Mirza Yawar Baig – Teaching Quran – Part 6

			In the London Lillah wa Salatu was Salam.
		

			ala alihi wa sahbihi, Amara obat mighty brothers sisters, the sixth soul, of teaching of the Quran
is to live it yourself.
		

			If you notice, I'm following the same sequence that Allah subhanaw taala taught, are also Allah is
Allah Allah Salam with regard to teaching of the Quran which is recited, purify yourself and the
people explain and understand it, and then live it. And that's what we are following. So therefore,
for the teacher of the Quran, it is absolutely essential to live the Quran yourself.
		

			First and foremost reason to live the Quran yourself, is because people listen with their eyes.
People do not listen with their ears, they listen with their eyes, people don't care what you say,
until they see what you do. So therefore, let us be very clear as teachers, we are willy nilly,
whether we like it or not role models for our students. Now, question to ask is not whether I want
to be a role model. Because if you are a teacher, you are a role model. question to ask is what kind
of role model do I want to be? Because the reality is that students will emulate you.
		

			And they will use you and your actions as the delille for their actions, they will use you and your
actions as the proof for doing or not doing something. They'll tell you
		

			an amusing, slightly sad story, but I'm using them nonetheless.
		

			My driver once I loaned him to an uncle of mine, who was invited to a party, which was given by a
very wealthy man. And this party was supposed to be full of all kinds of profit, all kinds of
prohibited things. So I of course, I didn't, I didn't want to go and I didn't go to this party. It
was a it was a wedding party. But there was an elderly uncle of mine, who was a friend of the
grandfather of that family. So he called me and he said, Can you loan me Your Car and Driver because
this is the night and I don't want to drive? So I said, Of course most welcome. So my driver went,
and he went with my uncle, he saw what was happening in that in that wedding party. And next
		

			morning, my driver comes and tells me, he tells me he says to me, he says, sir, you know, you are
unnecessarily rigid.
		

			So I said, what kind of thing is this? I mean, what do you mean, I'm unnecessarily? He says, Do you
know who was in that party yesterday? Last night? And May Allah forgive me, he listed for me the
names of many of our religious leaders, many of our teachers and Allah who were in that party. Now
he tells me if what was happening there was wrong. How come so and so was there? How come so and so
was there? How come the head of that organization was there? How come the head of that mother
mother's I was there? You are the problem. He's telling me he was a bit of a he was a bit of an
uppity chap.
		

			And he used to tell me various things. So he tells me you have a problem. He said you could have
also gone yesterday, you could have enjoyed yourself. So I told him man, look, you know, these these
these things, and music and dancing and so on. And all of this stuff, it was happening, the party
was wrong. He said if it is wrong, why so and so there.
		

			Now, think about this, here is a man himself is not an ally he is. You know, I don't like to say
hello ignorant, because that's not one of the lies, he knew something. But he's obviously he's not
an ally. But he takes as his delille, who he takes as his delille people who he sees as his
teachers. And May Allah forgive them alone, he knows that their reason for going there, whatever the
reason is, I don't want to go into that. But point is those people were there. So the whole issue is
that if you do something wrong,
		

			your students and other people who know you to be an ally, are going to take your action as the
delille for their own actions, and believe in our brothers and sisters, that will come back to haunt
you, because you will reap the rewards, the returns and the rewards for their actions. So therefore,
we have to be very, very clear in our mind and say that I will live by the Quran because that is why
the Quran came. The Quran came to show us how to live the Sahaba succeeded because
		

			They live by the Quran, we fail because we live by our own knifes and we ignore the Quran. So ask
yourself this question, do I want to succeed? Or do I want to fail?
		

			My brothers and sisters? See the the if you look at the stories of the Sahaba, if you look at what
we saw is I was a little bit. Do we have any instance where the column of Allah subhanaw taala
ordered something and you find the Prophet salallahu alaihe salam did something else? And then he
tells the people follow the column of Allah Don't look at me. Did he ever say that? Do we have an
instance where the Sahaba did something which was against Islam against the caliber of Allah
subhanho wa Taala? And then if somebody question them, did the Sahaba say, No, no, look at the book.
Look at the the order. Don't look at me, I am not at Delhi. On the contrary, it will famous out of
		

			the sound of many of us, I have a if somebody asked them, What is Islam? If somebody asked them,
What should we do, they would say Guru midlaner become like us, become like us,
		

			for the Sahaba there and them and their lives was Islam. So therefore, today, if we look at it, we
have this, we have this common lament that many Muslims have with regard to the rest of the world.
And we say why do we pay? Why do people blame Islam? If a Muslim does something wrong? Why is Islam
on trial? Why do people blame Islam? But seriously, look at your look at our own history. Let us
look at our history. The Sahaba had quite the opposite view. The Savas view was that a Muslims
action is the reflection of Islam, and therefore, they said Poonam Islam has become like us. So my
point is, if a Muslim does something wrong, who do you want people to blame?
		

			Who do you want people to blame? Because if the Muslim does something, right, do you want people to
say he did this? Because he's a Muslim? This is a reflection of Islam? Do you want them to say that?
Or do you want to zenana Islam has nothing to do with it. He is honest, he is compassionate, he is
courageous. That is his personal, internal, his own ability, his own strength. Islam has nothing to
do with that. Do you want people to say that, obviously, you know, then how can you object if people
use the same meter, if they use the same measurement when you do something wrong? So very seriously,
living by the Quran, is not only
		

			not a choice for us, we have to do that. But it's also something which is the source of so much of
benefit for us. Imagine, remember this, that if we live by the Quran, and if somebody takes that cue
from us, and that person also models his life on the Quran, you may remember that you and I are
going to get the benefit of all those people. Now, what objection can we have to that?
		

			What objection can we have to getting the benefits of the actions of all these people, just because
we decided to live by the horror, in many cases, we might not even know those people exist. So many,
so many instances where somebody maybe somebody sees,
		

			sees you going somewhere doing something. And that person then takes it from you.
		

			And that person then does this?
		

			How, how many times do we benefit from that? For example, I remember once in, in an airport, I was
sitting there and
		

			a young man came to me. And he made Salam I didn't even know who he was, he came to image Salaam.
And He then told me sir, jack, I learned something from you. I want to thank you for this. I said
what I mean, I am thinking to myself, I don't even know this guy. And what did you learn from me?
Obviously, you know, he's not a student of mine.
		

			He said, No, he said, You know, he said several years ago, and he gave me the name of the place. He
said, I was passing through that place. And in the, in the airport, I saw a man who was sitting
reading Quran. He said, I saw this man, people are milling around doing this doing that, reading
magazines and so on. And I saw this man, he was just sitting there. And he was reading Quran by
himself. And I thought to myself, what a wonderful thing to do that I, you know, I spend my time
productively. When I'm sitting, I'm engaged in liquor. And so I learned this thing. So I said, what
does it have to have that Shambhala is very, very good. And I think it's a wonderful thing to do.
		

			But what does that have to do with me? He said, You were the man.
		

			He said, You are the man. Now I think about I didn't even know that this man was there in the in the
airport. I didn't even know he had seen me. He said since then, I have been doing this. I have been
every time I am by myself.
		

			Every time I'm in an airport or somewhere where I'm just waiting, I take out my Quran and I read. So
he said, imagine this is something which I it was not even my intention to teach him that Allah
Subhana Allah is merciful on me, Allah subhanaw taala caused that man to see something that I was
doing. I'm only saying this to, to tell you that, you know, this is these are things that we do
unconsciously. And that is the reason why it's a good idea to get into a situation where you do good
things unconsciously, because then you don't have to put on an act to to show anybody. So living the
Koran living by the Quran ourselves. This is the secret and this is the secret of the success of the
		

			Sahaba. This one is a man made, who learned from Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, therefore I
request you on all of these things are linked. We cannot live by the Quran unless we understand the
Quran. We cannot understand the Quran until we have enough we cannot have to skip the naps unless we
follow the methodology of mamasan for the skier and we cannot do all of that unless we have the
classroom near to to, to teach and learn purely and purely for the sake of Allah subhanaw taala and
unless and until we love Allah subhanaw taala and we love the caliber of Allah subhanaw taala ask
Allah Subhana Allah to make it easy for us to do this and to be pleased with us when we do this.
		

			Because at the end of the day, as I said, and I remind myself again and again, we will not be asked
what did you know? We will not be asked how much of the Quran Did you memorize? You will not be
asked what was the state of your career? Did people listen to your carotovora? How many likes Did
you get on Facebook? How many YouTube videos did you have? How many hours of territorial competition
how many credit competitions Did you win? We will not be asked any of these questions. We will be
asked only one question which is what did you live by?
		

			Did you practice what you learnt? Why we will not be asked what did you know? We will be asked what
did you do? And I asked Allah subhanaw taala to enable us to live a life where when we are asked
this question, what did we do? We will not be found wanting a Salahuddin Abdul Karim Allah Allah He
was savage may be romantic.