Mirza Yawar Baig – Worthy choices
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The speakers stress the importance of making choices based on desired outcomes and avoiding negative choices. They stress the importance of not being captured by one's desires and the reality that one day they will die. The speakers emphasize the need to lose everything and profit from the loss of the world, and emphasize the importance of not taking anything with another person. They stress the importance of not being captured by one's desires and the reality that one day they will die, and emphasize the need to lose everything and gain the world and please Allah to achieve their goals.AI: Transcript ©
My brothers and sisters,
life
is another name for choices.
In life, we make choices.
Every single thing we do in life,
we are making a choice.
When we are not making a choice, that
is also a choice.
You go to the grocery store,
and you're choosing. I want tomatoes. I don't
want potatoes.
I want it at this price, not at
that price.
You're driving your car. You are choosing
this lane or that lane, right turn or
left turn. Go to the gas station.
Do I want 98%
octane? Do I want what?
Which which kind of petrol?
You go,
you are sick,
which is the doctor to see, which is
the hospital to go to.
Every single thing. You want to get married?
That's a choice. Education?
That's a choice. Which university? What course?
Travel?
That's a choice. Which airline, which ship line
do I drive? Do I take the train?
You want to go to go on a
holiday? That's a choice.
Every single thing in life
is choice.
And the truth about all choices is
that we are free to choose,
but every choice has a price tag.
We are free to choose,
but every
but the consequences
of the choice come with a choice.
We are free to choose,
but the choice is not free.
Put it any way you like. That is
the actual reality.
I ask
to enable us to choose that which is
best.
Now
what is best?
As
said,
oh,
Adam, he said, oh, son of Adam,
sell this world for the hereafter,
and you will win both.
Sell the hereafter for this world,
and you will lose both.
Sell this world for the hereafter,
and you will win both.
Sell the hereafter for this world, and you
will lose both.
Now think about these beautiful
words of advice.
When he's saying sell this world, it doesn't
mean
become a pauper, become a beggar,
you
know,
sell your house, sell all your assets, give
it all away in charity, and you pick
up a begging bowl and stand on the
street. No.
Sell meaning make choices which are good for
you
with the akhira in perspective,
not choices which are good for you in
the dunya at the expense of the akhira.
Don't choose
to borrow on interest
to build your business in this duniya
because when you are building your business
with money that you have borrowed on interest,
the actual cost of that money is not
the cost is not the interest percentage,
but it is enmity with Allah and his
Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi Salam. You are not borrowing
that money at 10% or 12%
or 5% or 1%.
You are borrowing that money and writing your
name in the list of the enemies of
Allah and his Rasool.
That is the actual choice. That is the
actual price. Now tell me which business,
which worldly success is worth
making Allah
your enemy,
making the Rasool
his enemy.
I'm not making these statements up. You know
the ayats of the Quran in Suratul Baqarah.
Allah
mentioned this.
He clearly declared
that if you do not leave this and
if you do not leave the interest the
interest based dealings,
then
here is a declaration of war
from Allah and his Rasool.
The word harp is used. The word war
is used.
Today, we ask ourselves and you wonder why
our duas are not accepted.
Tell me if Allah is your enemy, how
do you expect dua to be accepted?
You expect help from the enemy or from
your friend?
Instead of Allah,
instead of becoming,
we have become.
Instead of becoming
the of Allah, we have become the enemies
of Allah.
So time to make
my brothers and sisters,
at the they said, imprisoned,
truly
shackled is the one
whose heart
is shackled and away from Allah and
captured.
He is captured
who is
the slave of his desires.
Allah mentioned this in the Quran
where in Surat Al Furhan, Allah said,
He said, oh my Nabi Muhammad,
have you not seen the one
who has taken as his object of worship,
as his
as his deity,
his own desires.
Imagine the word that Allah
is using.
This is the word in the.
There is no
except Allah.
There is no one worthy of worship except
Allah.
But the person who
follows
and is following his or her desires in
opposition to the orders of Allah
is
has taken
his or her desires
as the object of his worship.
He's not Abdullah. He is Abdul Hawa,
Abdul Fulus,
Abdul Nisa,
Abdul Khamer,
Abdul Mayser.
He is the slave of
money. He's the slave of desires.
He's the slave of women. He's the slave
of
alcohol. He's the slave of gambling.
He's a slave of whatever
he follows
in opposition
to the orders and the and the will
and the liking of Allah.
Tell me, is there something? Is there a
description
that we want for ourselves?
So, therefore, it is very, very important
not to be captured by our desires.
Because as the
scholar said,
if you lose the world
and gain Allah,
what have you lost?
But if you lose Allah and gain the
world,
what have you gained?
If you lose the world
and gain Allah,
what have you lost?
And if you lose Allah
and gain the world, what have you gained?
Because if you gain the whole world,
the fact remains
that one day, you will die,
and whatever of this world you have will
be left behind.
Nobody takes
anything with him or her when they die.
You don't take it. I won't take it.
Your father didn't take it. My father didn't
take it. Nobody takes it.
Whatever
belongs to the human being of material things
remains in this world.
What goes with him in the hereafter
is his actions,
his beliefs, and his actions.
And that is why the reality is that
for the one
who lives by Islam, he has to lose
nothing.
He can gain the world and please Allah
That's the real deal.
He loses
nothing. He gains the world and he pleases
Allah For example,
if you say that my ambition is to
have a $1,000,000,000
corporation
and be an iconic name in my field,
Is that against Islam? Of course not.
Not only is this does Islam permit that,
Islam promotes that. Islam encourages you to do
that
because Rasoolullah said Allah
likes the strong Muslim over the weak Muslim,
although there is goodness in both.
There's goodness in both, but he likes the
strong one over the weak one
because the weak one,
even though he's a Muslim, Alhamdulillah, he's a
good person, but he can't help anybody.
The poor guy, he can't he he doesn't
have food to eat, doesn't have a house
over his he's living living on the street,
you know, from a, out of a shopping
cart. He's,
helpless. He has no power, no authority. Nothing.
What can he do?
Whereas a strong person,
a person who has character,
a person who is powerful,
who has
authority, who has wealth, this person can do
a lot of good,
but only if that person
obeys Allah
Only if he's on the sunnah of Muhammad
Not otherwise.
We have enough examples
in this world today as we as we
watch and as we see
of people who are wealthy and powerful.
You know, among the among the wealthiest and
the most powerful in the world, but they're
very, very far from Islam.
Even those
many of them have Muslim names,
but if you see their actions,
totally for the dunya. Literally selling
their honor and selling their souls
for
pittance that they will not even be able
to take with them into their place.
What's the good of that?
And that is what is meant here.
I want to end by
something that Hassan Masihir said.
He said the difference between the duniya and
the akhira
is like the difference between the east and
the west.
The further away you go from 1 he
said the closer you go to the closer
you go to 1, the further away
you are from the other.
The difference between
the duniya and akhira
is like the difference between the east and
the west.
The closer you go towards 1,
the more you go towards 1,
the further away you go from the other.
You move you move both towards east, you
are away from the west. You move both
towards the west, you are away from the
east.
Sohallahu, think about this, how beautifully he expressed
this thing. Ask
to make us among those
who will chase the akhirah,
and then
the will chase us
instead of the opposite, which is where a
lot of people are today. We We ask
Allah to help us to become
powerful and wealthy in this dunya and to
use that power and wealth entirely
to earn the pleasure of Allah,
to help other people,
to right wrongs, to establish justice,
to help the oppressed,
to fight the oppressors,
and to live in this world in a
way which is full of honor and grace.
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