Mirza Yawar Baig – ROI of Iman
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My brothers and sisters,
in the first ayat, 1st rakaat, Sheikh recited
the eye of Surat Al Baqarah
where Allah commanded
because we know that any ayah which begins
with aya al ladheenaaman was a command.
So Allah
commanded and said, yeah,
Allah said and commanded and said oh you
believe spend in the path of Allah
from what we have provided you
before
a day
comes
where there will be no
business,
there will be no bargaining,
there will be no friendship,
And there will be no intercession.
And those who deny
are the oppressors.
I want to ask myself and you a
question. The question is,
what do you consider
in business?
When you buy something,
what do you consider to be
the best thing you buy?
What's the
criteria?
How do you say something is good?
And I'm very happy I bought this thing.
How do you say that? On what basis?
Serves my needs.
Serves your needs?
Okay. So, for example, if you have to
buy rice, which just serves your needs, and
but you are paying $50.50
a kilogram for that rice.
Is that a good buy?
No. Unless you're starving. I mean, other than
that, you know. I I mean, so is
my need, but $50 for 1 kilo of
rice, no way. ROI?
Exactly.
Return on investment.
What did I put in? What will I
get out of it?
Every once in a while you hear this,
this story of somebody who goes and cleans
an attic and they find this old painting
and they don't know what it is and
they dust it off and so on. And
somebody says, go and show it to, you
know, some art collector and they say, oh
my god. You got a money and this
is a original and this is worth $5,000,000.
Right?
But that's a great thing. Fantastic. You you
paid nothing for it or maybe maybe you
want you found it in Savers, for example.
Right? You paid $15 for it and you
got
$5,000,000. ROI, return on investment. What did I
put in? What is my return?
I wanted to hold that in my this
is exactly what Allah is saying. Allah is
saying invest
before the opportunity of investment will shut.
Now
I want to link this to a story
which
Sheikh said, Abdullah Sheikh Abdullah mentioned 2 or
3 days ago, 2 days ago, I think.
Where he mentioned a Sahabi,
Suheb Arumih.
Right? Those of you who were there for
that Khadar, you were going over there. Suheb
Arumih.
Arum is the Roman. He was not Roman.
He was actually from Yemen.
He was the son of 1 of the
Yemeni chieftains.
And his mother took him to
for a holiday to a seaside resort.
And the Romans raided. And he was a
little kid. He was about maybe 4, 5
years old. There was a Roman raid, and
the Romans,
they raided, you know, they they kidnapped people
or what not. So we don't know what
happened to the mother, but this kid got
kidnapped by the Romans.
And he was taken away as a slave
and he was sold.
And eventually he grew up and so on.
In the course of that,
he was a bright kid. Whoever
took him in as a slave, you know,
little kids, so they were good to him
there. So he learned,
Latin, which was
the language of the Romans.
Arabic was his original language because he was
a human, but he spoke Arabic with a
Latin accent. And the Arabs are very,
sort of very, you know, picky about their
language. They
looked down on anyone who,
spoke Arabic without the correct accent or whatnot.
So they used to call him the wrong
one because he spoke Arabic with his accent.
Now he came to to Makai. Eventually, he
landed up in Makai as the as a
slave of 1 of the Quraysh.
And,
he was very bright. He had great ideas.
So he said to his master, he said,
look, I there's no point in you
treating me like, you know,
like ordinary
labor, you know, digging holes in the ground
or something. I I have intelligence. I I
know how to do business. Why don't you
and I go into partnership,
and I will do business and I will
share with you?
So the master said, okay. I mean, this
is money for nothing.
He's doing all the work. I'm getting some
share.
So he said okay.
Now in the time that so ever Ravi
Radialano
spent in Mecca, he became very wealthy. So
the master obviously became very wealthy. He was
very he was master appreciated him because he
was making a lot of money for him.
So, you know,
that is when Rasulullah
came on the scene.
Was one of the first people to accept
Islam.
And the moment that happened, the master
got
worried. He said, this guy is going to
go away or something.
And then the Hijra happened, and he said,
some left for Madina.
So the master put a special guard on
the soya baruah, to make sure he doesn't
go anywhere.
But
he managed to give his guards
the slip
and one night he
took off for Madinah.
His wealth,
all his money, which was probably just gold
because that's how they used to keep it.
He hid it in some place
in Makkah.
So he just had his weapons and he
left. And he was also a soldier because,
you know, he trained with the Romans, so
he he was a soldier.
Now for Anas Barath Khanar,
the Horej got wind of that pretty quickly
and they sent a
party behind him to catch him.
Now he is running ahead. They are behind
him.
Eventually,
they were catching up with him, so there
was a hillock,
a rocky hillock. He climbed on top of
that,
and they surrounded it. So now this is
a stalemate.
They start they surrounded the hillock. He is
on top. They started closing the
circle.
So he called out. He was behind a
rock. He called out and he said, you
know, I am an archer. And he was
very famous for his archery.
He said, you know, I am an archer,
and I have the name of every single
one of you on one of my arrows.
So I've got an arrow with your name,
every one of them on it.
So they stopped.
They didn't want they didn't want to take
chances with that.
But the reality was that there were maybe
20 of them is one of them. So
what's he going to do? He can't he
can't just stay awake all night, all day.
They can take turns to sleep. So he
knew this was not going to he is
not going to win this thing.
So he said to them, why are you
behind me? I mean, what have I done
to you? They said, no. We are running
against you. Right?
But you came to Makkah with nothing
and all your wealth you made in Makkah.
Now you are going to go away.
So we want the money.
That's it. You can you can become Muslim
and so we don't care about that.
So Suheb Arun
said to them, how are these? I will
tell you where my money is in Mecca.
You go take it. Let me go. They
said okay.
Now listen carefully to the story. See see
where the catch is. There's a catch in
the story.
And that's what happened. He told them,
it's a sense of a place.
They left him and they went away.
And he
continued on his way to Madina.
He reached
Rasulullah.
Allah
had sent Jibreel Salam with this news to
Wissalam already.
So as soon as Suheva Rumi came, Wissalam
said, that was a great bargain.
That was a great bargain. You made a
great bargain.
What was the bargain?
The bargain was his entire wealth.
Everything he owned,
except the shirt on his back
and his weapons. Everything he owned in exchange
for.
Abra Bajaj is talking about ROI.
What's the ROI?
No?
I told you there's a catch in the
story. What's the catch in the story? Supposing,
for example,
you are
may I, like, keep you away from me.
I'm not just saying it as an example.
You are pursuing these guys on top of
this thing, and he tells you, I will
tell you where the money is. Let me
go. Go take the money. What will you
do?
Will you go away?
What will you
do? Send somebody. You all must come and
study military strategy with me and teach you.
What will you do? Send somebody to verify.
Exactly.
Makes sense. No? How do I know your
lie? You are you are maybe you're maybe
lying. You are trying to get away your
life. Why should I believe you? Right?
Send somebody to verify if it is their
khalas. Otherwise,
why did they do that?
Just ask this question. Why did they not
do that?
They are dumb. They are stupid people. They
are they have as much intelligence as we
have.
They know these kinds of situations much more
than we do. How many times have you
pursued somebody up 11? That never. Right? These
things don't happen now.
Why did they not do
that? For one simple reason.
And I'll tell you that reason with another
story. I was in South Africa
few years ago, and I was speaking to
a group of,
they were politicians, they were
business people, and and so on and so
on. And some of couple of them were
judges
in the South African high court.
And when I told them this story,
one of the judges after the ban was
over, he came to me and said, Sheikh,
you know something? He said, in the apartheid
regime, we're talking about the white man's rule,
apartheid regime.
In the courts of law,
Muslim witnesses
were not required
to swear to speak the truth.
The apartheid regime was Christian.
They were Dutch Reformed Christians.
A Christian
witness would have to put his hand on
the Bible and say, I swear to speak
the truth and nothing but a Muslim? No.
I said why?
He said because they said Muslims don't lie.
He said Muslims don't lie.
Who's saying this?
It's not a Sharia court. This is a
South African apartheid regime
court
in a country which was very strongly Christian.
The Muslims are they're not equal to the
whites. No way. They lived in their enclaves
and so on and so forth. There is
segregation, everything.
But in a court of law, they said
Muslims don't lie.
So if you are a Muslim,
you give witness, we accept.
You don't need to swear to speak the
truth because you speak the truth.
So they believed Swarva Srubarumi.
But even the enemies,
they believe that
this
is a follower of who?
Muhammad Mustafa
whose title was what?
The truthful and the trustworthy.
So how can his followers
be liars?
How can his followers
deceive deceive anybody?
Not possible.
No way.
Not possible.
If I claim to follow Muhammad
I cannot lie.
Right?
So my question is this,
Allah has told us,
spend before
that day.
The Saab understood that.
And they spent.
And there's only one story. I can tell
you any number of such stories.
They spent. Why?
Because they saw
an ROI. They saw the return on the
investment.
They didn't see this as my goal.
They said, what am I getting for this?
I'm getting.
What
is the value of?
Impossible. How are you going to who's your
numb who who has the numbers for that?
I remind myself on you, it's the same
religion.
It is the same religion.
Nothing changed.
Allah is the same.
The household is the same.
The kitab of Allah is the same.
The sharia or the sunnah is the same.
So what changed?
Our hearts changed.
Our goals changed.
Our focus changed.
Because we started thinking and we started
believing and we started desiring.
Like those who don't understand Jannah.
Who don't understand the akhara.
They don't know Allah.
They don't know Rasulullah
Should there be a difference between them and
us or no?
That is why our
is so weak.
Because we have no.
Why should I follow you?
I lie, you lie. I cheat, you cheat.
I drink, you drink.
I chase,
you know,
when I'm sitting here. There used to be
a song.
Something for free. Yeah?
You do all that. I do all that.
So what's the difference?
So become Muslim to for what? To grow
a beard?
Why?
We need to give people a reason.
And that reason is not talk.
People come to me, say, I want to
become a great speaker. I said, what? To
give the to who?
You
to
yourself.
You to yourself. Forget people.
What are you offering me if I if
you're telling me become Muslim?
For what? Why should I become Muslim? You
know, what's the differential?
Yeah.
People did not become Muslim
at the end of the Sahaba because the
Sahaba were great speakers
or great debaters.
They didn't become Muslim because Sahaba went around,
you know, alright. Tell me here.
$100
notes.
You know, how many you want? No.
They became Muslim because they saw the Sahaba.
And they said, what can I do? I
mean, how can I become like you?
What did they see?
All of this we know.
No mystery.
But you have to give some time.
Either go read
or come and listen.
And then practice
in your own life.
Ask Allah to
enable us to
live and walk our talk.
To practice what we preach. So that when
the rubber meets the road,
we will be safe.
Because Allah
believe me gives us Allah has written our
father.
And Allah has written how much food you
will get and how much money you will
get and whether you will marry or not
or whether it's happy or not or whether
it's how much power, authority,
this, that, that,
everything.
And Allah does not stop your lunch because
you miss.
Allah does not stop your dinner because you
did not come from to the masjid. Nothing.
All that will be given. But the minute
Malakor mouth come before you and me, the
entire equation changes.
Everything changes.
Because that's the time of reckoning.
And we don't know when that comes.
We do not know when that comes.
I ask Allah
to make us aware of this and to
live a life awareness
and to
spend in
in the path of Allah as an investment
in our own which is what it is.