Mirza Yawar Baig – See the Reality
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The fall colors have a negative impact on people's behavior, including the loss of elections and political/prab temporary needs. The segment highlights the political and cultural context of the colors, including the loss of elections and political/prab temporary needs. The segment also touches on the negative impact of people voting and the importance of finding a path forward to achieve their goals.
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In the name of God, and all praise
is due to God, and peace and blessings
be upon the honourable Prophets, Muhammad, the Messenger
of God, peace and blessings be upon him,
and upon his family and companions.
Many, many greetings.
My brothers and sisters, look at the view
here.
Look at my view in Metinew Park, in
this garden, this forest.
Look at the colors of the leaves, and
the true nature of the trees.
Look at the colors of the leaves, and
the true nature of the trees, and how
they were dead, but
alive inside them.
A life from God Almighty.
Look at this beautiful scene in Metinew Park.
You have seen this park, and you have
seen these scenes in the different videos that
I keep posting of this place in different
seasons.
You would have seen this place completely green,
where you can't even look into the forest
for a few feet, but now it's open
because of fall, coming into winter.
See the different colors of the leaves, how
Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la causes
these leaves to have different colors.
We know the scientific explanations for all of
these things, but the key thing is not
to get stuck in the scientific explanation, or
neither to use that to, within quotes, prove
the authenticity and the veracity of the Kalam
of Allah, but to use that scientific explanation
to help us to understand the Kitab of
Allah, and to help us to understand what
we are seeing.
So the question is not that, how did
these sumac leaves become this color?
We know that they are genetically programmed to
do that, but the question is, we need
to look at our language.
So instead of saying they are genetically programmed,
we should say Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la programmed them to look like this.
Because that is the actual truth.
When you say they are genetically programmed, somebody
did the programming, right?
They didn't program themselves.
The plant didn't decide that I'm going to
be pink, and the other one didn't decide
it's going to be yellow.
Somebody did that decision making for them, and
that decider was Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta
-A'la.
And that is something that we need to
keep in our mind constantly, and constantly keep
reminding ourselves.
And then we have the evergreens, as you
can see here, the pines, the coniferous trees,
firs, casuarinas.
We don't have casuarinas here, but I'm just
saying these are all those trees which retain
their leaf color, they retain their leaves.
They don't lose their leaves, and they don't
change color either.
They remain the way they are throughout the
year.
Which to me is a big lesson, that
external circumstances do not decide how I'm going
to behave.
External circumstances do not decide what I will
do with my life.
Winter can come, summer can come, spring can
come, fall can come.
But if I choose to remain constant with
my identity, then none of those things will
change me or affect me.
They will affect others.
Those who are next to me are not
green anymore, but I remain green.
Because that is my reality, that is my
identity, which I will not lose just because
somebody else has lost their identity.
Another lesson is, if you look at the
praise that is given, the popularity that is
there, Nobody says, go look at the green
trees.
They say, go look at the fall colors.
Look at the colors of fall.
I want to interpret that linguistically.
Fall is to fall.
Fall is to collapse.
Fall is to lose.
Fall in fortune, fall in prestige, fall in
virtue.
All of these are falls.
And people are saying, go look at the
color of the fall.
Meaning, look at the many ways in which
fall comes.
To some it comes in one way, to
some others it comes in another way.
Yes, it is very pretty.
We don't doubt, we don't deny that.
Sin always looks very enjoyable, right?
Seems to be very enjoyable.
And it is enjoyable.
If it wasn't enjoyable, there would be no
need to resist temptation.
Temptation is temptation because it is so nice.
And it's so easy to fall into it.
But it is fall.
It is collapse.
It is the precursor, the announcement of death.
The announcement of the end.
And that is what we are seeing here.
I did a short reminder, I remember, on
this earlier.
When my friend Omar asked me, what are
the trees telling you?
And I said to him, they are telling
me that look at us and take heed.
Look at us and learn the real lessons.
The real lesson is that this is fall.
This is the precursor of death.
We are announcing to the world that we
are ending.
That these leaves are dying.
And they are showing their colour.
And then they are going to die.
Remind myself and you, let us not get
fooled by the images of the world.
The world will show us many images.
Let us not be fooled by them.
Let us remember that That
victory is only from Allah.
And therefore the one who wins is not
the one who has whatever material wealth and
power and influence that they may have.
It is very easy to get frustrated when
we see the world around us.
And we say, why can't we simply have
goodness everywhere?
Why can't we simply have justice everywhere?
We can, but we have to work for
it.
And that is the message of Islam.
To say that, we have to work for
that.
It won't happen by itself.
Today we are looking at democracy in operation.
And we tell ourselves that this is a
democracy.
But remember the only thing that is democratic
about it is the fact that there is
an election.
Everything else which is happening, which is in
operation, are the signs of an oligarchy.
Not democracy.
It is not, it never was meant to
be a government of the people, for the
people, by the people.
It is and always was meant to be
a government of the wealthy, by the wealthy
or their agents, for the wealthy.
So you say, well, where do people come
into it?
I won't say they don't come into it,
they do.
But they come into it only once in
four years or once in five years in
some other countries.
When those agents of the wealthy have to
be put in place.
And that is done by a process which
we call a democratic process.
And that means people go out and vote.
Who are you voting for?
You are voting for the wealthy to help
the wealthy.
Now this has reached such a stage that
the level of disbelief in it, the level
of credibility that has collapsed.
Today people don't even want to go and
vote.
And you can't blame them.
If you don't see any benefit happening from
your action, then it's logical and sensible not
to repeat that action.
So people are saying, what's the point of
voting?
But we say, no, go and vote because
you still need to establish the fact that
you are a force.
We are a force today which doesn't know
what to do with itself.
We are a force which considers TikTok and
YouTube Shorts to be a means of education.
We are folks, we are people for whom
WhatsApp University is our alma mater.
We are people of WhatsApp University.
We are people who believe anything that is
told to us as long as it comes
to us on the mobile phone.
We are believers in that sense, not believers
in Allah.
I know we believe in Allah and His
Rasul, of course.
But when I say we are not, I
mean in the sense of acting according to
that belief.
If we acted according to that belief, we
would not be in the mess that we
are in today.
Think about this.
Imam Mahdi took this Ummah of Muhammad SAW
from a point where they were despised, they
were rejected, they were oppressed.
Nobody cared about them.
People could do anything they wanted with them.
Muslim blood was worth nothing.
And from there Allah took them within the
life of Rasulullah SAW himself.
And when we say life, we are not
talking about the 63 years, we are talking
about 23 years.
Within that period itself, Allah gave them sovereignty
over their land, over the Hijaz.
They got Mecca and they conquered Mecca and
they became the predominant force in the Hijaz.
And then, within a hundred years, they became
a global power.
Within a hundred years.
Within the same generation, in the life of
Moinuddin al-Khattab, the second Khalifa.
So we are talking about less than 20
years.
The Muslims conquered the two major superpowers of
the day, which is the Roman Empire and
the Persian Empire.
And within a hundred years, they became a
global superpower with the Banu Umayyah as the
ruling dynasty.
Now, I'm not going into the issue of
whether we should have Khilafah or dynasty or
what not.
I'm talking about the fact that this is
what Allah SWT did for the Muslims.
And sad to say, and tragic to say,
that today we seem to have come back
around full circle.
Back to being the most despised, the least
influential, meant to be used and discarded.
Like what kind of paper, I won't tell
you.
And nothing, there seems to be, I won't
say there is, because there is.
But there seems to be nothing we can
do to change that.
But as I said, I won't say there
isn't anything, because there is.
But it requires effort.
First of all, it requires us to correct
our Aqidah and bring it on the Aqidah
of Tawhid.
Jihad Islam and everything else which takes us
away from that.
No Shirk, no Bidayat, no asking for help
from this or that source.
No matter who that source is.
When we say, On the Musallah, when we
send and recite Surah Al-Fatiha, Let us
not give a lie to our own statement
to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala Jalla Jalaluhu.
Let not be a situation where we are
asked, How is it that you said, But
then you asked help from this one and
that one, And they were not Allah, they
were Makhluq.
So, you lied in your prayer.
We don't want that to happen first.
So let us be very clear in our
Aqidah.
And correct our Aqidah.
And then, get down to it.
Get down to making effort.
There is nothing for a man, a person,
except that which he or she works for.
And so let me ask myself, let you
ask yourself, What am I working for?
Do I have a plan?
Do I have a strategy?
Do I have an idea of what to
do?
Do I have leadership?
And if I have leaders, am I willing
to follow those leaders?
Or am I going to sit in judgment
on those leaders, And demand from them qualities
and abilities that I know do not exist
in them, And I definitely know they don't
exist in me.
So if somebody were to ask you and
say, What right do you have to demand
this and that and the other in your
leaders, When you don't have it yourself, what
is the answer?
Leaders don't come from Jannah, they are not
downloaded from Jannah.
They come from among the people.
So as the famous political saying goes, We
get the government we deserve.
And that's what we are seeing all over
the world.
We are getting governments we deserve.
That's the downside of it.
Upside of it is, We can change it
if we want to.
I won't talk about how just now here.
This has got long enough.
I just want us to reflect on, where
am I?
When Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala took the
Rasul ﷺ, And his people from where they
were to where they became, That happened for
a reason.
And that reason was obedience to Allah.
Allah does not allow disobedient people to succeed.
Let us get this into our heads.
Let us get this deep into our beings.
And see Allah does not help.
If you want the help of Allah, you
and I have to work for it.
If we want the help of Allah, we
have to do something to get it.
It won't happen automatically.
It didn't happen automatically for the Rasul.
It didn't happen automatically for the followers of
the Rasul ﷺ.
So how is it going to happen automatically
for you and me?
It won't.
It simply will not.
That is not the Sunnah of Allah.
The Sunnah of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
is to help his messengers.
Is to help his people.
Is to help those who are obedient to
him.
Because the purpose, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala's
purpose to help Is to establish his law
on the face of the earth.
Not to help us to establish our law
in the place of the law of Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
So ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to
help us to do that which is pleasing
to him And to save us from that
which is not pleasing to him.