Mirza Yawar Baig – What did I get out of it
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The speaker discusses the benefits of working out and the importance of avoiding toxic activities. They also mention a recent interview where Kobe Bryant said, I wake up at]," emphasizing the importance of finding one's own success and finding opportunities to improve one's life, including pursuing a career in basketball. The speaker also discusses the benefits of working out and finding opportunities to improve one's life, including pursuing a career in basketball.
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In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the
Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
all the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the Messenger
of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Peace and blessings be upon you, beloved Huzoor.
My brothers and sisters, how many of you
like to have fun?
Everybody, right?
What is fun?
Can you define what is fun?
Good time?
Okay, what else?
So give me some examples.
Example of fun or fun activity.
Basketball.
Basketball.
Horse riding.
Horse riding.
Swimming.
Swimming.
How many of you actually do swimming and
horse riding?
I don't think anybody does, no?
You just think.
What you do, I'm talking about.
Swimming you do, okay.
Song time.
Water, okay.
Soccer, okay.
Anything else?
Gym.
Gym, okay.
YouTube, now you're getting some truthful answers.
Truth, TikTok, right?
I thought we got a bunch of people
who never see YouTube, never see TikTok.
Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah.
When you say basketball and soccer, are you
professional basketball players?
Do you intend to be one?
No.
Point I'm making is very simple.
My point is all of us have a
defined number of hours, minutes and seconds on
this earth.
Everyone, right?
We don't know the exact number.
How many I have, I don't know.
But I know I have so many breaths.
And when I take my last breath, whether
it's coming in or going out, that's it.
So in this time, Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala does not subtract all the time that
goes into something which is not really getting
me any real benefit.
Right?
So the things that you described, for example,
tell me what is the real benefit of
watching basketball for somebody who is not a
professional basketball player?
Enjoyment.
Enjoyment.
So what is enjoyment?
To be happy.
Right?
Do you think Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
enjoyed life?
Do you think he had fun?
Do you think the Sahaba had fun, they
enjoyed life?
So how can they enjoy life when they
are standing in Salah the whole night?
Here we have a situation where the Qari
in Ramadan, I'm not exaggerating, I am witness
to this, you all.
When the Sheikh, no matter how beautiful the
Qirat, if the Salah is three minutes more,
four minutes more, five minutes more, we complain.
Sheikh, please tell him to recite longer.
Please tell him to recite faster.
That's why I give up.
I go and sit in that corner and
I say, don't talk to me.
Yes or no?
Am I exaggerating?
Am I lying?
So how was Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam
getting fun out of this thing?
Strange, no?
Same Qirat, did the Qirat change?
What Sheikh Abdullah is reciting, is it different
from what came to us?
Same thing.
So how come he got fun out of
this?
How come the Sahaba got fun out of
this?
They would stand behind Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam.
There is a beautiful Hadith where Abdullah bin
Masud, and Usaid bin Khudair, they came and
they decided one day to pray behind Rasulullah
sallallahu alaihi wa sallam.
So they came and stood and he, in
that Salah, in the whole of that Salah,
he recited only one Ayah.
Which Ayah is that, anybody remember that Hadith?
Which Ayah did he recite?
Only one Ayah.
If you torment them, then they are far
from you.
And if you forgive them, then you are
indeed the Mighty, the Wise.
Whole Salah, he repeated and repeated and repeated
and repeated and repeated.
So the next day, between them, they said,
we should ask, he said, no you ask,
you ask, you ask.
Usaid bin Khudair radiallahu anhu was an Ansari,
Abdullah bin Masud radiallahu anhu was a Muhajir.
So then, Usaid bin Khudair said to Abdullah
bin Masud, Nabi Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam loves
you very much, he loves you more than
he loves me, so you ask him.
So he asked him, he said, ya Rasulullah,
we came and prayed behind you and you
recited only one Ayah.
Why did you recite that?
Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam said, I was
making Dua for my Ummah.
This was my Dua for my Ummah.
Now the Ayah itself, as you know, is
Isa alaihi salam, this is what Isa alaihi
salam will say to Allah, Jalla Jalaluhu on
the Day of Judgement.
If you want to punish them, they are
your slaves.
But if you want to forgive them, Innaka
Anta Al-Azizul Hakim.
You are the All-Powerful and you are
the All-Knowledgeable and the All-Wise.
And Isa alaihi salam said, I was reciting
it as my Dua for my Ummah.
The point I want to make for you
and me is that we live in a
world where we have made society, we have
made life itself so hard and harsh and
toxic that we need time out to go
and do something else to forget this life,
to detoxify ourselves.
People say work-life balance.
I have always found these terms to be
ridiculous.
When people ask me what is work, I
say what is work-life balance?
What is work-life balance?
Have you heard this term, work-life balance?
What is that?
I love my work.
So what is work-life balance?
The point I want to make is we
have a specific number of hours, minutes and
days, days, hours, minutes, seconds.
Not one second more, not one less.
Whatever we use that resource for, it is
from the same, there is no extra thing
for it.
You can't say, Allah, I am not a
basketball player, I will never be a basketball
player, but I am going to spend one
hour watching basketball, don't take it out of
my life, give me some from somewhere else.
Have you ever seen a team win because
there were people sitting in the stand and
screaming?
Does a team win because of that reason?
Yes or no?
I will tell you how basketball teams win.
I was watching an interview of Kobe Bryant.
They asked him what time do you wake
up?
He said four o'clock.
He said why four o'clock?
He said because if you wake up at
eight o'clock, by the time you get
ready to go to the gym, it's about
nine, you go to the gym, work out
for two hours, eleven o'clock, you come
back home, you take two hours off to
recover, eat something and so on, that is
one, you go back to the gym at
one, by the time you get there, it's
two to four, and you get maybe two
hours of shots or two workouts.
He said when I wake up at four,
in the whole day I can get six
to eight workout periods in the 24 hours
for my game.
Now my point is that is how you
win basketball, not by watching basketball.
By spending eight to ten hours in the
gym, practicing and working out, you win basketball.
Now if you're not going to do that,
then you are kissing goodbye to that one
hour or two hours of your life span
to get what?
To get what?
Enjoy, what enjoy?
What is the enjoyment in seeing somebody throw
a ball into a hoop?
For God's sake, right?
What's so enjoyable about that?
Some guy throws a ball into a hoop,
where do you go?
This is all mental conditioning, believe me, we
have been conditioned.
What is enjoyable about seeing somebody throw a
ball into a hoop, for God's sake?
Doesn't even sound enjoyable.
Likewise for somebody kicking a ball around in
the field, I mean, you know.
We have been conditioned to do this, why?
Because somebody makes money.
Think about that, when you are giving up
your lifespan of two hours, someone is going
to the bank with that.
You're donating your life to someone else to
make money.
Why do you think that, why is this
thing broadcast on primetime TV?
Because it makes money.
You know what primetime TV costs in this
country?
Go and look up the numbers.
They have hours of that.
Why?
Because it makes money.
Why does it make money?
Because you sit there and donate your life
to it.
It's your life.
It is your life.
So my reason and point I'm making is,
fun, you must define what is fun.
Have fun, but have fun doing something which
is beneficial.
Have fun running.
I have fun walking.
Sometimes I might do my khateras on those
walks.
So those of you who watch these things
on our channel, you will see nice videos
of sceneries and so on and so forth
because I'm doing the khatera while I'm walking.
My submission to you is, please, value your
time.
Value your time.
My point is, when opportunities are provided and
you don't take advantage of that, then don't
blame anyone if your life goes down the
drain.
It will.
I guarantee you it will.
Because Allah Subhanahu wa ta'ala is just.
Somebody who is putting effort and energy into
his life, who is learning, who is improving
his skills and competence and so on and
so forth.
And you are not doing that.
You are watching basketball or soccer or God
knows what.
Believe me, you are not equal.
You are not equal.
So you choose.
You want to look back on your life
and say, I was the greatest basketball watcher
in the world.
Or you want to say, I was a
rocket scientist or I was a brain surgeon
or something.
Those are options.
Every single one of them is an option.
I tell people, develop a skill.
Do you know in this country, in this
city of West Springfield, a qualified plumber with
a license makes more money than one of
the physicians in the state.
Do you know this?
That poor doctor spends 12 hours, 12 years
learning, but he says he makes less money
than a plumber.
So why don't you learn plumbing?
Why don't you learn plumbing?
Seriously, my brothers and sisters, take your life
seriously.
We have whatever span Allah gave us, for
every one of us, it is reducing.
Somebody my age is almost gone.
But we can't say that about younger people
because you don't know how much age you
have.
So the Prophet said, for everyone who has
treated it like it is gone.
He said, don't think you will say Salaam
on this side, which means what?
So treat it, your life, I'm not talking
about myself, your life.
Treat it with respect.
Value the time which Allah has given and
make sure you account for every minute of
that and say, what did I get out
of this?
This one question, just ask one question.
What did I get out of this time
I spent?
Whatever it is, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, one
hour, two hours, what did I get out
of this?
I'm sitting at my Xbox and I'm doing
foreign games, what did I get out of
that Xbox?
What did I get out of whatever I'm
doing?
If you are satisfied with that answer, Alhamdulillah,
good for you.
But if you are doing something which is...
I'm not talking about haram, please understand this.
I'm talking about halal.
It's not haram to watch basketball, but it's
a waste of time.
It's a waste of your life.
It is not haram, you do it, but
it is a waste of your life.
That same one hour you spend reading a
useful book, you are getting knowledge.
Same one hour, run on the street, in
one hour you'll do at least...
if you are walking, you'll do four miles.
If you are running, you should be able
to do eight or ten miles, right?
Then see your body after one month.
Same one hour, multiple uses.
Same one hour, stand in salah and say,
Ya Allah, I want to get close to
you.
I want to close with this, recently somebody
sent me a TikTok of this interview with
this very senior priest.
He had been preaching for 40 plus years.
So the interviewer was asking him, what is
your advice to young priests?
What's your advice to young priests?
Guess what he says.
He says, tell them, forget seminary.
Forget all their seminary degrees.
Do only two things.
He says what?
He says, read the Bible and pray a
lot.
Read the Bible and pray a lot.
He says, the way to get close to
anyone is to spend time with them.
So pray a lot.
If I simply change the word from Bible
to Quran, I could be saying that on
the member.
Say one hour, stand in salah.
I remind myself, this time we have, he's
not coming back.
He is not coming back.
There is nothing extra.
You can't buy it.
So use it with respect for yourself.
And ensure that you can account for every
minute that you spend and you have an
answer to say, what did I get from
this?
Peace be upon the Prophet and his family
and companions.