Mirza Yawar Baig – The real sacrifice

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.