Mirza Yawar Baig – Ramadan Reminder #26

			Salam ala Rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa salatu salam ala COVID mursaleen Hamza Rasulullah
sallallahu alayhi wa sahbihi seldom at the Sleeman kathira ammirato.
		

			Just as we are talking about the issue of Riba and the issue of Namibia,
		

			and the issue of Baton,
		

			backbiting, incinerating,
		

			and
		

			slander.
		

			I'm spending so much of time on this because this is truly one of the biggest
		

			evils that exists in our society. And I see this in all my travels around the world.
		

			I see that very sadly. We seem to be joined through evil things, much more than we are joined
through good things. If you want to look for good things in our people today. I know this sounds
bad, but this is the sad, sad reality. If I want to see good things in the oma today, say for
example, people who are charitable people who are coming out of their homes and volunteering in
times of stress and
		

			different difficulties and so on and so forth. If I want to look at the importance of the focus on
scholarship,
		

			on studying on getting qualified in different sciences, different bodies of knowledge, if I want to
look for all of these kinds of things, I find them but I find them in pockets. The Muslim oma as an
oma is not known for these things very sadly. On the other hand, if I want to if I look at the Sikhs
		

			immediate thought in the mind comes as people who are the fourth in the forefront as far as service
is concerned, is truly when they consider not for nothing. They are in the forefront. As far as
service is concerned. Any place of conflict, any place of national disaster. Any place for example,
the Rohingya genocide that is happening in Myanmar, if we go to the refugee camps in in Syria, you
find six you go to the refugee
		

			refugee camps in Bangladesh, you find six, what are they doing, they're giving aid to people,
they're feeding people, they're you know, helping them medical medically and so on and so forth, it
seems to be the the signature of the community
		

			right it seems to be a signature of their community. And that is why globally today the impression
opinion about Sikhs is so positive. And if somebody were to
		

			want to criticize them, if somebody wanted to back backtrack the Sikhs, they would have a very
difficult time because the counter narrative in the in the environment is directly opposite of that.
Take for example, the Jewish community if you know what else is happening, but if you want to look
at excellence in in learning and teaching
		

			in in research and technology,
		

			today, the community which stands out are the Jewish people, right you will learn maximum number of
attorneys who take doctors you take you know engineers, you take research scientists, you see really
bad breaking research, where does it come from? It comes out from Jewish universities it comes out
the Jews are the people who are in the forefront of that and so on and so forth. Now, the point is
that
		

			if you look at the Muslim Ummah, where do we seem to
		

			be most talked about in ostentation, in luxury, in you know, wasteful spending or things like this,
you will not find them in these positive
		

			in this was positive seeing the positive matters, it does give you an example the the at the annual
global Motor Show
		

			in Sweden in I forget the exact years now, but
		

			the example is therefore, to illustrate not not so much as a historical documentation, but the
global show in Sweden.
		

			If a Swedish person took that, that took his son or daughter to this global show the the absolute
		

			remarkable thing in that in that Motor Show the pictures and stars in the in the thing was a
carburetor design was a very very special carburetor design, which reduced fuel consumption which
gave much more power to the engine, and so on and so forth. So the focus was on this
		

			Advanced piece of engineering, the same order. So in the UAE in Dubai, the focus was gold plated
wheel rims.
		

			We did not think about therefore, what does it tell you about our societies what is the focus of the
society in one place is the focus of the society is on advanced engineering on the others. In the
other case, the focus of society is on that just showing off. Now, this is the problem as far as we
are concerned and that's why I'm thinking he was really focused on our character and the building of
character and that's why we these all these series of lectures that we are doing on the flock of
God, on leaving Islam and so on and so on.
		

			To stay with the topic of of Riba backbiting it is narrated by hafeez almondbury. He said that the
oma is unanimously agreed that nama which is insinuating which is innuendo is forbidden and it is
one of the greatest sins in the sight of Allah subhanaw taala. There are many texts which condemned
MMR and spying, this is another very major problem as far as we are concerned, we are so concerned
about
		

			the negative things of somebody else's life. We are not spying to see how good somebody is, we are
looking to see what faults we can find in that person. And believe me, you can always find faults,
isn't there is nobody in the world. Who's perfect, right? You would except for the last answer,
there is no one there was nobody. So file files if you want to find for a blank plenty, plenty of
ones. So but what does it say about the person who is searching for those forms? What kind of
mentality is that? That all you can do is to go and you can come and go and you look for things in
somebody's weaknesses for which then you spend your time
		

			backbiting and criticizing those people.
		

			The Rasul Salam in in one Hadees, he said no person who spreads Mima will enter.
		

			As I mentioned, to, you know, Eva is insinuating his innuendo. You did not even say anything. So if
somebody mentions a person say somebody mentioned me says, in some gathering, somebody says, you
know, do you know, you're big? and someone says, Ah, ha, yeah, tell me tell me.
		

			Now, what what is that? What kind of an impression does that give you? Is that person going to say
something complimentary about me? Or is that person trying to do assassinate my character? Having
said nothing? So when I say to the person, well, what happened? Why are you you know, what have you
got against the man? He said, No, I didn't say anything.
		

			I didn't say anything. But without saying anything. You said everything.
		

			You know, I was listening to a lecture by Jamar Ah, hmm.
		

			Now, he just made some noise here. Ah, huh. But he said everything that he said everything is the
purpose of Mima, the purpose of innuendo purpose of,
		

			of insinuating is to
		

			literally character assassinate somebody without actually saying any words. And it's unfortunately
very effective. And the reason why it's effective is because most of us have this tendency of
		

			the willingness to believe the worst about somebody before we believe the before instead of
believing the best about somebody right? Now we expect the best from your brother, forgive your
brother 70 times every day, right? hosting isn't expect the best from from your, from your brother
and sister. But we have the we do the opposite. We are we expect the worst. We believe the worst is
to believe the best and not expect believe the best. And but but we believe that we believe the
worst, we believe the worst, most readily. And on top of that, even if somebody comes to us with
evidence to the contrary, we are unwilling to change our minds. We will still we will still keep
		

			insisting that what we believed about that person is the actual fact and that this evidence is
faulty. So that is why our souls are upset.
		

			In this Hadith, in Bukhari Muslim, no person who spreads Nabila will enter gender. Another one, he
said, No eavesdropper, which is the word use this cup that will enter gender akata is someone who
spreads nominate somebody who, you know, spread these kinds of insinuations. And it was said that
the one who spreads in the Mima is the person who is with a group who is
		

			When he's speaking or she's speaking, they spread gossip about them and the cutout is the one who
listens to them without realized without them realizing and then he spreads gossip about them. So
there's two kinds of people one who slips and backdrops and the other one who over over hears his
drops. And then he goes on, you know what I heard the other day. I was like, you know, what I
		

			think about these numbers is this.
		

			You know, is this, the headings of the three? The sutras were sort of said three people will be will
be
		

			presented on a swatara the one will be the scholar on the island. The second one will be a generous
person, philanthropist, and the third one will be Mujahid who fought in the Battle, all three of
them because they said they will come with
		

			no, no, this is a different edition. I'm sorry. I got confused. The headings of the what nosers are
called the heydays of the destitute he asked the Sahaba he said you know who are the destitute of
this oma
		

			rasa Salah Arsalan asked the Sahaba he said, Do you know who are the destitute of this woman? The
cybercity line is no they know best. And then they said Dr. sola is somebody who has no DRAM or
dinner, somebody who has no wealth.
		

			The destitute of the Zuma is not somebody who does not have with material wealth, he said, the
destitute of Zuma is somebody who will come before Allah subhanaw taala on the Day of Judgment, with
good deeds, the size of the mountain of what,
		

			but when there is there and they are standing before Allah subhanaw taala having done all this
enormous amount of good,
		

			they will find that there is a long line of people who they have wronged
		

			and he said these are people somebody may have hurt physically somebody they may have maligned
somebody who's really bad they did do that, who the back bit, somebody who they slandered somebody
who about whom they spread nama, people, they spied upon people, they abused people that cause
people that beat people who's who's, you know, whose rights, the virus and so on. So, that said,
there will be a long line of people waiting before Allah subhanho. And then what Allah will do is,
he will recompense those people, by taking from the deeds, the good deeds that this person that did,
and
		

			that will continue until this mountain of
		

			size of good deeds will be reduced to zero. All the deeds will be finished, but the line of paper
will still be there.
		

			And then there isn't as observed that Allah subhanho wa Taala, of course Allah Allah, Allah subhanaw
taala will ask those people and say, how, what do you want me to do? Now? What do you want me to do?
Because this man has or This woman has nothing left.
		

			Those people will say, yeah, Allah, then give our evil deeds give our sins to that person.
		

			And this will be done.
		

			And that person who came before Allah subhanho data with a
		

			with the hog mountain size of good deeds, will go into the Hellfire with carrying the evil deeds of
somebody else.
		

			Now, even when I first read this, I remember I thought to myself, and I said, How is it possible
that
		

			somebody who has so much of the How does it even accumulate so many, you know, people who have to be
compensated by giving the good be giving your own good deeds? I mean, this is like, you know, was
difficult to understand, until I discovered internet. Right? What I mean by that is, remember, even
one WhatsApp message, one email. Now one thing that you write and use spread about somebody, that
thing has the equivalent of eternal life.
		

			It just circulates and goes round and round and round and round and round and long after you're
dead, that thing is still circulating, and collecting evil for you. That is, how bad it is. and sad
to say, technology makes it easier for us to lose our good deeds, we need to be very, very careful.
Think about very important, therefore to monitor our conversations.
		

			But think about how we speak what we speak. I remember, I mean, as I told you, I travel all over the
world. And one of the things that I find and this is I see in in, in people from my country from
Indian people, by which I mean you know, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, but maybe this is true with
others.
		

			Also,
		

			almost invariably, you have somebody living in Malaysia.
		

			You ask them and they haven't. The reason they went to Malaysia is because the Malaysian lifestyle
and the religion conditions were better than their own country, right Otherwise, why did they go to
they went,
		

			but when you talk to them and say well, how are things? So you know, these Malaysians, they are so
bad people, they are this they are that they are that and they are
		

			not one good thing to say about Malaysia or Malaysian people. So I always asked them, I said, Why
are you here? Why don't you go back to India? because this place is so bad. You know what the
		

			locals know answer to them. Then ask them Do you know any Malaysians? Do you have any Malaysian
friends? No, they're so unfriendly, then
		

			how will anybody invite you and this is your opinion about them.
		

			And I see the same thing. Middle East, you go you go to the way you go to Saudi Arabia, you go to
Qatar, you go to Oman, you go to quit. almost invariably you ask them about local people. You ask
them about the country and you only get a negative response.
		

			Now, I live in Saudi Arabia in 2003 for a whole year agenda. I had the option of living in a
compound which would which would I expect him so it would be mostly Indians and so on it would have
some white people. I chose not to live in a compound. I chose to live in a regular Saudi look at it.
And I live in Jeddah in a regular Saudi locality right across the street from
		

			the whole building. I was in an apartment the whole building I was the only Indian in that building.
Everybody else was
		

			my knowledge of Arabic was pathetic. practically nothing I could speak those people opposite there
is equal to our English. But we got along famously we were we would meet in the masjid we would come
they would invite me home. And you know, give me a vote we they would send food down we'll have
there for half of the year and my wife was not with me so I was alone. And they realized that I'm
not cooking so they would send food to me.
		

			One of them every time we went to MCI would come back with four or five jerry cans of zum zum for
me, it would bring he brings up some items like whatever I would have been.
		

			I have to refuse. I'd say you know last time what you brought me still with me. And those people
were 2003 We are now in 2020 I still have contact with them. I am still friends with them and those
people I am still you know we love each other.
		

			You have
		

			we have you know people there who one of them. Manda our mahadi melas May Allah bless him mark is a
		

			very very dear friend close friend of mine. Babu Arab. He took me to Medina once he you know, I
stayed in his house. He I told him book me or tell he takes me to his house. And we have dinner and
everything else. And then I said okay, let me go to my core resting, you know, to the hotel room. He
said this is the door over the road. There's a bedroom I said what? He said how can you stay in a
hotel when my house is here?
		

			How can you say man? He was one of my students. He said You are my teacher? How can you stay in a
hotel when my house is here? This is not our culture.
		

			And then when I'm leaving the next day, his mother and his wife both of them are standing at the
door behind the door. They seem to be there is any mistake we made Please forgive us if you didn't
like the food and this was absolutely beautiful super food
		

			is a another friend of mine in Makkah agua de Bella blossom. I go to Makkah, immediately. It's like
It's like I'm going home, you know, invites me cooks beautiful food and so on. So, honey and soldati
another beautiful friend of mine. He knows I like horseradish. Honey also, Ryder take notes at
		

			the young man, a chef with a very, very beautiful recitation. He used to correct my touch with I
would sit with him and take the lessons he was at my age, but who cares? As far as learning is
concerned, learning is learning. I would sit with him. Chevallier Mahachi, again, a rider he had
horses himself. And that was a time and I wrote Beautiful, beautiful Arabian horses. And they were
very happy to see you right. So well I should have done like this.
		

			And be right. My point is, if you make no effort to low people, to be good to people to be open with
people, how will you How will you ever you know, make friends and how will you have a positive
opinion about people in our people who are positive about you? And instead of that we continuously
do that. My point is, I'm not saying to that there is no fault in Malaysian people or in Saudi
people on an Indian people.
		

			Your efforts. But if you only look at those faults, and you only constantly keep talking about No,
this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong. All you're doing is spreading hatred. All you're doing
is completely and totally, you know, worthless behavior. My brother sisters, monitor your
conversation, monitor your conversation, when you are speaking or other people are speaking in your
circle and songs over monetary accommodation, if you find that conversation is critical, if you find
that people are finding fault, then immediately get out of that place or tell people Please don't do
that. If you are truly critical about something, and that is a genuine problem, go and talk to the
		

			person concerned, go and talk to the person concerned go and try to find a solution for that,
instead of
		

			just back talking to each other, that serves absolutely no purpose. And this is the whole, you know,
issue about that's what that's what Islam promotes, not to do any of this kind of thing, it is
extremely harmful. And it is
		

			of course, it is also totally hot that we that we do like this, you know, in
		

			in the
		

			the whole the whole point of this is that it is it is something that that destroys the oma
		

			and it is, as I told you, I keep giving the example of, of, of termites, and I think that's a good
example because you don't see the action of termites until it is too late. Because they go inside,
and then they're eating the wood from inside until it becomes and then the whole thing collapses.
It's I have a friend or I had a friend, he died, he died.
		

			He was sitting on his he sat on a chair on the first floor of his house in Sri Lanka. And in
Colombo, and the rafters collapsed the floor fell too, because the rafters had all been eaten by
termites. And there was a bit heavy. And he sat in his chair and the whole thing came down he came
down with it on the stone floor below. And he never recovered from his injuries he died. The point
I'm saying is that this is how serious it is. Really think about that, that there is so much of
division in this Omar so many.
		

			You know how divided we are there? We have hardly anything good to say about anybody else? And how
does it help us? Tell me? How does it help us? It does absolutely help us. So I think it really
seriously now that we are sitting at home, thanks to COVID-19 sank because of Ramadan again, oh,
that is coming. We are in Nevada.
		

			Let us spend some time to think about, sit with your family. Talk to your family. Monitor your
conversations, monitor your social life and remind you know many people live live women is a women
only gospel Believe me that's not true. I wish it was true. I could also join that gang. It's not
women gossip, men gossip. It's just that men when they get together, sometimes they have a little
more to talk about because you know they have some shared interest in businesses business and this
and that. But otherwise, our time goes in gossip, and gossip will always about somebody else. This
is an utterly, totally shameful thing. on this subject, also, let me tell you, we tend to talk a
		

			whole lot in our politics and so on. Again, it is a waste of time. So apart from being you know, bad
and
		

			something which is reprehensible from a religious angle is also a complete and total waste of time,
at the end of one of these gossiping sessions. If one of the thing maybe you should do is tell
people at the end of the session say, you know, what did we get from this?
		

			What did we get from this? Seriously? Again, remember, one more thing is in this gossip business,
the one who is gossiping, loses his or her good deeds to the one who's being gossiped about, and the
one who's listening is an equal partner in that. So if if you are not gossiping, but you are
listening to somebody who's gossiping, both of you are together in that evil. So if somebody starts
saying something critical about another person, what must you do? immediately stop them and tell
them so excuse me, please don't tell me that. Do not tell me about that person. I don't want to
know.
		

			If you think if you think that that critical thing which you want to say is important. Go talk to
that person, go and tell them. Don't tell me I'm not interested. I don't want to know if they don't
listen to you. And if they continue, then get up and walk away. Please understand my brothers and
sisters. It's not about politeness, there is no politeness in disobeying Allah Subhana.
		

			If you want to be polite there on the day of gentlemen, you will find what I mentioned to you in the
Hadees which is you will be standing there with your good deeds and there is a whole long line of
people who want them from you. Please understand this. This is a very very critical element that we
are
		

			Get forwarded as received is a noose around your neck. Please understand, it does not absolve you
from the responsibility even legally doesn't mean if you look at it, if what you are forwarding is
something which is against the law, if it is something which is
		

			recommending or which is promoting something which is against the law, believe me, you are as guilty
as the person doing it and you will actually be in problems. Even legally, you might actually you
might end up having getting pulled up or getting arrested for committing a crime because you're
promoting something which is negative. So even in this world, just saying forward, just putting
something on a group and saying you know, this is a good thing. No, it doesn't work even in this
world. It is something that can land you in trouble and with Allah subhanaw taala definitely doesn't
work. It is something which will land you in trouble we don't need that my brothers sisters remember
		

			when we stand before most manager we have little enough as it is do not allow that to be destroyed
to revert to an amoeba so baton to spying to possesses. All of these things are prohibited in Islam.
Let us ensure that we live our lives in a way which pleases Allah subhanho
		

			wa Taala Alana Bukhari while he was happy is made with
		

			Amina Mohammed reliability Salam aleikum wa rahmatullah wa barakato.