Seek forgiveness not Dunya
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Channel: Mirza Yawar Baig
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The speaker discusses the belief that problem solving is a sign of insanity and that money solves everything. They emphasize the importance of being the beloved of Islam and compare the value of people like Israel and the Jews in their fire to their own lives. The speaker emphasizes the need to act the way people act based on what they believe, forgiveness, and mercy. They also discuss the importance of accumulating wealth and pursuing forgiveness and mercy.AI Generated Transcript ©
My dear brothers and sisters,
to expect
a problem to be solved
through
the means which created that problem
is a sign of insanity.
Let me repeat that. To expect a problem
to be solved
by the same means
by which the problem
was created
is a sign of insanity.
Today, if you look at ourselves,
I remember the Hadith
He said just as
one shoe fits another. You know, if you
take 2 shoes and put them
sole to
sole, they're the same size, obviously.
He said just like that, he said my
will follow the money side, meaning that we
will do what they used to do.
If you think about ourselves today
and see
the condition that we are in.
All over the world.
We are
the
most
abused, the weakest,
the most reviled,
the most
disrespected,
the most oppressed
of all people
anywhere on Earth.
And that is despite our numbers.
We are a 1,000,000,000. We are a 1,000,000,000
and a half.
A lot of the best.
Despite
our material wealth,
Now that is something
to seriously think about because
we seem to have this mental impression that
money solves everything.
The reality is that we,
Muslims,
have
more money than probably any other
parallel group.
If you collect the if you if you
count the
wealth
of the Muslim countries,
yet 57 Muslim countries together in the organization
of Islamic
States.
57 Muslim countries together
cannot issue
one clear statement
with regard to the oppression that is happening
in.
We are
our our countries which have wealth.
They are not
really
economies, but they are bank accounts
for somebody else
to take from them at will.
Today, we are in a position where
nobody cares what we think.
Nobody seeks our opinion.
Our influence despite all this wealth is zilch.
Nobody bothers or cares or hoot
what the Muslims will do or the what
what Muslim countries will do because they know
that they will do nothing.
Now just think about it. How did we
get here?
If you look at it from the lens
of Islam, and that is the only lens
to look at it from because
only that gives us perspective.
Allah
told us this very clearly in the
Allah
said,
Allah said, do you do you act do
you believe in part of the book and
reject the rest?
And Allah said, what is the reward for
those who do this?
Except
humiliation
and difficulty
and punishment in this life of this
and on the day of judgement, they will
be returned, they will be turned towards the
worst punishment.
And Allah is not
unaware
of what you do.
If you think about this
If you think about this, this is exactly
what happened with the Bani side.
Allah
said to them in
they say
they say that we are the sons
and children of God, of Allah.
And we are the beloved of Allah.
And Allah
says, then why does Allah punish you?
Ask them why does Allah punish you?
Now if you think about the history of
the Bani Israel
of the,
you know, maybe a 1000 years or more
of
being being persecuted
and and and,
in in country after country, nation after nation.
And yet,
they said we are the beloved of God.
If you look at ourselves,
and this is the comparison. We need to
make the comparison because this
community, the one Israel, were the people before
us.
They were the.
They were the best creation, best people before
us.
Today, we are in the same situation
where we think
if you ask,
you know, us if you ask Muslims,
where do you think
the the people who join partners with Allah
will be valued on the day of judgement?
What will happen to them? They will be
in their fire. Okay.
What about the Jews in their fire? What
about the Christian in their fire? What about
the Hindu in their fire? Everybody in their
fire.
What about you? We will be in.
My question which I asked myself anyways, on
what basis do we have this
great confidence
that we will be in
without any
doubt.
On the one hand, we have people like
and all the rest of the other 6.
The people who had been promised
Jannah in this life.
Who have been given the glad tidings of
Jannah in this life.
And you had those people, for example,
said that I wish I was
like a like a brave blade of dried
grass that I would blow in the wind,
and I would never I would never be
called to account.
He would say until both my feet are
in Jannah, I will not believe that I
am I will be in Jannah.
So the Ramanujan used to say that if
I knew that on the day of judgement,
only one person went to Jannah, everybody went
to Jannah, I would think that I'm that
person who went to Jannah.
And of course, he had hope in Allah's
pursue also and he said the opposite also.
He said that if I knew that I
was only 1 person went to Jannah, then
I would be that person.
So these were people who
had
been stabbed and he was bleeding and they
tried to give him some water. He drank
the water, the water water come out of
his belly because belly had been slashed.
He said to his son,
he
said put me on the ground on on
the earth.
He said, my father, why why would he
do that? He said, throw me on the
ground on the earth
so that Allah will look at me and
have pity on me
And forgive
me. This was the attitude of people who
had been promised.
I ask you and I ask myself, what
have you been promised?
Do you have a promise from Allah that
you will get Jannah? Do I have, do
I have such a promise?
And if that is not the case, on
what basis do I
act the way I act? Ask us ask
let us ask ourselves this question.
Why on earth do we believe that we
can deliberately leave salah, which is?
And Allah and Nabi sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
said,
said
the I had the covenant, the promise, the
dividing line between them and us meaning the
non Muslim and the Muslim is Salah the
one who leaves Salah has left Islam.
And we leave salah.
No problem.
For for all kinds of reasons without reason.
Allah made Ramadan
fasting
for us. We live fasting.
Why are you not fasting, brother? Oh, I
have to go to the gym.
The same Allah who is giving you that
strength to go to the gym can give
you a stroke.
What will you do then?
You have the ability and the and Allah
gave you the wealth to go for Hajj.
You don't go for Hajj.
Allah
told us to pay Zakat.
We try to deceive Allah in Zakat.
We do all kinds of calculations.
And yet we believe that we will go
to Jannah without question.
We we deal in interest based
transactions,
thereby
incurring
the wrath of Allah
thereby
accepting
a declaration of war from Allah
So therefore, if I am dealing in interest,
I am at war with Allah. I am
at war with Rasulullah. Meaning that Allah is
my enemy and Rasulullah is my enemy.
And we expect to win this war.
Not only do we do this, but we
justify that.
Please understand.
1 is to commit a sin. There's nothing
good about committing a sin but sometimes
because of some weakness or whatever
we may commit a sin.
Immediately, if you make a takwar, InshaAllah,
Allah will accept this is takwar and will
forgive us. This is our hope with Allah.
But somebody who commits the sin, somebody who's
drinking alcohol, for example, taking some drugs, for
example, committing, for example,
you know, for example, or even leaving a
salah, for example.
If the person is doing that, knowing it
is wrong and being contrite and being regretful
and being
and repenting that.
Then the person
can be forgiven.
He will be forgiven.
Even if the person does not repent, he
has committed a sin, a major sin
because he knows it's a sin, but he
considers it to be a sin. He still
did it. It's a major sin. He is
liable for punishment, but we hope Allah
will forgive it.
But if a person says that the thing
is not a sin, if he is
denying it,
if Allah made something Haram and he says
it is not Haram, Allah made something halal,
he says it is not halal.
Allah prohibited something, he said, it's not prohibited.
Allah
prohibited interest and declared war and the man
says, no, no, no, it doesn't apply.
Such a person has left Islam.
The person says, no, I don't have to
pray. That person has left Islam.
My brothers and sisters, please understand this.
Yesterday, one of our
the daughters of one of our very close
friends passed away
in her twenties.
Death is around the corner.
Death is looking at us in the face
every single day.
If he can't recognize it, it doesn't matter.
It's still there.
What is going to happen?
We spend a lot of time.
See how insane it is. That's why I
began with that quote of mine.
If you expect to solve a problem the
way you created it, it's a sign of
insanity.
What do you say about somebody? And this
is this applies to most people in this.
What do you say about somebody
who spent his whole life, all his energy,
all his
talent,
all his time
trying to collect things which he knows he
will have to leave behind.
The more he collects, the more he has
to leave behind.
And the more difficult it will be to
leave that behind because it is more.
What is it about as a person? Do
you think that person has is intelligent? Do
you think that person has sense?
That person is me and you.
If you are spending all our lives
trying to accumulate more and more wealth,
accumulate more and more stuff.
There's nothing wrong in accumulating wealth with a
purpose and then using it for that purpose,
which is to get Jannah.
Nothing wrong with that.
But just money. I must have more money.
I must go on more holidays. I must
have a bigger house.
And my house is perfect divine. No. I
was redecorated.
Bigger car, better car, faster car, whatever.
This is
simply pursuit
of this dunya without any sense.
And that is why Allah said in Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said this life of this
dunya is only
deception.
Accumulating stuff, knowing that you will have to
leave it behind.
Ask Allah Subhanathara to give a sense before
medical mouth comes to meet us
and to take us away from this mindless
pursuit
of things that we would have to leave
behind
and instead
to pursue
the pleasure of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
and to pursue His forgiveness and to pursue
His mercy.
protection and to save us from ourselves.
protection and to save us from ourselves.