Mirza Yawar Baig – Salah is the first Fardh
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The Great scholar describes a woman who was a great scholar and a teacher of the same title, disob valuing Allah's teachings and praying for his actions. She emphasizes the importance of faith and not missing the first act, as it is the ultimate obligation. The speaker warns against leaving the act of the presence of the person they were born alone in fear of failure and advises against giving the option of missing the first act of the act for anyone. The importance of not risking one's lives if they miss the target of the signs of life and to trust in Allah for guidance and rewards.
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My brothers and sisters,
the great scholar,
He he was the,
He was also
he was a great scholar that in the
time of
of
the he was a teacher of Ibrahim
Adheb,
Ibrahim Abnadham.
He
was,
He he was very, you know, he
had a very,
unusual,
life
where
he was
at one point
a bandit,
and, he was,
the head of a gang of bandits.
And there are many stories, but the story
of his
he was a Muslim, but the story of
his,
his leaving his,
banditry.
I mentioned it before also in one of
the fuzzy reminders.
He was climbing a wall.
He was on top of the wall watching
a passing caravan, and he heard somebody reciting
the,
hadid.
Has not the time come for the believers
that their hearts humble themselves
in the remembrance of Allah.
And that is what caused,
to
change his ways and,
become
one of the great scholars,
of this, Ummah.
He studied under he moved to Kufak,
in Iraq and then studied under,
Jafar Sadiq.
Abdul Ali,
Abdul Wahid bin Zayed.
And he taught
Bashar al Hafi
and Sari al Sakhati
and Ibrahim and Abin al Adhaym.
So so he was,
and he also he remained in Mecca. He
went for Hajj. He,
remained in Mecca
and studied under.
So, a great scholar of Islam.
And now,
he says,
they asked him, I said, what do you
find the strangest of all things?
And he said, the heart
that knows Allah
yet still disobeys him.
The heart that knows Allah yet still disobeys
him. And so Allah, if you see Allah
and so the Bakarah,
asked this question
and he said,
how is it possible that you deny
Allah? You were dead. You did not exist.
Has the human being forgotten that there was
a time when he,
was
not even mentioned?
So, this is a, you know, that's, that
is our reality. Our reality is that we
are
dead.
Except those who Allah gives life to.
And that life has 2 meanings. 1 is
the breathing and even more importantly, it is
it is faith in Allah.
So
for there says, how is it possible? What
is so strange
that
the strangest of all things is that the
heart that knows Allah
and yet disobeys him.
You know, just think about this. So, Allah
says,
how do you deny
And you were dead
and He gave you life.
And he will take away your life.
And he will give back your life. He'll
he will resurrect you.
And then you will return to him.
So he is Allah is saying this is
your reality.
And yet you disobey Allah. Though you know
that you did not exist before Allah gave
you life, though you know that after you
get life, this life is not yours. You
cannot keep it as long as you want.
You will have it as long as Allah
wants you to have it. And then one
day you will die. And then it is
not you are not it's not a release.
Death is not a release. That is that
is not freedom.
Death
is an interim step
to being resurrected and given life back again
to be called to account before Allah
That is the reality of death. It's a
stepping stone to another
life in which we will be called to
account before Allah
So, my and you will return to him.
So,
says that
a heart that knows Allah
yet still disobeys him.
How strange is that?
How utterly strange is that?
My brothers and sisters,
the most
important thing to understand
is that
the first and foremost
first and foremost
obligatory
thing obligatory action
That we are obliged
to fulfill is the salah.
Is the prayer, is the first salah.
And there is no excuse for missing the
first salah.
If we
are not able to pray it at its
time
because of
reasons that are acceptable in the Sharia and
that's those reasons are not because I was
watching a game or I had to go
shopping. The reasons are for infirmity, for sickness,
for other kinds of emergencies that could not
be foreseen or some other force, external force
that is keeping you from praying.
Then the salah has to be prayed,
at another time, but it cannot be left.
The salah has to be prayed
in every situation in life.
Standing, sitting, lying down. If we are sick,
then it has to be prayed to the
best of our ability in whichever state that
we are in including lying down. If you
are completely unable to move, the salah has
to be still prayed
by just by blinking our eyes and moving
the eye, eyelids.
There is no excuse
for leaving
salah. The salah the salah requires that we
are pure that we purify ourselves, that we
make that we make but if there is
a if there are reasons, there is no
water, then we have been given the option
of making thiamo,
using some sand instead. And if that also
is not there, then Stella still has to
be prayed even without also, even without even
without and
it will be valid but there is no
reason to leave the salah.
So I remind myself when you
do not miss salah for the sake of
people.
You were born
alone, and you will die alone and you
will go to the grave alone and you
will be questioned alone on the day of
judgement.
Don't compromise that for anyone or anybody's sake.
Because if
you leave this, if you leave
believe me, when we stand before Allah
we will be in trouble. And all
and everyone and all of the people
who were the cause for us to miss
that salah will not be able to help
us.
So don't say I was in an important
meeting. There is no meeting that is more
important than the meeting with
our
which in this day when we are alive
is through the salah, and when we die,
it will be standing before him.
Don't go to the point of standing before
him without having stood before him in our
life
in the masjid in the home.
Go to the salah
until before the time comes, and you will
be taken there
for your for your.
Don't leave the salah for the sake of
people. The people who you think
are your closest friends, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
said about them.
Allah
said, close friends, the closest of friends, the
Khalil
on the day
of judgement, on that day, will be enemies
to each other, except for the except for
the righteous,
except for the god fearing people.
My brothers and sisters,
Fajar, you are asleep. Zohar, you are busy.
Asar, you are tired. Magrib, you are watching
TV. Isha, you are eating. You can dodge
prayer but you cannot dodge death.
Because
death
will come.
We prepare for uncertain things in our life.
For example, like marriage and so on and
so forth. But do we prepare for the
one event that is definitely going to happen,
which is death?
The first thing a slave will be held
accountable for
is salah.
If we fall short on that, then we
will fall fall short on what's to come.
My brothers and sisters,
Fajr, do not fear missing sleep.
Fear a day when there will be no
sleep.
Expecting Jannah while neglecting salah
is like waiting for a train to arrive
at the airport.
Seriously,
ask Allah
for us to have the sense
to give importance to things which are really
important.
Everyone
dreams of being in Jannah. But Allah said
It is not
obtained by a wishful thinking.
We need to work hard for the hereafter.
Ibn Al Qayyim Al Jazir
says, If you could hear the sound of
the pens of the angels
writing your name among those who remember Allah,
you would die out of joy.
Let me repeat that beautiful statement, and may
Allah make us among them.
He said, if you could hear the sound
of the pens of the angels
writing your name among those who remember Allah,
you would die of joy.
Final point,
I remind myself and you,
This dunya
is not a resting place.
It is a testing place.
It's a testing place for us to earn
rewards with Allah.
Let us use it
like that, like a testing place.
We ask Allah to help us to do
that which is pleasing to him and to
save us from that which does not please
him.