Mirza Yawar Baig – Relationship of obedience
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The speaker discusses their plans to go to the White Mountains and practice Islam, including seeing fall colors and learning about the "we" and "we" of Islam. They also talk about the "we" and "we" of Islam, which means protecting against persecution. A woman who accepted Islam and is now finding ways to practice it is also mentioned. The speaker emphasizes the importance of practicing Islam as it is their choice and not by lectures or debates, and the need for individuals to present it as it is their choice. A man describes a woman who has been accepted into Islam but needs help finding the right people to present it, and discusses her brother's belief in Islam and confidence in meeting Islam's true partner.
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Salaam alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh, wa salatu wassalamu ala
sharafil anbiyai wal mursaleen, Muhammadur Rasulullahi sallallahu alaihi
wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam, tasliman
kathirin kathirin.
Oh my brother, I'm back in Metrelinku Park.
As you can see, the fall, autumn has
started, and although the trees have not yet
started changing color too much, you still see
the green of summer, but I'm now seeing
a lot of leaf on the ground.
So we're waiting for the colors to change,
and then we'll see what happens.
I'm planning to go to the White Mountains
and do a train ride with my very
dear friend and brother.
His grandfather was my friend, and he's my
friend.
His father, of course, is my friend.
Same name as his grandfather.
So Omar and I are planning to go,
inshallah, on the 20th of October to the
White Mountains and take the train ride there
to see the fall colors.
Inshallah and I will take some videos and
send you.
My brothers and sisters, what we are looking
at here is the maqlouk of Allah.
This is maqlouk looking at maqlouk.
I am the maqlouk of Allah, and what
I'm looking at is also the maqlouk of
Allah.
And if you see this maqlouk of Allah,
Jalla shanuhu, we see that this operates according
to Allah's plan.
Whatever Allah intended for it and intends for
it happens.
So when the time for fall comes, the
time for autumn comes, the trees don't say,
you know, let's wait a bit.
It's like too early now.
Let some leaves stay for a little longer.
Let me do some more photosynthesis.
Let me try and create some more and
accumulate some more starch for the winter because
winters are severe.
The trees don't do all this.
Time for fall comes, leaf falls.
This incidentally is a mushroom of some kind.
And many of them are good to eat,
but of course I am not in the
business of trying any of that because some
of them are highly poisonous, in which also
there is a lesson for us that appearances
are deceptive.
Things that look edible and nice are not
necessarily edible and nice, and so we take
precautions.
We don't say Bismillah and eat it.
All the people who eat machine-slaughtered chickens
and say, say Bismillah and eat, should think
about this.
If you think that works, if you think
that converts a haram into halal, try to
do mushrooms.
Because if you die, this is for this
world.
But if you eat haram and digest it
and live with it, then that is something
to answer in the next world.
So we need to get real with our
deen, seriously.
So anyway, the point I want to make
here is that everything works according to the
hukum of Allah, according to the order of
Allah, according to the system that Allah created.
Allah created the trees for a purpose.
They fulfil their purpose in the way and
according to the timing of Allah.
Not in their own way, not according to
whatever they think should be the timing, but
according to the will of Allah.
Of course, the trees have no choice in
the matter.
I'm just imagining this to make my point.
The trees have no choice in the matter.
They can't decide to shed leaf later or
earlier.
But with us, with the ins and jinn,
Allah gave us the choice.
And we exercised this choice.
He gave us the ability to exercise this
choice.
And this is for the insan and the
jinn.
I know a lot of human beings listen
to my khatirat.
I have no idea if the jinn listen
to it also, but the thing applies to
both of us.
Both the species that Allah created.
I remind myself and you that the thing
that fulfils its purpose is considered useful, is
considered beneficial, and is rewarded.
The thing that does not fulfil its purpose,
Allah first corrects it.
And some of that correction can be very
painful, which is what we are feeling now
as the Ummah of Muhammad.
And if we still don't change our ways,
if we still don't correct ourselves, then Allah
will end us and replace us.
We ask Allah to save us from this,
save us from being replaced.
When I think of this, I really tell
myself, just the other day, a young boy,
he came and accepted Islam.
So when he came and he said, I
want to become Muslim, I said, why?
He said, because I read about Islam and
I really like what I read.
And believe me, I had never seen him
before.
Obviously, I did nothing to guide him to
Islam.
Absolutely nothing.
I take no credit at all because I
didn't do anything.
I didn't even know he was there.
So I said, how did you get to
this?
He said, I have a friend who prays.
This is the thing that we seem to
forget.
Simply the power of Salah.
You'd be surprised how many times I've heard
this statement from people who have reverted, come
back to Islam.
And you ask them, why did you even
think of this?
Why did you even think of Islam?
Because, believe it or not, religion is not
the topical thing nowadays.
Not only Islam.
People are not interested in religion.
People don't want to talk about God.
They don't want to talk about Allah.
They don't want to talk about the Day
of Judgment and the Akhirah and so on.
Not that it changes anything, just because you
don't want to talk about something doesn't mean
that thing goes away or that thing will
happen differently.
But this is the reality today, that people
do not wish to speak about truly the
matters that are of concern, truly the matters
that we should be talking about.
We don't.
To have this young kid in America to
come to the masjid and say, I want
to become Muslim, was absolutely astonishing.
I really, I don't know what to say.
So anyway, he accepted Islam, Alhamdulillah, and we're
teaching him what to do and so on.
He comes, almost every day he comes for
Isha Salah.
Because he's got school and various things in
the daytime, but almost every day he comes
for Isha Salah.
And I'm saying almost because he can't drive,
so he's got, I think his parents or
somebody who drives him here.
And that's another big, big, big lesson for
Muslims who live in countries like this, especially
in the United States.
By and large, people are open to Islam.
In any other place, if your teenage son
or daughter decided to convert to Islam, they
would freak out.
But here they support it.
They say, OK, this is his choice.
And so therefore, it is even more important
to make sure that you present Islam.
And you present Islam not by lectures or
debates or clever tricks.
You present Islam as it is, by living
Islam, by showing people Islam.
Not by the intention of showing them, but
by practicing it so it is seen by
them.
And that's what happened with this kid.
Because I asked him, how did you come
to Islam?
He said, I have a friend who is
a priest.
I've seen him pray.
And I know when I see him praying,
I'm seeing something remarkable.
Now imagine, this was a statement that the
Quraysh made about Abu Bakr as-Siddiq.
Think about the Sira.
The Quraysh said about Abu Bakr as-Siddiq,
when he left Mecca to go away, because
he got tired of their persecution.
And he was stopped by one of the
tribal chiefs on the way.
And the tribal chief asked him, where are
you going?
He said, I'm leaving Mecca.
He said, why?
Why is Abu Bakr leaving Mecca?
He said, because people don't let me worship
the way I want to worship.
People are persecuting me for nothing.
And I've got sick of it.
I've had enough, so goodbye.
So the man said, no, we can't have
this.
You are too important for us.
We cannot have you just going away.
So I will give you protection.
So the man came with Abu Bakr as
-Siddiq.
He brought his sons here.
I can't remember, five or seven sons.
All of them wearing their armor with their
weapons.
They came and he took them to the
Kaaba and stood there and announced and said,
this man is under my protection.
So nobody will trouble him.
So the chiefs of Quraysh, Abu Jahl and
so on, they said to him, look, you
can give protection, but we will accept that
also, but we have a condition.
He said, what's the condition?
He said, he must not pray in a
place where people can see him.
He must not pray, he must not do
Salah in public.
This man himself was perplexed.
And he said, why should he not pray
where people can see him?
I mean, you know, he said, I can
understand if you say, he must not present
Islam to people, he must not make speeches,
he must not talk to people about Islam.
I mean, that can be understood, but he
must not pray in a place where people
can see him.
I mean, what has his prayer got to
do with it?
They said, his prayer has everything to do
with it.
Because people who see him pray, they become
Muslim.
They accept Islam.
People who see him pray, accept Islam.
Now imagine, this kid is coming and telling
me this, not about Abu Bakr al-Siddiq,
but about one of his own colleagues.
Another kid like him, high school kid.
He said, I have seen him pray.
And this brought him to Islam.
Truly, we do not value our Salah.
We do not value the power of our
Salah.
Unless Mahatma put so much power in the
Salah, that if you pray regularly, and you
pray with Khushu, unless Mahatma changes the hearts
of people who even look at you, and
imagine if Allah is changing the heart of
somebody who looked at you, and surely Allah
will change also your and my hearts.
As I told you, my brothers and sisters,
we have been created to obey Allah.
Islam is the name of a relationship.
And that relationship is a relationship of Ubudiyyah.
A relationship of obedience.
Islam is the name of a relationship between
the servant and the Lord.
It is a relationship of Ubudiyyah.
A relationship of Ubudiyyah between the servant and
the Lord.
Islam is the name of a relationship, and
it is a relationship of Ubudiyyah, of worship,
of obedience, of submission.
وَإِذْ قَالَ لَهُ رَبُّهُ أَسْلِمْ قَالَ أَسْلِمْ بِحَبِّ
الْعَالَمِينَ Allah said about Ibrahim A.S., Khalilullah,
that his Rabb said to him, Allah is
talking about himself, his Rabb said to him,
submit, and he said, I have submitted.
He didn't say, let me think about it,
I've got some questions, I need some clarifications,
nothing.
He said, submit, and he said, I have
submitted.
I ask Allah to help us to understand
this, and to become his Ibad, his true
slaves, so that we, when we meet him,
we can be sure of his forgiveness.
We can be sure of meeting him in
a state where he is pleased with us.
Because, brothers and sisters, let me show you,
that is the only thing which matters.
The only thing.
Nothing else matters.
The only thing which matters is, is Allah
pleased with me or not?
I ask Allah to include us and join
us, and keep us with those who he
is pleased with.