Mirza Yawar Baig – What we own and what we dont
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The speakers discuss the importance of knowing and being aware of one's car accidents to avoid future mistakes. They stress the need to be clear about what one owns and doesn't own in order to ensure their car is safe and handed back safely. The deen of freedom is related to the safety net of driving in a car, and avoiding mistakes is essential to living life with pleasingly life.
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Before I
go into today's just a announcement that tomorrow
inshallah I will do
a 15 minute master class on decision making.
In the
tomorrow after
And that will be useful for you in
every major or minor decision that you need
to make in life, whether it is marriage,
careers,
buying or selling property,
business,
you name it.
I will teach you the basic fundamental principles
of decision making which you can apply and
Inshallah do it in a simple way in
15 minutes.
So that is for tomorrow Inshallah.
For today I remind myself and you
that one of the most important things in
life is
to
know and be aware
of what you own and what you don't
own.
What is yours and what is not yours?
Now, it might seem like a simple thing
and you might say what's so complicated about
that?
But it is complicated, and it is very
important. I'll tell you why.
The reason why it's important is because
what you own,
you can change.
What you own, nobody can question you about
that.
Right?
So supposing I own a car
and I decide to take this car
and
dump it in a in a junkyard.
Right?
You may think I'm insane. You may say
he's a crazy man or whatnot but it's
my car.
I decided to throw a junkyard. Who junkyard.
What's it to you? Right? You think I'm
crazy? You think I what do I care?
I don't care about your opinion.
I have a house. In my house, there
is a tree. I want to cut the
tree. I cut the tree.
You might say, no. No. No. It's a
bad thing. You should not cut it.
It's my tree. I cut the tree. If
I feel like cutting the tree, I cut
the tree.
I want a sheep. I decide to slaughter
the sheep. I slaughter the sheep. It's so
so unkind, blah blah blah. Poor sheep.
No poor sheep. Buy sheep. I want to
slaughter the sheep. I slaughter the sheep. Right?
Even the one I'm making so if it
belongs to me, I can do what I
want with it and nobody can question me
about it. You can think you can have
an opinion. That's your opinion. Keep it.
But what about if I have borrowed your
car and take I'm taking it somewhere?
Can I dump it in?
I can, but then I'll deal with it
after that. Right?
So if I'm driving your car
I mean, whichever car you're driving, you should
drive it carefully. But if you are driving
your friend's car
and if you are a decent human being,
believe me, there is something in your heart
saying whatever happens shouldn't happen to this car,
right? If it's my car, even if I
knock it somewhere and so on, it's my
story. But I take his car and I
knock it somewhere and I gotta go and
answer to him why I knocked his car
and what happened and so on. I don't
want all this. Right? So you are careful.
Now when you are driving his car, are
you enjoying the car? Of course.
You're driving the car, you enjoy the car.
It's you know, he's given it to you.
He didn't say go here, go do what
you want.
But to take care of the car,
he doesn't have to tell me that. He,
I this is something that I should know
as a decent human being, as a responsible
individual.
If I'm borrowing something from somebody, it's my
job to make sure that in my care,
it remains safe and it is handed back
safely.
Right?
Now the reason I'm saying this is so
important is because in life,
in this life, we must be clear in
our minds about what we own and what
we don't own.
Now in this life, what do we own?
The best answer to this question,
what do I own and what do I
not own?
That is the answer.
What do I own and what do I
not own? The answer is.
We are from Allah and to Allah is
our return.
So what do we own? Nothing.
My life I don't own.
My wealth, I don't
own. My health, I don't own.
My wife and children, I don't own.
Nothing.
They belong to Allah. Everything belongs to Allah.
So what must I do? Look after it.
Take care of it because, like I give
you the example of the car, if I
go and I abuse it,
if I go and I spoil it, if
I go and I don't take care of
it, then I've got to answer to the
one who owns it
because I have to return it. If I
borrow his car, I can't keep the car
forever. I'm borrowing it for a certain period
of time. Right? When the time is over,
I gotta go back and give the car
to him. Then he he looks out to
the car.
This car I can't recognize the car. What
do you what do you do with the
car?
Looks like you this whole car is something
else.
And this is the in one line, this
is the fundamental
is the
fundamental
secret or truth of our lives.
Everything we have belongs to Allah
and to Allah
we have to return it.
So while we have it, by all means
enjoy it. Allah gave it to us. Humble
Allah gave us help, enjoy your health, enjoy
your wealth, enjoy your family, enjoy your position,
enjoy your authority,
enjoy your rulership and enjoy everything Alhamdulillah.
But make sure you don't spoil it.
Make sure that enjoyment is within the purview
of
what Allah permitted.
If I'm driving his car, I can drive
it at a 100 miles an hour,
Oh, I'm enjoying it.
Did the man tell you that you can
drive this car at a 100 miles an
hour and do wheelies on it on the
on the highway, spit it around? He didn't
tell you that. He does have to he
does not have to tell you that because
he's treating you like a honest and a
and a responsible adult.
It's something you don't need to tell people.
Right?
They should
know.
He knows that you will
treat the thing properly because you are a
sensible human being. So Allah
gave us all of this
and joy within the boundaries of
what Allah
has permitted.
That is what our deen is. Our deen
is a deen of boundaries.
That that that does not mean that we
are tied together and we can't move. No.
It just means
these are the safety nets.
When you're driving in a car, you wear
a seat belt. Nobody likes to wear a
seat belt. A seat belt is a pain
in the neck because it's, you know, it
spoils your clothes. It's,
it restricts you and so on. But the
basic fundamental principle
is freedom is inversely
proportional to security.
Right? In in in in the IT world,
we said that freedom is inversely proportional to
security. So if you have your your computer,
for example, you will have a password, you
will have a biometric recognition, you will have
official recognition. Why? So that nobody else can
get into that without your permission. You can
say, no. No. All this is news. I
don't I don't need all this. I don't
want any passwords.
No problem. Keep it like that. And
Next thing you know, somebody's got into it
and all your data is gone and corrupted
and whatnot because safety
is inversely proportional to,
to freedom. Right? So freedom is inversely proportional.
So
more the freedom, less the safety, more the
safety, less the freedom, but you choose
you choose the the the the the the
route of security
because you are a sensible person. You don't
want to lose. You say it's okay. I
will put up with the inconvenience
because of the greater benefit later.
And that is what the deen is. The
deen is to
live our lives in this world
with the understanding that one day when I
go back to Allah
and hand over myself to him, inshallah, Allah
will be pleased with
me.
Because this life my brothers and sisters, like
we said the other day, this is going
to end.
We all know this here. I mean, I
don't see that anyone in the world, even
someone who's atheist
will deny God, but he won't deny death
because he's seen death.
It's not a question of of denying. It's
a question of saying, therefore, what will I
do with my life?
If I really believe that I'm going to
die, how is that reflected in my life?
That is the
question.
And that is what I want to, to
share with you. To say that, therefore,
when we look at this deen
and yet live them in a way where
Allah
will be pleased with us when we meet
Allah
So we live a life which is honest
to the one from whom nothing is hidden.
That's the main thing, in Islam the main
thing is this awareness
that nothing is hidden from Allah
So it's not a question of, you know,
saying okay I will do something quietly and
this will sound. No, there is no quiet.
There is no place that Allah does not
know. There is nothing that we can do
which Allah is not aware of. And therefore
we live our lives in a way where
we don't we do not have to fear
for that.
That does not mean that we, our lives
are perfect. They will not be perfect. We
will make mistakes.
So if you make a mistake, we seek
forgiveness from the person, from Allah Subhanahu Wa
Ta'ala.
Inshallah,
Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala promised to forgive, so
you will forgive.
But
there's a difference between making a mistake and
doing something deliberately wrong. You know it is
wrong still. It's a big mistake.
One is a mistake, the other one is
a crime. Knowing
doing the same thing is a crime, and
the crimes are punished.
So we don't do crimes. We do. Mistake
is a mistake. We are human beings. We
make mistakes.
Ask Allah. Allah will forgive you. So we
ask Allah to help us to
get this principle right in our minds of
what do I own and what do I
not own.
The big benefit of this and tomorrow maybe
tomorrow we do the, the other,
lesson and day after tomorrow we'll talk about
that. There's
also
a enormously
freeing
sense in knowing what I own and what
I don't know. We will talk about that
inshallah.
So the point I am making here is
we ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta therefore to
enable us to live our lives in a
way that is pleasing to Him, to make
it easy for us to give us the
suhula and that to
protect us from our mistakes, from ourselves
and to take us when we meet him
in a state when he is pleased with
us.