Mirza Yawar Baig – Sabr and Salah
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My brothers, sisters and brothers, Allah
commanded us to have Sabr,
and Allah
made a statement about Sabah that He didn't
make
with regard to anything else.
Allah said first bill
that have is a command.
And Allah said
2 different is not part of the same.
Allah said Allah is with the people of
people who make some.
Allah did not say
Now
if you
think about this, the concept of
in Islam is very
different from what is normally understood by.
Usual understanding of is to just sit
and do nothing.
Feel helpless.
What can I do?
We can only have.
What are you doing? I'm having.
This is not.
This is not sabah. This is just helplessness,
learned helplessness. It is just
maybe laziness. It's unwillingness to take risk, unwillingness
to do anything.
The reason I'm saying it that Allah
in
the
Quran mentioned
Sabireen.
And when he mentioned Sabireen, he in that
aya, the meaning of Sabireen is
because Allah
said when there are
if a 100 of you are there Allah
will give you victory over a1000. If you
are 200, Allah will give victory over 400
and so on. So Allah used the word
Allah did not say
but obviously when you read the aya, you
know this is people.
Now if you think about it,
who is more
in the middle of action
than a soldier fighting on the front?
Nobody. Right?
A soldier fighting in a battle on the
front
is the absolute
epitome,
the absolute example of
intense
action,
complete and total commitment to what he's doing
because he's putting his life on the line.
Right?
There are no there are no half measures
there. If you lose, you are dead.
And he knows that. He's not he's not
he he he didn't accidentally find himself there.
He is consciously doing that because he believes
in the cause.
Whatever he's fighting for, he believes in the
cause. He believes in the cause enough to
put his life on the line.
He's not saying, you know, here's somebody you
go fight for me. No, no, no. I
am here.
But Allah called them sabireen.
So how does it equate with our understanding
of Sabah? We do nothing. We sit in
one place.
Waiting for the.
When when will the messiah come? When will,
there is no all this business.
This
is this is in the Hindu religion. You
don't think that God will come in some
form, and he will solve my problem for
me. No. No. No.
There's no there's no avatar business in, you
know, when will Imam Mahdi come? Imam Mahdi
will come to do what Imam Mahdi is
supposed to do. He won't come to solve
your problem.
So we just let us let us get
these things straight. It's because there are lots
of this, you know, foggy
ideas floating around in the minds of people.
You don't do what you're supposed to do.
You tell them,
brother, please go and vote in the election.
No.
All you need to do is go there
and press a button.
I can't do that. I'm going to sit
around. I'm waiting for the Mahdi to come.
So Mahdi will come and do what? He
will he will go there and vote for
you.
Islam
is a religion
of action.
Find me one thing in the Quran or
the sunnah where Allah
said do nothing and I will give you.
Allah will give 10. Did Allah said give
me nothing? I will still give you 10.
Okay. I'll give you 5. You have become
nothing.
I'll give you 1.
No. Everything. 1 is to 10. 1 is
to 700.
After that, without his heart.
You do this much or you get this
much. You look
every single
promise of Allah
in the Quran and every single thing that
Rasulullah
promised
and every action of Nabi
is predicated and it is linked to action.
There is nothing which is for free.
Because this is dunya. I mean, we have
to understand that this religion of ours, alhamdulillah,
alhamdulillah,
is an absolute religion of the fithra religion
of the human nature. We don't have mythology.
We don't have some stories of gods and
goddesses, you know,
gallivanting somewhere and having affairs with each other.
We, then none of this garbage. We have
the deen which is the deen of the
fitra,
which is true to us.
So in this world, tell me what do
you get by doing nothing? Is there anything
in this life that you will get by
doing nothing? Nothing.
The only thing that comes by simply waiting
for it is death.
The only thing in life which will come
by you don't need to do anything is
death. Now think about this.
Only nothing else. For every single everything else,
you have to make action.
You want 10¢, you gotta make action. You
want to have a good body, you got
to go and take the pen. Go do
some exercise, exercise, eat the right food and
this and that and the other.
You want a good mind?
Exercise the mind. Don't spend your whole life
in your face in WhatsApp. You read some
books and, you know,
do asap. Spiritual
health
Make zikr of Allah,
complete your fulfill your for a high. This,
this, this.
You want a good marriage?
Spend time with your wife. Don't spend all
the time with your friend. Your wife is,
you know, languishing at home in solitary confinement.
You are gallivanting all over the world. There
is a my marriage is on the rocks.
Of course, they
what else do you think?
Spend time with your wife. Spend time with
your husband.
Be together with each other. Learn about each
other. That's how relationship builds. No?
How does it build?
So Allah
and see the the the ayaat, how which
one come to Allah
Allah is teaching us about building a relationship.
Why was Allah?
To do the zikr of Allah is
the it is
the reason Allah created us.
So if you are doing, if you are
doing, you are doing what you are created
to do. What am I supposed to I'm
I created you for this purpose. So what
do you want me to do?
This light bulb is here. It is giving
you do you stand here? I am very
thank you very much. Light bulb, you know,
thank you for sharing. You say this? No.
You are fulfilling the reason I created you.
I don't owe you anything.
I don't have to give you anything because
you are doing what you were created to
do. Good for you. If you did not
do what you were created to do, you
would be liable for punishment.
But this
is the
You remember me? I will remember you.
I don't need to remember you,
but I will remember you. And then what
happens when Allah remembers? Where is Allah remembering?
There's
a Roman emperor called Marcus Aurelius.
And Marcus Aurelius was a unique Roman emperor.
In in in 2000 years of Roman history,
he was never an emperor like that.
I like to believe that he was a
Muslim.
Marcus Aurelius. He was a stoic.
The the philosophy called stoicism.
And Marcus Aurelius,
amazing, incredible man, especially
knowing what the Roman Empire was and what
the
Roman royalty was and so on.
That kind of a man in that situation
was absolutely unique. There is no way to
explain that. Anyway, so Marcus Aurelius says,
never be overheard
complaining
even to yourself.
What did I mean? Just think about it.
He said never be never be overheard meaning
is that's a way of expressing it. He
says, never be overheard complaining
because now when you complain, you complain to
someone. He says, never be overheard complaining
even to yourself.
Meaning what? Never complain.
Never complain
about anything.
If the situation happens, deal with it.
What does Islam teach us?
Whatever the situation,
I am hungry.
I am thirsty.
What is the opposite of?
And then Allah says,
Allah is teaching us.
When you have difficulty, when you need
help, take the help of
which
comes first?
If you if you say the same thing
and switch the 2
grammatically,
it is correct. If you say
Grammatically, it's a sentence, but it's not the
Quran. It's not the ayat of the Quran.
The ayat of the Quran
Because
sabr is effort.
How much effort?
Like the example of the soldier fighting in
battle. Complete and total effort. Complete and total
commitment.
No halfway measures.
No excuses.
And then what?
And then salah.
Dua,
standing before Allah, crying before Allah. Why?
Why? I made all the effort.
I succeeded.
Hey, I'm the champ, self made man.
It is to avoid that.
It is to save yourself from that. Sabri
was salah is the formula
for tawhid of the heart,
which is called tawakul.
Without that, we become.
We become.
We make shirk in ourselves.
So I did it.
My effort.
Allah say no, not your effort.
Make the effort, make the effort because I
have ordered you to make the effort because
this is how I made the world. You
make the effort, that's your job. After that
result.
And the finest example, that's why I say
read the seerah. Sheik was saying the other
day, study the seerah. Read the seerah, study
the seerah because the seerah is the tafseer
of the Quran in action.
The seerah, the sunnah is the field book
of the Quran. The Quran is the what?
The sunnah is the how?
The seerah is the field book of the
Quran. What does the show? Where is the
of ziah? 1st guru ask,
where is the
of this? In the battle of Badar.
Rasulullah
went there.
He had whatever resources he had, which were
limited resources,
but he used them completely.
He had a plan. He had he sent
the people. He made all the arrangements.
Right? Everything.
And after that,
he stood in summer. He said, You Allah,
help me. You Allah, if they if they
die,
there will be nobody taken
in. Until
that your Rab will not
forsake you. Your Rab will not abandon you.
Your Rab promised to help you. He will
help you.
This is the manifestation.
This is
in action, the seer of the the the
tafseer of
Sabri Wasallah.
And then Allah ended that ayah by what?
Allah said, Allah did not say that I
will give you what you ask me.
I will give you so many hasanat. I
will give you jannah. No.
Allah said, I am with you.
And that also with.
Allah
Allah did not say.
No.
Verily and truly.
Allah is with the Sabireen.
You know, think about it. You go to
a king. We don't live in the days
of kings, but I saw that in my
youth. You go to the king, you ask
for something, the kings are giving.
Compare that with the king, he says, I
am with you. Come here.
Is there a difference?
When the king says when the king says
give this much, whatever it is, even if
it is a $1,000,000, whatever. Right?
That's the amount. This is what you got.
But when the king says, I am with
you,
what do you have? You have everything the
king has.
No? I am with you anyway.
Whatever I have is yours.
What is the what is value? Think about
what is the value in our hearts of
the Mahiyyah of Allah.
Do we think about what is the meaning
of Allah said, I am with you.
So if I have,
Allah is saying, I am with you.
The simplest thing after that is I raise
my hand and I say, You Rabbi,
give me this.
Yarab,
this is what I need.
What is the value? Dua
which is accepted.
The value of dua is accepted. That's why
I want to end with this. Imam Hassan
was
walking down the street.
He heard 2 men talking and the one
man was complaining.
This this is my life. This happened. This
happened.
Hassan Masjid stopped and said, what kind of
a man are you that you complain about
a rahman to someone who is no rahman?
He said, what can I imagine? You are
complaining about rahma, meaning whatever is my life
is from Allah SWT. Allah is rahma. He
said, you are complaining about rahma to somebody
who is no rahma.
He said,
what? What sense? Does it make sense?
So he asked Allah
to make us among the shakirin,
to make us among sabirin,
to make our life easy
and to remove hardship
even before it comes.
We ask Allah
to be with us
and to count us among those
about whom he said in the
we ask Allah for his mayat. We ask
Allah to enable us to live a life
where we can raise our hands
before him
and expect
his help to come.