Mirza Yawar Baig – The first priority #2
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The transcript describes a man named Hatib Alayson who wanted to go for Hajj and decided to go for it. A woman named Arazakh was confronted by her mother and friend who lost their job due to the pandemic. Arazakh eventually went to the governor's house and was told she will be sent to the governor's house, but she later goes to the governor's house and is told she has completed her blessing and chosen Islam as her king.
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To give you a
to close and conclude also my remarks
and to give
you a loveliest, one of my favorite stories,
there was a
an alib,
there was a great scholar called Hatib
and he was called Hatib al Assam.
Al Assam was the title that was given
to him
because of another incident which I won't mention
now but very beautiful incident.
So the story is that Hatem al Assam
wanted
to go for Hajj.
Now Hati was a man who operated on
the principle of
Tawakkul.
He was known as Tawakkil
and his principle was that anything which he
considered to be which
is more than what is necessary, more than
what is critical to survival, he would give
away in charity.
Food or money or anything, he never kept
anything.
Right?
He believed in instant transfer to the everlasting
account.
On a side note, I want to mention
to you because this is something which we
get confused.
We think we are giving in charity. You're
not giving in charity, you're transferring from an
account which
is
which will finish
to an account which will never finish.
Transfer of wealth.
It's yours.
It is yours here and it is yours
also with Allah accept that when it is
with Allah, it remains. Here it goes away.
Allah said,
what is with you will disappear.
What is with you will vanish. What is
with you will perish. What is it that
Allah will remain.
So obviously, Hathim didn't have
too much of disposable income.
He wanted to go for Hajj and
he was very sad.
He was sitting one day in his house,
he was very sad.
He had a little daughter.
So his daughter came, she saw him, she
asked him, what happened? Why? He had tears
in his eyes. He said, why are you
crying?
So he said to her,
first, he didn't tell her. He said, what's
this little girl gonna do, you know?
He said, no, no, no, tell me.
And you know, our little girls are, right?
I mean absolutely the most powerful creatures in
the world, little girls.
We have this father who is 8 feet
tall and 6 feet wide and he's got,
you know, arms
like, truck tires and he's like
around his round her little finger.
So this little girl, she asked him, why
are you crying? What happened?
He said to her, I want to go
for Hajj and I can't go. He said,
why don't you go? Go.
He said, it's not so simple. He said,
the problem is that
I asked your mother whether she will allow
me to go
and this is not as far as Hajj
or something that is done. This is nothing.
So your mother quite rightly,
he's not he's not bad talking the mom
before the child.
So he said, your mother quite rightly told
me that if I go for Hajj, then
I must leave behind money, enough money for
all of you to
live comfortably until I come back and you're
talking about the days when going for Hajj
meant
they went before Ramadan.
They spent Ramadan there. They spent the next
2 months there. They finished Hajj, and then
they came back. So you're looking at about
a 6 month
period. Right? It's not a small you don't
just jump on a plane, come back 10
days later on.
So he said, well, you know, I want
your mother said this and I don't have
enough money for that. I just have enough
money for the to pay the caravan,
leader to take me, but nothing else.
So I can't go.
So this girl said, you don't worry about
my mother. You go for Hajj. You plan.
I will take care of mom.
So she went and she, you know, talked
to her mother into
allowing the father to go.
Then
very happy, he left.
Now as they were going in this caravan
about a day on,
a day later,
the caravan chief,
he got bitten by a scorpion
in the desert. He was in intense, severe
pain.
So people people know they they knew who
Atiullah was. So they called him and said,
sir, please make the dua for him. He's,
you know, maybe he'll die. We don't know
what I was saying. So Atiullah Assam made
dua, Allah you're the man.
So he made dua and he did that.
Now that man was so happy. He said
to Hadim Alassam, here is the money you
gave me. Here is the money back to
you. You are my guest. I will take
you and bring you back. Don't worry about
your expenses.
So
he
raised his hand and he said, you have
taken care of me.
Take care of my family.
Time passes,
Week passes. 2 weeks pass. 3 weeks pass.
Now there is trouble in the house because
money is running out, money has run out.
There is they're having problem now, food, this,
that.
So now everybody is on this girl's case,
and the mother says to the girl, you
are the problem. You made me do this.
I was telling a father not to worry.
He would have been here. None of this
would have happened.
But you convince me and now see what
happened.
This girl
is laughing,
which obviously makes everyone even more mad, you
know. Somebody asked me what should you do
if somebody is mad? I said laugh.
He said why? He said it will make
you they make them more mad, you know.
She's laughing.
So the mother said, wow. This is crazy.
We we are in difficulty here and so
on. You are laughing?
He she said to her, mom,
who left?
Who went from here?
Marzuk
or Arazakh?
Who went?
The one who was to receive provision
or the giver?
Who went?
He said, of course,
He said, then why are you crying?
He said why you upset?
Why your friend? Ar Razaq, he's there.
And he said,
This conversation is happening. There's a knock on
the door.
They will open the door.
It is the ADC. It is the the
military officer in command of
the governor.
He's standing there outside.
He says, the governor is passing by. We
have run out of water.
So can you give us some drinking water?
I said, of course. So they go, they
take water from the well, they put it
in a nice nice, jug, you know, they
put it in a nice tray, they put
a tray cloth and so on in a
nice way. They bring it and give it
to the ADC and he takes
it to the governor.
And the governor digs the water. Allah puts
Barakah in this.
He digs the water. He says, this water,
where did you get it from?
He says, hey. Any problem? No. No problem.
This is the sweetest, the nicest, the best
water I've ever drink in my life. Where
is the water from? So they said, from
this house.
He said, whose house is that? They said,
Hati Marasa.
He said, the scholar? I said, yes.
So he said, I want to meet him.
So they said to him, no. He's not
there. He's gone for Hajj.
So the governor says then
his family
are my guests until he returns.
Everything for them will be sent from the
palace.
Let them know
whatever they need.
Then the governor,
he rides his horse, you know those I
don't know the America, you don't have them,
but in in our countries we have
homes and then there is a courtyard and
there's a sort of high wall and then
the door in the courtyard so people from
outside can't look inside. Right? So there's a
there's a wall around.
The governor rides the rides his horse up
to the wall. He takes off his belt.
You know, they they used to wear these
belts. Very ornate
belts
with
jewels in them and then they had pockets
and the pockets have got good dinners full
full of them and whatnot.
The governor takes off his belt and he
throws it over the wall.
And then he says,
whoever is with me, whoever loves me, do
what I did.
So what do you think happens?
Even if you don't love the governor, you
better you better show that you love the
governor. Right?
So next thing they know,
they are inside, they see one belt land.
The belt land on the floor and it's
opens and there's gold
dinars everywhere.
Next thing they know, pouches of gold and
belts and this and that and stuff flying
over this wall.
Their whole courtyard is covered in gold.
They have enough money to last them till
the end of their lives.
Right?
So everyone is delighted. I'm very happy.
Then somebody says, where is this girl?
Where did she go?
They go looking for
And she
is sitting inside
weeping
weeping.
So the mother says to her, you are
a funny creature. He said, when we had
all this trouble, you were laughing.
Now we have all of this gore,
and you are crying.
Why?
Why are you crying?
The girl says,
when one slave of Allah
looked at us with karam,
when one slave of Allah looked at us
with kindness, this is what happened.
What do you think will happen
when we go before
when we go before
when we go before our
and he looks at us with karma.
I began by saying, what is the first
thing to do? Taluk with Allah,
connection with Allah.
This is what you must build.
It's not anything else. This is what even
if you become the grand Mufti of whatever
country and you do not have a connection
with Allah,
that knowledge will not help you one shot.
And if you are and may Allah make
us like that, if we are like that
little girl,
the daughter of Hadith Malasam,
she's not a grand mousti.
I don't know if she was happy to
call her.
I don't think she wrote any books,
but she was connected
with Allah.
If we have that,
believe me there is no wealth in the
world.
Which can equal that?
Ask Allah
to enable us to use this Ramadan
for the purpose that Allah sends Ramadan,
which is to connect himself to us.
Ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Taala to fill
our hearts with his nur and with his
grace and with his mercy. Ask Allah Subhanahu
Wa Taala to illuminate our hearts with His
Noor so that it drives out
all other darkness of everything.
I ask Allah
to be pleased with all of you. Allah
has blessed us with this deen, with this
beautiful religion of Islam, which is from him.
Islam is not anybody's creation, it's not somebody's
invention, it's not a theory, it's not a,
you know, it's not a philosophy, it is
the deen of Allah.
Allah said on this day I have completed
on you this deed, this way of life,
this religion.
I have completed my
my blessing on you and I have chosen
for you Islam as your king. This is
what Allah chose for us. We thank Allah
that He gave it to us.