Mirza Yawar Baig – What is education
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And as I said yesterday, Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala began his kalam
with the word reed. Bismirabbikalajikalak.
And that's a reed in the name of
the one who created everything.
In in Surat Al Alimuna,
Allah
taught us the methodology
of teaching of education.
How it is to be done?
And Allah
told us the result of that, of doing
education in that way.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala said
He introduced the topic of education
by again
referring to his creation.
He said that in the
creation of the heavens and in the,
creation of the heavens and the earth and
the alternation of the day and the night,
there are signs for people of intelligence.
Allah did not say there are signs for
people of intelligence in the in in the
Quran al kareem. There are obviously, but he
did not, Allah did not draw our attention
to that. In the Quran Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala drew our attention back again to
our environment,
back again to the world. And he said,
verily in the creation of the heavens and
the earth of tilafil layiwan nahar.
And in the alternation and the changing of
the day and the night, la ayaatil luulil
albab there are signs for people of intelligence.
And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala described who
are those people.
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
told us there are 2
criteria and two signs,
2 qualities,
2,
adjectives that describe people of intelligence. 1 is
they are people who recognize Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala.
These are the people who remember
You cannot remember somebody you don't know.
Obviously, logically you cannot remember somebody you don't
know. So remembering Allah
means you are
somebody who is connected with Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala. You are somebody who knows Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala. You are somebody who recognizes Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And therefore, you remember Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Zikr of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is not
simply saying one last one
machine. It is to reflect on subhanallah. It
is to reflect on alhamdulillah. It is to
reflect on Allahu Akbar
and so on, each of which produces
a feeling in the heart.
The name of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala
must produce a feeling in the heart. That
is the condition of zikr. The condition of
zikr is that. That they should produce a
feeling in that.
Before them,
their hearts,
something happens to their hearts. Their hearts shiver
with the glory and majesty and awe of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So, there has to
be a perceptible
effect on the heart when the name of
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is mentioned. That is
the meaning of zikr. When we do zikr
in that way it produces results.
So, Allah says first condition of people of
intelligence
is people who know Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala.
Not somebody who is an atheist or not
somebody who does not know Allah. Not somebody
worse than atheists or Muslims who know Allah
but who would ignore
Allah. I mean, this is a at least,
as far as the I'm not,
promoting atheism, but I'm saying at least as
far as the
atheist or the,
non Muslim is concerned,
he commits one fault, which is he denies
Allah.
It's a very big fault, major fault and
so on so on. But it's one fault.
He denies Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala after that
he is free from that and then he
pays whatever price he pays for it. But
the Muslim,
he accepts Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
He says, lahi lahi lahi lahi lahi mamadhanasu
Allah. And then he denies Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala 50 times a day
by his actions. Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala called
him for salah, he will not pray. Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala told him, halal he earns
he earns an interest or he earns some
other haram way.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told him, he eat
halal, he eats haram.
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala told him, do things
in one way, he does it in the
opposite way. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala I mean,
how many things to list?
So who is a bigger
criminal in the eyes of Allah Subhanahu Wa'ala
wa'ala.
Wallah Alam, I am not saying the, you
know, Muslim is a bigger, I'm just saying
that here is a Muslim who owns or
who says he accepts.
See, if you look at the ayat of
the Quran, in Surah Tawah, Allah
mentioned some people and he and Allah
specifically mentioned
those people and said to Nirmala sallam,
do not seek forgiveness for them
Even if you seek forgiveness for them 70
times, Allah will not forgive them.
Right?
Allah said 70 times. If you ask forgiveness
for them, Allah will not forgive them. Who
are these people?
These people are those who we know as
the.
This ayah came after the death of,
Salur,
ibn Salur,
Ubay bin Salur,
the father of Abdullah bin Abu bin saloon.
So when Ubay bin saloon died, Allah Subhanahu
wa Ta'ala then Nabi saloon prayed his salatul
jalazah. That's a different story, so I won't
go into that now. But Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala after that revealed his eye and said,
even if you ask forgiveness for him 70
times, I will not forgive him. Who was
Umayyad saloon?
Saloon? He was a man who prayed 5
salah behind Nabi salalah alaihosallam
in the first half of masjid al Nabawi.
Yeah.
So you think just because your name is,
Abdullah or Abdul Rahman and that saves you.
No.
Was
from what we know when we see him,
who is he? He's a Muslim.
He's not a.
He's not an atheist.
He's not a mushrik. He was not worshipping
idols.
He was a Muslim
who prayed, 5 salah, behind him, salah salah
salah. In Masjid and Abawhi. And about him,
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, I will not
forgive him even if you ask forgiveness for
him 70 times
and not only him, people like him. What
is the meaning of this?
So effectively, who are the one African? They
were people who
Allah mentioned them in the
Allah said, there are people who accept Allah
and who accept the day of judgment, but
they are not Muslims.
Who is saying this? I'm not saying this.
I either.
Allah is saying it.
Why? Because you say you are Muslim,
but you do not do what Muslims are
supposed to do.
Muslims are supposed to pray, you don't pray.
Muslims are supposed to
eat halal, you don't eat halal. They're supposed
to, halal, they don't
they're supposed to to fast, you don't fast.
I'm talking about Ramadan, not, now if enough,
we'll fast. You
will spend money on every conceivable thing on
the on the face of the earth, but
you are you are eligible to go for
Hajj, you will not go for Hajj.
I'm only talking about the I'm not even
talking about charity and this and that and
that. No.
You are supposed to pay Zakat, you play
games.
You will shift money from this account to
that account and so on and so on
trying to fool Allah's house builder.
Yeah. People are doing these things.
So who is the bigger criminal?
Means what? Means in the art,
something must happen. That is the meaning of
zikr. Zikr means that you live a life
remembering Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala in every single
aspect of your life. It's not just a
matter of that is why Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala
did not leave it with just Quran Allah.
Could have said,
They are those who remember Allah.
Allah meant further.
Remember Allah where?
Yes, Guru Nanafi Masajid. No?
Standing, sitting and lying down. What does it
mean in every aspect of your life?
There are only 3 positions that we can
we can, you know, as human beings. You
can stand, you can sit, you can lie
down. There's no position in between.
So Allah is saying the intelligent people are
those who remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala standing,
sitting, and lying down. All three positions which
means every aspect of your life.
Your domestic aspect, your public aspect, your private
aspect, your business and your family and so
on. Every single aspect of your life you
remember Allah. Means what? Means, whatever I am
doing,
immediately I remember
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and I say to
myself that whatever I am doing must not
displease Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala.
So, if I know
that what I am doing is right, alhamdulillah,
I will do it. If I know what
I am doing is wrong, I will leave
it. If I know, if I am doing
something about which I have a doubt, I
am not sure, is it right or wrong,
then what will I do?
I will go and check and find out
and then I will do what I have
to do.
This is the meaning of this, of zikr
of Allah's Manage.
And then what it
We're talking about the issue of education,
and
who make ficker in what?
Allah did not say
Quran.
And those who figure, who make figure, who
reflect, and who think, and who what is
the meaning of figure? This is the think,
and who what is the meaning of fickle?
This is the beauty of the bear of
the Quran. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala uses the
one small word which encompasses
all forms of human
endeavor
in trying to understand
the creation of the heavens and the earth.
Whatever it is,
Any form of research, any form of invention,
any form of technology, any form whatever it
is, comes in the term in the term.
Fikal means this, how has this been created.
Allah is subhanahu, look at this creation of
Allah.
How did Allah create this thing?
What are the theories behind this creation?
What are the fundamental laws on which this
creation is based?
Who created gravity,
Newton?
He discovered, he did to I mean, you
can't even say discovered, I mean, he defined
it. He noticed it and he defined it.
But who created gravity?
Who created the law of gravity? Which says
that a free falling object,
this is the definition of gravity. That a
free falling object
comes towards the earth.
How? At an acceleration of
32 feet per second per second.
This is one of the aspects of the
law of gravity.
Who created this?
So figure
is
to study the law of gravity.
Who created the law of aerodynamics?
By which a plane will fly?
Something which weighs a 100 tons or more,
takes to the air. How?
Archivedes described the principle of
displacement of, displacement
in terms of fluids.
He didn't make it,
And as Marathara created the principle based on
which
something which is made of steel,
which weighs
200,000
tons,
floats on water.
That is based on what?
On geometry.
The same thing, if it's a flat sheet,
it'll it'll sink. You make it into that
shape, it floats.
These are these people talk about Islamization of
knowledge. I I say this is a oxymoronic
term.
You have to Islamize
ourselves. Islamization
of human beings is what is required. Knowledge
is already Islamic. Knowledge is from Allah subhanahu
wa ta'ala. What do you want to Islamize?
Saying a for Allah instead of a for
apple is not Islamization. That is a joke.
Knowledge is from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Where
is, where did this knowledge come from? From
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So what I would
is, Islamize is what?
This is the meaning.
We'll talk more about this
tomorrow and so on. I don't want to,
go beyond my time,
but just think about this. Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala described people of intelligence and gave them
2 qualities. One is they recognize Allah Subhanahu
Wa Ta'ala and second is that they think
about and they research in the creation of
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.
And do notice
that Allah did not say, why at Allah
said, why ata fakkaroon. Allah did not say,
aww yata fakkaroon. Allah did not say intelligent
people are these ones who do zikr or
those ones who do intelligence. No? Who who
do research? No. Allah said they do zikr
and they do research
and also Allah did not say, they are
people who do research first and zikr later.
No,
There are 3 important things in this. Number
1 is
the actual
qualities of intelligent people. Number 2 is the
link between these two qualities, which is this
and that, not this or that. And the
third one is the sequence of this learning,
which is, which comes first, which comes next.
1st you recognize Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, then
you look at the creation of
if you do that then you will create
technologist, who will build drones in order to
take medical aid quickly to people, who need
it, not drones to go and kill people.
That is because the sequence of knowledge is
not is not followed. They don't recognize Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala, so they use technology
to destroy
instead of using technology
to help.
We ask
Allah to enable us to understand his and
to live by that and to and it
to truly benefit from it.
This is what Muslims used to do, which
we have forgotten. InshaAllah, more about this tomorrow.