Mirza Yawar Baig – Surest sign of a free mind

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The success of Speaker 1's lifestyles in India is highlighted, with a focus on one thing that separates free people from poverty and helping people live their lives as if it belongs to them. They emphasize the importance of taking ownership of one's life and not living in an "immature condition" to avoid complications. The speaker emphasizes the need for change in mindset and mental health to avoid drastic behavior. They also discuss the benefits of using plastic bags and other recycling materials to create environments that benefit everyone, and emphasize the importance of being aware of the environment and creating environments that benefit everyone.
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم.
الحمد لله رب العالمين.
والصلاة والسلام على شرف الأنبياء والمرسلين.
محمد رسول الله صلى الله عليه وعلى آله
وسلم تسليماً كثيراً كثيراً.
هما بعد.
Brothers and sisters, in my view, if there
is one single differentiating factor which separates people
who are free, not enslaved in their minds,
from people who are enslaved, it is to
look at and see how they take care
of their surroundings.
Now, as you can see here, this is
a development on a golf course, a village
on a golf course.
And I challenge you to find one piece
of plastic, one scrap of paper, one empty
bottle, one anything that would qualify as trash,
anywhere, near a house, away from a house,
anywhere on the golf course.
You won't find a single thing.
And if this was to be said about
one particular place, it would be remarkable enough,
but this is the default.
This is the default.
Except in places where, and this is America,
also in America where you have the poor,
the homeless, refugees and so on.
And the first thing that hits you is
the filth, the garbage, all the trash around
everywhere.
Now, I'm not being critical of poor people.
I've been poor myself.
But I want to differentiate between having resources
and taking care of yourself and your environment.
The two do not go hand in hand,
because I know situations, in India, for example,
where you go into a house of a
person who is, may not be a billionaire,
but certainly a millionaire.
And in India, millionaires have billionaire lifestyles.
So you have this fantastic house, you have
people who are all over doing wonderful things,
living in beautiful lifestyles, fantastic houses, furnishings and
whatnot, but clothes strewn everywhere, shoes everywhere, expensive
sneakers.
You know, each one would be worth more
than somebody's salary for a month or a
year maybe, but just throw it.
You get into one of their cars and
it looks like a trash can on wheels.
In India, you go into somebody's houses, people
who are not billionaires, but definitely millionaires.
And in India, alhamdulillah, millionaires live the lifestyle
of billionaires.
You know, servants and this and that.
But you go inside the house, it's a
beautiful mansion, inside it has fancy furniture, expensive
stuff.
Some of them even have a kitchen to
show, and a kitchen in which actual cooking
is done.
So, as we say, in Urdu, we say,
that the teeth of the elephant are different
from the teeth of the food, which is
not strictly true, but, you know.
So, we have this dikhane ka kichan ek
or khane ka kichan ek.
In Urdu, the one in which food is
cooked.
The dikhane ka kichan, the one in which
food is not cooked.
It's only for show.
We have the most fancy kitchen appliances and
stoves and God knows what.
Never touched.
Absolutely pristine condition, but to show people.
Allah have mercy on us.
We've got used to this very, you know,
lifestyles which are very destructive.
So, anyway, to come back to my point.
So, we have people with all these resources,
fancy places, we're talking about change in the
mind, mental enslavement versus mental freedom, true freedom.
So, we have these people who are really
mentally enslaved.
So, they have the resources, but they don't
take care of them.
And to me, as I said, the biggest
and best sign that somebody is free is
that they take ownership of their lives.
They don't live their lives as if it
belongs to somebody else.
Not my job.
I don't need to take care of it.
As I showed you, as you can see,
as I'm walking here, place is taken care
of.
Now, obviously, some of it is taken care
of because the development, the golf course does
it.
But the maintenance fee here is roughly
$500 per quarter, which means you're paying $2
,000 per year for your surroundings of your
house to be maintained.
So, you may be doing some things yourself,
as in by your own hand, and some
things you might be paying for, but people
are paying for that.
When you go for a walk, you see
people walking their dogs, you will find those
people with either carrying a plastic bag with
something in it, or they have plastic bags
in their pockets.
And in parks and so on, there are
boxes, dispenser boxes, which are free, and there's
a trash can under that dispenser box.
All of these are meant to pick up
the dog's, what they call, dog eggs.
So, you know what it means, right?
So, when the dog does what a dog
does, they just don't walk away.
They pick it up.
And they don't just pick it up and
throw it there.
They pick it up, they take it with
them, they carry it in this bag, and
they take it to a place where there
is a disposal for it.
And they dispose of it in that particular
place.
Signs that these are people who are free
in the mind.
They are not enslaved.
They own.
They feel that they own the place that
they are in.
And what's the best, most reliable sign of
ownership?
It's that you take care of that place.
Who are your children?
Children you own, your own children, are children
whose bills you pay.
Any other child, you may love the child,
the child may love you, it might be
a student, it might be a child which
is demented enough to have you as a
mentor, but it is a child who is
not yours.
And so you hand the child back to
the parents.
When the time of the child is done
with you, you give the child back to
the parents.
When it comes for bills to be paid,
you don't pay the bills of that child,
the child's parents pay the bills of that
child.
I'm just going around this little thing here,
because there are sandhill cranes on the other
side.
You can see them now.
Magnificent birds, many of them sometimes a meter
tall, sometimes more.
Fantastic birds.
This is a resident flock.
They're all over America, North and South America.
They winter down here in Florida and further
south in the Mississippi, and they go to
their nesting grounds in Canada in the summer.
But there are two resident flocks.
One is resident in Florida, it doesn't go
anywhere, and this is one of them.
This is a part of that flock.
I'm told that the resident flocks are not
doing so well.
You wish them well, such beautiful birds.
Wow, look at that magnificent one standing there.
So take care of the environment.
The biggest lesson to teach your children, take
care of the environment because it is your
environment.
It's not somebody else's.
And if you don't take care of it,
guess who suffers?
If your house is like a garbage can,
if your car is like a garbage can
with wheels, and it doesn't matter how expensive
that car is, it doesn't matter what kind
of brand it is, it can be a
Rolls Royce, but it's still a garbage can
on wheels.
And if that's what you want to live
your life, that's how you want to live
your life, then remember that that is the
life of a slave, a person who is
mentally enslaved.
And true freedom is always in the mind.
As Nelson Mandela said in his prison in
Robben Island, he said, they can imprison my
body, but they can never imprison my mind.
And that is the truth.
That is the whole truth and nothing but
the truth.
May Allah grant us the ability to do
that.
Now when you do that, when you live
as if you own the place and you
create some beautiful surroundings, and as I said,
guess who benefits?
Right?
Guess who benefits?
So, teach your children this, to take care
of their surroundings, because that is a sign
of true freedom.