Mirza Yawar Baig – Seerah Solution Our job is to convey
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The importance of Islam is discussed, with men being the most important factor. The speaker discusses the decision of the person himself or herself making a decision, the way the Muslim community is valued and praised, and protecting others. They also talk about feeling pressure to go to Jannah without knowing who they are and feeling the pressure of being in a situation where people feel the same way as them.
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In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious,
the Most Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the Messengers
and Prophets.
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and
blessings be upon him and his family.
Peace be upon you.
The second last of the qualities that we
are talking about is how the Prophet was
able to change the attitudes of people.
Here is a very interesting, important thing to
think about.
Because as one of the brothers here, he
asked me while we were having lunch, he
said, sometimes in interfaith groups and so on,
people say Islam was spread by the sword.
So, how do we counter that?
How do we counter that?
So, I said to him, as the person,
who are you going to vote for?
Are you a Republican or are you a
Democrat?
Who will you vote for?
And the person said, say for example, I
am going to vote for so and so,
Donald Trump or Harris, Kamala Harris.
Okay.
So, whichever candidate the person said, I will
vote for them.
Say for example now, if I force you
to say or to vote for the opposite
candidate.
And I force you in whichever way, I
threaten you, I force you, I put a
gun to your head, whichever.
So, what will happen?
What will happen is maybe I can force
you to vote for the other person because
of the force.
I am trying to, I do some horrible
thing.
But who is in your heart, even if
you are being forced with a gun to
your head, to vote for the opposite candidate,
who is in your heart?
Your candidate.
The heart does not change because of force.
On the other hand, the heart actually becomes
even stronger on that person because now you
are forcing me to vote for or to
support the opposite.
So, I, my question is, if you will
not even change a candidate that you vote
for, if you will not even change a
football club or a soccer club or a
basketball club that you support because of force,
how will you change God?
How can you change who you worship because
of force?
Nobody can convert another person by force to
any religion, not only Islam.
If somebody says, Christianity was spread by the
sword, I will stand against it.
I will say that statement is false.
Christianity was not spread by the sword.
Christianity was spread because people wanted to become
Christian, they became Christian.
Whatever reason.
Many times, including in Islam, people follow the
religion of the ruler.
It is just more convenient.
It is politically more useful.
Because if the ruler is the Muslim, we
know this was very common in the days
of the empire, whether it was the Ottomans
or whether it was the Mughals or whether
it was the the Safavids in Iran or
whoever, some top positions, ministries were given only
to Muslims.
With the Safavids who were a Shia dynasty,
the top ministerial positions would only be given
to Shias.
So, there will be people who will say,
well, you know, who cares, let me, I
am a Shia, I am a Sunni, I
am this, I am Muslim.
My point is, his reason for changing may
not be the best reason.
His reason for changing is not sincerely because
of Allah.
But the point is, who is making that
decision?
The person himself.
For a good reason or a bad reason,
the person himself or herself is making that
decision.
Nobody can force him.
And this is what Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam taught.
He said, put the other before yourself.
And that's why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
revealed, وَيُطِعِمُونَ الْتَعَامَةَ عَلَىٰهُمْ بِهِ مِسْكِنًا وَيَتِيمًا
وَعَسِيرًا In Suratul Insan, Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala said, they are those who feed, who
give ta'am, who feed, who give food
to others, even though they are in need
of it themselves, even though they want it
for themselves, they need it for themselves, and
they give it to the miskeen, the poor
person who does not ask, the difference between
the sahil and the miskeen.
The sahil is the one who is asking,
the miskeen is the one who does not
ask, but he is poor.
He has got that Izzah, he will not
ask.
He will not beg, he will not spread
his hand before another human being.
وَيَتِيمُونَ The orphan, وَعَسِيرًا And the prisoner.
In a Muslim society, who is likely to
be a prisoner?
Especially in the time that this ayat was
revealed, this was in the time of Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
And who were the prisoners?
They were prisoners of war.
So who were prisoners of war in the
Muslim Khilafah and the Muslim rule of Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam?
They were non-Muslims.
Allah is praising the Muslim for feeding not
just the non-Muslim, but the non-Muslim
who was an enemy and he became a
prisoner of war because of one reason only,
that is that he went to fight, he
went to kill Muslims, but he was not
able to kill Muslims, he got taken prisoner.
So this man is not even a well
-wisher of Muslims.
And Allah is praising them, Allah is saying
these are the people who give up their
food to feed the miskeen, the one who
has Waqar, who has Izzah, but he is
poor.
وَيَتِيمُونَ The orphan, وَعَسِيرًا The non-Muslim, the
prisoner.
And there are many in terms of the
Azbab-un-Nuzul, the circumstances of revelation of
this ayah, there are several narrations, they are
all of the same kind, but there are
several different narrations.
And one of those narrations is that a
man came to Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
once and he was a very poor man,
and at that time usually Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam would send food for the people
directly from his house.
But probably that day even in his house
there was no food.
So he said, can anybody entertain my guests?
So he first honors the man by calling
him his guest.
He said, can anybody take my guest home
and feed him and keep him?
So one of the Ansari Sahaba, he said,
Ya Rasulullah, I will take your guest.
So he brought the guest home.
He sat him down, he went inside, he
told his wife, we have a guest from
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So she said, we have no food.
We have only enough to feed our children.
Even for us we have no food today.
There's only a little bit of food for
the children.
So the man said to her, put the
children to sleep.
You know, somehow distract them.
Bring the food.
And the custom of the day was that
they would all eat in one plate.
So they would sit together, eat one plate.
So he said, when you bring the food
in one plate, you put it there.
He said, you go and fiddle with the
lamp and in the pretext of correcting the
lamp, turn it off.
So now there's only a little bit of
light, maybe there is moonlight or something which
comes in.
It is dark.
And he said, then we will not eat,
we will let the guest eat.
We will just pretend to eat.
We just put our hand in the thing
and up like this, but let the guest
eat.
Now this happened.
They did that.
But who is the one who can see
whether there is light or no light?
So next morning when they went back to
the masjid and they said, Ya Rasulullah, your
guest is here.
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, I know, Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala revealed the Quran.
And this is what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala said, honoring you.
وَيُطْعِمُونَ التَّعَامَىٰ عَلَىٰهُمْ بِهِ مِسْكِنًۭا وَيَتِيمًۭا وَأَحْسِنًۭا
And the next ayat, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala said, and they say, we do not
do this for thanks from you.
We do this لِوَجْهِ اللَّهِ, only for the
glorious countenance of Allah, meaning only for the
Rida of Allah.
Putting the other person first.
See, think about this, the beauty of all
these things is, Yes, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala will give enormous reward in the akhirah,
alhamdulillah, inshallah, that is a good reason.
But even in this world, in this life,
what is the impression that you create?
The impression that you create in society is
that you are somebody who is worth having
in the society because you care for others.
You take care of others.
You know, that is very important.
I live right behind the masjid and opposite
my house and on my left, these are
the only two neighbours, both are white people.
So one day the guy opposite my house,
he comes to me and he says, on
Fridays, I see there are a lot of
people who come for the service.
If your parking lot is full, please tell
your congregation people to come and park in
my driveway.
Tell them to come and park in my
driveway.
I told him, friend, thank you very much.
I greatly appreciate it.
I'm not going to tell them anything like
that.
May Allah have mercy on us.
You tell Muslims to park in your driveway,
they'll park in your bedroom.
This is the thing of it.
One of my dear friend who is also
the president of the masjid now, Dr. Bajwa,
he tells me a wonderful story.
He says when 9-11 happened, I was
not here at that time, we were in
India.
The first Friday after 9-11 happened, so
there is this huge tension all over America.
Muslims feel they are under siege, there is
a big problem.
People are anticipating or fearing attacks on the
masjids and so on.
So he says the first Friday I drove
into the masjid and I see four or
five new cars, strange cars.
So I walked into the masjid, I see
there three or four physicians from Bay State
Medical Center, which is the big hospital there.
And he said I saw two priests.
All of the priests were non-Muslim, even
the physicians were non-Muslim.
So Dr. Bajwa said, thank you, but why
are you here?
They said we are here to ensure that
nothing untoward happens here today.
So they said you don't worry about us.
You go and pray, finish your service.
We are going to stand here.
If anything happens, we are here.
Don't worry about it.
So what are they doing?
They are literally putting their lives on the
line.
I mean nothing happened, but if something happened,
if there was an attack, who would be
the first people, first line of defense?
These people.
And think about this.
Do you think anyone in their senses or
even in their dream would have thought of
calling the local priests or some non-Muslim
friend and say please come here and stand
in line and put your life on the
line for us?
In this even the request we would not
have done.
Nobody would have done that.
On their own.
This is not just lip service.
They came there themselves uninvited, uncalled for.
Really I mean seriously I have travelled all
over the world.
I have lived in so many places.
I do not know of any parallel incident
to what these Americans did in this country.
So we owe them.
Not just those people, we owe this country,
we owe people of this country.
Because we come from our countries, they opened
the whole country for us.
There is nothing in this country all the
way up to the White House that one
of us or one of our children cannot
aspire for.
Nothing.
Any university, any organization, any company, any situation,
any business.
As I said, as long as your child
is born in this country, he or she
can aspire to be the President of the
United States of America without any discrimination for
anybody.
The law is open, the law is equal.
So now imagine the day when we are
standing before Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala on
the Day of Judgment and these people are
not Muslim.
They are not Muslim.
And so therefore they are going to be
sent off to the other place.
Imagine if they stop and they say, Ya
Rabb, You are our Rabb.
You want to put us in the hellfire?
We are your slaves.
In Surah Al-Baida, Isa a.s. said,
Ya Allah, You want to give them azaab?
They are your slaves.
And if You want to forgive them, You
are the most powerful, most wise.
So they will say, Ya Rabb, You are
our Rabb.
You want to throw us in the hellfire?
This is in Your control.
But we have a question, Ya Rabb.
And our question is that these Muslims, they
lived among us.
These same people who are going to Jannah
just now in front of us, I know
this man, I know this man, I know
this man, I know this man.
They lived among us.
We opened our whole country to them.
This kind of opening was not available to
them in their own countries.
This was not available to them in Muslim
countries.
That is the reality.
But we opened the whole country to them.
Every institution, every educational institution, everything of everything,
right up to the topmost.
We opened it to them.
We gave it to them.
Every kind of funding which was available to
our people was available to them.
Every kind of assistance available to our people
was available to them.
Every single thing in equality.
We gave them everything.
But they did not introduce you to us.
We did not know that a day will
come when we have to stand before you.
They knew, but they did not tell us.
What is the answer?
What is the answer?
And in this connection I will tell you
a true story told to me by one
of my dearest and closest friends.
I was a tea planter.
I used to plant tea, grow tea for
ten years.
Tea, coffee, cardamom, rubber and coconut and so
on in South India.
And one of my planter friends, a senior
friend, he told me a story one time
which literally every time I say the story,
I get goosebumps.
This friend says to me that he said,
I was a young assistant.
I was in my twenties.
I was a bachelor and I was in
a tea plantation in South India.
He said, my boss was a British guy.
He was a white British guy.
Because those days all the senior planters, they
were all whites.
Now in the plantation culture, every evening you
had to go to the club.
And when you went to the club, the
first thing you did was go to the
bar, you have a drink.
Now this friend of mine, he obviously was
a Muslim, practicing Muslim, he did not drink.
So he said, a lot of my friends
and so on used to pull my leg,
they used to try to bully me, they
used to try to pressurize me, you know,
just have a drink, this, this.
And he said throughout that, this white manager
of mine, he always supported me.
And if he was there, he would tell
the people, leave, leave alone, he has a
right to his religion.
He is not, he is not allowed to
drink, leave him alone.
He used to support me.
Very nice man, very supportive.
So, he says, one day, he said, I
was about to get up in the morning
for Salatul Fajr at that time when you
are like between sleeping and waking, you know,
that kind of time.
He said, I saw a dream.
And in this dream, I saw this manager
of mine, this white manager of mine, he
is looking at me and he is saying,
you knew, but you did not tell me.
You knew, but you did not tell me.
You knew, but you did not tell me.
And he said, I woke up.
And he said, the dream was so vivid,
so, you know, live.
This man is telling me directly to my
face, you knew, but you did not tell
me.
He is accusing me.
He said, what did I know, what did
I not tell the man?
He said, I have no idea.
So, he said, I did my Salatul Fajr
and so on.
We used to call it the muster, which
is the first meeting of the estate workers
and people in the morning.
The assistant manager had to be there and
he went, he used to go and allocate
the jobs and so on.
And he said, I was sitting in the
muster and the muster will be six o
'clock in the morning.
So, it was cold, misty.
He said, I am sitting in the muster
and I see a man.
Usually, the muster would be in the valley,
the manager's house would be on one hill
and the assistant manager's house would be on
another hill.
This was the usual estates, the way it
was arranged.
So, he said, I see a man, the
servant of the manager, coming down the manager's
driveway and running.
I said, I am looking at the man,
I said, why is he running, what's wrong?
The man bursts into the muster room and
he says, Daurai has died.
He said, Daurai has died.
He said, the manager is dead.
So, he said, it was a big shock.
Whatever they had to do, they did.
Time passed.
My friend, he became a senior planter, he
had children, they moved to America and they
settled down in North Carolina.
So, one day I was there in North
Carolina, in his house and I said what
I said to you just now, which is
I said, a day will come when we,
these people of this place, they will tell
us, you knew, but you did not tell
us.
And my friend started crying.
You know, he is not the crying kind.
You know, there are some people like me,
tears come for nothing, but for him, I
said, Subhanallah, I am sorry, I apologize, did
I say something wrong?
He said, no, you did not say anything
wrong.
He said, I understood now, after 40 years,
the meaning of a dream that I saw
40 years ago.
I said, what dream?
And he told me the story.
He said, this is the dream.
Now I know what the man was saying,
you knew, but you did not tell me,
because when I connect the timing, when I
saw the dream, was when his life was
being taken by balakul mouth.
And when he saw balakul mouth, he is
telling me, you knew.
You knew this day would come.
You knew I have to face this one,
you never told me.
So please understand this.
We live in this country, Alhamdulillah.
Allah SWT has sent us, gave us all
kinds of facilities, Alhamdulillah.
But whether you like it or not, we
have a responsibility.
We have a responsibility.
It is not the responsibility of the Tablighi
Jamaat, or the Jamaat-e-Islami, or Ikhlaa,
or Islaa, or this one or that one.
It is the responsibility of every man or
woman who is Muslim.
And that is to tell those who do
not know Allah about Allah.
To introduce Allah SWT to them.
You cannot force them, we cannot force anybody,
but it is our job to communicate.
It is our job to tell them, do
not let them die without you telling them.
Or be prepared to face a day when
they will come back to us and say,
Allah, He knew, but He did not tell
me.
We don't want this.
I don't want this for myself.
I don't want it for you.