Mirza Yawar Baig – The real sacrifice
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My dear brothers and sisters, elders,
to
all of you. May Allah
make this Eid
full of fire and barakah for all of
us here and for all the Muslims all
over the world.
I remind myself and you that today,
the best that
can possibly be done is the
is
the sacrifice.
As we know from the Hadith of and
and, Ibn Majah.
Rasulullah
said, the son of Adam
does not do any action on the day
of sacrifice,
which is more pleasing
to Allah
than the sacrifice of animals.
And in another hadith in Musaat Ahmad and
Ibn Majah,
Abu Huraira
reported that Rasulullah
said, whoever can afford to offer a sacrifice
but does not do so, let him not
approach our place of prayer, which is the.
So sacrifice is very important, and it therefore
must be done. Anyone who is eligible to
pay Zakat is eligible
for the sacrifice or liable for the sacrifice.
And therefore, you should do that including even
if you became eligible today, you must, inshallah,
try your best
to do a sacrifice
today.
My brothers and sisters, I remind myself and
you that the meaning of being Muslim is
to submit to Allah
without question,
without reservation,
without argument, and without hesitation.
To submit joyfully and eagerly,
That is the symbol of our trust in
him.
And that trust is is what earns his
pleasure
and his help.
And that is why the iconic symbol of
Islam is the sajdah.
It's complete and total submission and helplessness
before Allah
a symbol of total unhesitating
obedience,
a symbol of total trust and faith in
Allah
The reward of that is tawakkur.
It's a condition of the heart of reliance,
condition of the heart which is free from
all stress and all fear.
And the and the reward of that is
the nusrah, is the help of Allah
which is not subject to any of his
laws.
I remind myself and you that is
Allah
gift
for taqwa, for obedience.
We cannot live a life of disobedience
and expect
our hearts
to be filled with the and of
Allah
said
Allah
said which means it is neither
the
which reaches
him. The purpose of
is to inculcate
the spirit of submission, of sacrificing
our desires, of sacrificing what we want
to win the pleasure of Allah
and become among those who Allah
called al Masinoon.
I want to give you 2 examples
of the issue of Taqwa and what the
meaning of sacrificing
our desires is.
One is
where the Sahaba
had set out
with the Hakobah Rasool to
make umrah.
It was not desire as in wanting to
do something
to disobey Allah, to make Umrah the best
of ibadah, inshaAllah.
But Allah
had some other plan and therefore
Rasool
ordered them to return
without doing umrah
and to sacrifice their animals, which they had
brought and to shave their heads.
Please understand that that decision of Rasool
in Hudaybiyah
was not taken with consultation.
He did not make
with anybody.
He did not even ask
who he normally used to ask.
It was a unilateral decision by the Rasool
alayhis salaam.
The Sabbath obeyed.
They did not like it. They wept,
but they obeyed.
And that's why I call
the final test
that Allah
has set for the Sahaba,
a test of obedience.
It was obviously never
the intention of Allah
that they should do Umrah, so why send
them there?
That was the test.
The second test,
and I'm saying this for a reason,
was after the.
Rasul
sent the army again to deal with
the treachery of the one of and
he gave them his
an instruction. He gave them
and he said, pray
in
the lands of.
When they left,
as they were going,
sun was going down.
Some of them said,
we are going to miss
altogether.
So let us stop here and pray because
what is the for
at its time. So it is sun is
going down. We should pray. Others said, it
is the order of the Hakam of the
Rasul alayhi salaam that we should not pray
unless we get to that place. We should
pray in that place.
So there was a difference of opinion on
the matter of Ibadah for Ibadah
between the Sahara.
These were people who were getting instructions directly
from the Rasul alaihi
salam.
But there was a different opinion.
What did they do? They acted on the
different opinion. Those who felt that they should
pray right there, they stopped and they prayed.
Those who felt they should continue, they continued.
And they prayed in
the land of Baru Qoreida. The sun did
not stop for them. Salah became a Chaddah.
So they prayed Chaddah in the land of
Baru Qureza.
When they came back to Rasulullah
they reported. They said, Rasool Allah, this was
the issue. We had a different opinion. He
said, what did you do? He said, some
of us did this. Some of us did
that. He said,
He said, no problem.
The point I want to make to you
is that,
for differences of opinion, some of our brothers
prayed
Eid yesterday
in Masjid An Nur, Alhamdulillah.
They came and asked me. I said, Alhamdulillah.
They said, what is your position? I said,
I will be fasting
fasting on that day, but if somebody invites
me for iftar in Masjid Al Noh, I
will go.
That is my position.
And others like you, we are praying here
today.
People are coming to me and saying, the
Ummah will be divided. The Ummah was not
divided when the Sabbath had a different opinion
about salah. Why will we be why will
we be divided now?
There is flexibility in our deal. If somebody
is following some daleel, alhamdulillah.
We have a different daleel, alhamdulillah.
There is no division in the upper. Please
understand. We are 1 people, Insha'Allah.
Yes.
All of us are brothers and sisters to
one another.
There's no division. No need to worry about
division. There's no division. There will never be
any division. There will be division if we
fall into this trap. We are not in
this trap.
Just because somebody prays, eat on one day
or somebody fast on one day, it does
not break our bow our bow tree and
our our bond as brothers and sisters. What
kind of bond is that? You pray you
fast on today and I fast tomorrow and
we are no longer brothers?
What kind of craziness is this?
So we are all brothers and sisters, and
we will remain brothers and sisters.
Please understand, today is the day of sacrifice.
Like our Amir, doctor Balwa said, it has
to be a sacrifice not only of the
animal,
sacrifice of our desires. We need a sacrifice
like the sacrifice of What
was the sacrifice?
When removed him from the commander commanding of
the army. He was the commander commander in
chief of the army
appointed by Rasulullah,
peace,
understand this.
He gave him the title, say, fullah.
He appointed him.
When
Abu Bakr
came
and he was the khalifa, said, the Omar
said to him,
people are following Khalib and so on and
so forth. Whatever reason he had, he said
remove Khalib from said,
I will not remove the one who Allah
subhanahu wa ta who the Nabi of Allah
has appointed.
When Sayidina Umar became
Khalifa after 2 years, he's almost his first
action was he sent a letter saying Khalib
bin Walid is no longer the commander in
chief of the army.
And the command of the army was given
to
What did Khalil say?
Khalil
said, I do not fight for the sake
of Umar. He said, I fight for the
sake of Allah. And I will fight for
the sake of Allah even if I'm the
only one fighting.
Did he did he tell the army, now
now follow me. Okay,
Let's go. Now we march on Madinah. Let
us let us take over. Let let I
will be the Khalifa here. No. No.
That. Because this was the of Rasulullah salallahu
alaihi wa sallam. Because we have a difference
of opinion, it does not break the Ummah.
Please understand this. If anyone tells you that,
just bring them to me.
We are 1 and we will remain 1.
Yes.
I can't hear you.
Insha'Allah.
My brothers and sisters,
he is
your, manifest and clear and open enemy.
My brothers and sisters,
I would like to wish all of you
again
and
request you in the middle of your enjoyment
and eating of good food and meeting relatives
and so on,
let us
spare a little time
to remember and remind each other
that we are sitting here in peace and
celebrating this Eid,
and we are making a when we are
praying and so on and so forth. But
there are brothers and sisters of ours.
Let us spare some thought and time for
them. And let us make dua that Allah
who should help them in ways that they
cannot imagine. We ask
Allah to enable us to make the Hajjut
on ourselves
with the intention of asking Allah
to help the Muslims wherever they are. We
ask Allah
to help us to stand up and give
us the courage to stand up against the
oppressors,
whoever they may be, understanding that sometimes those
oppressors
are ourselves.
We ask Allah
to help us to stand against the oppressors
and to support the people who are being
oppressed no matter where they are and who
they are.