Mirza Yawar Baig – Seerah is the Answer #5

			Salam Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh
		

			the smallness of means the greatness of the aim and stupendous results if these three things are the
marks of greatness, then who can compare anyone with Mohammed
		

			to all mankind You are the hero to everyone's
		

			directions from the way you believed your when you put others first, you create an environment which
is notables for everyone including
		

			you spoke with wisdom
		

			to wherever you want you show
		

			saw I have to stop rushing to offer opinions in my country and I think what our own inner conflicts
are my that's where we are Let make it easy.
		

			This is
		

			a
		

			man calm and
		

			I have a dream to be
		

			more
		

			reliable Alameen
		

			wa Salatu was Salam ala Schererville MBA will mousseline Mohamed Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam does live in casita and kathira.
		

			My brothers sisters,
		

			before we go further, I'm going to just teach you a tool just now.
		

			Before we go into the
		

			the eight different changes that we need to bring into our lives, I call these the I call these the
eight switches, switching from one to the other. Before we go to that, let me quote for you
something that one of the most famous European historians,
		

			this man was a historian, he was a poet. He was a writer, he was a philosopher.
		

			He was many things. And his name was Alphonse de Lamartine.
		

			Now he said, some he said a wonderful thing. He said, that if the smallness of means I want you to
listen carefully, if the smallness of means
		

			the greatness of the aim
		

			and stupendous results,
		

			so he's talking about three things. He's saying, smallness of means, the grandeur of the aim, the
goal is means is nothing available. The goal is huge, magnificent and stupendous success, Supremes
success. He says, if these three things are the marks of greatness, then who can compare anyone in
modern history with Muhammad Sallallahu.
		

			Now this man is not a
		

			he was not a Muslim.
		

			He was not even known for his friendship of Islam, he was a matter of fact, quite a strong critic.
But, and the reason I'm only quoting him because the praise our critic is the most sincere praise.
People who love you will praise you, because they will overlook your faults and so on and so on. But
if somebody who is your enemy, somebody who is a critic of yours, if he's saying good things about
you, then obviously something is right, because that man is actually looking for faults, but if he
cannot find the faults, it means that inshallah the faults are not there. And this was the nature of
Rasul Allah, he's.
		

			Now I'm gonna teach you a tool
		

			called force field analysis. The reason I'm teaching you this tool is because as I mentioned in the
first session, the purpose of this workshop is to practice what we learn, it is not for increasing
the amount of information you have, it is not in order to give you some technical terminology, some
SRE is still a hat. It is not meant for you to give give you some arguments, which you can use in
your own personal discussion and so on. None of that. The purpose of this workshop my purpose of
this workshop is only one which is that we practice what we learn, and in order to help you to
practice what you learn, I want to first teach you a tool very simple
		

			tool and then we will go into the actual lessons of what we need to learn.
		

			Now what I want the way the way to do this tool is
		

			whatever you want to practice whatever you want to introduce whatever change you want to bring
about, you take a sheet of paper and in the middle of that you write this change and write it as
clearly as possible.
		

			So for example, do not say I want to follow the Sunnah. Don't say that because there's not clear
enough.
		

			Follow the Sunnah is what?
		

			Specifically, instead of saying I want to follow a sunnah say, I want to pray all five Salah in the
masjid. That's a clear statement. And the reason why you must have a clear statement is because you
can measure it, am I doing it? Am I not doing it? If you say follow the Sunnah, I want to follow the
Sunnah, then maybe you are practicing one thing in the Sunnah you are leaving out 10 things, but
you're still following because there one thing that's not good enough.
		

			Don't right in the middle of the of the as a goal, I want to be a good person, no, define that good
person.
		

			Define that good person, say, every day, I want to do something charitable. Every day, every day I
want to give charity or do something charitable, which is not only giving money, maybe you're
helping somebody, maybe maybe you're taking care of somebody every day I want to do this. So that is
a clear goal. So in the middle of the sheet, you write this goal, the clear goal, is it clear. Now,
after that,
		

			on top, put these down arrows and with the down arrows. Each one of these you write a negative
force,
		

			you write a negative force, which can stop you from doing that.
		

			So say for example, just as a as a as an example, say in the center of this sheet, you put the goal,
I want to pray the Hajj every day. We know that the Hajj is the first Salah that was given to a
surah Selim, we know that that we shall celebrate every single day of his life. We know the Sahaba
did that. It's a beautiful sunnah Allah subhanaw taala ordered us to pray. tahajjud the ayat from
Surah. Musa mill the ayat in Surah Tolle Surah, the benefit of the Hajj VEDA, which Allah subhanaw
taala mentioned in surah, two such that, all of this
		

			and Allah subhanho, therefore, it's a beautiful Salah which we should all pray. So now I will say in
central the thing I want to pray to God every day.
		

			Now when you do that,
		

			on the top, you write down the forces that may prevent you or currently which are preventing you
from praying. So for example, one force staying awake too late.
		

			Obviously, if you don't go to sleep early, if you sleep at two o'clock in the night, then where is
the time for the huddle, if you sleep at 12 o'clock in the night, where is the time for the huddle,
so sleeping early, so waking staying awake too late?
		

			Second one, eating a late dinner. So 10 o'clock in the night you sit down and you eat all of these
rights and all this food, obviously you cannot wake up for in time for the 100 you eat will put you
to sleep.
		

			Similarly, there may be other things, right so this is your job to list the number of things on the
top you're willing to put these which are keeping you from doing what you decided to do. Then below
this, below the line below the goal, you put these supportive forces, the positive forces, the top
one the negative forces, we call them the inhibitors, the bottom arrows, which are the positive
forces, we call them the enablers. So in the enablers, now you say what are the enablers? So in the
enablers for example, you might say sleeping early one, number two, sleeping with widow so make
widow and then go to sleep. She's this beautiful dean of ours how easy it is
		

			Rasul Allah is the One who makes Waldo and goes to sleep. Two benefits happened. One is he said
every time he turns on a during his sleep, Allah subhanaw taala appoints angels to make dua for his
forgiveness. So you are sleeping you have asked us d we just turn around from the side that said
Mala a car making dua for you to
		

			be forgiven and
		

			The second benefit is Rasulillah Salam said that in the night if for some reason you wake up any dua
you make at that time Allah will accept you.
		

			So make wudu and sleep and then before you sleep, make the NIA whatever dua you really want to make
you want Allah to accept make a near for this do and say oh Allah please wake me up in the night and
make me allow me to make this dua oni estar de la Comala said asked me and I will give you so make
me the make allow me to make this dua make this near to sleep inshallah. And when you wake up in the
night, make this dua whatever you are you decided to make insha Allah Allah subhanaw taala will
accept this dua. So make wudu and sleep Sleep early make wudu and sleep. Third thing Allah subhanaw
taala said in that you have to read or on Bharati will Quran, Atilla. So make this nearer to say
		

			Allah teach me to read Quran teach me to recite Quran nicely that whatever are the positive forces.
So you got the goal in the center, you got the negative inhibitory forces inhibiting forces which
might prevent you from achieving the goal. And at the bottom, you have the positive forces, the
enablers, as I call them, which will help you to achieve the goal. This is the format that you have
created on your sheet of paper.
		

			And then what you do is, you try your best to eliminate the negative factors, the inhibitors. So
what must you do sleeping late is a negative factor. What must I do sleep early? Eating a late
dinner is a problem what must you do immediately after Mercury finish your dinner, don't eat a huge
amount of food isn't it is bad for you. Lunch, eat a good lunch breakfast, eat a good breakfast, but
in the night, try to keep it light. Try to keep it as little as possible in the right because that
is the way of waking up early in the morning. And so on set an alarm for example, we might say Well,
no, after all this, I still fall asleep. Because I sleep very soundly. Alhamdulillah you've got
		

			good, that is a good thing, but don't allow the good thing to become a problem. So therefore, you
set an alarm, and then you are going to be sure that you will wake up on time. So all of these
forces you work on this insha Allah and Allah subhanaw taala will
		

			inshallah grant you success. So force field analysis, we are looking at the two sides, the two
forces, the forces of good and the forces of evil, the forces to help us and the forces which might
hinder us. And we want to make sure that we support the good positive forces, and we prevent the
negative effect of the inhibiting forces is this clear the the tool itself, alright.
		

			That's the time for it. And then finally,
		

			at the end of each of the exercises, I'm going to add the Nordics at the end of each of the
sections, I'm going to ask you to do an exercise. And that exercise is here, same exercise
throughout for all the sections. And that exercise is you're going to be looking at what are the
things that you are currently doing, which you must stop doing? What are the things that you
currently do or currently do not do, which you must start doing and what are the things that you are
doing currently, but and which you should now continue to do consciously and consistently. So this
is the exercise, start stop continue. I'm going to ask you to do that for each one of the sections
		

			for each of the learnings that we come up with is a clip.
		

			So I just wanted to introduce the tools to you before we go forward inshallah.
		

			The first of the
		

			eight factors that we need to change
		

			in our lives, to bring our lives on par and on not on par but are in keeping with the life of
socialism is to look at our own personal
		

			attitude towards life
		

			and that is to move from thinking of yourself and acting as if you are the king. To understanding
that you are not the king but that you are the representative of the King You are a wise Gerald
		

			Allah subhanaw taala when he decided to send otherwise salaam into the on the earth when he decided
to send human beings onto the earth. Allah subhanaw taala said in nee Jai alone Phil are the Khalifa
Allah did not say in Niger I don't feel are the Malik Allah did not Samson.
		

			turning onto the earth King. Allah said I'm ascending onto the earth a wise Geron
		

			representative, Governor
		

			Khalifa can be trusted in many ways. Now, what is the difference? What is the difference between the
king and the Khalifa?
		

			You know, in the Quran we have the case of Pharaoh
		

			Rameses, the fourth, who was the widow of Musa alayhis, salam, we have his case where Allah subhanaw
taala said that this man is in an Arab bucola Allah, He said, I am the Rob and I am the greatest.
		

			Now, think about this, put yourself in this position, supposing you went to the pharaoh of Egypt.
		

			And you said to him, Mr. Vera, and if you said that to him, you would probably die because that's
not the way to address the king, he would have killed you. So you have to call him by whatever
names, right? And then if you asked him and you said, You know what you are saying Allahu Bharara,
you're saying you are God. So tell me, did you create the sun?
		

			What do you think you would have said?
		

			No. Did you create the moon? No, did you create this dial? You know, you will have this nice Palace,
waterfront with the Nile? Did you create the life? Can you make the water and then I'll go up and
down? Can you dry it out? Can you bring it up? Then how are you the King?
		

			How are you God? What do you think he would have said, he said he would have said I am god because
my order supersedes everything else. Because my word is law. If I say that this will happen, it will
happen.
		

			There is no good and bad as far as I'm concerned. Whatever I say will happen. Whatever I say is
good. Whether it is itself good or bad, doesn't matter. I don't care. I will do whatever I want to
do.
		

			After all, he is the one who ordered the male children of the Bani Israel to be slaughtered.
		

			Now tell me, in which religion in which culture in which, you know, frame of reference? Is it
permissible or a good thing to slaughter a newborn baby? Nobody does that, right? I mean, nobody can
said but the rounded Rameses the word order it and thanks to his order, literally 1000s of babies
were killed.
		

			Did anybody criticize him? Did anybody say this is no no? Why? Because my word is wrong. Whatever I
want, I will do now you might say, well, you know, this is fine. But how does it apply to us?
Because you are not ordering any babies to be killed. So how does it apply to us? It applies in the
nature of the thing and what is the nature of the thing? My word is law.
		

			In the case of Iran, he was talking about the whole of Egypt. In your in my case, we are talking
about ourselves, we are talking about our homes. We are talking about our social life. We are
talking about our environment, the our organizations, our group of friends, what I say will happen.
		

			Somebody says I'm having this wedding, I'm celebrating my daughter's wedding. So I'm going to have
this fantastic party in this five star hotel. And I'm going to have this you know, this lady who
will come and she will sing the song and so on. And we are going to have this orchestra and we will
have this music and all of this song and somebody says Excuse me Hello Hola. Hola. Hola. Hola. First
of all, this is your daughter's wedding. Why are you spending money in that because in Islam, the
parents of the daughter they don't spend money. The boy the groom has to bring them a hair and he
has to give them a hair and he has to the Nica is performed then he takes her home and then he is
		

			the one who pays for the walima add the most you might say as the father of the bride because I am
also inviting my friends I would like to share in the cost of the volleyball This is fine but you
can't say that I want a party there's no party there's no party there's no expense on the father
mother of the bride.
		

			So how are you doing this?
		

			Using I don't care all this Islam and better don't
		

			this is my wish
		

			this is my wish.
		

			Well what about the wish of Allah?
		

			My wish and then you say well you know get your wish. First of all the party itself is wrong. You on
top of that now you have God is singing and dancing and you have got all this. I mean, how Allah
whatever. It is not permissible in Islam.
		

			No, sorry.
		

			We are modern people. All of this is old fashioned stuff. Keep it in your home. Right.
		

			We will do it.
		

			Yes. Yeah. How will you
		

			do this my wish
		

			does it happen does this thing happen in my country it happens plenty I believe Muslims are all
famous for this