Mirza Yawar Baig – Westfield Halaqa Whats Sabr
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The speakers discuss the misunderstood concept of patience in Islam and the actions of the enemy using the term Sabr to make them appear as a threat. They also talk about the difficulties of achieving success in Islam during the pandemic and the importance of staying true to one's beliefs. The speakers also discuss the loss of family members and the importance of avoiding political and cultural conflict, as well as the shaping of the world and Darrow as a Christian sister.
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Alhamdulillah, wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulullah, wa
ala alihi wa sahbihi wa man wala wa
ba'd.
Alhamdulillah, JazakAllah khayr for the question on patience
and examples of patience, what is the nature
of patience, and so on, so on.
So, first of all, let me explain to
you the concept of patience as we understand
it in Islam.
Because, believe it or not, patience is one
of the most misunderstood things in Islam.
So, when we say patience, basically we use
the term sabr.
Same word in Urdu, same word in Arabic,
sabr.
Sabr is the noun, sabir, is the one
who has sabr, sabireen, is the plural of
that.
Now, the usual understanding of sabr is people
say, when you say be patient, effectively you
are saying do nothing, just stay quiet, be
calm, do nothing, be patient.
This is completely different from and completely against
the Islamic concept of sabr.
The Islamic concept of sabr is to do
the maximum that you can do in a
situation, and then have tawakkul and trust in
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Now, what is my daleel for this, on
what basis do I say that?
I say it on the basis that Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, when he mentioned the
mujahideen, he mentioned the soldiers fighting in the
path of Allah, he called them sabireen.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioned in Surah
Al-Anfal, in Surah Al-Imran and other
places, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said, for
example, that if there are a hundred, Allah
will give them victory over a thousand.
If there are two hundred, Allah will give
them victory over more and so on.
And Allah did not use the word mujahideen,
he used the word sabireen.
So, sabireen, people who have patience, people of
sabr.
Now, if you think about it, a soldier
fighting in battle is about the most action
-oriented icon or action-oriented entity that you
can ever imagine.
Because he's out there in the front, he
is bearing the brunt of attacks, he's attacking,
he's defending himself, he's doing, you know, saving
his life, he's trying to fight for a
just cause and so on.
So, this is the most action-oriented thing
that you can ever imagine.
And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is calling
them sabireen.
So, obviously sabr does not mean to sit
in one place and wait for something to
happen.
I have sabr, I hope that something good
will happen.
Nothing good comes out of waiting.
The only thing that comes by waiting for
it is death, nothing else.
For death to come, you don't have to
do anything, just wait, it will come.
If you wait long enough, it will come,
it comes to everybody with absolute certainty.
But everything else needs effort.
Number two Dalit, second Dalit, the action of
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
When Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam went to
Badr, what did he do?
He arranged his troops, he gave the command
of the Muhajirun to somebody, he gave the
command of the Ansar to somebody, he gave
them a flag, gave them a flag, and
then he decided where they are going to
be camped in the battleground of Badr.
Has anybody seen the battleground of Badr?
Next time you go for Umrah, go there.
If you go to Madinah, they will take
you, the taxi guys will ask something, take
you to the battle of Badr, they take
you to the battle of Badr, it's not
far.
And they now put a wall all around
it and there is a nice big plaque
on which they have a diagram of the
battle, how it was and so on, very
interesting.
I was going to see it.
So, he did all of this, right?
He arranged his troops, weapons and camping and
a Sahabi came and said, Ya Rasulullah, if
you...
Nafisullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam had told them
that we will, he drew a line, he
said we will camp here and we will
fight here.
Then a Sahabi came, he said, Ya Rasulullah,
this position which you decided for us, is
this Wahi from Allah, did Allah command you
to do this or is this your opinion?
Nafisullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, this is
my opinion.
So, the Sahabi said, I have another opinion,
if you don't mind I can tell you.
He said, tell me.
He said, why don't we camp and he
gave a place a little bit further ahead.
He said, that way the well, the water
source in this place will be in our
control.
The enemy will not have access to the
water.
So, it is better for us to camp
further ahead.
And Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam liked that.
He said, that's a good idea.
He changed, right?
He did all that and then he stood
in Salah.
They had made a small kind of lean
-to with dead palm fronds, shelter.
Then he stood in Salah there and he
prayed and he made Dua and he said,
O Allah, you promised me, O Allah, help
me, O Allah, help me.
O Allah, if these people die there will
be no one to worship you on the
face of the earth and so on and
so on.
And he kept making Dua until Abu Bakr
Siddiq said, O Rasulullah, enough, your Lord will
not forsake you enough.
Because he couldn't stand seeing Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam in so much of entreating Allah
swt, begging Allah swt, so much of not
pain but kind of anxiety.
So, he said, enough, Alhamdulillah, inshallah, nothing to
worry about.
So, now we have seen the scene where
the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam was doing
something, making the maximum effort that he could
make in that situation and then standing in
Salah.
And this, incidentally, is the exact Tafsir of
the Ayat in the Quran in Surah Al
-Baqarah where Allah swt says, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ
آمَنُوا اصْتَعِينُوا بِالصَّبْرِ وَالصَّلَاةِ وَالصَّلَاةِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ
الصَّبْرِينَ Allah said, O you who believe, take
the help of Sabr and Salah.
And Allah is with the people of Sabr,
with the Sabirin.
Now, take the help of Sabr and Salah.
Now, think about this, Allah swt could have
said, يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اصْتَعِينُوا بِالصَّلَاةِ وَالصَّبْرِ
He could have inverted that.
Take the help of Salah and Sabr.
No, Sabr and Salah.
So, it teaches us a lesson that Allah
swt says, Whatever is in your control, whatever
you know to do, whatever I have given
you, use it first.
Use your intelligence, use your energy, use your
talent, use your influence, use your money, use
your strength.
And then, ask Allah swt.
So, you might say, well, okay, I use
everything.
Alhamdulillah, I get victory, why should I ask
Allah?
We ask Allah in order to save ourselves
from arrogance.
We ask Allah to bring ourselves back to
the centre and remember that nothing happens without
the will of Allah.
So, when we are making dua to Allah
swt and say, Ya Allah, do this for
me.
You are saying to yourself that no matter
what effort I made, the victory can come
only with the help of Allah.
The victory will come only if Allah decides.
So, I call this the Tawheed of the
heart.
Otherwise, we make ourselves the objects of shirk.
We join ourselves as partners with Allah.
We say, this happened because of me, self
-made man.
You must have heard this term, self-made
man.
What is self-made man?
Nothing.
My Sheikh used to say, if you think
you are so powerful, in the morning when
you get up and you need to go
to the bathroom, don't go.
You're so powerful now, stop.
I will not go.
I'm a self-made man.
I have power.
Let's see how long you won't go.
And he used to say that you do
not even have control over what is in
your own belly.
Your own excreta, which is in your belly.
You have no control even over that.
And you want to control the world.
You think this world is running because of
me.
I am the boss, I am the king,
I am the president, I am this, I
am that.
You are nothing.
You are absolutely nothing.
Our existence is nothing.
It is less than nothing.
Allah said in Surah Al-Insan, هَلَتَى عَلَى
الْإِنسَانِ حِينٌ مِّنَ الدَّهْرِ لَمْ يَكُنْ شَيْءً مَّذْكُورًا
Allah said, has the human being, has mankind
forgotten the time when they were not even
a thing mentioned?
I always say this, may Allah grant you
beautiful children who are the fullness of your
eyes, Inshallah.
But when a child is born, newborn baby,
right?
What do you say, who do you say
is born?
You say, so-and-so had a baby.
No?
You say, so-and-so had a baby.
You don't say, Zaid is born, or Mustafa
is born, or Afzal is born, or Ajmal
is born, no?
You say, so-and-so had a baby.
So, you are already born, you are alive,
but you don't have any identity.
Now, may Allah make them healthy and wealthy
and wise, but supposing that baby, day, two
days later, dies.
What do you say, who died?
So-and-so's baby died.
No?
Have you ever heard somebody saying a name,
and so-and-so died?
No, so-and-so's baby died.
So, you were born in the world, you
finished your lifespan, which happened to be maybe
two days, three days.
You died, you never even had an identity.
Go to the end.
I'm sitting here.
Who am I?
Yawar Baig.
Mirza Yawar Baig.
Very nice.
When I die, if I die here, they'll
probably do my janaza in ISWM.
If you guys are there, you will come.
What will they say?
They will say, after Salatul Asr, which is
usually the thing here, they say, after Salatul
Asr, please come for the Salatul Janaza.
Okay, then the janaza, which is me, right?
I'm sitting here now.
Same me will be on the stretcher, and
it will be in the corner.
They will say, what will they say?
Bring the...
Bring whom here?
What will they say?
What will Imam say?
Bring the mayyat, exactly.
Bring the mayyat.
Bring the janaza.
So, supposing you stop and say, why are
you saying mayyat?
He has a name.
We knew him.
We know him.
They say, no, no, no.
Name is over.
Finished.
Now, only mayyat.
Now, only janaza.
We don't say, bring Yawar Baig here.
Bring Sheikh Yawar here.
No.
Say, bring the mayyat.
Bring the janaza.
Point I'm making is, this is our reality.
This is our reality.
So, any time you feel very powerful and
important, remind yourselves.
How important are you?
You are a janaza.
You are a janaza which has been given
some time to walk.
This is not life.
This is waiting time to die.
So, this time, that is why this period
must be spent in the obedience of Allah.
So, why do we have sabr and then
salah?
To remind ourselves that I am nothing.
All this effort of mine can get me
nothing.
Only and only the help of Allah can
get me success.
So, this is the nature of sabr.
Now, take examples of sabr.
There are many, many, many examples.
The example of every single nabi in the
Quran is an example of sabr.
You name the nabi, it's an example of
sabr.
Because all of them were people who were
patient, who were compassionate, who were kind, with
the provocations, with the oppression, with all kinds
of difficulties that their people put them in.
Nuh, peace be upon him, He is saying
to Allah, I invite them day and night.
Ibrahim, peace be upon him, he is inviting
them to Allah.
He is saying, worship the one who created
you.
Don't worship things which you created.
Don't worship idols.
Don't worship things that can't harm you and
they cannot benefit you.
They cannot listen to you.
Worship the one who created you.
So, what do they do to him?
They throw him in the fire.
Musa, peace be upon him, he is running
for his life.
Right?
Prize on his head.
Isa, peace be upon him, same thing.
Eventually, Allah, peace be upon him, lifted him
and sent him because they wanted to crucify
him.
Rasulullah, peace be upon him, he goes to
Taif.
What is the purpose of going to Taif?
Did he go there to take over the
country, take over the city?
He has come to take over my kingdom?
Nothing.
He came to give them the Iman, the
Tawheed, and invite them to Jannah.
What do they do?
They stroll him.
He is injured.
He is bleeding.
And throughout his life, not just Taif, all
the 13 years in Makkah, many times in
Madinah, the trials and tribulations that he had
to face in Madinah.
I mean, when we read the Sira, we
should not have this sometimes mistaken opinion that
all the difficulties were only in Makkah and
Madinah was bliss.
It was not bliss.
Madinah was so painful, thanks to the Munafiqeen,
that Allah revealed the Ayah to say Allah
will not forgive them even if you ask
forgiveness for them 70 times.
Allah revealed that Ayat in Madinah.
He did not reveal this Ayat about Abu
Jahl and Abu Lahab.
He revealed this Ayat about the Munafiqeen in
Madinah who said they were Muslim.
So, the difficulties and problems that the Prophet
faced did not end in Madinah.
They continued.
There was some relief and there was some,
you know, the nature of it changed to
some extent.
But the problems continued.
They were still trying to kill him.
They were still trying to defeat his mission
in every way they could.
And Allah swt had a different irada.
Allah had a different intention.
So, Islam triumphed continuously throughout.
And the purpose of that sabr always is
good.
That's something to keep in mind.
I want to end this with a lovely
little story somebody sent me the other day.
It's a true story.
The Sheikh said he was in Oklahoma City.
And he said he went to this mosque
where they had recently got a cemetery.
They got a graveyard to bury Muslims.
And he said that the Imam there, the
Sheikh, he told him a story.
He said that they had for five years,
they fought with the city in court and
so on to get permission to bury people
and to bury them according to Islamic ways.
And he said they got the permission, say
they got the permission on Monday.
On Tuesday, they get a phone call and
there is this, sounds like a white lady.
And the lady says, my mother died and
can you bury her in your graveyard?
So, the Sheikh says, look, we just got
the permission yesterday.
We are not yet ready.
We have to mark out the graves and
do all of that preparatory work and so
on.
Well, I mean, what shall I do?
Because she died.
I mean, the body is there.
And so the Sheikh said, OK, what's the
story?
Is her husband alive?
Yes, he's alive.
Is he a Muslim?
No, he's not Muslim.
Does she have children?
Yes.
I have a daughter.
Are you Muslim?
I'm not Muslim.
Who else is there?
I have a brother.
Is he Muslim?
Not Muslim.
So the Sheikh said, OK, come and tell
us the story.
So she came.
This lady says, my mother was a Chinese
Muslim.
She married this man, my father.
And so when she married, she was not
Muslim.
She got married.
She came to America.
And then she accepted Islam.
She became Muslim.
He said, my father refused to accept Islam.
So my mother left him and went back
to China.
By then, they had children.
Children stayed back with their father.
Decades passed.
She never came back.
Decades passed.
Children grew up, everything else.
He said that I, this lady says, I
wanted my mother to come, so I decided
to invite her, invited her, got her a
visa, everything else.
She landed two days ago here.
In the airport, she went and looked for
the Yellow Pages book.
And she looked for Islamic Centre.
She found your Islamic Centre.
That page with the Islamic Centre, she tore
it out.
And she gave it to me, this lady.
And she says, if anything happens to me,
call these people.
Call this number.
So this lady says, who are these people?
She said, they are my brothers.
They are my brothers.
So she said, anyway, we kept the paper.
She came home.
All was well.
Next day, all was well.
Next night, which is the previous night, she
went to sleep.
She never woke up.
She died in her sleep.
So I'm calling.
So the Sheikh said, okay, since this is
kind of a story, he said, okay, we'll
do it.
He said, next day, it was Juma.
So they did the Salatul Janaza, they announced
this story.
They did the Salatul Janaza.
The entire masjid, it's a huge masjid, a
couple of thousand people.
The entire masjid, they participated in the Janaza.
They came to the Qabristan.
This family, the husband and the son and
daughter, they are absolutely astonished.
They said, who are these people?
So the lady says, she asked the Sheikh,
who are these people?
The Imam says, they are her brothers.
They are her brothers.
She said that the husband came to her
and said, I want to reserve my grave
next to hers.
What does it cost?
I will pay whatever you want.
The Imam says, the cost of that grave
is, So the man says, He
becomes Muslim.
He says, then, the daughter, she pulls out
a piece of paper from her bag.
She says, this is the Dua that my
mother used to make every day.
And they read the Dua.
And the Dua is, O Allah, guide my
children.
O Allah, guide my children.
So what does the Dua mean?
He says, this is what the Dua means.
O Allah, guide my children.
And the son says, This
is the value of Samar.
The woman stayed true to her religion.
She did not say, oh, what do you
see?
This is America, and so on, and so
forth.
I will lose my children.
Imagine, she lost her whole family.
She lost her husband, she lost her children.
And she chose to lose them.
Nobody forced her.
She could have stayed, somehow, done something.
O Allah, forgive me.
No.
I cannot stay with my husband, if he
does not accept Islam.
And the children don't want to go.
So, she gave up all of them for
Allah.
And Allah did this for her.
He gave them back to her, as Muslims.
This is the value of Samar.
So, we ask Allah to make us among
the Samireen.
The final point I want to make, because
it's the same ayat.
Allah said, Inna Allaha ma'a Samireen.
Where really, Allah is with the people of
Samar.
Now, think about this.
There's a difference between, I'm not saying, I
will help the people of Samar, and I'm
with the people of Samar.
Correct?
So, for example, if you go, if you
are in difficulty and so on, and you
go to the king, and you say, this
is my problem.
And the king says, okay, I will help
you.
What does that mean?
It means that I came to you with
a problem, and you will help me.
How much?
To solve that problem.
To solve that problem.
But I may have other problems also.
I may have problems in the future.
No.
Are we talking about any of those?
No.
I come to you with a problem.
Say, okay, I will solve your problem.
That problem.
But if the king says, I am with
you.
Now, what does it mean?
It means that the king, with all his
authority, with all his power, with all his
treasures, with all his wealth, with everything, is
with you.
So, it's not only one problem.
It's everything.
Your entire life gets transformed.
And your future is transformed.
What if I have a problem tomorrow?
King is with you.
King did not say, I am with you
till the 21st of October.
No.
I am with you.
I am with you.
Till when?
Till one of us dies.
Either the king dies or I die.
I am with you is a problem still.
I am with you.
In this case, Allah does not die.
The king can die.
Always remind yourself of these things.
This dunya changes.
This world, the meaning of this world is
something which changes.
The king is with you today.
You have political power today.
You have wealth today.
Will you continue to have this wealth?
Just read history.
I mean, I love history, as you know.
And that's one of the reasons I read
history, because history gives you examples of people,
the kind of wealth they had.
I mean, I can challenge anybody.
Just, I'll give you a piece of paper.
Write down the number of zeros, you know,
in terms of wealth.
How much wealth did Augustus Caesar have?
Unbelievable.
I mean, you cannot even imagine that kind
of wealth.
And that wealth he had with power, not
just wealth.
He wasn't just a rich man.
He was the emperor.
He had millions of legionaries at his command.
He could, by a shake of his finger,
he could completely destroy an entire nation, wipe
them to the ground, no sign remains.
They did that.
The Romans did that with certain cities.
That kind of power.
Absolute authority.
Nobody can question.
Where is he today?
Where is Augustus Caesar?
The month August is named after Augustus Caesar.
The month July is named after Julius Caesar.
That's called the Julian calendar.
To this day, the word Caesar means king.
To this day, 2,000 plus years later,
where are they?
And I can give you example after example.
I don't want to waste your time.
But I'm saying that in terms of money,
wealth, power, authority, nothing is there forever.
Only and only.
كُلُّ مِنْ أَلَيْهَا فَأَرْ وَيَبْقَىٰ وَجُو رَبِّكَ ذُو
الْجَلَالِ وَلِكَرَامِ Only and only Allah remains.
خَيِّ الْقَيُّومِ Allah does not die.
He is established.
He is there.
We ask Allah to make us among the
sabireen.
We ask Allah to make us among those
who have patience, in the true sense of
patience.
We ask Allah to strengthen us and to
use us for the benefit of the whole
world and for His pleasure.
So that our lives become worthy of something.
وَصَلَّ اللَّهَ عَلَىٰ نَبِيِّ الْقَرِيمِ وَعَلَىٰ لِهِ وَسَحِبِهِمْ
بِرَحْمَةِكَ وَرَحْمَةِكَ عَلَىٰ نَعِيمِ