Mirza Yawar Baig – We are all authors
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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the messengers
and the prophets.
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, peace and
blessings be upon him and his family and
his companions.
Peace and blessings be upon you.
Today I want to give you a little
exercise, so please pull out your phones, take
your phones out of your pockets.
And if you have already writing material, I
want you to write something.
Now in, if you don't have a phone,
write on your hand, but just write.
I want you to actually write so you
can read it and remember it.
I want you to write on your, whichever
phone, tablet, something.
Think about your whole life from the time
you were born or whatever your earliest memory
till today.
What is the best thing you did?
Something which you really enjoyed, something which you
love.
When you think about it, that day I
wish I could do this.
The best thing that you did till today,
write it.
Write, write, write, write, write.
And I'll tell you why I'm saying write,
it's important for you to write.
Write the best thing that you did till
today.
Pull out your phone.
Write the best thing you did till today.
You got it?
Best thing you did till today?
Hasanat?
Best thing you did today?
In your whole life, till today, from the
day you were born till today, the best
thing you did, write it.
You got it?
Everybody?
Okay, now, next exercise.
From the beginning of your life, the day
you were born till today, write down the
worst thing you did.
This is private, we are not sharing it
with anybody.
The worst thing, something you are really ashamed
of, horrible thing, I wish I never did.
Worst thing you did till today, write it.
Don't show anybody, that's for you.
Worst thing.
What is it that you have in your
hand just now?
Something with the best thing on it and
the worst thing on it.
What is it?
What is another name for it?
Good deed, bad deed.
You have written something now which has your
best deed and your worst deed.
You are holding it in your hand.
What is it called?
What is the name of that thing?
The stumbling of the life.
Yes.
This is your book of deeds, right?
Now, third exercise.
You have the worst thing you wrote.
The worst thing you did, rub it out.
Rub it out.
Erase it.
Erase it.
Erase it completely.
Can't see it.
Remove it.
Done?
What did you do just now?
What is the word for that?
Istighfar.
Who said Istighfar?
Amrullah.
Istighfar.
Istighfar and Tawbah.
Great.
I remind myself of you, a day will
come, when we will be given, we will
be given, our books.
Who is the author of my book?
Me.
Who is the author of your book?
You.
And when we see it, we will say
this.
What is this book?
Nothing is missing.
How can it be missing?
Because I wrote myself.
It cannot be missing.
We will be given our books.
I remind myself of you, that today, we
are all authors.
We are all writing our books.
Every day.
Every minute.
Every second.
Every word we speak.
Every action we take.
We are writing our books.
On the Day of Judgment, those books will
be published.
That is the day of the publishing of
the book.
That is why on the day of publishing,
you cannot say, No, give the book again.
I want to rewrite.
I want to write again.
No, no, no.
Writing again, time is over.
Writing again, time to write again is here.
Now.
Now you write and rewrite and rewrite and
rewrite and rub out and rub out and
write new, anything you want.
No problem.
Just do it.
But once the curtain is lifted, time for
writing is over.
Now the book is taken from us and
on the Day of Judgment, the book is
published.
We ask Allah that we should be given
the book in our right hands because the
ones who are given the book in their
left hand or behind their back, a big
problem.
And Allah SWT described this scene so beautifully
in the Quran.
Allah says, The one who is given his
book in his right hand, he will go
and show people, See my book, see my
book.
Look at this, look at this, look at
this.
Eh?
He will show everybody.
Look, look, look.
See what I got.
And the one who got his book in
the left hand or behind his back, he
will hide.
He will try to hide.
There is no way to hide.
He will try to hide.
May Allah save us from that.
I remind myself, any of my brothers and
sisters, Alhamdulillah, at least my host and his
son about my own brothers and sisters, the
Muslims.
We are not evil people.
We are not shayateen.
We are not rebellious.
We don't want to deliberately anger Allah.
No.
We do that because we fall into the
wrong company.
That's why it happens.
We have the wrong kind of friends.
And so in that wrong company now, we
start doing wrong things.
It is very important to understand the company
we have, the surrounding people we surround ourselves
with, they can take us into Jannah or
Jahannam.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, you are on
the deen of your companions.
He did not say, think about this, just
think about this.
Some of us feel, no, no, no, see
I am so strong.
I can.
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did not say, your
companions are on your deen.
He said, no.
He said, you are on the deen of
the companions.
He could have said that.
Your companions are on your deen.
No, they are not.
You are on their deen.
We think we are so powerful.
We are not.
We are weak.
And if you have people who make wrong
choices, people who have different values from us
and so on and so forth, we go
that way.
Anybody who thinks that he or she cannot
be tempted to do evil, should read the
ayat of Surah Yusuf.
Whoever you are, whoever I am, neither you
nor I are better than Yusuf Alayhi Salaam.
We are not better than Yusuf Alayhi Salaam.
Yusuf Alayhi Salaam is a Nabi of Allah.
What is he saying?
Fama ubarriu nafsi inna nafsa la ammaratum bishu.
Definitely, my nafs certainly will take me towards
sin.
Except the one whom I rub hands, mercy
on.
We ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
'la for His mercy.
So Yusuf Alayhi Salaam, who is a Nabi
of Allah, who is protected by Allah Subh
'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, if he is
saying this, where are you, where am I?
We have no protection.
We are not Nabiya.
Nobody is guaranteeing us anything.
We have to look after ourselves.
So a very critically important thing is keep
the right company.
Keep the right friends.
If you have people who love Allah, who
love Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, who are on
the Sunnah of Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, believe
me, if you are with them, it becomes
difficult to do something against the Sharia and
the Sunnah.
Becomes difficult.
At Salah time, if you don't pray, they
are all praying.
If you don't pray, you look, you feel,
you know, what is this?
I feel odd.
For the sisters, they are all wearing hijab.
Now you walk around with your hair open,
you feel odd.
What is this?
I can't walk around like this.
At least put something on my head.
And so on and so on.
I don't have to make a long list
of things.
But you know, what you eat, what you
do.
You go into a restaurant.
Before this, they will ask you, what is
this meat?
Is it zawiyah, non-zawiyah, so on and
so on.
Now you can't say, I don't know.
I didn't know.
Because you are in the right company, you
will do, even if normally you don't do,
in that company, you will do the right
things.
So if you keep the company, it is
a safety for you.
But the same thing, opposite.
If you are in the wrong company, they
are smoking.
You are not smoking, but you are passively
smoking.
Because that fellow, what is going out, is
going into you.
They are vaping.
You are passively vaping.
They are watching all kinds of stuff.
What are you going to do?
You will also watch the same stuff.
They are listening to all kinds of haram.
You will also listen to the same.
You are in that company.
There is some music blasting.
What do you do?
Eyes you can shut, ears you cannot shut.
So what do you do?
Even if you don't want to, but you
will, because you are sitting there.
So, company.
Very, very important.
Do not keep the wrong company.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said about Allah
and His Rasul Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala said that if
you are in the company of people who
are making jokes about Allah and His Rasul,
meaning people who are denying, people who are
speaking against the Quran, people who are speaking
against the Sunnah and so on, Allah Subhanahu
wa ta'ala said, leave that company, leave
them.
And Allah said, if you don't leave them,
you are one of them.
Allah did not say, if you say that,
no.
If you are sitting there, you are one
of them.
Very important.
To keep the right company.
Let us choose.
And choose wisely.
The Sahaba, this is what they did.
When they became Muslim, they changed their company.
They did not hang out with the same
people.
Sayyidina Rahmanuddin Khattab r.a, he said, if
I had not become Muslim, I would have
died of alcohol, or I would have died
in a drunken fight.
Either, you know, cirrhosis of the liver or
something.
Or I would have died, I would have
been drunk and fighting, somebody would have killed
me.
He said, Islam saved me.
Which tells us, what was his company before
Islam?
These people.
People who are drinking alcohol.
But once he became Muslim, what does he
do?
Who is his company?
His company is Muhammad Rasulallah s.a.w.
His company is Abu Bakr as-Siddiq s
.a.w. His company is Hamza bin Abdul
Muttalib s.a.w. His company is Ammar
ibn Yasir s.a.w. And those people.
So obviously, the company affects.
Right?
So I remind myself, when you let us
make sure, we don't know how long we
have.
We do not know how long we have.
How close we are.
As I told you, a day will come
when the writing of the book will finish.
When is that day?
We don't know.
I cannot say, I am so old, therefore
I am closer to death than somebody who
is 20 years old.
No, we don't know this.
We do not know this.
We have seen examples right here in our
community.
All the people who passed away, the young
ones and the old ones.
May Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala fill their
quver with Nur and give them Jannatul Firdaus.
We have seen young people.
They are shocked.
Subhanallah, this person.
It happens to everybody.
So let us make this Niyyah to say,
I will correct myself and I will change
my company from now, right now.
And the key thing is, do not accept
any disobedience of Allah and any disobedience of
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam no matter how big
or small.
This is the, I will maybe talk about
it in my next Khatira, but we call
this the thin edge of the wedge.
You know how they split a big tree?
They cut a small slit and they put,
you know what is a wedge?
A wedge is sharp in one and then
expands.
They put their wedge and they drive the
wedge.
So the thin edge of the wedge goes
in easily, but when you drive it, it
splits the whole tree.
The thin edge of the wedge is the
first sin, the first wrong thing you accept,
not do.
If you do and make Tawbah, Alhamdulillah you
are safe.
But if you don't make Tawbah, you do
the thing and you stay with it, that
is the thin edge of the wedge.
As they say, a bread which is not
sliced, the first slice you know it is
sliced, but after the first slice you do
not know how many slices have been taken.
Because they all look the same.
Once the edge is gone, they all look
the same.
So did they take one slice, two slice,
three slice, we don't know.
Same thing with sin.
First one hurts.
So we will make mistakes, everybody will make
mistakes.
Everyone, Sheikh was saying the other day, there
is no one who will not sin.
He sinned, but immediately make Istighfar.
Immediately make Tawbah.
He said, Allah, I am sorry.
Allah, I did this wrong.
Then Inshallah, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala will
correct it for us.
That is why we have the Hadith of
Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam who said that the
beginning of the decline of the Bani Israel
started when there would be somebody among them
who would do something wrong.
He would disobey Allah.
He would do something Haram.
And the people of knowledge who were there
would call him out on it.
They would criticize him.
They would tell him to stop doing what
was Haram and what was wrong.
But this man would continue.
He would not stop it.
And this is the key thing.
He would not stop it.
And then the people of knowledge who had
told him to stop it did not stop
meeting him.
They did not stop going to his house.
They did not stop accepting his invitations.
They did not stop sitting with him.
They did not stop themselves from keeping his
company.
Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said that.
And they did that because they said, Oh,
but you see he is a relative.
He is a friend.
He is a community member.
For that reason, they allowed the disobedience of
Allah and doing of Haram to go unchallenged.
And Nabi Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam said, this was
the beginning of the decline and fall of
Bani Israel.
Just think about this.
This is exactly what we do today.
We go and we participate and we join
Majalis and we participate in meetings and we
participate in group gatherings where Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala's Kalam is being mocked.
Where Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's Sunnah is being
mocked.
Where people are promoting the disobedience of Allah.
Where people are promoting all kinds of things
which Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has prohibited.
And we do that.
We do that.
Our children do that.
And so on.
And then we wonder why our duas are
not accepted and why Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta
'ala's punishment seems to be descending upon us.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
help us to have the right company.
We ask Allah to make us good companions
for others.
We ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to
keep us on His itaat, on the right
path, and to guide us to Jannatul Firdaus.
Bi hurmati Ishaq wa sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
Bi hurmati l-Habib, bi hurmati l-Fatiha.