاة والسلام على شرف الأنبياء والمرسلين.
محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله
وسلم تسليماً كثيراً كثيراً.
Our brothers and sisters, we have heard many
people talk about the fact that Rasulullah صلى
الله عليه وسلم used to encourage the youth,
and he gave a lot of very serious
responsibilities to young people.
For example, we have the case of Usama
bin Zaid رضي الله عنه who was given
command of the army, of a battalion which
was going for a Ghazwah, and in that
army were some very senior Sahaba.
We have the example of Musa ibn Umair
رضي الله عنه who Rasulullah صلى الله عليه
وسلم sent from Mecca to Medina as his
representative.
And many of the great Sahaba, many of
the great Ansari Sahaba of Medina accepted Islam
at the hands of Musa ibn Umair رضي
الله عنه, including Sa'ad bin Mu'adh
رضي الله عنه, and Husayn bin Hudayr رضي
الله عنه, and others.
Mu'adh bin Jawal رضي الله عنه, another
great Sahabi, who Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم
sent as his governor and Qadi to Yemen.
And we have the famous Hadith where Rasulullah
صلى الله عليه وسلم was holding the bridle
of his horse, and Mu'adh bin Jawal
was mounted on the horse, and the Prophet
صلى الله عليه وسلم led the horse out
of Medina, and he gave him advice.
It's a long Hadith, I won't mention it
here, but he gave him advice, he asked
him questions about how he will judge, the
basis of judgment from which we have our
basis of our Sharia, which is the Kitab
of Allah, the Sunnah of his Nabi صلى
الله عليه وسلم, Ijma and Qiyas.
And there are others.
But remember one thing, Rasulullah صلى الله عليه
وسلم gave these enormous responsibilities to these young
people, not because they were young.
So understand that.
We get sidetracked, we say, oh, youth, youth.
Youth has nothing to do with it.
It is the effort that those particular youth
put into learning the Deen, and they came
up to the standard of the Nabi صلى
الله عليه وسلم, so he chose them.
He didn't just randomly pick anybody.
He didn't say, okay, all 15-year-olds
come and stand here.
No, he picked one person.
That person happened to be 15.
That person happened to be 17.
That person happened to be 20.
That is immaterial.
So don't get your priorities upside down.
He didn't pick any 20-year-old.
He didn't pick any 17-year-old.
He picked Musab ibn Umair رضي الله عنه
because he was Musab ibn Umair, not because
he was 17.
So what does it tell us?
It tells us that unfortunately in our society,
all that our education system has done, it
has postponed childhood.
It has postponed childhood.
It has postponed maturity.
So we have 20-year-olds and 23
-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 26
-year-olds who are still staying at home,
and their mother makes parathas for them, and
they eat that paratha, and the father pays
all the bills, and they think they are
cat's whiskers.
Seriously, they have not seen one single day
of hardship in their life.
They have not sweated anywhere.
If you put them in one place and
there is no air conditioning, they will have
a fit.
They freak out.
This is what our education system has done.
Created adults who think they are children.
This we have to break out of because
the laws of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
world don't change because we have a Sikh
society which has an education system which does
not educate.
What are Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's laws?
Allah's laws are those who make the effort,
who learn, who take hardship, will win.
No matter which year, whether it is the
7th century, whether it is the 15th century,
whether it is the 20th century, whether it
is the 50th century, or any century, this
is the law of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, the one who makes the effort.
Not your name, not your nasab, not your
hasab, not your wealth, not your father's name,
not how much money you have.
How much effort do you put into whatever
it is that you are doing?
And therefore, I advise myself and you, I
am very happy to see a lot of
young people in the masjid.
Alhamdulillah, spend time in the masjid.
Not just spend time as in sit around
in the masjid, do something.
Learn.
Take responsibility.
I have a checklist.
If you want to see whether you are
capable of responsibility, whether you are fit to
be considered an adult or not, I have
a checklist.
Let me tell you.
And this is an American checklist.
How many of you do the laundry in
your house?
Everybody's laundry.
How many of you wash dishes?
How many of you clean your house?
How many of you take out the garbage?
How many of you wash your father's cars?
Alhamdulillah, you are a winner.
But there's one kid.
How many of you sit and eat parathas?
He's still a winner.
Alhamdulillah, he deserves the paratha.
Nothing wrong, alhamdulillah, if your mother is cooking,
she's cooking for you.
But after you eat that, how many of
you go and thank your mother and say,
Subhanallah, because you are here, I'm getting this.
You do that?
You go and tell her that?
Because of you, I even grew up to
this stage.
Because of you, I have this beautiful life
in this house.
Jazakumullahu khairan, my mother.
Do you say that?
You are 15, 20, 20 years have passed,
15 years have passed, and you have not
said one word.
And your mother, if she had not literally
dedicated her life to you, I'm not exaggerating,
you would be dead.
You would be dead.
Because no newborn child can survive on its
own.
Simple as that, right?
It will perish.
Do we go and thank our mothers?
So very important.
Alhamdulillah, good.
You are on the right path.
You are coming out.
You are doing the work of, starting out
in the work of Deen.
Monitor yourself and say, before this period, what
did I know?
After this period, what do I know?
I'm spending 10 days, 15 days, 20 days,
whatever it is, you are coming out in
Jama'at.
What do you know more than what you
began with?
It's not magic, right?
You can measure it.
So what do you know more?
Do you know one surah more?
Do you know to recite better?
Which usoor have you learnt?
Which ahadith have you learnt?
Which have you implemented in your life?
What have you learnt?
And if you have positive answers for all
of this, Alhamdulillah, great job.
Fantastic.
But if you don't have those positive answers,
that I spent all this time, and then
somebody says, lead your salah, and my surah
Fatiha itself is wrong, then what is the
point of all this time that you spent?
So let us monitor ourselves.
All of us.
I mean, I'm not talking, I'm talking to
these young people, Mashallah, Alhamdulillah, Jazakallah, Khair for
coming.
You are most welcome.
Who have come from different places, New Jersey,
New York, and so on, but this applies
to all of us.
It applies to me, me, and you, and
all of us.
Monitor ourselves and say, what have I learnt
as I'm going through life?
Three more days to go before the earth
completes one circle around the sun.
How does that help me?
How does it change my life?
And that's what I advise you and myself
to do.
Learn skills.
Learn how to communicate.
Learn how to deal with conflicts.
You will have conflicts.
You will have conflicts.
There is no person on the face of
the earth, if you are living in society,
you will have conflicts.
How do you deal with those conflicts?
That's why your success will depend on the
way you deal with the conflict.
How do you set goals?
How do you set metrics to monitor those
goals?
How do you keep yourself motivated?
One of the biggest issues, especially if Allah
gives you success early in life, is plateauing.
There is some hunger.
There is some drive.
But once it comes to a point, okay,
I've got a nice house.
I've got a car.
Now what?
Boom.
How do you keep yourself motivated?
So please think about all this.
I don't want to take too much of
your time.
Think about this.
Make tawbah, make istighfar, because Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala opens the doors of your rizq
for those who make istighfar and tawbah.
Use the time to bring in good habits.
One of which is praying tahajjud.
Alhamdulillah, you are in itikaf in the masjid,
tahajjud becomes easy, but make that into your
habit lifelong.
When you go back home also, make sure
that you are getting up half an hour,
45 minutes before the time for Salatul Fajr
begins, pray tahajjud, read some Quran, and then
go to the masjid for Salatul Fajr.
Make this into your routine every single day.
So your day begins with the worship of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will make
the day full of khair and barakah for
us.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
help us to get close to Him.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
enable us to do those actions which lead
to His Rida.
We ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
be pleased with us and to protect us
from everything that does not please Him.