Mirza Yawar Baig – Take the pain
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The importance of spending time in Allah's path is highlighted, including finding a garden full of water and being upset. By repeating "nafs" and letting things happen without causing harm, the speaker emphasizes the importance of letting things happen without causing harm. The speaker also highlights the deification of the word-of-mouth "nafs" and offers advice on how to handle it. Additionally, the importance of avoiding harm is emphasized, citing examples such as the shift from convenience to convenience and the importance of letting things happen without causing harm.AI: Transcript ©
The level of piety, the level
of
until you spend in the path of
Allah. What you love
and Allah is aware of what you spend
in his path.
Allah is aware of this.
Now
I remind myself and you,
this does not relate to zakat. This does
not relate to normal charity.
Allah
is saying a very is putting a condition.
Allah is saying
not just spending, Allah is saying spending
that which you love,
Giving up that which you love.
Not giving up anything.
What is spare?
What is excess?
What I'm throwing away instead of putting in
the trash can, I give it to somebody?
No.
What you love.
The finest example of that
is the thing, the the event that inshallah
tomorrow we
will commemorate
in the name of Eid ul Adha.
This is the of.
You cannot reach that level of
until you spend in the path of Allah
that which you love the most.
Ibrahim alaihis salam was put to this test
when he had the dream
where he saw
himself slaughtering
and sacrificing his son
in the path of Allah
in the name of Allah
He
sacrificed a 100 camels.
Then he saw the dream again.
So he sacrificed another 100 camels. He saw
the dream again.
So he sacrificed another 100 camels.
He saw the dream again.
So he realized
this is a different thing.
This is not about sacrificing camels.
Is it easy? Just think about it. We
make this I mean, I am saying this
so easily, 100 camels. What is the meaning
of 100 camels?
Go and go go and Google. See what
the price of a camel is and 100
camels.
That's
today.
What you love the most.
When this ayat was revealed,
Abu Talha Al Ansari,
he was one of the wealthiest of the
Sahaba
of Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,
Madani Sahaba, and
he had among his properties,
he had his best property
was a
date orchard,
which was
fully mature,
fully bearing,
highly profitable.
It had a
wall around it,
and it had a well
of sweet water.
This place was so shady
and so full of shade and so beautiful
that Rasool Rasool Rasoolam yeah.
Rasool Rasool Rasoolam used to
sometimes go and sit there
on the wall of this well
and it was so nice. He would drink
the water.
There is a I'll come back to the
story, but there's a beautiful,
on the side note, there's a beautiful story
of one day, Rasulullah Salam
was missing.
So the Sahaba got worried. They said, where
is the Rasool, alaihis salaam? So they went
and searched for him here and there and
there. You couldn't find him.
Thought that this garden is where he normally
goes. So when he went there, he couldn't
find the entrance of the garden. So he
found a a drain
fresh water drain. It's not a dirty water.
Right? It was a you know, it's like
a stream.
So he crawled through his drain
inside and he saw Rasulullah Sallam sitting on
this,
wall of this well.
So as soon as he came, he said,
yeah. We were worried. We don't know where
you went and so on. So we I
found you.
Said, go and tell the people Allah will
forgive
everybody who is a Muslim. Allah will forgive
everyone who said So
I will say this
or who will believe me?
Give me some, you know, some some sign
because nobody they won't believe me if I
tell if I tell them this.
So Rasul did take my shoes. He he
had saddles.
So
Abu took the sandals of Rasul and carried
them on his head, and he went into
the market, and he started
calling out. He was not into the he
was on the way to the market, but
he was calling out and say,
Allah
has said that he will forgive
everyone
who said.
For his fate, he bet.
So started and said, what what are you
saying?
He said, this is what
Rasool told me.
So said,
he he didn't beat him, but he kind
of thumped him on his chest and
was a was a slim and, you know,
man. I was and, one of them
was a wrestler. So he's he hit him
on his chest and I fell off.
And he started crying.
Poor
man. So said that Omar said, no. Take
me to the 2 Rasool Salsas. Where is
he?
So he caught him. He took him. So
went and he was crying. He said, You
Rasool Allah, this is what Omar did to
me. He hit me. Now he said, You
Rasool Allah,
If people know this, they will stop working.
Alhamdulillah. This is from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
But if people know this, they go and
announce this, nobody will do anything.
As I say,
Far me for Jannah.
So now he smiled and keep quiet.
Now the reason I'm telling the whole story
is because
when this ayat was revealed,
Abu Talha al Ansari came to Rasool Salam,
and he said, you Rasool Allah, this garden
of mine,
which is the most valuable property in Madinah,
I would like to give in the path
of Allah's charity.
Ravish said why? He said because Allah
said
Now imagine. This was the had many other
properties. He could have given anything.
Or is it this
one?
Rasulullah, he's hikmah.
He said, don't give it in charity to
the general public. He said, distribute it among
your family.
That is
The point I'm making to you and my
myself, my brothers and sisters is today, we
have we live in a world today
where we have converted and made convenience
into our ilah. May Allah, for you.
We worship convenience.
Right? Everything must be I don't I should
not need to move.
Everything.
I should I don't need a book. Hey,
Siri.
Where is
the masjid?
Everything convenient.
Right?
Nothing wrong with that. I'm not saying that
you should deliberately put yourself into trouble, but
it creates a certain kind of mindset
where we want convenience in everything
including in
din. So the moment there is any bit
of hardship no. No. No. I want convenience.
And the classic one is this whole issue
of
moon fighting.
Why can't we have a calendar? Why can't
we have astronomical calculations? We simply say 25th
December is Christmas.
We will say 24th of whatever month is
will be
it doesn't matter. We we we do this,
you do that.
The Nabi Ali Salam, he said, see the
moon.
So no. No. No. No. No. The moon
was born. He didn't say he did not
talk about the moon being born. He said,
see the moon.
Brother, you know, I saw the moon today.
It is definitely 2 days old. Of course,
it is 2 days old.
Of course, it is 2 days old. Who
told you it is 1 day old?
It was born yesterday. You could not have
seen it because of the angle of the
earth. Unfortunately, you don't know astronomy, You don't
know geography. You cannot even understand if I
explain it to you, but you will argue.
Why? Convenience.
It would be so nice. If we could
have it on on a weekend, it would
be beautiful.
Then why not do Jummah also on Sunday?
Why why why do Jummah on Friday?
I don't know. How many of you know
there used to be a time in America
where Jummah was done on a Sunday?
They used to do the Jummah Salah on
a Sunday.
There was a time.
We are all that.
But convenience makes sense. No. Do Jummah on
a on a Friday. Why Friday? We do
Jummah on a Sunday.
The meaning of love
is to suffer pain.
You have to be willing to suffer some
pain.
The nafs has to be controlled.
We cannot have everything according to our Hawa.
That is why Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said,
We do what the tells us to do.
What our desire wants, we do.
No. We have to get out of this.
Please understand this. Convenience in its own place.
No problem. I'm gonna get and buy a
nice car, have a nice house, have this.
Today, we we want no inconvenience.
We live in in in temperature controlled environments.
What kind of houses did you build? Did
you live in our countries?
In the summer, you felt the heat. In
the winter, you felt the cold. Here, everything.
But then,
70 degrees. Whatever
outside, slow, hail, no problem. 70 degrees.
Okay.
Do it. I don't have objection to that,
but don't bring that into the deen.
Do not bring that into the deen. This
deen is a deen of hope of Allah
and hope of the rabbi alayhi salaam.
And the word of Rasool alayhi salaat wa
salaam,
there is no value for that.
That is the most valuable thing in the
whole world.
And if someone tells you to sacrifice this
this word of the Rabi alaihis salaam for
convenience,
leave that person.
That person is not your friend. That person
is not your friend. Don't go near that
person.
Take some pain for this deen
because this world will end, and we will
go in our grave. And we don't want
pain there.
There, we want.
There, we want.
Then you have to take some pain here.
Then you will get the there, Inshallah.
We ask Allah
to accept
the fasting of these days. We ask Allah
to accept our our
tomorrow inshallah. We ask Allah to
keep our hearts together,
to keep us from fighting, to keep us
from Iqtilaf,
to keep us from abusing each other. We
ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give us
akhlaq and we ask
Allah to give us the akhlaq of Rasool
and to gather us with him.
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