Mirza Yawar Baig – Tazkiyya wa Tarbiyya #23
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The importance of focusing on the heart and partnership between the feeder and seed is discussed, as well as the sad and tragic deaths of animals and the potential for humans to become scientists in the process. The danger of discussing the COVID-19 pandemic is emphasized, along with the importance of knowing the Quran and avoiding offense towards the book. Pr practicing and creating models for behavior is also emphasized. The importance of respect and acknowledging one's own worth is emphasized, along with avoiding offense towards the book and the importance of avoiding offense towards the teacher.
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Smilla Rahmanir Rahim Al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen wa Salatu was Salam ala philam Ba ba mousseline Muhammad Rasulullah sallallahu ala he right Ali was
just leaving Catherine cathedra for Mavado my brothers and sisters in our lesson on Duska to knifes will tell you whether the clock in sha Allah, we were looking at we were talking about the
importance of focusing on the heart. And I mentioned you the Self Check the diagnostic tool
where we can check and we should check ourselves to see
how we are doing and how our heart responds
to the glory and majesty of Allah to the word of Allah to the delivery of the Quran. And to seeing the signs of Allah subhanaw taala generated around us as I'm looking out my window we've had a pretty good snowfall, last two days about six inches of snow. So everything is covered with white covered with six inches of snow, you know, that that thick, and yet there are the little small birds or sparrows and then a rose finches and there are dark eyed juncos which are
which are full of life and they're
just not see to mourning doves also down there. The it's an amazing sort of partnership because the doves in the dark eyed juncos they don't go to the bird feeders.
But on the bird feeders are sparrows. And there are rose finches. And they as they feed they drop seed on the ground I've absolutely I've seen them actually just sort of, you know, scraping the seed like this, it falls on the ground. So it's not it's not your accidental dropping, this is Minilite Allah, Allah subhanaw taala has set some to feed some so these birds, they go on the on the feeders, and they they drag the seed down. And this drag the seed out of the feeder and it drops on the ground. And the others the birds which feed on the ground, they get the seed on the edge. It's amazing. It's so beautiful. And although the ground is completely covered with ice, with snow, but
you know they're there. The amazing thing is you might say well, how do they live in this in the bitter winters it's a combination of a lot of things that I don't want to go into electron on small birds. But small birds are a huge source of inspiration for me. When I look at a small bird, I think one let's see this thing alas graded so small, so tiny, completely defenseless. The only difference it has is that it can fly. And most of them don't even fly that as fast as the apprentice yet they survive the
the
reproduce, they make, they have, you know, they make nests and they raise their young and sometimes the nest is destroyed. Sometimes something comes in, it's the eggs or it's the chicks and they're there they do not
allow any of that to come in the way they just do it again and again. And in the winter the Allah has given them feet which are which are not like our feet, they're like, obviously the bird feeder feeder alike sticks. So they don't, they don't feel the cold. And then they nest in or not bring the rest in evergreens. We have a lot of evergreens around here first and and pines and so on. And right down below where the where the if there's any high wind, it saves them from that Amazing Spider the photo illustrated. Now the issue is does that do anything to art? When you look at this? Does it remind you of philosophy Hunter? Are you saying Subhanallah I recently saw a clip of people who went
into a scientists who are in a an ice cave. And they say that this cave, what's in the cave is over 10,000 years old. So what's in the cave is from the first ice age. And these people are in there. It's absolutely amazing. It's this sort of mind boggling kind of scenery, they have to go through a tunnel literally crawl through a tunnel and that opens up into an absolutely amazing huge chamber. It's like a massive auditorium. And completely it is inside it has direct tides and serving mites. And when they when they shine their torches, the light bounces off all the planes of ice that are there. And it's like standing in a chamber of diamonds. And the sound when these people when they
speak what are the saying I can't even repeat those words here because it's all profanity. So it's all and you know, words. I don't want to I don't want to spoil my
last lecture on the scale by using bad language, but that's what they're saying. And I'm thinking to myself, how sad how terribly tragic that they see this glorious photo of Allah subhanaw taala but they don't know Allah, right? They don't know Allah and the reason
Why there is nobody there who thinks, oh Hannah, Allah Alhamdulillah and making such that on a place where at least for the last 10,000 years, nobody made sudo Allah Allah and before that, if there was somebody if they did it, I doubt they might. But my point is that the reason why that is not happening is because we and our children, our Muslims, do not consider it worthwhile to study and become scientists in that 1111 How, how tragic is that people will know the Quran or should know the Quran, maybe our tragedies, we don't even know the collapse or forget about this. But the point is that people should know the Quran, or who do know the Quran, they are they are not in the places
where Allah subhana Telesco that is being shown in such absolute glory, and absolute magnificence.
To continue with our lesson, among the tests that we have, and we can do, to see how we are doing with regard to our, our hearts is to see how much of useless talk do we engage in and believe me, practically 100% of our talk, which is done on politics, which is done on sports, which is of course gossip, is gossip, which is haram. But even the other stuff is really useless. Because almost nobody does any of this with the intention of doing something about it or changing those those things. Either they are not capable of changing, they don't have the power to change, or that doesn't come that is not part of the the idea of talking this talking because, you know, it's like my guy and his
friend used to say, he does because he got out, you know, he talks because he has a mouth, but seriously, the less we speak, the better off we are because the less we speak the less we are engaged with the outside world and the more we can look inward, and of course also saves you a lot of time and energy and saves you from argument useless, pointless argument which gets us absolutely nowhere, even our even Amara, the Allahumma
narrated for us was a seller, who said Do not talk excessively without remembering Allah subhanaw taala because such excessive talk without the mention of Allah causes the heart to harden and the person furthest from Allah Subhana Allah is a person with a hard heart and this is in,
in in integrity. So, let us understand this that just useless stop by pointless talk which nearly achieves nothing, that is something which is not just useless, it is actually harmful.
The second issue is that of forgetfulness, which is roughly
we may be doing nothing right it's not as if you're committing some some harm you're not but then you're also not doing anything good your your mind is wandering somewhere and and and we are in a state of offer. narrated this is this is without narrated Saba and novella. No, that was awesome said the people will soon summon one another to attract you as people when eating invite others to share their dish. Someone asked Yasser allah sallallahu Sallam will that be because of our small numbers at the time? And He is Allah Salam replied, No, you will be numerous you will many at the time but you will be like scum and rubbish that is carried down by a torrent and Allah subhanaw
taala will remove the fear of you from the * of your enemy, and put one hand into your hearts. Somebody says what is Wanniassa allah sallallahu Sallam he said the love of this dunya and the dislike of death, the love of dystonia and the fear of death. So Allah as we as we, as I speak to today, think about the amount of time that we waste talking about COVID
right COVID numbers COVID results in this state a COVID is is rapidly increasing in that stage it is happening in this country and that country is COVID COVID COVID. Not one of us says Alhamdulillah I don't have it. Right. So let me focus on the fact that I don't have it. There is no COVID in my house which is a which is the fact with the majority of us right? The majority is still healthy. The majority is not. Is not sick, if the majority was sick, believe me we will be seeing a different world. The majority is not sick. The even though a lot of people are saying that is still a minority. The majority of people are healthy and hamdullah they're well how many how many times have
you heard words of sugar about this?
Rather than constant COVID COVID COVID This is all from shatta this is all from shatta and this produces a fear in the heart of people.
Why afraid of COVID You will either get well or if you don't get well if you die you die or shade Why are you afraid of COVID
Subhan Allah Allah if it is not it COVID is not it's not a crime that you committed, you will not be punished for getting COVID
But you will be punished for leaving your Salah you will be punished for that.
lies you will we tell you you will be punished for for for doing a rebirth and character assassinating somebody you will be punished for usurping somebody's rights and so on Illa Masha Allah If Allah doesn't, if ALLAH does not forgive you, we don't talk about any of those things. We should COVID it is a it is a disease disease is an ailment if you get it, you get it, you don't get it don't get, by all means by you know, take your precautions. I'm not against that. Take your vaccinations, you should take vaccines and you take every other vaccination. What's the problem with COVID? But my, I'm not talking about I'm just saying the amount of time and energy we spend in
talking about that
complete and total waste of time also it gets you into a negative spin. Because if you're constantly talking about this is this has happened that separate hospitals unfold this happens also die blah, blah, blah. Is this anything which is going to do any good to you? Will it make you feel positive? Will it make will energize you? Will it make you feel good about about life? No. This is guaranteed to make you feel bad.
Whereas the opposite of is 100. Allah Allah subhanaw taala protecting me Alhamdulillah I am safe Allah, Allah, by all means feel sympathetic about others do something about it, no problem. 100 is good to do that. But how many people were talking about COVID are doing something about those who have COVID Tell me
Seriously, my brothers sisters, this whole issue of love of this dunya and the fear of death. This is so hard. I mean, I I don't have to swallow some does not need my confirmation, to say that what he said is true. But this is so so true. It really, really touches the heart. And it's something which we where he put his finger on exactly that the problem with us. And
this is so true for us now, cause of why and what is the cause of both wahan and Graha do not
mean a hobo dunya, which is what had both of these, the love of the dunya and the
dislike of death are both the result of another basic illness, which is the lack of Yochanan, the ACA and you know why we don't have the ACA, because we don't talk about that.
We have Yochanan COVID, we do not we did not have a second in the ACA,
we have located in COVID. Because we talk about COVID We do not have Yochanan academicals, we do not talk about your finances.
Imagine if the opposite was true. If you're dealing the ACA what what would our situation be, like COVID are no COVID.
Both of these are the result of no Yaqeen in the ACA. And that's the reason why it is so important to talk about. If you if we had if we had
audio and video recordings of the modulus of a solar cell,
we would be hearing the word Akira and we would be hearing the the the descriptions of the aka the whole time.
Continuously the Sahaba were engaged and they were thinking and they were reflecting and they were they were talking about the akhira 24/7. That's what they did.
Whereas we are on the other side other other side of the of the story. Now actions indicate belief. So to judge how much we really believe in the ACA, let us take stock of our own aka our own actions and see which of them are directed towards the ACA and which of them
directed towards buying the dunya at the expense of the ACA. I've said this once and I've said this a million times which is that Islam is not against this dunya Islam sent us in this world to live in this world and to teach others how to live in the world. The word dunya and Arabic actually means forgetting it means leaving it means something which is low
and getting involved with that. So when we say Dunia is not the Buddha which means the life of this world no.
So how many of us are concerned and overly concerned about the dunya?
And how many of us are actually buying the dunya at the expense of the academic taking the currency from the Acura and we are investing it in the dunya. If you just think about that, how incredibly stupid is that?
That you're taking currency which lasts you forever and putting it in a place where it perishes.
What else do you call somebody who is borrowing money on interest?
If that is not buying the dunya at the expense of the akhira then you tell me what is buying the dunya at the expense of the Accra
right what is it?
We are buying the dunya at the expense of the Afro and this is the evidence of that this is the proof of that
that we take
interest based loans.
When we take interest based loans, what are we doing we are doing this we are buying the Dounia at the expense of the effect.
You take the loan here.
You build your house or you invest the money in your business so you buy a term
Don't settle you buy a car or whatever you do.
And you pay for that forever and ever in your life
doesn't make sense.
Please,
my brothers and sisters, if we are Muslims, Let us act like Muslims, it's high time that we acted like Muslims.
We are seeing difficulty after difficulty
which is heaped on us.
Why? Because we leave Islam because we have relegated Islam to some, you know,
place McCandless place. And by MacArthur's I don't mean it in the good sense of something which is which is valuable and which is holy. I mean, because as in what we do with the Quran, the most of itself, in many homes,
you wrap it up in a nice satin cloth and you put it in there in a high place.
I was in the, in a school called j cos Academy, which is the Jewish school. J cause Academy is Jewish.
Secondary School in
Jewish community secondary school, it costs us community secondary school in the UK in London. And they invited me to, you know, it's a long story, but very nice, very, very nice people
who run the school and so on, incidentally, several Muslim children in that school as well. And as I asked them, Why do Muslims put their children in your school? This is because your values and our values are the same. We do not have promiscuity, the school we don't have all kinds of stuff, which happens in public school. So Muslim parents feel safe putting their children in our school. So very interesting. I went into they asked me to just just walk into any class, one of the classes was a class on religious studies. So I walked into that class,
seven, eight year old children, little deal, all of them Jewish. So I walked into the class and I just said, you can ask them anything you want. So I asked them, I said, What do you know about Islam? Do you know anything about Islam? They said, Yes. I said, What do you know about Islam?
And one little one put up his hand. Surgeon, please tell me what is. What do you know about Russia? He said, Islam is a religion, which is based on a book.
I said, you know the name of the book, he says the Quran
little seven year old or eight year old?
sighs it's one of the teaching them the right stuff as anybody else, one little girl. Yes.
She said the Quran is a holy book, it must be treated with respect, and kept in a high place.
As well, when she said that, I always had I mean, I had tears in my eyes, because I'm looking at it from a different perspective. Suppose I said, What a beautiful, the answers are very happy. But my point is here is a little Jewish girl in London, seven or eight year old girl.
And through her ALLAH SubhanA, Allah made me hear some words, which are words of warning for me. And for us Muslims? What'd she say? She saying they are people who have this book? And what do they do their book, they put it in high place.
Did you say they live by this book? Did she say the practice this book in their lives.
She says the Holy Book must be treated with respect. And put in a high place is that respect?
Seriously.
If you have a manual
for something,
and you take this value, and you, you know, you, you you, you put it in a in a nice embroidered cover. And you put it in a high place. Whenever you use that manual. And you say I respect the manual. I would say that is the highest disrespect for that manual. It's not respect. It is the highest disrespect, the manual came for you to use it.
For you to practice what's in it.
The manual game for you to live by it.
It didn't come for you to take it and put it in high place and call it holy.
I'm not saying don't read the Quran with respect, of course visual. I mean, sometimes people ask me some completely insane questions. Of course visual. What I'm saying is what is the real respect of something? If you have a teacher
and you say I respect the teacher.
So when you meet the teacher you have your head is covered. You always you know you're wearing a cap or something, you're wearing decent clothes, you go and you you shake hands with the teacher, you kiss his hand. You sit in front of this teacher in a state in a position of the shareholder on the ground, right you're showing all the signs of respect. But this teacher is teaching you something
and that lesson you pay no attention your mind is one
Bring somewhere
you take no notes whatever the teachers teaching you you pray you you you do not practice any of that
you do all the opposites
and yet you sit on this teacher mashallah as well this is also Masha Allah so Allah says what a beautiful man oh he's my shirt he is this is that he is you know I really respect him. I mean that teacher will say excuse me please get out from here. You know get out from your limo because you are a liar. If you respected me you would obey me if you respected me you would do what I tell you to do, you will practice model what I teach you you will practice that in your life.
You will not be doing something else.
Claiming to
respect me
my brother and sister seriously seriously Let us ask this question to ourselves. May Allah save us from ourselves? I make this all the time yella, Save me from myself. Save me from myself.
What will Rasul Allah is Allah is Salam said to us and say about us.
Allah Subhana Allah told us that the Nabi is going to be a witness over you. Allah did not say he will be a witness in your favor. He said he will be a witness oh
now he's going to be a witness in our favor. Or is he going to be a witness to say Allah, I conveyed my message but they disobeyed me which one
we have to ask ourselves this question. Respect is not show of respect. All the drama, that's not respect. Real respect of a teacher is to obey Him. Real respect of the teacher is to do what he taught us to do.
Rasul Allah Salamis our teacher the Quran Al Karim is our teacher.
ask ourselves what is our attitude towards the Quran? What is our attitudes towards Mohammed Salah highly values our Salah
my brothers and sisters persistence in sinning is a cause of a bad ending.
LSR Allen Massey
who has suburb su al Kadima.
Insisting on sin
is the result of
is a result of a bad ending.
So, please let us be very, very clear in our minds because committing sin covers the heart and eventually seals it from all guidance.
I think about it, why do we cover it since two reasons One, self indulgence there's something I like to do.
Now I have the lazy Allah's Randall has created us with certain things and these are tests. Shabbat, for example is a test is it's it is part of our our being
we are attracted towards that, but the whole the advantage, the advantage and the reward is in resisting that.
Not in giving into it
civilize to be civilized to be cultured to, to have, you know this thing of, of the glory of Allah in our hearts to be to be considered an intelligent person is actually to not do
what
within quotes comes naturally or what we would like to do at the time we want to do it.
The simplest example to illustrate this and explain this is take a little child who is maybe six months old
when that child wants to go,
you know urinate, defecate or whatever.
He does it
because that six month old child is a little mammal
right he hasn't been house trained because he doesn't he's not hasn't been potty trained doesn't mean how straight
so he doesn't know to go to a to the toilet or it doesn't know to ask somebody to take him to the toilet or something. So that's why the the wear nappies and whatnot, right.
So what the giant is doing is that you're absolutely natural.
But fast forward that you do not fast forward into the time is 40 years old. Fast forward that that six month old child
is now two years old, or three years old or four years old.
And if the child does the same thing
you would say this child is smart. I mean, what's wrong with that something's wrong.
If somebody says What's wrong, is a natural function is doing something which is natural. He's not doing anything unnatural, he's not committing a sin, it is not a sin to do what he is doing.
He said, No, it is not a sin, but it is not appropriate. It's not appropriate does it means the child has not been raised properly is not being brought up properly. What kind of parents are these? They don't put it in the chat, you would say, all right, fast forward, some of the same child is doing the same stuff when he's 15 years old, 20 years old. What do you say?
Just because something is natural, does not make it appropriate does not make it right. It may it's natural.
We may be we may be you know, I'm like I'm very fond of sweets, so but if it is not good for me, and if I'm eating it, then you would say you're stupid because I mean, you know you you know it's not good for you,
you know that it is not good for you the why reading is
the sign of intelligence, the sign of knowledge, is to do that which is correct. And that which is beneficial, and to stay away from that which is incorrect. And that which is not beneficial. This is a sign of intelligence.
Apply the same thing to our knives to our models to our ethics and values.
How is disobedience of Allah subhanaw taala
How is that something that we do and we you know, we consider it as normal and natural.
It is not. It's a sign of
sickness of the heart.
That the heart instead of shivering with the glory and majesty of Allah subhanaw taala and the love of Allah subhanaw taala the herb of Allah, this heart is impervious
self indulgence, and the other one is the other reason why we why we commit sin is peer pressure.
Wrong company, wrong sense Wrong, wrong friends. And we forget the fact that in the end, we are going to be standing alone.
All those friendly followed will not be with us.
All those people whose approval we sought, at the expense of the approval of Allah Jalla Jalla who doesn't make sense to you?
Doesn't make sense to you that you choose actively to displease Allah. And please your friends.
What sense does it make?
You want to displease Allah Jalla did Alou
who gave us everything we have?
And to whom is our return?
And whose help we need and whose mercy we need and whose forgiveness we need?
We are okay with displeasing him. In order to please some shaytani friend of ours.
That friend is misguided and he's misguiding you and that's okay for you.
Ask yourself this question.
How can that be okay?
How can that ever ever ever be okay?
However this does
in the end, we will stand alone.
And that is something that we need to be very, very conscious of.
That in the end, we will stand alone before Allah Subhana.
May Allah have mercy on us?
May Allah subhanho wa Taala enable us to do that which pleases Him.
Because that's the only thing which which which counts, which is a person's
success
or failure is
based on only one thing and that is whether that person pleased Allah subhanaw taala or not
nothing else.
That nothing else.
If we lived a life, where we pleased Allah, then inshallah we will be successful.
And if we lived a life where we displeased the last Mantella as one lamellas wanted to save us because nobody else can save us.
Because when we meet Allah subhanaw taala we will meet him alone
without any help.
That is one place we don't want to go and be surprised and say, How did this happen?
How did this happen?
We do not want to be surprised.
How did I get into this mess?
We do not want to get into the mess. And we do not want to be surprised there to say how did I get here? It's not a mystery. I remember
myself and you let us look at our lives now because now we have a chance as long as we are breeding we have a chance. Let us look at our lives now and correct ourselves so that when we meet Allah subhanaw taala we will meet him in a state when he's pleased with us. Masala Annabelle Karim Allah Allah He was a member of the Gomorrah. Musa Lama aleikum wa rahmatullah.