Mirza Yawar Baig – Whats the value of the Dhikr of Allah
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The Hadith of Islam is a belief that individuals have a responsibility based on their intentions. The recording of Deen is a general teaching and is not a student's own class. Credit is based on individuals' intentions and witnessing actions to avoid confusion and distraction. Working on concentration, attention span, and focus is key to achieving success, and listening to the Bible is crucial to avoiding wasting time in activities.
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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most
Merciful.
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of
the worlds.
And peace and blessings be upon the honourable
Prophets and Messengers, Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah,
peace and blessings be upon him, and upon
his family and companions.
Peace and blessings be upon them all.
My brothers and sisters, we have the Hadith
of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings
be upon him, which all of us know,
which is the first Hadith in Bukhari.
It is also the first Hadith in Riyad
-e-Saleheen of Imam An-Nabi, may Allah
have mercy on him.
And that is the Hadith narrated by Amirul
Mumineen Abu Hafs Umar ibn al-Khattab, may
Allah be pleased with him, where he said
that he heard the Messenger of Allah, peace
and blessings be upon him, saying, where he
said that the reward of the deed is
based on the intention, and a person will
have what he intended for.
And then he further clarified and said that
a person who makes Hijrah for the sake
of Allah and His Messenger, peace and blessings
be upon him, he will have the reward
of Hijrah for that purpose.
And a person who makes Hijrah, he emigrates
for a worldly need or to marry a
woman, then his Hijrah will be for that
purpose and not for the sake of Allah
and His Messenger, peace and blessings be upon
him.
Now, obviously, he is not prohibiting somebody from
migrating for any halal purpose.
He is not saying that this is haram,
should not be done.
But he is just putting it in place
to say that the reward of the deed
is based on the intention.
I therefore remind myself and you to check
our attitudes, especially our attitudes toward the teaching
and learning of Islam.
With what an attitude do we come to
a class?
Now, the reason I am saying that is
because, first of all, as we see today,
many class of Deen is almost always sparsely
populated.
Where this is not the case, Alhamdulillah, it
means that those people and community have understood
the truth of life.
But most of the time it is not.
So, sparsely populated, few people come.
And then you have complaints about how this
class was for too long and it should
have been shortened and so forth.
So, I remind myself and you, let us
look at this in the context of Deen.
Now, when you look at it in the
context of the Hadith which I mentioned to
you, first question to ask yourself is, why
am I attending this lecture or whatever it
is, right?
This session, this halaqa, this class.
Why am I attending that?
Now, obviously, the within quotes right answer would
be, I am attending it to please Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala and to learn something
about my religion which I intend to practice.
Now, if that is the intention, then why
would you ask for that to be shortened?
Because all the time that you spend in
that class is counted as Ibadah, it is
counted as worship.
We have the Hadith of Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wasallam where he said that when people gather
for the remembrance of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala, and this is a general statement, remembrance
of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala can be
in many ways, when they are gathering together
to read Quran, to study Tafsir, to study
a Hadith, to talk about Islam in different
ways and how to apply it in their
lives and so on.
All of this comes under the title of
Zikr of Allah because we are doing it
for the pleasure of Allah subhanahu wa ta
'ala.
So, when people gather that way, then there
are malaika, there are troops of angels whose
job is to search for such gatherings and
they go around the world and when they
find such a gathering, they surround those people
and they fill the space, whatever room or
hall or something they were in, they will
fill the space and then they pile up
one on top of the other until they
reach the first heaven.
So, think about that, when you are sitting
there in the class and you look around
and you find only a few people, well,
believe me, every space in that room is
filled with malaika, with angels.
And these angels bear witness to what is
going on and once the class is over,
the session is over, the angels go to
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and they report
and of course Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
already knows and they say, Ya Rab, in
such and such a place, these people were
gathered and they were remembering you and Allah
subhanahu wa ta'ala said, when you remember
me, I remember you, so Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala will remember those people by name
on His earth.
And then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
say to the angels, what did they want?
And these malaika will say, Ya Rab, they
wanted your Rida, they wanted your Jannah and
they wanted protection from Jahannam.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will ask
them and of course all of these questions
Allah knows the answer already, the question is
being asked to make that a witness in
favour of the person.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will say,
have they seen my Jannah?
The malaika will say, No, Ya Rab, they
have not seen your Jannah.
And then Allah says, if they had seen
it, what would happen?
They would want it even more.
And then Allah would say, have they seen
Jannah?
He says, Ya Rab, they have not seen
Jannah.
If they had seen it, what would happen?
Ya Rab, they would have sought your protection
even more.
So Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says that
you are witness, I have forgiven them, I
will give them what they wanted and I
will save them from what they wanted to
be saved from.
Then the malaika will say, Ya Rab, there
was one man who was passing by, he
just stopped for a while and then he
went away.
So he did not join from the beginning
to the end, he just passed through.
What about him?
Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, for him
also the same.
That is the barakah because of the people
who are there.
For the one who did not even stay
for the full time, the same reward for
him, which is forgiveness, Jannah and protection from
Jahannam.
Now, therefore the question I ask myself is
that if I am demanding that a lesson,
a class, a halakha, a majlis of zikr
should be shortened, what am I asking to
be shortened?
Please understand this thing.
Obviously you might say, I don't have time.
Fantastic, if you don't have time, get up
and go away.
This is the arrogance today of the society
that we live in where the fact that
you do not have enough concentration ability, the
fact that you have a very short attention
span, the fact that you can't concentrate, in
reality that is a deficiency with you, that
is a weakness of yours.
So what must you do?
You must work on that, you must work
to improve your concentration, you must work to
improve your attention span, because believe it or
not, time, this time, last time, previous years,
this years, future years, go talk to any
psychologist you want, a long attention span, the
ability to stay focused on one topic for
a long period of time is the fundamental
quality of any successful person.
No one who has the attention span of
a goldfish or a monkey succeeds in life.
You need to be able to focus on
something and stay with it long enough for
it to bear fruit in every subject.
Take any subject that you are studying, you
have to be able to focus and stick
with that, stay with it long enough.
So now if I don't have that ability,
then this is a weakness that I should
work on.
But no, today our arrogance is such that
we say, no, no, no, no, my lack
of focus, my lack of ability to focus,
my lack of ability to hold, to be
able to concentrate, my short attention span is
the norm, that is normal, the fault lies
with the teacher, the fault lies with the
alim, the fault lies with the Qari who
is reciting Quran, shorten that.
Change yourself to suit my like.
This is the core of woke philosophy.
Me and me, I and what I want
is supreme.
And Allah called this shirk.
Allah said, Allah said, Have
you seen those who have made their desires
into their God, into their object of worship,
their desire is their ilah.
So what is the meaning of that?
It is shirk.
And not only that, Allah said, Are you
going to make sifarish for these people?
Are you going to make shafa'at for
these people?
Are you going to recommend these people?
Are you going to say, forgive these people?
Now the tone of that means, do not
do that.
Do not make shafa'at for these people.
Do not say, forgive these people.
My brother and sister, I'm quoting Quran for
you.
Go look it up.
All right.
So my point is, do yourself a favor.
Don't get on the wrong side of Allah
swt.
Do yourself a favor.
If you have a short attention span, do
two things.
One, try to focus on it and try
to improve that, because that's a very major
severe deficiency, which will destroy your life, which
will be the biggest impediment to your success
in life in every way.
So work on it.
Number two, if you are sitting in a
halaqa, if you are sitting in a lecture,
Alhamdulillah, thank Allah swt for that.
And when it gets to the point where
you have to leave, quietly get up and
leave.
Right?
No problem.
Alhamdulillah.
Quietly get up and leave.
Because at the end of that, it's nafil.
But believe me, every single nafil ibadah, every
single nafil good deed on the day of
judgment, one of them will be the difference
between Jannah and Jahannam.
That good deed on your scale has the
potential to take you to Jannah.
I ask, I make dua, may Allah swt
give us all these good deeds and help
us to get into Jannah.
This is the beauty of this deen.
And all you have to do is sit.
Think about that.
It is the teacher who is making all
the effort.
He or she is the one who is
doing the research.
He or she is the one who is
then thinking about how best to present it.
He or she is the one who has
made dua so that it should get into
people's hearts.
He and she is the one who is
making salah, who is praying before Allah, and
so forth.
You don't know any of that.
And then when they come with this, with
the words of Allah swt, with the words
of His Habib, with this intention that they
should do good for everybody, you stop them.
You say, go, finish it.
Cut it short.
But then interestingly, you would not say that
to somebody who is, or rather you would
not say cut it short when you are
watching a soccer match or a football match
or whatever match you watch.
Even though you know and I know that
not even in your dream would you ever
become a professional footballer or basketballer or whatnot
and make millions.
But because it is fun.
So the question to ask is not why
is watching football fun?
The question to ask is why is the
knowledge of Allah swt not fun?
Why is listening to the Quran not fun?
Why is reflecting on the Quran and the
Sunnah and the Seerah and the Ahadith, why
is this not fun?
This is what we need to ask ourselves.
So I remind myself and you, let us
get serious with our lives.
Let us not destroy ourselves by trashing the
ni'mat that Allah has given us.
If Allah gave you the ni'mat of His
Kalam and His, the teachings of His Nabi
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam being brought to you and
presented to you free of cost in a
beautiful Masjid, you are sitting there on a
nice carpet in an air-conditioned or heated
environment as the case might be and the
teacher has done all the work and so
on and so forth.
All you need to do is sit and
listen and if you want to trash that,
please believe me, a day will come when
you will regret that so much, so much,
so much I am not joking.
Don't do that to yourself.
Do not do that to yourself.