Mirza Yawar Baig – Relationship of obedience

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.