Mirza Yawar Baig – We Know You By Your Gifts
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Brothers and sisters,
Allah
differentiated
and described the believers and may Allah count
us among them as those who love Allah
more than anyone and anything else. Allah said,
They love Allah more than anyone and anything
else.
I remind myself and you that Islam is
the name of the relationship between our creator
Allah
and us.
The kaliba shahada is an affirmation of that
relationship,
and the one who accepts it
is a Muslim.
To accept this relationship means to believe it
in your heart,
state it with your tongue, and act upon
it with your lips.
That is the definition of Iman, faith.
Not merely to know, but to believe
and submit our will and obey.
That's why the first and foremost
demonstration
of that is salah,
which is evidence
and proof of our iman, of our faith.
That is also why the first question that
will be asked in the grave will be
manrabbuk,
who is your rub?
The angels will not ask who is the
rub of the
universe. They will not they will not say
man rubbul alameen. They will say man rubbuq.
They will ask who is your rub? Did
we accept Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
Rubu Alameen, as our rub?
Rub be Allah
is the answer. My Rabb is Allah.
And that answer has to be justified
and proven
with evidence from our actions.
Allah subhanahu wa'ala mentioned, as I mentioned earlier,
a differentiating characteristic of the believers and said,
But the believers love Allah
with great intensity
more than anyone and anything else.
The question is, can you love someone you
don't know?
But how can we know Allah when we
can't see him?
We know Allah
by reflecting on his bounties.
That is why Allah
began
Surat Al Fatiha
after
mentioning his name
with Alhamdulillahi
rabbilani. Anaksuvatala
indicated
this connection
with gratitude,
with shukr
in Surat Al Fatiha. All praise and thanks
are for Allah
the rub of the world.
The very first thing that we must thank
Allah SWT for is
for introducing
himself to us,
for honoring us with his word,
for honoring us with his messenger
and for honoring us with guidance to himself
and therefore to Jannah.
The biggest need of humankind
is not money or political or military power
or anything else,
but guidance to the way of justice and
compassion and charity and concern
for one another. And when we die,
Jannah.
That is why Allah
sent all his messengers and prophets
who were the best of all human beings
with the greatest of gifts,
that is guidance
to the path of steadfastness.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said,
Allah said you see, which is one of
the ways in which Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
addressed Rasool
Rasoolullah. Quran
Al Hakim by the Quran Al Hakim. Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta'ala is taking an oath by
the Quran.
In the Kalavila Mulsary, verily and truly you
are from
the messengers,
al Assirat Mustafa,
and you are on the path of steadfastness.
That is also why Allah
taught us this Dua to ask him for
guidance
17 times every day
in Surat Al Fatih, which is the 17th
first salat of the
day. And then of course, every salah.
There
is no salah without
reciting Surat al Fatiya. So Surat al Fatiya
is a rakkal, it is the pillar of
every rakkal of every
And that is why we must thank Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
for Hidayah,
for guidance above all else.
Sadly, for many of us, we take this
we take blessings, oh, Allah, for granted
and do not express
gratitude for them, and we spend our time
complaining about any hardship that comes our way.
Allah
reminded
us always to have an attitude of gratitude.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala said,
Allah
has said, and he, jalajalalu,
has granted you all that you asked for.
If you try to count
Allah's blessings, you would never be able to
number them.
Indeed, humankind is truly unfair,
totally ungrateful. We ask Allah to exclude us
from this, and to make us among his
grateful slaves.
The Puran Al Kareem
encourages us to reflect on the creation
and to learn to see the glory and
magnificence Allah
reflected in it,
and to thank and to glorify him and
to praise him.
This produces joy in the heart that is
unequaled
and unsurpassed.
Allah said,
Oh prophet Muhammad
if the oceans became ink, if there were
ink for writing,
the words of my ram,
It would certainly run out
before the words of my rub were finished
even if you refilled it with its equal.
That means the praise of Allah
if the all the oceans became ink and
if that was used to write the praises
of Allah
they would run out and they were refilled
and that would still run out and the
praises of Allah
would not be finished.
Allah reminded us to be conscious of his
blessings and to thank him and said that
for those who are thankful, he would increase
his blessings.
Allah said, and remember when your wrath proclaimed,
if you are grateful, I will certainly give
you more. But if you are ungrateful, surely
my punishment is severe.
We recognize Allah
by his gifts.
He said about his word, about the Quran
al Kareem, Arrahmanu
alllamal Quran. Khalaqalinsanaaalllamahuulbayan.
Allah
said, Arrahman, his own name,
the most compassionate
Alhamal Quran.
Arrahman Alamal Quran.
Arrahman taught the Quran
and created humanity and taught them speech.
Allah
drew our attention to the world around us
so that we can recognize his bounties and
favors upon us and thank him for them.
He said,
In Suratul Naba, and there are many places
in which Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala described his
bounties, but in Suratul Naba,
Allah said, have you not smoothed out the
earth like a bed and made the mountains
as its pegs?
And created you in pairs, and made your
sleep for rest, and made the night as
a cover, and made the day for livelihood,
And built above you 7 mighty heavens and
placed in them a shining lamp, and sent
down from rain clouds pouring water,
producing by it grain and plants and dense
orchids.
The purpose of all of this is to
remind us that no matter
what our present looks like, no matter how
wealthy and powerful or poor and powerless we
may we may be,
No matter whether we are white, black, or
anything else. No matter whether we live in
America or Brazil. No matter anything. No matter
nothing. One day we will meet Allah
and then we will be called to account.
Allah
said,
Allah said every show, every soul will taste
death,
and you will only receive your full reward
on the day of judgement.
Whoever is spared from the fire and admitted
into Jannah will indeed triumph,
whereas the life of this world is no
more than delusion of enjoyment.
That, my dear brothers and sisters, is our
reality.
We are alive,
and we will die.
No matter in what state we may be
alive, we will die, and then we will
know the truth.
Why don't we know it now? Why is
the deception of this life so powerful?
Let me tell you. Imagine that you're sitting
in an IMAX 3 d theater wearing 3
d goggles, 3 d glasses,
laying back in your seat totally engrossed in
the film.
If they monitored your vital statistics, they would
get some very interesting, even alarming results
on the brain, on the heart and brain
scanners.
Your emotions will be in full flow.
Depending on the film, you would be laughing
your guts out of weeping rivers of tears.
You will be terrified onto your wits. You
will fall in love. Your heart would break,
you would hate someone enough to want to
kill them. Yet cognitively,
you'll know that it's all acting. It is
all make believe.
All is a show.
Nothing is real. But at that time when
you are in the grip of your emotions,
if someone called out to you and your
companion and said, beware,
all of this is false.
The reality is outside the theatre. Did you
lock your car
or you may have to walk home? What
would you say? What would you say? What
would people do?
Right? They would throw the man out. They
would beat him up.
That is why people fought against the Gambia.
They fought against the prophets and they fought
against the messengers and the and the rusul,
because people don't like those who seek to
wake them up from their stupor,
from their intoxication.
That is why intoxication is so popular
and that is the reason why it is
haram. Our life in this world is the
biggest IMAX,
the biggest intoxication.
I remind you of myself that it is
time to wake up before the show ends,
and we are woken up.
Finally, Allah
said about his greatest gift, which is the
only thing that he called his favorite.
The believers a great favor by raising a
messenger
from among them,
reciting to them his ayaats, his revelations,
purifying them, and teaching them the book and
wisdom. And indeed they had previously
been clearly astray.
He was Muhammad
sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Sayyid al Musaleem,
imamun Nabiyeen,
Asajqulameen,
al Habibul Mustafa,
Allah
greatest gift to humanity,
The receiver of the revelation.
The key to its power and majesty without
whose teaching and guidance the revelation could not
be understood, wrecked, or acted
upon. He connected us to Allah
and through him Allah
opened his word, opened his book for us.
He, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, introduced Allah to
those who did not know him, jalajalalahu,
and he taught those
who knew Allah
how to approach him.
Jalajalalahu.
Muhammad
is Allah
greatest blessing for us.
Thanks to him, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Allah
made
and blessed
us with a promise
that I
invoke
for all of us. And Allah Subhanahu Waqarah
said, wamaikaan
Allahu
liwazibahum
waanta fihim.
Wamaikaan
Allahu muazibahum
Allah said, but Allah will never punish them
while you, O Muhammad SAWSAWA,
were with them, nor would he ever punish
them if they seek
forgiveness.
To have Rasool Allah SWAN with us
means to follow his sunnah,
means to follow his sunnah.
An istaghfar is something that we must
continuously do our whole lives.
The benefit is that the other of Allah
will be stopped. Allah told us and reminded
us and said
Allah
said, indeed in the messenger of Allah,
you have an excellent example for whoever has
hope in Allah.
The hope in the meeting with Allah and
the last day and remembers Allah
often. What can be clearer than this
with regard to the importance
and to the
criticality
of following the sunnah of Muhammad Rasool Allah
Let us follow this and be among those
who will be honored
by Allah
when we meet him insha'Allah on the day
of judgement.
And finally,
about such people, Allah
in his infinite mercy, he said,
Those
angels who carry the throne of Allah, the
and those around the throne of Allah glorify
the praises of their Rabb,
and they have faith in him. And they
seek forgiveness for the believers.
Us.
They seek forgiveness for the believers.
Saying praying, our Rabb,
you encompass
everything in your mercy and knowledge.
So forgive those who repent and follow your
way and protect them from the torment of
the * fire.
Power up. Admit them into gardens of eternity,
which you have promised them along with the
righteous among their parents
and spouses and descendants.
You alone are truly the almighty, the all
wise, and protect them from the consequences of
their evil deeds. For whoever you protect from
the evil of their deeds on that day
will have been shown your mercy.
That is truly
the ultimate
triumph.
I ask Allah
to make us among those for whom this
ayat
will become a zdah, will form this ayat
will become a reality. We ask Allah to
forgive us and to continue to enable us
to seek His forgiveness
and to be pleased with us and never
to be displeased.